In a New York minute https://journals.worldnomads.com/diggingpotatoes/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:35:09 GMT World Nomads Adventures These photos were taken in the space of five days in New York City for use in my travel blog. I like to try to capture the details of a place in a photograph that tells a little more than a postcard might. Working as a photojournalist for National Geographic was a childhood dream of mine and my blog allows me a small chance to follow this dream. For this trip I have left my SLR at home and I’m travelling with a compact camera for portability and, to some extent, invisibility: I prefer to take my photos without drawing attention to myself if I can. Good photography records a tiny sliver of time and space and allows it to be shared. My hope for my photography, and for this scholarship, is that I can learn to take photographs intriguing and/or beautiful enough to encourage people to take another look at the subject. In the first instance I would plan to use my improved skills for my blog, later, as my skills develop I would like to work on assignments or books that aim to do the same: ask the viewer to look again at the ordinary, and at the extra-ordinary and to grasp some small piece of how wonderful, and complex, and cruel, and beautiful, the world out there really is. A note about my contact details: I am currently relocating from the Netherlands to Australia, this explains why my phone number is Dutch but my country of residence is Australia. By December I will be permanently based in Australia. https://journals.worldnomads.com/diggingpotatoes/photos/24548/Worldwide/My-Photo-scholarship-2010-entry Travel Worldwide diggingpotatoes https://journals.worldnomads.com/diggingpotatoes/photos/24548/Worldwide/My-Photo-scholarship-2010-entry#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/diggingpotatoes/photos/24548/Worldwide/My-Photo-scholarship-2010-entry Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:01:00 GMT 0