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Spot the Celebrity
Somewhere emerging from the trees and rain of a windswept highland spring is a celebrity. Luckily the adventurer Mark Beaumont is not adverse to a spot of bad weather. He is back in Scotland after a brush with mortality with the high Atlantic. I had the pleasure of meeting...
Chile
Trying to take serious photos on a family holiday is for the me a good definition of frustration. The solitary pursuit of a composition or an idea is completely at odds with hanging out with your family. That is why I have pretty much given up taking more than a...
Glencoe Rocks
I had no idea how amazing Glencoe is until I visited last week to document the progress of top adventure racer Bruce Duncan as he ran the route of the new Glencoe Marathon for event organisers WildFox Events.The drive through Rannoch Moor was a whiteout and Glencoe’s...
The Good Stuff
“Mr Sergio Barillas will be outside the lobby in a cream Toyota pickup at 10.30am. He is a large elderly man with grey hair.” That’s how my trip to the coffee farm San Francisco Tecuamburro in Guatemala started. A terse email sent earlier the same...
Land conflict in Guatemala
I arrived with Mercy Corps staff in the indigenous community of Santa Isabel Se’kaaq in the north of Guatemala to a deafening volley of fireworks. The whole village had turned out to greet us. They thronged around a simple terrace decorated with balloons and sung the Guatemalan national...