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Indigo
The Indigo-dyers of Sakon Nakhon in north-east Thailand have revived traditional dyeing techniques to create an entirely natural, hand-made product, characterised by the most beautiful, intense and...
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The Generosity of Bislam
I keep a 100 Indian Rupee banknote in my wallet. It's been there for years. As of yesterday, I'll be keeping a 100 Burmese Kyat note beside it too. The notes are reminders of the generosity of...
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Yangon Railway Station
Images from Yangon Railway Station in Myanmar. ... [This is an extract of a new blog post, visit my wesbite for the full content and images]
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Talad Noi
Talad Noi is one of the oldest and most photogenic parts of Bangkok. It's always a good location for a Sunday afternoon photo walk. I've been working on a Lightroom preset which emulates the look of...
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Nepal Earthquake
I'm working on assignment in Nepal this week. After Saturday's earthquake, the destruction is visible at every turn. Buildings are reduced to piles of wood and rubble, people are devastated. The...
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Searching for two sisters in Nepal
Earlier in the week, I posted the following "before & after" images to my Facebook page. The image on the left was taken on the 22nd April, 2009. Almost exactly six years and one week before...
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Lubina's Journey - from earthquake victim to treatment
Lubina is seven years-old. She was caught by falling rubble when last week's earthquake hit Nepal. Her legs and pelvis were crushed and fractured. During a post-earthquake inspection of local...
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Tuoro sul Trasimeno
Possibly the finest combination of sentences ever to appear in a walk description. "...you pass through a double row of cypresses and umbrella pines and the track now heads downhill through an olive...
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Sharing, not taking.
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2015 Those of us who can claim a certain vintage may still remember our family photo albums. For some, printed photographs were fixed inside an album or scrapbook with "sticky...
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A day at Erawan Shrine
Anybody who has visited Bangkok is likely to have passed by Erawan Shrine, even though they might not have realised. Erawan sits on one corner of busy Ratchaprasong junction; a relatively small and...
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Rubina's story
The last time I saw Rubina, just a few days after the earthquake that struck Nepal on 25th April, she was in great pain. Both of her legs had been badly broken when she was trapped beneath falling...
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Baan Jing Jai Opening Ceremony
Three years ago I photographed the laying of the first foundation stone at the Baan Jing Jai Children's Home. I was delighted to be invited back this week to document the opening ceremony of a really...
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Vespa chic in Bangkok's Chinatown
Here's a little cinematic trivia quiz to kick-start (pun fully intended) your week. Q: How many films can you name which feature a Vespa scooter? I ran out after Roman Holiday and Quadrophenia but the...
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F-Stop Satori Expedition Camera Bag
Whenever two or three are gathered together in the name of photography then they shall talk about camera bags. The perfect camera bag. It's probably out there somewhere. Like the Ark of the Covenant....
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Sri Dalada Maligawa - The Temple of the Sacred Tooth
Sri Dalada Maligawa is a really lovely Buddhist temple in the centre of Kandy in Sri Lanka. It contains the relic of the sacred tooth of the Buddha. In 543BCE, when the Buddha's body was cremated,...
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Sri Lanka Railway Children
At Watagoda Railway Station, on the Kandy to Badulla line, the kids are leaving school. Sisters Deborah and Kumthin are happy to take their time, walking home hand-in-hand. The boys, not so much. [This...
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BenQ SW2700PT 27 inch Adobe RGB Colour Management Monitor for Photographers
Photographers. We're a picky bunch. Over time, we've probably all developed a fondness for those trusted tools which serve us well. Those tools which prove themselves to be both functional and...
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Nepal - One Year after the Earthquake
According to the Nepalese calendar, today is the one year anniversary of the earthquake which killed 9,000 people and left many tens of thousands homeless. I was in Nepal a few days after April 25th,...
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Kodachrome - The Lightroom Presets
You can’t make a digital replication of Kodachrome slide film*. I’m putting that sentence right up front in the hope of deterring any photography-forum-dwelling purists from sticking pins into effigies...
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Black & White Portrait Presets for Lightroom
The subtle tones of grays, the strong emphasis of the Blacks, and the softness of the Whites makes one look much closer at the subject.— Bob SnellWhen you photograph people in colour, you photograph...
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