Jesse Miller

Uncle Brian's ' Campy As Hell' Waterfall Tour

AUSTRALIA | Wednesday, 27 May 2015 | Views [301] | Scholarship Entry

Some people find it hard to talk to strangers, but in the midst of a club in Cairns, Australia, it's hard not to. Somewhere in the fog of ‘just one more drink’ and ‘let’s go dance’, I ran into a local girl, Helen, with short blonde hair and a black lip ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

The Contrasts of Peru

PERU | Friday, 21 Nov 2014 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

Be it weekends to the shore or weeks spent visiting relatives in far away states, it all began with family vacations. I would take my parents camera ransom and spend more time behind it than in front of it, usually snapping through a trips worth of film ... Read more >
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Tags: 2014 Travel Photography Scholarship

Riding on the Wild-Mouse.

PERU | Saturday, 10 May 2014 | Views [408] | Scholarship Entry

Our Peruvian van-driver never told us the macabre stories of landslides, bus-collisions or flash-flooding watersheds that frequented the road carved into the sides of the Andes Mountains we were following, though most of the tales demised with a plunge ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

A 'place' I have visited

USA | Friday, 28 Jun 2013 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

I am a broke, wanderlust 23 year old. Ever since I studied abroad in Australia while in college, I've been stricken with the travel-bug. Going halfway around the world not only opened my eyes to the mass amounts of culture that I have never experienced, ... Read more >
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Tags: Travel Photography Scholarship 2013

Catching a Moment - Silhouettes

AUSTRALIA | Thursday, 18 Apr 2013 | Views [351] | Scholarship Entry

Somewhere just south of the tropic of Capricorn is where the motel - rather, a cluster of glorified sheds - stood on a forlorn strip of highway in the thick of nowhere, covered in plumes of loose, red dirt. Red. Clothes faintly stained with red; the ... Read more >

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Photos: My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

USA | Friday, 11 Jan 2013 | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

More often than I should be willing to admit, I find myself browsing through other people's travel photography online and realize how compelled and extremely jealous I get. As a 23 year old who hasn’t quite gone where I’ve wanted to yet since graduation, ... Read more >
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My Scholarship entry - Seeing the world through other eyes

WORLDWIDE | Friday, 20 Apr 2012 | Views [306] | Scholarship Entry

The muscles in my neck were starting to boil on a slow simmer as I craned my head upwards and around. Dashes of neon blue, smoky red and, ironically enough, halo-gold danced in speckles on my body and backpack. I almost felt intoxicated, like I was ... Read more >

Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2012