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Living doll
Apart from the phallus shrine that I showed you in last week’s post, I also came across – at the same flea market – this exquisite Geisha doll. The doll almost seems alive, radiating the modesty of a real Geisha. A masterly example of true Japanese craftsmanship! Photo of the week: Geisha doll at the…
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Phallus shrine
A wooden phallus in a small wooden shrine. How did this piece end up at the flea market of Kitano-Tenman-gu? Has it figured on someone’s house altar – or bedside table – and fallen out of favour? We can only fantasize about it and think up vivid stories, but we don’t know. It is likely…
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Kinkaku-ji
Again three, and well placed, like in last weeks picture! In an earlier post with the title What shall I wear today? I have speculated on the question of ‘intention or coincidence’ in relation to a photo taken – as it happens – in the same Kinkaku-ji park. In the former case I didn’t rule…
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Two or three
Sometimes I can be perfectly happy with two, at other times it has to be three. So it seems. If it had been two I would not have annoyed you with this picture, would not have taken it in the first place. Three makes all the difference here. See how beautifully they occupy the space!…
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Black is beautiful
A black woman and a woman in black against a black background. When I walked into a bank in Alice Springs and saw this tableau I couldn’t resist taking a picture. It is at moments like this that I love the world, this wonderful world. The woman in black is clearly an Aboriginal girl, but…
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Death of an anthropologist
I haven’t found an explanation by the Aboriginal painter July Dowling about this work of hers. Whatever I say about it will be guesswork. But it is interesting, and probably not without significance, to note that apart from red ochre and synthetic paint, blood has been used in the painting. The three Aboriginal women’s faces in…
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Wanaka skyscape
Except for its colours, the skyscape that I once saw above Lake Wanaka resembles the landscape I sometimes see from my window in the Himalayas: rolling mountain ranges rising in the mist above a layer of low-hanging clouds. The skyscape in the picture is nothing else than ‘a visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating…
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Still waters …
run deep. That’s indeed the impression we get when looking at them from the right perspective, as we did in last week’s post when looking down at Diamond Lake. But here, standing at the overgrown shore of the lake, all we see in its still waters is but reflection. We even cannot make out the…
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Diamond Lake
Truly an appropriate name for this gem, mounted in its green border. Seen from above it does indeed reflect the unfathomable firmament, yet it also hints at its own dark depths. Photo of the week: Diamond Lake, above Lake Wanaka, New Zealand 2013
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Composition
Every photo is, of course, a composition, marked by the choice of what to include within the four sides of the picture and what to leave out. Light and colour also come into play. The photographer may or may not be fully aware of these factors, but they do play their part. Here it was the…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 