Fw: [MC74 and Friends] New theme for our weekly projectTransition/ Da Nang / Ha Noi

Dear Ipi ,
Very expressive photo, relaxing and full of meanings, perhaps due to the colors of dawn and the serenity on the people faces contrasting to the hurry walk on the pier ,and illustrated perfectly by your text, quite a sketch movie, with sounds and movements
A beautifull piece of Da Nang , so well captured and express under your eyes and feelings . Writed with such sensibility and shade of colors -like a painter- , I can imagine the changing of colors and times through the day and smell the breeze of the wind through the changing form of the clouds in the sky .Wish I can write like you Duc !
Your comparison between the early wake up and transition of this day in Da Nang with the wake up and changing on a modern and comfortable life for many people is pertinent and  really well found
"Walking on the Pier to the future ? "
 I had this feelings too , specially the last times I came back to VN ,waking up early in the morning and walking slowly around the Hoan Kiem lake before starting my work day ,and before the noisy traffic and human crowd jump on the city . I saw this incredible light in the sky above the mist of the lake , and like you in Da Nang, the people training Tai Chi around the corner in a slowly zen ballet in the early daw , so peacefull ! 
Not far away , the new areas of buildings around the South Hô Tây (Khu Dô Thi Moi ) scaped their form in the sky above the West Lake
HyH

photo 1/  Tai Chi at Hô Hoàn Kiêm early morning 2005

photo 2 / Transition in HN architectur past and present 2006

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Re: My entry for this week's theme "Transitions"

Dear Friends,

 
Here's to share with you the sunset and moonrise over Dana Point on March 19th.  Chi Hang is supposed to be at her 'chubbiest' I mean 'brighest' :-) but … somehow she didn't appear that way that evening, at least in my corner of the world :-)  Did any one catch her otherwise that weekend?





and this second photo is … hors sujet :-) but since I was in the neighborhood I decide to snap some pics to entice CTT further to come and visit the West Coast of America before it becomes part of the Hawaiian Islands  *J/K*

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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Fwd: My entry for this week's theme "Transitions/Spring"

My dear twin BiTi, Trie^'t, Trang and other pho' nhom\s en herbe,

My first entry - As Manhattan transitioned into spring was for Trang's sub theme. Here is my second entry entitled Off the Map transition, with the hope that this would fit into Mr. Brainy's definition of transition :-). As it turned out, no one had any difficulty coming up with more than one photo to match Trie^'t 's sub theme....except me :-)

I love all of the entries received so far from our regular contributors and the latest kid on the block Minh Thuy'. They are all original and beautiful in their own ways. It was such a pleasure for me to open the attachments and look at the pictures.
We still have a lot more photos coming from the other regular pho' nhoms\ CiTiTi, Hien Lan, Caro Thu Dung, o^ng chu? Forum TNS, Thuan (if his time permits), Cao Tua^'n, the famous couple/competitors/collaborators Khiem and Luong Hie^\n, and last but not least Ms. Spring - Trang. So stay tuned :-)

Psst , BiTi, did I miss anyone? I have been posting the comments from the Forum to the blog a bit slowly these days, but I am getting there :-)
Good night
from Be^n bo*\ so^ng
Em Ci

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My Entries for This Week's Theme: Transition/Change

Dear Mr. Brainy, Mesdames Blog and friends,

Please accept my entry for Transition to New Life.  This is the picture of a cute two-month-old baby at a shelter for destitute girls who got pregnant out of wedlock.  This baby and his mom will soon be moving out of this housing because they are both recovered, and the mom has found a job to support herself and her child.

Best wishes for a brighter future to both mom and child!

Cheers,

Tuan

Re: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme "Transitions" Passé présent/ Jour Nuit

Chers BT et amis pho nhom

Ma petite contribution pour les Transitions
1 / Ha Long au crépuscule du pont du bateau , à travers les cordages
du bateau- barque ,2009
2 / Deux moyens de transport se côtoyant dans la rue : Vélo spécial
vietnamien  et voiture Hdernier cri ( au 1er plan en flouté) devant les vitrines
multicolores, un autre monde pour le conducteur du vélo, Hà Nôi , 2006

Hy Hoà

Re: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme "Transitions/Spring"

