faraway

En route to Kosova, from the top of one of the amazing Pindas mountains in Greece as we wound around the twisty roads. www.aidconvoy.net/ A shot showing somewhere near where i was standing is here . Taken on the old faithful Pentax ME-Super, 50mm (f1.7) lens, yellow filter, Kodak Tri-X. Sorry about film scanner losing the highlights!

This is a magical cat. I decided he was so beautiful and well posed by his carnations that I would return the next day to his elegant little art shop and deliver some food to him. But the next day – and on every subsequent occasion I've been to Amsterdam – the shop isn't there. I've trawled these streets. Believe me, it really isn't there. And it didn't just close down, it's really gone. Should you ever be around Kaisergracht, keep your eyes open, please... As for the photo, sorry about the blurriness. But he's too cool to trash. Update: I still haven't found him again, but it seems I bore Amsterdam's cats .

Children from a really happy "experimental" school in Chernihiv, Ukraine. We support these kind of places; www.aidconvoy.net Taken with a Pentax ME-Super on Ilford XP2 (probably — from memory.)

(in bits) Seen at a car auction near Chernihiv in Ukraine - where I work on a humanitarian aid project supporting the victims of Chernobyl - www.aidconvoy.net Taken with a Pentax ME-Super on Agfa 200 (probably — from memory.)

In Gjilane, south-east Kosova, where we'd just delivered equipment to the hospital. www.aidconvoy.net Taken with a snappy little Canon compact zoom, sorry about the dreadful scan from a cheap film scanner.

I guess this never goes on the main roads any more; look closely, there's still a communist star on the number plate. (Found in Montenegro, while trying to work out which dirt track went into Albania! www.aidconvoy.net )

During the Sen'kovka festival, Russia, 2005. I'm there with a bunch of friends from the Our Generation youth group in Chernigov, Ukraine. www.aidconvoy.net The photo's by my friend Tonia.

This is the statue where I met Ewan McGregor! ;) It's stunningly impressive, two riders on horseback stretching out right across the road (some way after Lvov, heading east for Kiev.) You gape in wonderment that the Soviet bolts (connected only at the rearmost hooves) are still holding. Then gape again when you see the detail of the panel-beating. [I travel to Ukraine as part of a humanitarian aid project working with the victims of Chernobyl - www.aidconvoy.net ]

Africa, viewed from Spain! This was our night-stop, a fort overlooking the Spanish enclave Ceuta, on the tip of Morocco.