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Full credit to Chase Jarvis for this post who put the list together through inspiration by Guy Kawasaki’s article “What I learned from Steve Jobs.” and adapted it to be creative industry/photography centric.

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Thank you to http://www.pixiq.com/ for this list. If you want to be added – leave me a comment and Ill happily add you.

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We didn’t last very long, we had managed a couple of hours sleep & even with hand and feet warmers Abbey woke up shivering. It was 4am and time to call it a night. Although I was pretty snug and warm, I struggled to get much sleep. We retreated back to the lodge and jumped into our warm bed.

So inviting and warming was this bed, we managed to sleep through the alarm and miss breakfast. Hungry again we suited up and made our way down the valley to a small cafe for some brunch, it wasn’t nearly as good as the Scandinavian breakfast we had at the lodge but it filled a hole!

Just across the bridge was the small Swedish town of Karesuando. We were on the northern border of Sweden & could see the village across the Muonio River from the lodge. Most notably seen is the church, it’s spiral can be seen from the top of mountain that we had been star gazing the night before.

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A loud rumble awoke me, I had only been asleep a few hours since arriving from Tromso. We were greeted by Sue and shown to our room, large wooden beams and a warm soft bed awaited us which we took full advantage of. The rumbles continued, they were subtle at first, but after more than 16 hours since our last meal the rumbles grew louder & louder!

Breakfast was a gods send, a full English Scandinavian style. Having settled the hunger, we retreated to the Sami lounge where Ian welcomed us to his hotel and gave us a bit of history. The lounge we were sat is was named after the native Sami’s, who are Europe’s northernmost and the Nordic countries’ only officially indigenous people.

A Sami family in Norway around 1900

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I would be lying if I were to tell you Abbey & I were always punctual for things, Abbey is usually the one to blame, realising she hadn’t packed her suitcase just before we set off to Edinburgh last Valentines is a good example. This time, however, I decided we would be very punctual, so very punctual in fact that we got to the airport over 5 hours before our flight was due to leave. I don’t truly believe it’s fashionable to be late for things but in this instance, having done the rounds of every shop at least twice and eaten enough food to feed a small army, I am starting to believe Abbey’s knack of making us late actually has it’s uses. (more…)

In recent weeks, reading through Photography Monthly and Amateur Photographer I have seen the rise of HDR photography. Having not done it before and reading more about this technique in Bryan Peterson’s Field Guide book, I decided to give it a try on my trip to the Maldives. And here are the results:

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Wow! Just wow! No words can explain how perfectly amazing this part of the world really is. There’s something magical about these tiny islands.  The isolation… the privacy… wonderful beaches and complete solitude.

In my two weeks on Sun Island, just south of Male in the Maldives, my camera saw plenty of action. Here is just a snippet of the adventures and the beauty. To see the entire gallery, please visit my flickr: www.flickr.com/bekids

Our mode of transport to Sun Island

Sun Island, Maldives

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