Photo by @JohnStanmeyer for @NatGeo Girls play around a burst water-main in the desert somewhere between Jericho and Bethlehem. Water in this part of the Middle East is one of the most precious commodities. Fortunately after a few hours the water was turned off. Photography is about expecting the unexpected. While on assignment for National Geographic magazine earlier this year for part III of @OutofEdenWalk, I was walking with Nat Geo colleague, Paul Salopek, and my friend Sami Alull @samialalul, through the desert region between Jericho and Bethlehem. It was the only day I could walk with Paul, knowing somehow I'd needed to make a meaningful photograph of the walking man before heading home the next day. Sami and I meandered ahead of Paul and came upon the strangest thing — water, blasting 30 meters or more into the air in a desert. It was uncomfortable to see such waste of the most precious commodity we have on our planet, impossible to shut off nor a mobile signal to call anyone. While in a mesmerized state and getting soaked photographing this jettison of water, out of nowhere wandered a group of girls being filming for a bat mitzvah video. They only stayed for a few minutes, dancing about, then leaving. Sami and I stayed for well over an hour, letting Paul walk ahead — the odds of coming across such an unexpected scene of water in a desert had to be photographed. Fortunately the busted water pipe did turn off. No idea from where it was stopped or how anyone even learned about it. We meandering onward through the desert to catch up with Paul, once again stupefied by the wonderment that makes up the brilliance of life and photography, thankful for the unexpected. I pushed to have this uniquely layered photograph in the magazine but like so many stories for NG, this one fell to the editing floor — you win some, you loose some. Pick up today the December issue of National Geographic, "Blessed. Cursed. Claimed”, part III of the Out of Eden Walk project, available on newsstands everywhere. All my best, John Stanmeyer #outtake @natgeo @thephotosociety #Jericho #desert #water #watermain #brokenpipe #waterwaste #MiddleEast @VIIphoto

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Girls play around a burst water-main in the desert somewhere between Jericho and Bethlehem. Water in this part of the Middle East is one of the most precious commodities. Fortunately after a few hours the water was turned off.

Photography is about expecting the unexpected. While on assignment for National Geographic magazine earlier this year for part III of @OutofEdenWalk, I was walking with Nat Geo colleague, Paul Salopek, and my friend Sami Alull @samialalul, through the desert region between Jericho and Bethlehem. It was the only day I could walk with Paul, knowing somehow I'd needed to make a meaningful photograph of the walking man before heading home the next day.

Sami and I meandered ahead of Paul and came upon the strangest thing — water, blasting 30 meters or more into the air in a desert. It was uncomfortable to see such waste of the most precious commodity we have on our planet, impossible to shut off nor a mobile signal to call anyone.

While in a mesmerized state and getting soaked photographing this jettison of water, out of nowhere wandered a group of girls being filming for a bat mitzvah video. They only stayed for a few minutes, dancing about, then leaving.

Sami and I stayed for well over an hour, letting Paul walk ahead — the odds of coming across such an unexpected scene of water in a desert had to be photographed.

Fortunately the busted water pipe did turn off. No idea from where it was stopped or how anyone even learned about it.

We meandering onward through the desert to catch up with Paul, once again stupefied by the wonderment that makes up the brilliance of life and photography, thankful for the unexpected.

I pushed to have this uniquely layered photograph in the magazine but like so many stories for NG, this one fell to the editing floor — you win some, you loose some.

Pick up today the December issue of National Geographic, "Blessed. Cursed. Claimed”, part III of the Out of Eden Walk project, available on newsstands everywhere.

All my best,

John Stanmeyer

#outtake @ナショナルジオグラフィック @thephotosociety #Jericho #desert #water #watermain #brokenpipe #waterwaste #MiddleEast @VIIphoto


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