Welcome to 2019 one and all!
I am so happy to write those words.
What a privilege to be alive and well and still moving forward in my journey.
Each new day and each new step up the tall ladder of my dreams is a day well spent, and I regret not.
To celebrate the New Year, and also Diary of an Aesthete reaching its first 5000 subscribers, in over 150 countries, I have put together a little collage of pictures from my journey thus far, starting way back in 2014 with my first steps, all the way up to the present.
This really has been such an inspiring journey and I feel so blessed to have connected with such incredible individuals all round the globe, both on the road and through this blog.
Here’s to making dreams come true, to perfect imperfection, to life’s ecstasy, bliss, to chasing skies and taking the long way round…
“It is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts.” – Qur’an.
Eternal love <3
Ad Infinitum.
Florence
Bridge of Sighs… apparently not for me!
Florence, Italy, 2014.
smile…
India
Oxford University, England
Autosave-File vom d-lab2/3 der AgfaPhoto GmbH
Jungle Prince… he outdid me.
Deep in the jungle, Maharashtra, India.
Reflecting at Avebury, Womb of the Earth Chakra point.
Bracciano
alone in Western Ghats Jungle, India
people of the village who asked me to take their photo
2016. Wli Forests.
Wild peacock
Sahara Camp
Ghana 2017
‘le grand meaulnes’… Brussels, Belgium
Charles, who led me up the mountain…
Ghana
India
Venice
Casablanca, Morocco
J.F.P.Clayton.
Monasterio, Fiesole
Children of remote village in Ghana
The Gambia, 2016
Aire de Sevilla
Mona monkey
on a nomadic Berber camp, Morocco
Bangalore, India, 2015
Plaza de Espana Seville – a great moment of liberty for me.
Athena
Ho, Ghana
June Morocco 2018.
– after being submerged in the Holy Chalice Spring, Glastonbury.
Grand Place Brussels
self portrait, jungle, Maharashtra, India.
dancing with Bagbor Tribe around the fire
Venice
Tuscany, Fiesole.
One skin…
Missahoe Orphanage, Ghana
Croc, The Gambia
Richmond Park
Tagounite, Morocco
Ghana 2017
life-modelling in Florence, Italy
Chef, Morocco, June 2018.
The Blue Pearl ~ Chefchaouen
Florence, 2015.
Followed her down to the river to collect water…
Wild Cobra, India, 2015
Self portrait.
Dalai the Lama. Rest friend…
Florence
Cape Sounion
eating my way through Rome…
White man of Erg Chigaga
with the rangers… Digya National Park, Ghana, 2016.
Chefchaouen, 2018
She was the lady who sold flowers at the temple, Bangalore, India.
2017 Mount of Olives
Monas
Athens Central
Missahoe Orphanage, Ghana
Erg Chigaga
Hindu Temple, Karnataka
Ghana 2017
Bangalore, India
Santo Spirito, Florence. Rose Greenfield
Morocco
India
Accra, Ghana
Lompoul Desert, 2016
Avalon
Great Britain
At home, Florence, in my birthday suit.
Giant standing stone at Avebury.
Holy Red ‘Chalice’ Spring
Venice, Bridge of Sighs
Deep in the jungle, Maharashtra, India.
A wild horse in the New Forest national park.
Florence, Italy.
Wild Vultures
Holy Light, Hunsur, India.
Hindu Temple, Bangalore, India 2015.
pc – Pavel Colon. Seville, Spain.
Me and my precious boy
Madrid, Jewish quarter
Ghana, Africa
With my God Child, Ghana.
India
Tuscany
Mediterranean Waters, Greece
He Who Walks
Sitting beneath ancient trees at Avebury, Womb of the Earth
Ghana
Morocco
Jerusalem 2017
Como
Bobor tribe dance which I partook in.
Feeling the winds of freedom on the Evian Gulf, Greece, 2014
Agonda, India
Venice…
Il Davide. Mon amico.
Jungle, India
Bergamo.
Charcoal Tattoo, Ghana
Venice, first time.
Greece, 2014
Self-portrait, Agonda, India
Bagbor dancers, 2016.
in the might of the Wli waterfalls, Ghana, during monsoon season.
Sunset Ghana, Kpando
My very own turban being fitted by Tuareg, Erg Chigaga, Morocco.
The power of sea. Agii Apostoli, Greece. pc – Frederick Peters.
wild zebra
Venice
At a Hindu wedding, Bangalore, 2015.
Lady of Rufisque, Senegal
Seville
Bergamo, Italy.
Gambia
with modern Bedouins, Israel
Burning sun, Agonda, Goa.
