Travels with My Hat

A Lifetime on the Road

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Travels with My Hat is a memoir of my adventures as a travel writer in Africa, South Asia and the Arab world. Beautifully designed, it is lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps and includes poignant correspondence with my mother who had never left Australia.
GREAT MOMENTS IN TRAVEL

When I would think, well this is what I've come for and the physical and psychological demands of the effort to get here, are now worth it...
MY MOROCCO

When I first set foot in Morocco as a young backpacker in the 1960s, I was captivated by the ever changing desert and mountain scenery, its colourful peoples and fascinating souqs. My book Collins Independent Travellers Guide to Morocco was published in 1990.
WORLD WATER DAY

Some 1.3 billion people in the world lack access to clean water. Women and children spend an estimated 200 million hours a day hauling water, often over great distances from the source. Here Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa, one of the driest places on earth.
Photo Library Collections

Thousands of images covering travel, culture and religions can be found in Christine Osborne Pictures and the World Religions Photo Library

COLOR MY TRAVELS

by Travels with My Hat Posted on March 5, 2016

When I think of the places I’ve been, I think not of the places I’ve seen, but of the colors of those places preserved in my photographs.

Psychological-Properties-of-Colours

BLUE: A storm over the great lagoon of Rangiroa in the Tuamotu Archipelago.

Tropical storm over Rangiroa atoll lagoon, Tuamotu archipelago, Pacific Ocean

RED: A man and his car in Umm al-Qawain, United Arab Emirates.

YELLOW: Sunflowers in the Dordogne region of south-west France.

GREEN: Rice-paddies on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Rice paddies in Sulawesi, Indonesia

GRAY: An elephant herd at a water hole in Hwankie National Park in Zimbabwe.

Elephants at water hole Hwankie Zimbabwe 1984

BROWN: Stone Circles in Wassau, Upper River Division of The Gambia

Ancient stone circle at Wassau in the upper river division of the Gambia, West Africa

BLACK: The color of mourning worn by women in Saudi Arabia.

Fully veiled woman taking the Aija ferry in Sur, Oman

ORANGE: A Sikh procession on ‘Khalsa Day’ in Southall, Greater London.

Policeman and Sikhs, procession in Southall London

WHITE: A lateen sail ngalawa in the Indian Ocean off Zanzibar.

Ngalawa outrigger boat off Zanzibar, Tanzania

GOLD: The iconostasis of St John’s Cathedral in Nicosia, Cyprus

Royal door in the iconostasis of St John` Cathedral in Nicosia Cyprus

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About Travels with My Hat

Australian photojournalist and author. Used London as a base for nearly forty years while freelancing in the Middle East, Arabian peninsular, Africa and South Asia. Have written and illustrated more than a dozen books and travel guides. Operates a well regarded religious images stock photo library: www.worldreligions.co.uk. Live in Leura in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney.

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One Response to COLOR MY TRAVELS

Jules says:

March 7, 2016 at 3:40 pm

Lovely concept… you sure have been around the block, emphasised by a concise list of colours/photos

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Travels with My Hat

A Lifetime on the Road

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GREAT MOMENTS IN TRAVEL

MY MOROCCO

WORLD WATER DAY

Photo Library Collections

COLOR MY TRAVELS

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