Travelog: Finds of Art in People and People in Art.

[Asher Kelman]

Excellent form! I'd love to record your conversation! Where is this?

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Excellent form! I'd love to record your conversation! Where is this?

Asher

Asher, I met the fraulein in a street in Zurich. Somebody I looked upto. . Converstaions..more like experiences really.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Asher, I met the fraulein in a street in Zurich. Somebody I looked upto. . Converstaions..more like experiences really.

Her facial expression is so real!

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

Fahim is one of the most travelled photographers. This is a new Master Thread for Fahim's pictures where the art and soul of a person is seen in the picture or the humanity is expressed so well in "Art".

 

[Asher Kelman]

Rule of one thirds

Golden Triangles

Fib series

Color Wheel

Contrast

Complementary colors

Light

Golden Hours

Sh*t, all I want to do is take a photograph of what resonates with me.

Fahim,

This is the picture that makes the thread special. 'll be moving other pictures here where you really show far more esthetic reflexes than you admit to!

I am not a psychologist, a scientist, mathematician, a statistician, a time keeper

Just a traveler trying to feel with others, what they might feel. What life is all about.

Surely it is not about mathematics!!

It's just the prepared mind and openness to humanity and what is.

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

To catch up with things I have missed, I tend to look up, at things.

But that means, I miss a lot of what goes on down..

There are so many elements here, mostly a sexual tension hinted at by his eyes moving towards her passing form and various shapes which form agents for speculation of what we might imagine. So much is left unspecified and that helps us to linger to figure out what the meanings might be.

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Where the house is everything..

First, and most importantly, my gratitude to Asher. For providing me this platform to collect my photographs with some semblance of organization.

I am honored and humbled by Asher's generosity.

Most images have been posted over a period of time, some shall be new. Please understand that they do not represent a ' professional ' body of work.

Travelers passing through some lands. We hope, Ayesha and me, have left gentle footprints that
stay in the memory of those that we were fortunate to befriend.

The biggest thanks are reserved for those that welcomed us and convinced us that beneath the veneer of different races, cultures, religions and color; we are all the same. Different yes, but much much more the same.

And our thanks to you, the OPF, viewers who have given us the encouragement to share our memories with you.

 

[Asher Kelman]

First, and most importantly, my gratitude to Asher. For providing me this platform to collect my photographs with some semblance of organization.

I am honored and humbled by Asher's generosity.

Fahim,

I firmly believe that holding the camera as a lantern to show us the world and our own lives is the highest function of photography. Beauty is wonderful, of course, but a superficial quality. It alone, does not deal with earned values of dedication, warmth, honesty, achievement, struggles against loneliness, poverty, or the empathy to aspects of our neighbors lives.

When we select from your large body of work, the collection then becomes especially valuable.

Thanks for your contributions.

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Wisdom of an older generation..

I like to talk to people much older than I. Just listen to them.
Stories you shall never hear of. If you give them a chance.

Life unfolds before you. It is for you to ride along.

You have to be willing. And you have to have respect.

 

[fahim mohammed]

Things that define the spirit of man..

Beliefs that govern one's very existance..

From times..as far back as man can remember.

 

[fahim mohammed]

In my eyes you see my soul..

In my soul you shall feel my dignity..

 

[fahim mohammed]

My hearing is bad, my sight is getting worse

I am forced to get close. To hear, to see, to feel, to touch.

I tend to get close out of necessity, and maybe out of desire..

Maybe I learn more that way. Distant learning was never for me.

 

[fahim mohammed]

 

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[Charlotte Thompson]

Fahim

so here you are! and what a great idea to involve all of these photos together- excellent really

all of them are so very impressive my friend-
each one is "the catch of the day" as they say here in America when men go fishing for that great big catch"
well done all of these new ones especially-
so I will look to travel with you here!

Charlotte-

 

[Asher Kelman]

Fahim mohammded: Putting ginger to balance the weights!
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Fahim,

There's a lot of thinking going on. The man is judging how to deal with the issue of balance when one piece is too much and another is too small. The woman is watching how he might solve his conundrum. But it's more complex than that. He's added a weight to the ginger to reduce the size of the weights on the other side, I guess to make up for a weight in the sequence of weights being missing.

