Just left Brazil after a very nice tour with a nice group of people. Thank you to everyone who came on this tour. It is an amazing landscape and I am very much looking forward to going back next year.

Image courtesy of Bruno Vias. Many thanks Bruno !

I’m heading to Patagonia now. I will be based in the town of Puerto Natales for a week. My good friend and ex guide Sabine will be taking me into the national park each day to go and visit some of her Gaucho friends. I am hoping to do some portraiture and I’ve brought my Contax 645 system for this purpose alone.

The Contax 645 system has some of the most beautiful lenses available for portraiture. I am particularly fond of the 80mm lens for close ups, and the 140mm lens as well.

I can’t quite believe it has been many years since I made any photographs of people. I wish I had more time in my schedule each year to do this, and I must make more effort to do this. As much as I love landscape work, everyone needs some respite or time away from their passions. I find rotating from photography to music is a good way of doing that, but also within photography, changing from landscape to portraiture is also a great way of recharging the inspiration.

It has been a long time since I made any portraits and I’m really looking forward to it.