While walking in Lulligstone, Kent

Lullingstone Castle is a historic manor house, set in an estate in the village of Lullingstone and the civil parish of Eynsford in the English county of Kent. It has been inhabited by members of the Hart Dyke family for twenty generations including curren…

I have added this image to a new collection of Still Life photographs

Yet more sunsets!! Walking from St Leonards to Hastings on a late afternoon and the band stand at Eastbourne

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,

This first collection was taken with a Nikon D810. The difference in colour and data content is perceptible compared to my Nikon D7000. The difference will be posted in the next batch.

If you have viewed my previous black and white collection, the path along Sun Island, these are the views I saw...

Continuing with my Portraits project: The Self 4

The room....

The yearly celebration of Jesus del Gran Poder gathers over 40,000 participants/dancers every year in May/June in La Paz, Bolivia. It is now considered part of UNESCO's Cultural Heritage.