All At Sea: To Step In An Ocean Of Freedom
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
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All At Sea: The Wonder Years
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.”
From “maggie and minnie and molly and may” by e e cummings
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
All At Sea: Learning The Ropes
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur.
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All At Sea: Getting Started
One of the fishing party adjusts the line.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
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All At Sea: A Family Business
Setting out with nets
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach in Kannur, Kerala
All At Sea: To Step Beyond The Shallows
Contemplating the ocean
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach Kannur in Kerala
All At Sea: Into The Maelstrom…
Braving the sea’s boiling waters to feed his family.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach Kannur in Kerala
Despite being familiar with both pieces of music for many years, I have only just noticed the similarities between the opening of the storm interlude In Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes” and Leonard Bernstein’s “A boy like that” from Westside Story.
All At Sea: Turning Back
His nets set, a fisherman heads for home.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur in Kerala
All At Sea: Back In The Shallows
The fisherman comes ashore.
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Picture taken on Payyambalam beach, Kerala
All At Sea: Now You See It…
..and now you don’t:
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Picture of a solitary fisherman taken on Payyambalam beach, Kannur
All At Sea
Extreme fishing
Picture taken, slightly beyond the borderline of my camera’s zoom capability, on Payyambalam beach Kannur, in Kerala
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A Matter Of Waiting
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Picture taken in Kannur Railway Station, Kerala.
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Home Before Sunset
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Picture taken in the Kannur army cantonment, Kerala
Along For The Ride..
Boys hitch a ride on the back of a Ganpati festival float.
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Picture taken in Kannur, Kerala
A Stroll On The Beach: Twilight’s Last Gleaming
“Now I further saw, that betwixt them and the gate was a river; but there was no bridge to go over, and the river was very deep..”
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“..It is you, it is you they wait for; for you have been hopeful ever since I knew you. ”
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Picture taken at sunset on Payyambalam Beach, Kannur
Quotations taken from The Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan 1628 -1688)
A Stroll On The Beach: The Sun Also Sets
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“I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.”
From The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
T S Eliot 1888 – 1965
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“Don’t let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it’s always someone else I see…
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me.”
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Picture taken at sunset on Payyambalam beach, Kannur.
A Stroll On The Beach
“My life is like a stroll on the beach…as near to the edge as I can go.”
Henry David Thoreau, 1817 – 1862
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Pictures taken at sunset on Payyambalam Beach, Kannur
The Weekend Break: An Intermission
A store closes for lunchtime prayers.
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Picture taken in Kannur.
A Weekend Break: Today’s Special
Sun-dried seafood, with a lemon drizzle dressing on the side..
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Picture taken in one of Kannur’s street markets
A Weekend Break: Beginning An Ascent
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Picture of a stairwell taken in The Royal Omar Hotel, Kannur.
A Weekend Break: From Umbrella To Parasol
The parking attendant of a sari showroom in Kannur shelters from the sun.
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The monsoon has finally relaxed its heavy grip on Kerala.
Though floods devastate the northern states of Assam and Sikkim, we in south India are no longer inundated by the rains.
After weeks of feeling almost imprisoned, I took the opportunity to visit a friend in Kannur, a city in northern Kerala, two hundred and fifty kilometres from Cochin.
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Umbrella or Parasol?
Although we tend to use the word parasol when sheltering from the sun, umbrella is just as accurate.
*The word umbrella comes from the Latin “umbra”, meaning shade or shadow.
(The Latin word, in turn, derives from the Ancient Greek ómbros [όμβρος].)
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* Taken from Wikipedia
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