Welcome some of our USA Edtion photographers!

It is with great excitement that I welcome a few of our new photographers for Photography's Traveling Journal, USA Edition. These talented photographers have some really stunning work and I am so happy to have them join our project.

Please welcome:

Donald Withers from South Carolina 
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldWithersPhotography

Darren White from Colorado
https://www.facebook.com/DarrenWhitePhotography?fref=ts

Michelle Hendry from Oklahoma
https://www.flickr.com/photos/26545566@N05/

Greg Hinson from Massachusetts
http://www.nantucketstock.com/p506889036

Paul Goossens from Virginia
http://observationsintime.com/

Moe Chen from Maine
https://www.facebook.com/moechenphotography

I can't wait to get started working with each of you. With your help this book is bound to be amazing! Thank you!

Vonda

ANNOUNCEMENT!!

We are so excited to report that we are going to be partnering up with our photographer Ömer Abalı from Türkiye (Turkey) one more time. 

It is with great pleasure that we announce Photography's Traveling Journal, Türkiye Edition!!! We will start the Türkiye Edition as soon as the book arrives to Vonda in June 2014! Ömer once spoke to me about the beauty of his country and now we will get the opportunity to highlight it! We will begin our search for photographers soon. We can't wait to get started and look forward to connecting with many more amazing photographers in this beautiful country!

Photographer Ömer Abali. Photo taken by: Fotograf Stüdio

Photos curtesy of Ömer Abalı

In the Press

These past few months have been fantastic for Photography's Traveling Journal as it has started to get some acknowledgement in the press. It began when our photographer Ömer Abalı of  Türkiye got the journal into the news there in his beautiful country. You can check out the links here and here.

It wasn't long after those articles were released that the founder Vonda Jensen was interviewed to do a news article with KSL News, a local news source here in Utah, where the book originally began. By the time the article from KSL was published Vonda had been contacted by another news source in Utah. The Daily Harold ran a story about the journal as their Sunday feature in their newspaper on Feb. 9 2014.

All of this has been surreal and exciting all at the same time. Since these articles have been published Vonda has continued to work with the journal creator, Nick from Rogue Journals, to see about getting more journals from them so that we can continue the project on a bigger scale. It is very exciting to announce that Nick has agreed to create three new journals for Photography's Traveling Journal.

Once the new journal's arrive to us in June we will begin a whole new journey by starting a journal that will travel all 50 of the United Sates. We will also be starting two other journals, but you'll have to wait for the  announcements about them at a later date. ;)

We are now searching for professional photographers to join us in the next part of this journey. If you are living in the USA and are highly skilled in photography, then we would love to have you join our project. You can contact Vonda at vondajensen@yahoo.com.

Thank you to every one of our followers, new and old!! We appreciate that we can share this journey with so many other people around the world! Keep following along as the journal progresses and as we branch out with more books.

Journal is in Türkiye now.

March 13, 2014 at 1:08am

 Hi, my name is Ömer Abalı. I am from Türkiye ( not Turkey :)  . I am 29 years old and i am working as a teacher of English in a secondary school. Besides, I’m an amateur photographer.  I like working on old people’s face  and worker portraits. After spending five years in photography I and some of my friends decided to found a large photographic organisation in all over the Türkiye. Then, we founded “ Anadolu Fotoğraf Dergisi” (Anatolian Photography Journal). The first day of each month the journal is on-line at http://www.anafot.net . We have 30.000 members for now and they all know about “ Photography’s Traveling Journal”
Türkiye is a big country and we have very different kinds of cultures in it. So, if you some of you think about Türkiye,  please look at Turkish photographers’ work first.
You’ll see where we live, how we live, what we look like and what is important for us. Believe me , if you have any prejudice or steriotype about Türkiye, you will forget it. Photography will give us all a different point of view.
At the end;
What is the meaning of life for me? In fact, this is a very hard and complex question.. When i first read it, i couldnt answer at once. But during the years while the journal was traveling, i had time to think  about it. I had a big difference in my life. We have  a very cute baby on our hands for three months.
Dear my friends, this is the meaning of my life..Looking at her face while she is smiling, and listening her meaningless but cute sounds… I can say that I am OK now! Wıth my life and daughter. Everything seems lovely, pretty, cute to my eyes. My family is the meaning of my life…

