Orphans of Thailand https://journals.worldnomads.com/simonbusch/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:15:46 GMT World Nomads Adventures To me, the best photos are like a poem. Or maybe like a few lines of a poem. They have a force and a weight beyond what they literally represent and they compel viewers to interpret – to make more of – the scene before them. It is this symbolic power that draws me to photos by others and that I want to capture in photos of my own. I work professionally with words more than images – I am a travel editor – and I think that is why I find creating those photos such an enriching contrast to what I normally do. It is a bit like cooking (another activity I find enormously pleasurable): when I take photos, all sorts of different – I think more instinctual and sensual – faculties take over and I feel, as a consequence, a fuller human being. The search for a good photo feels much like a hunt, so there is that thrilling element to it, too: an atavistic pursuit, the spear transformed into a DSLR – and you even get to hang the trophy on the wall. Photography is a natural accompaniment to travel, something I perhaps naively still feel should broaden the mind. And having a camera to hand keeps your eyes scanning for travel's great reward: the drug of novelty. https://journals.worldnomads.com/simonbusch/photos/51947/Thailand/My-Scholarship-entry-Orphans-of-Thailand Travel Thailand simonbusch https://journals.worldnomads.com/simonbusch/photos/51947/Thailand/My-Scholarship-entry-Orphans-of-Thailand#comments https://journals.worldnomads.com/simonbusch/photos/51947/Thailand/My-Scholarship-entry-Orphans-of-Thailand Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:36:00 GMT 0