AN ADELAIDE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

I thought I’d try something a bit different with the blog this time round and focus on one specific photo, in particular how I shot and processed it.  There are still plenty of Africa blogs to come (I haven’t even touched 2 weeks of amazing safaris) but there’s still the daunting task of facing thousands […]

Just imagine it’s a cold winter’s night and you decide to head down to AAMI stadium to watch Port Power take on another lowly side (presumably because you got free tickets). As the match kicks off there’s a lot of empty seats in the ground, in fact you’ve never seen so few people at an […]

As we boarded the ferry from Zanzibar to Dar Es Salaam we made a point of sitting outside to enable an easy escape should the worst occur. Just 7 days later the worst did occur on a ferry leaving Zanzibar and 200 lives were lost. Tragedies like this are a good reminder of our own […]

Here’s the thing. When you see friends’ travel photos, or pictures in tourism brochures, or documentaries on TV about remote tribes living off the land in third world countries it’s hard to believe that they actually exist. I mean, in 2011 are there actually more than a handful of people who live in mud huts? […]

A few weeks ago I blogged about falling into an unexpected teaching position at a Ugandan primary school. I finished that email with a promise that my next blog would be about a project we undertook that the kids absolutely loved and would remember for the rest of their lives. I then proceeded to write […]

After a false start in the classroom teaching year 5s how to draw draw an equilateral triangle with only a compass and a ruler we had a chat with the volunteer coordinator about doing something that even vaguely matched the description we’d been given before the placement began. The area is renown for it’s primates, […]

We searched long and hard for volunteering opportunities in Africa. After weighing up the pros and cons of dozens of placements we settled on one based around chimpanzee protection and improving the corresponding primate tourism. We had just 2 short weeks to achieve our goals, so it’s fair to say that we were a little […]

We arrived in Fort Portal after a typical Ugandan commute. The bus was supposed to leave Kabale at 6pm but didn’t get going until closer to 7, and after being promised a 3am arrival time we were pleasantly surprised when the bus pulled in at half past midnight. If I’m learning anything about Africa on […]

Imagine half the population of Australia squeezed into a country a quarter the size of Tasmania. This is what you get with Rwanda, a tiny land locked nation in the east of Africa. We decided to begin our African adventure here on account of the critically endangered mountain gorillas which can be found only here, […]

After 3 hours sleep and a 4am rise we finally made it to the airport on our way to Rwanda (via Sydney, Johannesburg, Dar Es Salaam and Nairobi – yes, we probably could have scheduled a more direct route but it’s all part of the adventure). The next 6 weeks will be epic, if all […]