It’s been a busy few months here so I’m afraid I haven’t been posting as much as I’d like. Luckily I have still been able to get out and about with my camera, here is the result.
Digital Photography - Venice 2020
A small jaunt to a city that defies reality.
Digital Photography - Tuscany
A pleasant escape to the wine soaked hillsides of Tuscany
Porto
Well how best to round off two weeks of outdoors adventure? Why, with a mini city break of course! The perfect way to ease ourselves back into the hectic London lifestyle after our fresh air overload. Portugal offers several exciting cities, however given that we had already been to Lisbon this year; Porto was clearly the obvious choice.
Digital Photography - Portuguese Territories part 3, Porto.
And to polish off the trip we had a lovely little jaunt into one of the sweetest cities I’ve ever seen. Also very hilly, really good for those calves again… Part 3: Porto
Madeira
The fantastic thing about a three part trip is that it feels like three separate holidays, after two and a bit weeks away I’ve felt like I’ve managed to squeeze in a whole years worth of travel. Three places, three very different experiences have become stand-alone events in my mind that I remember as distinctly as though they were years apart.
Digital Photography - Portuguese Territories part 2, Madeira
My calves are still sore from doing that fucking hike… Worth it for the view though. Plus I don’t think I’ve ever stayed somewhere with a more dramatic sunset.
The Azores
Yet again, here I sit, back in London, a nice olive glow warming my skin as I tap away at my work computer and serving as a healthy reminder f the excitement I’ve had over the past few weeks. Strangely it doesn’t feel so bad being back, having experienced what I did during what was one of the better holidays of my life.
Digital Photography - Portuguese territories part 1, the Azores
Volcanoes and hot spas and realising how unfit I am… Part 1: The Azores.
Lisbon
Digital Photography - Lisbon
A wonderful way to break in a New Year.
Digital Photography - Indonesia part 3: Komodo and Flores
True wildernesses. Ish. Read about them here.
Indonesia - part 3
There’s not much to preface this with other than that this felt like where the real ‘travel’ began. Not to rain on Bali’s parade but it’s suffered from its own success in that it no longer feels like a true adventure destination. It’s been sanitised and watered down and designed to appeal to the westerners that tour there so much so it feels its lost a lot of the charm that had initially attracted them in the first place. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t fantastic, but it missed that alien spark that I had come searching for. This final section had more than just the spark.
Digital Photography - Indonesia part 2: Ubud
Lyme disease is gonna getcha... read about it here
Indonesia - part 2
Digital Photography - Indonesia part 1: Gili Trawangan
I think the pictures speak for themselves here. To read about the experience click here.
Indonesia - part 1
Digital Iceland 3 - The People
Iceland
Iceland is beyond comprehension. I like to think of myself as being very imaginative. I like to create little worlds in my head, the wackier the better, on a pretty regular basis. The only type of dreaming I do is lucid, I write stories about my dreams and the fanciful places my head takes me to. My imagination even breaks into the real world at times in the form of my habit of greatly over exaggerating even the most mundane stories, though this probably isn't something to brag about.