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The Days We Wear Masks 20210207
Hong Kong’s traditional Lunar New Year flower markets opened on Saturday for the festive period amid stringent coronavirus crowd-control measures.
Authorities have installed infrared sensors at the entrances and exits of each area to keep track of the number of people inside, to guard against Covid-19 infection risks at the city’s 15 major flower markets.
The measures are in line with the administration’s latest target to reduce daily coronavirus cases to fewer than a dozen by Lunar New Year towards the end of next week, in a bid for an economic revival.
An alert system on television, radio and the internet based on traffic light signals is being used to indicate crowd capacities at the flower markets. A red alert will be issued when capacity has been exceeded.
(20210206 SCMP)
Faces from Minneapolis Pride 2018. The nice thing about editing months after the event, is that by the time next April rolls around I will have enough to print for a Pride theme showing at a local coffee house. Kind of a primer for Mpls Pride 2019.
Fall will be upon us soon, and then of course Winter. My enthusiasm for outdoor photos in Winter wanes a bit.
Meanwhite. I culled these out . . . wimples and veils seem to have made a comeback this year at Pride. Haven't seen so many wimples and veils since I was in Catholic elementary school taught by Franciscan nuns.
Os pés calejados são frutos da bota usada para campo e pisa do cacau na barcaça.
Ubaitaba - BA - Brasil
Saihoji (西芳寺, Saihōji), more commonly known as Kokedera (苔寺), is one of Kyoto's Unesco World Heritage Sites. Entrance to this templerequires a reservation made well in advance by mail.
Kokedera means Moss Temple, referring to the temple garden's estimated 120 different varieties of moss. Visitors to the temple can walk through this spectacular garden, which has strongly influenced subsequent Japanese garden design.
Officials suggested that the dilapidated living conditions of many residents in Jordan had fueled the virus’s spread. A densely packed neighborhood known for a lively night market, aging high-rise apartments and plentiful eateries, Jordan is home to some of the city’s highest concentrations of tenements, the subdivided flats that are created when apartments are parceled out into two or more smaller ones.
More than 200,000 of the city’s poorest residents live in such units, where the average living space per person is 48 square feet — less than one-third the size of a New York City parking space. Some spaces are so tiny and restrictive that they are called cages or coffin homes.
(20210127 The New York Times)
Inside Hong Kong’s cage homes
Kimpusen-ji (金峯山寺) is the head temple of a branch of the Shugendō religion called Kimpusen-Shugendō in Yoshino district, Nara Prefecture, Japan.
In 2004, it was designated as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site under the name Sacred Sites and Pilgrimage Routes in the Kii Mountain Range.
-Wikipedia
Two camera's record dance master, Jason's demonstrration of his art. We always have at least two cameras recording the action, and one behind the scenes shooting production stills . . . like this one.
Production stills, as I may have mentioned are to be submitted to whomever is going to buy or exhibit your work. It is security that, indeed it is your own work.
I rather enjoy that role of production stills, because it allows me to create images for my own collection and portfolio.
Shuri Theatre 首里劇場(www.shurigekijou.com) is Okinawa's oldest cinema, nestled quietly away in Shuri, Naha City. Opened in 1950, the cinema was a central presence in Okinawa's entertainment culture, allowing visitors to enjoy both theater and films. The slightly dilapidated building currently gives off a nostalgic vibe as one of Okinawa's historical monuments, and continues to this day to be in operation as an adult movie cinema. A retro Showa-esque atmosphere drifts through after setting foot into the theater. The rows of unusual long benches and leather covered chairs with an antiquated feeling paint a unique landscape, and are coupled with a screen that has been in use since the theater began business. Also used as an event site, Shuri Theatre became a hot topic in 2014 with the performance of the Shibusashirazu Orchestra, a big band known for its one-of-a-kind performances.
Keibunsha 惠文社
Keibunsha is a “Select shop having a wide selection of books and goods”. We’d like to introduce not only the new books but also the books and goods that are selected by staff with all our hearts.
We propose having an unexpected chance meeting; however, the books are functionally shelved.
The books are neatly decorated with beautiful covers; please enjoy looking at them.
The book has various functions, not only as a tool to obtain information on improvisation and knowledge.
It is possible to carry one in your bag, to decorate shelves, or you might finish reading one while enjoying a summer vacation.
Nowadays the speed of the information transmission keeps increasing.
Books have a special quality all their own, like an analog feeling, peacefully getting, slowly getting information.
We’d like to value this quality in the current of the times.
It would be greatly appreciated if you could have this feeling from our product lineup.
We have an abundant collection of not only so-called books but also various miscellaneous goods from all over the world, CDs, and DVDs, etc.
They are not only items suitable for the color of “Keibunsha”, but also increasing the enjoyment of reading, or richly coloring your life with books.
In gallery “Enfer”, established as an annex, we lend space to students and local or nameless artists.
Moreover, this gallery functions as a place that introduces various cultures through our project exhibition, which frequently showcases an original point of view.
“Seikatsu-kan (Life pavilion)” opened a store in 2006.
It proposes books that relate to life especially food, clothing, housing, and the miscellaneous goods linked with them.
The mini gallery in this floor is being offered to artists, shops, or brands regardless of genre.
In this space, you will be able to see commodities that are rarely found in other shops.
The Basílica Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre (National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Charity) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary located in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas%C3%ADlica_Santuario_Nacional_...
