Thanks! 🙏🏻

The second house looks like it’s ready to re-make Home Alone!

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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

Thanks, Nathan!

Thanks! 🙏🏻

nostr:nprofile1qqsrzsrjc9h6jse7zd60vtjmqtypvw2xa55c48x78v25z5fu98gellcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq35amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarjwpkx2cnn9e3k7mg5yt0vp there’s another moody black and white landscape lover here! 🙌

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

That makes sense.

I still have a love for print hence building the new print sales website. I need to get that able to accept payment in SATs as it can’t currently. It’s on the list!

Interesting. I’ll have to have a better think about then.

My challenge is that my life is all around photography - we travel and I take pictures. And when I’m not travelling in the truck, it’s because I’m working, travelling and taking pictures for my clients.

That said, keeping them separate allows me to post images that maybe wouldn’t be as interesting to truck life followers.

Although the final question is what do I hope to achieve with my accounts? What’s the outcome of posting? Is it just stacking Sats? Sharing my work? Looking for sponsorship? Connecting with others?

I should probably start there and that’ll help clarify whether keeping them distinct or muddling them together is the better option 🤔

I already follow you! I just need to actually be more active scrolling 🫣

I have one that I had planned to be just photography too nostr:npub1u79wem4vy9m97y3se08thufa6zvw2wu40m6jjsu4kq8fvmnpkywshce96v but then I just wrapped it all in here instead. Maybe I should resurrect the other channel… or even start it properly 🤣

I’d love to visit Pakistan but logistically it’s challenging right now. However, the road, or off-road, has a way of working things out so we’re open to the idea.

Thanks for finding us and following along!

Thank you for the share! 🙏🏻

As someone who is embarking on homeschooling, or maybe world schooling, with our 5yr old as we travel the world in our expedition truck I’ll be listening to this with interest.

I have strong views about education and the pros and cons of the different options out there, so this will be exciting to dive in to.

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?

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#photography #fineart @travel #alternativeliving

Finally! Someone appreciates a moody black and white landscape full of drama 🙌🙏🏻

More of those to come…

I’d love to say he’s really well trained… I really would 🤣

Actually with the speed that water was flowing it was actually only 1/4sec. Still tough, but not quite so tough!

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

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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

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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

Aww thanks! I wasn’t sure anyone missed me!

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

Good spot!

Actually… he was a lucky pigeon with quite the story to tell when he got back to the roost 🤣

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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

If you like mountains, it’s the place to be!

Postcards from Tajikistan… #1

If these mountains could only speak, the things they’d have seen would be enough to fill a library of books.

Why?

Because this is the Pamir Highway, part of the northern section of the ancient silk route, described by Marco Polo in the 13th Century.

In fact, if you look closely at the bottom picture you may just be able to make out a Caravanserai, or ancient hotel.

This section, about 40km north of Murghab, makes it very obvious to see why it was a popular route - the clear, wide valley pass, with a river running through it to provide drinking water, would have given a “path of least resistance” while travelling, even if that valley floor is at an altitude of 4000m, so the air is thin and movement, until you’re acclimated, steals your breath and leaves you needing a sit down in the shade. Shade arguably being the one thing this area is missing due to an environment that resembles a high altitude desert.

#photography #silkroute #overlanding #tajikistan #borderlessliving

For sure there are parts with no trees but there are definitely forests here. I’ll share a pic of them shortly!

Postcards from Kyrgyzstan #5

The Canyon of Forgotten Rivers is an incredible geological formation of wind and water carved sedimentary rocks winding down to the Issyk Kul lake.

Some of the canyons are big enough to drive our big truck through, others only to ride a bike, yet more only to walk through.

It makes for an otherworldly landscape that changes from rich reds to golden yellows as the light changes.

And in some parts there are incredible tracks up over the top of them leading to stunning vistas with the snow capped Celestial Mountains in the background.

#borderlessliving #livefree

I wonder if that’s a function of simply getting seen in the first place - small accounts of course have fewer followers… so the crossover between someone following them and someone seeing/following your post is smaller still?

Either way I’ve just followed a couple of folks from your list with accounts that seem like they could be interesting, so thanks for the pointers!

PSA: The Assy Plateau. Not suitable for Agorophobics. 🤣

GN Nostr 🌅

Well that was unexpected about half an hour before sunset when the sky was full of cloud and the sun was invisible. 😍

#livefree #overlandlife

Flashback! We have had some pretty awesome parking spots, but this one in the dunes around Erg Chigaga in Morocco is up there as one of the most memorable 😍

If you could roll your house anywhere, where would you choose? Beach, Mountains, Deserts or Forest?

#offroadlife #debcentralisedliving #overlandfamily #alternativelifestyle

GM Nostr 🌅

Why do we live in a truck?

There are many reasons. In no particular order:

Family time - we spend all our time together watching Isla (4) grow and explore the world. Teaching her about the world and seeing her experience different cultures and ways of life.

Financial stability - sure we could live in a house, but then we’d have a mortgage or rent, council tax, water rates, gas bills, electric bills and so on and so on. So we’d both have to work, Isla would be in nursery and point 1 above would be impossible.

Enjoyment of life - the world is not setup to allow people to enjoy life. There’s always a new car, new holiday, new this that or the other to buy, keeping people at work and controlled. This is not anarchy, it’s personal freedom.

Do we think everyone should do this? No. This lifestyle wouldn’t suit everyone. But would we love to see more people doing it? Hell yes!

See you on, or off the road somewhere?

(And if you want advice, feel free to ask!)

#Nostruck #overland #expeditionfamily #photography

This is Bebe. Our MAN HX60 expedition truck home, currently enjoying the sunsets of the a Peloponnese.