Well after last years adventures in Rajasthan it was always going to be tough to decide on were to go for 2013. After perhaps 3 minutes of discussion it was unanamously  decided that back to India was the best bet. Rajasthan was a very different trip to this one although I think we loved them both equally. It is no doubt a challenge going on holiday with a photographer  ( although do get cool holiday pictures ) and as Dee only has a few weeks holiday finding a “balance” is always key so a few weeks in Kerala and Tamil Nadu seemed the perfect place.

We had heard amazing things about Kerala and we were keen to have a slightly easier holiday than our adventures the year before. We kayaked 40km’s through the backwaters of Kerala, visited tea plantations in Tamil Nadu, relaxed in our amazing beach house with ayurvedic massages and Yoga, yes me and Yoga!  and had a good share of amusing adventures along the way.

I travelled very light in the photography department this year and took only my X100 and Xpro1 with 35mm, 1.4. I don’t do reviews but I will say the fuji X series of cameras are phenomenal for travel especially. Really hope you enjoy viewing a few of our holiday snaps.

J+D

( if you would like to view my travel website then please do, soon to be updated with some of these. My Travel site )

Well its that time of year again. After lasts years adventures in Rajashtan we were hooked and Dee and I are now off to Kerala until early April whilst Bella enjoys here luxurious retreat in Mijas. I will try and post some images along the way and we also have a travel blog you can take a look at HERE. I will be checking and answering email from time to time but not often. I have my X100 and Xpro1 packed and ready to go!!

See ya.

J+D

“Travel” is probably one of my favourite words, it always conjures up excitement ( well most of the time ) so I thought it was about time I finally got around to putting a website together of some of my travel images. Currently the site has images from Rajasthan, India, Venice, Ireland with more to come.  I think for any photographers development it is so important to shoot a variety of work. I am guilty of not doing

this at times but a trip to Kerala, India is coming up shortly and this I hope will be an amazing place to photograph. The site is still very much a work in progress but I will be updating it as often as possible. You can purchase images and  giclee fine art prints shipped to your door. As for the images they are a not supposed to fall into any particular “genre” but just images I love and hope you do too.

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As many of may know Dee and I set off on an adventure to India for most of March. I didn’t know what to really expect from India but we have both been mesmerized by its people and places and are already planning another trip for next year. We visited Delhi, Ramathra fort, Rhantambore Bagh ( tigers ) , Jaipur ( Holi ) , Jodpur, Jaiselmer, Pushkar and Udapur ( our favourite place ) and used pretty much every available form of transport.

We have many friends who have been to India and most would agree that trying to describe India is not something easy, the wonderful people, the food, the noise, the dust, despite all the chaos though neither of us have probably every felt so calm as we did in India ( apart from the odd road trip ) this is certainly something I will never forget.

We saw many amazing things on our travels and the list of magical moments would be vast. As you can imagine trying to decide which images to share was not easy! we have sooooo many images between us trying to decide on 40 was not easy and I change my mind every day so I thought I would post some of my current favourites.

For the more techie ones amongst you, the choice of what to take was tough, my “day job” really only ever involves using 2 prime lenses but knowing what to take and travel light and be able to capture what I wanted was tough. I ended up taking a D700 and a couple of prime lenses and other than the safari it pretty much remained in my case, the real here for me was the little X100, nearly all of the images you see here were shot using this camera, and for a holiday camera it worked out great despite its little quirks.

Really hope you enjoy some of these images and Thank-you India we will be back ( very soon )

J + D

Well our Indian adventure is sadly coming to a close, over the past 20 days we have visited a large part of Rajasthan and seen some amazing places and met some amazing people. Traveling and editing and posting images is a big challenge so I am really excited about getting back home and posting lots of images from all of our destinations. Pushkar is the final stop on our journey before we travel back and here are just a couple from here.

Well the amazing journey across Rajasthan continues. We have literally use arrived in Jaisalmer after an entertaining can journey from Udaipur via Jodhpur. Our 2 hour section of the journey along highway 8 from Delhi to Bombay was a little scary even for the hardened traveller. We stopped off at a couple of incredible places yesterday and rather pleased with this one. Will try and post a few more here and there but am shooting so many images I will probably hang on till we are back in Spain.

Internet is very up and down from Ranthambore but thought I would share this one. Our holiday is very much a holiday whilst hoping for some nice images along the way and not a photography holiday as such so really very lucky to get this image of “muchly” from Ranthambore. The posse of professional wildlife photographers seemed a little unprepared as he wandered behind two vehicles it seems everyone here has enormous lenses but on this occasion the cunning wedding photography managed to get a half decent image. Today is a slower day so hoping to post images from Jaipur and Holi, internet permitting.

Well finally some time for some blogging! After a crazy few days in Jaipur ( more on that later ) we have now moved on to Rantambhore National Park after a short train trip from Jaipur. We are here for 4 days and have 6 safaris, not sure if it is the luck of the Irish but we went out today for our first safari soon after arriving and got up close and personal with a tiger! such and amazing experience.

Tomorrow we have an early morning safari followed by another in the afternoon but I suspect todays experience will take some beating!

We have shot soooo many images and I suspect I will be editing these for many weeks to come but will be posting images from Jaipur and the Holi celebrations tommorow.

Here are just a few images from Ramatra fort and village.

Well the day has finally come and Dee and I are off to Rajasthan, Bella is busy digging up a friends garden, the backpacks are packed, cameras packed, and we are off! I hope to post images from every stop along the way documenting our adventures.

I will be responding to email but please understand internet will not be available at all times ( Plus we are on holiday )  so thanks in advance for your patience.

J+D