DESCRIPTION   Amsterdam is the first city that I've ever visited as a solo traveller. I was on my way to Morocco on my first ever trip by myself, and I had an 8 hour layover in Amsterdam. Instead of hanging around the airport, I decided to hop on a train and head...

DESCRIPTION   Do you remember being a kid and pretending to be an animal or a super hero of some sort, and never understanding why everyone couldn't figure out what you were. Like, obviously Mom, I'm a baby rhino, why do you have to ask? Well in all of my years...

DESCRIPTION   The Old Quarter of Hanoi is busy, crowded, noisy, and a bit of a maze. The city was our last stop for us on a recent trip to Vietnam and it was a pretty cool place to spend a few days. Every street of the Old Quarter is named after a certain product...

DESCRIPTION   After a long, snowy winter here in Canada, I can barely look at more snow and this picture isn't really helping with that. But at the same time, I'm always amazed at how beautiful the snow in the mountains can look. There's something about how it...

DESCRIPTION   Last week I posted a photo of a place called Meg Hut in New Zealand. As promised, here is a follow up picture from our bike ride home from the hut that day. The hut itself was somehow in a bubble where there was no fog, but everything around it was...

DESCRIPTION   One rainy and foggy day when Hilary and I were living in New Zealand, we decided to visit a place called Meg Hut. One thing that I really loved about New Zealand was their hut system. You could find huts dotted all across the country and they made...

DESCRIPTION   Have you ever seen the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail? I've seen it many times and every time it makes me laugh. Maybe it's because I watched it since I was young with my brother, even though our mother staunchly disapproved. Anywho, this...

DESCRIPTION   It's not the first photo of lupins that I've posted 'round here, but I can just never get enough of these things. These ones are in the Lake Tekapo area of New Zealand where they are by far the best that I've ever seen. And if you haven't noticed, I...

DESCRIPTION   If I had to describe the transit system in Singapore, I would say that it's efficient, clean, and fast. It's also almost completely underground which means that when you get on at one stop, it feels like you are stepping into a portal that takes you...

DESCRIPTION   Singapore was the first stop on a 6 week tour through Asia. For a trip like this, Singapore is a great first stop as it gets you into the travel mode with only a small amount of culture shock and confusion that usually comes with travel to a new...

DESCRIPTION   The day that I took this photo still stands out as one of my favourite and least favourite mountain biking adventures from our time in New Zealand. There's the whole thing about type 2 fun that people talk about where it's miserable and not...

DESCRIPTION   While I was in the Faroe Islands, one of the places that topped my list of things that I wanted to photograph was the small town of Gasadalur. You can see it in the background of the photo. The town sits near the edge of the cliff on the rugged...

DESCRIPTION   I'm not completely sure, but I think that this is the highest point that I've ever crossed in my life. It's around 4600 metres above sea level, or 15,000 feet. Maybe it was my imagination exagerating things, but the air felt so much thinner at this...

DESCRIPTION   We ended up seeing a lot of waterfalls during our 15 months in New Zealand, but Devil's Punchbowl is still one of my favourites (I say that about all of them don't I?). We took this one a few days before we arrived in Wanaka which ended up being our...

DESCRIPTION   During out last few weeks in New Zealand, we decided to head down to the south end of the country to do some final exploring and see a few places that we hadn't quite gotten to yet during our 15 months in the country. One of the places that had been...

DESCRIPTION   My initial idea when we decided that we were going to be visiting Kuala Lumpur was to take a photo of the famous Petronas Towers from high up in another building. I had seen a few photos taken this way that I really liked and one of the best spots...

DESCRIPTION   I would have to say that one of our greatest finds in Iceland was the waterfall called Sticafoss. We had to drive a bit off of the beaten path to find it and it required a bit of a hike to get to, but we had the whole place to ourselves once we...

DESCRIPTION   One thing that I realized about travelling through Asia is that you're always bound to find something interesting when you wander around the streets of towns and cities. Everyone seems to be outside of their homes throughout the day so the streets...