Here is my entry, a picture taken last year during the Cherry Blossom festival in DC.  I also have one for the light theme, if it's not too late :-) To follow Triet's thinking about transition, I am adding another pic of DC.  I wish I had a pic of the Washington monument in late fall, but I hope this one of the Jefferson Memorial in late fall early winter will do in showing the transition of life at the DC Mall from Spring to Fall tha^n MThuy

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme "Transitions/Spring"

Dear friends,

For this week's theme, Transition to Spring, please accept the picture of my backyard wisteria in bloom:

How I love to sit under the beautiful wisteria and smell its perfume,

and admire the flowers cascading down like grapes, the delicate petals fluttering in the wind, 

and reflect on their melancholic purple color…

Tuan

My Entries for This Week's Theme: "Transitions/Change"

Hello Dear Pho Nhoms,

I'm using my 3 entries to illustrate how broadly you can interpret the theme of "Transition or Change".

The first, "Commencement", is the most obvious. Note that every kid in the shot was doing something different: phoning, texting, sleeping, chatting, looking around...anything but listening to the Commencement speaker who, as it so happens, was Barack Obama !

The second, "Disguise" is a picture of our neighbor's daughter with face painting on. Not sure what she wanted to become...?

The last, "Directions", is a shot of an intersection sign in Prague. It's a bit of stretch, I admit, but I just like the composition. :-)

I hope these meet with the approval of our two bosses, the Twins!

Than,

Triet

Re: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme "Transitions/Spring"

Dear Friends,

Here are my 2 photos for this week’s theme “Transition/Change”.  

The first one is  Go Green

 Even the thinker (look alike) is sprouting green ideas  as you can see
:-)

This second one I took at a baby shower a month or so ago is self-explanatory :-)

Re: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme "Transitions/Spring"

Cher(e)s   Bi Ti , Mai Chau , Khanh Liem , Caro Nhu Hoa   et amis ,

 

    Encore  une qui voit  rose J .

 

   Bonne semaine à tous ,

   THg

 

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme "Transitions/Spring"

Dear BT, MC, CTT, Caro, Mr. Q., TNS,  Thuy-Chau, HH2, Triet, Duc, Thuan, BeLan, Hien-Lan, T-Huong, Trang, Khiem-Hien, Tuan and all  sweet MC friends:
Here is my transition to Spring contribution to this week  theme

These flowers are blooming everywhere in my area & it makes me feel so "pink" happy & renewal  

It would compliment Caro's photo of the large pink blooming tree

Cheers

Liem

 

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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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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme "Transitions/Spring"

Hi MC

Very nice collage, you can feel that Spring is in the air in NY city! I didn't know you could do this with Picasa either, I do my collage with photoshop...

BT & MC, I'm a bit of a rush because am leaving tomorrow to Europe, so this is my Transition into Spring contribution, taken in Huntington Libray in Los Angeles... Its botanical garden is one of my favorite places here, the vegetation is so varied and lush... If you have not been there lately, you should go soon before the Japanese Garden closes for an extended period of time due to renovation...

Caro

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme "Transitions/Spring"

Dear Mai Châu, BT & friends,

You gave me the virus to become "pho nhom en herbe", I can't help it !

Here are my entries for this week :

Picture 1:  Spring through the window
Picture 2 : Spring is in the air !


Mai Châu, your collage is awesome, one can't detect you as a beginner ! and we can feel  all the love of NYC in you!
just like me "fidèle aux paysages Suisse, malgré moi". This is my signature ! I  come to realize that I only post pictures from
Switzerland....

TChâu, you are multi-talented, not just only an outstanding poetess, you are also a great cartoonist !please accept all my
admiration,  your poems touched my heart.

Have a great  weekend everyone and thanks for the nice and fun forum !

