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Kimono show
Judging from the number of spectators at the Kimono show on the photo, we can infer that people, including the younger generation, remain intrigued by this classical Japanese dress. (See also last week’s post.) That’s interesting, since it is an attire that conceals more than we are used to these days: except for head and…
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Dream women
Was the opening between the trees of this Japanese garden specially conceived to let me have a look at the two lovely girls that were seated there so nicely framed? Having come closer, I noticed that they were swathed in kimonos, those beautiful, traditional dresses that transform women who wear them into mysterious, almost unapproachable…
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The other
Having climbed in the early morning all the way up to the ridge of the volcano crater, I look around me. The thin morning mist still hangs over the vast surrounding sea of sands as a shining veil. On my other side I look into the depth of the crater . Then, at the opposite side…
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Bromo and Semeru
I walked the slopes of the Etna, filmed on Vulcano, felt the threatening presence of Stromboli in Rossellini’s beautiful film of the same name, but a grand view of so many extinct and still active craters as on the Tengger Massif is unique. This makes the landscape of Mount Bromo, with Semeru in the background,…
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Taking distance
It is advisable to climb now and then to higher altitudes and rise above the daily cackling of one’s 7 billion fellow human beings. Not to put oneself above the group out of a misplaced sense of superiority, but rather to take some distance for a while and so have a broader view of the…
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A laugh so radiant
Two friends meet in the market place, exchange news, tell stories about former days, shared childhood memories or is it the sheer delight of seeing the other unexpectedly? Erupts a laugh so radiant ….. Photo of the week: Orchha, India 2007
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A portrait, at last
A person’s face – the mirror of the soul …. For sure, concentration on a face can be enough for an intriguing photo. But somehow I often seem to want to include more elements. Show more of the body, of the environment. When taking pictures, I’m looking at the world, at nature, at man-made environments,…
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Rectangles in perspective
Geometrical figures, seen in real space from a certain viewpoint, then photographed, and subsequently reproduced on the flat, rectangular plane of a photo ….. they can make for interesting images. When we look through our eyes, the brain takes care of correcting to a certain extent the optical distortions that occur, and produces an image…
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There’s a story for you
“They love each other, marry, in order to love each other better, more conveniently, he goes to the wars, he dies at the wars, she weeps, with emotion, at having loved him, at having lost him, yep, marries again, in order to love again, more conveniently again, they love each other, you love as many…
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Leonardo between the Sunday painters
Krakow is the proud owner of a real oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine. So maybe it shouldn’t surprise us to find a copy or reproduction of it in this open air stall in Krakow. It’s hanging there in the middle – even in duplicate -, unpretentiously hidden between work of…
καιρός remembered
… the right moment, position chosen, shoot …
καιρός remembered 