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Trippy, yet again.<h2 id="783e">Trip #4 Temple of Jumping Cats</h2><figure id="4e82"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*qpH2_LPfrRT-fnjuxYgsFQ.jpeg"><figcaption>The Temple of the Jumping Cats. Another lost attraction. Photo by author.</figcaption></figure>Far out in the middle of Myanmar is Inlay Lake, a fantastic floating fantasy of stilt villages.A must-stop for a boat ride on the lake is the Jumping Cats Monastery, formally referred to as Nga Hpe Kyaung Monastery.A decade ago, you could observe a monk prompting felines to jump on demand.Far too trippy.You might find one or two these days, but the practice got a bum wrap, so they no longer jump.During its heyday, it was a hoot, a classic photo shoot.<h2 id="c760">The Final Trip — Death on the Ganges</h2><figure id="9b99"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*b62vbnuNIlnSQSU5FVg4CA.jpeg"><figcaption>Varanasi, cremation capital of the world. Photo by Author</figcaption></figure>Varanasi, India is a good location to call it quits.The bustling riverbank city is home to the sacred Ganges River. Many Hindus dip into the water there to seek spiritual purification.The fires you see on the shoreline are burning bodies. Smoke rises into the air as the ashes of many East Indians’ loved ones burn as a way to assist their souls’ liberation.You won't be alone as you walk around the sidewalks and steps of death’s door.The ultimate trip is watching the final trip — the fire of death on each platform overtly ignites without any questions asked.Tripping with photography offers frequent contemplative moments.Moments that join all of us as we vanish from the world.Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.</article></body>

GLOBETROTTING FLASHBACKS

Psychedelic Travel Trips

Take LSD-like trips when photographing and processing life

Rainbow cloud in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo by Matthew Bamberg

There’s something about photography and traveling. Take a picture of a memorable place and it becomes forever.

Jumping across the globe frequently during the past few decades has been trippy, so to speak — an endless search for color, shape, and form that makes up its landscape and culture.

High on my bucket list traveling to me is taking psychedelic photographs, images that warp the mind and body.

Into an experience similar what happens after eating LSD.

Increased perception.

Trails.

Hallucinations.

Wild patterns of color and texture happen quickly. Photos of these subjects and/or objects become flashbacks that can be coveted anytime.

Photoshop orbits me into post-processing oblivion, offering opportunities to revisit moments, frequently changing them to artifacts of drastically jubilant expression.

I take and manipulate photography to pass on experiences and messages of psychedelic highs.

Trip #1 Wild Hallucinations in a Palm Springs Wash

Psychedelic image with lots of Photoshop’s oil paint and a bit of AI (generative fill tool). Photo by Author.

Hiking the Tahquitz Wash in Palm Springs, California, under a blazing sun after a heavy downpour is a must for photo-tripping travelers.

The ideal flashback of the experience is spending a couple of hours playing with the images.

After sliding lots of Photoshop sliders, overusing the oil paint tool, and then a bit of AI, I developed a psychedelic Palm Springs wash.

I’m loving it. Better than the McDonald's arches.

After creating the Palm Spring bust of color, I wanted to write about it in a photography publication, but then realized later, when I attempted to recreate it, I hadn’t a clue what I did.

All an absolutely drugless experience. Not even weed.

Yet…oh so trippy.

Visiting images after a trip is like going on the trip over again for this globetrotter photographer.

Trip #2 Dancing Beer

Beer really does dance! Watch the bubbles. Photo by Matthew Bamberg

Does beer dance? Yes, if you ever watched one of the bubbles move up in the yellow liquid, skirting back and forth, you know it's otherworldly.

Wow…man…

The great state of Utah was the birth of this photo op.

Decades ago, the beer danced.

At least the sign said it did.

The sign with no record of ever existing is brought back to life.

My photography mission accomplished.

Trip #3 Children Stretching

Do children do this? Apparently in China, they do. Photo by Author

This tripping image collector has been fortunate enough to trip to China.

In many instances, finding jewels of cooperation.

An enormous group of children exercise together in unison.

Trippy, yet again.

Trip #4 Temple of Jumping Cats

The Temple of the Jumping Cats. Another lost attraction. Photo by author.

Far out in the middle of Myanmar is Inlay Lake, a fantastic floating fantasy of stilt villages.

A must-stop for a boat ride on the lake is the Jumping Cats Monastery, formally referred to as Nga Hpe Kyaung Monastery.

A decade ago, you could observe a monk prompting felines to jump on demand.

Far too trippy.

You might find one or two these days, but the practice got a bum wrap, so they no longer jump.

During its heyday, it was a hoot, a classic photo shoot.

The Final Trip — Death on the Ganges

Varanasi, cremation capital of the world. Photo by Author

Varanasi, India is a good location to call it quits.

The bustling riverbank city is home to the sacred Ganges River. Many Hindus dip into the water there to seek spiritual purification.

The fires you see on the shoreline are burning bodies. Smoke rises into the air as the ashes of many East Indians’ loved ones burn as a way to assist their souls’ liberation.

You won't be alone as you walk around the sidewalks and steps of death’s door.

The ultimate trip is watching the final trip — the fire of death on each platform overtly ignites without any questions asked.

Tripping with photography offers frequent contemplative moments.

Moments that join all of us as we vanish from the world.

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.