Vittorio Sella Trip
Recently I went to London to look at a mountaineer photographers work from about a 100 years ago. His name was Vittorio Sella. Just to give you an idea of his character he attempted to climb down the Matterhorn at the age of 76, the trip was only abandoned because one of the guides broke his leg.
His work was beautiful but the collection on view at the Estorick gallery was limited. I would have been disappointed if I had spent more on my travel arrangements for the day. His finest photograph in my opinion is the Matterhorn. It is almost symbolic, a dark looming object of unimaginable proportions. At seeing this picture I decided I will travel there one day.
I found although I had a good time and it was a good learning experience, I would personally prefer to be the person out there taking the pictures looking upon these beautiful landscapes with my own two eyes.
As my visit to the gallery was shorter than expected I used the opportunity to look for some photographic shops. Although unsuccessful in finding an open shop I found an outdoors shop. I now own a brilliant pair of hiking trousers suitable for my longer expeditions.
In this spare time I visited the natural history museum. History being the ideal work for it as everything was dead in there. There were many bones from endangered and extinct animals. Upon seeing several stuffed big cats and the bones of several whales my heart started to feel saddened. These animals were probably killed for the sheer entertainment of screaming children and adults alike. I decided to leave at that point before I became even more disheartened.
Soon after this I left London on the bus, after waiting around for an hour for the driver to fix a flat battery. Thanks to a lovely Lithuanian girl the time seemed to fly by. She taught me some Lithuanian in that short time as well.
Viso Gero for now my friend…