Tag Archives: Sudan

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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Hard Days in the Sahara

By Tom | Published: April 3, 2009
“Four days”, I said to George when he asked me how long it would take to ride to Khar­toum. “Depend­ing on how hard I ride, but I think four days is about right.” I had met a rag-tag band of other trav­el­lers in the small hotel in Don­gola — from Aus­tria, New Zea­l­and, Singa­pore and Eng­land. [...]
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Biking The Nubian Desert

By Tom | Published: March 26, 2009
I rode out of the tiny out­post of Wadi Halfa into the fad­ing light and into the Sahara desert of north­ern Sudan. I had no map, no guide­book, no sun cream, no insect repel­lent. A lone man stopped me on the out­skirts of the vil­lage, his head and body robed and wrapped in loose white [...]
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