Tag: People
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Venice upside down
It is always a nice sight, the clotheslines with clean laundry tightened between opposite houses across narrow streets in the old towns of southern Europe. But may we ask you to be a bit more thoughtful next time, dear washerwoman (or man), when hanging your beautiful towels to dry in the attractive contre jour light…
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Coffee time!
The background of the impressive Maori figure on the painting we recognize as Okains Bay, the pristine bay that I showed you on this blog two weeks ago. Behind the Maori’s back we see two waka (traditional Maori canoes) pulled up on the beach. The first Maoris that came to New Zealand over a thousand…
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Visions of virginal purity (2)
The beautiful Okains Bay on beautiful Banks Peninsula of New Zealand’s beautiful South Island. Sit down, drink in, close your eyes, dream. Photo of the week: Okains Bay, Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand 2013
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Visions of virginal purity (1)
Wide vistas of an immense, deserted beach. But then, in the far distance, we descry three tiny dark specks, people smaller than sand fleas, blown off by the wind. Farewell at Farewell Spit. Photo of the week: Farewell Spit, North shore, Golden Bay, South Island, New Zealand 2013
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The sheltering tree
Mozambique 1993, breathing more freely again after many years of devastating conflict and war. A tree. Branches and foliage spreading in a grand circle up around the trunk. In its shelter underneath some hundred women assembled, with children and a few men. There is a spirit of calm, of peace, of community about the place.…
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The woman in the trees
A sound was echoing through the forest but I couldn’t make out where it came from. Then, all of a sudden, I saw a nymph moving high up in the oak trees. Surprised I called out: “What are you doing there?” She gave me a big smile and shouted back: “Je fais une chose tout…
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Ensemble of limbs
Looking at the legs in unison in last week’s post I remembered this photo that I took once in a shopping mall in Sydney. Then too it had been the configuration of limbs that had incited me to take out my camera. The people spread out in the circle, on the chairs and sofas at the floor…
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Spinning progress
Seen from the sky Kerala seems to be inhabited only by palm trees. People and houses are invisible. Still there are many millions of them, hidden underneath the green cover of palm leaves. So it is not surprising that since a long time processing of coir – the fibrous outer husk of the coconut –…
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Shining beauty
A pretty, radiant young woman in the prime of her life. Is there anything more beautiful to be found in this world? Through the centuries she has been the muse of artists trying to portray her, sing her pure, natural beauty in stone, on canvas, on paper, in music, and since the 19th century also…
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Poster girls
Five people gazing, not at each other but each one in a different direction. And then there is a sixth one, me, capturing the scene in my own field of vision. Well, two of the five people are not there as large as life. But, larger than life in black and white, they certainly cannot be…
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