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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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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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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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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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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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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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Being based in a country that has managed the Covid crisis exceptionally well, we were lucky enough to be able to embark on a photography tour in central Vietnam on the last weekend of April 2021. I decided to run this tour only twice this year (instead of every month) as many of my students…
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No, do not expect me to discuss the beauty of the year 2020, I think enough people have already done that! For the people who are still alive or simply mentally sane, I’d like to show you what I have had the chance to do this year in terms of travelling. And I say the…
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Last week I had a fantastic adventure through the mountains of North Vietnam! Starting in Hanoi, we rode motorbikes through the most stunning areas of Lao Cai and Ha Giang, also visiting Hoang Su Phi. Unfortunately, this wasn’t holidays, and we had been hired to photograph and film people on a bicycle trip through that…
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Now, I’d like to focus the assignment on our latest photography tutorial about balance in composition. The idea is for you to look at some of your older images, or create new work, and analyze them thinking in terms of balance and visual weight. Does this image work thanks to its overall balance? Or do…
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