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.
