A secondary reason that I started this page was to record my adventures travelling on holiday. I thought I’d start with the most recent one as I had all the photos handy. I’d been looking back at them through the current lockdown as a kind of escape, I guess.
Anyway, there’s a link in the menu at the top right-hand side of this page should you wish to see what I got up to with some of the best humans I have the pleasure of knowing.
I love photographs. I love the way they capture a moment in time without the context of what happened in the time either side. That fraction of a second, in this busy world, is frozen in time forever and the format is standing the test of time despite advances in video, virtual and augmented reality.
The photo below is epic and is one of my favourites. The detail of the moon’s surface and the contrasting blackness of the space beyond are reflected perfectly in the visor of the helmet… along with the photographer. Neil Armstrong will be remembered forever from that grainy footage as he stepped into a new world. However, due to him being the first on the surface, he was given the camera and took this image of Buzz Aldrin which has immortalised his place in the mission.
…“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
I’d been meaning to start something like this for a long time and the pandemic has given me the time to do just that. If you’re reading this years into the future, the 2020 virus was the reason we no longer have any human contact and live in individual plant based pods!
Ive gradually drifted away from social media over the years as I feel it doesn’t really suit my needs these days and looking for a space, a little less crowded, to compose my thoughts and random wonderings.
So here it is… a place for me to blog on the things in life that interest me. Expect Las Vegas to feature prominently alongside photography, maps, gin and a host of strange subjects that pop into my overactive mind.
I hope you find some of it enjoyable, or even interesting. I’m always happy to hear your thoughts on anything too… don’t be shy.
So, with that all said, let’s go for a wander.
