Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring

May 5, 2014 / wrightsolution / 6 Comments

I was having problems with this challenge as its been a long, long time since I’ve experienced (or photographed) anything that is remotely “spring” from my personal definition and memories. No daffodils, tulips, or melting snow. So I decided to pick a nostalgic route using my most favourite memories of spring: Easter in Greece when my son was little. Spring was Easter egg hunts, wild daisies on the mountainsides, fantastic flower displays in the garden and hikes before it got too hot. I miss much!

Easter egg hunt with Susie and Stephanos

Oh the Spring flowers and clear blues skies!

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A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Watch

May 4, 2014 / wrightsolution / 2 Comments

Kathmandu school kids watch a concert by an American eco-rock band….but the party really gets started when they play a few Nepalese folk songs. Then the audience gets up to dance and we are watching them…great fun! For the full story see Power of the Sun.

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A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Water

April 27, 2014 / wrightsolution / 2 Comments

Lining up at the community water fountain, in the shade of Patan Royal Palace, Patan Dhurba Square, Kathmandu

Patan Dhurba Square has some of the most stunning architectural in Nepal. From Patan museum’s bell tower, looking down from intricate handcarved wooden windows, you don’t just see preserved heritage, but also everyday life. Most people don’t have running water and lining up at the water fountain in a daily routine. Don’t forget to fill them all the way up!

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A Word a Week Photo Challenge: Round

April 19, 2014 / wrightsolution / 3 Comments

Elaborate door from Vietnamese monastery, Lumbini

Football on the Rapti river, Chitwan

Clay pots drying in the sun, Bhaktapur, Nepal

Swayambuneth Stupa, Kathmandu

Discarded coconuts, Palawan, Philippines

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Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top

April 19, 2014 / wrightsolution / 2 Comments

A woman takes a nap on top of her sacks of straw. I have never seen so many women do hard physical labour as I have in Nepal. They don’t just work in the fields with babies strapped to their backs. They move heavy bricks, dig up roads, and carry huge weights in the traditional triangular baskets that are strapped to their foreheads. And don’t forget they do this in pink saris or floating pants suits. Exhausting!

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A Word A Week Photograph Challenge – Sign

April 13, 2014April 13, 2014 / wrightsolution / Leave a comment

This is a great challenge for me as I already have a Sign Language feature on my blog about public signage and the comments it make about the culture, economy, or character of a place. Occasionally they’re funny, usually not…. but they do jump out at me with stories. ;o) Here are a few favourites:

Sign at Manila International Airport. Guess they don’t have a sense of humour: https://wrightouttanowhere.com/2013/03/27/sign-language-this-is-not-funny/

Nepali trucks are colourful and covered in slogans. Here’s my stuck-behind-a-truck story: https://wrightouttanowhere.com/2014/01/17/sign-language-back-of-the-bus/

Kathmandu traffic woes! Turn it down!: https://wrightouttanowhere.com/2013/10/23/sign-language-dont-toot-your-own-horn-pleeeeease/

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Street Life

March 29, 2014 / wrightsolution / 16 Comments

March 2014. Bhaktapur, Nepal

The street is cleared at the end of the day, as an old lady picks up the pots that have spent the day drying in the sun alongside parked cars and motorbikes. Here the pottery is still spun by hand on a stone wheel and baked in fire kilns.

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections

March 23, 2014January 3, 2015 / wrightsolution / 1 Comment

The view from our 4 meter high stone wall out across the island to the Saronic gulf. Every summer I return to this spot, and every summer its different. I’ve sat here with friends and family looking back, looking forward, or just watching the reflection of the moon on the water.

Happy Holi: Run!

March 16, 2014March 16, 2014 / wrightsolution / Leave a comment

You better run if you don’t want to get hit! Today in Nepal it is Holi, a colourful local festival that celebrates joy and happiness. On this day, men, women and children throw colored paint, vermilion power and plain old water on each other and (hopefully) unsuspecting passersby. It gets pretty messy!

After dousing his sister in purple paint powder, this little devil is about to super soak her too!

Above every street or around any corner is someone with a paint bomb, ready to take you out!

This little guy was hidden on a roof, waiting for his next victim. Little did he know I was watching him!

This little red-faced guy was hidden on a roof, waiting for his next victim. Little did he know I was watching him!

Holi is a religious festival with its own set of legends celebrating Krishna, but I prefer its social message: putting color on each other symbolizes amity, friendship and mutual trust….although I’m not quite sure how ambushing someone with an unexpected shower of coloured water quite installs trust! But its fun and the kids love it.

It was very hard to take photos surreptitiously. The second they saw a camera I would have been a major target! However I did manage to sneek a few through the window. Here are some very colourful people returning home from the festivities:

Waiting for a lift?

For some very colourful people, they are looking very sombre. Maybe they lost the pink powder fight?

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside

March 15, 2014January 3, 2015 / wrightsolution / 14 Comments

Po, our Manila cat. And, ironically, our first “inside” cat…trapped on the 21st floor of a 53 story building. Just like us, she was forever finding a new home! Here she is inside the apartment, inside the pantry and inside my nested mixing bowls.

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