It was almost 12 years ago. We were so young and so rookie to run into the wilderness with no proper seasoning, experience or training. We wanted to go on the wildest mountains and do the hardest track. And we did so.
We were over-weighted by useless staff, things that we never used, or should have never used. We had equipment that we thought to be enough for the challenge, but failed. We had equipment that we thought essential, but turned out to be unnecessary. If there is anything, that I never regretted to carry, was my first DSRL camera with the two kit lenses and the tripod.
The pictures that you can see here are taken using by the lowest budget equipment that you can imagine and taken by the hands of a guy who stopped for taking pictures while carried 25 kilos of backpack over 5400 meters. After more than a decade I really feel that these are some of my best pieces of photos, I have ever taken. I did nothing more, just wanted to catch my feelings about I saw, and reflect them honestly.
These pictures now mean so much for me. Two years ago I returned to this place and found that the everything changed since we have been here. The wild, simple and honest characteristic of this land gave the way of commercialism, electricity, industry and modernity. I have no bad feelings about this, I just glad to be witnessed the times when going around the Annapurna was a real challenge and not only a convenient opportunity to boost your social media audience.
Colors Through The Glass 