Reflection

My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Worldwide | Saturday, October 16, 2010 | 5 photos

I open my eyes. I feel dizzy. I don’t understand where I am.
Is it my life? Is it a dream? Reality overpowers me…
I feel lost. I try to understand the meaning of life. I try to make life worth living.
I travel. I travel from Italy to the East, looking for something or someone.
I arrive as far as Taiwan and Tokyo.
Both the nature and the city make me fell small and confused.
I feel tiny like a grain of sand when I look at the ocean.
I try to acknowledge my limitations when I peer at the line of the horizon.
I feel out of place when I observe the skyline of the urban texture and i try to understand my texture…
I like to travel. I like to feel lost.
I like to meet new people and to find again old emotions.
I like to get a smile out of people I meet in my trip.
A hidden smile or the flicker of a gaze. I understand that friendship is really important in my life. I understand this when I look through a cookie the slanting eye of a friend of mine. It looks like a Buddha’s eye of several statues I have seen in Taiwan…
I like to take photos and I hope that my photos could touch the observer, get a smile out of him or arouse a reflection.
I try to capture these moments by my camera, extension of my eye. Maybe I don’t have the experience and the right photographic technique, but I can learn them with time and practice, and the travel photography scholarship in Bhutan could be a milestone throughout my trip.