“You went to Jordan? With Sabrina?!”
Read those sentences with a slightly shocked voice in your head and you come close to what I hear most any time I tell of our travels through Jordan. Often those making such exclamations are US citizens who may, or likely do not, have a passport themselves. Anything beyond Mexico seems exotic and uncertain.
Wadi Rum Desert. I love it. Simply. I could call it the 8th natural wonder of the world. Ever since coming back from my trip to South Africa, I’ve become much more of an outdoors kind of person than I have ever been. This year alone I went to Wadi Rum 6 times and I still plan to go more again before the summer ends. The reason I started this night-time / long exposure series is because I felt I needed to challenge myself with a new genre of photography that I have not yet gotten into.
I had all the tools and camera accessories necessary for it, I read tutorials and articles and seen a lot of star-trail photography online that one day, when my friends decided to camp in Wadi Rum, I jumped at the opportunity. This blog will shed a little light on the techniques I used to achieve these results; however, I am by no means an expert in this and still consider myself a beginner in the field of long-exposure photography. I do plan on getting better at it and taking more night-time shots in different areas around Jordan.
Instead of going to a theme park, simply look around. Jordan is the theme park. With soaring peaks and deep valleys, Jordan is a never-ending rollercoaster of history, culture, religion, nature, and adventure. The possibilities and experiences are endless because everyone sees something different in every site they visit.
The best way to know Jordan is to experience it for yourself and we want to share stories from people who have seen it, touched it, and tasted its fruits. Expats, students, researchers, and teachers all go to the same places, even at the same time, but their experiences and things they take away with them can be wildly different. Until your next trip to the Kingdom, travel vicariously through our contributors and if you have a story you would like to share, please email it to www@visitjordan.com
