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nothing new under the sun


nothing new under the sun
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Copyright: michael shalter (retlash) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 60 W: 1 N: 168] (1069)
Genre: People
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09-23
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Exposure: f/4.5, 1/1250 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Sheep and Lambs [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2008-03-15 12:56
Viewed: 492
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The tiny island of Taquile in the middle of Lake Titicaca has been home to the Incas who thought that the earth was born here...the center of the universe. This was before Copernicus turned that little theory completely upside down. My daughter and I landed on this island and were told that the boat back to the mainland was "just down the road." At 3950 m above sea level, that became more arduous than I had anticipated. Gasping for what little oxygen exists at this altitude, I somehow managed to shoot this photo...one that could have been taken 600 to 700 years ago, had there been cameras in those days. Here, the world , as a so-called "man of the world" would have it...stops. Here things are as they were ages ago. Little has changed. This woman like her mother, her grandmother, her grandmother's grandmother, etc. still toil away at spinning wool. Same old tools, same old position, same old...everything. It gives one pause to....what? reflect? question? put into perspective? WHAT? The more I travel...and I've done a bit... the more I come to realize that this old woman spinning wool on an isolated hill in the middle of an isolated island in a third-world country is, perhaps, as "rich" as Bill Gates. Her aspirations are fewer, thus her delusions and disappointments are far less. Knowing what I know I couldn't trade places with her, but, the thought of doing so crossed my mind.
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Hi MIchael
interesting documentary photograph, I like such practical works, every of them is demonstrating the naturalness of the daily day - I am greeting

wonderful colors, great shot.!!!

Tyanne

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