WPC: Inspiration

August 1, 2015August 1, 2015 / wrightsolution / 4 Comments

This week the Weekly Photo Challenge asked us our definition of Inspiration.

This is one of my favourite photos from my time in Nepal. I took a blind Nepali exchange student (who had recently returned from study in the US) to a Kathmandu school to talk about her experience in America. She was an inspiring speaker who talked about the challenging of tackling a culture very different to her own, not only as someone who had never been out of Nepal, but also as a blind person. The audience loved her, especially the girl in the photo, who stayed at the end to ask so many questions. For me, it was the very definition of inspiration.

WPC: Elephant Eyelashes

July 26, 2015July 26, 2015 / wrightsolution / 9 Comments

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge is Close Up, an opportunity to get close up and personal with your subject. In Chitwan I loved the chance to get up close to animals that I had only seen before in zoos.

WPC: Fat Betty

July 18, 2015July 18, 2015 / wrightsolution / 8 Comments

This week’s Photo Challenge Half and Half asks us to share an image that represents two clear halves, literally or figuratively. Meet Fat Betty. She stands on the Coast to Coast walk in Northern England, on the bleak road that leads across the North York moors from Blakey Rigg to Rosedale Abbey. The head of the cross is an ancient wheelhead half-painted white.

Out on the moors it just you, the brooding sky and the purple heather that stretches out for miles ahead. I thought Fat Betty made an interesting contrast to the already bisected vista, at least until the fog comes down and everything disappears.

WPC: Muse (and the language of Signs)

June 30, 2015June 30, 2015 / wrightsolution / 1 Comment

This week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, Muse, didn’t really resonate with me at first. Perhaps it just the “pack out state of mind” I was in? Then I remembered how signs are such inspirations for my posts, that I have a section on this blog devoted to them. That qualifies as a muse, right?

Located on a busy, noisy intersection with trucks that constantly block it, capturing this one was a challenge…. (the irony isn’t lost on me) …and you don’t need to speak Nepali to understand its meaning. Whenever I had the camera in the car, I would take another stab. Twenty attempts later, I succeeded. The motivation to capture it was all about collecting great signs in a photo– I had already cover noised pollution on the blog — so I appreciate the opportunity to use it here in quite a different way.

Here is a motley collection of signs I collected that missed their moment or mark, or covered issues already discussed, but I think deserve attention anyway:

Oh God, Please Stop the Earthquake

Its meant to convey “unique”. Why did this not quite work?

Not really a sign…but curious about the artists message!

The other KFC!

Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge Week 19

May 10, 2015May 10, 2015 / wrightsolution / 4 Comments

A little dark for this particular challenge, maybe? But where else am I going to share the odd side of Kathmandu’s recent earthquake? Tragedy was everywhere and now comes resilience and rebuilding, but there is a little strangeness also, still lingering in the corners. Little reminders of what happened even after most of the debris has been picked up: a vase of flowers still standing inside a room seen through the gaping side of a building; billboards advertising events that were clearly cancelled; a paint store with its roll-down shutter still closed and paint oozing out onto the street…and these mannequins, who tell their own story.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/05/10/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-19/

WPC: Forces of Nature

May 10, 2015May 10, 2015 / wrightsolution / 14 Comments

I can hardly believe this week’s theme given what just happened here in Kathmandu. Nature showed us what she could do to people, their lives, their property, and even the ground beneath our feet. As we all struggle to find our footing again, I find myself driving around town, looking aghast at some of the changes the earthquake brought. People are so accustomed to seeing dramatic pictures of world disasters on TV, or spectacular images of disasters occurring in movies. Perhaps people won’t think these images of broken bookcases or cracked walls are much evidence of the immense force of an earthquake? But for me, when I look at the destruction, it makes me remember the feeling of helplessness that an earthquake brings; feeling ant-like and hopelessly powerless, standing on a moving plate that is shaking kilometers below with enough force to do this kind of damage:

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/forces-of-nature/

Cee’s Odd Ball Photo Challenge 2015 Week 16

April 19, 2015April 19, 2015 / wrightsolution / 9 Comments

Not a very good quality shot–through our car’s glass window and then through the glass of their vehicle–but what an odd thing to see…. Grandma and baby with a monkey on top!

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/04/19/cees-odd-ball-photo-challenge-2015-week-16/

Early Morning in Pokhara

April 18, 2015April 18, 2015 / wrightsolution / 10 Comments

Last month in Pokhara, at about seven in the morning, I was leaving my room for breakfast before starting work with some students in a hotel across the street. I was thinking about whether I had enough pairs of scissors and where I put my presentation notes. So at first I didn’t look up. The night before had been stormy and drizzly, and it had been too miserable to go out and explore. So I had stayed in the room and had an early night. Yet, first thing the next morning, this is the view that greeted me. I had to go back for the camera:
There’s nothing like a little storm to clear the air first thing in the morning. And here clear air = stunning views of the Himalayans!

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/early-bird/

Monochromatic

April 11, 2015April 11, 2015 / wrightsolution / 2 Comments

I loved doing this Travel Theme challenge. Here in Nepal where the country has so many bright, vibrant colours, I headed off to collect riots of orange, red, yellow…. and yet I found myself drawn towards more muted tones, which was kind of surprising. My favourite is the dog, whose grime-streaked coat looks so much like the marble where he’s sleeping!