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