Canon EOS 7D | Canon 35mm f/1.4 | Natural Light
I'm a natural recluse. Ironically. So, there are times when I am tentative about approaching people for this project. But sometimes I see someone who is so obviously photogenic that whatever curmudgeon tendency I may feel at the time is instantly subsumed by my desire to realize the beautiful portrait I see in my mind's eye.
Such was the case when I saw this gentleman at the Detroit International Jazz Festival. I mean, clean white on green and a 70's era bebop hat? What's F-ing with that?
I approached the brother and he was more than willing to participate. In addition to being a exquisitely attired jazz fan, he is also a plumber. His card says you should call 313 615 6264 if you're "looking for a good plumber."
Now, that clean white and green attire, playerific grin, gangsta lean so mean you can see it in a still photo may lead you to believe that "plumber" is some kinda jive-talk euphemism. But nay, the card definitely denotes a plumber of the Merriam-Webster variety
Queue the muzak:
The producers of The People of Detroit would like to take this opportunity to affirm that the plumbing done by people featured in TPOD does not necessarily agree with the plumbing done by Noah Stephens, The People of Detroit Photodocumentary, and its thusfar nonexistent sponsors.
Seek references and execute due diligence when contracting with any service providers mentioned here or anywhere else for that matter
That said, I figured I should trust the brother enough to pass along his business information, since he trusted me enough to take his photo.
Which brings me to the part of the show where I cast aside my Cloak of Altruism and proceed to talk about myself.
For some reason, people really trust me. This project more than anything else has proven that to me. Far more people accept my impromptu request to take their picture than rebuff me. It means a lot to let a strange man take your photo for a strange website you've never heard of. I think its just something about my face.
Some other lines of evidence for my status as a trustworthy face:
In the last month, two white people in coffee shops have asked me to watch their laptops and personal belongings while they went to the bathroom. One of them was a white woman who asked me to watch her MacBook Pro while she went to tinkle.
Now, maybe that shouldn't surprise people in the era of Obama, but its significant to me. See, I've been in enough situations where I was in a mostly white community, relaxing, thinking I had overcome and shit, when out of the blue someone exploded a a lil M80 of racism.
A couple of summers back I had just seen Bob James perform at a jazz festival in Birmingham (an extremely affluent suburb of Detroit. They have corner stores that sell Ferraris. Seriously. Google it.), when I stopped to get a sub and had my dignity lynched.
A gaggle of passing, middle-aged, drunk white women asked to have a bite of my "sammich."
Now, I grew up in the hood. I don't know a lot about white people. But I know they don't call sandwiches, "sammiches."
When you are completely relaxed and open, and feeling like you have just as much right to be in a privileged, white neighborhood as anyone else and some shit like that happens, you tend to keep your guard up the next time you are in the same environment. If only subconsciously.
So I guess my running assumption is that a cauldron of racism steams beneath the facade of suburban gentility.
So, when the aforementioned white woman asked me to watch her MacBook Pro (I'd like to to take this time to publicly recognize her as a credit to her race), I was slightly surprised.
Maybe I had over estimated the size of this hidden cauldron of hate.
Some of my friends attributed it to my being light skin. I don't know. Puerto Ricans are light skinned, and no one trusts them.
Would you ask Fat Joe to watch your laptop? Exactly.
I don't think complexion has anything to do with it. I think I just have a trustworthy kinda face.
And just to show you I am committed to the scientific method, I even have a control group. Just today in a Detroit Starbucks, a black dude asked me to watch his shit while he went to the bathroom.
Does he only trust light skinned black people also? I think the fuck not.
It's me, got damn it. I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And gosh darn it, people trust me with their shit.
And their portraits.
[View the ongoing project and meet more of: The People of Detroit ]
Cuban School Students (5)
Cuban school children wear a simple, but standardized school uniform. The uniform varies by school level. Kindergarten children wear a white top, blue bottom, and blue scarf. Primary children wear a white top, red bottom, and red scarf. The secondary school uniform is a white top and yellow bottom.
Lately, I've been noticing the photo ops found along the Light Rail lines that run from Minneapolis to both the Mall of America and St. Paul, as well as the neighborhood back yards and alleys along those routes. Hence, the first photo show the location from which I first saw the art in the other two photos.
The idea wasn't mine. I had run across a photographer who photographed back yards in Germany if I recall. It's also fun to "go where no photographer has [likely] gone before." .😎
Over the fence is an art atelier and complex that I have yet to explore.
I donno why this guy just ran over my frame but i loved this shot just because of this kind of movement... The frame looked quite interesting and i ran over a optimum distance to capture that but suddenly this man saw me and jumped out as i was pointing a gun against him :P
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Boxing in Cuba (20)
Cuba has a long history of World and Olympic boxing champions, both in professional (banned in 1962) and amateur boxing. Perhaps it was the great Cuban boxing idol of all time, Eligio Sardiñas, aka Kid Chocolate, who triggered that dream forever. In the 1940s, Kid once said, "I am boxing."
It is estimated that several thousand boys, from 8 to their mid-teens, practice boxing under trained coaches.
All of these kids have one dream: to become today’s Kid Chocolate or Teófilo Stevenson; win an Olympic medal and the acclaim of sports fans. It’s not so impossible to become a champ. Cubans have won around 30 gold medals in Olympic Games in boxing alone, not to mention the medals won in wrestling, judo, track and field, weightlifting, volleyball, baseball and others. Whether newcomers to the sport or the most experienced, boxers always receive the enthusiastic support of the millions of fans in Cuba.