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MYRIAM CASPER
PLACES (WIP)
 I travel and photograph for work. Bark Europa Scotia Arc journey was a 50 days sailing in the Southern Ocean job I had as a photojournalist. More about this story will come soon. |  Although for living conditions the desert is pretty hostile making life quite difficult, it has an incredible energy, romance and poetry to it. The ephemeral geometry of the sand and wind combined with the light and shadow creates a myriad of shapes and range of tones that helps you discover all sort of compositions, making it very interesting and a lot of fun to photograph. And that is why it is totally worth having sand everywhere and putting your gear at risk! |  Lemaire Channel in the Antarctic Peninsula has never failed to showed us with the best scenery every time we have crossed it. |  The last view before entering the Great Desert and “disappearing” behind the sand dunes. |  Pharos, a historic landmark at the entrance of Chania's Old Venetian Harbor, built by Venetians in the 16th century and later reconstructed by Egyptians, featuring distinct octagonal, hexagonal, and circular sections. The lighthouse is the main subject but if I don't get a dramatic sky or/and sea, and a good light, the photo will be flat. And in this case I prefer to just admire the lighthouse without photographing it. |
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 True Nomads. A berber family invite us for some mint tea on a very hot day. Inside the beautiful and comfortable tent we sat and for a moment imagined how was to live in the desert. |  An evening in the desert. |  Quietly contemplating life in the greatest desert. Its silence speaks a lot. Travellers passing by, like a ship making a journey across the ocean. Distant voices brought by the wind, then darkness and silence again, it reminded me how short life really is, and how we are just passing through. |  Chania's lighthouse, Pharos. |  A view of Chania's old town from the lighthouse, its mosque and the white mountains of Crete in the background are just as beautiful to admire as it is the lighthouse. |
 |  |  |  Naples, where else? |  Aït Benhaddou is a historic ksar along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakesh in Morocco. It is considered a great example of Moroccan earthen clay architecture and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. |
 Last summer as we sailed in the Tyrrhenian Sea our captain slowed down by the Stromboli Volcano so that we could admire its beauty. Nicknamed “lighthouse of the Mediterranean in ancient times, Stromboli, has exhibited nearly constant lava for the past 2,000 years; recorded eruptions date back to 350 BCE. |  Chania, Crete. |  That moment when the light hits the stained glass illuminating Greek Orthodox church in Rethymno. |  Churches in Portugal are breathtaking, full of history and art. People come and go leaving behind their sins, their sorrows, and their longing to the ones already parted. |  Beautiful view of Porto from across famous Douro river. The iconic boat rabelos were purpose designed for the river Douro and its complex navigational challenges as well as for the transport of casks of wine. |
 The "strange sculpture" at the entrance to the Palácio da Pena in Portugal is a prominent figure of a mythological Triton. It is a half-man, half-fish monster that holds deep symbolic meaning related to the creation of the world. |  Palacio da Pena, Sintra, Portugal. |  Evora. Templo de Diana. |  Bel Espoir leaving the Old Venetian port in Chania, Crete. |  Seitan Limania a little hidden beach at the bottom of a cliff in Chania, Crete. |
"Travel is the traveler, what we see isn't what we see but what we are"
Fernando Pessoa
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