Found in Oddamavadia, east coast of Sri Lanka. Same time, same moskitoes, fleeing.
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Found these today during our travel from Colombo to the east coast of Sri Lanka, and was captivated by forms and colors. To post these I have to sit fully dressed on the balcony of our guesthouse, while the monsoon rains pattern on the roof and the moskitoes are agressively searching for fresh blood. Short…
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Well, I dropped the idea to fill the next posts with pres. Rajapakse’s pictures – too depressing. Those street sceneries I found in the town of Galle, on the southern end of the island. People here really can have a sense for harmonic colors.
The President Is Watching / Icecream
To take up the topic that I’ve started with a project contribution on Martin Storz’s Public Eye Blog: Yesterday was the inauguration ceremony for Sri Lanka’s president Mahinda Rajapakse. There are some doubts about the elections and their preliminaries, and whilst many of the people in Colombo welcome his presidency in the light of him…
Colombo Christmas
To take up Martina’s last comment : Yes, Colombo takes up many European, or better Western, patterns. Though being an officially Buddhist country, without a separation of state and religion as we know it, especially the business parts of other relgions, like Christmas here, get incorporated and playfully put on stage. Of course this shopping…
Rover
Seen on Duplication Road, Colombo.
Colombo Streets I
Walking the streets of Colombo – something the better-off people in Colombo would always try to avoid – led me into a bounty of sceneries, and even a shy guy like me, who doesn’t want to bother people with his camera out of respect for their privacy, found more than enough food for his lens.…
Rapidly Changing Worlds
Dubai Airport is astonishing again and again – whenever I come there it seems to have grown, expanded, become more luxurious. But I can’t help feeling also some backward orientation: The whole thing seems to live in the firm belief that our utmost materialistic and oil-based economy will continue without end, pursuing the American belief…
The Sixtine Chapel
Found in Munich Airport, posted from Dubai – there is free WiFi access all over the airport.
Leaving the “Perchten” behind – Traveling
With the cold, dark and short days I am also leaving the country of the “Perchten” (and zombies as well) behind. I am on my way to Sri Lanka again, this time as volunteer expert for an acquainted NGO that works in the field of drinking water supply. The east coast of Sri Lanka, where…
Harry Potter – For Sale
Martina had correctly pointed out, that one of the shown masks looks like from a horror movie. This is really a dilemma. Transforming old rites into present times of course always incorporates contemporary elements. This is nothing special, as many of our Christian rites are based on pagan elements. But here, with the “Perchten” masks,…
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Once upon a time, in pre-christian, pagan times, the people in the alpine valleys were living precarious lives. Winter was an especially hard time, threatening the families with cold, vast amounts of snow, a frozen soil and dark, very long nights. In that time they developed rites to fight their angst, and some of them…
Hole in the Sky
The cold and already snowy October weather had only been an interlude, for now it’s pretty wam again. But in the city the colors have lost their power, their radiance, and this creates a certain feeling of alienation here.
Office Backyard
Wordless Thursday. Too leached out for writing.
Logs
Found in the woods adjacent to the bog with the hunting stand. Sometimes high tech units like this gas pipeline just matters to integrate with the natural surroundings…
Hunting Stand, Birches
Those alpine wetlands always have been agricultural land. Of course harvest was low in form of sour grasses not suitable for the modern turbocharged cows, and so it was decided to drain the area. Started more than a decade ago, drainage is now in full effect and the land dry enough even for heavy machines…
Rural Autumn
This scenery, found in a villa quarter, could very well be perceived as staged, but I am not shure about this. It certainly was soothing for my eyes not to see monoblocs in the garden but very old fashioned chairs, and willow baskets instead of their chinese injection casted counterparts. In fact it looks so…
Lost On Platform
After that switch back from the Business Boosting Time aka. DST, during the week a lot of my photography has to happen in the dark hours. It took me a long time to become content with the amount of noise in high iso images (this one was taken with ISO 1600), and it seems that…
Waiting for Prey
No, this is not a comment on the election results, I swear. But look – there’s red in it, and blue…
Autumnal Still
I simply couldn’t resist 🙂 Resist I can however to comment on the results of the U.S. elections. Which is anyhow the best thing to do as I would lack words. So I close my eyes, ears and mouth and nurture the sensitive and fragile plant of my creativity, trying not to dung it to…
Moneysucker
New chances can be triggered by railway construction works, too: As “my” train is canceled for some weeks, I had to get up earlier, only to find a familiar place in new light. I don’t know what makes the Deutsche Bahn (German Railways) do rent their emptied, service-deprived stations preferably to gambling saloons (my guess:…
Ultimate Peace
The weeks before All Saints Day, cemeteries in Germany are buzzing with busy (and business) life. But when daylight fades and night takes over, all that teeming subsides and graveyard and church fall back into the normal silence – quite different from the sceneries Carl Weese shows from the Cemetery Tour in Washington, DCCT. Highly…
Let Us Come In!
No words sunday…
Non-Rectangular Shapes
This is an interesting image in the sense that it wouldn’t be one if not photographed. Our perception (usually) has no fram borders, especially no straight-lined ones. Viewing from normal height, scanning a wider angle of view, at least I do rarely relate any lines to the boundaries of my field of view. But this…
Three Windows
Where is that button for “seeing”? This image found me on the way to the pharmacy, suffering from a heavy cold and otherwise pretty much oblivious for everything going on around me. For sure I was not in a deliberate state of “heightened awareness” (to quote the Landscapist, here), but perhaps that flu induced tunnel…