“There is no better personal development tool than traveling for me.”

It feels nearly impossible to stop looking at this one photograph in Vlad Donkov’s Stories portfolio. Rows of white wooden crosses in the foreground. Flowers and stones lovingly arranged at the base of each one. Splayed over the mountains and water in the background is a spectacular orange and yellow sunset mingled with charcoal gray clouds.

The interview with this outdoor photographer and wilderness travel specialist must begin here, with the story of this cemetery at sunset.

“How do you know it is not a sunrise (laughing)?” Donkov writes via email from Malta. “There’s no way of knowing, really, it’s just that most people take the symbolic meaning of the crosses and assume that it would be a sunset. It actually is.”  Read full article on Airstream.com