Tag: People
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Uttarayani Fair
Uttarayani Fair When Surya (Sun) enters the Capricorn zodiac (14 January) it’s time for the festival of Makar Sankranti, in Uttarakhand also known as Uttarayan. That’s the time when the town of Bageshwar, at the confluence of the Saryu and Gomati Rivers, really comes to life. The biggest mela (fair) of the year in the…
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Necropolis
Necropolis Buried in the earth, flat, seated, wrapped in cloth, put in a coffin, embalmed, thrown in a river, fed to the vultures, burned,… Of all animals human beings are the only ones that do something special about the dead. Trying to do justice to their deceased loved ones and to their own feelings of…
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Lady on the rocks
Lady on the rocks Did the rocks on the terrace roll in from the sea or was the terrace rolled out on the rocks? For our aesthetic sense it makes no difference. The sight is right. Photo of the week: Rock terrace, Castiglioncello, Tuscany, Italy 2020
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Before the fall and after
Before the fall and after I saw this little picture hanging on the wall of a house in Italy. It depicts the life of man before and after the fall. In the centre, the idyllic existence in the Garden of Eden is about to come to an end with Eve presenting to Adam the forbidden…
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Le Lavoir
Le Lavoir When in last week’s post I declared my love for the old villages in the south of France, with “Vers-Pont-du-Gard” as example, I didn’t mention the old communal washing-places. Before the invention of the washing-machine you could find them all over, not just in France. In many towns and villages they have been…
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Les accordéonistes
Les accordéonistes Are they trying to scare us away,this motley lot of advancing orange,casting their long-drawn-out shadows forward,while drawing protracted cries from their accordions? No! It’s the ‘Festival l’Accordéon Plein Pot’! Photo of the week: ‘Festival l’Accordéon Plein Pot’, Saint Quentin la Poterie, France 2017
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Someone was here
Someone was here A riverbed, a row of stones.Each stonea freak of nature.The row of stones– picked out, laid down –a freak of man. Photo of the week: Riverbed, Solalex, Switzerland 2020
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A tribute to HM
A tribute to HM I was immersed in looking at The Sheaf, one of Matisse’s large collages, made during the latter years of his life when he was bedridden and not able to paint anymore. Then a visitor entered my field of view. I took her appearance for a fortunate incident, a fleeting tribute to…
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In a flash
In a flash Was it the way she sat, or the way she looked, or her lipsticked lips, or maybe her amusing fairylike dress? Probably it was all this together.You see something or somebody, are touched and there you go, photo!The little girl takes care of the goods in the stall of – presumably –…
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Barbecue
Barbecue Dead eyes looking at you,in anticipation of being blinded by fireinto cloudy white spots.Then they don’t look anymore.Then they disappear between the jawsof us, dear carnivores. Photos of the week: Picnic along the Namkhan River, Luang Prabang, Laos 2020
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