These are the days when, in quiet moments, we can reflect and appreciate the value of true friends and family, the great good fortune to possess the freedoms that we enjoy and to acknowledge the resources at our disposal.

Life can pass us by if we’re not careful. We are surrounded, each and every day, by an infinite number of things, simple things, which have the power to put our usual concerns into context and to fill our hearts with inspiration and joy. The trick is to notice them, to cherish them and to realise that it is these simple, delightful things that make life worth living.

Yes, I’ve gone all touchy-feely. Sorry about that. When you’ve just spent a great weekend in Varanasi with fellow photographers Jon McCormack and Steve Gluskoter, stepped out onto the riverside ghats before dawn to photograph the sunrise, walked through the narrow streets and alleyways of old Varanasi and been welcomed into a local village by the most gentle and genial of hosts then it’s difficult to avoid getting just a little sentimental. You have my apologies

Rowing down the sacred Ganges river at dusk

My point is this: there are places like Varanasi and Kathmandu; where I am currently spending some “me” time; where it is impossible not to appreciate the simple things that can be so very valuable. The trick, I think, is to take a moment to cast your eyes around you when you are not in Varanasi or Kathmandu and to quietly list those things that you might sometimes take for granted but which lift your spirit. I’d offer you my own list but it wouldn’t capture the sense of what I mean nearly as well as reclusive artist Kerewin Holmes does in Keri Hulme’s book, “Bone People” when she is asked “What do you love?”.

“What do I love? Very little. The Earth. The stars. The sea. Cool, classical guitar. Throbbing flamenco. Any colour under the sun or hidden deep in the breast of my mother Earth. Ah Papa my love, what joys do you yet conceal? And storms… and the thunderous breaking surf. And the farout silent waves. And o, dolphins and whales! The singing people, my sisters in the sea… and anything that displays gentle courage, steadfast love. The still brilliance of garnet, all wine, water of life and bread of heaven and brave shimmering moon…”

Towards the end of a memorable weekend photographing in Varanasi I was visited by a reliable and faithful friend: my rainbow-coloured umbrella. I first made its acquaintance in Nepal where it was being carried by a group of monks. You may recall the desktop wallpaper I posted last year? Since then, it has appeared in numerous locations around the world and I’ve begun to see it as a personal reminder that I should endeavour to see things for their true value. I ask you, what could be more uplifting than a multi-coloured, rainbow-hued umbrella? For me, that’s more than enough.

On this occasion, the umbrella had sprouted four small legs and toddled slowly towards me down a rain-soaked Varanasi alleyway.

Shooting purely for fun that afternoon, I was armed only with a Lensbaby but it seems to have been the perfect lens with which to capture this adorable brother and sister as they slowly walked home. He clutched at his sister’s yellow dress whilst she put all her effort into holding the giant umbrella aloft. As they walked on down the alleyway and the sound of my camera shutter gently clicked I realised that, for me, here was a perfect moment. Important to notice those when they come your way.

So, wherever you are and whatever you are doing today, my gentle suggestion to you, dearest reader, is to enjoy just a few moments to take stock, to appreciate those simple but valuable things that lift your spirit and fill your heart. If you don’t have your own friendly rainbow-coloured umbrella then I’ll gladly share mine. If nothing else, it will keep us both dry.

If it looks like a lot to you then I can promise you that it seems like a lot to me. I’m not a photographer who ordinarily travels with mountains of gear. I like to think I’m pretty “low impact” and one main bag with a second, hand-luggage bag for camera gear is usually more than sufficient. However, we have a variety of subjects to shoot on this trip so flexibility is the name of the game.

You’ll see that we have 2 x 5D MKII bodies each. A second body is essential, not only for back-up if the first fails but I find it easier to shoot with two camera in most situations, if only to provide a range of focal lengths. We each have the same lenses, a 16-35mm f/2.8m, a 24-70mm f/2.8, a 70-200mm f/2.8 and an 85mm f/1.2. You’ll see that the widest aperture on all these lenses is either f/2.8 or f/1.2 and I think that having a good-quality lens with a wide aperture is probably the most important aspect of all my kit. Those wide apertures offer greater flexibility, give shallow depth-of-field and allow me to work in areas where light levels are low.

Additional lighting is minimal with just a 580EX II flash with diffusers and, not shown in this video, a small reflector with various, white, silver and gold covers. There’s some audio gear too, a Zoom H4n for field recording and a Sennheiser MKE-400 for additional recording when shooting video.

