She is like winter sunshine moving along the windowsill
The sight of which makes you jump out of the quilt
Fetch a camera even though you are in your briefs still
Lest she will be gone before catching of her an everlasting glimpse
Nevin H. Lawrence 17th October 2009
I met Rowena by chance. There the urge of my camera and her sweet smiles plus the D&G watch and the matching colours on her accumulated into some unknown chutzpah with which I asked her for permission to take some photos of her.
Some say travelling is an education in itself
I say travelling is like a book per se
Travelling only gets you further in distance but not in the head
Like a book with nothing to gain until it have been read
Nevired Owen 17th October 2009
Life is full of good surprises and bad ones, which doesn't really matter until you stand embracing them. Embrace them, good or bad, because if life can be reduced to one word it would be "risk". Life is a risk from exactly the moment you were just a fertilised fusion of an egg and a sperm. So if life is a journey, risky is its name. When life is a journey, our daily travelling is a leg of it. Now that I know life is a risky journey, I tend to be risk-embracing especially when travelling.
Travel to a land afar
Switch yourself to a higher gear
By taking some risk oh dear
Like a toast to life let's cheer
Nevinar Wilde 17th October 2009
Taking an initiative to make new friends is not the spectacular kind of risk but actually the beginning of it which could yield very unexpected results. The reason is obvious, my readers. It is to mix your own risk (life) with another person's. A love relationship, the highest form of friendship, is a clearer case in point. A turned-out-to-be criminal you may have befriended. But chances are also that you will make some lifelong wonderful friends. Even for general acquaintanceship, it is still like turning a page to the foreword of a book to learn the general schemes of things in the literal journey.
So that brings us back to travelling daily in a leg of the life journey. Suss out the risk if that concerns you and try to start a friendship. Otherwise, at least, let's your camera get a permanent glimpse of what may be an ephemeral friendship. Of course, be prepared with the photographic paraphernalia at all time or sharpen up your photographic skills in free times. Here for a white fair-skinned deep-eyed lady, you have to meter her eyes. Otherwise, the camera will underexpose her face plus the eyes will look smoky dark. The overhead lighting source was problematic but that was what you have to make do with when being impromptu. The slightly blurred background was made by way a filter rubbed with Vaseline petroleum jelly.
(Thank you Rowena for your help and permission)
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