Training grounds

Palolem/ Madikeri/  Hampi, India. 2010


Perhaps if India had been playing England on the beach, in the woods or among the ruins of a UNESCO world heritage site instead of Lord's, they would have won.

Goat team

Hampi/ Kochi, India. 2010


Goats survive anywhere because they can eat things that humans would only consider using for clothing or building materials.

About four years ago, in a country quite far away...

Merzouga/ Marrakech, Morocco. 2006

The djelaba has been a staple of the winter wardrobe in Morocco since long before Star Wars.

Hitch in the plan

Vesterålen Islands, Norway. 2008

The rugged and sparsely populated Vesterålen islands are situated inside the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. They are staggeringly beautiful but, with hindsight, probably not the best place to try to hitchhike.

Tai Chi

Haikou, China. 2011

The West has every reason to be worried about China. Our governments owe them a lot of money and even their old people could kick the sh*t out of us. Luckily the folks in these pictures are far too friendly to fight against real people.

Green Thai Curry

Chiang Mai, Thailand. 2006

As anyone who's watched enough Ray Mears will know, there's almost nothing you can't do with bamboo. It's even possible to cook a delicious meal in bamboo pans and then eat it on the bamboo balcony of your bamboo jungle-hut using cutlery made entirely of bamboo.

Las Mananitas, Guatemala. 2005

Football would be much better if the pitch always got narrower as the tide came in.

Street art for the elderly

Sanya, China. 2011

Traditional calligraphy written on the pavement in water: Beautiful transient chinese art form or mindless short-term vandalism by the retired? You decide. I think it's the former. But then I don't know what the characters say...

Fishing Week day 5

Palolem, India. 2010

After centuries of ingenuity our human fishing techniques have now become so clever that we have successfully caught almost all the fish in the sea. 

But it turns out that fish taste great and provide livelihoods for fishermen and we'd actually miss them if they were gone.

Fishing Chic day 4

Looe/ Brixham, England. 2009


The key to this autumn's West Country Fisherman look is setting off your oilskins or overalls with suitably nautical accessory. Try a basket of scallops or large edible crab.

Fishing Week day 3

 Kochi, India. 2010

These enormous cantilevered contraptions are known as chinese fishing nets and are found almost exclusively in India. It's thought the Chinese may have introduced the technique to Kochi hundreds of years ago before going home and discovering a much better way of catching fish.

Fortunately many tourists are willing to be charged for the experience of helping pull up the nets, which works out nicely for the fishermen, who earn more money for putting less effort into not catching many fish.

Fishing Week: the ones that got away

Due to a busy week of shooting and editing I didn't manage to put up many fishing-related posts last week. So I'll put them up this week.