moseshoskins.com, home page of The Waytoomany Travelpix Collection
pointing and shooting around the world
construction of this site always in process
/ begun August 2021 & thereafter, an indefinite project featuring travel photo albums (scrolls) via links provided below
scroll down and feel free to occasionally drop by during unscheduled time to maybe discover any new additions or changes:
Iran Isfahan / Persepolis / Yazd
How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity. -Psalms 133:1
by Moses E Hoskins -for people who like to look at pictures
Hoskins is a visual fine artist based in New York City. To see his artwork go to moseshoskins.net
These travel photos are a hobby of his.
contact > moseshoskins@mac.com
Petra & Wadi Rum
Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still. -Heraclitis
Greetings; fellow travelers, dreamers, & others,
During summer humidity as maybe the pandemic was ending I remained holed up here at my Outerboro apartment in my boxers in front of the fan involved in putting together a website exclusively featuring my travel photos. It made for a good trip out of here of itself, culling through thousands of images from discs and memory cards. This is likely an indefinite project, perhaps to continue until the dirtnap — improbably ever to be fully completed... so, for what it is, welcome to the Waytoomany Travelpix Collection:
World travel is existentially enriching to an extent that is not adequately relayed in words — and I subscribe to the adage that "one picture is worth a thousand words" — even as low resolution 'snapshots'.
In 2006 I took my first trip to India. This coincided in time when I finally broke down and bought my first computer, having been dragged kicking & screaming by friends with my best interest at heart to the Apple store.
Before the trip, a friend who is a professional photographer gave me one of her digital point-and-shoot cameras to have for photos during the India tour. — I had not been familiar with photography in a friendly way. It was often required in my work as a visual fine artist to shoot my paintings for slides to submit to galleries or for grant applications. I found this to be an annoying strain; setting up lights and tripods, umbrellas and so forth, messing around with the film, applying the gray card, etc... It was all a royal aggravation followed by the expense of development and occasions when everything would have to be shot all over again even after all that. —Well. With this digital point-&-shooter there was no muss, no fuss, injecting it all into the computor. In subsequent years I have maintained this point-&-shoot practice with an inexpensive Canon powershot model set on auto, often taking way too many pictures. Many are deleted but some are keepers. And even if the image doesn’t suit, sometimes it can be adjusted with standard photo hardware that comes with the computer. (I do not use Photoshop.)
The images are not necessarily polished and generally not of high resolution, but they are adequate for conveyance in this website format/venue, although not likely for printing in any large extent. The website is provided for the viewing pleasure of anyone who likes to look at pictures, especially apt for those suffering from insomnia or beleaguered by ennui or just wanting to get away…
Reality is ephemeral. I regard its passing. / I remain forever grateful for any patronage of my work making these trips possible.
Moses E Hoskins -August,’21, Outerboro
Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Imagine:
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
- John Lennon
index at top of page
Dear Lord and Father of mankind,
Forgive our foolish ways!
Re-clothe us in our rightful mind
In purer lives thy service find,
In deeper reverence praise.
Drop thy still dews of quietness
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of thy peace.
Breathe through the heats of our desire
Thy coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire;
Speak through the earthquake, wind and fire,
O still small voice of calm!
- John Greenleaf Whittier
Spain Alhambra / Barcelona / Casa Mila Cordoba / El Escorial / Madrid / Montserrat Ronda / Sagrada Familia / Seville / Toledo
alphabetically listed CONTENTS / LINKS
Danube cruise: Budapest / Vienna
Egypt + part 2, part 3 & part 4 / Egypt 07 / Cairo + part 2 / Giza / Saqqara
Greece: Athens, Crete, Meteora
India: Ajanta & Ellora caves, Ajanta, Amritzar, Aurangabad, Ayyanar, Bibi-ka-Maqbara, Daulatabad, Delhi, Dharamsala, Ekambareswarer, Elephanta, Ellora, Harmandir Sahib, Humayan's Tomb, Jama Masjid, Khajuraho, Meenakshi-Madurai, Mumbai, Nayakkar Mahal, Punjab, Qutab Minar, Taj Mahal, Thanjavur Temple, Thanjavur Palace, Varanasi, south India
Iran: Isfahan, Persepolis, Yazd
Italy: Assisi, Cinque Terre, Florence, Pisa, Rome, Siena, Venice
Japan + part 2, part 3: Kyoto, Tokyo
Morocco: Ait Ben Haddou, Volubilis
Peru: Machu Picchu, Saksayhuaman
Russia: St Basil's, Catherine Palace, Hermitage, St Isaac's, Kirillo-Belozersk Monastery, Kizhi Island, Kremlin, Moscow, Peterhof, Church of SS Peter & Paul, St Petersburg, lake & river cruise (St Petersburg to Moscow), Smolny Convent, Church on the Spilled Blood
Spain: Alhambra, Barcelona, Casa Mila, Cordoba, El Escorial, Madrid, Montserrat, Ronda, Basilica de la Sagrada Familia, Seville, Toledo
Tunisia: Dougga, el Djem, Sufetula
Vietnam: Ha Long, Ha Long Bay, Ha Long City, Hanoi, southern Vietnam
note: every photo by Moses E Hoskins all rights preserved
