Okay…lots of latent science here. This Citroen – great bit of vehicular tech, environmental implications, transport history – was parked at the entrance to some caves in Southern France when we visited in the summer of 2009 – geography, tourism, geology. I just love the car, it’s colour, the memory of the heat and sun on that day, the incredible chill of the deep ancient caves, stalagmites, stalagtites…
There are those photos that capture the essence of a day, that manage to distil a holiday into a single image. It might be a friend’s smiling face, or a stunning scene caught from the window of a moving train. It could be a beach scene, or a picture capturing a walk in the woods. But, sometimes it’s just a car. Whichever it is it can have the magic effect (psychology) of making you want to rush to your travel agent in order to plan your next get away as soon as possible! Photographs are a powerful thing.
It is great to keep a travel journal. You can write impressions, details, stories about your trip. An image is worth a thousand words though, and so much easier to make than a diary entry somehow. Also, there is no language barrier. Anybody from around the world can check out your photo blog and understand it.