Laundry like prayer flags flies
All over the island, laundry hung on clotheslines. And although we saw washing machines for sale in the big store in Somosoma Village, we saw constant evidence of laundry being done in the small streams that make their way from the mountains to the sea.
Many people still wear the traditional sulu (or sarong) and my favorite clotheslines were the ones that had a row of sulu rectangles drying in the sun.
This house was above the ocean – that’s what you can see behind those trees – and the laundry flapped like prayer flags.
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.5.2013
Posted on July 20, 2013, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, fiji, melinda green harvey, one day one image, photo a day, photography, taveuni island, taveuni island fiji. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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We still hang cloths on a line (weather permitting) but it doesn’t look nearly as nice as this.
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Is it because you don’t have a tropical ocean in your backyard?
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That, and the house is nicer than ours.
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Also: I am pretty sure Fiji gets less snow than you get.
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I like this shot a lot, it looks like some form of paradise that I could enjoy, sulu’s and all. Glad to see you found a textured foreground as well 🙂
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I was shooting from the (open air) window of a moving bus, so there wasn’t really any choice about foreground – I was just lucky.
(I took about 30 pictures of laundry on clotheslines, but none of them turned out particularly well. Shooting from a moving bus created some weaknesses in my ability to frame up a decent shot.)
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