For the love of travel and photography

Keen photographer and West Travel Club member Susan Moss has just returned from another of her frequent photographic expeditions to India.

Susan, who has visited India six times, has partnered up with travel guide Atik Ahmed, whom she met during a trip in 2017, to host guided tours that are specifically tailored for photographers.

“We work well as a team,” says Susan. “Atik knows exactly what photographers would like, plans the tour and then looks after us so well.”

As for Susan, she just loves being able to share all that Rajasthan has to offer photographers and send them home with memory cards full of wonderful images.

“I love the colour in India and the friendly people. The street photography is so good there. The colour in the ladies’ saris and the men in their brightly coloured outfits, draws me back all the time.”

Susan says it is always good to travel with a group of like-minded photographers so they can spend the time they want in each place without anyone hassling them to move on.

The highlight from this trip was being able to present a framed picture taken by Susan, that won Better Photography International Portrait Photographer of the Year Award 2023, to the family who were the subjects in the award-winning picture.

“It was a special moment for all of us. I also gave Grandpa one of him smoking his pipe. Although not being able to converse, we struck up a lovely rapport. He rather took a fancy to my walking stick, so I will be taking one for him next March when we visit the family again.”

Susan fell in love with photography as a teenager when she got her first Brownie box camera. As the passion grew over the years she gradually progressed to digital and joined the WA Camera Club to learn about photography.

“I was a watercolour artist for a number of years but now I am painting with my lens,” she says.

” I am just really happy when I have my camera in hand, be it home or away and finding some new images to take. Landscape, street photography and birds would be my favourite subjects. I do spend a lot of time on the computer to process my images, I enjoy doing that part too. When working on images I’ve taken on tour, I enjoy reliving the trip through them.”

If you are interested in joining Susan and Atik for one of their photographic tours, you can find out more about them at susanmossartandphotography.com