Tuesday 6 May 2008

Human Interest

Waterloo Bridge

the number 59

Lovers at Euston

Turquoise sari outside King's Cross

Father and Son share a joke at St. Pancras

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The following photo
is not part of the collection of pictures above
but I wanted to share it.

One of the things that we did yesterday was to visit the British Museum to see the extraordinary painting from the Ethiopian Christian Church. As it was the last day of the exhibition representatives from the Ethiopian Church were in the great Atrium giving a musical performance. The resonance from the drum and the chanting filled the huge space and it was very moving to see the enthusiasm of the friends and family who had come to support the priests and musicians.

Ethiopian Christians at the British Museum

12 comments:

Mary said...

All lovely but oh my word that one of the woman in the turquoise sari is sublime - I would be framing that one!

Fairlie - www.feetonforeignlands.com said...

Ditto to BBMary's comment!

And that blue sky! Looks like you had a lovely May Day.

Ali said...

Sari woman stopped me in my tracks too. There's a photo you want the back-story of.

carolyn said...

And there was I thinking you were getting plastered in the Champagne Bar!

dragonfly said...

That kind of performance gives me goose-bumps - I got them from just looking at your photo.

Anonymous said...

It almost looks like a summery day. (almost)

blackbird said...

I love the blue sari lady too...but I can feel the emotion in the last one.

Anonymous said...

Thank you once again for a wonderful series of photographsand accompanying text - and for a most interesting day!

Eleanor said...

Thank you so much! I feel like I have been to London for the day. I will revisiting this post on my sad days, it will cheer me up.

I must now rush to tell Anna from Sweden about your turquoise sari lady. Anna has declared this Saturday turquoise day and I just know she will love to see this picture.

Anonymous said...

Aawww, lovers at Euston. Bless.

fifi said...

oh, I love London, you lucky thing, and the British Museum! I do love it there.

Lovely photos. The Euston Station one gave me a bit of a pang ;-)


Thank you for calling by. It's great here, I will look forward to returning.

Unknown said...

Alice, I am finding that I don't really need to read what you've written because your photos say so much. You are really evolving. You could publish.