I took this picture two years ago, but I recently re-did it. I like the subject a lot but I sure wish I had another chance to shoot it. I'll be travelling for the three day weekend, starting tomorrow. My friend David and I are going to a very remote area where semi-nomadic people still live. David is going to fly-fish and I'm going to explore and photograph. The following is what I'm going to be looking for.

Karakachans or Sarakatsani are an itinerant "white colour" (i.e. non-Roma) people of the Balkans. Their name is thought to be a pejorative label coined by Turkish conquerors, for their nomadic way of life. They used to practice transhumance, raising their herds on the move, wintering on the Aegean shore, and spending the summer in the Rhodopes or Balkan mountains. In the Ottoman period they were a relatively independent people and wealthy through trade in lamb meat and wool. After the WWII, they were sedentarized in Bulgaria. They speak an archaic Greek dialect (to some extent mixed with Aromanian words) and are Eastern Orthodox.