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MAYA BEANO

This UK-based scientist slash photographer shows us how intuition and logic collide.

Where did you grow up? I was born and raised in Amman, the capital city of Jordan and home to almost 50 per cent of the entire population of Jordan. I feel like a tour guide when I’m asked to describe Amman because I get all worked up and excited about it. It was originally built on seven hills, which I always considered very poetic. I grew up living in the hills only a few minutes away from my best friend. My most precious memories are of us walking to the shops to get ice lollies and lemonade then sitting in the meadows to have picnics with our neighbours.

Why are you drawn to shooting landscapes and nature?

I like to shoot where I feel at total peace with myself and with the world. I am quite introverted by nature and find that going out into the wilderness on my own or with a few friends is the best way to recharge.

Tell us a bit about your last trip out in nature? I visited the Swiss Alps with my brother last August and it was absolutely magical. My favourite part of our trip was the train journey from Lucerne to Interlaken. I must have used up about three rolls of film on this train [trip] alone. The skies were roaring with thunder and there were waterfalls trickling down the misty mountains that we passed through. It was all very atmospheric. After a few hours in Interlaken, the weather started drying up and a rainbow appeared just as we made our way up to the top of the Männlichen.

Where and why did you buy your first camera? When I was little I had a Kodak film camera that my mum brought back from one of her trips to the USA. My first photography subjects were my brothers. I used to get them to dress up and pull off silly poses next to our collection of toys, mainly their favourite action figures. I was also into creating ‘photo stories’ at family gatherings and showing everyone the results weeks later. I guess this sparked my interest in photography, but it wasn’t until 2009, when I was 18, that I bought my own camera and started shooting landscapes.

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What kind of science research do you do in your day job?

I work in drug discovery and development. I specialised in

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SLIP 'N SLIDE

Amongst the grass and the clear blue sky.

PHOTOS NATALIA PARSONSON FASHION JESS PECORARO

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THIS PAGE Matin top, $210. Lonely briefs, $115. OPPOSITE PAGE 1. Matin top, $320. Lucy Folk necklace, $145.

2. Matin dress, $220. 3. Matin top, $320. 4. Bassike top, $240.Citizens of Humanity jeans, $198.

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ON THE ROAD Maclay Heriot is the one right up the front, with the perfect view, snap, snap snapping, then moving on to capture the next band, the next set-list, the next sunset.

PHOTOS MACLAY HERIOT

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This page: Talisa wears Zoo Emporium vintage bomber, $220, and bow tie, $30. Isa Arfen from stylebop.com pants, $1,273.

Opposite page: Miela wears Comme des Garรงons from Poepke shirt, $345.

I'M NOT THERE PHOTOS JOSHUA HEATH FASHION NICKI COLBRAN

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LAY IT DOWN Always play your best hand with this round up of home and beauty gems.

Edible Beauty No. 1 Belle Frais Cleansing Milk, $43. Koskela Stoneware Canister, $53. Hanako Therapies Lavender Flower Essence Essential Oil, $19.95. Dindi Naturals from Koskela

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Beach Road Naturals Paw Paw & Organic Coconut Oil Body Bar, $7. Yoshii from Mr Kitly Two-Tone Chambray Towel, $75. Eco Store replacement brush, $6.95. Kontex from Mr Kitly Angeline Wash Cloth, $24. Grown Alchemist Watermelon & Vanilla Lip Balm, $12.95. The Beauty Chef Antioxidant Inner Beauty Boost, $39.95. Soap Club from Mr Kitly Face Mist, $10.

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CAPPADOCIA

Fantasia has been real all along, and we’ve just found it in the ancient, dusty scapes and air balloon sky-confetti of Turkey.

WORDS AND PHOTOS NINA KARNIKOWSKI

When a friend tells you they’ve slept in a fairy chimney, travelled in a balloon as big as a whale, explored a subterranean city and wandered through a valley filled with giant mushrooms, you respond in one of two ways. “Those lucid dream classes are really paying off” or, “You lucky devil, you’ve been to Cappadocia!” If it’s the latter and you’re on the money, your mate was indeed fortuitous to have ventured to this stone mirage in the heart of Turkey’s Anatolia region. Almost too trippy to believe, this is a land where ancient rock formations reach up out of the earth like greedy hands. Where you can use the word troglodyte for real. Where you can feel free to get high first thing in the morning (in a hot air balloon, silly). And where you can suck shisha pipes, chug apple tea, gobble gözleme and bargain for psychedelic textiles until your eyes roll back in your head and you forget there was ever a time when you didn’t know what a kilim was.

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FEISTY FORMATIONS Remember those sandcastles you made as a kid, where you dribbled a fistful of wet sand into a goopy, pointy pile?

Well they – or something resembling a monstrous version of them – are the first things you’ll see as you drive into Cappadocia. These infamous fairy chimneys were created when three nearby volcanoes started erupting like Snoop Dogg on stage, dropping volcanic ash, lava and basalt all over the region like it was very, very hot. Earthquakes and erosion then whipped all that up into today’s rock cones, pillars, mushrooms and chimneys, some of which have had boutique hotels and houses carved into them.

The dusty gullies surrounding the formations are lots of fun to walk through, so you’d better pack your Timberlands. If you’re exploring the pink folded cliffs of Rose Valley, where

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