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The John Walker & Sons Voyager -- the beautiful 1920s-inspired yacht celebrating the release of the John Walker & Sons Odyssey whisky -- has now completed its round the world journey, having traveled thousands of nautical miles from Shanghai, through Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe, to it's final port of call in Edinburgh.

It has been many months since my travel and photography television series, Around The World With Voyager, concluded on the HISTORY Channel.  And since then I've been busy with other endeavours -- including hosting another creative photography project that will launch online soon -- and I've had an opportunity to reflect on the experience.

As a keepsake of my adventure, my good friend David Flood over at Persistent Productions put together this fantastic highlight reel of my time hosting the series.

It's been fantastic for me to relive this experience through David's video edit, and it makes me thankful for the unique opportunity The Moving Visuals Company and The HISTORY Channel provided me to step out from behind my lens and appear in front of it instead.

As I've expressed to anyone who's asked, hosting the series was a challenging transition for me to make, especially as I

still maintained all photography responsibilities throughout production.  It was a steep learning curve for me, but I absolutely enjoyed the experience and demands of bringing these two worlds together in Around The World With Voyager.

Without a doubt, the most rewarding part of my job was meeting the five icons: chef Sean Anson Xu (徐安昇) in Taipei, action star and movie director/producer Stephen Fung Tak-Lun (馮德倫) in Hong Kong, film director Brillante Mendoza in Manila, fashion designer Raghavendra Rathore in Jodhpur and musical talent, Mỹ Linh in Hanoi.  It was a privilege to learn about their lives and document their personal journeys by photographing a series of definitive portraits at each of five milestone locations in their respective cities.

I feel fortunate to have experienced hosting a television series, but even more to have met and spent time with each of these remarkable people.  The highlight reel that David made for me is a wonderful keepsake of the time I spent together with these personalities, exploring their cities through their eyes, and making photographs of them in each of these interesting and meaningful locations.

Visit my website to see all my portraits from Around The World With Voyager.