Monday Memories: Local Children at Beng Mealea

Monday Memories: Local Children at Beng Mealea. Children play in the ruins of Beng Mealea. Siem Reap, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

The sunrise scrum at Angkor Wat to get the best position for a photo of the iconic (in the true sense of the word) temple is worth battling. However, many of the rich rewards of visiting Siem Reap come with early morning explorations of lesser visited temples in Cambodia such as Beng Mealea. First built as a … Read more

Monday Memories: Reality Bytes

Monday Memories: Reality Bytes. When digital photography gets data scrambled. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

No, this isn’t a Photoshop job, this is part of a RAW image taken while on assignment in outback Australia. While developing the new Grantourismo website, I had to go back and work on every photo in its original digital RAW file. Not only has the image processing software become better at turning the RAW … Read more

Monday Memories: a Return to Instagram and Food Photography

Monday Memories: a Return to Instagram and Food Photography. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

It was this photo (above) that resulted in me giving up posting to Instagram just over a year ago. It didn’t happen straight after I posted the image, but a couple of months later when Lara asked me for the high-res, DSLR version of the image for a magazine story. But there was no high-res … Read more

Monday Memories: Tetsuya Wakuda

A portrait of chef Tetsuya Wakuda at Waku Ghin, Singapore. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

On a brilliant, bright, sunny Saturday afternoon in Sydney, Australia in 1990, Lara and I took a taxi to the slowly-gentrifying working class suburb of Rozelle. We were armed with three bottles of wine and were on our way to dine at a restaurant called Tetsuya’s ran by a Japanese expat chef named Tetsuya Wakuda. … Read more

Monday Memories: Crossing a Suspension Bridge in Battambang

Monday Memories: Girl Crossing a Suspension Bridge in Battambang. Battambang, Cambodia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

After getting a little misty-eyed while musing on our pre-Civil War travels in Syria and the special people we met, I decided it was time to look on the bright side and a destination recovering from a very tragic and violent past: Cambodia – and in this case Battambang. In Cambodia, the past is still … Read more