Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for self-portrait

Hi everyone,

as we say in France, le caïd ou la "caillera" de Nice , Doc Doug, very intimidating looking !! 

I'm making my entry, I hope , " à la Ché " ...

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Re: [MC74 and Friends] Buidlings, monuments to be continued until this Friday, and theme for the week after

Hi Hai bà chu² Blog

Thuy' Hoà's post allowed me to hitch onto her 

late posting and send you my contribution on Buildings and monuments. 

I wanted something that stood apart. 

I found this monument in 2009 in Da Nang, this Pagoda statue is actually a building . 

You can see the 2 students walking at its base, for scale. You can see the door and the 

round windows openings higher on the back too. Inside is a large library on Dharma 

with thousands of volumes and a stairway going to the top.

Mr. Xe ôm driver told the story of this statue, it was built in 1972 by an ARVN lieutenant colonel of the công-binh, 

and now restored by the actual local Town mayorship. 

There was a Spirou and Fantasio episode where they went to China-Tibet and there was a huge empty Buddha statue acting as a prison there...

Thanks Thuy' Hoà  :) 

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] theme for the upcoming week

Dear Em Ci,

beautiful camaïeu in violet and blue hues ! your neighbours' garden ? hmmm, through telescopic lenses ?

Here's my very late entry for "Tasting Pleasure", or my early entry for "Posters" : you have both themes in the attached pic : "tasting-for-2".

Cheers !

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Theme for the upcoming week - Touching Pleasure

Hi EmCi, BiTi,

my entry is titled ... " Deprived of Touching Pleasure " ... (taken in the  Park in Santiago de Chile)

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] gentle reminder to PHO NHOM EN HERBE, HOA SI :-)

Dear EmCi,

thanks for reminding me of sending.  

Guess what ? 

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] New theme for our weekly project

Thanks Mr Kiu , (I believe they call you) , Ladies of the Lens,

That morning in 2009 when I awoke in my hotel room up there in Da nang, I felt myself really in many transitions. 

Of course, transition between night and day, augmented by the eery feeling provided by the glass pane that was a whole wall of my suite from the 35th floor. At first it was night, a royal blue black velvet fabric draped over, here and there, patches of land dotted by spots of street lights and lamp-lit windows. I felt like my childhood dreams of science fiction had came true : I was living in a space station, like the big wheel in "2001: A Space Odyssey" we saw at the Centre Culturel Français in 1972. 

Then violet and rosy streaks slowly beamed from one corner of horizon as dawn lazily pushed back its bed covers and swung its pink-white smoothed legs out of bed. The invisible Sun, from below the low skyline of wooden and thatch cottages across the Hàn river, sent its rays to illuminate the mottling of strato cirrus very high , over 5000 feet probably. Flocks of pink, then white sheeps revealed themselves by rows and lines in the skies, ahead of an undissipated thick wall of cold front dark cumulus.

Then, as the sun got higher, the ripples on the Hàn's surface became more accentuated. A small junk left a parting wake like a smile across the serene stretch of water. 

I found myself excitedly realizing this was also a period of transition for these people, waking up from the hunger-ridden post war years into the accelerating pace of skyscrapers building on the outer bank. The harvest of growth at a 6%-8% clip was visible as the towers grew amid the low cottages. Infrastructural groundwork was being laid. For more speed and flexibility, these people will skip over and jump past the slow fixed telephone lines and archaic economic banking relays. Dive directly into cell phones and internet banking and RFID payment systems. 

Another transition was starting, as I see throngs of pedestrians, some walking, some running , on the paved boardwalks of the Han river. They were mostly doing their callisthenics movements with upper arms and torsos as they walked. Some paused to do Tai Chi. They squeezed in a half hour of exercise before going to work, their offices or market stalls being  fortunately a mere 15 minutes in this (still) small town Da nang. Definitely, health and beauty will be the next stops in transition, for these beginners in Affluence.      

    

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Re: [MC74 and Friends] New theme for our weekly project

To :  friends of the Lens 

From : land of the France  

Our Twin Presidents, BiTi and Em Ci have christened this Week , "Changes /Transition " , probably with inspirations from Triêt's orginal idea. 

Here are 2 kinds of different transitions :

Transitions and changes in Western Mindsets 

Transition night to day on the Hàn River   

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Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] my entries for LIGHT

 

Dear Liêm

to make a duo with your Eiffel LV tower , here is a shot fresh from today, moreover, with a rotating ray of "Light ";

 this pix is out of competition as well as the following, which I really love since it's a shot of the peaceful suburb where I live, some of our friends may recall this Green Neon-lit "Chez Thu² " where one Saturday afternoon in 2005, when Nathalie was on the way back with her kids from La Baule, we had lunch with Becker, Du~ng, Anh Hoa , et alii
It has an atmosphere like Edward Hopper's painting "the night coffee shop" or something like that.

Dear HyH , CTT , 

my previous shot was in Jardin des Tuileries. 

Bien vu ! On rainy days , the place really make me think of Moussorgski's Tableau d'une Exposition 

Re: [MC74 and Friends] my entries for LIGHT

Hi Mai-Chau, friends,

my entry for this week's theme, I'd like to title this, " Glaring light , subtle fire ".

DPh.

Hve DPDphh.a nice week ( despite Fukushima )
DP_,___