Jimmy McIntyre - Editor HDR One Magazine
Jagged Peaks
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French Journal Day 86 (Travel Diary Day 166)
(travel blog - strange-lands.com/daily/2012/12/27/jagged-peaks/)
In a swirl of coffee fuelled excitement, this morning Rachel and I exchanged ideas that would eventually come to form the spine of our new European journey. We were, by some people’s estimations, getting carried away with ourselves. Stopping short of unicorns and castles in the sky, the possible 6 month road trip is shaping up to be something special.
It’s a journey Betsy may never return from, sadly. We won’t say that in front of her, of course.
Come the end of March, we’ll navigate through the great Pyrenees wall and down through Spain, finally reaching Portugal. From there we’ll begin our road trip through Europe – flexibility is our goal – our final destination will be Iceland in September. It will be expensive. It will be challenging. It will be the adventure we’ve been looking for.
We’ll be arriving on Latin American soil a year earlier than planned, and the trip will end in the US and Canada, where I plan to co-teach HDR workshops with a great selection of fantastic local photographers.
Trying in earnest to avoid exaggeration, this adventure will be the ultimate test of our success in trying to carve out for ourselves a life that we truly want to lead. We have no idea if our voices will be heard above the noise of our heavily saturated markets, but we should at least try.
Our goals for the next two months are ambitious. I aim to finish my HDR photography book. Rachel is developing her blog and ESL site. And working together, we are to search high and low for publishers who may consider our journey book-worthy…and my writing publishable.
An unexpected pressure comes from this blog, in laying our plans and goals out for anyone to see. It surprises me when people I’ve never encountered email me to say they enjoyed reading my journal. It makes me realise that not all of my readers leave comments and that my readership may be slightly bigger than I’d expected. The downside of this is that if our grand plan fails, it will do so in front of a much larger audience.
We’ll look forward to the challenge, win or lose, and take inspiration from the things we see and the people we meet. And who knows, maybe somewhere, at some point, a publisher may come knocking at our email.
Today’s Photo – A jagged peak
On the Pyrenees, close to the Pic du Midi observatory, this was one of the photos I salvaged from Christmas Eve
Jagged Peaks
Daily HDR Blog | HDR One Magazine | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Google+
French Journal Day 86 (Travel Diary Day 166)
(travel blog - strange-lands.com/daily/2012/12/27/jagged-peaks/)
In a swirl of coffee fuelled excitement, this morning Rachel and I exchanged ideas that would eventually come to form the spine of our new European journey. We were, by some people’s estimations, getting carried away with ourselves. Stopping short of unicorns and castles in the sky, the possible 6 month road trip is shaping up to be something special.
It’s a journey Betsy may never return from, sadly. We won’t say that in front of her, of course.
Come the end of March, we’ll navigate through the great Pyrenees wall and down through Spain, finally reaching Portugal. From there we’ll begin our road trip through Europe – flexibility is our goal – our final destination will be Iceland in September. It will be expensive. It will be challenging. It will be the adventure we’ve been looking for.
We’ll be arriving on Latin American soil a year earlier than planned, and the trip will end in the US and Canada, where I plan to co-teach HDR workshops with a great selection of fantastic local photographers.
Trying in earnest to avoid exaggeration, this adventure will be the ultimate test of our success in trying to carve out for ourselves a life that we truly want to lead. We have no idea if our voices will be heard above the noise of our heavily saturated markets, but we should at least try.
Our goals for the next two months are ambitious. I aim to finish my HDR photography book. Rachel is developing her blog and ESL site. And working together, we are to search high and low for publishers who may consider our journey book-worthy…and my writing publishable.
An unexpected pressure comes from this blog, in laying our plans and goals out for anyone to see. It surprises me when people I’ve never encountered email me to say they enjoyed reading my journal. It makes me realise that not all of my readers leave comments and that my readership may be slightly bigger than I’d expected. The downside of this is that if our grand plan fails, it will do so in front of a much larger audience.
We’ll look forward to the challenge, win or lose, and take inspiration from the things we see and the people we meet. And who knows, maybe somewhere, at some point, a publisher may come knocking at our email.
Today’s Photo – A jagged peak
On the Pyrenees, close to the Pic du Midi observatory, this was one of the photos I salvaged from Christmas Eve