A pictorial translation of stages of a relationship as travelled through 5 European countries.

Have you heard the photography term: Exposure Triangle? It’s the relationship between ISO, Aperture, and Shutter Speed. How much of one, how much of the other takes practice, adjustments, patience, and persistence with varying results of success and failure.

That’s just like a real relationship.

My travel to Europe was a fantastic personal journey of variable tensions and emotions. What were the messages in the final chosen photographs? What emotions surfaced at the time? What do I want to expose to the viewer in hope they make a connection? Each stage related to my own 5-country journey in the exact order I visited them.