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Here are all my posts on photography, covering techniques, trips, research, exhibitions, talks and workshops. Watch out for my latest article every Saturday.

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Travel Plans

If ifs and ands were pots and pans…

As you may have noticed, there was a little bit of disruption to people’s travel plans in 2020! Here were all the trips I was supposed to go on but were either postponed or cancelled altogether:

I still managed to escape to Sicily with my girlfriend, Miriam, and spend a couple of weeks at Gabus Game Ranch in Namibia and 10 days at Kicheche Bush Camp in January, but I was very, very disappointed to miss out on so much last year. I was even due to lead a few photography workshops with Handmade Creative Workshops and Park Cameras, and I was looking forward to running another photography class at Canary Wharf and perhaps helping to judge their Wildlife Photography Competition again. Ah, well, never mind…

Looking on the bright side, lockdown appears to be (gradually!) coming to an end, and I do have a couple of possible trips planned for 2021.

Sadly, though, I’m having to pay for my trips these days. When I managed to get four months’ free accommodation in Africa in exchange for taking pictures for &Beyond and Cottar’s in 2019, I thought I’d found a fantastic way to get access to my favourite photographic destinations for just the price of an air ticket.

Unfortunately, Covid put paid to all that. I’ll see if I can resurrect one or two of the trips I had planned for last year, but it all depends on how quickly the tourism industry can manage to get back on its feet again. As the manager of Sossusvlei Lodge told me, “We’d love to have you here, but there aren’t any guests…!”

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