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