The thing about walls
is there’s always a hole
and eventually . . .
they all crumble and fall
“All in all, be part of the whole.
Not just another brick in the wall.”
~ Floyd, the Pink Rabbit
Words;
David B.Redpath © 2019 – 2023
“I’m a traveller
. . . not a tourist!
There is a difference.”
Photography;
David & Linda Redpath © 2019-2023
Amazing photos.
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Thanks Holly 😎
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You’re so welcome!
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Awesome pictures!! Thanks for sharing.
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My pleasure, JT.
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Alive and inspiring
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Thanks Hal.
Travel does seem to highten the senses.
Especially in the Himalayas ⛰️ 👀
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Lucky guy indeed …
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Gorgeous photos. I love the portraits especially. It’s not easy to get such open expressions from people you don’t know well. Really beautiful, David. ♥.
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The Nepalese, seem mostly,
to be most happy, if you please.
Thanking you Niki, with good Karma
flowing upon a Jasmine breeze 🙏
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Thank you David. 🙏💕.
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Awesome photos. Laughed at the last line of verse. 🙂
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Thank you muchly, Dorinda.
Yes … fluffy Floyd, the furry,
he’s always good for a laugh😁
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😀
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Perfect shots David!!! Good morning!!
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
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Thanks Efi. As Milton Berle would say, I’ve
been on a Javajive through the Himalayas.
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Amazing pictures david!
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Thank you, Velvet.
Still clicking … More to follow.
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Wow, it is my India.😊 You are right.
All walls have amazing holes. Well done
dear for beautiful pics.
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It is an amazing land. Just wish we could
stay longer. Soon as the world switches to
electric cars, the beautiful people of India
can shake off their facemasks, and breathe
easy. Thanks for having me, Aruna.
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You have obliged me to come my India.if you know the blogger-thelonelyauthor,plz tell him about my India.most most thanks for visit my India.😊😊😊😊🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💐
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Will do, Aruna 🙏
A stay in Jaipur is to die for 😎
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Oh.Jaipur is Capital of Rajsthan State from which my town is 100 km.i had studied in Rajsthan University,Jaipur.Hawa Mahal,Janter Manter,Chandersen palace,Rambagh palace and 15km far from Jaipur-Amer fort,Jaygarh Fort and many many things are able to visit.my town is Chirawa distt-Jhunjhunu near Pilani.if you come here to me then i will show you d amazing Haweliyan(residence of rich merchent,)Bawadiyaan(wells).enjoy dear!!
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If only I had known, Aruna.
We caught the midnight train from Jaipur
to Udaipur. That, in itself, was quite a trip.
The Monkey Temple was amazing, and
the Wind Palace with walls of pink.
They call Udaipur the Venice of India, but
it is so much more. Perhaps next time, God
willing, I’ll get to visit you in Chirawa.
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Wonderful trip.Udaipur has most amazing n famous place coz of it’s palaces,jalmahal and ponds etc.
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If you can come to my town Chirawa for that so much welcome.
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Thank you, Aruna. Namaste 🙏
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Oh dearRedpath!!now you have understood the Hindi language.wonderful.all trips learn us more new thing.Namaste,dear!!🙏🙏🙏
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Jaipur is too called by name Pink city.
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Yes, the Palaces, and walls, all in pink,
are a glorious sight.
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Yeah.dear!!
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Beautiful as always.
It’s whole different world up there. Happy you had a fun and enlightening time x
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Thank you, your Serene Fieryness.
Still on the Silk Road, but managed to
access internet by standing on top
of the Taj Mahal. An experience most transcendental.
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Oh my. ..Serene Fieryness.
That has made my day lol.
Looking forward to more posts from atop other wonders of the world xxx
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David, amazing pictures. I’ve missed your wit and photos. Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year to you BC
… the Cast Master of Pods.
Been unplugged for weeks.
Looking forward to jacking in.
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I like the juxtaposition of the beautiful and the ugly (of my city, I presume) I am talking about the roundabout and cables pics. Enjoy your stay David.
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I took the ‘Envy’ pic in Kathmandu, Punam.
I’ve now worked my way down to Delhi, after
a wonderful trek from Jaipur, aboard the
midnight train, to Udaipur (that was a most
interesting experience). Popped over to
Agra for a peek at the Taj Mahal. The traffic
situation is, to say the least, remarkable.
And I’m now full of admiration for those
who traverse the roads here every day.
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Thanks for the clarification David. Such sights abound in Delhi!
I am sure there are verses brewing about your visit to Nepal and India and I can’t wait to read those.
Aha! So you have had a taste of our chaotic infamous traffic!! Don’t admire us, we created the mess ourselves! Lol
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With a little help from the British.
