Journey On! has a busy spring ahead. Here is a list of workshops and presentations:
Presentation on my new book "Journey On! Taking Your Travel Experience to the Next Level," May 15, 7-8pm, Wide World Books, Wallingford neighborhood, Seattle. Free
Vacation Photography
Monday evenings, June 4-25, 6:30-8:30pm at The Traveler, downtown Winslow, Bainbrige Island
Registration through Bainbridge Parks-and-Recreation. www.biparks.org.
How to Enjoy Your Vacation and Still Take Great Photos. This workshop focuses on
taking photos you can be proud of while taking a vacation that you and your
family can enjoy! We'll discuss how to prepare to take great photos, what to do
while on vacation so that photography and vacation ae not mutually exclusive,
and what to do once back home to share your photos in a way not to turn-off the
viewer! All camera formats are welcomes - digital or film - but you need to know
basic camera operations.
For more information, contact Chuck Kirchner at 206-780-5671 or chuck@chuckkirchner.com
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Thin Places
This weekend's edition of the New York Times travel section has a thoughtful article on thin places," where heaven and earth come near. These are places that transform us. For me, it's the ocean's shore, especially the solitary experience of the north Pacific coast.
Other places that come to mind have been time spent observing, gazing at and photographing the floating Torii Gate on Miyajima Island, Japan (apropos, given that Torii Gates are considered the portal between the sacred and the profane, between heaven and earth); and an end-of-the-season journey to Skellig Michael, off the wild coast of County Kerry, Ireland.
There was a sense in these places of being other-worldly, of being at the edge, of longing to be there, of being called. Listen.
http://tinyurl.com/8668x3j
OR
http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/travel/thin-places-where-we-are-jolted-out-of-old-ways-of-seeing-the-world.html?nl=travel&emc=edit_tl_20120310
Other places that come to mind have been time spent observing, gazing at and photographing the floating Torii Gate on Miyajima Island, Japan (apropos, given that Torii Gates are considered the portal between the sacred and the profane, between heaven and earth); and an end-of-the-season journey to Skellig Michael, off the wild coast of County Kerry, Ireland.
There was a sense in these places of being other-worldly, of being at the edge, of longing to be there, of being called. Listen.
http://tinyurl.com/8668x3j
OR
http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/travel/thin-places-where-we-are-jolted-out-of-old-ways-of-seeing-the-world.html?nl=travel&emc=edit_tl_20120310
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