Why do I do what I do? Photography, Travel, Hospitality, Explore new places, Adventure seeker? I do it because I was fortunate enough to have Breast Cancer twice & a brush with Cervical cancer before it became full blown cancer. Each time, I went through extensive treatments & every time I reached for my camera & chose a place on the map to travel to. Africa was my love & passion, but any type of travel soothes the soul.
I was given more than enough chances to re-evaluate what is important in my life & I seized the opportunity to follow the dream. My continued goal is to take beautiful pictures of animals, people & places from around the world and put it together in a book & share with other cancer patients who are going through chemotherapy, radiation, reconstruction, or anything relating to their cancer diagnosis.
Since writing a book is difficult and expensive, I wanted to get this out to anyone who knows someone with cancer to follow my blog and allow them to escape into the pictures if only for a brief moment.
Getting your mind off the treatments and focusing on your future will help in the healing process. We all know someone who has dealt with an illness, it doesn’t have to be just cancer but something that the patient feels alone and isolated.
Not everyone understands that last statement, unless you have been through it. My blog is not just Africa, but so many other places to escape and make those treatments go just a little bit quicker. If you find that you have a question regarding a specific animal, email it to me and I am happy to answer.
Loving Lions
Wildebeests – Gnu
Funny looking, weird sounding, but so much fun to watch. I never imagined that I would see Golden Wildebeests – they obviously occur and they are beautiful.
Love is in the air
Blue Cranes flirting with each other. So spectacular & by the way…we found a chick!
“I am not what happened to me.
I am what I choose to become
Carl Jung
Hand your friend, loved one, family member who has cancer a computer & tell them to escape into the pictures and you will see a smile come across their face and they will hopefully find their purpose in life & begin to enjoy it.
Until We Ride Again…
You know I’m on board. I do know a few going through this who will enjoy it as much as I do. BTW just had MRI, CTscan and blood work: all stable, no new growth!