- Genre:travel
- Sub-genre:Special Interest / General
- Language:English
- Series Title:The Wandering Wayfarer
- Series Number:1
- Pages:39
- eBook ISBN:9781620509449
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Overview
Throughout "The Wandering Wayfarer - Life's Lessons as a Travel Photographer," Paulda takes the viewer on a stunningly beautiful photographic journey across the world while sharing his thoughts with regard to how travel can help one grow.
From London to Morocco to Bosnia, New York, Iceland, and everywhere in between Mark Paulda shares his love of travel photography with impeccable photographic skills while his truisms about travel pertain to everyone eager to make a journey of a lifetime.
Travel spins us round in more ways than we can imagine, and teaches
each of us life’s lessons we can never find in a book. It shows us
the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore;
but it also, and more deeply, shows us all the parts of ourselves that might
otherwise grow rusty. For in traveling to a truly foreign place, we inevitably
travel to flavors, and states of mind and hidden inward passages that we’d
otherwise seldom have reason to visit. It is a quick way to keeping our minds
mobile and awake. And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because
it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive,
undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best
trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
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We never want to believe that there is a magical reality, though there
are a myriad of magical places in this world. We all too often choose
to ignore the wide-open door leading elsewhere, and instead live
vicariously through fictional characters beamed onto our televisions.
Perhaps the outskirts of town is a foreign land as one gets tangled
up in every day life, or maybe even the thought of hopping on a plane
today seems like more hassle that it is worth.
Instead, we want to live uncomplicated, and simple, lives, staying put.
We want to swim in reality, and remain in our “safety zones,” but while
swimming through it, we can miss out on so many idyllic landscapes,
vibrant cultures, and amazingly beautiful architecure waiting for us to
discover. Yes, we do get a glimpse of another world without realizing
at times, though there is no real substitute for travel. In fact, no matter
how much you have learned in a classroom, there is no better education
than experiencing a land beyond our borders first-hand.
During my adult life, I have grown tremendously, and have learned
to “think internationally” simply by opening my mind while visiting
countries foreign to my own. As a travel photographer, I have flown a
million miles, trundled step after step, and have clicked the shutter on
my camera more times than can be counted.
Throughout this book you will view some rather magical places, and
this is my reality. One could say — everything I’ve learned, I’ve learned
from traveling around this world, and yet, there are still so many lessons
to be learned, and so many more corners of this world to discover...
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