Day 1

Background

The editorial on this occasion is going to be a departure from our normal editorials, in that this is going to be a one month long dialogue in the long established format of a travel diary (dialogue because you can participate in the forums, making your comments and I will respond from the road). My on going commentary will cover observations related not only to my travels but issues related to photography itself. I hope to leave you with the clear notion that we are dealing here with a new structure in that we are using the internet to publish such work and doing all of this digitally from start to finish.

The internet offers us the immediacy of the medium vs. the historic form of making such a diary available only after a lengthy period that would finally bring such pictures to print in the form of a book. I will also attempt to produce video images where possible bringing audio to these presentations.

To read the complete original diary...