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4 boys posing for a photo along the river in Dhaka

Bangladesh photo tour 2022: field report

By Etienne / November 28, 2022 / 0 Comments

Once again I’m ending a superb photography tour in Bangladesh. And yes, Bangladesh is still the best country on earth for people photography!!!!  Instead of doing the usual and having a day-by-day recap of the 2022 tour (after all you can find that in the previous tours’ blog posts), let me tell you why you…

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fisherman on the river at sunrise in Barisal city

Bangladesh diaries: traveling to Barisal division

By Etienne / November 15, 2022 / 6 Comments

Back on the road again after a few years of hiatus at home in Hoi An! I am about to begin my photography tour in Bangladesh, and I flew into the country earlier as I wanted to go and explore a new area of this country. This time I went traveling to the Barisal division,…

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Spa and hotel photography in Vietnam

Commercial photography in Vietnam

By Etienne / October 6, 2022 / 4 Comments

Some of you were used to more regular blog posts and photography tutorials. And one of the reasons why you have seen fewer of them recently is because I have been pretty busy with my commercial photography in Vietnam.  From travel to commercial photography Even though I started photography over 15 years ago, I have…

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a boy and his bicycle in the flooded streets of hoi an old town after the Noru typhoon

Hoi An after Noru Storm

By Etienne / October 3, 2022 / 4 Comments

If you follow the news, you may have seen that a massive storm, called Noru, made landfall in central Vietnam last week. It was one of the most significant storms ever recorded in the area, and the damages were quite consequent. I spent a few hours in Hoi an old town taking photos the day after…

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A Pics of Asia photography tour group in the mountains of North Vietnam

North Vietnam 2022: photo tour summary

By Etienne / September 20, 2022 / 1 Comment

2022 is well on its way and we have been celebrating our first photography tour post-pandemic! Here is a summary of what happened last week during our North Vietnam photo tour. Day 0: Photography warm up in the streets of Hanoi As most of the tour participants had arrived earlier in Hanoi, we met up…

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Night fishing in Vietnam

Night fishing: a nocturnal photography expedition in Vietnam

By Etienne / August 2, 2022 / 0 Comments

It had been something I had wanted to do for over 10 years; spend the whole night fishing with the fishermen of central Vietnam. After visiting fishing villages at sunrise in Vietnam for over 15 years, I was always curious to see how the fishermen work at night. I had plans to go and spend the…

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A photography tour in Phong Nha National Park in Vietnam with Pics of Asia

The New Phong Nha Photography Tour

By Etienne / May 13, 2022 / 0 Comments

New Phong Nha National Park Photography Tour Whether you have already joined one of my photography tours or workshops in Asia, or if you are new to Pics of Asia, this new Phong Nha photography tour will take us into the less visited area of Vietnam. And because Phong Nha Khe Bang is not all…

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eople photography with a wide-angle lens with Pics of Asia

People Photography using a wide-angle lens: challenge yourself! 

By Etienne / May 3, 2022 / 2 Comments

What was supposed to be a short blog post about my photography inspiration for 2022 turned into a full-on tutorial about how to take photos of people using a wide-angle lens. It must be the fact that I have been back running photography tours and workshops this year and I feel very inspired! Last month,…

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Visiting hoi an old town for night photography in 2022 with Pics of Asia photo tours

Our first Photography Tour in Asia in 2022

By Etienne / April 24, 2022 / 0 Comments

2022: the year it all starts again Goodbye confinement, goodbye travel restrictions! 2022 is the year we begin running our photography tours in Asia again, bringing our students to the best locations for some awesome photography! This week we have been running the first Pics of Asia photography tour in central Vietnam. And it felt…

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Postcard of farmers and bicycle at sunset in Vietnam during Pics of Asia photo walk in Hoi An

No photos for peanuts! A photo walk in Hoi An.

By Etienne / March 14, 2022 / 0 Comments

As our photography tours with Hoi An Photo tour and Pics of Asia have been on pause, we began organizing monthly free photo walks in Hoi An old town and around in 2020. The idea was to keep the spirit of travel photography alive, to keep taking and sharing all things about photography and meeting…

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