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The Birds
The Birds The next moment the lovely young mother and child will be lying in the sand with pecked away eyes. Since Du Maurier and Hitchcock this terrifying vision was bound to force itself on my mind when I took this picture. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2019
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Cheers
Cheers To a beautiful and happy New Year! Photo of the week: Sunset at Majorda beach, Goa, India 2019
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Serenity
Serenity A houseboat passing on the backwaters in front. Reflected rays of the sun lighting up the wood carving on the door. Life can be good in God’s own country. Photo of the week: House at the backwaters, Alapuzha, Kerala, India 2018
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Flexi poster crib
Flexi poster crib Flying angels between the trees, Mary with child, Joseph, ox, donkey and sheep, the kings with their presents, all nicely lit up from behind by the sun. For a peaceful and happy Christmas. Photo of the week: Panchgani, Maharashtra, India 2018
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Savitri’s shop
Savitri’s shop Eggs, beedis, chewing stuff and some other items, that’s what she is trying to sell in her roadside shop. But her priceless smile is for free. Photo of the week: Savitri’s shop, Ganj, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India 2007
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The last picture show
The last picture show That’s what it is, this picture of an old Nepali woman smoking her hookah. It is the last photo on the film roll that I had removed from my camera before it was stolen from my bag from under my seat in the bus to India, back in 1996. Maybe that…
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The abandoned dog
The abandoned dog Whenever I look at this picture that I took 24 years ago, I think: ‘De hond in het lege huis’. (The dog in the empty house). And then memories follow that take me back half a century, when I was a student at the Film Academy in Amsterdam. Its director, Anton Koolhaas,…
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Fairy queens
Fairy queens Well, they are real, those fairy queens which I imagined seeing in last week’s post. No need to touch them for making sure. I look at them, they look at me, and most of the enchantment is gone. A sad look, a faint smile … we’re back on earth. The fairy-tale costumes can’t…
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Tactile Arts
Tactile Arts A ceramics exhibition at the Tactile Arts gallery in Darwin. What holds attraction for me though is not inside but at the other side of the window. Do I see it right, this fairylike spectacle? Tactile Arts. To touch is to feel is to make sure. But no, let’s not spoil the illusion.…
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Flesh
Flesh Is this then what became of man after the expulsion from paradise? (See last week’s post). A pile of flesh on what looks more like a table than a bed. Edmondson nicely calls his painting ‘Sleeping Arrangements’. We can recognize some human limbs, but can’t easily make out to which body they belong. We…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 