Monastic life https://journals.worldnomads.com/rjnd/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:05:29 GMT World Nomads Adventures I was 19 when I produced what I consider my first photo story. It was a portrait series of a girl named Angel whose family was living a life of uncertainty as their community awaited an impending displacement to give rise to a foreign-owned shipbuilding facility. I produced the story while at a local photojournalism workshop. I had the opportunity to be mentored by practicing photojournalists themselves, and that helped me to visually communicate a story for the first time. Since then, even as I worked as a newspaper reporter and is a communication researcher by education, photography has become my real passion. Producing something out of love for the craft and the big, big opportunity to learn from a Nat Geo photographer is, as what this Web site says, a once in a lifetime opportunity. A life translating this potential energy--this wander lust--into tangible work has always been what I see myself doing and this scholarship can be a window to such life. For my journal entry, I uploaded five photos depicting peace in the lives of Buddhist nuns in Siem Reap, Cambodia. In a little over two days I was able to know a few of them. Some nuns even invited me and my tuktuk (local transportation vehicle) driver, Saroeun Sok, to pray with them inside the temple. Before I left Cambodia, I gave them a small digital print of their portraits. https://journals.worldnomads.com/rjnd/photos/41059/Cambodia/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Travel Cambodia rjnd https://journals.worldnomads.com/rjnd/photos/41059/Cambodia/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/rjnd/photos/41059/Cambodia/My-Scholarship-entry-A-place-I-have-visited Thu, 30 May 2013 11:59:00 GMT 0