Asher

 

[Sandrine Bascouert]

Just a little story....
This was a part of how I learn basic numeracy...by my father.
The kid have weights (or Ginger) that he/she knows the exact weight and tries to achieve the balance (adding the weights to make them equal each side) but then the adult remove some of the useful weights so you have to do some subtractions to keep the balance, and at the end the adult add something in one plate to tickle your brain a bit.

He told me he learn numeracy like that, probably his mother too and on and on. (probably a family of merchants )

 

[fahim mohammed]

 

[Charlotte Thompson]

Fahim

wow! love it
I wished to be there and do that too-
wonderful!!

Charlotte-

 

[fahim mohammed]

This one for Charlotte​

Charlotte, thank you very much.

I have quicky prepared one just for you.

You take now, you hear!!

 

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[Asher Kelman]

Fahim,

There's a lot of cultural beauty embedded here, but the symbols are foreign to me. Are the pipes shaped after something of special importance? At first glance, it would seem to have a phallic resemblance, but then have a Western point of vew. Is the water considered holy or health giving? Can it wash away sins?

What's the name of this bathing and to which people does this belong? I presume it's not a mundane public bath.

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Pura Tirta Empul

Asher, here some description of the temple.

" For more than a thousand years, Balinese worshipers have been drawn to Pura Tirta Empul, whose sacred spring is said to have been created by Indra and to have curative properties. The tradition continues almost unchanged at the temple today.


Legend has it that the sacred spring was created by the god Indra. His forces had been poisoned by Mayadanawa, so he pierced the earth to create a fountain of immortality to revive them.

An inscription dates the founding of a temple at the site to 926 AD. Ever since - for more than a thousand years - the Balinese have come to bathe in the sacred waters for healing and spiritual merit. "

As to the symbolic meanings..I shall not venture any comment so as not to be wrong, misunderstood, or
convey any feeling other than respect for other beliefs.

Your medical training might be dominant in your interpretations of ' art ' and/ or cultural symbols.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Asher, here some description of the temple.

" For more than a thousand years, Balinese worshipers have been drawn to Pura Tirta Empul, whose sacred spring is said to have been created by Indra and to have curative properties. The tradition continues almost unchanged at the temple today.


Legend has it that the sacred spring was created by the god Indra. His forces had been poisoned by Mayadanawa, so he pierced the earth to create a fountain of immortality to revive them.

An inscription dates the founding of a temple at the site to 926 AD. Ever since - for more than a thousand years - the Balinese have come to bathe in the sacred waters for healing and spiritual merit. "

As to the symbolic meanings..I shall not venture any comment so as not to be wrong, misunderstood, or
convey any feeling other than respect for other beliefs.

Your medical training might be dominant in your interpretations of ' art ' and/ or cultural symbols.

Fahim,

Thanks for your explanation. Communal "harvesting" of higher values is always a good thing. These Ceremonies and spiritual tradition are beautiful.

Asher

 

[fahim mohammed]

Fahim,

Thanks for your explanation. Communal "harvesting" of higher values is always a good thing. These Ceremonies and spiritual tradition are beautiful.

Asher

Asher, my friend, you are welcome. As are all your comments, to my posts, for which I am, as always, very grateful.

 

[Rajan Parrikar]

Fahim,

I enjoy your images - they are evocative. However, I have wondered about this for a while - many of them look over-sharpened on my monitor. Is that a deliberate stylistic device?

 

[fahim mohammed]

Fahim,

I enjoy your images - they are evocative. However, I have wondered about this for a while - many of them look over-sharpened on my monitor. Is that a deliberate stylistic device?

Rajan, thanks for your comments.

Some I do over sharpen. Most others is a screw up by me. I only wish it was some style!!

Appreciate you looking in.

 

[Jerome Marot]

Here are some snapshots and mementos with an Iphone from last week.

I find it interesting that the pictures you took with the phone, contrary to your usual captures, are not of people (except the last one). So maybe it is the camera after all.