CAPPADOCIA, IN THE VALLEY.
TURKEY, 2015
THE EVEN AND THE UNEVEN.
High plateaus and volcanic peaks. Sunrise brings along uneven light onto the land, leaving shadows that have an untold story. But this is a story that happened much before that. Sidhu and I rode to the valleys at 4:30AM and we hopped onto a hot air balloon to watch the world. And oh boy, the world we did watch.
All photos are shot on the Sony Alpha99.
This fire was our only source of light on a morning where the endless dark and cold consumed us.
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As we walked to the hot air balloon, dawn broke.
Up. And about.
High. And lows.
Orange seeps in. It wakes the valley.
The blue and orange weave together. Like they do everyday. And yet, beautiful for an eye that wants to see it that way.
We race with the other balloons towards the sun.
Somebody gets ahead of us. I see what's ahead of me.
The orange makes itself known.
A balloon floats high above.
Sunrise brings with it the uneven light. The land has a story to tell now.
Is it the same one as it was yesterday?
No.
Today, we are aligned differently. Today, we are anew.
And as we sit down for breakfast, a new day.