I’ve invented a wrap around, 360°
bumper bar, made of rubber, just
for the Indian market. I’m calling
it the ‘Holy Cow & Bull Bars’ …
(patent pending). I’ll send you a
set to try out, Punam.
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After more than 70 years we are still blaming the British for our ills!!
Oh, I do look forward to the ‘Holy Cow& Bull Bars’ in my mail. Though if the current political dispensation wins, you might have to change the name, for under their rule nothing is holier than the cow!!
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Out of respect then, I’ll change the
name to ‘The Tuk-Tuk Terminator Bars’.
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Let’s wait till after the elections for ‘Holy Cow & Bull Bar’ sounds so much fun!! 😁
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As recommended by Rick Shaw!
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Lol! ‘Rick Shaw Restrainer’ is better suited for Indian roads. TTT can be patented in Thailand!!
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That Rick Shaw … he does get around!😁
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Eco friendly, fleet footed on! 😀
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And some seem to be ‘driverless’ 🤥
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😯 Beware! Motorized vehicles can also be ‘driverless’!
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Yes, those Auto Rickshaws, so cute and
friendly, but when they swarm together in
a peek hour frenzy … positively deadly!
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‘Swarming’ is the right word for them, David. Pesky they are!
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Great photos David
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Thanks Drew. I’ve taken more than a few!
Still trekking, with so much to view😎
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Enjoy
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I’m in love with these pictures ❤️
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Thanks EC 💝 Many more to process.
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Amazing photos. I love the people, the colors, and the smiles.
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Thank you. Had an amazing time
on our first trip to Nepal and India.
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Great photos David, the image (Last one) with all the cables in the lane, so very similar to lanes way in back streets of Shanghai, and your reference to Pink Floyd is very apt
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/a-crack-in-the-wall-3/
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Thanks Ivor. I actually saw high tension power line towers standing in swamps.
I now consider being an electrician in Nepal
the most dangerous job in the world. I was
told of a local boy who lost both arms when
a cable fell on him.
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Incredible photos my friend. You must have a blast. 🙂
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Thanks Charlie. Still ramblin’…
but now in a homeward direction,
where my Sim card waits patiently,
and the WiFi is true. To get a Sim in
Nepal & India you need to produce
your passport & answer a hundred or
so questions, so I didn’t bother.
Check in with you soon. Just brushing
up with William Burroughs Jr. on how
to contract the interstellar word virus
. . . and live.
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Sounds like your having a good time where you’re at.
The word virus is the coolest cut up of all. 🙂
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The first cut is the deepest.
On the way home soon, sadly ☹️
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Love the hole in the walls.
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Certainement, Monsieur Tulin
… That’s how the light gets in.
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🌞
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Love the photos …..if not holes …then for sure there are cracks😊
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Thank you, Sakshi.
All walls eventually fall 😎
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Oh yes …I dream of a world without walls😊
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It take imagination.
That’s where the artist/poet comes in.
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I agree 😊🌼
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Gorgeous photos! So very glad you have had such an amazing time.
How do you come back from all of that? I mean, mentally?
Thank you for sharing these
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You’re very welcome, Vanessa.
As a Free-range Anthropologist
(not a tourist) you go where and
when the flow has you in tow.
Just scratching the surface, but
I think you’ll like the next post.
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Wonderful shots, David! The color is spectacular as are the faces and buildings! What an interesting journey!
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Thankyou Dwight.
I’ve only yet posted a scratching
below the Himalayan surface.
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Looking forward to seeing more!
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Precious.
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🙏
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wonderfully evocative photos…thanks for the peek through the hole…
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I always try to sneak a peek
at the highest peak, Geet 😀
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haha….thanks for the leak then…
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Great photos, David.
And of course as far as a wall on the U.S. -Mexico border is concerned, there’s definitely a–hole involved.
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Thanks Chris. I had to be quick . . .
the border guards were right on my trail.
I got to visit several “great big beautiful
walls”. Usually built by Moguls, trying
to keep all they had conquered.
Sooner or later, they all come tumbling
down (the Mogul Rulers, that is).
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Loving the vibrancy and poignancy of these photos … and that quote from Pink Floyd in the midst of it all.
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Thank you very much, Antonia.
I did try to reach the occupied home of Zen,
but security guards stopped me at the border 😎
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Yes, Zen always seems very closely guarded. 🙂
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These photos, so beautiful in themselves, are so perfectly paired with your poetry. Stunning.
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Yes, a photographer’s paradise,
and a poet’s Shangri-La of inspiration.
Welcome to my Blogosphere 😎
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I’m inspired to daydream of my own travels, and pull up photos of past adventures. I feel like I have taken photos of ‘holes in walls’ too.
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The wide world is full of them.
Even more than there are walls.
Some shallow, some deep,
some overflowing, some quite empty.
