The second house looks like it’s ready to re-make Home Alone!

GE Nostr 🌇 Time for round 4 of this 2025 retrospective. I’m trying to mix up the pictures so it’s a cross section of genres and styles in the hope there’s something for everyone! Which is your favourite from this set? 1. Meeting overlanders on the road is great not just because it’s fun to meet with like-minded people, but also because it’s great to share location knowledge. This park up was one such recommendation and proved to be an absolute stunner, with incredible views towards China across a dried river valley (see picture 3!) 📍Kyrgyzstan 2. We’d heard about a nomad festival in Bokonbayevo, Kyrgyzstan and managed to get ourselves there on the right day to watch. With archery, horsemanship, taigan dogs and eagle hunting… and all of them at once… it made an incredible day out and seeing people, men and women alike, cantering flat out while shooting bow and arrows from horseback, and hitting their thrown targets (like clay pigeon shooting from horseback with a bow) we were blown away by both the skill and bravery of the nomads. 3. Dried river bed, Kyrgyzstan. I spent multiple flights with the drone flying over this river bed studying the other-worldly patterns below. 4. On the shores of Lake Issy-Kul, and endorheic, saline lake in the Tian Shan mountains. Conveniently, despite its altitude it never freezes and is known locally as “warm lake.” It is the second largest mountain lake in the world. And the site of another amazing parkup that offered scenery, great walks, fun mountain biking and smooth waters for swimming and paddleboarding. Or even just somewhere to throw stones in the water! 5. Waiting for our Russian transit visa to come through, we spent a week or so touring around Georgia. Quite delightfully it was wildflower season and this meadow was a route of different wildflowers, so in single blocks like here, some like an artist’s palette of colours. Otis, our Hungarian vizsla, is happiest chasing stones. And if chasing stones includes leaping through the flowers like a stotting deer, so much the better! #photography #art #travel #fineart #borderless

Thanks, Nathan!

Part 3 of my favourite pics from 2025. What’s your favourite from this set? 1. Turkey. On the drive to Ishak Pasha Palace I pulled over on the side of the road, clambered in the truck roof and grabbed this shot as the rain fell in the distance. 2. Kyrgyzstan. The Kara Bura pass was our first route in Kyrgyzstan. The coloured earth, exposed edges and spectacular views made for an incredible introduction to this most naturally beautiful of countries. 3. Shymkent, Kazakhstan. A city I’d never heard of but one that was such a joy to visit. It’s mostly set up to appeal to Kazakh tourists, but the combination of a great city centre park-up (very rare!) a fabulous mosque in the same style as you’d find in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, and great child friendly facilities made it a winner. Especially this splash pad that Isla loved playing around in cooling off from the summer heat. 4. Zanzibar, Tanzania. As part of my most recent work trip I visited Zanzibar including a trip to a local school to see the education system there at work, with the children learning English as well as Swahili. 5. Early in the year, on a beach in Greece. We took a small car ferry across to Elafonisos and spent a couple of days enjoying the beaches to ourselves. It was cool, but the water was clear and having no one else around was quite the joy (I sound like a hermit now!) of course a family fun aerial picture was essential! #photography #art #fineart #travel

That makes sense. I still have a love for print hence building the new print sales website. I need to get that able to accept payment in SATs as it can’t currently. It’s on the list!

Interesting. I’ll have to have a better think about then. My challenge is that my life is all around photography - we travel and I take pictures. And when I’m not travelling in the truck, it’s because I’m working, travelling and taking pictures for my clients. That said, keeping them separate allows me to post images that maybe wouldn’t be as interesting to truck life followers. Although the final question is what do I hope to achieve with my accounts? What’s the outcome of posting? Is it just stacking Sats? Sharing my work? Looking for sponsorship? Connecting with others? I should probably start there and that’ll help clarify whether keeping them distinct or muddling them together is the better option 🤔

I already follow you! I just need to actually be more active scrolling 🫣 I have one that I had planned to be just photography too but then I just wrapped it all in here instead. Maybe I should resurrect the other channel… or even start it properly 🤣

As someone who is embarking on homeschooling, or maybe world schooling, with our 5yr old as we travel the world in our expedition truck I’ll be listening to this with interest. I have strong views about education and the pros and cons of the different options out there, so this will be exciting to dive in to.

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

Finally! Someone appreciates a moody black and white landscape full of drama 🙌🙏🏻 More of those to come…

I’d love to visit Pakistan but logistically it’s challenging right now. However, the road, or off-road, has a way of working things out so we’re open to the idea.

Thanks! 🙏🏻

Thanks! 🙏🏻 there’s another moody black and white landscape lover here! 🙌

GE Nostr 🌇 Another shot from my work trip - this on our final stop of the trip in Malta where one excursion was to watch the gun salute. I took up my position overlooking the saluting battery and selected a fast shutter speed and high speed continuous shooting. Watching a cannon fire, even dry firing with no cannonball, is quite the experience. #travellinglife #borderlessliving #photography

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

Aww thanks! I wasn’t sure anyone missed me!