My trip to Shahdad

When you learn to use the best out from what you’ve got, indeed you respect and preserve yourself from your own good feeling and mood.

For me traveling functions the same and it’s a situation that makes me to feel well and I could never deny that, but this year holidays which we call it Norooz holidays (new year of Iranian) was different for me, cause almost most part of Iran was dealing with heavy rains and even some parts with flood, so because of that I wasn’t in the mood for traveling, but a few days ago one of my friends Vahid called me and told: me and my colleagues are going to Shahdad desert this weekend and you can come with us, It is a perfect time for this desert and it’s not rainy there, so we can set camp there and sleep under the stars in middle of desert.) Shahdad desert or kaloots is located in Kerman Province and is the first natural heritage of Iran in UNESCO). At first I told him I won’t come without any hesitation, because I’ve been there for three or four times and every time that I tried to take photography there it was like a series of repetitive photos from this natural heritage that I see many times. After two or three hours I assumed that it can be a good practice for my narrative photography, so I called my friend again and told I will come.

وقتی که یاد بگیری از داشته‌ها و امکاناتی که برایت فراهم می شود به خوبی استفاده کنی، در واقع از فضای حال .خوش خودت پاسداری کردی. سفر کردن هم برای من همیشه همین حکم رو داشته و موقعیتیه که باعث میشه برایم حال خوش خلق کنه و هیچوقت اونو از خودم دریغ نکردم اما تعطیلات عید امسال بخاطر بارون و سیل و این داستانا که همه جای ایران درگیرش بود کلا از فازش اومدم بیرون تا همین چند روز پیش که دوستم وحید باهام تماس گرفت و گفت آخر هفته داریم با همکارا میریم شهداد… فصل دیدن کلوت هاست و خوابیدن تو دل شب کویر و ازم خواست که منم بیایم….کمی فکر کردم و دیدم قبلا شهداد رو سه چهار باری شده که رفتم و هر بار هم برای عکاسی که چیز خاصی در نمیومد جز یه سری عکس تکراری و یکسان از کلوت‌ها…. بی مقدمه به وحید گفتم نه و کنسل کردم.دو سه ساعتی که گذشت دیدم چرا که نه بهترین موقعیت مشق و تمرین عکاسی روایتیه برام. با رسول هماهنگ کردم و .با وحید تماس گرفتم و گفتم حله آقا ما می‌آییییم.

I had a feeling of satisfaction and joy by spending a magnificent night in the desert and a positive energy that I felt in myself, beside that I had a bad and annoying feeling that was accompanying me. I think it was because of damaging the nature that I saw myself responsible for that. For me it was like as much as I received from nature, I wounded it the same and we left it behind easily and we didn’t even look at back.