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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2012 5:27:31 GMT
One of the reasons that a lot of the Roma in France live in complete poverty is because even though they are allowed to stay in all of the countries of the EU at will, France has so far prevented citizens of Romania and Bulgaria from entering the work market. The new government is going to change this, because seeing all these little shanty settlement is distressing for everybody. I saw this yesterday at Porte de la Chapelle. I had gone to look at the tramway which is now circulating on the new sections of the tramway line (test runs with no passengers), and I noticed this down along the abandoned freight rails.
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Post by rikita on Sept 22, 2012 11:22:17 GMT
that is sad... we have a lot of poor people and also homeless people here too, but i don't think i have seen something like that yet (on the other hand, there are people living in supposedly abandoned houses, and the conditions there aren't necessarily better i suppose)... imagining people might have to raise children in there, and in winter when it is cold...
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Post by htmb on Sept 22, 2012 13:29:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2012 16:22:54 GMT
The university session began last week in France.
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Post by htmb on Sept 23, 2012 20:21:39 GMT
Our schools started a month ago. We're smack dab in the middle of football season now, so there's all kinds of crazy traffic in North Central Florida many weekends.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 29, 2012 14:22:08 GMT
You all are looking at this picture & thinking, "yeah, yeah, more colorful clothing from Oaxaca, yawn". But that's not the local color I want to show. Rather, it's the girl pushing her way through people. That stance & movement would have to be incorporated if you were to choreograph this city -- the absolutely maddening refusal to wait a split section for another person to pass through an opening, coupled with the tendency to push through rather than asking others to step aside. The other local color in the picture is the sidewalk clumping. That's brought to a pinnacle of perfection if you not only clump, but do it in front of a doorway or where people cross the street.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2012 14:32:21 GMT
I came across another Roma settlement that I could safely photograph -- because I was on the shuttle boat to the shopping mall. This is right along the périphérique expressway ringing Paris.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 19, 2012 16:01:13 GMT
Autumn in Wisconsin:
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 20, 2012 20:10:54 GMT
Awww ~~ nice!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2012 18:05:40 GMT
And here is what Halloween looks like in Paris today.
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Post by htmb on Oct 31, 2012 18:12:28 GMT
Gorgeous (and great photos, K), but a month and a day too early in my mind.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2012 18:24:29 GMT
It is getting crazy here -- with no Halloween and Thanksgiving buffer zone, there is no stopping the stores from starting the Christmas season. The Christmas chocolates have been in the supermarkets for a week already. Soon we will look like Singapore (which seems to be celebrating a major holiday about 10 out of 12 months).
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Post by htmb on Oct 31, 2012 22:10:49 GMT
Oh well, but it's Paris.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2012 14:27:43 GMT
It is getting crazy here -- with no Halloween and Thanksgiving buffer zone, there is no stopping the stores from starting the Christmas season. The Christmas chocolates have been in the supermarkets for a week already. Soon we will look like Singapore (which seems to be celebrating a major holiday about 10 out of 12 months). Are those all crystal K2!!! I know the feeling, and, it's especially maddening when the garden sections at the Home Depot etc. seem to all of a sudden transform themselves into a Xmas tree and all the crap that goes along with it extravaganza at the time of year here when we are planting and need supplies. I go for mulch etc. and get greeted with f'n tinsel..... . Maybe I'll mulch with tinsel one of these years!!!
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 18, 2012 21:55:29 GMT
This woman is doing something so common here that no one would think to comment on it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2012 22:06:41 GMT
Is she checking the watermark of a banknote?
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 19, 2012 8:04:02 GMT
;D Yep! There's a little metallic strip embedded in the paper -- they look for that, too. People will reject a bill for a tiny tear, a stain, almost anything. When I was working, my co-worker & I called the crummy bills "gringo money", because usually only gringos would accept them, not realizing how picky vendors can be about what kinds of bills they'll take. You can see here it's a 200 peso note: And that it passed muster, as the couple is getting change:
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 16, 2012 18:40:39 GMT
Seen from the window of a bus speeding from Oaxaca to Ocotlán:
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Post by Kimby on Jan 3, 2013 16:35:03 GMT
Some Montanans never throw anything away that they "might need someday"....
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Post by rikita on Jan 4, 2013 16:02:18 GMT
some more local colour from india (this time from varkala)
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Post by Kimby on Jan 4, 2013 16:38:37 GMT
Rikki, is that Santa Claus?
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Post by rikita on Jan 4, 2013 18:21:49 GMT
yeah... and the one in the background is a kathakali dancer...
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 14, 2013 16:33:54 GMT
I opened this thread because I couldn't quite remember what had been posted most recently. It's most interesting that on this page alone -- which is only 1/3 full -- how many striking images there are. I wonder how many we might have identified correctly had they been posted blind.
Well, Kimby's #397, a great photo in its own right, could serve as the cover picture for a book on the US.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 31, 2013 20:38:30 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2013 14:28:55 GMT
Simply FABULOUS Bixa!!! Wow!!! Such great light, one of my favorite times of the day. Did you dance? I hope so.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 3, 2013 16:37:48 GMT
Thanks, Casimira. It's not such a great light for getting crisp pictures, as you can see.
I do love seeing all those people out there enjoying themselves, but such stately dancing doesn't tempt me. Here's a nice little video (not mine) of the dancers in Oaxaca:
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Post by htmb on Feb 13, 2013 23:17:01 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2013 18:50:42 GMT
What a wonderful picture, Htmb! What is his nation?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2013 18:55:23 GMT
Aren't they mostly Seminoles in Florida?
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 14, 2013 20:52:11 GMT
Those are the only ones I know the name of, but I believe there are others. I'm sure Htmb will enlighten us.
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