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The bigger picture

“Landscape has a soul and a presence, and landscape - living in the mode of silence - is always wrapped in seamless prayer.”

John O'Donohue in “Walking in Wonder”

I have no better words than Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue to describe my yearning for wandering in wonder. Ever since childhood, it has been a part of me. In a sense, we are all on a journey back towards our inner child. Walking the noisy and busy streets of unknown cities or treading the tracks created by sheep or cattle through grazing fields can be one and the same experience. Solitude is for me the best way to be “home”; it’s in solitude and silence the secret reveals itself; it’s where the young member of the highland cattle tribe invites me in with a glimpse in the eye; it’s where the deserted surface of the black mountain greets the soles of my bare feet with its rough and embracing warmth given by the sun - we come from the same place - we go the same place again, shapes and souls irrespectively. 

In the meantime, I see my camera as a faithful companion with a life of its own. We don’t always speak the same language, and I’m forever trying to make amends for my technical illiteracy.

Bear with me.