In an unremarkable building, on a nondescript pavement, sits a premises with links to not one, but at least three of history’s most defining periods and peoples. At 54 Hilliard St, Atlanta, sits The Madam CJ Walker Beauty Shoppe & Museum, incorporating WERD radio station.

Driving directly, Nashville to Atlanta is approximately four and a half hours. But who wants to drive four and a half hours with no stop offs en route? Luckily a little place called Lynchburg is along the route and anyone who’s been in a pub or walked along a liquor aisle in the supermarket will have seen the name Lynchburg many a time. It’s the home of Jack Daniel’s distillery, and the contents of every bottle, in every part of the world is still made in this little Tennessee town.

What’s in Louisville (pronounced Loo-uh-vil) you may ask? Riverside parks, humongous bridges, a cosmopolitan cityscape and museums to sate any taste.

I was particularly looking forward to visiting two museums. As a baseball fan, I had to visit the Louisville Slugger museum and factory. The very place they make the iconic bats used by professional and amateurs alike.

Once in a while, you have to do something to disrupt the humdrum. Remind yourself that life is for living.

That may be something as simple as finding an isolated waterfall and pool and go for a skinny dip, it might be daring to jump out of a perfectly good airplane, preferably with a parachute strapped to your back.

For me, I love driving. Driving to new places on different continents. It gets those creative juices flowing again that may have gone a little stale. The chance to see different scenery and meet new people is a very enticing prospect as a lone traveller. And obviously I’m incredibly fortunate and grateful to be able to record those scenes and encounters with my camera.

Not only does mark serve excellent food in a welcoming manner, but go there enough times and you’ll more than likely end up meeting most of his family. It wasn’t long ago that you’d sit in Swn Y Mor, and multiple generations of Mark’s family would be at a table or two, enjoying the atmosphere and each others company

Now portraits are tricky. Some of the best known portraits in the world are taken by photographers of celebrities. And because the subject in the photo is a celebrity, quite a lot of the time, that’s all there is in the frame. White background, beautifully lit, with a great personality in front of the camera in black and white… winner winner, chicken dinner. But if I were to put myself, Joe Nobody, against a white background, well lit, black and white conversion… Meh! So what?

When I was born, “The Wall” was already 10 years old. As I sat drinking coffee in a Berlin cafe, it was almost surreal to imagine that during my lifetime The Berlin Wall had existed, been lethally enforced and had tumbled, reuniting two halves of one of the most interesting, vibrant and progressive cities in Europe.