Egypt - Travels with my Camera
By Jane Barrett
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A light hearted look at travelling through one of the most fascinating and historical counties in the world - Egypt. This book looks at both the ancient and the modern country through a visitors eyes. It is a must read for anyone planning a trip to Egypt or has already been and wishes to relive some memories.
Jane Barrett
Born in Ilford, England, but I have grown up and worked in Essex for most of my life, with the exception of a stint at University in Chester where I discovered what hills and mountains looked like, as well as Welsh rain. I love photography, history, sport and travelling, which as hobbies, all fit together really well. As long as I can remember I have always had a camera in my hand, normally my dads until he got fed up with me using up his film, he bought me a Pentax 110 Automatic with changeable lenses. Unfortunately the quality and telephoto distance was not great. As soon as I started work I got a proper SLR, an Olympus OM30 with two zooms giving me a range of 28-300mm. Wow, now I could start taking real sports pictures. Auto focus lenses soon took off with the new Canon EOS 650 and from then on, I was truly hooked and have since always used EOS's, with the exception of a Fuji bridge camera when digital SLR's cost silly money! To me the camera has become a portal, which has enabled me to explore all the different aspects of photography such as nature, landscape, architecture, night-time, etc, as well as giving me the confidence to travel far and wide in search of the next image. My Image Chasers Blog at www.imagechasers.co.uk,reflects my photographic journey and is intended to show how, through my experiences, I have explored different images to develop my own photographic style. Often I visit photographic sites and am blown away by the images to the point where I wonder if I could produce anything as good? Hence the images on my blogs are not just my best work, but represent stages in my learning, which will hopefully encourage people to start their own photographic journey. Belonging to Camera clubs helped foster my interest to expand my knowledge and not be afraid to experiment with my photography. It also taught me how to process and print my own images as well as appreciate the qualities of black & white compared to colour. Instead of processing I now use Photoshop CS6 to tweak my pictures. Join a club, it's great fun! Now cameras are with us everywhere and with the invention of the memory card, taking pictures is cheap and fun. I have met so many people who are interested in photography and want to learn the basics to improve their pictures, but courses that are available are extremely expensive and only often for a few hours duration. My aim is to promote photography through Image Chasers and start...
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Egypt - Travels with my Camera - Jane Barrett
Egypt
Travels With My Camera
By Jane Barrett
Copyright 2012 Jane Barrett
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tmp_74caaac265d124cbf12db0b7bbcba045_5b4h9d_html_5f89d473.pngTable of Contents
Chapter 1 – Making a Dream Reality
Chapter 2 - -The Adventure Begins!
Chapter 3 – Cairo City Discovery
Chapter 4 - -An Introduction to Haggling
Chapter 5 – In Awe of Giza
Chapter 6 - -Heading South & Abu Simbel
Chapter 7 – Exploring Aswan
Chapter 8 - -The Nile Journey Begins
Chapter 9 – Edfu & the Temple of Horus
Chapter 10 - -Fun & Frolics at Esna
Chapter 11 – Arrival at Ancient Thebes (Luxor)
Chapter 12 - -The West Bank
Chapter 13 – The Valley of the Kings
Chapter 14 - -Exploring Luxor
Chapter 15 – The Less Travelled Nile
Chapter 16 - -Dendera the Temple of Hathor
Chapter 17 – The Temple of Abydos
Chapter 18 - -The Ghost City of Amarna
Chapter 19 – Catacombs, Mummies & Tombs
Chapter 20 - -Returning to Cairo & Home
tmp_74caaac265d124cbf12db0b7bbcba045_5b4h9d_html_m3ded78ce.jpgChapter 1 – Making a Dream Reality
A place of dreams was about to become reality. It was a dull, wet, typical autumn end of work day. I had left work early for a change and had raced back home to collect my documents for the travel agent. I felt a mixture of excitement and worry that I was about to book up my dream holiday of two weeks on the Nile, (well, 10 days cruising and the rest of the time in Cairo).
The feeling of excitement was due mainly to being a place that I had always wanted to visit, even from an early age, since seeing a schools programme on the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen and being completely awe struck that something like that could remain undiscovered for so long and how would it feel being the first living person to see it again after so many years. (I was only five years old at the time). Secondly, being lucky enough to go to the Tutankhamen Exhibition at the British Museum, when I was only ten years old. Dad worked for The Times Newspaper and won a priority entrance to the exhibition which was sponsored by The Times and hence I got a day off school and we all travelled up to London together and see the artefacts first hand. I vividly remember the day with the long queues outside and around the museum, standing under the columns of the entrance to the museum and snaking inside to a massive set of double wood panelled doors where the room became dimly lit and hushed, but with excited voices and gasps as people moved between the brightly lit glass cases containing each of the objects. Some objects where tiny and could sit on a table whilst others like the ceremonial bed seemed to a ten year old big enough to fill a room. The final glass case which attracted most attention was the iconic gold mask. I remember staring at it, awestruck that something so famous was really within my reach, the spell was only broken when my mum muttered quietly to me, ‘...wouldn’t you just like to pull his beard?’ Leaving the exhibition I remember glancing over my shoulder one last time and catching a final glimpse of the gold mask and thought will I ever see you in person again?
Dad dropped us off at Fenchurch Street to catch the train home and he carried onto work. I remember reading the exhibition catalogue on the train on the way home and my love affair with all things Egyptian had begun.
So now fast forward and it is October 1989, and I was about to book up a visit to the land of my dreams. Expensive, yes it was costing four times my monthly take home pay, worried, yes a serious saving budget was needed as I only had ten months to pay for it along with my car which was only a year old and bought on HP! Also it would be the first time I had travelled alone, although I had travelled around a lot of Europe before with family and friends, but I couldn’t find anyone else who wanted to go to Egypt, so I had decided that it would be an on my own or not at all option, so no real option at all! Before I could change my mind I had booked up, paid my deposit and insurance and was now committed to go.
In the months that followed I read all I could on Egypt, gathered my camera equipment and selected my film, mostly slide and a few black and white films which I had just started using and developing my own prints. Luckily in those days there wasn’t the restrictions for carry-on bags and weight limits, which was a good job as my Billingham must have weighed in excess of 20Kg, and was packed with 2 camera bodies, 3 zoom lenses, a 400mm telephoto and 35 films as well as a change of clothes!
A few days before I was due to leave a friend who had been to Egypt before handed me an envelope which she told me to open. Inside I found a wad of dirty smelly notes which on closer examination turned out to be £24.00 Egyptian pounds, don’t get excited, she said, it’s not worth even a fiver! She wished me well and warned me that Cairo was dirty, smelly and wonderful you will love it!
So it was with