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This post is part of my series How to Travel Journal Like a Mapmaker… Here, I illustrate my hand drawn sheets of pictogram symbols. Seeing the World in Symbols Pictograms are the type of symbol we see frequently on our travels and without even thinking what their meaning is, we comprehend them no matter what language we speak. Along with […]
As part of my series on How to Travel Journal Like a Mapmaker… Arrows are Lifesavers Arrows have been a part of human survival for over 20,000 years and amazingly we still rely on them today for our existence. Not in the traditional sense of course, of going out to hunt for food, but relying […]
As part of my series How to Travel Journal Like a Mapmaker… The Key to your Story Map When is a line not a line? When it’s on a map! As every line and symbol on a map is representational. Every line has a meaning that can, in some cases, require a ‘legend’ or a ‘key’ […]
Why do you treasure your travel journals? For their marvelous memories, of course! Memories of faraway places… exotic locations… & experiences often never to be repeated So, how do you capture your adventures? By words? Pages and pages of descriptive writing? By sketches? Whimsical lines and blobs of colour expressing an essence? By scrapbooking? Collating […]
A couple of days ago we went kayaking across Moreton Bay near Brisbane, Queensland – As usual I took my camera. But we had a variety of nature encounters with fish, sea eagles, stingrays and turtles that were so fleeting (or occurred underwater) it was impossible to photographically capture them – So I published this […]
How to Capture Missed Moments It was the most perfect of days – A sky of pale cerulean blue across the horizon rising through wispy white clouds to a deep azure above. And a turquoise sea, which when looking into the sun shimmered and sparkled as though a canopy of diamonds was laid across its […]
Firstly, don’t put it off. I wasted 20 years dreaming about going to see Uluru. Putting it off by creating over-complicated and convoluted plans until they became so complicated and so convoluted (not to mention expensive) the dream went back into the too hard basket. Because Uluru is so far from any of Australia’s populated coastal […]
“It’s been 12 years since my last art lesson, but recently I decided to spend less time in front of a [computer] screen when I travel” When I heard Candace declare this on a video a few years ago my interest was instantly piqued. How many amongst us have also not drawn since primary school? […]
Looking up at the sheer canyon walls from the shady tree lined creek bed I could make out pimply protuberances sticking out along the top – People… up on the Kings Canyon Rim Walk, were leaning out over the edge admiring the view or snapping a photie of the stunning red rugged cliff face, which from my […]
Travelling comprises of: Dream Plan Experience Share Here, on Journey Jottings, we mainly talk about the second two – travel experiences and how to record those memories for sharing and future enjoyment. But some people don’t only journal after the event, […]