 
 Lower Düden ANTALYA
Düden Waterfall in ANTALYA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Düden_Waterfalls





 
Augustus Temple and HAcı Bayram-ı Veli Mosque in ANKARA- Hamit Yalçın
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacı_Bayram-ı_Veli

  
Gazi University Historical Rectorate Building -Tuna Akçay http://translate.google.com.tr/translate?hl=tr&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.envanter.gov.tr%2Fanit%2Findex%2Fdetay%2F37751 — at Gazi Universitesi Rektorlugu.

Germany 
 November 15, 2013

 Jürgen Bürgin

 

Urbanhafen, Berlin-Kreuzberg

The journal enters Germany

June 19, 2013 at 2:10pm

Hello journal participants and all followers of this site,

 
My name is Sascha, I am 32years old and from Germany. I was born on the countryside, 75km north of Frankfurt.After I experienced the wideness of the world and cultures , I started to travel around with the age of 20.Luckily I got the chance to live some years in Bangkok, which was the time of my life. During the book traveled around, I moved back to Germany. That`s why you will see now some pictures from the south of Germany and not Thailand anymore. The state is called Bavaria where Munich is the capital city. Bavaria is famous for the beautiful nature and still strong traditional thinking and way of life.


I remember, that I got my first camera with the age of 6, when I joined school. After that, I never lost the interest of photography, but got serious back again with the age of 26.Since that time I would rate me as a enthusiast photographer. I moved on from Leica to Sony and finally to Canon gear. Since 2008 I build a a strong gear for my camera. Right now I am using a Canon EOS 7D which I am very happy with. I carry my gear always around, even I don`t know if I can get a shot or not.


The pictures I made where from 2 different locations around 150km south/west and south/east of Munich. Both took me around a full day trip to get to the locations.The first location is called "Eibsee" (name of the lake). Actually this lake is behind the main attraction the "Königssee" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigssee). But for me it is worth to take the extra mile to get beyond the Königssee to the other one by around 3hours foot march. The Eibsee is in a beautiful, natural location surrounded by mountains. The water is crystal clear from close and has a beautiful green colour from far. The cause for the coulours are special minerals which comes from the mountains ans springs under the lake. Walking around the lake you will come to a small house where you can just relax and take a rest by a snack and of course the famous German beer.For me this place is the most beautiful and relaxing place to take some time in the nature and settle down for a while.


The second part of my pictures is done on the highest place in Germany. The mountain is 2962 meters high and called "Zugspitze" or by slogan "Top of Germany". The picture was made just 10meters under the summit which gives a beautiful view in the direction to Austria.As you can see, there is still snow up there, so it`s the best place to get both in summertime: beautiful blue sky with sunshine and on the other side a walk in the snow.


I hope you like the pictures/places as much as I do and may be you get some impressions of the silence and beauty of this places.

Finally I would like to thank Vonda for this great idea and bringing people from all over the world together!


Sincerely
Sascha
  
At Königssee!!

The Journal in Eastern France

February 21, 2013 at 8:04am

Hi my name is Michael Diblicek,

I'm a 52 year old British Award winning Black and White Fine Art photographer living in Eastern France.
This was a great experience to participate in this project.
I first got interested in photography at the age og 16 and have been doing on and off for the last 30 years, but it wasn't until the last 4 years that it took a more serious part in my life.
I am now one of the co founders of the Glass Star Agency, a photographic agency doing workshops around the world, sharing my experiences in photography, in particular Long Exposure Black and White Architecture and Seascapes.

I now look forward to the journal finding a new home after having spent the past 3 months in France, and look forward to the new entries.

Michael Diblicek

The Journal overlooking the River Breuchin, Eastern France.