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Country Photo Guide
A slow shutter speed conveys a sense of peace in the Cabo de Gata Natural Park in Spain that only the movement in the clouds betrays.
As we travel and photograph different locations around the world, we’re starting to build up a comprehensive photo guide to different locations.
This guide is now available at the following location and will be updated every time we visit a different location.
Please add any suggestions in the comment field of the page – whether it be suggestions for improving the page or suggestions for places to visit.
Spain
We’re off to Spain for 3 weeks tomorrow, starting off in the far south, past Andalusia and ending up 1600kms north in Barcelona. It promises to be a photographic adventure of note, so check back in 3 weeks.
I was hoping to get a decent, interesting article in before we left, but, well, I got a bit lazy.
If you need to be reading travel photography articles, click on one of the links or check some of these older posts:
Cheers
Our Photo Stream
I would love to keep this blog updated with the very latest reports of our travels but we’re in an agreement with the magazines that we work with that we will only post stories after they have been published in the magazines.
This means that most travel reports will be at least three months old.
Fortunately, you are able to see the photos from our trips almost immediately by subscribing to this feed.
Exploring the South African Landscape
The Nahoon Nature Reserve in East London offers travelers a touch of wilderness within the city.
With the World Cup Football around the corner, travelers from all over the world will be flocking to South Africa. Whilst the main show will undoubtedly be the football, I’m sure more than a handful will be interested in capturing the South African landscape.
This article was originally published in Pix magazine about two years ago, but it remains relevant and may help you, or someone you know, come back from South Africa with some awesome looking landscape work.
Please note, this was never intended to be a travel guide for photographers (although that would be a great idea). I’ve written this article to point out some of the many landscape themes in South Africa and to try to stop you from making the same mistakes I’ve made when shooting them.
Paris (Again)
Paris park autumn colours framed by the city
To say this is a bit of a cliche, but I really love Paris. I was fortunate enough to spend a week in Paris in Autumn last year and loved it so much that we’re planning a second trip for the summer. It is tough justifying visiting a place for a second time when there are so many places in the world to see, but I think Paris is worth it.
The whole point of this post isn’t to sell Paris – it is to show you this amazing site. Go into full screen mode and click on the Arc de Triomphe in the items of interest menu. How amazing is that!
Thoughts on Creativity
I’ve just returned from a short but intense trip around Morocco. I’ve been back for over a week, but with my massive backlog of work, I haven’t had the chance to post anything recently. I will have more on Morocco in the near future.
The above two images, from rural areas in Morocco, got me thinking about creativity.
Paris Street Photography
Life goes on as usual in the Paris Metro.
I’ve always loved street photography. Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of my all time favorite photographer and he is best known for his street photography of Paris. On a recent trip to Paris, inspired by old Henri, I made an effort to do some street photography myself.
The Friendliest
A diver sells his catch along the Wild Coast of South Africa
I read a forum post on a travel site recently on which country had the friendliest locals. I was quite surprised to see that six of the eight people who responded said Turkey. Turkish locals must be super friendly to get such an overwhelming vote (I’ll confirm this when I visit in August).
What was also quite surprising is that no one voted for South Africa. It was then that I realized that many people who travel to South Africa would count Johannesburg as part of South Africa. If you want to get technical, it is, but the Johannesburg locals are definitely not representative of the average South African.