With the weather warming up, I thought it was time to go out for a long walk. A favourite spot is to walk along the Tonghui River in downtown Beijing. I rarely use the Leica M10 these days, so I…
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Gear related posts on this site generate 10-50x more views than travel photography related posts. There are a number of reasons why this is likely, but today I want to discuss how little of an impact gear actually makes on…
The 35MM full-frame equivalent lens is likely the most popular focal length of all time, and manufacturers keep developing amazing lenses with this field of view. It’s also perhaps the perfect focal length for travel purposes. In this comparison, we’ll…
A simple Capture One Pro workflow Updated on January 30, 2020 for Capture One Pro 20; the original post appeared on September 28, 2018. I originally setup this blog to share travel information and images, but 3/4 of the emails…
I’ve had Penang Island on my bucket list for a long time and finally got the chance to visit this super cool food and architecture heaven off the west coast of Malaysia. Penang State has a population of around 1.8…
This is the second in a two part series from Vietnam that includes a recent trip to Saigon and Phú Quốc. Phu Quoc is a Vietnamese island in the Gulf of Thailand, off the coast of Cambodia. It’s known for…
Saigon or Ho Chi Minh City (both names are commonly used in 2019) is the commercial and financial capital of Vietnam; it is also the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of 9 million (14 million in the metropolitan area).
Even though I live in Beijing, I spend a lot of time travelling to other cities around Asia for work and for fun. A rare opportunity recently came up to be a tourist in my own city and so I…
As our trip was winding down, we had already concluded that Italy lived up to the hype and we had totally fallen in love with the country, its people, and the incredible food. When we were planning our trip, many…
After Florence, we drove southeast for a little over an hour to Siena, the medieval town. When we arrived in Siena, we had to park the car well outside the city due to the ZTL (see the Sorrento post for…