I’m a photo freak, and these are really great, thanks for sharing them.

I still think eventually I’ll write a collection of travelogies…might be a project to work on soon.

And thank you fro saying that about the photo’s. I’ll b posting more in the next few weeks. I also just found a floppy disk in my Photo disk pile. I’m not sue what pictures are on it though because I don’t have a floppy drive on my computer. LOl I’ll have to visit my parents and take it with me to find out.

Oh, and some trivia about the first picture. That was taken in the early morning, directly across from the royal palace. Nepal was a Kingdom (There was a revolution there about a year after I visited if I remember correctly, and the royal family was all slain) If you look at the far right corner, you can see the white stone pillars that were the wall of the compound. While there were beggars all over Kathmandu, I found it very sad to see this lady directly across from the palace.

I look at these pictures and I wish there were digital cameras around back then. But they were all taken with film, and developed and scanned in years later. They still look great, but if you click on them, and see the larger ones, you can see stress lines in them. I could probably learn to get rid of the little things like that, but in a way, they suited the pic.

They didn’t turn out anything like how I wanted them, so I took a black and white course.

As for the articles, the first one The Hatrick In Nepal was published in a travel journal magazine. My first thing ever written, and ever published. The Belfast one was rejected, and I never tried subbing the Mozambique one. In all honesty, I started writing because I wanted to find a way to pay for my traveling, but discovered how very hard it is to make any money or sell travel articles. When I was looking into it, newspapers bought travel stories from the wires services fro pennies a story, and magazines had stables of “staff writers” who they sent out. Freelance travel articles needed to be somethign amazingly unique to be considered.

I decided I didn’t want to go back to school for journalism in order to get the job, so I turned to fiction, and my other passion…which is people and human sexuality.