Saturday, September 2, 2017

#Photography for the Unusual 9/3


Notting Hill, London

You can see Andy Hall’s photo-essay from this year’s carnival here

Photograph: Andy Hall for the Guardian

Dance, dance, dance, young lady.




Beaumont, Texas

Following Hurricane Harvey, a woman is evacuated by the US coastguard

Photograph: Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Giles/US Coast Guard/EPA

That's got to be scary but you won't be drowning today, ma'am.




Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Pilgrims visit Jabal al-Noor, the mountain where Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad received, in the Cave of Hira, his first revelation – a visitation by archangel Gabriel, who passed on the first words of what was to become the Qur’an

Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

Another side of the pilgrimage and the love they have for the Qur'an makes the fear and censorship of it elsewhere all the more ludicrous.




Huddersfield, England

Marsden take on Lepton Highlanders at Marsden Cricket Club

Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

Cricket remains enormously popular throughout the Commonwealth or at least what's left of it and even the countries which broke free still play it.  No-one anywhere else has any idea why they do it.  I even played it a little as a kid in Australia and I still don't know.




Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

A Kamchatka brown bear at the Kurile Lake in the far east of the country

Photograph: Igor Ivanko/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

He's not Zen Yogi but he's still a cool bear.

Zen Yogi:  how do you know the bear is a male?

I don't but there's no way I'm getting close enough to find out for sure.  Check out those beauty claws.

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