The caravan city that holds many secrets...

...and many dreams.  I keep dreaming in full colour lucidity about this place that has captured my imagination.  And no, I've not been smoking any shisha! Just a cosmic sprinkling of wonderment is peppering my night times and no I don't mind one bit.  It feels like a spiritual journey of sorts.  Like a remembering.  An awakening.  The lessons come flooding in and my psyche seems ready to accept all of it.  There is now a quest of another sort, to find an independantly wealthy investor to back us while we return to Jordan in order to film film film.  I'll keep that candle lit in the window but in the meantime enjoy my humble photos (first time shooting manual, so forgive the errors and blips...if you notice them I'm sorry!) and have yourselves some sweet dreams of your own and a pleasant yet adventurous weekend! 

A list, of places my heart has whispered her desires to me in which she'd like to travel to:

• Tristan da Cunha {it's remoteness fascinates me, many people think I think it is a beachy resort place and I do not}
• Dettifoss, very cool...don't you think?
• Sanaa {really, I'm Middle Eastern-trippin!}
• Madeira Island
• Kidderminster, in the Midlands of England
• I'd like to walk the Camino de Santiago...like this kooky yet loveable woman did!

xo

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Comments

[Rebecca in Switzerland]

Your photos are fantatsic! So much better than mine! May I use some of yours on my blog, tell folks about you and link to your blog?
Rebecca

[Tara Bradford]

Can't believe it was your first time shooting in manual - I thought you'd been doing it all this time. Great shots! Am glad Jordan had such a powerful impact on you. And I expect your travels are just beginning. xoxox

[Tracy]

Feels like we've been right there with you on the trip, Gillian... there photos are alive with the wonder you feel and see... It has been a treat to see them--Thank you! And thank you too for your lovely anniversary wishes for hubby & I--so sweet of you to stop by while so busy. And, yes--LOVE does rule! ;o) Happy Weekend ((HUGS))

[shelagh]

Ah, Petra, a place of dreams and mystery! SO beautiful. I have wanted to visit since the very first time I saw pictures of the place when I was a young girl:)I love your pics.
Also....Camino de Santiago, something that has been on my radar for a while too. I want to do a documentary about walking it.
Happy Spring!

[Swirly]

Are you kidding? Your photos are GORGEOUS!! And I love the idea of Petra infiltrating your dreams...it has that effect, doesn't it?

[Sheila @ Tempus Fugit]

These are so lovely Gill. Great photos.
I wish I could have joined you there, in more than spirit.
I'd like a couple of these printed and framed. We'll talk!
love you
Mum
xx

[Rochambeau]

Beautiful shots. Your photos are fantastic. AND it is a pleasure to see somewhere I have not seen. Glad you and Tara and all could go!
xox
Constance

[Donna]

Isn't it funny that all of us thought everyone else was a seasoned professional photographer at the beginning of the trip, and how much more fun it became when we figured out we were all struggling to figure out the correct settings? (Renee and Tara excepted of course!) I too have been dreaming of our trip, my visions are filled with happy women with simple lives and I wonder how to become one.

[Gillian daSilva]

I think you ARE one! I loved meeting you. It was no accident that we all ended up together on the journey. I remember asking, Donna, what F stop are we on here? What is the ISO??? lol xoxo

[gemma]

Reading about your adventures and seeing your photographs
is so enjoyable. I am thrilled for you. Today you taught me about the island Tristan. I told my grandson Tristan about it. We googled it. He plans to go there and become King.

[Ily]

Your photographs gave me chills...seriously (and it's no longer cold in Miami!). I enjoy the shots and stories of this magical, wonderful adventure of yours. Filming Jordan is a fantastic idea! Do it, Chica!! I'd love to experience more of it through your eyes.

Happy SUN Day and sweet dreams, amiguita linda!

xoxo

Amor y Salud. :)

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aaaahhhhhhhh......

♥

QUICK!

sign up to go somewhere else!
it is the only way
to
live...

i will wait right here...

go do it!

what? what? what???
children?

well, never mind.

♥

[Gillian daSilva]

I'm laughing spf as I read this, not one hour ago I said to a friend, "Well. That's it. Nothing to look forward to."
I must book another trip. I must. lol xoxo

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gillian,
hint    hint     hint
it might be time for P _ _ _ _.
{{ i am just saying }}

bonnie*beth

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[Gillian daSilva]

Of course Rebecca! xo

[Gillian daSilva]

First time. Crash course. I told you I knew nothing! Aperture priority only. Since time began. Now when I go to shoot on Aperture Priority I am switching back to manual so I can change settings. I'll never go back to presets again! Ever! lol

[Gillian daSilva]

Some crazy cosmic stuff is happening. I like it. It is a new chapter. xox

[Gillian daSilva]

Name your poison. I have to hit Procolour this week for some prints...just let me know which ones. :) I'm flattered by the way...thanks a mil. xoxo Love you!

[Gillian daSilva]

:) I love the idea of Tristan being King of Tristan da Cunha. That is sweet!

[Gillian daSilva]

I'm scheming to get P_ _ _ _ to come here in June! Plans are already in the works. :) I may be entertaining her and company. But before she moves to the land of drug smoking I shall visit her. I shall. Wanna come with me....? xoxo

[Marilyn]

Gorgeous pictures! I have so much to learn on shooting photos too and so want to go on this trip and learn.

[Jeaux]

I think I'm looking at National Geographic... the photos are that good. The woman and child is a classic.

[Gillian daSilva]

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Well coming from you Jeaux that means the
world to me.  Thank you for thinking so. xoxo
 

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[Yoli]

I am off from work today and escaping onto Petra through your blog. Those photos are so rich and filled with a thousand emotions. I too have my list of dreams, one of them is Petra.