Listening to Marvyn Peake's 'Gormenghast'...

A Tree and its bench...

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

Early Autumn...

'Returning to La Paz' is an hommage to Javier Molina's birth place. After living in the USA for a number of years the Bolivian photographer returned to La Paz in the early 1970s. Living abroad gave him a perspective that allowed him to see the city with new eyes. All images with either Fujifilm, Kodak or Ilford film

Serkhe Khollu is a mountain within a section of the Andean Cordillera, Serranía de Murillo, Department of La Paz, Bolivia

Part 2 of my travels in La Paz, Bolivia. I was on a boat on my way to Moon and Sun Islands (sacred in the mythology of the Incas), there were about 30 people in all and no one seemed to notice this tree growing in a promontory of rock in the middle of the lake...

"Ariadne, I'm coming out I just need to work this maze inside my head I came to like you as I killed the beast inside my heart That part of me is dead..." From 'The Labyrinth Song' by Asaf Avidan

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

On our way to Serranías de Murrillo, early morning and looking back over the city we left behind.