GlobalTraces

GE Nostr 🌇 Time for round 4 of this 2025 retrospective. I’m trying to mix up the pictures so it’s a cross section of genres and styles in the hope there’s something for everyone! Which is your favourite from this set? 1. Meeting overlanders on the road is great not just because it’s fun to meet with like-minded people, but also because it’s great to share location knowledge. This park up was one such recommendation and proved to be an absolute stunner, with incredible views towards China across a dried river valley (see picture 3!) 📍Kyrgyzstan 2. We’d heard about a nomad festival in Bokonbayevo, Kyrgyzstan and managed to get ourselves there on the right day to watch. With archery, horsemanship, taigan dogs and eagle hunting… and all of them at once… it made an incredible day out and seeing people, men and women alike, cantering flat out while shooting bow and arrows from horseback, and hitting their thrown targets (like clay pigeon shooting from horseback with a bow) we were blown away by both the skill and bravery of the nomads. 3. Dried river bed, Kyrgyzstan. I spent multiple flights with the drone flying over this river bed studying the other-worldly patterns below. 4. On the shores of Lake Issy-Kul, and endorheic, saline lake in the Tian Shan mountains. Conveniently, despite its altitude it never freezes and is known locally as “warm lake.” It is the second largest mountain lake in the world. And the site of another amazing parkup that offered scenery, great walks, fun mountain biking and smooth waters for swimming and paddleboarding. Or even just somewhere to throw stones in the water! 5. Waiting for our Russian transit visa to come through, we spent a week or so touring around Georgia. Quite delightfully it was wildflower season and this meadow was a route of different wildflowers, so in single blocks like here, some like an artist’s palette of colours. Otis, our Hungarian vizsla, is happiest chasing stones. And if chasing stones includes leaping through the flowers like a stotting deer, so much the better! #photography #art #travel #fineart #borderless

Part 3 of my favourite pics from 2025. What’s your favourite from this set? 1. Turkey. On the drive to Ishak Pasha Palace I pulled over on the side of the road, clambered in the truck roof and grabbed this shot as the rain fell in the distance. 2. Kyrgyzstan. The Kara Bura pass was our first route in Kyrgyzstan. The coloured earth, exposed edges and spectacular views made for an incredible introduction to this most naturally beautiful of countries. 3. Shymkent, Kazakhstan. A city I’d never heard of but one that was such a joy to visit. It’s mostly set up to appeal to Kazakh tourists, but the combination of a great city centre park-up (very rare!) a fabulous mosque in the same style as you’d find in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, and great child friendly facilities made it a winner. Especially this splash pad that Isla loved playing around in cooling off from the summer heat. 4. Zanzibar, Tanzania. As part of my most recent work trip I visited Zanzibar including a trip to a local school to see the education system there at work, with the children learning English as well as Swahili. 5. Early in the year, on a beach in Greece. We took a small car ferry across to Elafonisos and spent a couple of days enjoying the beaches to ourselves. It was cool, but the water was clear and having no one else around was quite the joy (I sound like a hermit now!) of course a family fun aerial picture was essential! #photography #art #fineart #travel

GN Nostr 🌇 #2 in this retrospective of favourite images from 2025. These are all Kyrgyzstan (do you get the feeling I liked it there?!) 1. Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan. One of the easiest 7000+m mountains to climb (apparently, I didn’t go up there) and often used a training ground for Everest. 2. Isla and her friend Matilda walking back to the truck after a morning of “homeschooling” that involved a hike up to a viewpoint, artwork in the wildness and clambering over rocks and boulders to learn about mountain safety. The rainbow mountains make a spectacular backdrop! 3. Jess and Otis. This was shot on our way up the Kumtor Gold Mine Route. Captured as a marketing image for Kovered Bags (use code “GLOBALTRACES” for 15% off their bags… which make awesome Christmas presents!) 4. Crossing a dried up high altitude lake to one of the best park up spots we’ve had … so great we visited twice and spent about 4 days there in total. The park up is unofficially titled “Desert Rock Dream” in iOverlander (an App we use to find parking places) and it really is an incredible out of the way dreamscape place to hang out. 5. The night before we crossed in to Tajikistan (the other side of those mountains in the background) we parked next to a dried river bed. Fortunately we didn’t park in the river bed, because not long after this was taken the meltwater from the mountains decided to flow through turning a dry river bed to a raging torrent! Before that though, Isla was in her element playing out in the wilds. Which is your favourite from this set? nostr:nprofile1qqsrzsrjc9h6jse7zd60vtjmqtypvw2xa55c48x78v25z5fu98gellcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuat50phjummwv5q32amnwvaz7tmzv4mx7tnwdaehgu339e3k7mgrr0ry8 another b&w landscape for you! www.newtonphoto.art #photography #fineart @travel #alternativeliving

GM Nostriches 🌅 The year is drawing to an end, so it’s time for a little round up! Over the next week or two I’m going to flood this feed with some of my favourite pictures from 2025. A bit like a retrospective. Some of them will be “work” pictures, some will be ones that are available in my print store and some will be family truck life from our travels. All of them have a story. In today’s five: 1. This is home. A couple of days before we nearly rolled the truck down a hill, we were enjoying the Assay Plateau near a former Soviet Observatory in Kazakhstan. Great light, great scenery, friendly locals. 2. Lenin Peak, Kyrgyzstan. One of the best star fields I’ve seen anywhere, and that includes sailing across the Atlantic. 3. Dalmatian Pelican, Lake Kerkini. These enigmatic birds are huge and menacing in look. They were under threat of extinction, but thanks to great conservation efforts, especially around Lake Kerkini, they’re making a strong comeback. 4. The Tien Shan Mountains on the Kumtor Goldmine Route in Kyrgyzstan. A spectacular route, a slightly nervy bridge crossing, glorious scenery and the joy of bumping in to other overlanders. 5. Otis. Posing remarkably motionless in a waterfall in Georgia. Overlanding takes us to these kind out of the way places. Places where few others get to. And we get to explore them from the comfort of our home. Which is your favourite? #photography #overland #fineart #travel

