Recent content by David M. Byrne

Russia - a country in which things that just don't happen happen - Peter the Great Hello again, Last time out you left me as I was approaching the end of my first extended, wholly Russian train trip, a 28-hour jaunt west to the Siberian city of Tomsk, 1,700km & one time zone west of my...

Thanks Pete. I actually plan on doing the Silk route myself towards the end of this year (going west to east) so I'll definitely be checking out Lorraine's blog!

'It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places' - Paul Theroux Week 36 and it’s really chilly around here. Having bid Mongolia adieu it was finally time to start heading first further north & then finally west towards Europe, and home. But if only it were that...

Pete, thanks, as always. For me trying to guess which pic Pete will favour has become an integral part of filing my entries here on RPF! Hamish, the camera is holding up well. I tend to mollycoddle my gear... or at least I did before I embarked on this trip. I'm learning now that gear can...

Hello once again! It’s almost 7 years since I was last in Mongolia, a country that conjures up visions of the untamed - Chinggis Khaan, camels wandering the Gobi Desert and wild horses galloping across the steppes. The huge, landlocked country, the 17th largest in the world, is a bit remote...

Let's not spoil the surprise, Lesley. All will be reveled in the next entry! :)

Hello again, It was a quiet week 34 of the trip. I wasn't intending spending all of it in the Chinese capital of Beijing but that’s how things panned out. As a result it was a rather dead week photography wise. That’s not to say Beijing isn't a good place to bring a camera. It is; it’s...

Hello again, Ok, time to get back into it. It has been quite a while since my last entry. I’ve been preoccupied of late so apologies for that. I’m glad to get back on track and look forward to regular entries for the majority of 2013. This entry covers week 33 of the trip, days 226-232, days...

It's like picking your favorite child but I gotta go with this one! A Barking Own in Flight in the rain at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. April 15th

Thank you all. I'm not going to lie; a tad verbose maybe but I am kinda proud of this set of images :p

Hello again, It has been a busy, oh so busy week - 9 days, actually, days 217 to 225 of the trip. Those 9 days have brought me to the end of my 5 weeks in India & in doing so I have taken in some of the country’s top-tier highlights: the Sikh holy city of Amritsar; Agra & its Taj Mahal; the...

Thanks Pete, as always.

Howdy, This week, week 31, was all about ancient lands, desert, dust, forts & (of course) people. The majority of the week was spent in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, the so-called Land of Kings. It was the home of the Rajputs, strong, Hindu warrior caste clans with a passionate...

Hello once again, As mentioned to close out last week’s entry it has all been ruins & beach this past week, the ruins of Hampi in Karnataka & the beach of Goa. Two very different locals with contrasting fortunes photography wise – you’ll find a few pictures from Hampi but none from the beach...

Yeah, I do like this set myself so I probably agree with you, Hamish. Picking 'only' 10 pics wasn't easy, I tell ya! And thanks Pete for your reading of that 1st pic. Interesting how you interpreted it; I always like reading your comments.