Photography is an excellent way of preserving your memories, especially the memories of your vacation. We all know that there is a story behind every picture or to put it another way every picture should tell a story. Sounds like a famous song, huh? For the casual outsider who is looking at your pictures, sometimes the picture does not have much meaning because he (she) does not know the circumstances that led to the picture being taken.

Take as an example, this lovely photo that I took in Thailand. I call it " A Quiet Moment". To the naked eye, this just looks like a middle -aged lady sitting by herself on a log bench in the middle of the forest. Now if you tune into the energy of the scene, you may feel the meditative or reflective mood of this lady.

Ok, I know you are probably wondering what is the story behind this picture?
Well, I was in Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand for the first time and I decided to go on an all day tour to Doi Inthanon National Park, home of the largest mountain peak in Thailand, Doi Inthanon at 8,900 feet above sea level. One of the members in our small tour group was this middle-aged lady from Vancouver, Canada. Of course, we got to talking and I found out bits and pieces about her life and about her travels. She was traveling alone like myself and was having wonderful time in the Land of Smiles; she missed her daughters and her husband but she was really enjoying some time by herself. We talked about a variety of things including everybody's favorite political topic - the absurdity of the War in Iraq and the irresponsibility of the Bush Administration.

Sometime during the tour, we stopped to admire one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the Park and this Canadian lady (forgot her name), sort of wandered off down the road and rested on a log bench underneath the canopy of a lovely pine forest. I gather she was meditating on the beauty and serenity of the forest as well as all the wonderful moments during her Thailand vacation. Mixed in with these thoughts, she could have been thinking about her family at home . Eyeing her from a distance, I said to myself, I would like to capture this very contemplative and reflective mood on film so out came my Olympus 2100 UZ digital camera. "A Quiet Moment indeed!"...

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