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Another couple of hours editing photos on twitch (www.twitch.tv/davidtheaussie) and chatting with viewers. It’s always a fun way to spend an evening. I’ve moved my photography streams from Saturday to Sunday night (7pm UK time) to free up my weekend a little more, but to also give my weekend a really nice closure and vibe before returning to work on Mondays. Well, it works for me anyway.

This is my photo of the week. It’s from when we trekked to Everest base camp in May 2009. I love the contrast between the colourful tents in the foreground, mixed with the rocky landscape, plus the white jagged peaks of mountains, the blue sky and clouds. A lot happening, but a visual feast. Sometimes you want to have a photo that lets your eye wander around and appreciate things to explore within the image – it’s the nature of landscape photos.

I’m enjoying the streaming and uploading the streams to youtube (www.youtube.com/@david_theaussie) to build on my youtube memes. I’m having fun!

Regular Saturday photography stream on twitch (www.twitch.tv/davidtheaussie) was fun. Started with Bangladesh, a little Thailand, then Burma and into Nepal. Some cracking photos amongst them. You can check the latest upload on you youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1E364pfwtI).

Photo of the day (and week) is this one, a great shot from up in the Himalayas (Nepal) and the mountain yaks that are up there.

I’ve also found a photo from Nepal that would make a lovely wallpaper, which my viewers during the stream agreed would be very cool. So here it is for free. Creative Common licence free to share and use for personal use but not commercial or ‘for profit’ applications. It’s not permitted to remove the watermark, but you won’t even notice it on most monitors. The image is slightly larger than 4K resolution and looks great (I’m using it on my mac right now!)

Free stuff!! YAY!

Another Saturday photo stream complete (twitch.tv/davidtheaussie) and uploaded to youtube (www.youtube.com/@david_theaussie). It was a fun two hours of editing and chatting with viewers. I got a bit lucky today and had two new viewers show up who are photographers and found my stream in the twitch art category. So that was nice. I’ve since joined a photography discord full of photographers who also create content on youtube and twitch.

My photo of the week is a shot I edited during the stream. While I was in Pakistan I was fortunate enough to get up to Kashmir. I stayed on Lake Dal (literally on the lake in a house boat) and did a number of tours of the lake and the city. this shot was from when I was on Lake Dal looking into the Himalayas. One of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen.

I’ve also added Pakistan now to my travel map, and there are lots of gorgeous shots of that country to look at.

Last night was (hopefully) the start of something bigger for me. I spent 2 hours streaming my photo editing and talking about my photos and my travels. I actually had a lot of fun looking back through older photos and albums that I had taken in 2006 and 2013. I started with some nice photos from Korea in 2013 when I visited a Buddhist temple. There were some gems in there that I enjoyed rediscovering and editing. I also had a look at some photos from a trip to Cambodia in 2006 with some mates of mine (shout out to Craig). It made me realise how different my photography was back then, and the limitations that I had with the gear I was using and my re-emergence as a photographer after so many years away.

From last night’s crop of 25 photos that made the cut, this one is my favourite – Sunset over Ankor Wat, Cambodia

I’m streaming to twitch: www.twitch.tv/davidtheaussie

And I’m uploading the VODs to youtube: www.youtube.com/@david_theaussie

Last night’s video is available here: https://youtu.be/K5o3lSDAYa4

I’m going to make my instagram public once I can figure out how to schedule posts automatically. Come find me there @david_theaussie