Travel is the healthiest addiction.

"Travel is the healthiest addiction" Travel Boldly / TravelBoldly.com - photo Jerome Shaw

"Travel is the healthiest addiction"

I saw this quote on line earlier today and didn't like the imagery associated with the examples I found so I decided to make my own travel poster to share on social media sites.  I decided to publish it here on Travel Boldly first. Please feel free to share it on Pinterest or other social media outlets.

Details: I made this photo in front of the El Cid Castilla Hotel with the Liquid Image EGO 1080HD camera during my trip to Mazatlan, Mexico for Carnival earlier this year.  Mazatlan does have some amazing sunsets.

The EGO is very compact and also waterproof.  It shoots 720 and 1080HD video and has both single shot and continuous still photograph modes.  I'll be doing a full review of the EGO later this year.  It was a great camera to have on hand for using during Carnival.

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My travels to Mazatlan were sponsored by Mexico Tourism, GoMazatlan and Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide

"Proud Smile" Jardim Redentor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event."~Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Proud Smile"

I was out one day in Jardim Redentor walking along the main street. I noticed a woman in a beauty parlor.  She noticed me noticing her and smiled shyly. I asked Maisa to speak to her and ask her if I could take her photo. She was shy and reluctant at first. She and the other women in the shop had a good laugh and she wondered "why did I want to take her photo?" I told her she was a very beautiful woman, her hair looked so good, and she had such a nice face. She relented.

She came out into the street where the light was better.  I took three photos.. In the first she was very grim. In the second I managed to make her smile but she over smiled with forced nervousness in her eyes. However just fractions of a second after the forced smile the third frame was exposed. Her smile had softened slightly and her eyes had more warmth. A small and subtle difference but very noticeable.

I am sorry that I did not note her name. Though as we walked away Maisa told me that by asking for her photo I had made her day. She was extremely proud that I had asked to make her photo, Maisa said she will likely be smiling about this moment for weeks.

I was glad to give her this moment for she gave me a very nice moment too. I felt a warmth as we continued walking down the street. And, I revisit this warm feeling each time I see this photo.

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"Proud Smile"
While on a walk along the main street in Jardim Redentor
I saw this woman in a beauty parlor. Coaxed out from the
shadows for a photo, she gives me a proud smile.


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copyright Jerome Shaw 2005 / www.jeromeshaw.com

"I haven't seen the Southern Cross since ever so long ago!" ~ Rudyard Kipling

Playing in the surf on Copacabana Beach Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo by Jerome Shaw

Rudyard Kipling
"The Friends"

I had some friends --- but I dreamed that they were dead ---
Who used to dance with lanterns round a little boy in bed.
Green and white lanterns that waved to and fro:
And I haven't seen a Firefly now since ever so long ago!

I had some friends --- their crowns were in the sky ---
Who used to nod and whisper when a little boy went by,
As the nuts began to tumble and the breeze began to blow:
And I haven't seen a Coco-palm since ever so long ago!

I had a friend --- he came up from Cape Horn,
With a Coal-sack on his shoulder when a little boy was born:
He heard me learn to talk, and he helped me thrive and grow:
And I haven't seen the Southern Cross since ever so long ago!

I had a boat --- I out and let her drive,
Till I found my dreams were foolish, and my friends were all alive.
The Coco-palms were real, and the Southern Cross was true:
And the Fireflies were dancing --- so I danced too!

Rudyard Kipling

from Brazilian Sketches

Sunset on Ipanema Beach Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Photographs copyright Jerome Shaw 2005 / www.JeromeShaw.com

"Travel writers are prisoners..."

Lunch break on the streets of Jardim Redentor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Travel writers no less than journalists are prisoners of a particular time and place, and their books are often the last portrait of an intact culture before it was over taken by events and changed forever.

--William Zinsser from "They Went"

10/29/06

“ Lunch Break on the Streets of Jardim Redentor”

The cars whiz by but the colt is undisturbed in his attempt to have his lunch. Just another small moment of life on the streets of Jardim Redentor. I enjoy seeing events such as these as it made me relive my youth in a small town in SW Nebraska.

The photo was taken with a Olympus D590 digital camera on automatic exposure and the lens on wide angle.

These images are copyrighted and may not be used, reposted, or reproduced without direct written permission.

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“ Lunch Break on the Streets of Jardim Redentor”
Time for a quick lunch here on the main street in Jardim Redentor.
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