This photo of a dirt road is the last I took before a travel photographer’s worst nightmare struck. During a cold-stomached panic, all efforts to revive my camera were futile and for reasons I will never know, it was toast. With help out of reach, I strapped my substitute photographic device (iPad) to my chest […]
Categories: exploration, hiking, history, nature, travel
This was the most the most expensive and hard-earned lunch I’ve ever had. I didn’t pay for it, but I’m in pain and it took over 4,000 kilometres on planes, buses, taxis and on foot to get to it. And here I am in the remote mountain village of Sarybash on the far edge of […]
Categories: exploration, hiking, travel
Yesterday was my last day in Longyearbyen. I spent it walking around the shores of Isfjorden photographing things in the dark with my Sony A7s. I haven’t had a chance to test for myself just how good it is in the dark, so I gave it a try. I applied no exposure compensation or brightening […]
You can have an adventure without leaving your country. You can explore, meet interesting people, get lost and see where you live through the eyes of a tourist experiencing for the first time. The trick is to do something radically different from what you do day-to-day in your “normal life”. In July 2014 I was […]