We are constantly told that China is the factory of the world. It’s true – choose any item of clothing that you’re wearing right now and there’s a high chance it was made in China. If none of your clothes were made here, then pick almost any item on your desk. Even your precious iPhone… [Read more…]
May 27, 2011
English may well be considered the closest thing we’ve got to a “global language”, but anybody who thinks that our native-speaker status gives us a linguistic upper-hand is very mistaken. Depending on which websites you visit and which newspapers you read, there are approximately 300 million English learners in China. According to a study by… [Read more…]
May 22, 2011
Today I visited the most beautiful site of one of China’s most beautiful cities (their words not mine, though I do agree!) – West Lake, or in hanzi, 西湖. One of most striking features of Hangzhou is that unlike many Chinese cities – which limit their parks and nature to designated areas – Hangzhou is… [Read more…]
May 18, 2011
Some of my favourite things about China are the stark contrasts this country offers. On one of the world’s fastest trains, moving at around 350km an hour between Wuhan and Changsha – cities with populations well above the 7 million mark – I found myself surrounded by some of the most idyllic rural countryside I’ve… [Read more…]
April 19, 2011
It’s my last day in Barraba, in the northwest of NSW, Australia. It’s such a beautiful part of the world, I thought I would share some of my photos taken over the past month. Crisp morning sunrise and twilight sunset photos.
March 6, 2011
The old Pembury stables – dust, leather, wood & wire. See the rest of the set on my Flickr.
February 19, 2011
My trip to Papua New Guinea was the perfect way to start 2011. These photos were taken on a fish-eye lens. These shots are from a canoe going down the Sepik River – the Sepik is one of the world’s greatest rivers and is over 1200km in length. I had an article published on Travel… [Read more…]
February 11, 2011
Kat Hing Wai (吉慶圍) is a walled village in Hong Kong’s New Territories. It is home to about 400 descendants of the Tang clan, who built the wall in the early 1600s to protect their village from bandits. Today, most of the homes inside have been renovated but the six-metre thick wall still remains. The… [Read more…]
August 26, 2010
“Come in Miss, come in! I show you to paint with a squirrel hair!” A man stands in the doorway of a tiny art shop, grinning at me. It’s only just breaking light here in Udaipur, the city of lakes in India’s northwestern region of Rajasthan. The cobbled streets are almost deserted and there’s a… [Read more…]
July 12, 2010
There are very few things more exciting than that suspense you get, anticipating a batch of freshly printed photos from a long forgotten camera film. As a rather impatient person, I generally don’t get too many thrills from waiting, but there is an exception to every rule, and this is mine. I discovered the film… [Read more…]
June 29, 2010
the simple joys in life are always the most beautiful: 1, 2: watching the petals unfurl in a cup of blossom tea. The giant green cup was a study motivation gift from a friend and is the perfect thing for soothing a stressed mind! 3: a rainbow after a sunshower hanging above the old tool… [Read more…]
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