Tag Archives: Egypt

HDR Travel Photography For Beginners (Like Me)

By Tom | Published: November 5, 2009
If you’re remotely interested in photography and you use the internet, you’ve probably come across the term ‘HDR’. It means ‘high dynamic range’ and can be summarised as a method of preserving detail in the highlight and shadow of an image that would be lost on the limited intelligence and capability of a camera, but [...]
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Along the Egyptian Nile to Luxor

By Tom | Published: March 11, 2009
The direction to ride after Cairo was uncertain. I’d been juggling the options for weeks. Previous attempts at the Nile had resulted in police convoys to ‘safer’ places. The Red Sea Coast route didn’t appeal to me after the ugliness and monotony of its opposite shore, and the Western Desert route, beautiful, quiet and remote, [...]
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To Egypt, Cairo and Africa

By Tom | Published: March 2, 2009
I woke at dawn in a drainage channel beneath a main road. It was 90 kilometres to the port in the south of Jordan, from where I would take an overnight ferry the short distance across the Gulf of Aqaba to Nuweiba, on the Sinai peninsular of Egypt. The outside of my tent was crusted [...]
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