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Post by rikita on Feb 26, 2011 16:40:03 GMT
local colour in the backwaters: two different type of tourist boats meeting
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Post by rikita on Feb 26, 2011 16:40:43 GMT
temple festival in cochin
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2011 17:30:00 GMT
Nice. Elephants must be remarkably patient to put up with this stuff.
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2011 11:28:37 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2011 11:34:09 GMT
Just wondering, rikita -- how much longer are you going to be in India?
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2011 12:29:31 GMT
not long, unfortunately. exactly one week left, then it's back to the cold...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 28, 2011 5:24:25 GMT
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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Post by onlymark on Feb 28, 2011 6:22:56 GMT
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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Post by rikita on Feb 28, 2011 11:13:35 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2011 22:44:22 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2011 14:34:57 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 6, 2011 15:12:03 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2011 15:15:21 GMT
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.....
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Post by rikita on Mar 9, 2011 16:03:13 GMT
home now... but missing all the different local colours of india... here some more backwaters:
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Post by rikita on Mar 9, 2011 16:03:37 GMT
and Cochin:
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 9, 2011 17:09:57 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2011 16:54:37 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2011 14:36:42 GMT
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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Post by tod2 on Mar 21, 2011 14:54:03 GMT
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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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 21, 2011 15:10:31 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 5:54:43 GMT
Oh, pagan offerings!
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2011 6:41:41 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 11:57:19 GMT
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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Post by fumobici on Mar 22, 2011 15:00:38 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2011 18:11:47 GMT
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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Post by rikita on Mar 23, 2011 11:32:16 GMT
moved as it was wrong topic.
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Post by fumobici on Mar 23, 2011 19:53:56 GMT
back in berlin... is this colourful enough? Super photo. You've got a great eye.
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Post by rikita on Mar 23, 2011 20:07:53 GMT
thanks!
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Post by Kimby on Mar 25, 2011 16:55:46 GMT
...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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Post by Kimby on Mar 25, 2011 19:22:14 GMT
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