Kind words about Travelshooters' photograpy tours in the international press

This drizzly Easter Monday I'm waiting impatiently for photographs and stories from our new southeast Asia photography tour to roll in. It's a scorcher of a tour: 22-days of hand-selected pixels and magic people encounters from Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia.

Meanwhile, while I wasn't looking, the international press has been kind to us…

Travel photography notes from God's Own Country

Don't know about you, but Alleppey Green Extra Bold sounds like a type font to me. So does the lighter Alleppey Green Bold, while Alleppey Green Superior sounds like a variant with pretensions — perhaps for use in smart social invitations.

Truth is, these are all certainly menu items — not of the Mac or Windows kind, but the restaurant kind. Our Kerala photography tour is spiced with all kinds of tasty snippets, and one of the most vivid experiences is the exploration of the wholesale spice markets of Mattancherry.

Notes from the fairground

Sitting here in Hampshire, England on a cold and wet January day, I found some notes I'd jotted down on the old iPad while we were on our Pushkar Camel Fair photography tour back in October last year. Specifically, what's it like taking photographs at Pushkar Camel Fair? What are the main opportunities?

If you're in a real hurry to know the answer, go straight to the Pushkar Camel Fair tour photo gallery and scan through the thumbnails.

A photo story by Travelshooters client Karoly Kerepesi

On our recent photography tour of Rajasthan and Pushkar Camel Fair, one of our clients and co-travellers was Mr Karoly Kerepesi from Hungary. A few days into the trip, Karoly's street explorations capured a little social vignette unfolding spontaneously on the street — an electricity company meter-reader doing his job — which Karoly's timely captures turned into a brilliant photo-essay. For me, Karoly's patient style and technical brilliance perfectly encapsulates the Travelshooters mantra — Experience, Connect, Understand, Shoot — and at my request, Karoly now describes the story he uncovered one quiet Jodhpur morning…