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“Just ask where the circus people live. See you then!” These were definitely the vaguest directions I had ever received. Yet, there I was a month later, walking around the streets of Christchurch in New Zealand, hoping to find my host with these fuzzy directions. Mary, who I had met only briefly in Auckland, had invited me to spend time with her and the students of Circo Arts, a university of circus performance. It felt a little silly asking the convenience store owner about the “circus people.” But he didn’t seem baffled by my question, “It’s in the next lane, towards the end. You’ll see the flags.”
I took a few days off to kick back and enjoy a balcony with a mountain view in McLeod Ganj earlier this month. It was my first time there, so I was expecting big things based on all I’ve heard and read about the place. I got there early on a Friday morning, when the town was just waking up
One of the first posts up on our nascent Facebook page asks readers why we travel. The answers have been varied: From food to curiosity, to the desire for new sights, smells and experiences.
I am deeply in love with the silence of the forest. There is a special kind of quietness one encounters in the wild, and it has deeply impacted the way I create my images.
