Sometimes while walking around Hong Kong, the leaves on the ground would lift themselves off the ground and float around in the air until I realised that there was no breeze, just 98 percent humidity and that the leaves were in fact butterflies. Purple butterflies, blue butterflies, glistening butterflies, tiny pale butterflies and large drifting butterflies- Hong Kong has them all. It reminded me of how I fell in love with them in South America, reading One Hundred Years of

I love Australian names: Great Sandy Desert, the Sunshine Coast… No one could ever wonder what they are, what they mean. There’s no etymology, no history to decode. The Sunshine Coast was formerly known as the Near North Coast and was renamed in the 1950s and 60s in an attempt to promote tourism. Cos who wouldn’t wanna visit somewhere called the Sunshine Coast? Actually many of these names are similar to Aboriginal naming systems. These associated places with aspects of the e

An hour’s walk up from the village of Boot in Eskdale Valley rests a collection of ancient stone circles. Uneven, jagged and lying almost higgledy-piggledy among the grassland, they certainly wrestle for position as one of the wildest places I’ve visited in England. Eskdale Valley in the Lake District was once covered in forest but some of the earliest settlers in Britain were responsible for stripping it of trees. These Bronze Age people also left their mark in the form of s

My time in Liverpool was filled with depression. I withdrew from people I loved and stopped doing many of the activities that made me feel like myself. I barely took any photographs during my worst periods but, when I look back into my archives, the images that remain etched in my mind are these. Windswept and desolate scenes. Cold colours, moody landscapes, lone figures shrinking into the distance. They remind me of Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings of lonesome men gazing o

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Hi there! This is essentially a photo essay to describe the almost indescribable boat trip that I took up the Amazon River. I had so much time to spend gazing at the water and watching the clouds drift by. Hence the many arty, expressive close-ups I took during those four days. Read more about the actual experience here. #villages #explore #wildlife #Amazonjungle #art #selva #solotravel #Amazon #photo #lighteffects #lighting #peru #sky #unusual #river #Photography #backpacker

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NO.10: This mural in Uruguay illustrates the long fought over history of its ports, alluding to its colonisation by the Spanish and Portuguese and its subsequent independence in 1825. NO.9: The colourful rooftop of my hostel in Arequipa, Peru. NO.8: By the Rambla riverside walkway in Montevideo, Uruguay. An underwater jungle to liven up the cold, concrete walkway. NO.7: A mural on the wall of my hostel in Huanchaco, Peru. It looks like a modern take on the ancient engravings

‘Don’t stay in Uyuni!,’ everyone told me. ‘It has no charm, there is nothing to do, people only visit to get a tour across the salt flats.’ So, to avoid being stuck overnight in this apparently uninspiring Bolivian town, I decided to catch a three day tour across the border to Bolivia ending in Uyuni. My first days in Bolivia was simply breathtaking. At the border, we piled into dusty jeep with broken seat belts and sped off, manoeuvring around rocks, clouds of dust billowing

From Chiloe, I travelled north towards the green vineyard covered region of central Chile. Santiago didn’t appeal much to me; cities are starting to seem indistinct after so many in a short space of time. The city had a few redeeming characteristics, however. First, while wandering through the streets, I periodically happened across magnificent views of the Andes sandwiched between skyscrapers. Second, there is a plentiful supply of fruit and veg stalls that were desperately

Amsterdam is an odd mixture of modern and old-fashioned, the antiquated and futurist. There are obvious contrasts of course like that between the polished Amsterdam Centrum and the run-down suburbs of the Norde with their quirky graffiti, warehouses and artist’s cooperatives. But within the centre too, there are three noticeable contrasts. Stunning town houses of Amsterdam Centrum Warehouses in Amsterdam Norde The first of these concerns the general environment of the city. T