Local markets are always a nice way of experiencing ‘normal’ every day life of a place that you visit. In Bali, markets are very common in every small town, as the idea of a supermarket hasn’t really caught on there yet, and we visited a number of them during our […]
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Meet Amos. Amos is 51 years old and lives and works in the Soweto township in the South of Johannesburg. I met Amos when I visited The Shack, the shebeen where he is employed. Amos told me that he has got 8 children of his own, and moved to […]
My trip to the UK over Easter happened to coincide with a Leica User Forum meet up in Bath on Easter Saturday. Since I was fairly local for once, I decided to make the journey down to bath to join a group of like-minded photographers. Although rain had been forecast, […]
A few shots from a recent wander around Amsterdam. One of the first fine days of the year, and to enable me to shoot with the Summilux wide open or thereabouts, I used a B+W 0.9ND filter to block a couple of extra stops of light. As you can hopefully […]
The HP Garage. The birthplace of Silicon Valley. During a recent visit to Hewlett Packard Corporate HQ in Palo Alto, I took the opportunity to drive by the HP Garage. The Garage is where Bill Hewlett and David Packard first started on their journey to create the world’s largest IT […]
In February I was able to travel to Palo Alto to attend a new hire training, and took the opportunity to burn a few hotel points and spend the weekend before wandering around San Francisco. I managed to reserve the Marriott Hotel just off Union Square, which made a change […]
There is something about derelict industry that has always intrigued me. It’s a combination of the thoughts about what happened when the installation was originally in use, the actions that led to the decision to close down or relocate the factory, and the progression of the facility since the last […]
Away from the picturesque canals of the Jordaan, there is a different side of Amsterdam, reflecting the industrial shipbuilding past of the Dutch city. NDSM-werf, or NDSM Wharf, is accessible via a free ferry that departs regularly from the dock behind Centraal Station, and takes you to the North of […]
Continuation from Part One here. Tsukiji Fish Market One of the areas in Tokyo that I always try and visit is the Tsukiji fish market area. Although this area in Tokyo has been a fish market since 1935, after the previous fish market was relocated here following the major earthquake […]
My final trip for 2013 was to Japan. We set off on the day after Christmas, and spent the New Year holiday there, returning in the first week of January. The plan was to spend a couple of nights in Tokyo, then spend New Year in Nagano Prefecture, and then […]