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Re: Local color
« Reply #210 on Feb 26, 2011, 4:40pm »		[Quote]
local colour in the backwaters: two different type of tourist boats meeting
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« Reply #211 on Feb 26, 2011, 4:40pm »		[Quote]
temple festival in cochin
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« Reply #212 on Feb 26, 2011, 5:30pm »		[Quote]
Nice. Elephants must be remarkably patient to put up with this stuff.
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Re: Local color
« Reply #213 on Feb 27, 2011, 11:28am »		[Quote]
actually, at a recent festival here they spent 50.000 rupees to build an artificial elephant that was pushed by a jeep, because they said there are too many occasions of elephants becoming violent. but there were still also four real elephants at the festival... from what i can see they tend to give them lots of leafs to keep them quiet, though some look nervous anyway... but i guess tempel elephants maybe also grow up with all this?
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Re: Local color
« Reply #214 on Feb 27, 2011, 11:34am »		[Quote]
Just wondering, rikita -- how much longer are you going to be in India?
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Re: Local color
« Reply #215 on Feb 27, 2011, 12:29pm »		[Quote]
not long, unfortunately. exactly one week left, then it's back to the cold...
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Re: Local color
« Reply #216 on Feb 28, 2011, 5:24am »		[Quote]
Hi Rikita ~~ just now seeing your wonderful pictures.

Have you been on those tourist boats? Where do they go?

I wonder what those elephants do when they're not appearing in festivals.

Do you suppose you'll have culture shock when you're back in Germany?
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« Reply #217 on Feb 28, 2011, 6:22am »		[Quote]
Where do the tourist boats go?
Initially they take a left, get punted up that way for a little while, turn round and come back.

What happens to the elephants?
They return to work.
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« Reply #218 on Feb 28, 2011, 11:13am »		[Quote]
yeah, i was on the second boat, behind the one in the photo - it was basically a day tour, first around the small canals with some visits to places where they make coir, dry coconuts, a spice garden etc., and then in the afternoon on a bigger boat on a lake.

not sure what it will be like, cold first of all i reckon. and i really got to make up my mind what i want to do with my life. so i guess i might be quite stressed...
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Re: Local color
« Reply #219 on Mar 4, 2011, 10:44pm »		[Quote]
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At the streetcar stop last evening as we were going downtown for a parade. Two ladies who are members of a local marching group known as "The Bearded Oysters". They marched in the parade we saw later. ( I suppose that the one is digging in her purse for her beard,dunno... ::))
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« Reply #220 on Mar 6, 2011, 2:34pm »		[Quote]
More Carnival color,in keeping with the true spirit of local color here in New Orleans ,our neighborhood Carnival parade, the Krewe of OAK,(our 25th year!!!) was this past Friday night. We were blessed with wonderful,albeit,very breezy weather,but,no rain.Much fun prancing and dancing in the streets until we headed to the club nearby and danced some more....until the wee hours of the morn!!!!
This is the same group of folks who parade at Midsummer, posted earlier on in this thread.
We like to prance and dance here every chance we get!!! :D

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« Reply #221 on Mar 6, 2011, 3:12pm »		[Quote]
It's been said before, but ............ only in New Orleans!

How great that it's warm for carnival. That last picture is a real winner.
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« Reply #222 on Mar 7, 2011, 3:15pm »		[Quote]

Mar 6, 2011, 3:12pm, bixaorellana wrote:
It's been said before, but ............ only in New Orleans!

How great that it's warm for carnival. That last picture is a real winner.


Yes dear, only in.......or so it seems. I was ever so grateful to live only 2 1/2 blocks from the festivities as my feet were positively killing me by the night's end. I could here the music from my bed however,and found myself tapping my foot until I fell deep into slumber..... :D
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Re: Local color
« Reply #223 on Mar 9, 2011, 4:03pm »		[Quote]
home now... but missing all the different local colours of india...

here some more backwaters:
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Re: Local color
« Reply #224 on Mar 9, 2011, 4:03pm »		[Quote]
and Cochin:

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« Reply #225 on Mar 9, 2011, 5:09pm »		[Quote]
Fabulous photographs, as always from you, Rikita.

Glad you got home safe and sound. Maybe you'll fall in love with Berlin all over again. :-*
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Re: Local color
« Reply #226 on Mar 20, 2011, 4:54pm »		[Quote]
Yesterday was St. Joseph's Feast Day. In New Orleans, there are many,many altars erected to honor this saint. Some are in private homes,others in churches throughout the Metro area.
Here's a couple of pics of one of them in an Uptown NOLA church.

