The Traveling Photographer
chronicling a life driven by wanderlust
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Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
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this guy! hanging on tight. not letting go.
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Kirsten Alana on Love and Happiness
Possibly the greatest reward of the job I’ve been doing since 2009, is the people I get to meet along the way. While it’s not always easy for me and I sometimes struggle with painful introverted tendencies, when a perfect storm occurs and I do form lifelong connections with people — nothing is better.
Greg, is one of those people who is such a blessing, and a friend now, after being essentially a client first.
His kind words about me and my latest post are just too much. I don’t know how to say thank you in a way that more than scratches the surface.
My friend, you have utterly and completely made my day. -
Check it out! AFAR mentioned one of my travel wanderlists.
Color, beautiful color! What catches your eye when you’re traveling? This Wanderlist, “Travel by Color” by Kirsten Alana, stokes some colorlust (and wanderlust).
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On a small Rue just off Rue des Saints-Pères on the left bank near Saint Germain: the former home of Serge Gainesbourg. (at Hôtel Verneuil)
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5 days & 4 nights in the City of Love with my love, on assignment to photograph it as the backdrop for so many movies = Heaven
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S’il vous plaît Santa, I know it’s early to ask for something for Christmas. But if you’re real, and you think I’ve been a good girl, could you please send me to the Carlton in Cannes for one night and one day to drive this pretty little MG around like I own this town? Merci beaucoup. ~ Kirsten (at InterContinental Carlton Cannes)
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The current version of Notre-Dame de la Garde in Marseille, is due to Henry Espérandieu (1853-1874) but there has been a chapel on the hill since the 13th century. Extensive renovation was undertaken in 2008 and it is what allows the building to now be seen in all its stunning Romanesque-Byzantine glory. Definitely a must-visit if you’re a cathedral hunter! (at Basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde)
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Third city in my #HouseTripping tour: Marseille || Provence, France (at Au Vieux Port)
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I’m wearing green, but since I’m in Marseille and on deadline today, there won’t be much St. Patty’s Day celebrating for me. Drink an extra pint of Guinness for me, friends.
(Source: cybertronian)
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Second stop in my tour of five European destinations for HouseTrip. Nice to return to Turkey and this time not skip its largest city.
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My thoughts from my last visit to Turkey. Just a little under a year ago, “I left the United States with, unfortunately, a typically Western trepidation toward Eastern religion. Islam, in particular. I am not proud of that but it is a feeling that has changed, and for that - I am grateful. Five times every day here in Burhaniye, the adhân echoes over the olive groves and in the distance I see minarets of all the camii around us. The first time, I shuddered a little bit. Now, I smile. I have met such kind and welcoming people here in Turkey that I will forever remember when I hear the call to prayer, how my travel to this country helped me see beyond the barrier of Western prejudice. Bad people can be found in every country, in every group of people. But it is not ok to judge an entire country, people or religion based on a few bad examples. Hate and mistrust is something I can *choose* not to give in to. I can choose to be open, to learn, to keep traveling for that purpose.” I still feel the same way. (at Oren Merkez Camii)
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Downright amazing field trip today to a Cold War-era military station near #Berlin
Truly fabulous fun today w/ Tumblr here in Berlin.
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Teufelsberg. Once a Nazi school, then a US spy bunker, finally a haven for techno parties and graffiti artists. Far and away THE coolest place I’ve been while in Berlin. Huge thanks to Tumblr team for sponsoring us to hang out there today!
