A Long-horned Orb-Weaver Spider.
Location: Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary
A late to the party bug contribution to the August Photo Challenge on M.b 📷
A Long-horned Orb-Weaver Spider.
Location: Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary
A late to the party bug contribution to the August Photo Challenge on M.b 📷
One winter morning on The Brahmaputra. 📷
Why did Flaubert so admire the camel? Because he identified with its stoicism and ungainliness. He was touched by its sad expression and its combination of awkwardness and fatalistic resilience.
Alain De Botton, The Art of Travel
Painting a dawn.
On a whim last year, I carried the old Zenit E loaded with a roll of Tri-X when dropping my parents off at the station. It had been bone dry for the entire drive, but when we reached, the skies opened up. There’s something about water and Tri-X that makes it a stunning combination.
Red earth and green toes.
The thing I’ll miss most in our new future is the sense of grand adventure of before. The possibility of spontaneity. That you if wished, you could just drop what you were doing and go on a rooftop train ride. 📷
An attempt to create a scene from a Hou Hsiao-Hsien movie.
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in conversation together, three notes suddenly making a chord. Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them. It leaves us free to think without being wholly lost in our thoughts.
Rebecca Solnit
(Walking the Hanle Basin in the high deserts of Ladakh)