Project Latitude f/2.8

And... we're back!

After a month of web drought, it's a real treat to go home to my little Trail 365 page and hit the "New Post" button, it's a bit like eating your favorite dish prepared by your mum after being away from home for a long time (mum, if you read this: my favorite dish is smoked salmon and courgette gratin+foie gras+blanquette de veau+10,000 cheeses plate+...)

I know you must be dying to hear about our adventure in remote Humla (mostly the part where I detail how often we had showers) but first, I would like to share something that's really close to my heart [drum rolls]: my terrifically originally named project Latitude f/2.8.

For the non photo-geek here: f/2.8 is a value of shutter aperture. The aperture stop of a photographic lens can be adjusted to control the amount of light reaching the film or image sensor. In combination with variation of shutter speed, the aperture size will regulate the film's or image sensor's degree of exposure to light. Typically, a fast shutter speed will require a larger aperture to ensure sufficient light exposure, and a slow shutter speed will require a smaller aperture to avoid excessive exposure.and it is in some irrational way one of my favorite apertures. And Latitude... well that's the travel part of it... get it?! :)

A few months ago on this very blog I mentioned that I would love to meet my flickr contacts wherever my world trip takes me. The idea behind it is that there are a lot of people in my flickr contact list whose work I have enormous admiration for and I don't think I'll have a better opportunity to get to know a little bit more about them than by meeting them face-to-face and see who's behind the shots. Through this project I want to try and get under the skin of that big flickr community which for me has been a source of inspiration since I first joined in 2007. I'd love to understand how each individual approaches their photographic work on their respective corner of the planet. 

My first flickr encounter was with Shikhar in Kathmandu early November. I'm so happy I made the jump and I hope you share my enthusiasm when you read about it here. I'd like to thank Shikhar for accepting to meet with a stranger :) and for making my Nepali experience even more unforgettable!

Please spread the word about my project if you like it and don't hesitate to give me your honest feedback as I want to take Latitude f/2.8 as far as possible and see it grow (i don't intend to stop once my trip is over, this is just a start!)

Thank you and big hugs from Rajasthan!

Julie