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« Reply #227 on Mar 21, 2011, 2:36pm »		[Quote]
Oh, I didn't see this yesterday! Thanks SO much for those pictures. St. Joseph's day is not celebrated here at all, a huge deficiency. In fact, the 19th is shown as San Marcelo's day. Who he?

There are so many of the traditional breads and cookies on that altar!
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« Reply #228 on Mar 21, 2011, 2:54pm »		[Quote]
What a superb colorful affair! I noticed my mum's favourite picture right in the middle of the altar - Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane.
What happens to all that lovely food so lovingly prepared?
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« Reply #229 on Mar 21, 2011, 3:10pm »		[Quote]
It's THE most wonderful tradition, Tod. Here are some links to earlier anyport coverages of St. Joseph's day:
http://anyportinastorm.proboards.com/ind....lay&thread=3558

http://anyportinastorm.proboards.com/ind....play&thread=777

and some of this fabulous pageantry takes place on the Sunday nearest St. Joseph's day:
http://anyportinastorm.proboards.com/ind....lay&thread=3934

I hope Casimira will expound on this. She's been to many St. Joseph's altars over the years.
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« Reply #230 on Mar 22, 2011, 5:54am »		[Quote]
Oh, pagan offerings! :D
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« Reply #231 on Mar 22, 2011, 6:41am »		[Quote]
Pretty accurate remark. St. Joseph's day is an overlay over a much older belief. You see all the bread? 2,500 years ago, similar breads were used in celebration of Persephone’s return from the underworld.

The festival of Las Fallas in Valencia culminates on St. Joseph's day with the burning of the big "dolls" used during the festival. The origin of las Fallas is a bit murky, but most credit the fires as an evolution of pagan rituals that celebrated the onset of spring and the planting season.

Some towns Sicily also celebrates St. Joseph's day with burning wood and logs.
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« Reply #232 on Mar 22, 2011, 11:57am »		[Quote]
In spite of being a big busy city, Paris can offer a few pleasurable and peaceful moments if you know how to proceed. Today I went to my little Chinese hole-in-the-wall for a prawn wonton and noodle soup, which brought fond memories of times in Southeast Asia. Then I walked through an empty back street to the Roman style church of St. Philippe-du-Roule, which is set at an unusual non Haussmannian angle to the surrounding buildings -- meaning that it was spared when everything else in the neighborhood was torn down and rebuilt in the 19th century. Inside, the city completely faded away, because those thick stone walls really keep out the traffic noise. It was dark and peaceful and smelled of incense, because a midday mass was being held in the back chapel for a grand total of 4 people. I admired the stained glass windows of a style quite different from those in the gothic churches, and then I emerged back into the city. However, the steps of the church were covered with office workers reading books or eating their lunches in the spring sunshine and I really envied them. I went to a bike station and rode back my office in 5 minutes. My 40 minutes of freedom had ended.
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« Reply #233 on Mar 22, 2011, 3:00pm »		[Quote]
Churches done in the classical style like St. Philippe-du-Roule or La Madelaine somehow strike me as odd architecturally- not in a bad way, they just don't look like a church to my eyes. I'm trying to think of any outside of Paris and not succeeding. Are these done elsewhere?
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« Reply #234 on Mar 22, 2011, 6:11pm »		[Quote]
There must be some in Marseille, because when I lived in the Batignolles, they filmed a movie starring Sophia Loren and Jean Gabin. It took place in Marseille, but there was a scene filmed in front of Notre Dame des Batignolles at night, and it looked convincingly like Marseille in the film.
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« Reply #235 on Mar 23, 2011, 11:32am »		[Quote]
moved as it was wrong topic.
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« Reply #236 on Mar 23, 2011, 7:53pm »		[Quote]

Mar 23, 2011, 11:32am, rikita wrote:
back in berlin... is this colourful enough?

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Super photo. You've got a great eye.
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« Reply #237 on Mar 23, 2011, 8:07pm »		[Quote]
thanks!
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« Reply #238 on Mar 25, 2011, 4:55pm »		[Quote]
...not to be a nit-picker, and no offense intended to the fabulous photographer rikita, but the colored pencils might fit better in the COLOR! thread than this one, which if you read the OP is intended for images that capture the flavor (local color) of a place. It's an idiom that can't be interpreted literally. Sometimes local color can be colorful but a black and white photo can also capture "local color", as rikita has shown so aptly on so many threads.
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Re: Local color
« Reply #239 on Mar 25, 2011, 7:22pm »		[Quote]
Here's a link to a fabulous photo spread by koloagirl, Any Port's newest member, full of local color from Hawaii:

http://anyportinastorm.proboards.com/ind....ead=4880&page=1
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