Take full control of your Nikon. Get the best settings for Nikon dialled in!  Although these tips offer what I think are the recommended settings for Nikon, why not use these tips as a list to find our how to make similar tweaks in your camera’s settings. I’ve […]

Photographing Myanmar’s Monks Mia and I run photo tours and arrange bespoke trips in China for photographers, and people wanting to connect to beautiful places and people. So what do we do when we take a ‘break’? Yep, you guessed it, up at 4am every […]

The Telegraph, a British national newspaper, runs a popular travel photography image of the year competition called The Big Picture.  In January I was thrilled to learn I had won Telegraph Big Picture of the Year. Last summer, my image was selected as a winner some […]

Climbing China’s Karst Peaks Climbing in China is simply incredible. In Guilin and Zhangjiajie razor sharp peaks jet out of the landscape like needles, however you don’t need to be a top rock climber to take on some of the climbs in Guilin and Yangshuo. Guilin Climbing has routes […]

Hong Kong to Shenzhen North Station by subway is not too difficult if you leave plenty of time and read these tips. Hong Kong has two subway stations that offer border crossings into Shenzhen, China. I’ve crossed into China at the LoWu crossing hundreds of times on business, […]

What is the best day to book flights? Knowing the best day to book flights can save you a few hundred dollars, especially on a long-hall flight to China. You can save a lot when you know some insider tips of how airlines price tickets. Friday is now […]

Guilin Opera Guilin opera, two words I had not heard, despite living in Guilin for years. I came across it in my second year when I took a meander with my camera  to a local tea shop, before wondered to my ‘go to place’ for photography, right […]

Guilin blue hour photography with the cormorant fishermen is awesome. The blue light, mood and lamps reflecting on the Li River at twilight is magical. The blue hour is my favourite time for photography, beating even golden sunsets. It the best time to photograph Guilin’s cormorant fishermen with lamps, and […]