The time has come, and very shortly we are departing Longyearbyen on our Wild Nature Photo Travel ship-based expedition around the archipelago of Svalbard. Due to the easter break, there has been no ice chart update since the 1st of April (nearly a week ago). A new ice chart should be released by the Polar Institute around 16:00 today. As such, my plan is to head north to the...

Earlier today, I wrapped up a phenomenal five-day private snowmobile expedition up in Svalbard. This was an intensive five days covering more than 1000 kilometres of driving, with two visits to Monbukta on the East Coast, as well as a trip to Svea, Templefjorden, and the Russian settlement of Barentsburg.

The trip proved extremely fruitful, with a wonderful enc...

A few days ago, I received some absolutely wonderful feedback and a quite extensive review from a participant from a prior year’s Arctic Fox workshop in northern Iceland. They have told me they are more than happy for me to share their review here on my blog (thank you, Andrew).

Hi Josh, what can I say? The trip with you to the Arctic Fox surpassed all my ex...

I missed this video when it was initially published, but it’s an excellent, updated 2025 deep dive that explains, in layman’s terms, the Auto Focus Menu System in Canon Cameras. Primarily, this relates to the EOS R1 and the EOS R5 MK2. If you are looking for clear explanations of each Auto Focus sub-menu, this is an excellent video, broken down into chapters for easy navigati...

The photograph of the month for April 2026 comes from my recent private winter landscape extension workshop in the south of Iceland and is of a frenzied sea state at the seaside town of Vik. Gale-force offshore winds had whipped the sea state into a chaotic, frenetic maelstrom, creating incredibly dramatic (and scary) conditions. We stood mesmerised from the safe vantage of t...