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Photos From The Road: The Balloons Of Cappadocia

Photos From The Road: The Balloons Of Cappadocia

by Richard Collett | Apr 3, 2016 | PHOTOS FROM THE ROAD, Turkey

The Balloons of Cappadocia. Cappadocia, a contorted landscape of surreal rock shapes and psychedelic stone patterns. It’s a place that displays the randomness and beauty of nature’s creative abilities, in an open air forum that never...
Photos From The Road: Life In The Former Yugoslavia

Photos From The Road: Life In The Former Yugoslavia

by Richard Collett | Mar 4, 2016 | PHOTOS FROM THE ROAD

I travelled through all the countries of the former Yugoslavia in my journey across Europe. I travelled through Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and then finally Macedonia. These independent nations were all united under the communist...
Photos From The Road: The Jungles of Borneo

Photos From The Road: The Jungles of Borneo

by Richard Collett | Feb 9, 2016 | Malaysia, PHOTOS FROM THE ROAD

The jungles of Borneo, one of the world’s most diverse and incredible regions, has long suffered from deforestation at the hands of humanity, while the teeming wildlife has slowly succumbed to poaching and habitat loss. In Sabah, on the Malaysian side of...
Photos From The Road: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

Photos From The Road: The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

by Richard Collett | Dec 31, 2015 | PHOTOS FROM THE ROAD, Ukraine

In 1986 REACTOR NUMBER 4 exploded. Residents were forced out of their homes, and given only hours to collect all they could carry. They believed that they would be home again soon, but almost 3 decades later, the towns and villages of the Chernobyl exclusion zone are...
Photos From the Road: Things I Saw in Bosnia

Photos From the Road: Things I Saw in Bosnia

by Richard Collett | Dec 8, 2015 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, PHOTOS FROM THE ROAD

Beautiful yet brutal. That’s Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is a country where Bosnian Muslims live next to Orthodox Serbs, and orthodox Serbs live next to Catholic Croatians. Everyone gets on smashingly, except for when they don’t get on smashingly....
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