So long Vietnam. Good morning Cambodia
This trip feels like so long ago now, a dim and distant memory. Well almost….. From Saigon, we did the 90km 3 hour drive to visit the city of Tay Ninh. Bypass the background, click here. The centre of Caodaism, founded in the early 20th century, is an indigenous faith that includes the teachings of [...]
Silky water shots – it’s not that hard!
Several people have asked me how I created images such as this one of Khounagsi waterfall, about 30km from Luang Prabang. How did I get such a silky effect to the water? What did I do in Photoshop? Well the answer to the latter question is nothing. This image has never been near Photoshop. The [...]
Saigon or “London on steroids”
One of the biggest challenges I found on this trip was to try and maintain some sense of focus. Often the sights, sounds and smells were so prolific and intense, and the desire to try and photograph “it all” left me completely at a loss compositionally speaking. The “Big” Chinese market in Saigon was a [...]
Next stop Sa pa
After Ha Long Bay we blasted back to Hanoi, stopping on the way to shoot some farmers in their paddy fields, and jumped on the overnight sleeper to Lao Cai. The journey takes around 9 hours, but the train only covers around 200-250km, so as you can imagine it just trundles and bumps along at [...]
And onto Vietnam…
For the next part of the trip we left Luang Prabang, Laos and flew back to Hanoi, Vietnam from where we did the long drive up to Ha Long Bay in readiness for a dawn shoot and a trip round the bay at first light. We arrived well after dark so it was tricky assessing [...]
Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam trip – the intro
You will have guessed from my previous post that I’m not actually in the UK at the moment. I’m on a workshop with MM Photo Tours and guest pro Adam Barker and it’s been so full on and short of decent internet connections that my posts have backed up a little. I set off from [...]
Greetings from Luang Prabang
Finally, day 5 and we finally have some usable internet access. We’ve just arrived in Sapa after our overnight train journey from Hanoi to Lao Cai. It’s pouring down but we’re off out shortly to take a look around. So this is just a quick post with a couple of images from earlier in the [...]
