Round-The-World Journey Ends
April 4th, 2018 - Bend, OR
Oregon-based landscape/travel photographer Stuart L. Gordon recently completed an 11.5 month journey that took him, his camera and his family to 22 countries before returning to their home in the Pacific Northwest
"It was a lifetime bucket list that took just shy of a year to complete," said Gordon, whose photographic prints have been exhibited in a NYC gallery and can be found in the homes and offices of private collectors and fine art aficionados.
"There's no way I can describe all the magical moments we experienced visiting places like Iceland, Patagonia, Milford Sound, Okavango Delta, Abel Tasman, The Great Ocean Drive, The Garden Route, the Swiss Alps, the Western Fjords of Norway, the Ecuadorean rainforest, Galapagos and Machu Picchu."
The trip started June 16, 2014 in Reykjavik, Iceland and ended more than 11 months later in Turks & Caicos.
Now Gordon says he faces the daunting task of curating some 8,000 photographs and editing the best of the best.
"I know I've got a lot of computer time ahead of me," he laughed. "One of the things I'll be missing about our round-the-world adventure is the sense of discovering something new each and everyday for almost a year -- a new place, new people, new culture. It was very inspiring for my photography to be able to go out and shoot on almost a daily basis for a year."
Gordon has started to upload images from the first country visited -- Iceland -- to his Fine Art America gallery. You'll find them in the gallery titled "World Travel." New images from the around-the-world journey will be posted regularly as they are edited. The photographer has pledged to donate 10% of the sale of any print taken during the trip to two organizations encountered during the journey: Children in the Wilderness (www.childreninthewilderness.com) in Africa and The Cambodian Landmine Relief Fund (http://www.landmine-relief-fund.com).
Gordon's wife, a life coach, their niece and three children accompanied him on the trip. Their niece homeschooled their three children.
The trip took more than a year of planning.
"All the planning really paid off, because everything went very smoothly," Gordon said, In total, the trip required 61 planes, 22 trains, funiculars and aerial cable cars and 16 boats to complete.
"We had guardian angels looking over us because we never missed a train, plane, boat or automobile connection," Gordon said. He and his wife, Anne, plan to make presentations about their experiences in international travel and traveling with children to community groups, organizations and businesses such as Seattle-based REI.