Beyond the camera gear, there’s the usual computer paraphernalia with MacBook Pros and external hard-drive storage to accommodate all those RAW and DNG files – backed-up, of course. We’ll be trekking so will need to be self-sufficient when away from a reliable power supply so there’s enough batteries to power cameras and flashes for a week. There’s also enough CF cards to shoot for one week without any certainty of being able to upload during that time.

I hope to bring you examples of some of my projects from India and Nepal, the usual caveats of a reliable Internet connection notwithstanding.

We failed.

Prize-winning students were cajoled out onto the balcony at Long Table Restaurant, high above the streets of Bangkok today in order to receive their well-deserved prizes.

Young Geoff Costley won a copy of Chris Orwig’s excellent “Visual Poetry” book for, well, just for being Geoff.

However, voicing some concern about the possibility that the stage-managed shots might end up looking a little, err, stage-managed, we decided that launching Geoff’s prize in the direction of Geoff’s face might make for a more entertaining image.

Fortunately, young Charan Malhotra was in the wings, waiting to bring a sense of decorum to the proceedings. Charan won a ColorChecker Passport, courtesy of the lovely people at X-Rite for winning our “Best Photo from a Field-Trip” competition. Charan, who is the very definition of an enthusiastic and eager student, also won the competition for “Most phone calls taken during a class” for which, sadly, there is no prize, only global recognition.

Probably.

By the time we got to photograph Jenjad Srisonkarm, winner of a ColorMunki Photo device, again courtesy of the gorgeous, sexy people at X-Rite, the situation had become somewhat ridiculous. I have no idea quite what we were laughing at by this point but as Jenjad pulled his “I’m a gameshow host” face, it had all descended into farce.

Finally, possibly the funniest photo taken of your humble host since 1973 when I was captured wearing a T-shirt bearing the legend “I’m playful as a porpoise”. If this image makes you laugh half as much as it does me then you’ll still be sniggering as you go to your bed this evening. Hey, I’m only here for your amusement, after all.

For those of you living within Bangkok or nearby, our Autumn evening class schedule has just been released and you have the chance to not only attend our vibrant, entertaining, educational and informative evening classes but also, possibly, to appearing in a similar photograph to those shown above before the end of the year. You have been warned.

Our most recent courses were attended by students not only from Bangkok but we were also privileged to be able to invite participants who had travelled from Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Islamabad specifically to attend classes. It’ll be no surprise that our Autumn evening classes are also selling like hot cakes. Book your place now.

Whilst we’re here, I’d also like to extend grateful thanks to our other lovely sponsors at F-stop, Lensbaby, Soundslides and Photoshelter. We love you more than words alone can say.

Bangkok markets are always enjoyable places to photograph but, after dark, when much of the illumination comes courtesy of a single tungsten light bulb suspended from the top of a market stall or street vendor’s cart, is a glorious time. Exposure can be tricky of course but a little clever metering and some exposure compensation adjustments can bring out the very best in the atmospheric lighting conditions.

“Let’s buy each other a gift before we leave the market but we can’t spend more than 250 baht (about £5) each“, I declared, somewhat cleverly in retrospect.

Well, I thought it was a good idea at the time but with 3 minutes remaining before we were due to meet, I was still clutching my 250 baht and had found nothing in the way of inspiration. I was on the verge of buying a cheap, Korean umbrella with anime cartoons on it when, from the corner of the tiny market stall, a far more appealing solution winked at me. A thing of rare, plastic beauty. Inside a waterproof (allegedly) casing, this handy-sized chunk of gorgeousness was priced at 239 baht. Brilliant! I’d still have enough change for an iced Sprite lolly!

It’s focus free (surprise, surprise), has a 28mm f/9 lens and takes 35mm film. I had to buy it. In fact, I had to buy two. The blue example below is the one that I kept for myself.

