Ocean Colors @ 32mm

Abu Mahendra wrote:

Marco, I'd love to see your talents put to use outside of Australia (and NZ). Ever think of taking a photographic vacation in SEAsia or PNG?

I traveled to those regions between Singapore, the Philippines and India when I was a teenager and had to borrow my mother's 35mm film camera for the one or two photographs taken back then.  I ended up getting shipwrecked at the age of 15 in the shallow waters of the Philippines and was later rescued by the Coast Guard.  The occasion of our boats breaking down and getting towed to shore during a distant tropical storm would have made for magical photographs. Luminous crustaceans in the water... the Milky Way overhead... hundreds upon hundreds of (presumably) dead sea-snakes washed up on the shore that were illuminated by lightning.  I sometimes think of just taking a trip there to take in the sights and appreciate the light.  I've noticed that the light in the sky, even in Canada, is quite different to that light here in Australia. The cloud formations are likewise more interesting to me when I travel.  For some reason the clouds in Canada seem to be flat-bottomed on some days in a manner that I never see here.  The waters North of the equator often seem more vibrant to me.
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I used to travel a lot as a kid.. when I was interested in critters but not in photography.  My mother worked with World Vision so that took me across Asia to get to India and Bangladesh.  My old childhood friend from Scouts  still goes to India with a DSLR to capture the light and colors there.  And I got into photography much more around the time I met my wife.  Though I'd worked in Camera retail it wasn't until Digital cameras became available in the late 90s that I began to develop a more sincere interest in photography.  I haven't seemed to have had the opportunity to travel nearly as much since getting married in 2001.  My wife can't handle tropical environments (specifically heat) like she used to.  The gentleman with whom I worked with for the last few years would visit Cambodia and Vietnam whenever he could find the time.  He is a DSLR user and a former journalist and I often marveled at his work.  I was reminded on Egypt when he showed me pictures of the sunrises and sunsets in Cambodia.
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Perhaps someday soon I'll have an opportunity to have someone house-sit my neurotic cats and I might travel again.