Photoblog

How this all started: Few years ago I saw an image with a cormorant fisherman in Guilin and I got hooked. It looked amazing, with the traditional outfit, the fragile bamboo raft and the birds with the wings wide open. All this in a stunning environment with crazy beautiful karst mountains. I swore that I will get there and try to get a chance to photograph them. This year Carmen and I decided to travel to China. An amazing country, so vast and beautiful that is really overwhelming to choose an itinerary. But Guilin had to be on the list and we tried our best to accommodate it on our journey. We spent 4 days in Guilin, arriving from Shanghai by plane, in the really cool Liangjiang airport inspired by the landscape of the region. 3 of those days we had a private photo tour, with a generous portion of cormorants fishermen shooting. Three sessions to be more precise. Some facts: These days, the fisherman are not exercising their craft, but rather modelling...

We arrived in Bangkok at 5:30 in the morning after a long flight. It was pitch black outside and the hot air hit us when we got off the airplane. In the airport, there was no obvious sign about where we could get our “on arrival” visas so we had to ask. The visa area was a typical kingdom of boredom. Few clerks were waiting for the odd ones coming from countries that have no visa exemption and given the early time of our arrival, they were probably at the end of their night shift so they didn’t look like enjoying their job that much . One guy processed our papers and we waited few minutes to get a stamp on the passport. Another guy was literally sleeping in front of his computer while the others were probably counting minutes to go home. After we passed the immigration we were faced with the first dilemma: regular taxi vs limo. We checked the price for limo, we figured out it is quite expensive and the guy was not able to tell us an approximate price for the taxi. So we took our...

We started the trip to Japan with a long flight from Copenhagen: 11 hours with Scandinavian Airlines. We were not really in holiday mood due to all the stress with moving in the new apartment and especially the scares caused by Carmen’s strong allergic reactions. But we were rewarded with an amazing Aurora Borealis sight during our flight over Siberia. The scouting process was also rather quick, done in rush, started when we got the ok from the doctor to travel. But we were ready to have fun as much as possible during these two weeks, to enjoy a new culture and to explore exciting places. We arrived on Narita the next morning, quite tired after not being able to sleep in the plane. The immigration and customs check went rather fast, we collected our luggage and we picked up the rental mini wifi modem and sim card. We decided to rent both a sim card and a mini wifi modem, but in the end it turned out that the sim could have been enough to have internet on t...