Tiny Atlas Quarterly | West Coast

Tiny Atlas Quarterly is one of my very favourite online travel magazines and I´ve been a fan since they published the first issue in 2013, so it goes without saying that I am very stoked to have one of my images on the cover of their latest, the West Coast issue. Apart from their inspiring imagery and creative layout, what I love about TAQ is that it´s a labour of love, a personal project started by Californian photographer Emily Nathan, that has grown exponentially since it launched a few years back. What started out as a space for creative collaborations and…

Juncais | Serra da Estrela

March 11, 2016January 28, 2025 Categories: Personal · PlacesTags: juncais portugal · road trip portugal · serra da estrela portugal · travel photography · travel photography Europe · travel photography portugal · travelling in Portugal6 Comments

Being a freelancer and working from home has it´s pro´s and con´s, like everything else in life. Pro´s include being able to work when the inspiration strikes, whether it´s during the “real world work hours” or at 3am and conversely, being able to take time off on a Tuesday afternoon because the weather is great and you´d really just like to be on the beach right now. It also means that you can spend the entire day in your pyjamas which may or may not be a good thing… I´m on the fence about that one. The crappy part, however,…

Porto | Portugal

February 18, 2016February 18, 2016 Categories: PlacesTags: livraria lello porto portugal · mercado do bolhao porto portugal · porto portugal · things to do in porto portugal · travel photography Oporto7 Comments

Every time we visit Porto I fall a bit more in love with this quirky little city. It´s different from Lisbon, in spite of still feeling Portuguese it´s almost as though you´re in another country. It´s a small, compact city, which is great because you can abandon your car and head everywhere on foot and there are so many cute little corners and tiny shops to be discovered, it´s always such a treat to spend a few days here.

Quinta de Sant´Ana

February 3, 2016 Categories: Comercial · WorkTags: featured · food and travel in portugal · food and wine in lisbon portugal · food photographer lisbon portugal · quinta de sant´ana wine estate portugal · travel photographer portugal · travel photography Europe · wine estate portugal · wine photographer portugal · wines in portugal8 Comments

These images are the culmination of a year long project documenting the day to day activities of the Quinta de Sant`Ana, a wine estate just north of Lisbon. The idea of the project was to capture the year of a wine farm, following the seasons and recording all the elements that influence the time-line of small scale wine production. The quinta recently updated their website with some of these images, which you can see in the screen-grabs above. And the photos below are some of my favourites from the year long project… as well as a “behind the scenes” shot…

South Coast | Iceland

January 28, 2016November 2, 2016 Categories: PlacesTags: black sand beach iceland · golden circle iceland · icelandic horses · roadtripping iceland · Seljavallalaug iceland · Seljavallalaug swimming pool iceland · skogafoss iceland · Snæfellsnes Peninsula Iceland · travel photography iceland · traveling in iceland · vik iceland8 Comments

Our last few days in Iceland were spent on the south coast, near the town of Vik. It was at this point in our trip that we realised just how big this island actually is. Bigger than Portugal, according to our friend Google. We drove from Budir to Vik all in one go, via Reykjavik as there was no alternative route to avoid the city. The speed limit here is 90 km/h and there are speed traps EVERYWHERE. For people accustomed to the Portuguese driving style (ie: as fast as you can get away with) this was worse than Chinese…

Snæfellsnes Peninsula | Iceland

January 20, 2016January 28, 2016 Categories: PlacesTags: budir hotel iceland · photographer iceland · roadtripping iceland · small black church iceland · Snæfellsnes Peninsula Iceland · travel photography iceland · traveling in iceland3 Comments

After several days in Reykjavik and our day trip through the Golden Circle, we hit the road for a longer drive out to the Snæfellsnes Peninsula on the west coast of Iceland. This part of the island is very wild and windswept… not much in the way of human settlement as the area isn´t very habitable, or farmable. It seems that the biggest industry in the part of the island is fishing and the few towns we did encounter were all on the coast. We spent a few nights at the Budir Hotel, which stands by itself on the edge of an…

Golden Circle | Iceland

January 13, 2016January 28, 2016 Categories: PlacesTags: geysir iceland · golden circle iceland · gulfoss waterfall iceland · Laugarvatn lake iceland · roadtripping iceland · thingvellir iceland · travel photography iceland · traveling in iceland4 Comments

Using Reykjavik as our base, we spent a day exploring the Golden Circle, which is a round-trip route through some of Iceland´s most famous attractions. These are the classic guidebook destinations and, predictably, they were packed with selfie-stick toting tour groups. Of course I am aware of the irony in my being exasperated at the crowds because… we were there too, so we weren´t exactly “off the beaten track”. However, the magic and wildness of these places (the reason they became famous in the first place) is definitely affected by the crowds so if you´re there during peak season and you…

Reykjavik | Iceland

January 7, 2016January 28, 2016 Categories: PlacesTags: reykjavik iceland · roadtripping iceland · travel photography iceland · traveling in iceland · what to eat in iceland11 Comments

In August of 2015 we travelled to Iceland for a week… I´m sitting here trying to think of a word that can sum up how I feel about it all but the truth is that I can´t. Iceland is what I expected it to be (cold, expensive, lots of horses) but it´s also not at all what I expected. It´s much bigger than I thought it was, bigger than Portugal! We didn´t find this out until about halfway though the trip, when it seemed like we were driving for way longer than we thought we would be… and so I Googled…

Costa Vicentina | Portugal

December 8, 2015 Categories: PlacesTags: costa vicentina portugal · Costa Vicentina road trip · travel photography portugal · traveling in alentejo · travelling in Portugal · vanlife portugal · visit alentejo · west coast portugal · west coast road trip2 Comments

We visited the Costa Vicentina several times this year and anyone who has been following this blog for more than 5 minutes will have realised that it´s pretty much our favourite part of Portugal… you can see more here and here. These images are from several different trip throughout this summer…

Marvão | Alentejo

December 1, 2015 Categories: PlacesTags: exploring the alentejo · marvao alentejo · road trip portugal · small towns in portugal · travel photography alentejo · travel photography portugal · traveling in alentejo · travelling in PortugalLeave a comment

Marvão is a small town in the northern region of the Alentejo, very close to the Spanish border. Like many other border towns with ancient origins, the purpose of it´s existence was to protect against invading enemy troops which is why it is heavily fortified and perched on top of a hill with an unobstructed view for kilometres in every direction. It seems I have a bit of a thing for these border towns and it´s fascinating to visit them spread out from north to south along the border… their reasons for existence are all the same but the way they´ve been…

Kerry Murray

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