Black to White

Toward the end of last year I had just got back from Nepal and was fuelled with the desire to travel more, see more and do more. But with1 and half years left at university this seemed unlikely. However life, fate and all those connected things have taken some weird twists and turns recently and so for the past 6 Months or so me and one of my housemates from Uni have been planning the biggest trip that I will have ever done.

Black to White will be a 3 month trip starting on the shores of the Black Sea heading by sea whether that be by ferry, fishing boat or otherwise round the coast of europe trying to get into the white sea by mid September. It is going to be a whirlwind experience and a stunning way to see the continent.  The project supported by Firstglobalscreen a Internet startup who are looking to provide amazing web content and video, we will regularly be blogging there and uploading video as we go round.

Technically there are quite a few challenges from fitting all the gear in that we need to making sure that we find places to stay and locations to upload video from. At the moment it is definitely a Daunting process that lies ahead of us. It stands to be the most epic summer of my life no matter what.

You can follow the journey on First global Screen

And on twitter @FgsBlacktoWhite

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Finland, Spring 2010

About 50 clicks north from Tampere the ‘Manchester of Finland’ there lies a town, which by any other traveller through the Finnish country side would be disregarded as one of those forgettable towns. A place that is just on the way to somewhere else, I have been through many of these; Rikala, Poikelu, Syvälänkylä. Places that only get a look in thanks to maps and journal notes. Places that seemingly offer nothing. Continue reading

Inspiration – Diego Verges

I came across Diego Verges‘s work through the Travel photographers blog when he was nominated as one of Twefic’s travel photographers of the year, Looking through his portfolio he has a distinct style and the character of the subjects he shoots I think really shines through in his images. Continue reading

Little Chamonix.

For our first video assignment of the year we had to create and produce a ’3 Minute Wonder’ a short film based around any given subject. For ours we produced a film documenting a Lake District climber solo ascentinting  Little Chamonix, a classic Lake  District multi pitch route. Working with Pete Clark, Callum Stone and Dom Bush filming took place over one fairly grey day in the Borrowdale valley, 3 cameras and one climb later we had all the footage we needed only a stint in the editing suite to complete the project. Click through to see the video Continue reading

Winter Skills

Each year the outdoor students from the Outdoor courses at University of Cumbria - Newton Rigg go up to scotland for a 4 days of Intensive sessions covering moving effectively in the winter environment. Conditions couldn’t have been better to show off the Scottish landscape in such an elegant fashion, powder snow covered every inch of the ground that you looked upon, Scots pine trees drooped under the weight of the pack bearing down on it. Continue reading