DESCRIPTION   Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany is the kind of place that I could stare at forever. I like to imagine what building the castle would have been like and then what living in a place like that would have felt like. Imagine all of the...

DESCRIPTION   New Zealand blew me away with the colour of the water in the lakes and rivers! I guess it's because a lot of it is glacier fed, so there are a bunch of sediments and minerals in the water that make it that vibrant blue colour. If you didn't notice,...

DESCRIPTION   Near Wanaka, New Zealand where I was living for a year, there is an area called Haast Pass. It's a really unique spot because it's a huge contrast from the area around Wanaka. Where Wanaka is really wide open and sparsely vegetated, Haast Pass is...

DESCRIPTION   For some reason, the first thing that popped into my head when I tried to think of a name for this photo was Tequila Sunrise. By that point it was already too late and I couldn't think of anything else, even though the name doesn't even make sense....

DESCRIPTION   The main site of Machu Picchu gets all of the fame and glory, and for good reason. Especially the standard photo that you see taken from the top of the site looking down. In fact, this is almost all that you ever see of Machu Picchu, but there is so...

DESCRIPTION   Now before you get too misled by the title of this photo, I'll just clarify that I wasn't actually lost in the forest. But it kind of looks like it doesn't it? In fact, my camera was pretty much set up on the foot path, but I was hoping to give the...

DESCRIPTION   I've never seen a place that can quite compare to the contrasts of Iceland. From the lush green mosses, to the towering waterfalls, then the intimidating volcanoes, and finally the cold blue glaciers. And everything is on such a massive scale as...

DESCRIPTION   When I think of Venice, I think about the old buildings, canals, cathedrals, gondolas, and the vivid colours. And somehow, I think this picture captures everything in one shot. Well, maybe not the gelato, but that deserves a picture all to itself...

DESCRIPTION   When you go to Chefchaouen in Morocco, it's like stepping foot into the middle of a Dr. Seuss book. You might expect to see all of the Who's from Whosville dancing around a giant Christmas tree. In fact, there is actually a giant Christmas tree in...

DESCRIPTION   Roy's Peak has become exceptionally famous and is probably one of the most photographed views in New Zealand. I have to admit myself that ever since seeing photos from the peak, I really wanted to do the climb myself. One thing that I didn't realize...

DESCRIPTION   The North Island of New Zealand is full of rolling green hills, but this place takes it to a whole new level. This is taken from the top of Te Mata Peak in the Hawkes Bay area along the east coast of the North Island. We stopped here on our initial...

DESCRIPTION   Isthmus Peak is a bit of a tough one to say, but the hike is really awesome and makes learning how to pronounce its name worth it. This was the first hike that we did in the Wanaka area and it is wedged in between Lake Wanaka and Lake Hawea so you...

DESCRIPTION   We're currently travelling in Vietnam and our introduction into the country was Ho Chi Minh city. I always seem to have mixed feelings about cities and city life in general because on the one hand, there are always things to see and do and you are...

DESCRIPTION   I took this photo on May 1st, and if you're like me I know what you're thinking..."Fall colours in May...WTF?". This one, however, was taken in Cromwell, New Zealand which is about 30 minutes from where we are currently living in Wanaka. And as you...

DESCRIPTION   In Bagan, Myanmar, the best way to get around is on an e-bike. If you’re not sure what that is I’ll give you a quick definition. Burmese E-Bike: 1. :A less than stellar electrically powered motorized vehicle with two wheels that may or may not get...

DESCRIPTION   You know those wooden, egg-shaped Russian dolls that are all stacked within each other so that you take one apart and there is another one within it, and then another within that. And they’re all similar but slightly smaller the further you go and...

DESCRIPTION   There's certain places that I go where I find myself wondering what it would look like from above. Thankfully, I'm usually able to answer those questions with the aerial perspective that I can get with my quadcopter (a DJI Phantom 4). This would be...

