Artist and Painter Erik Otto
"The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, its tides and its depths; it has its pearls too."
Vincent Van Gogh
A train ride through southern Sri Lanka is a display of colours, beautiful nature and charming aromas. (April 29/2013)
Jesse Sharratt (jessesharratt.tumblr.com)
When it comes to matters of love, it’s often platonic devotion that proves the most intimate and carries the most weight in one’s life. It’s the love stories of friendship, the decades-spanning, unbreakable connection to someone that stays around as lovers come and go. Yes, romantic love is an all-encompassing illness of the heart, but without a best friend to guide you, life becomes less tolerable. Cinema has long been awash in tales of romantic love, of course, but it’s rare to see a tale of love between two female best friends, especially one that genuinely shows what it is like to have that kind of soul mate, without whom everything else would be askew. But with Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Frances Ha, we see one woman’s journey of self-discovery, ignited by a fractured friendship.
Bethlehem, West Bank- Runners in the first ever marathon to be held in the Palestinian controlled West Bank pass by soldiers on April 21st, 2013. Dubbed the ‘Right to Movement Marathon’, this race was held to raise awareness of the lack of mobility faced by many Palestinians. As there was no stretch of road that was more than 40 kilometres without Israeli checkpoints, participants ran two large loops of the course.
www.leylandcecco.com (Leyland Cecco)
(via Afghanistan civilians: April 2013 - The Big Picture - Boston.com)
1. Women weave a carpet in Herat on April 15, 2013. The popular wool and silk Afghan carpets made by different tribes sell from 150 to 1,000 US dollars. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)
2. Kochi women walk along the Kabul-Bagram road north of Kabul on April 2, 2013. (Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images)
3. A girl carries a child on the outskirts of Herat on April 9, 2013. (Aref Karimi/AFP/Getty Images)
4. A villager pauses in Kush Kunar District, in Nangarhar province on April 7, 2013. (Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)
5. A store at Rabia Balkhi displays miniature designs draped on used coca-cola bottles at an all-women’s market on Chedgari Street in Mazar-e-Sharif province on April 25, 2013. The market houses about 20 women-owned stores that sell a range of goods from handicrafts to beauty supplies and photography equipment, and is named after the famous princess and poet Rabia Balkhi who lived in the city of Balkh during the 9th century. (Farshad Usyan/AFP/Getty Images)
6. A fisherman paddles into the Kabul River to fish on the outskirts of Mehtar Lam in Laghman Province on April 27, 2013. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images)
7. Afghan refugees wait in temporary shelters near the Afghan border in Herat, Afghanistan on April 13, 2013. 200 Afghan families deported from Iran live in harsh conditions in temporary shelters in Herat. (Jalil Rezayee/EPA)
8. Boys ride donkeys past ruined houses in Bamiyan province on April 27, 2013. (Mohammad Ismail/Reuters)
Breathtaking view of Machapuchare peak from Tadapani, Nepal (by OliviaBlockeyPhoto).
Yumbulhakang, Tibet’s First King’s Castle by lylevincent on Flickr.
That GW690… Ektar also gives off beautiful colours :)
Sunset over the lake.
I have no idea why I feel the need to make absurdly obvious captions, but there you go. Juuuust in case you were confused.
