Tag: Animals
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Elephant Island
Elephant Island This is neither Elephantine near Aswan, nor Elephanta near Mumbai. It is a small, gently curved island in the Namkhan River near Luang Prabang.It thinks, has feelings, remembers things and enjoys the water.The peaceful beauty of nature. Photo of the week: Two elephants bathing in the Namkhan River, Luang Prabang, Laos 2020
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Blue lake
Blue lake Unlike Lake Pangong where bullets of the Indian and Chinese armies may whizz past your head, the other big lake of Ladakh, Tsomoriri, is all peace and quiet. At 4500 m. altitude only the thin air may cause some discomfort. Photo of the week: Tsomoriri Lake, Ladakh, India 2019
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U-turn – if you can
U-turn – if you can I don’t think they can. It looks as if they are too big and the aquarium too narrow for them to turn around. They are condemned to stay floating in the water as they are : tail to tail. Photo of the week: Kyoto, Japan 2008
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Migrating birds
Migrating birds The play of reeds, water and light in last week’s photo pleased me because of its abstract nature. In the same way Devrim Erbil must have been pleased by the sight of a chaotic swarm of migrating birds and took it up as the subject of his painting. Abstraction inspired by nature. Photo…
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Kissing crows
Kissing crows The imminent danger suspected in the picture of last week’s post was after all only an ominous streak of imagination. The birds and humans are enjoying a moment of innocent play on an idyllic Goan beach. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2019
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The Birds
The Birds The next moment, the lovely young mother and her child will be lying in the sand, their eyes gouged out. Ever since Du Maurier and Hitchcock, it was inevitable that this thought would cross my mind as I took this photograph. Photo of the week: Betalbatim, Goa, India 2019
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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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Giant boulders galore
Giant boulders galore “Better on top than underneath,” the little bird must have thought as it alighted on this enormous chunk of granite. This must be Hampi, yes indeed. It is not only the ancient monuments of the historic capital of the Vijayanagara Empire that enchant us; the boulder-strewn landscape in which they are scattered…
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