The British left many legacies following their withdrawal from South-East Asia after World War Two, for better or for worse. One of their more digestible memories was tea.
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Newsletter • May 2021
Well it’s been a busy month and May like the rest of this year seems to be slipping away at a terrifying pace.
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New Article Featured With The Alpine Club
I finally managed to get my hands on a version of my latest article for The Alpine Club in their March 2021 newsletter on how to take great images whilst climbing with your phone. Check it out!
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Advice for Your First Expedition
I reached out recently to several friends and the good folks in the UKClimbing forums and asked them if they had any advice for someone going on their first expedition, in my case the Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Here’s what they suggested.
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How to Create Compelling Photo Essays
Building on my first article in this new series of photo essays I’ve begun to think more about what makes a makes a compelling photo essay and how like any good book or film, a photo essay requires a variety of angles and compositions to help draw the viewer in, maintain visual interest and deliver an engaging story.
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Newsletter • April 2021
With lockdown restrictions in the UK finally starting to ease from 13th April I was finally able to escape Buckinghamshire and make for the Peak District and some gritstone climbing.
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The Road to Kyrgyzstan: Part One: The Plan →
Kyrgyzstan was always one of those countries on the periphery of my imagination. A land inhabited by fierce horsemen and towering snowy peaks. When several friends recently returned from climbing there telling tales of a land ripe for exploration I knew I had to go. My interest was piqued.
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New Print Store Open!
Finally, FINALLY! My online print store is up and running.
There's no social distancing required in the online store so feel free to fight over all the artwork you want.
To get you started, heres a code for 10% off your first order: SWEET10%OFF
Read MoreMusterers work quickly in the hot Australian sun to skin and take the cuts they need before the meat begins to spoil.
Photo Essays: #1 Hunting in the Outback →
There’s pretty much one thing on the menu at the station kitchen, meat. You can have it anyway you like, blue, raw or medium-rare. Just not well done.
On a cattle station in the Australian outback, where the nearest shop is a 110 mile drive, you have to make do with what you’ve got. Which just so happened to be 10,000 cattle on 50,000 acres of Australian bush.
One evening, when the sun low and our stomachs empty, we piled into the station ute and rattled out in search of dinner.
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Mountain Equipment Winter Photography 'Exposure' Category 2021
Pretty chuffed to hear I've been announced as the ‘Exposure’ category winner for Mountain Equipment's 2021 Winter Photo Competition with the above image of two rookie mountaineers caught in a storm on the Cairngorm Plateau in Scotland. I gave it the working title ‘Welcome to Scotland’.
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