What you see is what I saw. Almost every photo and video on this site was captured by me or somebody I was travelling with. The point is not to make a destination look like a tourism campaign. It is to show what the trip actually looked like while I was there.
Mostly phones, plus a small action camera
Almost all of my older travel photos and videos were taken on phones. On newer trips I am also using an Insta360 GO Ultra, particularly when a small camera is useful for showing movement, trail surfaces or a point-of-view that is hard to capture while pushing a wheelchair.
I am not travelling with a professional photography crew. If I can stop, pull out the camera I already have with me and capture a view, waterfall or ridiculous road surface, somebody else could capture something similar too.
I do not materially change the scene
I may crop or straighten a photo, resize it, compress it for the web, or create a poster frame from a video so the site loads properly. What I do not want to do is turn the scene into something I did not see.
- No replacing an ordinary sky with a dramatic one.
- No removing crowds because the place looked nicer without them.
- No adding scenery or objects that were not there.
- No heavy colour grading designed to make a destination look radically different from how I remember it.
Phones already do plenty of automatic processing when they take a photo, so saying an image is literally “unedited” is not technically perfect. What I mean is that I am not doing additional scene-changing work to manufacture a better version of the destination.
The practical photos can be the useful ones
A beautiful wide photo might make you want to visit somewhere. A quick phone photo of the trail surface, hotel shower, crowded shuttle stop or flooded boardwalk might be the image that actually helps you plan the trip. I want both on the site.
Video shows what a still photo cannot
I use short videos when movement matters: the force of a waterfall, how rough a path is, how much effort I am using to get over rocks, what a gradient feels like, or how busy a place really was. The aim is not to produce a polished travel film every time. It is to give you another piece of the real experience.
It is also a record of my life
For years I have taken thousands of photos while travelling and then told the stories to friends and family. Building this site means those stories do not disappear into an old phone or camera roll. The photographs, videos and writing become a permanent record of the places I have been and the people I shared them with, as well as useful travel information for somebody else.
Captions explain why an image matters
I use captions when there is useful context that is not obvious from the image itself: what the surface was like, why a path was closed, how much effort something took, or what was happening in that moment. Decorative photos do not need a paragraph underneath them just for the sake of SEO.