Photographing a travel day when the light turns grey
Shorten the route and look for the detail the soft light makes visible.
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Places to explore, routes to make your own, and photographs worth keeping.
Turn travel photos into a journal without filling the gaps
A picture can prompt a memory. It cannot supply one you never recorded.
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Organise a travel photo archive you can use again
Keep the full record intact and make the useful pictures easy to find.
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Composing a coastal photograph with water, land and space
Give the sea a shape in the frame and let one detail establish the scale.
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Better travel photographs with the phone you already carry
A clear subject and a patient minute usually help more than another camera setting.
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When English ran out in southwest China
A confused expression, patient people and one very confident volunteer translator.
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Surf and Sunsets: the Madeira trip I was putting together
Six rooms, five lessons and a week with room for the rest of Madeira.
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Why I keep returning to Bali
Books on the long flight, new people and one more “last” trip to the island.
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A toad, a coconut and a lizard at the bar
My first wildlife encounters in Bali were a very small comedy.
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Sometimes a place has everything, and the people elsewhere still tip the scales.
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Pumpkin picking near London: four places for an autumn day out
Four farms, a strong bag and an autumn day beyond the supermarket.
Read the storyThe little things I’d bring home from China
Tea, trains, sensible platform markings and a few things I miss already.
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