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I thought it was time to put up some shots from my recent photography tour to Bhutan that were not portraits, so here we go…  Bhutan is situated at the Southern base of the Himalaya range, squashed between India, Tibet and Nepal, so as you would expect most of the country is mountainous.

They have the knack of terracing out rice fields on the edge of mountains and these are visible all along the winding roads of rural Bhutan.  The houses are all built in traditional style, which is unique and quite beautiful, really defining the countryside as different to anywhere else.

Rivers of Bhutan

Rivers and waterfalls are everywhere, the countryside is full of them rushing out of the mountains.  Many of them are fed from glacial or snow melt and most of them run all year long.  Bhutan is a very lush and fertile country indeed.

Dont forget to click on the images to get a larger view.  more soon…

If the Wrinkles on a persons face are the roadmap of their life, then this Bhutanese fellow has had a very full life indeed.  For me it seems that Bhutan is a country of people photography. The countryside is spectacular, the nature is wild and the architecture beautiful, but the faces of the people were what i kept seeing and photographing first.  

The people have such beautifully open and diverse faces, so i took lots and lots of portraits, some sneaky ones, like this one, but most with the consent (and a conversation, with lots of hand waving and laughing) with the person involved.

This image shows an old Man watching a festival in a small Monastery of Prakar Lhakhang in the Chumey Valley, Bumthang, a province of Central Bhutan.  Maybe for the next Photography Tour of Bhutan I will concentrate more on landscape?

Im back from my first Bhutan photo tour.  What an amazing country full of lovely people and spectacular scenery, Bhutan really is a photographers paradise.  The problem is, I took 2000 photographs, well, that’s not actually the problem, the problem is choosing which image to put up first!  So i’ve begun pretty randomly with the first images that caught my eye when i was editing in Lightroom this morning.

The image above is a detail of Prayer flags on a bridge over a river, shot with a 400mm lens wide open (f5.6) to create a very shallow depth of Field. The image to the left really typifies the Bhutanese people and the National Happiness Index, which really does exist.

I’ll just keep adding images here randomly, and I’m in the process of writing a page reviewing the whole of my first photographic tour of Bhutan.  If you were on the tour with me, please feel free to write feedback here on the Blog.  More to come, next is the photographic tour of Cambodia in March April next year, cant wait!

I will be running another Bhutan photo tour each year, click the link to see all the details.

Exciting news!  I have just finalised the details for an amazing Photography tour of Vietnam and Cambodia for 2013.  Their will be a whole page going up about this with loads more details (very soon), but i wanted to get this up straight away.  The tour is 15 days/14 nights and leaves Perth 27th April 2013, includes just about everything and costs just $3950 (twin share) per person.

Information Night

We are having an information night this Thursday evening 23rd August in Leederville.  I know its short notice, but if you would like to come along Give Maxiema a call on (08)9382 5049 or you can email maxiema@traveltree.com.au  Even if you cant come to the info night but you would like to know more Maxiema will be happy to send you some information.