The “Plastic Fantastic”

I stocked up on two Kodak 400 ISO films, which cost about as much as the camera and, as soon as the rain began to fall, I ventured out onto the main Sukhumvit road in Bangkok to put this little plastic fantastic lady through her paces. It was fun sliding a 35mm film into place and hearing the ratchets click as I wound the film forward. Here’s my pocket review detailing the most important findings:

• The viewfinder offers a view that bears little relation to the image being captured but I shot from the hip mostly so it didn’t really matter
• Every time you wind on it feels like the film is being ripped and shredded
• I got only 10 usable images from a 36 exposure roll
• The images are grainy, wildly underexposed, horribly desaturated, blurry, with a heavy vignette and every frame shows huge scratch marks
• I absolutely love it

Shot from the pillion seat of a Bangkok motorcycle taxi. This image is model released and available for licensing

Canon EOS 10D with Lensbaby Composer

So, why, I hear you ask, is there a picture of a Canon EOS 10D on my blog? Well, inspired by the sense of fun that I’d found with the little waterproof Plastic Fantastic, but slightly frustrated by the lack of immediacy that I have become used to with digital, I hit upon the idea of a compromise. Here’s the ingredients for Gavin’s Fun Photography Recipe:

• A battered, second-hand, 6.3 megapixel Canon EOS 10D – Price: 6,000 baht (£115) from the lovely people at Fotofile
• A Lensbaby Composer and Optic Kit, courtesy of one of my sexiest sponsors, the gorgeous people at Lensbaby
• One of Apple’s luscious iPads
• An iPad Camera Connection Kit
• A copy of Filterstorm for iPad

Downloading to an iPad in a Bangkok street cafe

So here’s the deal, after you’ve found the firmware upgrade to install PictBridge to the 10D you will be able to connect it to an iPad via the USB Camera Connection Kit. The iPad immediately recognises the new images and offers to import them to the Photos application. I’d set up the 10D to shoot large JPEGs rather than my usual RAW files, not only to keep the file sizes down but also to more closely mimic the sense of using film. The idea is to reduce the amount of post-production with this 10D/Lensbaby setup. In a nutshell, it’s a way for me to enjoy the same freedom that shooting with a low-end, budget camera and lens brings whilst retaining the immediacy of digital. Voila!

Screenshot from iPad whilst importing

I was initially a little disappointed when the iPad was announced that it wasn’t the killer device for photographers that I’d been hoping for. I was looking for something with either massive storage or at least the capability to plug-in external hard drives. I wanted Lightroom and Photoshop – or at least cut-down versions of image cataloguing and manipulation software. I wanted a one-stop, portable device that would eliminate my need to travel with a laptop. The iPad isn’t those things but it’s a step in the right direction.

I managed to overcome my initial reticence when offered an iPad as a gift and have succeeded in finding plenty of uses for it since receiving it. One of the more appealing applications that I’ve found is Filterstorm, a surprisingly powerful image editing app. Filterstorm has tools to crop, rotate, straighten, scale and flip. It can add a vignette, reduce noise, sharpen, blur or convert an image to black and white. It can alter White Balance and Hue and contains a tone curve control. Better still, all of these effects can be applied with a variable brush or a gradient map. Whilst it’s not quite Photoshop for the iPad, it can do most of the things that I’d want to do when manipulating an image. Here are a couple of screenshots:

Filterstorm for iPad

Colour Balance controls

Tone curve

So where are the images that I took with my new, fun-packed kit? Well, scroll down, eager reader and you’ll find a small selection of the 200 plus images that I shot yesterday when out in Bangkok with my 10D and Lensbaby. I uploaded the JPEGs to my iPad whilst enjoying a coffee at a street-side cafe at the end of the day and processed all of these photos using Filterstorm from the back seat of a taxi on my way home last night.

Grafitti on a shop shutter

The ubiquitous Bangkok tuk-tuk

Bumrung Mueang, where Buddha statues are sold

Tai Chi in Rominart Park

Working in one of the city’s khlongs (canal)

The reclining Buddha statue at Wat Pho

Coincidentally, Chase Jarvis recently posted an article entitled For The Love Of Photography on his blog where he posed a series of questions for photographers. With Gavin’s Fun Photography project now in full-swing, I can confidentally answer Chase’s questions as follows: “It’s right here”. “See above”. Yes, I can”. “Yes, 200 actually”. “I do, I love it”. “Of course”. “Is there any other way”.

So, what’s your Fun Photography project?

Hualamphong Railway Station
(Bangkok Grand Central Terminal Railway Station)

Hualamphong is Bangkok’s main railway station, serving south, east, north and north-east Thailand.

Location: Pathuam Wan
Opening Times for Advanced Booking Office: 8:30am to 4pm (Same day travel: 5am – 8:30am and 4pm – 11pm)
Getting there: Take the MRT underground service to the terminal Hualamphong station, enter the main station concourse at ground level
Services: Luggage storage, restaurants, cafes, food court, shower room
Contact: Telephone – +66 (0)2 220 4334

Advice for photographers: The large, airy concourse provides a colourful location for photography and there will be plenty of life here at all times of day as passengers wait patiently for their trains. The platforms can be accessed without a ticket and there are opportunities for candid photographs.

