Adam Monk Photo Tours & Images Gallery

This year has been a huge year for travel for me, I’ve had Photo tours to Bhutan, Cambodia and Iceland with a few weeks scouting trip to Norway for tours next year, and in a few weeks I’m of to Bhutan again for the second time this year…  I have so many new images that I don’t know where to start!

So, for want of a better plan I will begin with an image from my most recent trip to Iceland, where I ran two photographic tours back to back with Iurie Belegurschi.  One of the locations I was really keen to go to on this trip was the Southern Highlands of Iceland with its amazing volcanic landscape and the painted hills. Read the rest of this entry »

There is a lovely small Monastery I always visit on my Bhutan Photographic tours each year, on the slopes of the Phobjikha Valley in Western Bhutan.  Normally it’s very quiet and serene with just a few peaceful Monks and a stunning view down the valley.  As I have been going there for quite a few years, we usually get invited in to photograph the morning prayers in the small temple, a special privilege not normally granted (see this post). Not this year.

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Last weekend, almost straight after returning from Bhutan, I went on a trip to the town of Quairading, in the wheat belt of WA with 60 other photographers… It was a weekend away organised by the WAPF, the West Australian Photographic Federation, and specifically by Ric & Ailsa McDonald from the GEM Camera Club.  I have been promising to go on one of their photographic weekends for years, but I always seem to be out of the country on an expedition of my own when the WAPF weekends come around.  Well finally I was around for one, so I went, jet lag and post Bhutan tour exhaustion and all!

A few minutes after the previous image at the Ura Valley festival in Bhutan.  Really it’s just the same post split into two.

I always go off on my Bhutan photo tours with the best intentions to write Blog entries as I travel with new images daily.  Occasionally it works out as planned and I put up the odd entry as I travel…  Not this time, not even one entry.  I think this was a result of pretty hopeless internet, and a tour group who were so enthusiastic to do and see everything that I was run ragged every day.  By the time we were finished for the evening it was all I could do to drag myself to bed!

I also embarrassed to say that I have barely looked at my images from that trip, again as a result of too little time, or at least the desire to sleep during whatever time I had.

This image is of two of my Bhutanese guides, Tshering (on the right) and Kezang, having a laugh with some local kids at the festival in Ura Valley, it’s a candid shot facing away from the action of the dancers at the festival.  Shot on a Nikon D810 and the 24-70mm f2.8 lens