I’ve been working on storing more of my photo’s digitally lately, and I felt like sharing. Of course I’m starting with some of the oldest ones I have, like my trip to Nepal, which was about 13 years ago. The one thing I love about traveling is meeting people from all over, and seeing what other cultures are truly like. While I do follow the tourist trail at times, I often go off the beaten path. To me, that is where there magic is.
Here is some of the portraits that always form in my mind when I think about my time in Nepal.
Click on the photos below to see larger images.
You can read about the Touring aspect of my trip here, and see some more photo’s in the Travel Album on my Photo Page.
For trivia sake, the story/article on Nepal was the first thing I ever wrote. (outside of High school English assignments) I started it as soon as I got home form Nepal because I was unemployed, but a week later I was back to work with a daytime waitressing job and a nighttime bartending one. I set it aside and never went back to it until 7 or 8 years later when I decided I wanted to try writing as a career. I finished the Nepal one, and wrote the Belfast one before writing my first piece of fiction, an erotica short story that was one scene long. Since then I’ve only written one more travel article, the Mozambique short piece that was strictly for my own memory sake. It’s been erotic ever since. (Although some of my travel destinations, and adventures, have shown up in my erotic fiction as well.)
Did you ever submit those travelogues/articles anywhere? You do have a great eye for composition with your photos, Sash. I’m not just saying that. As someone who studied design (Interior Design at college including Architectural Drafting) I’m seriously saying the lines of perspective, the balance of color, light, and the ‘moment’ captured all really work.
I really love the 1st photo…it kind of hits you like that picture of the National Geographic girl with the hazel eyes…remeber that one? I feel something when I look at your photo that is reminisant of the other one.
Thank You! I would love to delve into photography more. These photos were probably the true birth of my interest in photography. In Fact, my traveling is what created my interest in it. I saw so much, and I wanted to capture it. I never took a photography course until after I came back from the UK (Ireland and Scotland trip) where I tried to take some black and white pics. LOL
They didn’t turn out anything like how I wanted them, so I took a black and white course.
As for the articles, the first one The Hatrick In Nepal was published in a travel journal magazine. My first thing ever written, and ever published. The Belfast one was rejected, and I never tried subbing the Mozambique one. In all honesty, I started writing because I wanted to find a way to pay for my traveling, but discovered how very hard it is to make any money or sell travel articles. When I was looking into it, newspapers bought travel stories from the wires services fro pennies a story, and magazines had stables of “staff writers” who they sent out. Freelance travel articles needed to be somethign amazingly unique to be considered.
I decided I didn’t want to go back to school for journalism in order to get the job, so I turned to fiction, and my other passion…which is people and human sexuality.
I know exactly what photo you are talking about Scarlet. And thank you, thats a huge compliment.
I look at these pictures and I wish there were digital cameras around back then. But they were all taken with film, and developed and scanned in years later. They still look great, but if you click on them, and see the larger ones, you can see stress lines in them. I could probably learn to get rid of the little things like that, but in a way, they suited the pic.
I agree with Scarlett, the photos have a professional/magazine quality to them for sure. I didn’t realize it was so hard to get a travel peice published. The photos rock, though.
Maybe it just seemed hard to me becasue I didn’t want to go back to school. I admit, I didn’t try very hard. LOL I only ever subbed the two stories, one of which was pubbed.
I still think eventually I’ll write a collection of travelogies…might be a project to work on soon. 😉
And thank you fro saying that about the photo’s. I’ll b posting more in the next few weeks. I also just found a floppy disk in my Photo disk pile. I’m not sue what pictures are on it though because I don’t have a floppy drive on my computer. LOl I’ll have to visit my parents and take it with me to find out.
Oh, and some trivia about the first picture. That was taken in the early morning, directly across from the royal palace. Nepal was a Kingdom (There was a revolution there about a year after I visited if I remember correctly, and the royal family was all slain) If you look at the far right corner, you can see the white stone pillars that were the wall of the compound. While there were beggars all over Kathmandu, I found it very sad to see this lady directly across from the palace.
I have to add I LOVE that pic of the old woman too—and the guy doing pottery. They’re wonderful!!!
Sasha, great photos. I think sometimes it is the photos that oneself is NOT in that will actually be the truest memories of the trip… I have these photos of two very friendly young cats wandering just outside a temple in Thailand, and when I look at their photos I wonder what became of them. It was a trip many years ago… I wonder too what’s become of the people in your photos! In a world quite different from ours.
Gosh, Sasha, I’m so jealous! You rock! I love to travel. I’m going to have to check out more photos. Those are great.
Fabulous photos!
I’m a photo freak, and these are really great, thanks for sharing them.
These photos are fabulous! :champion: