Learning to fly

My Photo scholarship 2011 entry

Worldwide | Monday, November 7, 2011 | 5 photos

Travelling and meeting people is my favourite way of life. Like London is known by Big Bang, falling tower associate Pisa, Statue of Liberty is America, pyramids for Egypt, spaghetti for Italy and siesta for Spain. The same is with people. They make travelling unique and different.
These pictures were made worldwide. On first is a beautiful lady, which I caught in Spain. She is wearing their national dress. I like this picture because she looks smooth, nice and passionate. Picture was taken in Madrid.
On second picture is little boy that I met in Himalaya. He was a first person after almost a whole day of hiking. He was playing with an empty can of beer and was actually as surprised, to see me as I was happy to meet him.
Another one I made in Syria. I was lucky and one family invited me to drink tea in their little house made of mud. Women that lived there were first shy but after an hour there was a party place. They convinced me to dress like they do by dressing their little baby boy in burke. I love the look in his confused eyes and still can here loud laugh about it. This picture was made with cheep camera that was more time on after sales repair then in my hands, but I love it.
Picture with a man smoking cigarette in front of the sign »smoking is forbidden« was shot in my home county Slovenia. Global crisis hit us too. Right now we are without government, taycoons are getting rich and some families are hungry. I don t find the smoker as a bad guy, but more like ironically fighting the system.
And why the last picture is imprisoned gorilla? She would like to show us something but she can't. Because unfortunately her place is in the ZOO.