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