Week 29 – Candid Portraits

Happy little faces tell the story!

I can't believe it!

It was so hard to pick the best pumpkin 1

In days long gone, professional letter writers had stalls along streets in Chinatown. They wrote letters for illiterate and semi-literate Chinese immigrants who wanted to communicate with their families back in China; and they also read out letters from the immigrants’ families to them. I was lucky enough to come across this letter writer in the 1980s. The service was, by then, already a dying trade.

The train I was travelling on happened to pass a stationary train. I quickly took this shot of the engineers.

I was intrigued by this scene — three men with cameras from different eras. They were at a defunct railway station, which had been opened to the public before being closed for restoration.

I often give my grand children a camera when we are out and about. Here is Sophie with my Canon 90D.

A quick grab shot of Jackson

Granddaughter Hana playing a music machine

Portrait of Paula and Alzheimer's

A monk in deep in study of the Scriptures in one of the rock-hewn churches. Scriptures are written in the liturgical language of Ge'ez. Extinct as a vernacular language, Geʿez is the ancestor of the modern Tigrinya and Tigré languages of Eritrea and Ethiopia. The oldest known inscription in the language dates from the 3rd or 4th century and is written in a script that does not indicate vowels. Subsequent inscriptions found in the ancient Ethiopian capital of Aksum were written from the 4th through the... 
View More 9th century in a script that does indicate vowels. The Bible was translated into Geʿez between the 5th and 7th centuries. Although the language ceased to be spoken popularly sometime between 900 and 1200, it continues as a liturgical language; the period of classical Geʿez literature was between the 13th and 17th centuries.

Much about the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia is anchored in the pre-medieval traditions of the Egyptian Orthodox Church, including their monastic traditions with their antique cotton clothing. I snapped this novice in Lalibela which is fanous for mits churches hewn from the living rock

Worshippers leaving an Easter service in one of the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia. Christianity arrived in Ethiopia around 300 AD and continues to be revered as the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

divers Quito

"It's Raining Again". Oxford Circus, London.

"Going Home". Brixton, London.

"Whatsapp?". Naples.