Walk This Way

Pepsi

Sunset

Missing the North Channel.

Blue

Our favorite Canadian drink of choice.

Sisters

These are two photos of my sisters, Tracey and Madison. Tracey just started a blog called "No Sleep for the Wicked" which I highly recommend... Check it out: http://bornunderusualcircumstances.blogspot.com/

She posts artsy songs, videos, cool photographs and advertisements.

Very well done.

Fast Cars

Friends

"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together"

- Woodrow Wilson

Time

This Saturday was the very last tailgate for the Class of 2010. I decided to bring my camera with me to document the day. During the weekend, we kept saying, "I can't believe this is our last tailgate!" "How did this happen?" And I have discovered that I have no idea how this happened... It seems like yesterday we were excitedly walking to our first tailgate as freshmen on the tailgating lot. So in my contemplation of time passing too quickly, I did some googling and found some cool quotes:

It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. ~J.K. Rowling

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Time goes, you say? Ah no!

Alas, Time stays, we go.

~Henry Austin Dobson

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. ~Denis Waitely

Nikki

This is a photograph of one of my best friends, Nikki, during one of our lazy afternoons spent in Centennial Park in Nashville, with a bottle of wine to accompany our novels and life conversations, which are becoming slightly scarier every day as graduation continues to draw nearer. But on these afternoons in the park our futures can be anything we want them to be. And what more could anyone really want than the contentment of knowing that the possibilities of life are endless and we can do anything we set our mind to? We simply have to be creative enough and driven enough to figure out what we want and find a way to make it happen.

Ann Arbor

Sunrises

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Mauritius

Thailand

Empire State of Mind

New York

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,

There's nothing you can’t do,

Now you're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand new,

the lights will inspire you,

Let's hear it for New York

Jay Z

Varanasi, India

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world" - Gandhi

Mauritius

Namibia

Namibia Journal Excerpts:

I have never seen anything like the Namib Desert before. It looked so barren, yet so beautiful and vast. We arrived at our first stop and all got out of the 4x4 to enjoy the scenic view. It was like a “sea” of desert – just sand, ripples of rocks and sparse brown shrubbery for miles in every direction. The bright blue sky contrasted against the darker rocks, making the effect that much more dramatic. At the site where we first stopped, there was a huge pile of jet black rocks made of iron, covering a high precipice, and when two rocks collided they produced the high-pitched sound of a wind chime. So there we were in the middle of a gorgeous desert, looking at the barren beauty stretch on for miles, while listening to natural “wind chimes” produced by jet black, iron rocks that we were hitting together. It was all quite magical. After getting back in the 4x4 we continued winding our way through the desert. We stopped a few more times to examine different types of plant life that survive in the “not-so-barren-after-all” desert.

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This country greatly exceeded my expectations. I felt as if I was in a completely different Africa than when I was in Morocco. There was a sense of calm which I didn't expect. It permeated the town, and the people exuded this joyful contentment with their lives. Between the natural beauty of the desolate deserts and the calmness of the ocean and the kindness of the people, I couldn't have asked for a better three days in this wonderful country.

India

I took this photograph in Sarnath, India. Here is an excerpt from my journal about Sarnath:

After returning to our hotel for breakfast and checking out, we caravanned to a Buddhist temple in Sarnath, where Buddha preached his very first sermon hundreds of years ago, called Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta. It was amazing to see that this building was so well preserved, unlike the city of Varanasi. The temple was relatively small, with 3 large points on its top. We had to take our shoes off upon entering. In the back of the temple, there was a statue of Buddha made completely of gold, crossing his legs in meditation and holding his hands together in a symbol which means “learning.” There were vases of brightly colored flowers on either side and deep orange strands of poppies hanging from the altar. The walls were covered in pastel-colored paintings of Gods and acts of meditation.

To the right of the building, there was a small park area with plaques and thousands of brightly colored peace flags strung throughout, representing hope and harmony. After seeing these beautiful flags, not aesthetically but beautiful for what they represent, we continued to explore the rest of the area. And after about two minutes, we were approached by more beggars, old women, middle-aged women and children, all asking for money or food. It seems inescapable. And it is impossible to help all of these people equally. And is giving them money really helping them? What is more important is for them to become educated, at least in a particular field, so they can create a sustainable living for themselves. Otherwise the vicious cycle of poverty and famine will never end. We were followed all the way to the bus by hunched old, bedraggled looking women clad in tattered clothes which had collected years of the grime that also fills the air, gathering in their ears, noses and lungs as well, completely incorporating the filth into every last fiber of their being.

Spring Street

Tommy

South Africa

The Atlantic

Soho

Madison

This is a picture of my beautiful sister, Madison. I took this on a boat, so the wind was blowing her hair everywhere. I tinted it a light blue color and then used the color preservation to restore some of the color.

Hamoc

The Island

Ontario, Canada

Wakeboarding

Newbury Street

Boston

Ontario, Canada

Ella

These are two photographs of my dog, Ella. I took these photos this summer when I was in Canada, in the North Channel of Lake Huron.

Newport, Rhode Island

This photograph is from Newport, Rhode Island. I spent the day there in July and did a "cliff walk" along the ocean. The water was bright blue and the sky was cloudless. We ended our cliff walk at the beach where we sat in the hot sand and watched the oversized seagulls swoop down to catch their lunch of the day, consisting of salty chips and juicy burgers.

Boston

So I have decided to post a photo of the day. This photo is of the clock tower at Faneuil Hall in Boston. What a beautiful city!

Around The World

Thanks to the inspiration from two of my best friends, I have decided to start my own blog. From January til May, I circumnavigated the globe, starting in the Bahamas, then traveling to Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America, and back to Fort Lauderdale. It was an amazing trip to say the least, full of life lessons, challenges, breath-taking sights and great friends. And I was lucky enough to document it through the lens of my Canon. My dad is a wonderful photographer and as a gift before I left, he gave me mine.

Over the next four months, traveling to 13 different countries, my camera was my ultimate traveling partner. I brought it everywhere with me to document my journey around the world. I took thousands of pictures and all the while, fell in love with looking through the lens.

Here are some photos from the world.

Mauritius

Varanasi, India

Bangkok, Thailand

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Hanoi, Vietnam

Beijing, China

Kyoto, Japan

Tokyo, Japan

Honolulu, Hawaii

Atitlan, Guatemala

South Africa

South Africa

Namibia

Sevilla, Spain