"Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has no personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it."
— John Steinbeck (Travels with Charley: In Search of America)
* Pentax K20D + Samsung 50-200mm Lens - Single Shot
African Wildlife Series #9 -Giant Eland
Selected images are available high res and unframed at RedBubble
Friday, November 25, 2011
Senegal Safari
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