shot some with the brownie whilst shooting some ad stuff for Loose Fit.

Kodak Brownie model 1, portra 160VC & lots of guessing…

sunny days and fish dishes… I’ve been making movies in the sun.

A couple from the wedding.

My grandad gave me a new (old) flash for me rollei 35 at christmas. It’s a little hectic bright…but I it’s kinda cool. I like.

So, what a rad year that was…

In 2009 I…

worked for the electricity board

quit that job

caught trains from Wales to Hong Kong

stayed in poland with some cool girls

got lost in moscow

made a friend in mongolia and gave him my tshirt

made a snowman in beijing

sweated in hong kong

went a saw jeans being made

took photos for a nice company

went to Australia again

worked in Australia a little

lived in garage with resident snakes, rats and spiders

surfed ALOT

hung with old friends

went to Tasmania again

camped, Surfed, Fished and drank whisky with good friends

spent time in Sydney with my sister

went to sweden with a rad group of people to take photos

rowed around a lake at 3am for shots

lived in wales and put up big tents

shot a cool wedding

surfed more than I worked

saw robin hood

moved back to the south coast

worked making smoothies for two weeks

hung with old friends

went to the alps to take photos

ended up spending two weeks in the french alps

rode bikes down mountains

fell off a fair few times

moved back to north devon

worked with friends in the best surf shop

surfed alot

got in trouble for surfing when I was supposed to be working

attended the ‘Do Lectures’ as resident photographer

met some inspiring people

shot another cool wedding

did more photo work than surfing

bought some second hand bikes and trailers

rode them from north devon to southern france

surfed the whole way

took many pictures

made a blog

got sick

got better(ish)

went to argentina to take photos

spent two weeks with some rad people in patagonia and learnt welsh

didn’t learn spanish

spent a week in a cottage in devon with my family and six dogs

took my dog, vincent, for many walks

surfed alot

drove to newcastle

shot and atteneded a good friends wedding in the snow

just about made a living from taking photos (if you forget the smoothies and surfshop)

flew in a plane 14 times

caught 24 trains

broke one car

bought one car

bought 8 cameras

met some frikken cool people

ended the year broke

had (possibly) the best year of my life so far.

…the window is wide open for 2010

www.bourgeoisbicycle.com

It’s all good.

10 Reasons to go slow when you travel

1. Footprints, those dirty little carbon ones
2. It’s cheaper
3. To challenge yourself
4. Because the other people tell you that you can’t
5. Because you realise you can
6. To go somewhere new
7. To learn how to pack light
8. To realise that the journey is important
9. It’s something to talk about over a wine fuelled dinner
10. To travel.

‘A modern day caravan, driven by feet, wheels and creativity’

(Caravan; a number of people traveling together; a moving company, to aid defense against bandits as well as helped to improve economies of scale in trade)

The Caravan Goal: To travel on bicycles the length of the French Western Seaboard, to the Spanish Border, sniffing out surf along the way. Towing carts laden with a variety of surf craft, paints, pens, cameras, paper and anything else which we can best use to capture and create a special journey in this unique part of the world.

The Caravan Ideals: – To respect the earth. We will ride, camp and live within our means, hoping to leave only laughter, good will, broken hearts and other bits of environmentally friendly debris behind.

– To respect the locals and their customs. We shall endeavor to communicate, to blend and to exist with the people on a level never before attempted from the swift and silent seat of a bicycle

- To prove that surf travel and cycling can co-exist together. We will surf, and we will cycle there to do it.

The Caravan: Our team consists of three full-timers, and a spare seat…

James Bowden; Photographer, surfer, aspiring vagabond and Co-Founder of the Caravan

George Foulds: Writer, Fighter, surfer and the Australian half of the Caravan

‘The Third Comrade’: An empty seat waiting to be filled. By invitation only, TBA

The Bourgeois Bicycle Caravan will be a revolutionary way in which we consider the Caravan – yet it will pay homage to past exploits, by remaining loyal to imagination, creation, adventure, sexiness, pride, patriotism, initiative, awareness of environment and the enjoyment of the road with our fellow man.

Peace