NL

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme: Light "Attitude"

    My dear  M.C. M.C. EMCI ( Marie Curie ,Master of ceremonies Mai Chau)
    I 'm from the plebs, I'll stay plebeian.
    Let me get off the throne you "nicely" installed  me on  :>)
    I'm just so happy to belong to Pho Nhom's family, directed
    by master hands of the dynamic duo BiTi & EmCi.
    You prove to us everyday that you're a MC, without equal, with
    thousand talents ,you'd better career in diplomacy, having the art
    of receiving each one.What else ?  You do wonders, your collage
    doesn't look like  an Amish patchwork !!! oufff ! Thank you.
    Thanh Van,
    tu nous lis dans l'ombre, surveillant les mouvements de  chacun
    avec perspicacité et sors à la lumière ,au moment opportun !
    Post Tenebras Lux,  Ngâm`dây'  nha  !
    Cây tixi,
    What category is your great photo ? all categories already missed
    the deadline : Through the window, Simple pleasure, Light...
    This can match the new subject : Transition of night to dawn.
    Thank you of this beautiful gift,and  once more, happy birthday,
    an banh cua ông Tuan mây ngày moi hêt ? L.H. chua kêu hôm nay.

    Lan Dior,
    Tes photos de la " belle" paisible Suisse ne sont pas à l'image
    de ta personnalité  "tout -sauf- đầm -già -hái-nho " .
    la photo jointe est pour toi, prochaine virée à travers les vignes
    en Harley ?

    Tuan,la photo est très belle ! L'ébullition d'un chantier à travers
    une machine en marche et la couleur orange dynamique.
    Triet, pour illustrer une transition,il faut un avant- aprés,non  ?
    ex :Thanh Lan à 20 ans, Thanh Lan à 60 .    :>)
    Nhà o co', con o co', cho' mèo cung o, mà Triet doi`mây' thu*' này .

    CTT

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My contribution for: The theme is light ...

O super duper all powerful ladies of the high level committee and friends,

As I was driving to work early one morning last week in a deserted back road of Texas, it was still dark, dusty, cold, and barren with just rocks, sands, a few cows, and a long bumpy dirt road ahead.  The darkness was slowly and surely unveiled by the rising sun in the eastern horizon.  Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the sun just popped out in all its splendor, blazing in full strength, wanting to dominate the landscape and blind us with all its glowing fire…  While struggling to keep my car from going off the road, I had a Kodak moment, immediately grabbed my phone and quickly snapped a shot (highly NOT advisable while driving unless you’re in the middle of nowhere in TX) thru the window in the hope of capturing the first light of the day and all of its rage.

This picture, Raging First Light, is especially dedicated to Triet, Em Ci, and Cao Tieu Thu J 

Re: [MC74 and Friends] My entry for this week's theme "Transitions"

Further step in our transition Tuan

New theme: Changes/Transitions

"Let me build the future!"

They're building a new hospital where i work!

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] my entries for LIGHT

Dear all,

Here is to share with you a view of the Empire State Building all decked out in green to celebrate St Patrick's day (photo taken earlier this evening through the hole of a fence and from Long Island City, on the other side of the East River, opposite of Manhattan)

Good night
from Be^n Bo*\ So^ng
MC

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] This week's theme: LIGHTS

Hi Tu, Hi Duc, KLiem, LHien

And on the Eiffel theme, here's the Tower of Tokyo taken in December...
Caro

Fwd: [MC74 and Friends] This week's theme: LIGHTS

Hi Caro,

It is very interesting the Tour Eiffel "version nippon". Where is it in Tokyo?
and here is "La dame en Fer" version day light, taken last spring !

BL

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 

This week's theme: LIGHTS

Dear Tu, HiDuc, and KLiem,

To complement your artistic pictures, here is another shot of Lady Eiffel taken during my last dining and shopping spree with la Belle Talentueuse Madame Blog.

Here she is: ”La Dame de fer en bleu, au clair de lune”.

LHien

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My contribution for: The theme is light ...

Chers amis  Pho Nhom en Herbe ,

Ma petite  participation : Matin Calme

Bises ,

THg

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Fw: [MC74 and Friends] Poesie De Jeunesse

 

An old poem for the winter that lingers.

I would like to be a poet

So I can let snow fall

Fall on my body my head

Fall all over my thoughts of you

I would like to have the delight

To bring you closer than fire

Then melt snow flakes so white

In one whisper between you and I

I would like to be your night guest

All undressed in candle light

Don't worry where storms could be

There's not storm around, there will be me

And you'll be in the eye of the storm

The one who takes the night unraveling from its charms

The scent of your mistress more tender than day

Springing forth from mind Eternal disarray

And then I would pray out loud

O Night! Be everything but darkness

Bless those stars Blow thy candles silent!

