a photo of Robert Stephens in 
an ice cave on Franz Josef glacier in New Zealand

Robert Stephens - The photographer for TheWorldinLight Photographic Gallery

Most of the world’s greatest scenery takes a bit more to experience than just putting the window down in the car. If a place takes a tough hike or trek to reach, it usually seems all the better when you get there. And if that means you’re one in a thousand people, or one in ten thousand people to see a place, then it becomes more than just a glimpse of a scenic spot. And if you add to this the opportunity to pass through or stay in little villages populated by people of different cultures, the experience seems even better yet.

Some of my best experiences have come from being surrounded by little children that don’t speak my language, or perhaps they stare or laugh at me in disbelief because they’ve either never seen someone with a beard, or perhaps, one as white as mine. And then watching big grins as I give them little gifts or treats, something every guide book says not to do. But why not come bearing little gifts, especially when it takes so little to get such big appreciation in return.

I think I love this kind of thing partly because the opportunity to do it came late in life. So when the opportunity came and I took it, I was ready to appreciate it. Although I haven’t always had the chance to hike in the Andes or the Himalayas, I have always loved nature and photography. It’s been great fun putting these passions together with the opportunity for foreign travel, which I’ve enjoyed for the last decade. And still, the opportunities don’t come often enough.

For the last five years, I’ve been creating travel websites to share some of my images and experiences with fellow travelers to inform people about the things to see and do in some of the countries I’ve visited. It was kind of a favor returned for someone’s on-line travelogue of Nepal that I found, read, and appreciated while planning my trip there.

I’m not a computer programmer, so the effort of trying to make such websites was educational. I’m still not a programmer and don’t know enough to make my sites very sophisticated, so I aim for functionality and ease of navigation. I hope you will find this is the case for TheWorldinLight Photographic Gallery. I am not only the photographer for TheWorldinLight, but also the webmaster. I am now very nearly as passionate about providing you with a good experience with TheWorldinLight as I am about nature, travel, and photography. And that means, not only making it fun and enjoyable for you to visit my website and look through my photos, but also to love the prints you might purchase. It would be nice, as unlikely as it probably is, if you could enjoy your prints as much as I enjoyed taking the photo.

Please contact me if you have any questions about my prints or products.


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