Monthly Archives: July 2013
Toilet
“You’re taking a picture of….the bathroom?” the woman asked me. (She was, obviously, unfamiliar with my work.)
So, of course I took a picture of the bathroom. And not just THIS bathroom either – I took several photos of the restroom at the airport on Taveuni.
(Now that I re-read this, it strikes me that maybe there is something a little odd about taking pictures of bathrooms. Perhaps I’ve said too much.)
Bouma National Heritage Park
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.6.2013
Bus girl
The main town on the island of Taveuni is Somosomo Village; it’s known as a chiefly town, a designation indicating the residence of a chief who has descended from the traditional rulers of this part of the island. Somosomo Village has most of the island’s commerce, a school or two, and the transit center. Buses needing to make transfers at the center back into the dirt parking lot from the main road, which lets them pull straight out into traffic.
Our friendly guide Sepo told us that very few islanders have seen both the northern and southern ends of the island; the road’s not paved the entire way, and travel is costly. Instead, villagers from the ends of the island come to Somosomo Village once or twice a month to shop, then go back home. Sepo himself first made the trip all the way to the northern end of the island only a few years ago. (To put it into perspective, the island is less than 30 miles long.)
I spotted this little girl on the open-air bus that was headed south from the transit center.
Somosomo Village
Taveuni Island, FIji
photographed 7.5.2013
The night divers
The water’s so clear that the lights from the nighttime scuba divers were rendered as a cool phosphorescent glow. I was hoping for more of this effect, but that didn’t really work out.
That’s the difference between clear and murky waters.
Paradise Taveuni
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.3.2013
Three clouds
A relaxing view.
So, instead of reading my usual yammering, stare at this until you feel relaxed…..there, don’t you feel better?
Taveuni Island, Fiji
photographed 7.1.2013
The Polls Are Open
I am very honored that one of my photographs has made the short list in the Digital Lightroom’s contest. Please look at them, and if you are so inclined, vote for mine – it’s the one titled Stairs from the Nameless Street.
Thanks,
Melinda
These are the 10 shortlisted pictures in the DLR Urban Landscape Photography Competition once again. The response has been brilliant. It just gets better and better and harder and harder to choose just 10 images from all those entered. You now have the even tougher job to choose just one image from the 10 excellent photographs listed below.
A quick note, this competition was started because we wanted to celebrate the excellent photography we see on a daily basis here at WordPress. We didn’t want the competition to be about the blog or the blogger, a popularity contest in other words. We want the competition to be purely about the photographs and we hope that you will vote with this ideal in mind.
The Photographs are listed in no particular order, post your vote carefully.
A Wet Dark Night
Stairs from the Nameless Street
Moody Manhattan
La Defense
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