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Favorite places
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015
New Blog and Website
Hello! Thank you for your interest in my photography and travels.
I have switched my blogging to a new site so I hope to see you there!
If you'd like to send me an email, click HERE
See you over there!
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Thursday, January 1, 2015
2014
Each year, I write a post with everything I accomplished during the year. I do this partly for a personal journal to remember what I did and also as a reminder of things I've achieved for moments when I feel as if I am not doing enough.
The year started out slow but it picked up in April when I headed out to New Zealand to live in a camper van for three weeks. As you might have read, I few hours into the trip I ended up with just the clothes on my back and the items in my purse, which luckily included my iPhone and passport. Looking back, it was the highlight of my year. During that trip, I was notified that my portrait series, "Equivalence" was written up in the National Geographic blog, Proof. Also, during the trip I started taking photographs from the van window and named the series, "Vanscapes" which was featured in PDN and Lenscratch, which subsequently lead to several websites picking it up. The remainder of the year was spent on different road trip adventures in the western states. Lastly, I am so excited to announce my partnership with GoWesty. They took excellent care of "Campy" this December and gave her so many upgrades and fixed several things that stopped working. The wonderful folks there will help us to stay on the road and share our experiences with you! If you want to see images as they happen in 2015, the best place to see them would be on my Instagram account.
Below is a snippet of my 2014 road travels with Max. I look forward to sharing more in 2015! This will be the best year yet! Thank you all so much for following us on our adventure!
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Interview on She Explores
I was delighted when I was asked to be a part of the "Women on the Road" series from She Explores. I love that Gale has dedicated a portion of her website to celebrate women on the road. She also writes about her adventures from her Sprinter Van. Want to get inspired? Read the interviews on her site and if you'd like to read mine, click HERE
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Vanscapes
I drove out of the lot with hesitation since I am not familiar with driving on the left side of the road. In fact, I missed my exit because I was afraid of making a right turn. Eventually I followed another car and made it on the freeway going north. I pulled off the highway before a toll freeway to a gas station to practice pumping gas (as if I have never done that before) and to pay the toll on the kiosk. After I pumped gas, I moved the van around to the parking lot of a fast food restaurant. I went in to grab a sandwich and when I came back to the van, all of my bags and everything I brought with me was stolen. Just like that. Everything. Camera, clothes, etc was gone. All I had left was my wallet and iPhone and luckily I grabbed my passport from my backpack and put in my purse as a last minute, "maybe I should take this with me" thought.
I waited for police, filled a report, spent night at police station so they could fingerprint the van in the morning and then the next day... I was finally on my way, for real this time.
I really wasn't that upset. It was just "stuff." The thing I was most upset about was my hand written travel journal. I am pretty particular about clothes and can wear out an article of clothing if I like it. Of course I packed all of my favorites and swimsuits. Ladies, you know what I mean when I say a good swimsuit is hard to find. I bet the one you consider your favorite is a few years old because it fits just right.
I digress... Since I had my iPhone on me, I took all of my travel photos with it like I do when I travel the states and post on my Instagram account ( @alisontravels ). It wasn't a big deal to me to use it since it's the camera I use the most these days.
The first day on the road, I found a spot out in the country with fields of sheep (the photo shown above). I got out of the van to take their photograph but they all scattered and ran away once one of them saw me and got spooked. So I went back to the van and sat in it for a while to see if they would come back. I leaned back (hiding from the sheep in the van) and took a photo from the inside and couldn't believe how beautiful it looked. I was actually in the place where I've seen so many beautiful landscapes. I've arrived.
From that photo, I continued on and used the passenger door window as a photo frame to all of the beautiful surroundings I came across. My new visual travel journal would be images taken from the drivers seat of the van so I could remember what it was like and hoped that by doing so, it would give my friends and followers a sense of being there with me, along for the ride.
I also did this with the sliding door and displayed my toes to give it a human element.
Aline Smithson wrote a nice article for her blog, Lenscratch that you can read HERE and David Carol wrote a nice piece about the sliding door views on PDN's Emerging Photographer that you can read HERE. Thank you both for sharing this series!
I hope you feel as if you took a little tour of the country with these images. It's a beautiful country with wonderful people. I will never forget it.
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