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I liked all those weddings.

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About Travel Photography.

Manfred is creator of ThisFabTrek.com, travel photography, a travel blog and a photography blog (a journey since 2004).

I try to understand, report and photograph, enjoy, live and inhale different conceptions of life (all that TV [and the web] cannot give). I reject jealousy, animosity, bigotry. Be free!

Manfred in the desert of the Western Sahara

The mind, when pondering at night had always asked those questions. What am I doing in corporate wonderland of bank, university, office or church? Who is the other animal asleep deep inside, the thinker, punk, creative, or Indian, vagabond and healer, maybe artist, writer, photographer, traveler, globetrotter? Oh God, dare you to think. When seeing the lies, gambles and manipulations I follow the old dream and set out for the real journey, the one that is call life lived.

During years on the road that I have taken the turns as they came along I have realized one thing: Only such a small part of the planet can be explored and such a vast land and sea mass will always remain unknown, to me; many swamps, jungles, deserts and oceans will never be travelled. But then I am father of twin boys, Daniel and David, my most important, and I show them some of the wonders that are out there. ThisFabTrek, is ongoing. Photography and Journey, Stories from the Road and Life around the World, Love and Peace.

Current vehicle.

G20, Gladiator.

Chevrolet Gladiator G20, Christina in Southern California.

Current Journey, Americas.

Every truck needs a lady. The G20, the vehicle that came to me for the Americas adventures.

6 wheeled Land Rover.

The vehicle of the Africa adventures, a Foley 6-Wheeled Land Rover Defender.

Before, the MB307.

Journey, Middle East.

The vehicle of the Middle-East and North-Cape Journies. See all vehicles.

Daniel and David with nanny Aisha, the best we ever had, black African Woman carrying white twin babies, in Bamako, Mali.

Travel Blog

contains Festival/Art photography.

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it, to tell the tale." Living to Tell the Tale - Gabriel García Márquez.

"They never taught wandering in any school I attended. ... they never taught the art of writing a book, either. It's all so mysterious."
"Wandering is an art in itself. Wandering and writing don't mix"
"Writing demands commitment and if one thing your wanderer is allergic to is that very quality of commitment, for once one is committed he runs that very risk of failure ..." Wanderer - Sterling Hayden.

"Photography enables you to grasp a place first time round. ... Photography is a means of exploration, it's a vital part of travel, almost as essential as a car or a plane. " - Wim Wenders.

"The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game..." , Egon Friedell.

"How far you gonna go. Before you lose your way back home" - Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World, Achtung Baby, U2.

"If you want to be a hero well just follow me." - Working Class Hero, John Lennon.

"When I think of all the things I have done, I know that it's only just begun." - I love you, Lou Reed.

"One does not escape the Sahara - the Sahara let's you go or not" - Touareg.

"Planet earth is blue and there`s nothing I can do" - This is Ground Control to Major Tom, David Bowie.

"Glory for the crazy people/in this stupid world" - Ahmed Fouad Negm.

www.thisfabtrek.com > life-before > weddings

But wouldn't want to be a wedding photographer

Jennie and Simon, York Jan 2001.

Andrea and Alastair, Rojtokmuzsaj June 2004.

Gerda and Sato, Mauritius Feb 2004.

Angelika and Norbert, Lech July 2004.

I have been to many weddings and I enjoyed them all. Foremost my sister's, which I shot on B&W. Its negatives I still have to dig out. Some other weddings (e.g. Katie's and Richard's) I did not take the camera, frustrated from the shooting results from a previouse wedding.

I find it tough to shoot weddings. Is it the flash you have to use which causes a lot of red eyes, or the white of the brides' dresses that perform their tricks on the light meter, or is it just the pressure to perform the second when ..... Anyway I like going to weddings and I will continue carrying my camera and taking wedding pictures and I again and again will be frustrated by the results.

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