Travel photos

From the online edition of the Sydney Morning Herald, I came across this gallery of readers' travel pics. I am drawn to textiles and color so of course this image captured in an alley in the medina of Chefchaouen, famed for it's sky blue streets and buildings, brought a smile to my face.

Illustration: Peter Gerrard

The accompanying article Look beyond the lens is definitely something I can relate to and am sure many others can too. I read a similar article where the author recounts his/his cameras' underwater encounter with a whale shark and when he came up, he realised not once did he look at it with his own eyes. 

Whenever I take a trip my must-bring item is my digital SLR. But often I forget to simply look with my own eyes. Enjoy the moment, listen to the sounds, study the detail. It's far too easy to say I will study the details later in my own photos so let's move on. Why not enjoy them when they are right there in front of me? I am getting better about it but still, I return home with hundreds of jpegs to sort through. And often, numerous images of the same thing. Sigh.