i'm making a note to myself to update my inprnt shop later.

...i will also try to write it on my palm

I chose to go for a walk instead. ☺️

雨雪瀌瀌，宴然聿消。莫肯下隧，式居屡骄。

Traditional Chinese Hanfu photography at the Great Wall of China, via 南和AliiienNahiiiii. She wears an upright-collar Aoqun/袄裙, a red Pifeng/披风 (jacket) with embroidered cranes from 清辉阁/Qinghuige, and a blue peacock-themed Doupeng/斗篷 (cloak) from 竹里馆/Zhuliguan. 

photographer michael nichols spent two and half years documenting two dozen lion prides in the seregenti. taking close to a quarter million shots, he used cameras mounted on small remote control vehicles to take many of these close up images.

“we had incredible intimacy. our car was closer than close, just a few feet away. We saw cubs when they were tiny and watched them grow up. i never thought i’d find so much family support among them. lions are different from house cats, which can live individually. being there, you really see how much they depend on each other to survive.  

“you have to take the leap of faith that they have no desire to hurt you. but if you make a mistake, like putting your arm or leg outside the car, all of that could change. one swipe and you’d be done. one time a lion three feet away almost walked into our vehicle.  

“they were nervous at first but quickly got habituated to us. they see the car as one entity, not understanding that humans are in it. lions are very efficient animals, so they won’t expend energy unless they see you as a threat. we got very close, but we never interacted.”

lions, it should be noted, are vanishing from the wild. africa’s lion population has declined by 90 percent in the last 75 years, with their numbers plummeting from 450,000 only fifty years ago to less than 20,000 today.

Nezu by Hajime Nagahata

Photo of the Week

By Stacy Gold

July 19th, 2016

Every day we are bombarded with portraits of people on the news and social media. We travel throughout our lives meeting eyes with strangers connected by that quick glimpse of eye contact on the street, colleagues on the elevator or neighbors we know. An image like this allows us time. Time to stand still so we can take it all in. Time to observe, breathe and critique. This woman’s expression of passion is eminent. Paired with the delicate particles of chalk surrounding her and the gesture of a clap as the worn-down torn tape dangles from her wrists tells her story without words. Stephanie Sinclair is a brilliant documentary photographer known for gaining unique access into people’s lives around the world. This portrait of a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey traveling circus performer is part of a larger project by Sinclair that you can see here. She has a special talent for documenting the true essence of a person in such a poetic way. Tape wears down with use Performance is profession Clap my hands with chalk

Jimmy Nelson ‘’Before They Pass Away’’ project

{ the lake, the forest, the autumn }

Hermoso lugar capturado en el momento indicado.

For Hinamatsuri, we found a nagashibina event to attend in Ibaraki.  For the annual ‘Doll Festival’ or ‘Girls Day’ in Japan on March 3rd, traditional dolls are set out on display in Japanese homes and lots of Japanese museums, schools, and other public places.  

Way back in the day, people used to make straw or fabric dolls as vessels to carry any future misfortunes that might befall their children, and they sent them down a river on rafts, to carry the misfortunes away.  Somewhere down the line, the tradition evolved into owning sets of nicely crafted dolls to display and to offer good luck to daughters in the home, and some towns still floated the dolls as a symbolic ceremony, but retrieved them at the end since they were of such high quality.

I found a garden called Kairakuen in Ibaraki that does a small nagashibina ceremony during their ume blossom festival, and was very excited to witness the tradition firsthand.  It was quite far from Tokyo, but doable in a day, and I was so glad we were able to make it.  The dolls and boats they floated them in were so beautiful, and they even gave out little tiny boats for the audience members to float after the main dolls were set out.  Afterward we explored the rest of the garden, which was filled with thousands of fragrant  blossoming plum trees, as well as a bamboo and cedar forest. but we’ll save that for another post.

Bordeaux, juin 2016

Canon EOS 3000, Kodak Portra 160

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rooftop sessions

Roppongi Hills - Tokyo, Japan

Birds Taking Care Of Their Babies

the sacred headwaters is a remote region in northern british columbia that is the shared birthplace of three salmon rivers: the stikine, skeena and nass. it supports an incredible ecosystem of large mammals and is the traditional territory of the tahltan first nation. but it is also rich in minerals and gas, which has left the tahltan fighting for the protection of their land. 

the sacred headwaters is also home to todagin mountain – a grassy plateau that is home to what is thought to be the largest herd of stone’s sheep in the world. nearly the entire plateau was opened to mineral exploration, and an open pit gold and copper mine is proposed. should the plateau be lost to mining, the herd could be forced from the mountain and the tahltan would lose the economic benefit of hunters who travel there from around the world.

photos by paul colangelo

Nara Dreamland was Japan’s answer to Disneyland, opening in 1961 and finally closing in 2006 due to lack of visitors. It has since been left completely abandoned and extremely eerie. 

Farmers pick marigolds in Minzu village, Weining County in Guizhou, China on August 2, 2015. (Yang Wenbin/Xinhua)

Ashayer Kares Le Roy

From the artist:

Ashayer is a photographic epic about the nomads who inhabit the landscape of ancient Persia and Central Asia. Inspired by a first trip to the Asian continent which resulted in the book 56 000 kilometers - man and a continent, Kares Le Roy went back East again and immersed himself into the tribal world during a 16-months journey driving a van. The photographer shared the daily life and seasonal migration of different ethnic groups who live on in these regions. With Ashayer - nomads in Persian - he delivers the fruit of an expedition from France to Afghanistan via Iran. One vibrant testimony of a culture that tends to disappear in the far corners of the world.

ASHAYER (Amu Darya Editions) Available on the online store > amudarya.com

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