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The most pictures valley, we walked from Pelham to Lyminge. Not far but most rewarding views.
St James - Piccadilly
An afternoon visit to St James' church in Piccadilly.
Wheat in the wind...
While walking around Walmer, Kent... the wheat fields are almost ripe
Winns Common, Plumstead, from the bedroom window
Seven instances from the bedroom window. Moral of the story: you do not need to travel to exotic places...
Flower and Burnet moths
Caught by the colour and the moths...
Where the air is thin
Why do we choose to live in such far away places?
Up above the clouds, with nothing but Nature and hard living...
Still Life collection
A collection of a new on-going project: Still Life
London from the Sky Garden
20 Fenchurch Street, London. The Sky Garden
Four country flowers
While walking in Lulligstone, Kent
Gran Poder: women's costumes
Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia in the first week of June. 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,