The Library
Free guides and extracts on writing, travel, and photography — everything I've gathered along the way, offered here for you to read, download, and use.

Book Extracts

A few pages, pulled straight from the books — enough to give you a feel for the ideas before you decide whether to go further.

Travel Guides

Everything you need to cross a border, find a bed, and get where you're going — gathered from years of doing it the long way round.

Photography Tips

Notes on shooting for stock, for story, and for yourself — what's actually worked, out in the field and after the fact.

Musings & Reflections

The slower stuff. Thoughts on the Shadow, the Saboteur, and the long, uneven business of building a life that's actually yours

Blog
Snakes Alive!
Snakes Alive!

Pilgrim approaches the Virupaksha Temple at Hampi. He looks a little older than 70, so I guess he’s a lucky guy (read the post!).

Meetings with Remarkable Men
Meetings with Remarkable Men

Photograph taken a few years ago in Rishikesh, of Pilgrims waiting for the scheduled blanket and food distribution. The old adage of ‘what you seek is inside of you’ doesn’t quite cut it for me. I think that you have to Be, and to Do, and to then receive what you need from the world, whether that’s material or spiritual. The ‘seeker’ needs to ‘feel’ the seeking, otherwise the ‘answers’ don’t know where to put themselves.

The Commitment Paradox
The Commitment Paradox

The Cycle of the Elements. Fire ignites Earth, Earth nourishes Water, Water feeds Air, Air returns to Fire. The pattern Murray committed to, and Goethe named.