EXPOSED: Nick Onken Interview
Welcome to the new installment of EXPOSED. This week we have Nick Onken talking about his incredible travel and humanitarian photography. The saying goes ‘Jack of all trades and master of none’ but Nick certainly doesn’t fit this description. As a photographer, first and foremost he works heavily in the fashion and lifestyle industry and [...]
EXPOSED: Jacob Maentz Interview
Welcome to the new installment of EXPOSED. In this installment we are lucky to have Phillipines-based photographer Jacob Maentz. Not only does he have a great first name but he is also an excellent photographer who has spent the last year working on a cultural documentary photography project photographing the indigenous people of the Phillipines. When he is [...]
EXPOSED: Piper MacKay Interview
Welcome to the new installment of EXPOSED. In this installment of the series we have something a little different! So far virtually all the photographers we have featured have concentrated solely on the people and the places they visit. Piper MacKay not only shoots the people and the places she visits but also the wildlife [...]
Why have I moved to prime lenses?
Over the last month or so my camera bag has undergone a little bit of a transformation. Over the last couple of years I have been travelling with a mixture of 3 of the following 4 lenses (12-24 f4, 17-50 f2.8, 50mm f1.4 and an 80-200 f2.8). I have now decided to change my bag [...]
Ladakh: Travel With Me
Have you ever dreamed of travelling to the India Himalayas? A land lost in time characterised by Tibetan Buddhist culture, 18000ft passes and huge mountainous deserts. I will be travelling to the Ladakh region of Northern India from the 18th August – 5th September 2013 and I am looking to find 1-2 more photographers who [...]
Rainy Budapest: iPhone
Today has ended up being a bit of a chilled day. It is Easter Sunday and so everywhere in Budapest has closed down for the day. Originally I had wanted to go and shoot a small photo story with my iPhone at Budapest Market but that was closed too. I therefore decided to challenge myself…I [...]
Szechenyi Baths, Budapest
The world famous Szechenyi Baths in Budapest are the largest medicinal bath complex in Europe. Budapest is famous for it’s thermal baths and Szechenyi is certainly not a let down. Inside there are around 12 various baths of differences temperatures and depths along with steam rooms, saunas and plunge pools. I was lucky enough to be given [...]
St Stephen’s Basilica, Budapest: Good Friday Service
Today is the first day of the Easter weekend and in a country which has a population of over 7 million Christians (approx 75% population) it is a special time of the year. St Stephen’s Basilica is one of the largest and grandest churches in Budapest and so I spent around 10-15 mins trying to capture the incredible good Friday service. [...]
Budapest Citadella: April Wallpaper
This image was shot from the Budapest Citadella viewpoint. The Citadella is one of the highest points in Buda and looks over the whole of Budapest. “The fortress was built in 1851 by Julius Jacob von Haynau, a commander of the Habsburg Monarchy, and designed by Emánuel Zita and Ferenc Kasselik, after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. It [...]
A Snowy Night in Budapest
As a photographer in Budapest you are well and truly spoilt. During the day time the city is one of the most beautiful in Europe but as soon as the sun goes down, Budapest comes alive. The two images in this post where shot last night just as the snow had finally broken after two [...]
Budapest Central Market Hall
Budapest central market hall was designed and built by Gustav Eiffel (more famous for that tower in Paris) in 1896 as a celebration of 1000 years of Hungary. It is the largest indoor market in Hungary and houses a mixture of stalls. Most of the the ground floor is covered with stalls selling vegetables fruit, cured meats, spices [...]
Budapest: The first few hours
I have been awake pretty much the last 16-17 hours as I write this blog post so please forgive me if it is error strewn! As many of you will be aware, today is the first of my 7 night stay in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. For years I have been mesmerized by the images of Budapest [...]
Lightweight Travelling
The skill of travelling light is to realise that you can live without most things. This realisation generally comes from experience of being on the road and the gear above that I am taking with me to Budapest has been hammered down and minimized over about 7 months of solid travelling over the last couple of years. [...]
EXPOSED: Craig Ferguson Interview
Welcome to the new installment of EXPOSED. This week we have Taiwan based travel and cultural documentary photographer Craig Ferguson. Originally from Australia, Craig has been living in Taiwan since 2003 and has been successfully using Taipei as a base to explore the rest of Asia since then. His images are distributed through Lonely Planet Images/Getty Images and Corbis. ‘I’ve [...]
EXPOSED: Kimberley Coole Interview
Welcome to the new installment of EXPOSED. This week we have UK based travel photographer Kimberley Coole. Kimberley is one of my personal favourite travel photographers. She is also an unusual case in the travel photography field in that she makes nearly all of her living from selling stock images through Lonely Planet/Getty. “Currently based [...]
A Weekend in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
I have just returned from a short weekend trip to Newcastle-upon-Tyne with a group of friends from Leeds. Originally we had planned to spend the weekend taking photos of the cool modern architecture that is dispersed between the Victorian buildings that produce the perfect backdrop for this old vs modern paradox. Unfortunately the weather was [...]
EXPOSED: David duChemin Interview
Welcome to a new installment of Exposed, an interview series taking an in-depth look at the lives and work of some of the top humanitarian, travel and cultural documentary photographers and film makers in the world. I am please to announce that this week we have David duChemin. David is a world class Humanitarian photographer and one of my personal favourite photographers. He [...]
EXPOSED: Michael Freeman Interview
Welcome to the second installment of Exposed, an interview series taking an in-depth look at the lives and work of some of the top humanitarian, travel and cultural documentary photographers and film makers in the world. I am please to announce that we have Michael Freeman. Michael is one of the rare breed of photographers who have had the opportunity to be [...]
Think Tank Streetwalker Pro Review
For a while now I have been using a mixture of Think Tank Photo and F-Stop bags for my travel needs. The attention to detail and build quality of these bags makes their high price tag well worth the investment. At the end of last year I started to use the Think Tank Streetwalker Pro and [...]
EXPOSED Interviews
EXPOSED Interviews in association with Manfrotto I am pleased to announce the launch of EXPOSED. EXPOSED in association with Manfrotto is a brand new exciting interview series looking at the lives and work of some of the world’s best humanitarian, travel and cultural documentary photographers and film makers. EXPOSED will be taking a stark, interesting and [...]
Dragon’s Backbone Terraces, Dazhai: February Wallpaper
The image above was taken in the last few days of my visit to China in late August 2012. I spent 2 days in the village of Tiantouzhai, which is located high up on the Dragon’s Backbone rice terraces around Dazhai. The terraces around Dazhai and neighbouring towns of Ping’an and Longsheng were built over 500 years [...]
Manfrotto MAXIMA 84 ML840H LED Light Review
Manfrotto MAXIMA 84 LED Light Review Disclaimer: I am currently sponsored by Manfrotto through their Local Heroes Program. In return for the sponsorship I will be honestly reviewing their products and featuring Manfrotto on my Blog. Under no circumstances have I been forced to or paid to write any positive reviews. Anything that you read on this blog is 100% [...]
Independent Travel: How to Plan Your Trip
For first time travellers planning a long trip can seem like an almost impossible task. Trying to get everything to fit together may seem more difficult than a complex algebraic problem but by following some simple steps it doesn’t have to be. No matter how mentally prepared you feel, if you don’t have at least [...]
Alms at Sunrise: January Wallpaper
This is officially the first post of 2013! After a hectic last few weeks, the coming weeks should hopefully allow me to get organised and planned for the year ahead. Considering just how incredible the whole of 2012 was, I think that it is going to take some serious planning to match it! However looking [...]