10 Tips for Cold Weather Photography

Wintery cold places offer myriad opportunities for photography, from shooting beautiful snow covered landscapes to chasing the northern lights. If the light is right, you can get some truly fantastic winter shots. However, cold weather also offers unique challenges to photographers – and I’m not just talking about cold fingers!

In this post I want to share with you some tips and ideas to help you prepare yourself and protect your camera when photographing in cold weather and wintery conditions. This advice is based on my experiences shooting in various winter conditions all the way down to negative 40 in countries like Norway, Finland, Canada and Scotland.

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Highlights of Route 66 Oklahoma – In Photos

Welcome back to our photo series depicting our epic Route 66 adventure. If you missed them, you’ll find the photos from the previous states here. In this post we’re heading through Oklahoma, home to everything from drive-in movie theatres to giant whales! Let’s get started.

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Win $1500 with Trover in their #WinterWonders contest!

Hey folks! If you’ve been around for a while, you’ll remember that some time ago I told you about Trover – the photo discovery app that helps you find awesome sights in the world around you.

As a quick reminder, Trover is both an app for your smartphone, and a website. In my opinion, the best part of Trover can be found in the app. Since your phone knows where you are, Trover can use that location information to show you all the cool stuff that is around you, sorted by distance..

This “cool stuff” could be anything from a funky restaurant through to a must-see sight – and the best part is that it’s all uploaded by users of the app. Which means you could be sharing all the fun stuff you know about in your neighbourhood with people visiting.

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8 Highlights of The New Mexico Space Trail

We had the pleasure of road tripping for five weeks around New Mexico in 2016. It’s an absolutely fantastic state, with incredible landscapes, mind-bogglingly tasty food and somehow, very few visitors (or inhabitants!). It is one of Jess’s favourite states; she lived here for a year and grew to absolutely love it and wanted to return and explore it together.

New Mexico might be the fifth largest state in the country, but it ranks near the bottom in terms of population. Which means a lot of beautiful wilderness to explore and, more perfectly, road trip through.

We’re going to be writing quite a bit about this state in the coming months because we definitely feel more people should be visiting – and not just for the annual balloon fiesta (although that is pretty cool).

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How Much Does It Cost To Travel In The USA?

We’ve been lucky enough to travel a fair bit in the United States, and one of the questions that we’re always asked is – how much does it cost to travel in the USA? Particularly on the kind of trips we do, which tend to be self-drive road trips.

Well, today I’m going to see if I can help you figure that out, so you can budget for your own trip accordingly.

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10 of The Best Stately Homes to Visit in England

One of the things I love about England is how well it does stately homes. These imposing constructions were generally built to house the aristocratic families of the country, and tend to be rather grand affairs with formal rooms, impressive architecture and, depending on the whims of the owners, some form of landscaped garden.

These homes, which are generally in the country, can also be referred to as Country Houses or Country Homes, and they are where the gentry would retire to when not hanging out in the cities taking part in the social scene. Clearly, a tough life, but someone had to do it.

During the 20th century though, and for various reasons, many of Britain’s aristocratic families ended up short on funds and so weren’t able to keep these homes maintained. One of the ways around this was to open them up to the public (or sell them to a public body), which means that today a great many of England’s finest homes and palaces are open for touring.

Some of these are still privately owned, whilst others have been given to national organisations such as the National Trust and English Heritage for ongoing maintenance and upkeep.

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20 Of My Favourite Things To Do In Albuquerque

In the late summer of 2016 we decided to take a road trip around New Mexico for five weeks. Jess had lived in Albuquerque for a year, and we’d also passed through during our Route 66 adventure, but neither of us had really explored the state much, and we wanted to change that.

Obviously, we had to spend a few days exploring Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city - not least for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. It turned out, there was a lot to do in Albuquerque, and most of it has nothing at all to do with Breaking Bad! Without further ado, here are:

20 Of My Favourite Things To Do In Albuquerque

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Visiting Jasper for the Dark Sky Festival

Our recent visit to Canada was two-fold – first, we visited the city of Edmonton, ate lots of food and took in a number of sights, and came up with a guide for things to do in Edmonton. And that was all a lot of fun.

I have to admit though that the part of the trip I was most excited about was our trip to Jasper National Park for the annual Dark Sky Festival. This should be fairly obvious – as a passionate landscape photographer, heading to somewhere as famously picturesque as Jasper was definitely going to excite me!

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Oyster Card vs Contactless: The Best Way to Pay for Public Transport in London

I recently wrote a post about the best ways to get around London. That’s all well and good, but it’s missing a key component – the most cost effective way to actually pay for transport in London.

You’d think this would be a fairly obvious answer, but unfortunately it’s a little bit more complicated than you might imagine. Fear not though, this post will guide you through the options and help you decide which payment option is best for using London’s public transport system!

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26 Photos From The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta

This year we took a trip to New Mexico, where we spend five weeks exploring this truly wonderful state. Lots of posts on this topic coming soon!

In the meantime though, I wanted to share our experiences visiting probably the most famous annual event to take place in New Mexico – the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. This is the largest balloon event of its kind in the world, and it plays host to around 600 hot air balloons, who fill the skies over Albuquerque for almost two weeks!

It’s billed as the most photographed event on earth, and the largest event in the USA. Obviously – we had to visit!

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