20 years ago I went on a year-long backpacking trip. I knew nothing about photography but I brought a Panasonic point and shoot. I took thousands of photos and when I got home to review them, they were all terrible. I mean really bad.

So, the most logical thing to me at the time was to buy a better camera. So I did some research and bought a canon dslr … T3i I believe. I went travelling again and took hundreds of photos and came back to review and… they all sucked. How the fak do you make a good picture?

Then I actually started learning … obsessively for a number of years, and have been a student ever since.

Ive often found going on a trip with a focus on photography has got the spark going again.