I’ve now been back for a day and I’ve not yet had time to stop and contemplate what the last 10 days have meant to me.I do know that I’m missing the camaraderie; breakfast seemed very quiet this morning without 12 other people chatting and looking forward to the day ahead. Like many of my trips I’ve come back with a great deal to think about. This one perhaps more then any other. I’d not

So I'm currently flying at around 35,000 feet on my way back home from Marrakech and typing on my iPhone.The last two days have been a bit of a blur. Marrakech is a city unlike any that I visited before.As a group we went for another brief walk through the souk to allow us to get our bearings. The streets were just as hectic as the day before and I could feel myself becoming really stressed and uptight.We

I’m really not quite sure how I’m feeling at the moment. Stunned could be accurate, overwhelmed also accurate. Excited, shocked, incredulous, scared, nervous and intrigued also fit the bill. I’m mentally and physically drained right now. It has been a long hard week of theory lessons, practice assignments, walking around an increasing strange and at times hostile town; confronting old demons

This proven to be one of the most testing days that I have ever had whilst travelling.We started with a morning free of lessons, most people decided to do a bit of shopping. Juliette was propositioned by quite a few men in the street. The bluntness of their Approaches was quite unsettling for her and caused a little unrest. We saw her back at the hotel have g embarked on a little retail therapy and

I woke this morning feeling very dehydrated. It is amazing just how much having a two beers with a meal instead of just the one can dehydrate you. A litre of water and one breakfast later and I was beginning to feel human again. We then sat down to review the book covers that we had shot the previous day. It was during this that I realised that my taste in photos seems to differ quite significantly

Lessons this morning consisted of critiquing our shots from the previous days exercise. The shots were quite varied broaching quite an array of subject. My shots were not savaged quite as much as I expected. I submitted three shots. One of some carved animals in a shop window. A man passing through one of the gates to the medina.A ‘safe’ shot of boats in the fishing harbour with a keep in the background.

After a breakfast of croissants & pancakes, we settled down for the mornings lesson. First call of order was a discussion about the different types of lenses and their uses. We performed an exercise of shooting passport style shots with three different types lenses. The purpose was to show that different lenses are suited to different jobs. A point well illustrated by some comically distorted images

Out and about in Essaouira After a good nights sleep and and enjoyable breakfast; we started our first lesson - the basics. After getting a bit of background about everyones experience with photography, we started right back at the beginning with exposure. One theme that became apparent with the group was that a large selection had never really taken their camera out of fully automatic before. Of those

Morocco Day one.I’m currently sitting in one of the more beautiful places that I have stayed. Soft music is playing, candles are lit everywhere and the entire place is toned to Arabian Nights perfection. This is my base for the next few days in Essaouira. Just a few feet away is a bustling street. Vendors and stalls pack both sides. The air is alive with the sounds of traders and patrons going about