From Travel To Photography(1) - Balchik

I love to travel, and I always think about new trips. In general, the desire to make new trips is given by the desire to discover new places, to see something new. For me it's different. I like to travel... but to the same places. I have a few destinations, no more than 5-6, where I repeat trips.

I like traveling to the sea the most. For the last 30 years, I have traveled to the sea almost every year, sometimes several times a year, but only to three places—Balchik and Sozopol in Bulgaria and Thassos in Greece.

No matter how often I traveled and no matter the destination, something stayed the same—the pleasure of photography. Every trip, at least in recent years, has also brought me a collection of photographs.

Photos were taken at random, that is without much preparation and any other purpose than to remind me where I was and what I saw there. Lots of photos!

My posts are mainly based on photos. My posts always start with photos. I choose some photos that, of course, have a connection between them, and then I develop the text inspired by those photos and their story.

Because, isn't it?

For me, nothing is more true than that.

After winter is over I start thinking about the next trip to the sea. A few more months to go and, if nothing bad happens, I will see the sea again. When I think about it, the longing for the sea is amplified and the easiest way to quench this longing is to look at the photos. The old photographs of the old travels.

Balchik 2020.

Balchik is a small town on the Black Sea in Bulgaria. My favorite holiday destination.

I opened the folder of photos and started looking at them. I saw them many times. I used them in several travel blogs.

The photos help me a lot because they say more than I can write about the places I'm trying to describe.

I looked at the photos and realized, for the first time, that until now I had not looked at them as photos. To me, they were just a support for a blog. They were a series of photos that told a story. The story of a holiday.

Looking more closely at the photos I saw that some I like better. That they stand out from the others and that they are more than just the brief split-second image of a place.

Looking at these photos I understood, so late but I hope not too late, that these photos can be shown not only in travel blogs, as a support of the story.

These photos can be... just photos in a post in a community of those who love photography.

Photography Lovers!

In this community, there are, fortunately, both real photographers with tools, experience, and high science, but also simple lovers of photography, both viewers and practitioners.

I still haven't gotten out of the habit of tying photos together with a certain subject, in this case, travel and vacation. I still don't know how to use random photos... Habit makes me think that everything must follow a path, a subject.

Maybe I don't know what to choose yet.

I feel relief that I don't have to give much information about the place, the trip, the facilities. That I don't have to be some kind of guide. I don't know if that comes from overwhelm because I've been writing this way too many years or because I can't travel much anymore and I'm looking for a way out of this and looking for another way to use the gathered photos.

I have so many photos of the sea and what is happening around it. The sea is a great passion, it will never bore me and I hope I will never bore you with my photos.