Happy Friday Everyone! Today, I’ll depart from my usual existential-crisis-generated posts and introduce you to the coolest thing I discovered via Facebook this week: the First Wonder of the World. How I didn’t know about this place prior to Wednesday just baffles me. Thankfully, I have some awesome Facebook friends and on any given day, with enough strategic digging, I can expect to be shocked and delighted by what some of them are up to.
In this week’s case, I noticed my friend Chad updated his banner photo. It’s a gorgeous pic: you can see it here. So I thought, “hey I wonder where that’s at.” It’s the natural lead-in question to, “hey I wonder where in the world Chad ended up this week.”
Three years ago (gasp* has it been that long??), Chad took some headshots for me (yes, I’m overdue for an update), and as we wrapped up our work for the day, he very casually said, “I think it’s time to travel the world.” Something like that, anyway. Being the type of person who always thinks it’s time to travel the world, I didn’t think much of it, other than to say, “right on, you should do that.” Something like that, anyway.
Then, he actually did it. You’d have to ask him to find out where all he has traveled since that conversation, but as near as I can tell, he has visited every continent (maybe not Antarctica) and more than a dozen countries (potentially upwards of two dozen). And he has photographed it all. Except Chad isn’t a typical photographer. His military background (mysterious as it was to me when I first met him in 2006) afforded him the type of experience that gives him a very special niche in the photography/videography market. Get ready for it: Chad uses drones to take some of the most spectacular shots you’ll ever see.
He’s getting noticed for it too. National Geographic recently picked him up, so expect to see more from this talented dude in the years to come.
Alright, now for the good stuff. What’s the First Wonder of the World, you ask? Allow me to introduce you to the Stone Forest, located in southern China. See it for yourself through Chad’s lens here.
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