Alastair Humphreys Adventurer | Author | Motivational Speaker

A nice way of showing your photos

Splashr is an interesting way of displaying your photographs. You can view the show larger here: My Presentation

Top 10 memories from my adventures

And I hope when I get old I don’t sit around thinking about it
but I probably will,
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
a little of the glory. Well time slips away
and leaves you with nothing, mister, but
boring stories of glory days…
- Bruce Springsteen
One of the pleasures of adventure is nostalgia. Thinking back, flicking through photo [...]

Audio book and travel photography (3)

I’ve added photographs from my ride round the world to short audio excerpts from Moods of Future Joys.
You can listen to them all here.
(apologies: the audio begins about 15s in)

Audio Excerpts from ‘Moods of Future Joys’ – 3 from alastair Humphreys on Vimeo.

14 Photos from my travels in Asia

Photos from my travels in Asia
Night in Ho Chi Minh

Georgian church

Istanbul skyline

Street cleaners in Mysore

River paddler, Vietnam

Soviet hammer and sickle

Poster boy, Tamil Nadu

Tori on Honshu

Boys outside Ashgabat

Choose your weapon

A long climb, Xinjiang

Sweeper boy

Morning lessons

Hong Kong airport

16 photos of sunshine to cheer you up

16 photos of sunshine to cheer you up as we delve deep into winter darkness.
Rio meets Cornwall

Kauai sunset

Mysore sunrise

Late afternoon sunlight

Flower on a alpine summit

Sunrise on the Camel estuary

Summer skies

Ice cream

Dawn in Lesotho

Fishing in the Pacific

Sunshine on the Nile

Lying in a field at sunset

My dog at sunset

Summer river swim

Jumping into the sea at sunset. Using [...]

How was your year?

How was your year? How did 2009 treat you? How did you treat it?
It’s important today to look forwards, to aim bigger and better for 2010.
But my New Year’s resolution this time last year was to take a photograph every day in 2009. Looking back through my pictures I am amazed that I [...]

Desktop Wallpaper: winter stream

Brighten up your computer’s desktop with a new photograph each month.
How to set your desktop wallpaper:
Mac OS X (10.4+)
1. Click the wallpaper image, below.
2. Ctrl-click on the image that opens in a new window and select Use Image as Desktop Picture.
Windows XP
1. Click the wallpaper image and then right click on the image that [...]

24 Photos of great Camping Spots

I am rarely happier than when living the way of the English Wildman. To give you a flavour, here are 24 photos of great camping spots I have enjoyed.
Sunset in Anatolia

Pitching the tent in a region forbidden to foreigners, Ili Valley, Xinjiang, China

The SOUTH office. Summit of Pen y Fan, Wales

Playing at Robert Jordan after [...]

Desktop Wallpaper: water drop

Brighten up your computer’s desktop with a new photograph each month.
How to set your desktop wallpaper:
Mac OS X (10.4+)
1. Click the wallpaper image.
2. Ctrl-click on the image that opens in a new window and select Use Image as Desktop Picture.
Windows XP
1. Click the wallpaper image and then right click on the image that opens [...]

Audio book and travel photography (1)

I’ve added photographs from my ride round the world to short audio excerpts from Moods of Future Joys. I’ve produced three audio slideshows like this. You can listen to them all here.
If you like what you hear you can now save £10 by buying all three of my books, signed, here. Perfect Christmas presents…
(apologies: the [...]