Rabat, Morocco 2018.
Agii Apostoli, Kalamos
Ghana, with my boy. 2017
Before a Hindu wedding, Bangalore, India.
Mysore, India
In the desert, Senegal. 2016
Bangalore, 2015.
Plaza de Espana, Sevilla
San Pellegrino
Shaking hands.
Tuscany
Running barefoot through the desert
Ghent
a Dieu
Seville
Rome
Me and my boy, Ghana 2015
Venice, 2014.
Seville
Remote village, name and location unknown, Ghana
With Muslim family, The Gambia.
L’erba magica.
Capitoline Hill, Roma
Venice, Italy… back in 2013.
Florence, Italy, 2016, Rose Greenfield
the Python and the Man, The Gambia,
Florence, Italy. 2016.
Senegal during Monsoon season.
My Italian city… 2015
Abdou, my brother
Venice
Temple monkeys, Mysore. 2015
J.F.P.Clayton
With Ethel and Mary
My good friend in Hunsur, India, after swimming in the lake together.
On a slum in Ho, Ghana
Fathala Wildlife Reserve
At Missahoe Children’s Home, Ghana, 2015
River children, Adaklu.
The Eye
Tafi Atome, Ghana
Bathing in sacred crocodile pool, The Gambia.
Ghana Africa
Lompoul Desert, Senegal
Casablanca, Morocco
Bracciano
Sahara 2017
On Fathala Wildlife Reserve, 2016
in a Bedouin Tent in the Negev Desert, Israel
Senegal
With ‘Prophet George’ The Gambia
Tagounite, Morocco
The Light, Indian Sky.
Touching The Light, Madrid, Spain.
Ghana
Hunsur, India
With Desmond, my Ghana Starchild.
People of Tafi Atome
Ancient temple, Mysore.
Lago d’Iseo
Fez, Morocco, 2018.
Richmond Park, London
Wli, Ghana.
Ghana Nov 2017.
Crossing The Gambia river.
Gambia
Greece 2014
India, Jungle Reatreat
In hilltown Coorg, with nuns from Catholic Convent, India.
In the desert, 2017
Nov 2017 Ghana
Berber Boy, Sahara Desert, Morocco
Connecting with the riches of the past, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
Pavel Colon, Seville.
Sorisole, Italy
Sunset, Verona
Staring out into Rainforests, Western Ghats, India
London
Young Boy, Senegal, 2016
at the Grande Mosquée Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco
Florence
Trekking through Digya Jungle, Ghana.
Avalon
Self-portrait. Ghana.
San Lorenzo, Florence 2015.
Venice
Ponte Vecchio
Erg Chigaga, Sahara, Morocco
Sahara with Berber flag, 2017
Florence 2018.
Morocco
Wli Jungle
Ghana 2015
On a slum in Ho, Ghana
Venice
Lompoul Desert, 2016
The Gambia, 2016
Tuscany 2015.
Lion pawprint, 2016, Senegal
Dome of the Rock, Temple Mount
England
Slef portrait in Agonda, India.
Ghana, 2017
Ghana
Holy Light, India.
Digya National Park, Ghana.
With a greek farmer, Agii Apostoli.
He Who Walk, Bangalore, India.
La Almundena, Madrid
life-modelling in Florence, Italy
bathing baby elephant, mudumalai national park, India, 2015
Wild elephant, Maharashtra
Rescuing a baby squirrel in forests of Tafi Atome
Ghana.
Masai the Lioness
at the Missahoe Orphanage with my babies
India
bathing child with fevers from malaria in Africa
My Tuareg brother, Noureddine
on top of the Glastonbury Tor.
With my slum warriors in Ho, Ghana, 2015
On the Farm, Hunsur
India
barefoot at the base of a sacred banyan tree, Bangalore, India.
Brussels, Grand Place.
Pavel Colon, Seville.
San Miniato, Florence
Jungle Retreat, Masinagudi
Wild bat colony in flight, Ghana
Vatican
Italy.
Greece 2014.
Sahara Sky
wli lower falls
W. Bagley.
Hunsur, India
Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
This llama spat at everybody else but me… I never doubted him.
Holy Water
Athens, Orthodox Priest
Sacred Banyan Tree, Bangalore, India
Bedouins, West Bank, 2017
in the might of the Wli Waterfalls, Ghana Africa
at an oasis, Sahara, 2017
Bangalore
Fez Medina.
Ghana 2017
Dragonfly, India
Lompoul Desert, Senegal 2016
Vatican City
Feeling Freedom of the World’s Greatest Desert
in the Power of Wli Falls
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