New Journal 9 – What’s important in photography 2 years ago today I bought my first DSLR camera. 1 month before that, I had never heard the term ‘DSLR’. 1 and a half years ago, I discovered HDR. 1 year ago last week I started an HDR blog. Less than 1 year ago I made [...]

New Journal 9 – Self Belief The heavy rain we’re experiencing today is giving us a good opportunity to plan without distractions. Tomorrow we’ll head north up this thin country, continuing our adventure around lesser known areas. It’s funny, Rachel and I consider ourselves adventurous to some degree. Yet, in our accommodation there is an [...]

New Journal 8 – The slow life This lovely Chilean town is affecting us. Its gentle pace and friendly people seem to have turned our ‘chill out’ mode to fully active. We stroll from place to place, pier to pier, church to church looking for good compositions at a snail’s pace, enjoying the perfect, crisp [...]

New Journal 7 – On the move We’re spending the day on a bus heading over to Chile today, feeling much better from our little colds. Today’s Photo – Palace of the Marqués de Dos Aguas, Valencia These brackets were shot hand-held. To capture the scene with relative clarity I had to raise the aperture [...]

New Journal 6 – No words Sniffling and slightly feverish, Rachel and I dragged ourselves to a local doctor in El Calafete on Tuesday. We knew it wasn’t anything serious. Hiking in the snow and rain and sleeping in a damp tent probably left us with a cold. We were looking for alleviation. Being sick [...]

New Journal 6 – Rachel the Scared Stalked by predators in the dead of night with barely the faintest light to guide our way, it was more than likely this would be our last trip. All manner of beast haunted these hills and fields, with each one licking their lips at the two walking meals [...]

New Journal 5 – The Road to El Chalten Sitting at my computer one morning in our hotel in El Chalten, I was lucky to have enough internet to check my emails and load facebook -  a rare occurrence in this internet-starved town. The manager of the hotel walked by as I was responding to [...]

New Journal Entry 4 – An Unwelcome Guest Wind lashed at our tent while rain continued to pour down, as it had done the previous 12 hours. We were alone in a Patagonian forest close to the enchanting, Laguna De Los Tres. It was midnight and I’d just been woken up by something crawling across [...]

New Journal Entry 3 – Finding internet This is my third attempt at publishing this post – the internet here is terrible! I wrote a full journal entry and didn’t save it. When I went to publish it the internet died and took with it my article. Hopefully this time it will work Tutorials – [...]

New Journal Entry 2 – Finding clarity Our future, or at least short-term future, has become clearer over the last few days in the Argentinian capital. We were surrounded by the familiarity of unfamiliarity as we stepped out of the airport near Buenos Aires. The city is unknown to us but this feeling of being [...]