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WOW! These are all SO WONDERFUL!!! Man. With Your art, Your photos and Your take on the world….This one made me smile so big. Absolutely beautiful. The people. The envy sign view is brilliant! Life. Thank You for these, David. Cheers!!! 🙂
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My absolute pleasure, Katy.
Very pleased you liked them 😎
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💖💖💖
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
SUPERB PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPHY! ADDING PINK FLOYD IS A NICE TOUCH. WE DO NEED TO OPEN OURSELVES UP TO PEOPLE–NOT SHUTTING ANY OUT IN DISDAIN!
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Thanks Jonathan.
I got to see the mighty walls built by
Mogul Rulers, now all broken.
I also got to see their stone cold mausoleums.
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Nice proverb.
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Thanks. I’ll pass that on to Floyd 🐇
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I’m just now seeing this one. I was sick when you posted this and I missed it.
Just gorgeous. You show me the world I will never see on my own. ❤
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I’m happy to oblige, Victoria 😎
My privilege to be suspended
in a momentary drop of time💧
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🤗❤
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You really are a great artist-photographer-poet… so multitalented. All these photos capture so well the essence of the people, their souls, their natural envirnoment, the human-made things that look like chaos like the picture with the many wires and the yellow sign saying Envy. Excellent work, David! I have an artist.writer friend who shot a beautiful picture of Paris: https://savioni.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/latin-quarter-paris-1995/
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Thanks for introducing me to Mario’s blog.
The way he shot a fruit tart and pickle … we’ll!
And that Paris photo takes me back to the
streets of Montmartre.
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I am glad you like Mario’s blog.
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If you’ve never been
to Montmartre, Marta,
you should most certainly
do so. But best to go
in the Springtime
when Paris is in blossom.
Not in the Summer
as it’s tourist peak season.
For August is a bust,
as many a Parisienne
flees to the Riviera.
And don’t forget to grace
the Dalí Espace.
A gallery of much wonder! 😎
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Love Paris and Montmartre
and read a book by Sartre.
Been there twice, so nice,
and like you, appreciate Dalí,
tout ça a Paris, c’est très joli,
also le Museé d’Orsay,
le Louvre, le Bois de Bologne,
le Quartier latin, la Sainte Chapelle
and the Seine river walk.
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Off course! … you live so close.
For us Down Under, going to Europe
can be like flying to another planet 👽
Been twice to Spain. Can’t wait to
get back there again. Hopefully
a free Catalan by then😎
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I think Catalonia will be a free nation in some years’ time because Spain will entirely collapse. And it will not be the only state in the world to desintegrate. I am just worried about the human costs to achieve necessary freedom, democracy and respect for human rights not just where I live, but everywhere in the world. We have to keep the different worldwide non-violent civil resistance movements like the Me Too movement, etc, Non-violence is the only way to lessen the human costs. This is very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zymhIgWpMs
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Yes, we must learn from history,
or be condemned to repeat it.
Perhaps the swings between tyranny
and anarchy are fracturing under the
the blowtorch of social media?
All empires are forged and maintained
through tyranny. The Tree of Liberty,
unfortunately, needs regular watering
. . . with the blood of martyrs.
Freedom seems to always come at a
very high price. Violence simply replaces
one tyrant, with another. Non violence is
the way … Just look at Syria.
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Yes, was thinking exactly the same.
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Simpático … Marta.
Great minds think alike 😎
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👍 😉
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Your photos radiate so much energy.
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Thanks Bryan.
No wonder I was so exhausted
when leaving the Mountain Kingdom.
And I thought it was oxygen deprivation 😎
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I can imagine. 🙂
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I love the pictures, David. Thanks for stopping by my blog and following. 🙂 — Suzanne
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You are very welcome, Suzanne.
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Some really lovely character studies, David.
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Thanks Graham.
Yes, there were plenty of interesting
characters to meet. You’d have a ball
in Nepal, with the Himalayas, and all 😎
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Superb pix m8!
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Thanks 🙏 I did go all out …
like ten thousand kilometers 😎
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all beautiful, David❣️ you’re such a great photographer. may be some day you’ll be inspired to shoot pictures of Mauritius. It’s a beautiful island in the Indian Ocean.
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Merci beaucoup, Anita 🌹
My French teacher at school was
from Mauritius, and have long since
longed to visit that tropical paradise.
I must save my rupees and make it
happen one day 😎👍
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Make it fast, David ❣️
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I loved these photos – Nepal is one country still on my (most wanted) to-visit list. Thanks for giving me a glimpse of its joy, sadness, love and life. Beautiful motives.
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My Nepalese pleasure, Anna 🙏
Since we had no inclination to go
climbing mountains 🏔️ we had
no problem with hyperthermia, or
hypoxia 🥶 You just have to keep
an eye out 👁️ as the locals do, for
falling power lines⚡in Katmandu.
