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Self-taught photographer travelling with a camera for thirty years. Landscapes, streets and the people who live in them. Neither

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A worker repairing plaster on a carved wall at Karnak, numbered blocks stacked around him. Luxor, February 2023. Sound on.

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A Buddha head held in the roots of a tree at Ayutthaya. Thailand, August 2016. Sound on.

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A drummer in a red cloth and a white turban carried his davul past the dagoba at Anuradhapura. Sri Lanka, September 2023. Sound on.

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Kelingking on Nusa Penida has been photographed a million times. Getting down to that beach is about a thousand steps, and hardly anyone at the viewpoint makes the walk.

Two weeks island-hopping, October 2019 — Bali, the Nusas, Gili Air, Lombok.

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Cloud fills the valley below the ridge at Bandipur — the white sea the village watches every dawn.

Nepal, October 2014: second half of a 21-day overland journey from Delhi to Kathmandu, following the Buddha's life backwards.

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Into the Delhi market the evening we landed: the noise, the crush, a ceiling of tangled cable. Then Jaipur, Agra with the fountains off at the Taj, Orchha, Khajuraho, and Varanasi after dark. 2014. Sound on.

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The morning I went up Monserrate the cloud had come down to meet it. The church was in it, Bogotá somewhere underneath. Then the Tatacoa, Cocora, Medellín, Tayrona, Cartagena. Colombia, 2022. Sound on.

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Bangkok at the end of August, then a month north and south: Ayutthaya, Pai, Koh Phangan under the Milky Way, Khao Sok, Bangkok again at night. 2016. Sound on.

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Bangkok at the end of August, then a month north and south: Ayutthaya, Pai, Koh Phangan under the Milky Way, Khao Sok, Bangkok again at night. 2016. Sound on.

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A porter carried a sack ashore over a narrow plank at Jakarta harbour. Java to Bali, September 2011. Sound on.

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Saigon, 2005: crossing a street meant walking diagonally into a river of Honda Cubs. Then a month north. The Mekong Delta, Mui Ne, Hội An, Huế, Ha Long Bay, the terraces at Sa Pa, Hà Nội. Sound on.

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The Sinai coast in February 2013, then one saturated day on the Nile at Luxor ten years later: Karnak, the ram-headed sphinxes, a felucca under full orange sail. Sound on.

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Three September weeks around Sri Lanka, 2023: drummers at Mihintale, pilgrims in white at Anuradhapura, Sigiriya at dusk, the train down to Ella, Negombo last. Sound on.

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Java to Bali, September 2011: Jakarta's schooner harbour, Prambanan, Borobudur, dawn on Bromo, the sulphur workings at Ijen, Tanah Lot. Sound on.

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@HaibaraStation I had an nissan silvia s12 very much like this one.. Crazy fun to drive and the turbo made a nice whistle

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First morning in Havana: flat roofs from the hotel balcony to the horizon, patched and lived in. Then 2,500 km west to east. Viñales, Trinidad, the Sierra Maestra, a barber in Santiago, Baracoa. 2014. Sound on.

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A man reads his newspaper on a tiled balcony in Porto, laundry on the line beside him. Portugal end to end, June 2018: Silves, Évora, Castelo de Vide, Marvão, Lamego, Braga, Lisbon, the Algarve. Sound on.

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Fader Friday — Console of the Week: Soundtracs Jade.

Soundtracs' flagship analog desk — the one Leftfield mixed Leftism on, one of the defining electronic albums of the 1990s.

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@SonyAlpha Wow.. 4.5 is great. Still use my trusty 70-200 f4 on every trip because of weight and quality

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Where does your photo heart beat more vividly?