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"Even though the roads are rough, and a little hair-raising at times, the drivers are obviously well experienced professionals, safe, courteous and capable. "
—TripAdvisor Reviews of Rainbow Photo Tours
Self discovery, to me, is the most pleasurable form of adventure travel. Consequently, I generally avoid “herded sheep” type of tours which are often the norm. I have only taken escorted tours where safety, logistics and regulations make it difficult to travel to certain areas and even then, my primary criteria are opportunities for explorations and unique, meaningful photographs. Bhutan is one of these rare destinations.
Robin’s tour is relatively unique amongst tours. A participant gets nearly all the benefits of a private tour, but also the pleasure of meeting others in a small group and the possibility of new friendships. There’s also the wonderful opportunity to get to know the Bhutanese people; we spent a lot of time with the different drivers and guides as these were rotated each day, and of course we met, interacted with and photographed many other Bhutanese people.
In addition, the drivers and guides were most helpful in carrying our gear and otherwise watching out for us. This was particularly useful for me as I am still recovering from a back injury resulting from carrying a lot of photographic gear on a trip to Alaska last year.
I highly recommend Robin’s tours – the tours represent excellent value for adventurous people!
Photographically, on this trip I wanted to try to capture the intangible, ethereal and metaphysical qualities of Bhutan, To this end I used camera and subject motion and occasional computer processing to abstract and create a transcendental feeling of place through visual means, rather than to just capture reality or to freeze a moment in time.
Viewers may wonder “Doesn’t he have any needle sharp images?”. Actually about 4000 of the 6000 of the images taken on the trip are in this latter category, but there are already lots of such images already on Robin’s website and elsewhere on the web.
Robert Ito, FCAPA, FEC, PhD
Director of Photographic Imaging
Canadian Association for Photographic Art
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