Chris Pratt Photography
Just three nights in Marrakesh and I wasn’t really interested in getting up at dawn, in my defence I don’t think many Moroccans are early risers either. But the late afternoon light of a 20 degree winter is much more accessible – and rewarding. Not in new Marrakesh but in the Medina, the tourist-packed, beating, […]
Blaenau Ffestiniog is probably best known for the Ffestiniog Railway – the world’s oldest narrow gauge railway that terminates there, having made its way over the 13.5 mile route from Porthmadog harbour. But there are other things to look out for in the slate-dominated landscape of the surrounding hills. Here on the B4391 out of […]
A trip to New York isn’t complete without a late night out listening to blues music – Terra Blues is hidden behind an unassuming walk-up on Bleecker Street; you give the bloke on the door twenty bucks before he’ll even say hello. But get there early for a seat up close and stay till late. […]
It’s the title of a song (more than one) and also of a short film; so I’m not the first person to say it. Here on the edge of Montmartre it’s certainly a city for wandering, so that might as well be arm-in-arm – or bar-to-bar, when the heavy rain showers appear as forecast. One […]
Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb – the oldest motorsport event in the world to still run over its original course; Le Mans, Indianapolis..? Nope, nowhere near. In July it’s Classic Nostalgia, on the track and in the car park. Never mind the red Ferraris, the Porsche 914s with Volkswagen engines, the single seaters, the Edwardian hill […]
I’ve always wanted to photograph a puffin, only a foot tall and full of character, not least those big orange feet and matching beak – but I always thought I’d need to go all the way to the Welsh Atlantic coast and get a boat out to the islands. However, pretty much accidentally, I found […]
Last time out there was a lot of walking; and although this trip was to the Spanish mountains (Pyrenees & Picos), the focus was not on walking – but on driving. I should keep this location to myself but there is a little bit of symmetry in photographing a Porsche 718 Spyder on the NA-718. […]
Ninety six miles from the outskirts of Glasgow to the heart of Fort William (I need to buy my dog a GPS tracker, it was probably 196 miles for her); and amazingly it was t-shirt weather nearly from start to finish – and early enough in the year for there to be no midges. The […]
After many trips I’ve decided that few people get up early in India – in my case and in Mumbai it may have something to do with heavy nights in Colaba Social or Leopold Cafe (if you’ve never heard of Leopold’s you should read Shantaram, everyone should read Shantaram). But as usual it pays dividends […]
What’s to do in Barcelona in February..? Well, like any world city, lots – there’s the football, if you can get a ticket (top of La Liga again); all the Gaudi architecture, including the Sagrada Familia – the “new” cathedral – where the builders have already been on-site for 141 years; February isn’t exactly beach […]
