Children Are Shed Special Light - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

I’ve said it before, I love it when children are like children - the ones that play like one, talk like one and think like one. Not the ones that get their way around an iPhone with more dexterity than their parents. Not the ones that talk and behave like a mini-adult stuck in a baby’s body.

I’m touched when I see two boys playing on the window sill in Napoli, Italy, having not a worry in the world. It reminds me of a time when my sister and I would call out people passing by our window and quickly ducked to leave the person befuddled.

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And then there’s this baby girl on the day of Giostra del Saracino in Arezzo, Italy. The whole city came to root for their team of choice. She came in a stroller. It was after the team of Porta del Foro just received its blessings in Church of San Domenico. While adults stood around waiting for the procession of all teams to the competition site, she spends her quiet time, making sure her own scarf was perfect for the big moment.

As if the sun god couldn’t resist such authentic cuteness, he had to give her the special light while everyone else gets their broad light.

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He Said "Beautiful" - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

Despite people’s hostility to camera, my eyes and mind never stopped searching for photography opportunity. In the Sahara desert, my urge to photograph this Amazighs boy overcame my hesitation. He was leading the camels for another group and I couldn’t pass the opportunity to the possible reaction to my proposal to photograph him.

To my surprise, he reluctantly agreed. I quickly got into position and made this image, before he had a chance to change his mind or change his position for what he thought he should look like to a photographer. I wanted him as the way he was.

When he saw himself at the back of the camera, “beautiful” was the word that he said.

That made my day, because I know I’ve got free pass to photograph him from then on.

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People are Landscape - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

One time, I caught myself saying that certain country does not offer people that are either beautiful or interesting, when asked whether I like photographing there.

I’ve long held an opinion that people make part of the landscape of the country/city/locale wherever we travel to. While how one defines beauty or interest varies, Italy definitely has no shortage of beautiful people for me.

On one balmy afternoon, when I was photographing the city of Cefalù in Northern Sicily, one such beautiful person came gliding across the surface of water. As he continued circling around, never moving beyond the reach of my camera, I concluded that I didn’t mind photographing him, with the medieval houses glowing in warm Mediterranean tones in the background.

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P.S. To demonstrate the breadth of beauty that I appreciate and to prove that beauty is beyond skin depth, please visit here and here for more examples of beautiful people that we met in Italy.

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