Monday
Mar052012

2013 odysseys

Details are being finalised for our next photography adventures to Botswana, the Galapagos Islands, and Easter Island. To stay ahead of the crowds, join our mailing list for updates!

Thursday
Oct062011

Resting and planning

Having taken wonderful groups of photographers during 2011 so far to Antarctica, Patagonia, the Arctic, and East Africa, we're now entering a quiet period for the last few months of the year. We'll be putting up a bunch of photos (and links to galleries elsewhere) of images generated by our participants in these expeditions.

Meanwhile we are working on the details of our next African odysseys (in 2013) and our expeditions to the Galapagos and Easter Islands. Stand by for further updates!

Saturday
Sep032011

Africa: home again

Day 16 was a wonderful day of relaxation. We spent the day spread between working on our photographs of the trip (we had a big table set up under cover near the pool and overlooking the beach where we could work with our laptops while the tropical weather swung between bright sunshine and torrential rain) and just winding down. It was a great opportunity to review our experiences and creations of the preceding weeks.

The next morning we packed up, travelled back to the airport at Stone Town, got onto our Cessna Caravan (single-engined plane) for the flight over to Dar Es Salaam and from there split up for travel home (some people are continuing on to Europe, some are having stop-overs on the way home, and some of us are home in Australia already).

It was a great adventure, and I'd like to thank everyone for sharing it with me! Thank you to the new clients, and to the repeat adventurers! Before we'd even left Africa, discussions had already started about where the next adventure will be to (we're looking at another African photo odyssey for 2013, for example).

Stay tuned!

Thursday
Sep012011

Africa Day 15: Zanzibar

August 30, 2011

Today we left the hustle and bustle of Stone Town, and travelled north-east to a spice farm. We spent quite a long time on a guided exploration of the farm (we had the same local guide as our Stone Town city tour yesterday, so he was getting used to the crazy photographers stopping all the time to take photos!). By lunch time we'd arrived at Blue Bay Resort on the east coast of the island, our home for the next two days. Sprawled along the beach, and quite luxurious compared to some of the places we've stayed in, it will provide us a nice environment to relax and continue working on our images, putting off the eventual return to every-day life.

Having been treated to tours of actual Samburu and Maasai villages in Kenya, it was interesting to see the pool-side Maasai dances put on for the tourists after dinner! 


 

 

Tuesday
Aug302011

Africa Day 14: Stone Town

August 29, 2011

Today we did "the tourist thing", starting the day with a guided walking tour. We covered much of the same areas we explored yesterday, but learnt a lot about the history and stories behind it. After lunch we had more time to explore the streets and to relax.

As expected, we're generating a lot less data away from the wildlife. In my own case, only several hundred exposures per day. Partly because we're in wind-down mode, but mainly because the lions aren't chasing the buffalo in front of us!