DESCRIPTION   Singapore is by far one of my favourite cities that I’ve ever visited. It’s quite large but very clean and easy to get around. Everywhere you look there seems to be cool lights, tall buildings, green spaces, and shopping malls. We’re currently...

DESCRIPTION   The Isle of Skye in Scotland has become one of the countrys most popular tourist destinations. While this can sometimes take away from the magic of a place, it's easy to see why. The landscape and the weather on the Isle of Skye is extremely...

DESCRIPTION   The Moeraki Boulders are quite a famous spot on the eastern coast of New Zealand. They're about an hour north of Dunedin near a town called Hampden. There are quite a few of these boulders (apparently there were a lot more before people started...

DESCRIPTION   New Zealand isn't really well known for its amazing waterfalls, but there definitely are a few awesome ones in the country. Bridal Veil falls on the western coast of the North Island is one to check out and it's easy to get to. The falls are a quick...

DESCRIPTION   Of all the places that Hilary and I travelled to in Cuba, I think Vinales was probably my favourite. We went to Vinales directly after Havana and the quiet and calm of the small town and countryside was a total relief from the overwhelm of Havana....

DESCRIPTION   It always takes a bit of an effort to get up for sunrise, but most of the time it's definitely worth it. On this particular morning, I had a day off of work and woke up to catch the sunrise at the Rippon winery which is just a few minutes out of...

DESCRIPTION   Iceland is covered with really unique looking mountains and landscapes, but one in particular that has become quite famous is called Kirkjufell. The famous picture of this mountain is taken from a waterfall called Kirkjufellsfoss. Instead of that...

DESCRIPTION   I've been really lucky during our trip to New Zealand to be able to do a lot of mountain biking. First, I got a job at a bike shop which allowed me to afford all of the gear as I hadn't brought anything with me from Canada. And second, we ended up...

DESCRIPTION   When you're somewhere really cool, it's hard to capture the feeling of the place in a picture. This is especially true when you're somewhere vast and epic like a quiet mountain lake surrounded by towering rocky peaks of mountains. In these cases,...

DESCRIPTION   On the North Island of New Zealand, there is a hike called the Tongariro Crossing that is very famous. It's around 20km's long and is a thru-hike which means that you have to either shuttle a vehicle or arrange transportation from one end to the...

DESCRIPTION   A few years ago, Hilary and I made our first trip through Europe with our last stop being Prague in the Czech Republic. Lots of people say that Prague is the most beautiful city in Europe and they're probably not wrong. Charles Bridge is one of the...

DESCRIPTION   Iceland is the kind of place that has awesome scenery and photo opportunities everywhere you look. I took this photo on a section of road just after we had pulled over to check out the Kirkjufellsfoss waterfall. There are so many stretches of road...

DESCRIPTION   When I was going to school and working in Calgary, I used to drive a lot along the roads between Crowsnest Pass (where I grew up) and Calgary. There was one particular road called highway 540 where I often found myself stopping to take photos. One...

DESCRIPTION   The area around Wanaka, and most of the places in the mountainous areas of New Zealand, are really unique. There is little to no vegetation on them except grasses and alpine tussock which means that whereever you are, you can see for miles around...

DESCRIPTION   In the middle of the North Island of New Zealand is a very popular walk called the Tongariro Crossing. It takes about 6 to 8 hours to do the entire hike and it crosses a very unique volcanic landscape. Most of the time it feels like you're walking...

DESCRIPTION   While we were driving back to Wanaka from Queenstown one day, we passes some fields that had a bunch of interesting patterns in them from the tires of farm equipment. I decided to get my DJI Phantom 4 Quadcopter out to see what they would look like...

DESCRIPTION   So this one is me testing out my new dance moves on the beach. I like to find stretches of empty beach with lots of sand to out my new maneuvers so that no one gets hurt, mostly myself. The beach is called Wharariki Beach and it's on the very...