Best time: At dusk, when the impressive facade is floodlit, there are opportunities for long-exposure shots revealing light trails from passing traffic. Remember your tripod and remote release! Inside the station, the artificial lights that illuminate the platforms after dark can provide interesting effects and more opportunities for long exposures.

A small extract from the forthcoming “Photographer’s Guide to Bangkok”. Available shortly!

Bangkok Photo School – Images by Gavin Gough

The Photo School concept has been very successful in Bangkok and I’m delighted with the reception that it’s received and with its popularity. Classes sell out very quickly and there’s a great demand for more. Consequently, we’re expanding and taking on more teachers to allow the school to keep offering classes when I am unavailable.

I’m also in the process of constructing a new product, which I like to call a “Photo School in a Box”. A City Photo School™ package will contain everything that a photographer would need to establish, promote and run a photography school. From start to finish, the photo school package will take all the proven aspects of the Bangkok Photo School and make them available to people in other cities who would like to set up something similar.

A City Photo School™ package will include:

• Exclusivity for your city
• A custom-built, fully operational web site and dedicated domain name
• A guide to marketing your photo school with supporting material including posters, web ads and press releases
• A complete modular photo course with classes suitable for beginners to advanced students
• Comprehensive tutor notes for each class module
• A guide to establishing, promoting and running a successful photography school
• Access to an exclusive online forum for tutors and students
• Opportunities to connect with photo schools around the world
• Access to our corporate sponsors who support classes with great prizes and student discounts
• Much, much more.

For photographers looking to diversify and to create an additional source of income whilst expanding their local client and social network, a photography school is the perfect solution. The Bangkok Photo School serves as a great template for running a successful school and we’re making the process incredibly straightforward. If you are interested in establishing a City Photo School™ in your local area, drop me an e-mail now and I’ll add your name to the mailing list. Rights to operate a City Photo School™ will be exclusive and allocated on a city-by-city basis.

Photography courses are now taking place at the Cairo Photo School, the first such franchise. Marco Ryan, the Chief Executive of the Cairo Photo Group explained “We are delighted to be the first customer of this innovative product. This is the next best thing to having Gavin come and live in Cairo and run the school himself! This product allows us to create compelling and differentiated offers into the expanding Egyptian photography market. The quality of the content, template and the support we have received from Gavin have more than covered the franchise cost.”

The Bangkok Photo School has proven to be a successful model and I am looking forward to the day when I can begin accepting invitations to appear as a Guest Tutor at photo schools around the world.

“Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, insight and experience. This workshop helped me grow as a photographer – and as a person. Back home, I am walking more slowly, talking to more people and getting to know them better before lifting the camera (the results are amazing). By the end of each day, I have new friends and interesting stories, not to mention a better knowledge and understanding of the place and its people”

“It was such a memorable experience. Your golden tidbits of instruction have stuck with me since our time together.  Thinking about things differently and digesting your teachings has been empowering.”

BHUTAN FESTIVALS	September 13th to 26th, 2010 The "Land of the Thunder Dragon" remains one of the world's most remote locations. The autumn Tsechus (Festivals) provide vibrant, colourful spectacles that cannot be witnessed elsewhere. The group will travel to some of Bhutan's more remote, rural festivals where there will be opportunities to experience the festivals at close-hand. Photographing in Bhutan is always a joy, the local people are warm and hospitable and visitors invariably leave Bhutan vowing to return. This two-week photo tour is also very much a cultural experience and photographers are encouraged to participate in activities that support the local communities where we stay.
LAOS HILLTRIBES	October 10th to 24th, 2010 Our photo tour is scheduled to coincide with the colourful Awk Phansa festival, which marks the end of Buddhist Lent. It will be an opportunity to enjoy an aspect of local Buddhist tradition that few people outside Laos will have witnessed. There will also be an opportunity to stay in a village in northern Laos, enjoying the company of the local people and experiencing local customs. Participants will enjoy some of the most rich and varied photo opportunities in South East Asia.
MYANMAR (BURMA)	November 11th to 24th, 2010 Our Burma Photo Tour provides an opportunity to witness what many people still refer to as the "Real Asia" first-hand. Ancient temples, remote locations and eye-catching photo opportunities typify this trip where participants will be able to interact with local people, gaining an appreciation of the rich and varied culture of this beautiful land.
EGYPT & THE NILE	April 23rd to May 4th, 2011 Egypt's Black and White deserts offer photographers a unique opportunity to capture images in one of the world's most testing environments. We stay with local families and travel extensively by 4x4 into the stunning black and white deserts, camping out beneath the stars and finding photo opportunities unlike any other. An optional, luxury Nile cruise extension provides the perfect end to this memorable photo adventure.

