cairo egypt

Since I am on Egypt, I want to share my photos from Cairo. The city of Cairo was huge. From living in New York City, I was convinced there was no other place in the world where people lived basically on top of each other while in filth, but then I went to Cairo. 20 million people call Cairo their home. That fact absolutely blew me away. We spent our visit in the Cairo Museum as well as touring the Pyramids of Giza. The Museum was the most interesting experience I have ever had to date. We saw all of King Tut’s original belongings as well as the mini sarcophaguses that held his organs, which still had them in there, however, turned to dust.  What was interesting about Egypt is that to use the bathroom you had to pay! And not only pay to get in, but pay to get a square of toilet paper! Hah
After visiting the museum, we got Kartouches made, mine saying “HOPE” in hieroglyphics, then headed out in to the Sahara Desert on camels to see the Giza Pyramids.  The photographs of the pyramids should speak for themselves…. I have really no words to describe them:

Prymids of Giza

cairo at noon

traveling the desert

pyramid blocks

the sahara

the desert of egypt

alexandria egypt

Since my graduation from college in the beautiful city of Louisville, I have had some great opportunities to travel and live in different cities. Throughout the past two years, I have begun building my own photography business and have collected some great photographs along the way. I realize how hard of a person I am to keep up with, I even have trouble myself, so I decided that a blog would be a great way to keep my clients and friends and family updated on my life and travels. I also want to share the art I make and photographs I take along the way! So here goes:

I just spent the month of May traveling Southern Europe and the Middle East with my Grandma and a few cousins. We traveled to Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Sicily. The trip was a trip of a lifetime and I was able to shoot all day every day allowing myself to capture a few great shots. Over the next few posts, I will high light some of the places I visited. For now, here are my most favorite shots I took while in Alexandria Egypt:

Beggar in Egypt

arabian nights

We spent most of our touring in Alexandria through the market place. We were able to see the ancient library, or what was left of it (one of the seven wonders) along with the new library that was built.  I couldn’t have looked more like a tourist walking around with my camera glued to my face, but it was worth it. The way of life in this country was something so unfamiliar for me and something I have never seen before. It was so different from any American or European place I have ever been, making Egypt all the more intriguing. It is so easy to get wrapped in in the way of life that is what we are used to only to realize that their are whole other worlds out there that live completely different but are just as human as you and me. It was fascinating. Here are a few more shots I took while wandering around the Egyptian market place:

unfinished home

streets of egypt