A ward-winning writer and photographer Rudolf Abraham recently returned from the vast, watery wilds of Lake
Skadar National Park in
Montenegro – the largest lake in the Balkans, surrounded by reed beds and mountains – and from the frozen lakes and forests of Finnish Lapland.
Magazine work over the past few months has included features for OE, Morning Calm, France, Geographical, Hidden Europe, NADFAS Review, The National, Woman’ s Own and The Telegraph, and has taken him from the Tuscan Riviera to the Czech Republic, Finland and the mountains of Albania and Montenegro – in search of the rare Dalmatian pelican, photographing the world of Czech puppet makers, and snow-shoeing through Oulanka
National Park, close to the Finnish- Russian border. Books due out this year include the first English language guidebook to the Peaks of the Balkans – a 200km trail through the spectacularly rugged, wild and remote borderlands of Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo( Cicerone) – and a new edition of his Istria guidebook( Bradt).
Earlier this month his feature for France magazine on excavating dinosaur remains in Charente won an award for Best Cultural Feature in the French Travel Media Awards.
Upcoming trips include Germany( Elbe Cycle Route, Saxon Switzerland National Park, Wittenberg), Austria( Salzburger Almenweg, and revisiting some stages of the Alpe Adria Trail), Sweden( kayaking), Slovenia, Croatia, the Channel Islands and Normandy. Commissions welcome...!
Lake Skadar Roly, Bill National and BBC Park Breakfast, Montenegro producer Claire © Rudolf Rogerson Abraham at Edale