Ringscapes: Peter Adams-Shawn’s Tiny Reflected Worlds
A wedding ring is usually photographed as a detail. In Peter Adams-Shawn's Ringscapes series, it becomes the setting for an entire scene...
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Creative Travel: Stories & Places to Explore
Discover Peter Adams-Shawn’s Ringscapes photographs, where wedding rings hold miniature scenes, and try a simple reflection exercise on your travels. Explore Ed Fairburn’s portraits on maps and discover how roads, contours and coastlines become part of a face, with a creative travel-journal exercise.
Start with Ringscapes: Peter Adams-Shawn’s Tiny Reflected Worlds and Ed Fairburn’s Map Portraits: Faces Hidden in Roads and Rivers.
Ed Fairburn’s Map Portraits: Faces Hidden in Roads and Rivers
A map is designed to help you find a place. In Ed Fairburn's portraits, it can also lead you towards a face: a road becomes a line of sh...
Paperboyo’s Travel Photos: A Little Paper, a Big Idea
A familiar monument, a small piece of black paper and a very well-chosen position: that is enough to turn a travel photograph into a visual ...
Nick Pandev’s Travel Photography: Learning to Read the Light
A hillside on Santorini can feel like two different places in the space of an hour. As daylight fades, the sea loses detail and the windows ...
Make a Five-Second Travel Diary You’ll Actually Rewatch
The coffee cup shaking gently on a café table. Your friend laughing at an unexpected turn in the day. A ferry pulling away from the harbour....
Takashi Yasui’s Japan: Finding Beauty in Everyday Scenes
A red umbrella against a pale surface. A figure framed by repeating gates. A flowering tree standing quietly beneath mist. Takashi Yasui’s p...
Piano Around the World: Dotan Negrin’s Unusual Journey
Most travellers try to make their luggage smaller. Dotan Negrin took an upright piano. The instrument turned an ordinary stop into a perform...
Hidenobu Suzuki’s Japan: Landscapes with a Painter’s Eye
Pink blossom fills one scene; layers of distant hills soften into another. A patchwork of rice terraces holds the last light between dark sl...
11 Original Travel Thoughts for Your Next Adventure
A travel quote can be a lovely nudge, but it becomes more useful when it leads to a small idea of your own. These eleven lines are original ...
Carl Jara’s Sand Sculptures: Far Beyond the Sandcastle
A face divides into layers. A figure seems to emerge from another form. Sand, a material most of us associate with a bucket and a collapsing...
Walter Chang’s Travel Photographs: A World of Small Moments
A mountain reflected in quiet water can hold your attention for a long time. So can a small group of people resting between the day’s activi...
Singafive: A Playful Idea for a Couple’s Travel Video
One high-five, another setting, the same happy gesture. Marie and Haakon’s Singapore travel montage turns a simple action into the thread co...