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Jaunty stride
Jaunty stride They love rummaging around our garden at the crack of dawn, at times even some five or six of them. They are doing well in the forests, the bushes, (and our garden), the Kalij pheasants, that is,as long as they manage to escape the jaws of the pine marten, the fox and the…
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Cors des Alpes
Cors des Alpes A concert with two alpine horns and two accordions in an old Hydro Power Plant in the Rhône, where the river flows out of Lake Geneva. Very original, as for the music, the instruments and the location.The musicians played arrangements of old baroque compositions and more recent pieces specially composed for these…
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Fellow villagers
Fellow villagers Two Kumaoni women attending the wedding of a girl in the village. Lives lived in the lap of nature and culture in the foothills of the Himalaya. Photo of the week: Wedding guests, Maat village, Almora, Kumaon, Uttarakhand India 2020
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Folding child
Folding child Neatly folded up,mouth above the plate.Nothing spilled. Photo of the week: Mayoli Organic farm, Mayoli, Uttarakhand, India 2021
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Surya
Surya A stream of men, women and childrenstrolls amongst the sanctuaries of the Surya Temple.A thousand years, day after day, ever changing,yet always the same, like the sun that rises and sets.Centuries … a millennium … today. Photo of the week: Surya (Sun) temple, 9th cent. AD, Katarmal, Uttarakhand, India 2021
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Uttarayani Fair
Uttarayani Fair When Surya (Sun) enters the Capricorn zodiac (14 January) it’s time for the festival of Makar Sankranti, in Uttarakhand also known as Uttarayan. That’s the time when the town of Bageshwar, at the confluence of the Saryu and Gomati Rivers, really comes to life. The biggest mela (fair) of the year in the…
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A wall in Kazimierz
A wall in Kazimierz Broken, mangled, scattered in disarray,unearthed from layers of dust and sand: fragments of memory of the deceased,which fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. A memorial wall for the dead,for the eyes of the living. Photo of the week: 16th cent. Jewish R’emuh Cemetery wall, Kazimierz, Krakow, Poland 2007
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Memento mori
Memento mori When we walk through a cemetery, we may well be glad that we still belong to the world of the living, but it inevitably reminds us of our own mortality. This is certainly true of the Portuguese Jewish cemetery near Amsterdam. Many gravestones feature images symbolising death: an hourglass running out (and which…
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Anno Mundi 5490
Anno Mundi 5490 The Jewish cemetery at ‘Ouderkerk aan de Amstel’ near Amsterdam is called Beth Haim which means House of Life. This tells us something about the Sephardim philosophy of life – and death. The picture shows a detail of a partly submerged gravestone in which we see a shepherdess with her cattle. A…
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Watery grave
Watery grave I saw this sculpted marble gravestone at the cemetery of the Portuguese Jewish community in ‘Ouderkerk aan de Amstel’. The Sephardim Jews had started settling in Amsterdam in the 16th century and their cemetery in nearby Ouderkerk dates from 1614. I used to pass and visit it regularly on my walks along the…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 