The Crime Traveller

We’ve all done it. Headed off to the kiddie birthday party, camera in tow, and returned with 50 pictures of cute kids smearing ice cream along the walls and tearing wrapping paper into ribbons. Once in a while, as nice as these photos can be, it’s nice to look for a somewhat different perspective. Here’s [...]

So, with a little trepidation, I have completed arrangements to engage in a house swap this summer. The brother of a friend of mine will be shacking up with his wife and four children in our suburban home north of Toronto as we jet-off to make ourselves comfortable in his house wedged between Tel Aviv [...]

Sometimes, getting a great travel shot means leaning in as close as you can or cranking up the zoom on your telephoto lens. Other times, reason (also known as The Crime Traveller’s Wife) intercedes and encourages you to take the picture from a safe distance. [All the photos below were taken by me in Costa [...]

One of my favourite elements of any travel excursion is an opportunity to photograph the places I travel to and the people I meet while I’m there. As my wife and kids will no doubt attest, Daddy is not happy on vacation unless he’s got a camera around his neck. Having said that, one of [...]

  Welcome to my travel blog…a welcome diversion from my often hectic days in criminal courthouses across Ontario where I practice my ‘day job’ (and frequent ‘night job’) as a criminal defence lawyer in the partnership of Adler Bytensky Prutschi. About a year ago, an advertisement calling for travel writers in a new publication caught my [...]