The summer classes of the increasingly popular Bangkok Photo School have been going with a swing with full classes of enthusiastic photographers. I try to end each Photo School workshop day with a quick thank you to the students who invariably enrich the teaching experience by being attentive, inquisitive and keen to learn. As I always say, it really is a treat to spend all day talking about photography and I’m further encouraged when I see some of the great images that students upload to our online forum after their classes.

When not teaching, I’ve been working on a number of projects, one of which is the seemingly mammoth task of compiling a Photographer’s Guide to Bangkok. It seemed like a good idea when we began but Bangkok has such a rich variety of potential photo opportunities that our list of locations to capture doesn’t ever seem to get any smaller. However, I’m making good progress and have been pleased with the variety of images that I’ve captured so far.

One of the most iconic sights in Bangkok is the Skytrain. Visitors to the city will have seen the red, white and blue carriages snaking their way between the skyscrapers on an elevated rail system that sits, rather elegantly, above the gridlocked traffic. It is one of the city’s greatest attributes and makes the otherwise time-consuming task of getting from one side of the city to the other so much quicker and simpler. It’s fast, reliable and enormously photogenic.

Our self-imposed photo mission has taken us from one station to the next, hopping along the platforms one at a time in order to gain the best vantage points. Photographing the BTS offers many opportunities and the good news is that if you don’t quite get the shot you were after, it’s OK because another train will come along five minutes later.

After dark, the long lines of the elevated railway provide compelling lines along which photographers can practice their “Leading Lines” compositions – a compositional guide that will be familiar to students at the Bangkok Photo School. Slow shutter speeds blur the movement but as tripods are not permitted on the platform, this technique demands either a supernaturally steady hand or a willingness to shove your lens through the barriers at the end of the platform and to leave your camera precariously balanced on the end of a cable release.

More pictures from our “Photographer’s Guide to Bangkok” will appear shortly, closely followed by the publication itself. A must-have for anyone visiting Thailand’s capital with a camera. Watch this space!

You’ll have heard me say before that if photography is about communicating an experience – and I believe that it is – then you need to have had the experience before you can consider photographing it. It was a real treat to spend time this week with photographers who were each naturally drawn to their surroundings, I felt confident in their sensitivity towards the local culture. My introductory speech, during which I suggest putting the camera to one side at first, was redundant this week as each of these students were clearly naturally inclined to build rapport with the people we met and to enjoy the experience before worrying about taking photographs.

I head home to Bangkok tomorrow, where I shall be taking a few days well-deserved (though I say so myself) off in order to relax, refresh and recharge. I can’t wait. However, please be sure to check this blog over the next few days for news of two new ventures that are sure to be of great interest to aspiring photographers or, indeed, anybody with a pulse. Yes, that means you!

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I’ve been staying in Hanoi’s Old Quarter this week, preparing for a series of photo workshops and concentrating on getting my mojo working. That’s the thing about mojo, you can’t take it for granted, it needs to be nurtured. From tomorrow, I’ll be helping other photographers locate and cultivate their own mojo, which seems like a rather pleasant way to spend one’s days.

In my spare time, of which there seems to be very little this week, I’ll be continuing my ongoing survey of Hanoi’s many excellent cafes and restaurants. This is a survey that I began several years ago and which I continue with a self-imposed schedule that is both rigid and punishing. Yes, it’s tough at the top.

I’ll also be meeting up with some friends and there’s talk of being dragged, much against my will, to a social evening sponsored by Martini. So, once again, I’ll be doing my utmost to dispel the myth that Travel Photographers mostly sit around sipping cocktails in exotic locations.

Yellow walls are, for some reason, like nectar to my bee-like brain. Red walls are good too, of course, and I’ve even been tempted by blue walls on occasion, but there’s something about a yellow wall that I find especially appealing. Better still if it’s as weather-beaten as this one in a narrow alley in Hanoi’s Old Quarter. When I spied it through Hanoi’s frenzied traffic from the other side of the road I was in such a hurry to reach it that I was very nearly mown-down by 800 oncoming motorbikes. Remember, always look both ways – especially in these countries where people insist upon driving on the wrong side of the road.

