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A trio carrying the boat

Mamallapuram

Nothing is more pleasant then to nab or catch people red-handed in the act.
Here the front man is like saying with a smile: come on man, give some helping hand, this thing is damm heavy !
For the second, a young strong man, it still seems a featherweight.

Not because the third man is wearing a polo with the colors of the Belgian flag, I took this shot, that I saw only after, but concentrating on the first man having his loungi tied around his head to keep it dry. You see so many foreigners walking around in their shorts here but in fact that is for a Tamil considered as walking around in your underwear, a loungi or pants is decent. So many times they lower their loungi first to the ground before they are willing to be portrayed.

And about portraying people I try to avoid mortuary cards of zombies without any expression or crying out loud for compassion which I don't have, at the most symp -or enpathy.

Damm what do they got big noses, maybe inherited from their ancestors when they still ware part of the African continent still floating away from it:).

A misty morning at the beach line returning from sea, carrying the boat on to the sands. The life of fishermen that I tried to spot out a bit more this year then I did in the past to busy to be with them before.


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ltolksdorf04-Aug-2007 06:53
Excellent image, full of action and life.