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? @Tauri another b&w landscape for you! www.newtonphoto.art #photography #fineart @travel #alternativeliving

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

GE Nostriches 🌆 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