Category: Asia
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Waiting for you
Waiting for you All set for sunset. Photo of the week: Beach at Betalbatim, Goa, India 2022
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Looking back
Looking back 31st December, it has been quite a year. Wishing you a happy new year ahead. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2022
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Blood of Jesus
Blood of Jesus We still have to commemorate his birth, tomorrow. So let’s first rejoice before we deplore his untimely death. What delights me most in this picture is the tip of the woman’s skirt blowing in the evening breeze. Photo of the week: Blood of Jesus, Betalbatim, Goa, India 2022
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Worshiping mess
Worshiping mess Colours, spices, milk, coconuts, flowers, sweets and what not are used as offerings to the multitude of Hindu gods. In many temples and shrines one can see that devotees like making a mess of it. A holy mess. With a little paint and a bit of good will a stone can be transformed…
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So cute
So cute A happy bridal couple but the bridesmaids steal the show. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2022
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In your mother’s footsteps
In your mother’s footsteps Trying out your mother’s footwear; who hasn’t done that when still a child? Photo of the week: Ganj, Orchha, India 2017
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Nang Sida strip
Nang Sida strip Nang Sida (Sita), wife of Prince Phra Ram (Rama), is enjoying herself alone in the beautiful natural surroundings of the palace. Then Thotsakan (Ravana), the king of the demons, appears to her and abducts her to his palace in Lanka. A dramatic event in the Ramakien visualised as an enchanting strip. Photos…
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Ramakien landscapes
Ramakien landscapes The rice fields, the trees and bushes, the mountains, they are all painted in great detail, as is the palace with its inhabitants and visitors in the foreground. It’s the style of realist miniature painting applied to the large format of the gallery walls. I find it interesting that the landscape on the…
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Picturesque Ramakien
Picturesque Ramakien A must see in Bangkok: the Ramayana in its Thai version, painted as a picture story on the walls around the temple of the Emerald Buddha inside the Grand Palace. Hundreds of meters of detailed paintings, the oldest dating from late 18th century, show us scenes from the Ramayana in the style and…
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Flatland
Flatland Thinking of Edwin A. Abbott’s “FLATLAND, A Romance of Many Dimensions”, in which he elaborates on lineland, flatland and spaceland, here we are on a flatland in space. The actors for a romance in three dimensions are already there. Photo of the week: Table land, Panchgani, India 2018
