Saturday, August 26, 2017

#Photography for the Unusual 8/27


Barcelona, Spain

PJ Harvey performs at Poble Espanyol museum.

Photograph: Xavi Torrent/Redferns

I'm not familiar with Ms PJ but when we see an axe like that we know she's not just blowin' chords.




Guizhou province, China

A woman works in a sorghum field in a valley between Zunyi and Maotai town. The plant is used to produce Moutai, a brand of baijiu, a distilled liquor.

Photograph: Aleksandar Plavevski/EPA

There's a lovely reflectiveness to this even though she's hard at work.




Columbus, Ohio

Bert Cambron and Mark Wilson of Dayton National Cemetery move the vandalised Confederate soldier statue that stood in Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery. Police say the vandals took the head but left the hat.

Photograph: Eric Albrecht/The Columbus Dispatch via AP

The Confederate Army may be the only one in history clever enough to get its ass kicked twice.




Buenos Aires, Argentina

Stanislav Fursov and Ekaterina Simonova, from Russia, compete at the World Tango Championship final.

Photograph: Natacha Pisarenko/AP

ML and I tried square dancing because why the hell not and it was a lovely communal time but both of us were struck by competition square dancers who ubiquitously carried a look of such determination but it was grim.

ML:  if it ain't fun, why are you doing it?

You've got that right.




Killorglin, Ireland

A ice-cream seller waits for customers in the murk of summer.

Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters

Zen Yogi:  wtf is up with that Once Licked Never Beaten?

That's a weird one since ice cream isn't beaten but rather churned.  This 99 Flake ice cream is whipped but often whipped never beaten just gets stranger.

Zen Yogi:  this is like a New York Times crossword puzzle, Silas, but I don't like crossword puzzles.

Me either.  Let's go look for pic-a-nic baskets.

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