Category: Culture
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Kathmandu, skilled craftsmen
In a Nepalese city, like Kathmandu, you quickly notice that the industry is small but very accessible, meaning that you can walk to the people involved in tradesmanship or craftsmanship. Since most Nepalese people are accepting your taking pictures or willing to see the photos you just shot, it’s very pleasant to shoot such images…
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Kathmandu
Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal. I stopped there twice during my recent trip to this Himalayan kingdom-gone-republic. The city was pleasant to visit if a bit too loaded with tourists for my taste (the first baseball cap is already too much for me). But I got a few images from it. Here are a…
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Nepal with Amawanda – Nepalese dragonfly
Back from a few days of photo trip to Nepal, I feel it is time to share with you some of this astonishing experience organized by Amawanda and guided by Alain Pons. I am more or less a wildlife photographer attracted to the African wide-open spaces. But I had been attracted mostly by the presence…
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Google and ICANN reach for the non-latin world
The ICANN started to allow non-latin alphabet to be used in the domain names to support half of the word which is actually using a non-latin alphabet (Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, etc.) Google decided to celebrate with an anti-latin graphic to great their visitors.
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Martin Luther King Jr. speech
Martin Luther King Jr has been inspiring for many great people and a lot of other human beings. This is a Bible-inspired speech I found. I say to you, this morning, that if you have never found something so dear and precious to you that you will die for it, then you aren’t fit to…
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Extraordinary Chinese health notice
You can’t read Chinese? That’s a pity. You would learn from this official announcement that some foods should not be eaten together (it is not clear how the exact risk was identified, though). According to Xinjiang, the list of terrible mixtures is: Pork + water chestnuts = a stomach ache Beef + chestnuts = vomiting…
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Oops! That’s not funny
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Ganesh Chaturthi
On August 30, 2009, I shot a few images during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Paris, France. Here is a selection.
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Ukiyo-e books by Kitagawa Utamaro
A friend of mine recently bought a copy of a Japanese wood engraving. While reading this article from BibliOdyssey, about the wood engravings of Kitagawa Utamaro, I thought I should share some of the pictures of this artist.