Back to Nature in Morocco - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

Tell me, what do you feel about the scene below:

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Now, hold the thought.

If I tell you that we started our Morocco trip in Marrakesh and what we saw in the next 10 days or so was either dirt or rock until we hit further north, would you have changed your thought? My heart let out a song of joy when my eyes met the scenery at the beginning of this post. I knew then how much green life and clear sky my heart was yearning for.

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I recently watched a 2012 documentary on “Regreening the Desert”. The desperate seek for shade from the inescapable sun and its heat in Morocco came to mind.

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It was forecasted to reach 91 degrees Fahrenheit (roughly 32.7 degrees Celsius) where I live yesterday, a temperature that’s known to be “normal” as far back as I know. And yet, California Independent System Operator (California ISO) has issued a Flex Alert urging Californians to reduce energy use to relieve grid stress, which was extended into today.

I don’t suppose I know the answer to our quest back in Morocco. Nor do I know whether the Sahara desert has always been there or that expansive. But I know we are dealing more and more on an intimate level with issues of power shortage, excessive heat and extensive drought. I know that City of Los Angeles is providing free trees to its residents. I also know that my parents have taken it upon themselves to be surrounded by trees.

If you haven’t, please take less than 50 minutes of your life and watch the documentary. If some of the concepts/ideas presented in it (back in 2012) is “revolutionary”, maybe more people ought to learn about them. And I’d love an opportunity to discuss what do you think we can start incorporating into our own property/lives.

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Beauty and the Beast in Greenland - Los Angeles Fine Art Photographer

Greenland, the world’s largest island, is featured by an ice sheet so massive that it covers more than four-fifth of the country’s total land area. Actually, Ice-land may have been a more fitting name for this island. :-)

On a land of the desolate scenery and Arctic deserts, I swear I started seeing people.

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Granted, I have been known to suffer from crossed eyes and saw landscape in a human body (see my bodyscape work and a human landscape here as well). Being in a land of natural extremities would only exacerbate the condition, wouldn’t it?

Anyway, this time, I was seeing human bodies in landscape. In fact, make it two - it’s a beauty and her almighty beast in the shade.

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Do you see what I see?

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A Happy Dog and Her Bodyguard - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

At Bevagna, Italy, I was elated meeting knights in their armors and rubbing shoulders with ladies carrying their bows and arrows. Peering through the thick crowd and narrow streets, my eyes caught the same kind of excitement in a dog’s face.

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In fact, there were more than one dog with the big grin that stretched from one side of the face to the other.

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Interestingly, the same sentiment was not reflected on their bodyguards. I get it, it takes a lot of toughness to protect such an easy-going spirit from all the harms in the world. And that toughness can wear you down, if you do it a lot.

I turned around to confirm that theory on my bodyguard, only to see the amount of energy and love that he still had, after doing his job, for a dog that needed some tender touch.

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That’s the story of a happy dog and her bodyguard.

La fine.

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