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Portrait of Bhutan
These are random shots from a roadside stop on the way to Trongsa Dzong in central Bhutan shot on one of my Bhutan Photo tours. This fellow and the rest of his team were in the process of putting up a viewing platform shelter on the opposite side of the valley from the Trongsa Dzong (temple fortress).
And like almost all officially placed lookout platforms, it was in the wrong place! It was situated directly opposite the Dzong and the view was very uninspired, the workers themselves were much more interesting, this fellow in particular. He has such a lovely open face, and the light was just right. I got some more interesting pictures of the Dzong later.
Trongsa Province, Central Bhutan. Shot with a Canon 5D Mk II, 24-105mm f4L lens.
Bhutan, Roadmap of Life
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?
Bhutan, the land of National Happiness
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.
Photographic Tour of Vietnam and Cambodia 2013
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.
Photographic Tour of Bhutan 2012 is full.
Sorry folks, I’ve been off the air for ages, i’ve been doing a major renovation on my house and it seems I’ve barely had time to check my emails let alone make blog entries! I could do a series of posts on why you should never renovate your house, but that would be a little off topic, lets just say it was a huge learning experience. The biggest thing I learnt was never to do it again. I hope somebody will remind me of that next time i decide to renovate…
Back on topic… My Photo tour of Bhutan for 2012 has fully booked!.
Bhutan Photo Tour – 2013
The good news is if you really wanted to go to Bhutan but couldn’t make it, or just missed out due to this years tour filling up, I will be running this tour again in 2013 October 12 to 26th October. You can read the full Bhutan photo tour Itinerary and information right here.
If you would like some more information, or simply to book for my Bhutan photography tour call me on (+61) 415 854 179 or you can email me at am@adammonk.com or you can keep an eye on this site. Since now i’m not a full time builder, i will be posting more. In fact, i am about to put up a whole new home page for the workshops and tours that will make finding the latest information really easy, you can find that page here>