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  • AESCON

    When I walked into the compound of the ISKCON temple at Chowpatty in Mumbai, I must confess I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. I don’t think much of ISKCON’s aescon but this temple is worth looking at. Beautiful materials, good craftsmanship, no trouble or expense spared. It activated my own aesthetic consciousness which…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    October 8, 2017
    Asia, India
    Architecture, Cities, Religion
  • Temple tree

    A banyan tree doesn’t start its life from a seed in the ground. Its seed needs another tree or rock or structure to settle on and develop. So it is not a parasite but an epiphyte. In case it develops on a tree, this tree will after some time get completely covered and slowly strangled to…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    October 1, 2017
    Asia, Nepal
    Religion, Trees
  • Multiple trunk tree

    The aerial roots of the banyan tree hang down and when they grow long enough will touch the ground. On that spot itself they may take root in the soil and so continue growing as a semi-independent tree. That’s what we see here, around this banyan in Lucknow. This process can go on and on…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    September 24, 2017
    Asia, India
    Nature, Trees
  • Ficus benghalensis

    Why is the Indian fig tree with its characteristic hanging aerial roots called banyan? That’s an interesting story, which has nothing to do with its sacredness about which I contemplated in last week’s post. Banya seems to be the Gujarati word for merchant. Via the Portuguese and later the English in India the word banyan…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    September 17, 2017
    Asia, India
    Nature, Trees
  • Sacredness

    Banyan trees are often considered sacred. I think this is because they are really awe-inspiring, like the gods themselves. Standing face to face with an extraordinary tree, a towering Sequoia, a corpulent Baobab, a wrinkled olive tree, a ramified Banyan, we easily fall silent. These are creatures that are somehow beyond our comprehension. Maybe that’s…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    September 10, 2017
    Asia, India
    Religion, Trees
  • Blowholes in pancake rocks

    The breakers dash against the rocky coast. The water breaks into a natural cave, forces its way into a narrowing tunnel, then finds, under enormous pressure, a way out to the surface through a vertical blowhole … That the sudden blasts of water up in the air appear amidst a landscape of eroded pancake rocks…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    September 3, 2017
    New Zealand, Oceania
    Nature, Seacoasts, Water
  • Glacial milk

    It can be white, but also grey or turquoise, depending on the mineral composition of the rock that is ground by the glacier on its slow way down. The rock flour collected in the melt water of the glacier is so fine that it remains suspended, giving the water its cloudy (milky) look. Here in…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    August 27, 2017
    New Zealand, Oceania
    Nature, Water
  • Coincidence

    Two swimmers in Wellington Harbour. One in the water, the other on the wall of a gallery at the harbour front. One doing breaststroke, the other backstroke. Both rather clumsily. I remember when seeing the second swimmer I thought of the first whose picture I just had taken outside. It made me decide to photograph…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    August 20, 2017
    New Zealand, Oceania
    Art, People, Water
  • Rolled, rubbed and rounded

    The rock and the stones, they look of the same soft make-up, only differing in colour. What a nice and quiet ensemble they make in the blazing sun. Till the tide comes in and the waves wash over them. Then the stones roll up and down in splashing water, rubbing against each other over the…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    August 13, 2017
    Europe, Greece
    Beaches, Seacoasts
  • A streak of yellow

    All I can say about this terrace is that I sat down there once with Theodora for a good meal, sea food of course. After a week of intensive work we thought we deserved it.* And why this photo? Right, because of the pleasant surprise of this bright streak of yellow against the dark and…

    Louk Vreeswijk

    August 6, 2017
    Europe, Greece
    Beaches, Seacoasts
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