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