by Geoff | Apr 28, 2022 | India, Varanasi
My previous blog post described the role of the Karta at Manikarnika Ghat at Varanasi; the white cotton-clad males who lead the antyesti rituals on the ghats of Manikarnika, one of the most auspicious cremation sites in the Hindu world. Although moksha can be...
by Geoff | Apr 24, 2022 | India, Varanasi
The men with the white cotton clothes and the shaven heads are conspicuous amongst the sacred, infernal landscape of Mannikarnika Ghat, the most auspicious cremation site in the entire country of India. Often separated from family and friends, they sit upon piles of...
by Geoff | Apr 19, 2022 | FujiGFX50r, India, Morocco
Buying a new camera with a modern technological profile does not mean that you, as a photographer, have not been in a similar situation before. A camera is just essentially a hollow receptacle ( a box that captures light ), and the medium, although changing from...
by Geoff | Nov 2, 2021 | Somerset, Somerset Levels, UK
Landscapes are never static. They are in a state of constant flux and evolution. In and around the 2nd world war Weston Zoyland airfield on the Somerset Levels the metal and rubber of airplanes have been replaced by the metal of containers, detritus and machinery....
by Geoff | Aug 13, 2021 | Morocco
Flowers please the mind and grant prosperity. Hence, men with righteous deeds bestowed the name Sumana on them The Mahabharata book 13, Anusasana Parva Chapter 101, verses 19-21 Situated under the famous Howrah Bridge in Kolkata, the flower market is a riot of...
