End of a hot day in Bangkok and the search is on to find a cool breeze and perhaps a cold drink! My search took me to one of Bangkok’s many rooftop bars, this one atop the Marriott Hotel and overlooking bustling Sukhumvit Road. My “Chiang Mai” arrived complete with ice cube floating next to a whisky soaked dried apricot on its bamboo skewer. At the price and the liquor content, it pays to sip slowly. I […]
Early morning in Kahna Tiger Reserve in India, not a breath of wind and the pond has a glass-like reflective sheen. It’s worth pausing from our pursuit of tigers and other wildlife to take in the scene and consider the photographic possibilities. Considering composition. The early light picks out the foliage of the trees on the far shoreline and is evident in the refection of course. There is a blackened dead tree, standing stick-like and reflected perfectly in […]
Excuse me as I revisit some of my photographs from the March, 2007, trip through Egypt and Jordan when I was fortunate enough to travel through Wadi Rum. World Heritage listing. Wadi Rum in Southern Jordan is a desert region of sandy valleys and dramatic sandstone and granite mountains some over 1700 metres in height. Covering an area of 720 square kilometres, there has been human habitation here for thousands of years, UNESCO recognizing its cultural significance by adding it […]
the importance of including both foreground and background subject matter to add a sense of depth to a photograph.
Reflecting the “Japanese aesthetic”, a carefully considered photograph becomes an exercise in graphic design.
A delivery truck sighted in the Tsim Sha Tsui district of Hong Kong. Colour, geometric shapes, and lines….
Decapitated pedestrian. Learn the rules of composition but once you’ve learnt them, don’t be afraid to break them, deliberately!
Bamboo forests are kind of spooky, with the plants often swaying in the breeze and clicking and clacking against each other.
It’s sometimes been said that photographers tend to belong in one of two camps, there are “hunters” and then there are “fishermen”.
