Close-up shot of the moon
20th February 2019

Going after the Super Snow Moon, the brightest moon of the year

In January, the Super Blood Wolf Moon was only half a success because the clouds arrived to “eclipse the eclipse”. That meant I needed to try this again with the new supermoon in February, the Super Snow Moon. What is a Supermoon anyway? You know that the moon follows an elliptical orbit around the Earth. Within this trajectory, the perigee is the closest point to our planet, and the apogee is the...

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A close-up view of the lunar eclipse of 2019
21st January 2019

On the hunt for the Super Blood Wolf Moon

Still in the first weeks of the new year, there was already an exciting photographic occasion: the Super Blood Wolf Moon. Such a dramatic name stands for a supermoon that happens at the same time as a lunar eclipse. Something quite rare: consider the next eclipse will be only visible in the UK in almost 11 years (maybe less?)! If you’re already googling the date to pin it to your calendar… Probably...

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A photo of Camden Lock at night, with the reflection of the bridge on the canal
18th January 2019

City Lights at Night, A Series [Instagram]

I decided to kick off 2019 with a new photographic series on Instagram, all about city lights at night. In London but not only.My feed was never too consistent, despite all the recommendations you hear about making it so. In an effort to achieve better consistency while retaining the diversity of my style, I thought I’d share my photos as a series. This way, a good amount of similar shots will appear...

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Kyoto Golden Pavillion
7th January 2019

My editing workflow: Luminosity Masks

In this blog, I start disclosing my editing workflow, and the first topic I’d like to introduce is Luminosity Masks. Luminosity Masks are something you might have heard before, mostly if you shoot Landscape/Cityscape. In a nutshell, they are selections based on tones that allow for refined adjustments. In their basic form, they broadly target highlights and/or shadows. But they can be further refined to include mid-tones or narrow down an image’s...

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The Gatwick Fiasco
22nd December 2018

The Gatwick fiasco

The Gatwick Fiasco. Or how the second largest and busiest airport in the UK couldn’t handle a drone alert and ruined the Christmas plans of 150.000 people. Including me. I’m sure you all heard what happened a few days ago. Alerts of drones flying near the airport runway caused a shutdown of all operations. Every flight on Wednesday got cancelled. Then, on Thursday, it happened again when I arrived at the airport....

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books to read while travelling - @fabienb with Stable Diffusion
3rd October 2018

The books I read while travelling - Sep 2018

With a dozen flights, a few trains, several buses and some spare time at beaches, I had plenty of opportunities to read books during my trip, and there are definitely a few I’d like to recommend. Most of my reads these days are non-fiction, largely focused on life improvement, motivation and so on, and I find these books to be quite inspirational. As always with these books, you don’t necessarily need to...

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natural disasters
28th September 2018

Travelling Through Natural Disasters

I know, natural disasters don’t sound like the most appealing title. But I felt the need to write down this post… September can be a rough month to travel anywhere near the Pacific. But honestly, it looked like my plan was set up by some weird travel agency with an odd sense of humour. Asia The day before my departure, the deadly storm Jebi hit Japan pretty badly, leaving the airport of...

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A panoramic view of Busan
16th September 2018

Day trips from Seoul: Suwon and Busan

Travel Diaries: South Korea, Part 3. South Korea is obviously not just Seoul, and it’s always worth visiting other locations. To see all that the country has to offer and boost local economies.One of the many recommended spots is Jeju Island, but this time I didn’t manage to go. Also, from what I could see from the aeroplane and the train, the countryside is very beautiful too. Instead, I visited Suwon for...

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The most photographed street in the Hanok village of Seoul called Bukchon
15th September 2018

Top 20 Highlights of Seoul for the first time visitor

Travel Diaries: South Korea. Part 2: Seoul Highlights. Welcome to my Seoul highlights! Here, I’m going to list my personal recommendations based on the short time I spent wandering around the city. And I’ll add a few tips as well. See the bottom of this page for links to Part 1 and Part 3. The first thing to mention is the DiscoverSeoul pass. It’s a very convenient way to visit most of...

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Busy shopping street of Seoul
14th September 2018

Travel Diaries: South Korea

… and off I went to South Korea. For the first leg of my month-long trip, I decided to start from a place far away. Geographically and culturally. I had in mind to visit Seoul already while I was working at Endava. I thought I could easily work remotely from there, thanks to lightning-fast (and affordable) wi-fi connections throughout the country. Most of what I knew about South Korea before was food-related....

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A guy sitting in the shade and thinking in front of the sea
9th September 2018

A Digital Nomad down to the bone

There may be a genetic reason for my fascination with the Digital Nomad life. Allow me to elaborate here… And it all begins with the research on our genealogy, started by my aunt in recent times. Thanks to this research, I finally connected the dots. I realised why I’m never at ease settling in and always thrive on travel. Even just to quickly move from one place to another, whatever the term...

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Travel - @fabienb with Stable Diffusion
4th September 2018

Packing for a Month-Long Multi-City Trip: my Photography Kit

And so I’m packing for my month-long travel (longer, actually), and as always, the question is, “What do I bring with me?”. It wasn’t always the case, but now I’m used to travelling light—sometimes super light. But that’s for a week maximum, while this time, I’ll be away for at least a month. I think I’ve been smart in choosing to travel between countries that will have consistent weather all along; only...

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