Tag: People
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Lavishly adorned
Lavishly adorned After having met the school children of last week’s post one would not have imagined their mothers and grandmothers to look like this. But in the villages of the Brokpa (or Drokpa or Dards) along the Indus River in Ladakh just before it flows into Pakistan, these elaborately dressed up women are not…
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Comparing eyes
Comparing eyes It’s festival day. All school children have got new pencils. Even though we are in Dah, a remote Ladakhi village at the end of the road before the Pakistan border, we immediately recognize the inquisitive glance with which the one girl looks at the pencils of the other. Are hers bigger, more beautiful,…
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A convivial chat
A convivial chat Two Balti women chatting. They sit at the side of the water tank in their village. It’s an immediately recognizable scene that happens every day anywhere in the world. The places may be different, the people may be different, but we can easily relate to them as fellow human beings. All belonging to…
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Plaything of history
Plaything of history At the end of the Shyok River Valley, Turtuk is the last major village in the northwest corner of Ladakh, close to the – contested – border with Pakistan. It’s a little enclave of predominantly Balti people. Since the 1971 war it is cut off from the larger Baltistan region which is…
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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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David
David In last week’s post we could find a tiny plastic David at the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Here he is a full-size bronze copy of the original marble sculpture, overlooking Florence from the elevated Piazzale Michelangelo. For a stone replica we have to descend into town to the Piazza della Signora. And if we…
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Fontana di Trevi
Fontana di Trevi Except for Mary with her dead son on her lap, Venus, David, the Sabine woman … I think they all would rather like splashing about in the fountain under the watchful eye of Oceanus. I miss Anita Ekberg, she would have fit in nicely among them. Photo of the week: Souvenir stall,…
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Sento Park
Sento Park The raking together of dead leaves is not exactly an occupation that captures the imagination. Except in Japan. With their neat appearance the lady gardeners show respect and dedication to their work. It reminds me of the title of a book – which I aptly modify here for the occasion: Zen and the…
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A ray of sunshine …
A ray of sunshine … … just enough for the museum guard to bask for a moment in its warmth. A quiet, peaceful scene, for a considerable part due to the inventive architectural design of Daniel Libeskind, with its sober interplay of lines, light and colours. We are in the Jewish Museum in Berlin, where…
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The encounter
The encounter Light reflections make for intriguing pictures. I like posting them on my blog now and then (look for them under Reflections tag). In the 3-dimensional world we often see reflections without really noticing them. Our brain immediately filters them out; we look through them. But on a photograph they clearly show up. The…
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