When comes the storm even blaze knows torment

Where shall we go? What will become of us?

Talk in long moans Remember it is Night

Enraptured are the minds and forgiveness

Should descend as pearls of sweat

I would like to be your lover

So I can let rain fall

Fall on my knees my belly

Fall all over my desires

tc

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] my entries for LIGHT

  HiDux,
  Utinamque...
  to pair with your sensationally illuminated Eiffel,
  below's mine , sadly all-light-extinguished,however,
  taken from the roofs of LV,not Las Vegas,but at the
  no less bling bling, the Louis Vuitton store,7th floor.
  Your neon light seemed  curiously not glaucous.
  I'm glad you love Edward Hopper & Tableau ( as it is
  usage to call, dans le métier)
  KLiem,
  You're  a person of light through your pix and thoughts.
  CTT

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] MY ENTRIES FOR LIGHT

Dear LIEM, TRANG,CARO  Yes,it is the ceiling of Bellagio Hotel in Las-Vegas .
,As DOUG pointed out  2 seconds after I sent the picture. BRAVO DOUG .It looks like a Giant Kaleidoscope. 

FRIENDS  in STATES,Could you now Find out where I did take these Two Photos?
BIZ

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entries for LIGHTS

Dear Mai Chau, BTram and friends,

Here are my pictures for the new theme

Picture 1 : the red lanterns
Picture 2 : Artemide 's collection

Also I would like to tell everyone how much I enjoy your postings! You are so talented and gifted :I can't enumerate  everything I have seen but admire all your art works, it is so diversified from sketching to drawing (Huong,HH, AT), the poem from TChau goes directly to my heart, all the pictures with a specific theme from MC; BT, Caro,Caro TD,  Liem, Trang, Triet, Doug, BSon, HH, CTT, Hien Lan, Khiem's clip etc...(forgive me if I left out any names) are full of imagination. I am very motivated to be among you and I will contribute slowly but surely...Hope you don't mind !Thuan, we are still waiting another "Tu Nhu?" from you. Quang, I discover that you have 2 ma' lung dông tiên, and not one. (thanks to HH for posting the pictures of you guys in NYC). LHien & Khiem, we miss you in Europe. When will you arrange un voyage éclair à Paris?


Last but not least, Happy bd to Nhu Lan  and CTT today (it is thursday in Switzerland) so we can also celebrate St Patrick day !
May today be filled with sunshine and smiles, laughter and love to both of you!

Good Night
NL

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entries for LIGHTS

Dear Madame Blog and friends,
I learned through the grapevine that my entry for this week's theme was
disqualified due to the weakness of its light feature. To my understanding, the
light of the birthday candle flame was too small, compared to the overly
prominent birthday boy's face, and consequently - and sadly - this photo will
not make it into future collages.  I sincerely regret for such gross error of
mine and any inconvenience caused.
If second chance entries are permitted, may I respectfully submit the attached 
replacement photo, the light of which, I earnestly hope, Madame Blog will deem
intense enough for her approval:
"Let the Lord's Light shine forth, let it light up my life from the darkness
within!"
Respectfully,

Tuan

[MC74 and Friends] RE/ Simple Pleasure / PORTRAITS D' ENFANTS

 Khánh Liêm, Hiên Lan, Khiêm tc , Thuy Châu ơi

Vẽ vời chút it cho vui thôi, bơỉ vì hình chụp các bé quá dễ thương và tự nhiên ! Thành thật cám ơn lời khen cuả các bạn làm mình nở lòng ,mình chỉ là  thợ cọ nghiệp dư cho vui thôi

Xin gởi đến các bạn một tấm họa nhanh "Nụ Cười " mới  vẽ  tối hôm qua .

 Không biết có giống câu bé  thật không , nhưng chắc chắn là giống nụ cười duyên dáng đầy tình cảm cuả mẹ cậu bé

Thân mến

Hy Hoà

PS Cám ơn  bà chủ bút  BT đã phóng ngay lên mạng  với bao nhiêu hình , thơ...xem  thật đã con mắt !

Fw: [MC74 and Friends] My entries for LIGHTS

DEAR MC FRIENDS, Voici mes lumières: Lumière des Fleurs,Lumière d'Arc-En-Ciel,LUMIERE " Chaud Au Coeur"   BIZ_,___