Jaspal Jandu Photography

Training in South Wales

A long weekend opened up a great opportunity to go to South Wales – a familiar landscape ‘friend’ who allows me to train my visual fitness in relative peace and quiet.  The coastline along this stretch of the UK is incredible and I felt inspired take out both the Canon and Linhof simultaneously for the first time in a while. 

The shoulder started off fairly well and my hopes of a speedy recovery were high.  In fact, as I trekked up from the sublime Temple Bay, I felt like Rocky Balboa running up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art replete with trumpets in the background…

However, this was not to last.  The next day on the Gower peninsula I managed to get one great sunset shot before the shoulder had a sense of humour failure.

There’s a very busy schedule set for the latter part of this year, including a possible trip to Mount Everest (more on this in future post).  I am aiming to use these normally quiet summer months to get some training in before the usual Autumnal and Winter ‘goldrush’.  I'm sure Rocky would be proud!

Power of Photography

Finally, I’m very slowly getting back to normal after some serious treatment and physiotherapy on the shoulder (many thanks to all the personal well-wishes). Having barely been able to move at one point, I can only begin to describe how important physical wellbeing is in this profession!

Not all the time has been wasted, however, as I’ve been busy going through the portfolio and have also commenced writing the new book.

As I was writing the South American section recently, I found a picture of our driver racing back to camp in the spectacular Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia.  It barely needed a glance at the picture before the memories of vastness and awe came vividly back to life; a true testament to the power of photography.

Expect more scenes from the journey now all is slowly getting back to normal…