I’ve come up with a genius way to reduce the weight of my luggage - off load some of it onto you guys! 

So my second book prize giveaway, this time its Steven Pressfield’s ‘The war of Art’. A gem of a book. If resistance has gotten its dirty little paws on you and won’t let go, and I’m quite sure it has at some point, then this book is a must read. It gets great reviews all round from aspiring and professional artist from in all fields, not just photographers.

So how to win it?

Just leave a comment telling me about your favourite celebration you’ve visited, perhaps the most exciting or the most colourful or emotional, what ever it is tell me about it – I’m just interested.

All comments will go into a lucky draw and I’ll pick the winner on the 31st October,I’ll post it to the lucky winner when I’m in Bangkok.

Good luck.

I’ll be, fingers crosseed, adding some images from the Vegetarian festival to the blog tomorrow, so stay tuned.

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I’ve just checked my emails and was slightly suprised to see an email from Travel Photographer of the Year competition.

Well its that time of year again, and its come around so quickly, entries are open and the competition begins. Im particularity excited this year as one of the themes this year is, wait for it …….. ‘Festival, Fiesta & Celebration’ (I know I kinda gave it away in the title), now it could just be me but, I think this is spooky, if I was to suggest a theme that encapsulates what I shoot then ‘Festival, Fiesta & Celebration’ would be it, I mean they even use the Spanish word fiesta (for those who don’t know I live in Barcelona, Spain).

This competition was only launched in 2003 but quickly became one of the world’s most prestigious photographic competitions, you only have to look at last years winners (or any other year) just to see how strong the competition is. This wont be the first time I’ve entered this competition, infact it will be my third, but damn I’m going to working hard on this one. Its a print based competition (as opposed to an online comp), which I prefer as it give the photographer a lot more control over exactly what the judges will see. However the work involved is a lot more making prints and reprints after reprints with slight adjustments to get exactly the look and feel you want.

So third time lucky??

Well I’ll be up against several thousand other photographers but who knows? fingers crossed.