A little insight for you now: I wanted to photograph these flowers (below), perched on a bicycle. Despite the fact that the bike was in the street and so you might think was fair game for passing photographers, I politely asked permission from the bicycle’s owner, who was seated nearby enjoying a bowl of noodles at a street-side restaurant. It’s no surprise that the local people of Hanoi are sometimes jaded by tourists but, even so, I was a little surprised that without even looking up, she replied assertively “One dollar”. Her friends nodded in agreement and also told me “One dollar”, just to clarify the price. What to do? Option One might have been to have shrugged and walked on. Option Two might have been to have also shrugged, ignored them and taken the photo anyway. What would you have done? There was a time when I’d have chosen Option One (Option Three, to have paid the lady one dollar, isn’t a viable option in my book). However, these days I’m a little more feisty so I made up my very own Option Four. I shrugged, asked if I could take a seat beside where this group were eating, was invited to do so, sat down and mimed my desire to also have a bowl of noodles. If you’re not sure what the internationally recognised mime is for “Please may I have a bowl of noodles?” then check it on Wikipedia and then practice it in the mirror so that you are prepared should you find yourself in similar shoes. By the time we’d all eaten our noodles and finished our tea, we were firm friends. Each of the ladies had posed for a portrait and several had asked me if I was available for adoption. At least, I think that’s what they said, my Vietnamese is a little rusty.

The moral? Oh, I don’t know, you can make up your own moral today. I guess it would be something along the lines of knowing that just because millions of other tourists have passed along the same path before you, doesn’t mean that you have to behave in the same way as the majority of them. Don’t let yourself be pigeon-holed, don’t be afraid of getting involved and, if all else fails, buy a bowl of noodles.

Caged birds are popular in Hanoi and you’ll often hear a little chirruping as you walk along the street from a birdcage dangling above your head. Well, I think it’s the birds that make the sound in fact, not the birdcages, but you get the gist. Having a bird in a cage is considered to be good luck. For the owner, not for the bird, obviously. I thought at first that the owner of the shop pictured above had gone a little overboard in his pursuit of good fortune – until I realised that it was, in fact, a bird shop.

Also popular is the habit of taking a break for a sweet coffee and a quick hit of tobacco on a bamboo bong. I thought at first there was something more potent in this man’s pipe but it’s just tobacco. I’ve read that some people prefer smoking like this to smoking cigarettes because there are no chemicals in the tobacco used. Either way, it’s an unusual sight. The men in this street cafe were also a little suspicious of me to begin with but it’s amazing what a polite request can achieve. Rather than standing and staring or sheepishly walking by, I just sat down and ordered a coffee. It was a cafe after all. As soon as you’ve crossed that barrier and taken away all notions of being “different”, it’s surprising how swiftly our perceived barriers begin to dissolve.

Finally, a red wall. Freshly painted but with a rustic wooden door and wires poking through the gaps. I began photographing the door and thought to myself how utterly splendid it would be if the owner appeared at that moment to walk through it, preferably a lady wearing one of those iconic “Non” hats. Not two seconds later, this lady appeared and proceeded to unlock the door. So, it seems that my mojo is working perfectly well, after all.

Photographers attending Bangkok Photo School summer classes will receive a lot more than expert tuition and a fun-packed learning experience. Our sponsors have kindly donated their very best products. Students could win their photo tuition for FREE and walk away with a host of great prizes.

Read the full course descriptions for Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced classes, and the popular Lightroom class.

Every student will receive the following free gifts

1. A Photoshelter archive account, with a coupon for two-months free online hosting (check-out Gavin’s Photoshelter portfolio).
2. A brand new, limited-edition, F-stop camera strap
3. Discount coupons for the inspiring Craft & Vision series of photographic e-books written by pro photographers including David duChemin, Gavin Gough, Andrew Gibson
4. A DVD containing the full course content, X-Rite‘s excellent guide to “Colour Communication for Photographers“, links to further resources and web sites
5. Personal access to the Bangkok Photo School forum, where you can upload your images and enter discussions with other students
6. Special offers on photo tours to Bhutan, Burma, Laos, Tibet and Mongolia

To register for a course and a chance to win these tantalising prizes,

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