‘It was dark and deserted. I was drawn by the light’: Christine Rodgers’ best phone picture

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According to The Guardian’s source item, ‘It was dark and deserted. I was drawn by the light’: Christine Rodgers’ best phone picture, A man at a bank counter in a border town in northern India, tension in the air: how could any photographer resist? Over the last decade, Lancashire-born, London-based Christine Rodgers has trekked in Bhutan, Nepal and the Indian states and regions of Uttarakhand, Ladakh and Sikkim. “I’ve developed something of a passion for the Himalayas,” she says. “I love being in the mountains; not climbing, but walking and camping at altitude, in sight of the wonderful range of peaks.” Rodgers used to rely on her Olympus camera to take photographs on her trips, but has since switched predominantly to using her phone. “I love the immediacy,” she notes. “I did miss having a viewfinder at first, but I now feel completely at home with the screen.” Continue reading…

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