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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An Original Idea For Your Christmas List

By Tom | Published: November 1, 2009
It’s not long until the festive season, with all the left-over turkey, expanding waist-lines, New Year’s Day river and lake swims, and endless lists of resolutions to look forward to. So I’ve just published a photography calendar for 2010. (Last year I didn’t manage this until February, so this year I’m getting organised early!) I’ve done this [...]
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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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