annamair's journal https://journals.worldnomads.com/annamair/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:20:03 GMT World Nomads Adventures I am growing to love Cambodia even though my first visit there in 2012 was to bury my bother who lived and died there. The people give you the friendliest welcomes despite it's horrific past and posses an optimism for the future although many still life lives in great poverty. The average wage is less the $100 per month and in Pheom Pehn almost half of that will be spent on rent of squalled small room which all the family will live in with a shared bathroom and cooking area with others in the complex. Without the luxury of modern facilities everyone is neatly turned out making me feel quite scruffy in my crumpled travel clothes! https://journals.worldnomads.com/annamair/photos/51862/Cambodia/My-Scholarship-entry-Cambodia-a-Country-of-Colour-and-contrasts Travel Cambodia annamair https://journals.worldnomads.com/annamair/photos/51862/Cambodia/My-Scholarship-entry-Cambodia-a-Country-of-Colour-and-contrasts#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/annamair/photos/51862/Cambodia/My-Scholarship-entry-Cambodia-a-Country-of-Colour-and-contrasts Mon, 24 Nov 2014 04:24:00 GMT 0 My Father, to protect his own camera, gave me a box brownie when I was 8, I wish I could say I have been taking pictures ever since. I studied commercial & advertising photography for 2 years but never found work in the industry. Life got in the way, and I lost my creativity outlet for far too long. I was a solo Mum struggling to put food on the table let alone film in the camera. I found myself looking at ‘winning’ shots I had taken in the past as if they belonged to a former life that was lost forever until a few years ago, I was in the Kimberley and had an epiphany when I took a shot which awoke my passions once again, so I’m like a born again photographer. 6 years ago I resigned from my job & tried to launch my own business concentrating on fine art landscapes. I had a few exhibitions and my work was well received but I haven’t sold much so it was financially disasterous. To have the opportunity to learn from Jason Edwards would indeed be an honour. I would hope that such and opportunity would help me achieve two ambitions, a National Geographic cover shot and the confidence to become a freelance travel photographer. https://journals.worldnomads.com/annamair/photos/39597/China/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Travel China annamair https://journals.worldnomads.com/annamair/photos/39597/China/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/annamair/photos/39597/China/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:40:29 GMT 0