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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 23, 2009 4:48:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2009 10:28:00 GMT
Oh, How I remember the flower ladies there. I remember thinking I would never be without fresh cut flowers in my home if I lived there. Nice pictures.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 28, 2009 15:06:10 GMT
Thanks, Casimira. I worry people will get tired of my market pics. Here are a couple more of people at work. The funny tints to the pictures are because of the colored overhead awnings. This one is of king cake sellers and a roving porter. The lady with the basket is selling candy, gum, and individual cigarettes. The woman in the foreground is selling woven plastic shopping bags. This is one of my favorites. That's an herbal cure seller and his potential customers listening to his spiel.
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Post by lola on Oct 28, 2009 21:12:11 GMT
Would he be a curandero? Great photos, especially the last. Those faces.
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Post by imec on Oct 28, 2009 21:17:41 GMT
Love Markets. Love the pics. Keep em comin'!
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 28, 2009 21:31:04 GMT
No, Lola ~~ I'm pretty sure he's a snake oil salesman. There are tons of places to buy stuff for traditional remedies, but the stuff is presented without fanfare. Note the scanty supply in front of him. Those things are just to back up his line of patter for whatever he's selling. I believe he has a microphone around his neck. A lot of the patent medicine salesmen set up a loudspeaker at the markets and the endless recorded announcement can be maddening.
Thanks for the comments. Let's see people at work from all over!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 6:24:31 GMT
I'll try to see if anybody is working in Paris this weekend.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 29, 2009 6:28:00 GMT
I'm trying to remember where you posted the pictures of the Parisian sanitation workers. I think it was in a thread about a Hindu festival. Those tidy, efficient, uniformed workers looked pretty exotic to me!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 11:31:43 GMT
The New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board is getting ready to tear up the streets around my neighborhood to do goodness knows what. I will try and get some shots at what promises to be a truly comic event. (Local joke: What's YELLOW and sleeps 10?) I have to be very careful as I don't want to get my water turned off. These guys do not like to have their picture taken while sleeping,I mean,working.
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Post by imec on Oct 29, 2009 13:59:33 GMT
Shot these guys painting the road with this Rube Goldberg device a couple of year's ago in London.
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 29, 2009 14:13:58 GMT
Ha ha, Casimira! Take them out a pitcher of water or some other pretext, admire their work, and tell them you're getting before & after photos. This ought to be good! Speaking of workers, does N.O. still have the best garbage guys in the world?
Imec, that photo is a classic, with the team of men out there doing a one-man job.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2009 18:52:25 GMT
Excellent imec. Yes,funny how our tax dollars,utility fees etc. go to work for us.
Yes B. The NOLA Sanitation Dept. crew remain my heroes. Those guys would not mind one bit having there photo taken. Would even perform I'm sure of it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 21:10:21 GMT
(by kerouac2) Keeping the streets and parks of Paris clean.
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Post by imec on Nov 2, 2009 1:13:01 GMT
Love that little truck!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 17:47:33 GMT
Parisian municipal gardeners with their tools Parisian roofers
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 6, 2009 18:13:46 GMT
Boy, they don't fool around about cleanliness in Paris!
What is that second group of gardeners doing on the platform?
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 24, 2010 23:26:08 GMT
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Post by lola on Mar 25, 2010 1:09:50 GMT
Granite, I guess? That's beautiful.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2010 2:47:13 GMT
Isn't it a wonderful color?! The name originally given to Oaxaca by the Spaniards was Antequera, after a city in Spain, and Oaxaca is still referred to as La verde Antequera in reference to the quarry stone from which so much of the city is built. You can see how green it is in the steps and wall beyond the workers. Read here, please, for more information. ("Mexico" in the first paragraph refers to Mexico City.) When I first moved here, I was walking quickly past the cathedral after a rain, when I was suddenly caught up short by the light and the color. Anyone who knows me will understand why I gasped and thought, "the Emerald City!"
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Post by lola on Mar 25, 2010 3:13:55 GMT
Yes! and Toto, too.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 25, 2010 7:14:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 10:27:28 GMT
Business is not booming for the ball man.
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Post by bjd on Mar 28, 2010 14:10:01 GMT
Working hard in Lviv, Ukraine Meanwhile, the women are selling at the market
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2010 18:59:38 GMT
Business is not booming for the ball man. Truth be told, I've had three pictures of that man for quite a while. However, I never posted them because they seem so sad to me -- real portraits of loneliness. Love those pictures, Bjd! You compose so beautifully, plus the ones of the guys "working" speak volumes. Also, photos of markets in any country are so great to see. Everyone is doing the same thing, but with essential differences. Boy street musicians, Oaxaca
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Post by bjd on Mar 29, 2010 11:47:58 GMT
Thanks for your compliments, Bixa, but I must confess there is not much "composition" involved. Those kinds of pictures are usually taken quickly and as discreetly as possible.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 30, 2010 11:58:55 GMT
Street sweeper - Gate guard - Friendly neighbourhood Police having a day out or something on the central verge - Bloke loading a car with a gas bottle from the storage depot - Workmen on my estate laying mains gas pipes - Estate gardeners. As usual you can't see them -
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2010 12:42:40 GMT
For starters,those are not gardeners...(wherever they may be...) I have worked on several estates as a gardener,and this was not my M.O. (understand that this is a common misnomer,I feel compelled to enlighten,sorry... ) I am determined to get shots of the crew that is doing a major overhaul of not one,but,two of our main avenues. Problem is,every time I go out to take pics,there is no one to be found. I know that in some states and cities,work crews do work at night so as to not inconvenience the commuters etc. I assure you,that is not the case here. BJD,love your shots and adore the granite in yours Bixa. Balloon man does look lonely.
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Post by bjd on Mar 30, 2010 15:26:39 GMT
Thanks to Bixa's help, here is another working picture -- a lady in a shop in a small village in southern Ecuador. She makes the hats and sells them for $3 US
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2010 17:12:07 GMT
Such an interesting thread. Working people going about their business in different parts of the world. Such a contrast from place to place and yet so similar so in some ways...
I need to post some pics on this thread at some point.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2010 18:43:02 GMT
That's fabulous BJD,I love it Did you buy a hat per chance? I have an Ecuadorian crafted hat that I love,time of year to pull it out too.
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