Gavin Gough: Travel Photographer

“Catching Colour” photo exhibition in Bangkok

If you live in Bangkok then you may be interested in attending the opening of an exhibition of some of my travel photos this week. Numbers are limited so please let me know if you would like to attend and I'll make sure we have space for you. The exhibition, on ...

Thailand Photo Tour: The brochure, including dates and prices

The nice people at Diethelm Travel have produced a brochure, detailing our forthcoming photo tours. You may want to click the "Full Screen" button to appreciate the brochure in its full glory. Thank you to all of you who have already expressed an interest in photo tours. If you are ...

Free Desktop Wallpaper for November 2009: Bhutan Masked Dance

November's free desktop wallpaper comes from the Wangdue Phodrang Dzong in Bhutan and was taken during this year's annual tsechu (festival). Masked dances play an important part of the annual tsechus and the traditions associated with them vary from village to village. The dances, or Chhams, are often performed with the ...

Photo Expeditions and Workshops: Kanchanaburi

This is perhaps the time of year when we begin to take stock, to review what we've achieved in the preceding months and to begin planning for the year ahead. It's very convenient that our time should be divided into such tidy blocks. Twelve months, fifty two weeks, three hundred ...

Catalogue People

By way of a small distraction from the serious business of photographing Bhutan and the autumn tsechus, members of our group would occasionally descend into the kind of eccentric behaviour that can seem wildly amusing - at the time. On this day, we found that adopting the poses of models ...

The giggling schoolgirls of the Ura Valley, Bhutan

One of the highlights of our recent Bhutan Photo Expedition was a day trip to the Ura Valley. The Lonely Planet describes Ura Village as "Forty closely packed houses along cobblestone streets...giving it a medieval atmosphere". Jackie Rado and I had left the main Lakhang and were walking through the village, ...

Bhutan: Tourist photo theft and Gangrithang Primary School

One of the main aims of my photo workshops and tours is to encourage participants to appreciate the culture of the location that they are visiting. If travel photography, for want of a better term, is about anything, it must surely be about communicating an experience. Travel broadens the mind, ...

Home from Bhutan. And now it’s time to give thanks.

I'm home in Bangkok, savouring the memories of the last two weeks in Bhutan. Jackie Rado and I were blessed with the company of a delightful group of photographers who made the trip memorable for all the right reasons. There are naturally some concerns when you start to organise a ...

Free Desktop Wallpaper, Oct ‘09: Wangdichholing Dzong, Jakar, Bhutan

The free desktop wallpaper for October comes from Wangdichholing Dzong in Bhutan. By the time this appears our group will be in Jakar, enjoying the annual festivals (tsechus) and photographing the enchanting temples (dzongs). We'll be hoping to find opportunities like this, where a novice monk invited me to see ...

Colourful India

Shot in locations within a few minutes' walk of each other, these photos illustrate my theory that a great number of India's population are involved in a conspiracy to provide visiting photographers with the most eye-catching, colourful photo opportunities possible.