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great photos, David: a visual feast; I like what you say: ‘be a part of the whole’ —
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Thanks John 🙏
Yes, you can’t argue with the wisdom
of Floyd the Pink Rabbit Shaman 🐰😎
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Colours, all around… Amazingly blended together
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My senses were spiced up on that trip,
all the way from the Himalayas to New
Delhi 😎 Thanks for viewing 🙏
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Exquisite photography, David and Linda! Beautifully captioned. These photos capture the beauty and humanity of your subjects. Heart-touching. ❤
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Greatly appreciated, Cheryl 🙏
Linda and I were most fortunate in
having two travelling companions who
know Nepal and India very well, so we
were free to roam around and be led
from one picturesque location to another
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Beautiful in every way, David ❤ There is, indeed, a difference between a traveler and a tourist, as is evident in your photos of the people and not the popular tourist spots.
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Thank you very much, Rosaliene 🙏
I did manage to prove to the Tourist
Police that they had no jurisdiction
over me by showing them my second
class ticket 🎟️ for the midnight train
from Jaipur to Udaipur. A trip no tourist
would voluntarily undertake 😎
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Nice post with amazing photo,dear Redpath!!🌹🙏🌹
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Thank you very much, Aruna 💝
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Most welcome,dear Redpath!!🌹🙏🌹
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Not many people know who Melanie was any more ~ nice to see her go by!
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A true musical legend, Ana.
If Melanie had overdosed at 27 they’d
still be playing her songs on the hits
radio stations. Unfortunately for her
record company she’s still around 😎
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Melanie’s still with us??
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A true survivor … of Woodstock 🎸🎶✌️😎
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My disciplines allow no video presently, but it’s Woodstock in my haid every day anyway! 💖
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Beautiful series ~ a magical place you have captured here with your lens.
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Thank you, Dalo 🙏
It was certainly a magical mystery tour
as a couple of friends who know India
very well led us around by our backpacks.
Linda and I didn’t have to arrange a thing.
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Thank you David for sharing some colourful captures, each telling its own story
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My chromatic pleasure, Joseph.
Thanks for viewing 🙏
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Beautiful shot! So natural! 👌
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Thanks for viewing.
Greatly appreciated, Priti 🙏
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I am delighted.🙏
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Such gorgeous people in the photos! That one little girl’s eyes are so rich and expressive.
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Human resilience was on full display
amongst the poor of India, oppressed
under an archaic caste system, Tamara.
Back here in the “developed” west, I find
people don’t realise just how privileged
they are 🤔🕶️
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The Himalayan wall
Will take some time to fall
But everything in the end
Is just dust and soul
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That megathrust
of mountainous lust
will rise and fall
to eventually
become just
a pile of dust
in the blink of an eye
so do we all
that’s why I say
In God I trust 🙏😇
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Superb, David !
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Merci infiniment, Gilles 🙏😎
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Wonderful. Looks familiar. ‘“I’m a traveller
. . . not a tourist!
There is a difference.”’ It shows, man.
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Greatly appreciated, Indira 🙏
I do travel about in my own
backyard of Australia, but …
Seeing sights foreign
the more colourful
the better
hearing sounds unfamiliar
musical
yet strangely mystical
does something wonderful
to the traveller’s brain
whereas a tourist
on a tight
prepackaged schedule
with all meals included
designed to appeal
to the not so adventurous
serviced up
in a plastic cup
on a plastic tray
with the bland
following the lame
doing it for the pay 💰
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Beautiful pictures of India, but sad in a way. It’s a strange country with so much poverty on one side and incredible wealth on the other.
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Sadly, it has ever been thus.
The caste system, unlike cricket 🏏
wasn’t learnt from the British.
Saying that someone’s poverty
and dire circumstances is down
to their “bad karma”, is just an
excuse to do nothing to alleviate
the suffering of others.
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Someone spoke up against it recently and some priest put a bounty on his head. Yeah it’s an awful thing. Even when it comes to things like religious persecution (which is increasing everyday because of the present government) it’s the poorer people or those of ‘lower castes’ that really suffer.
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The Indian constitution requires the
government to behave in a secular
fashion, thereby ruling on behalf of
all it’s citizens. I’m not sure if using
the Sanskrit term ‘Bharat’ is all that
conducive to a united India. But then
the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,
is a Hindu Nationalist.
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Oh I have much to say about those in power here, but I’ll refrain since I’m a minority and this is a public space. What’s happening is inhumane. The name changing is just a tiny aspect of it. Btw this is Nitin. I wasn’t sure you knew that yet 😂 Most of my old friends do lol.
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Who else would I address as an
extraordinary person, Nitin? 😎👍
It’s good to hear from you again.
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