GE Nostriches 🌇 Dinner is served… on the beach in Oman. One of the joys of my job is the incredible table settings (and great food) I get to photograph and eat. And this one, on the beach in Salalah, Oman, was no exception. A really beautiful tablescape, backed by the ocean and overhead fairy lights completing the scene. For those curious, I’m the photographer for the Abercrombie&Kent Private Jet around the world tours. This trip was cultural based, while my upcoming February trip is all about wildlife. And then… after that trip, we will get back to travelling in the truck! I promise! #alternativelifestyle #photography #travel

GM Nostr 🌅 In case you think my work trip was all candid portraits (there were a lot and I will post more) here’s something a little different. Pre-dawn reflected in the fountain at the front of the Raffles Hotel, Udaipur. The Raffles in Udaipur is one of their newest properties and is located on a secluded island in the middle of one of the lakes. It’s genuinely a beautiful hotel and the staff are, as you may expect, super helpful. #photography #sunrise #india #borderlessliving

GE Nostriches 🌆 Udaipur, India. A lady sitting outside her house near the temple cleans her chai set and prepares a cup of chai. I was drawn to the simple, but vibrant, colour palette and the “unseen moment” soothing that happens hundreds or thousands of times every day across India, but normally goes unnoticed. India is a photographer’s paradise. There is something about the light there…. It’s bright, but the thickness of the air, or some may say the smog, makes it diffuse and flattering for people photography. And it really helps the colours of their vibrant clothing, that despite the mess they find themselves surrounded by are always clean, crisp and glowing, pop. 📍 Udaipur, India #photography #art #chai #borderlessliving

GE Nostriches 🌇 Sticking with our Laos stop on my work trip, we visited an artists house and got to see incredible art work being produced, including by this young Buddhist monk who was making paper stencil cutouts that would later be used in repainting the inside of his temple. The calm attention to detail and precision of his work was mesmerising to watch and the beautiful natural light, especially that bouncing up from the paper he was cutting, made for an incredible scene I had to watch for a while before capturing. Also, I have a new website for anyone interested in buying physical artwork… www.newtonphoto.art All thoughts and feedback welcome 🙏🏻 #photography #art #travel #boundlessliving #beborderless

GM Nostr 🌅 We stopped at a temple in Laos on my work trip to receive a blessing from the monks. Once it was over I was hanging around in the temple as all our guests filed out, when I saw this monk come out from the main body of the temple (right of picture) and walk straight towards me. The patches of light from the windows along the corridor and the door in the background gave a sense of depth and intrigue to the picture and his natural, calm demeanour completed the scene. He then, as he reached the end of the corridor, turned to walk out of the door, the light catching his face and eye as he glanced up on his way through the doorway. #photography #borderlessliving #globalexploration #art

GE Nostr 🌇 Another shot from my work trip - this on our final stop of the trip in Malta where one excursion was to watch the gun salute. I took up my position overlooking the saluting battery and selected a fast shutter speed and high speed continuous shooting. Watching a cannon fire, even dry firing with no cannonball, is quite the experience. #travellinglife #borderlessliving #photography

GM Nostr! 🌅 Good news… I’m still alive! After a month of work on a global private jet tour where I work as the photographer, I got back to Almaty and we decided we should head back to the UK to sort some family stuff out for my Mum. So that’s what we’ve been working on. Jess and Isla flew back two days ago, Otis and I are currently in Istanbul airport waiting for our second flight. The truck stays in Kazakhstan and we’ll be reuniting with her in January with the goal of getting in to Mongolia in late spring. So for now, you’re going to get a bit of a back catalogue from my month away working, starting with this shot of Masaai warriors performing on the beach in Zanzibar. #photography #lifewelltravelled #alternativeliving #liveborderless

GN Nostr! There’ll be a change in content for a few weeks as I’ve parked the family and truck in Almaty and I’m flying off for a month of work. First stop - transit through Istanbul to Lisbon. So pictures from my travels incoming! #needsmust #worklifebalance

We completed the Pamir Highway and then continued looping around back in to Kyrgyzstan, so here’s a video travel fact from the Toktogul Dam. You won’t believe quite how much water that holds back! We’re putting in the kilometres right now as we head back to Almaty. I’ll then be flying out for a month of work taking me to 8 countries. Everyone else will chill out in Kazakhstan until I return and our adventures continue. #overlanding #travelfacts #kyrgyzstan https://blossom.primal.net/a0ad864a274e2fa51358069f9e9886e23d1a229e696c8f2d02ccc4d8563ef03c.mov

The Pamir Highway run right alongside Afghanistan for several hundred kilometres. This is one of the wider sections and it’s still this close. Close enough to see people in the other side. To see the wave. To see them smile. To know they’re people too. To remember that people are nice. But people in power are pricks. Travel. It broadens your horizons. Literally and metaphorically. There is no us and them. We are one people. #overlanding #travel #onepeople #borderless