Aubergines, a humble Autumn vegetable/fruit, Chinese lanterns and a mauve vase....

A UNESCO Wold Heritage festival 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 arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1664

At the foot of Etna: textures and colours

A distant portrait...

Once again a couple of spontaneous shots with the iPhone and a bit of Creative Photography...

This image came out easily...

Late afternoon on the hottest day, 20 July...

Continuing with my on going Still Life collections. These horse chestnuts were on my table but could get my head around how to go about photographing them. I decided to throw them away and add I was gathering them they seem to form a neat pile. Bingo!

Light, colour and textures: the subject of this essay.