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Simply Beautiful Photographs
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This book is an antidote to the other stuff I have currently lumbered myself with � an uninspiring novel (so far) which I had been looking forward to and now don’t understand why; a turgid study of English folk music (I’m on a mission to reread all the essential books on that so it’s a must); and a horribly written academic book about the horrible subject of torture porn movies (it’s the only book on the subject).
Yes, the title of this book is rather pass the sick bag please. It was actually a present to Georgia who was 18 recently (imagine that!).
But now, a warning. Innocent leafers-through in bookshops should be aware that at many points during this book their eyes may spontaneously gush forth with founts of unaccustomed boohooing, so have a hankie or three at the ready. It is because we are not ready to be ambushed by joy in public places.
My own favourites were the three utterly scruffy goofy insanely-grinning Irish kids from Leinster, a dog which can’t work out what to do with a very unexpected frog in a pool in Yarmouth, Maine, a young couple on a street in Buenos Aires (it says they’re dancing, but I don’t know about that), a girl wrapped up warm in the autumn chill with a great wicker basket, she’s passing a castle and down a lane of trees in Ile-de France, a woman in Bihar carrying some huge bowl on her head in a red and orange sari (how many women through the world carry stuff on their heads, millions it seems), three nuns playing volleyball in Arequipa Peru, they got their full nun costumes on but they’re having such a great time, they don’t care, volleyball is now part of their religion, an old woman in a field wearing an enormous industrial-sized protective apron laughing her head off (it says “while harvesting sugar beets�) (I don’t know why old women smiling and laughing should always make such great photos), a woman resting her head on her horse’s neck with her eyes closed, you can tell she really loves that horse ...
Well, I could go on. You get the picture. All these photos and more can summon forth strange emotion.
I found the old woman. Here she is, a little diminished but still wonderful.
Yes, the title of this book is rather pass the sick bag please. It was actually a present to Georgia who was 18 recently (imagine that!).
But now, a warning. Innocent leafers-through in bookshops should be aware that at many points during this book their eyes may spontaneously gush forth with founts of unaccustomed boohooing, so have a hankie or three at the ready. It is because we are not ready to be ambushed by joy in public places.
My own favourites were the three utterly scruffy goofy insanely-grinning Irish kids from Leinster, a dog which can’t work out what to do with a very unexpected frog in a pool in Yarmouth, Maine, a young couple on a street in Buenos Aires (it says they’re dancing, but I don’t know about that), a girl wrapped up warm in the autumn chill with a great wicker basket, she’s passing a castle and down a lane of trees in Ile-de France, a woman in Bihar carrying some huge bowl on her head in a red and orange sari (how many women through the world carry stuff on their heads, millions it seems), three nuns playing volleyball in Arequipa Peru, they got their full nun costumes on but they’re having such a great time, they don’t care, volleyball is now part of their religion, an old woman in a field wearing an enormous industrial-sized protective apron laughing her head off (it says “while harvesting sugar beets�) (I don’t know why old women smiling and laughing should always make such great photos), a woman resting her head on her horse’s neck with her eyes closed, you can tell she really loves that horse ...
Well, I could go on. You get the picture. All these photos and more can summon forth strange emotion.
I found the old woman. Here she is, a little diminished but still wonderful.
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October 18, 2014
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October 18, 2014
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October 22, 2014
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October 22, 2014
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sure am - that would have been salt rubbed in the wound... ouch!
Good to know that someone thnks old women make great photos! Ready for my closeup, CB...
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It was actually a present to Georgia who was 18 recently (imagine that!). It's a bit odd knowing the same people online for so long their kids grow up, but never meeting them or even knowing what they look like. Is she off to university soon?
yes, next September ... boo hoo, I don't like to think about it.... meanwhile here she is with her group The Corridors (she's the one with the guitar)and this one I think is v cute
Bet you're glad you didn't spring the big bucks for the torture book ...