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A Vietnamese woman with a conical hat is throwing fertilizer in the tea trees in Dalalt

A scouting trip into the Central Vietnam Highlands

By Etienne / January 23, 2023 / 4 Comments

I am now sitting in the middle of nowhere. Literally, there is nothing to do around here, as I am in the countryside of Thai Binh province celebrating the new year. And I remember this fantastic trip I took last week to explore the mountains of the central Vietnam Highlands. A student of mine wanted…

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Bangladesh photography tour 2022: my favourite images

By Etienne / December 7, 2022 / 2 Comments

There are places where you know you will end up with amazing photos! Bangladesh is definitely this kind of place. During my photography tour in Bangladesh, we always take a lot of images. And we always have a very high rate of great images. Which makes it, as you know, my favourite place on Earth…

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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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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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A panorama landscape photo of the mountains around Sapa in 2022

Travelling to North Vietnam in 2022: feel the winter bite!

By Etienne / February 25, 2022 / 0 Comments

It all started in 2021 when my wife suggested that we take another family road trip through Vietnam. We were going to drive up North to Thai Binh for the Tet holidays, so why not continue our journey to reach the mountains of North Vietnam? My wife and kids had never been there, and I…

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A Buddhist monk walks in the streets of Hoi An old town

2021: a year in review

By Etienne / January 22, 2022 / 0 Comments

I must say that after a year-long break with photography tours and workshops, it has felt good to get back to work, even if it wasn’t physically. The big news for me and Pics of Asia was of course the launch of my online travel photography courses in July. Over the first 4 months of…

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online travel photography course with Pics of Asia

Discover our brand new online photography courses

By Etienne / June 16, 2021 / 0 Comments

After months of hard work, they are finally here: our new “online photography courses!” Over 10 years of teaching photography to our students in Asia, and for the first time we are offering all our knowledge online! Learn travel photography online as if you were on our photography tours! It seems incredible to be able…

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