Tag: People
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Clean sweep
In India, especially in and around cities and towns, one often gets the impression of life being lived on one huge garbage dump. A clean sweep, that’s what India needs (also to do away with its excessive political garbage by the way). The tableau on the picture compares favourably with that image. ‘Why continue sweeping,…
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Colour resonance
In last week’s picture we had a nice example of ‘colour resonance’ and here we have another one, again in Kyoto. Was the first one at Kinkaku-ji, this time it’s in Ginkaku-ji. Even more than last week I suspect the lady here of having dressed in this blouse on purpose, so well it matches the colours…
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What shall I wear today?
“This, or maybe that? No, let’s put on this white blouse today, with the yellow sweater on top.” This is what the girl may have thought in the morning, standing in front of her open wardrobe, before she got dressed and left the house. And there she is then, with her beautiful wealth of black…
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Inner worlds
Aesthetically this may not be such a great picture, but it has something beautiful about it that pleases me. Four girls on a lawn dotted with little flowers by the waterfront, and each of them totally absorbed by her own playful discovery of the world. Although they probably have descended here together, each one now…
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Girlhood in India
This photo, the girl on this photo, moves me deeply. With her still young, prematurely aged face, marked by the circumstances of a life in poverty, she is of a heartbreaking beauty. I admire her, feel sorry for her, would like to caress her on her head, hug her. She looks at me with a…
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Gaze outward, gaze inward
Unlike in last week’s post, here the outward gaze is directed towards the camera. The little boy (it’s a boy for me) looks through the camera directly in our eyes, and we in his. Because of this, and because of his remarkable shirt, all eyes are on him. He puts on a rather bold face,…
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Gaze inward, gaze outward
A small girl caught gazing inward. The expression on her face shows a mental process taking place, an activity of the brain. Within the same minute that this photo was taken, I took a second one which is shown below. To be precise: both photos were taken at 16:35, on 19 April 2013 in Bilaspur,…
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The nape of her neck
After having dwelt somewhat in the last two posts on the peculiarities of the female kimono, I would now like to give away why this dress fascinates me so irresistibly. The secret is in the collar. At the back, the kimono shows a graceful dip with a perpendicular, raised collar. Since the rest of the…
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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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