Travel Photography

In the summer of 2003, I had the trip of a life time.

I spent 12 weeks in Antarctica and 7 of those weeks was out in the remote Northern Prince Charles Mountains. So many things made those weeks so incredible, that I barely know where to start.

The funny thing was, it wasn’t until after the trip that I really understood how amazing it really was.

I remember walking around for weeks afterwards with the most amazing feeling of contentment and calmness. I remember feeling incredibly happy. It was in those weeks after the trip that I really realised how fortunate I had been.

In the years that followed I often tried to replicate the feeling of that trip, until one day I realised that a trip of a life time is a rare thing.

You can plan to have a trip of life time, but reality has its own ideas. Such trips don’t happen in a vacuum. It comes down to the people you meet, the experiences you have and where you are at in your life with yourself and others.

For me at least, travel photography is pretty similar. You can have the best of intentions and plans, but unless you are open to the places, people and random encounters you have along the way, you can miss an awful lot of photographic potential.

When you embrace the unexpected and go along for the ride, your photography will love you for it.

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