many moments of awe and wonder.

Washington Post Travel Photo Award 2016

I have found that when I approach Egypt with an open heart and mind, it rewards me with treasures far beyond what I could have expected or anticipated. This is part of the Washington Post write-up as a finalist for its Travel Photo Awards contest. 

“It was completely empty,” says Roman, of the April morning scene in Cairo. “I felt like I was witnessing something that was rarely seen.” Noticing the cloudy sky and the juxtaposition of the solitary figure on the old rickshaw and the shiny new tour bus, she began clicking away on her Nikon. 

Moments later, the scene completely changed, as tour buses and tourists swooped in. “There are those moments when we stand within eternity and are part of the past, part of the future,” says Roman, a spiritual director in Alexandria. “In this moment, it seemed like all of history flowed through me... It gave me, and anybody who was there at that moment, a sense of timelessness and a feeling of awe and wonder of this civilization.”

Wishing you many moments of awe and wonder.