Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia. The celebration transforms and stimulates the social life of La Paz every year, emanating from a particular way of understanding and living Andean Catholicism. The Parade begins with a procession through the western part of the city. This procession is central to the event, involving 40,000 devotees who dance and sing in an offering to the patron saint. The dance has a sacred significance for the sixty-nine fraternities involved, which are greeted in the streets in a euphoric atmosphere where the music of 7,000 musicians resonates. It is so owe inspiring that it is rightfully a UNESCO Wold Heritage event (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity). The image venerated with dance and music is believed to have arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1663.

As we left La Paz behind we climbed up to 4852 metres over sea level going past three high altitude lakes. The mind cannot capture proportions so what the camera and/or the eye sees as near in fact is quite far away: if you look carefully there are 2 cows pasturing in the yellow band on the other side of the lake in the second image...

Ionian sunsets: an essay on clouds. Seven images

Following the previous collection the images that look over the Chanel, this paths take you along side the White Cliffs of Dover

"In the origin The Word had been existing and That Word had been existing with God and That Word was himself God". John 1:1

Using a grainy film to achieve a charcoal-like effect in an environment where light and contrast are excessive

After Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's Still Life with Glass, Fruit and Picture. 1924

Liverpool in B & W

An image based on Jorge Luis Borges' short story: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius where it is believe that the inhabitants of that land abhorred mirrors because they multiply the illusory universe.

One of the attraction of Doddington Place gardens is the cloud hedges, worth visiting!