Happy New Year, a photo from Bagmati, Central

Photographer's Note

Please forgive me the low quality, but it was the only photo I found that is vaguely appropriate for this festive season.

When I arrived in Nepal in November 1994, they were celebrating the Newari New Year, along with the Hindu festival of Diwali. They were also in the middle of an election campaign (if I am not mistaken, the penultimate democratic elections before the assassination of the former King and the end of an ephemeral 'democratic' period). The oldest part of Kathmandu looked like a crowded fair.

In WS's: a kind of amulet made by a street astrologist and a political demonstration.

Happy New Year!

See you next year. :-)

Location (latitude, longitude): 27.706,85.3095

japiey, Iuli, noborders, feather, danos, paura has marked this note useful

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japiey (10163) 2007-12-28 20:26

Namasthe Dear Jose,

NAVA VARSHA ASHAMSAKAL..
HAPPY NEW YEAR..

Thank you for this dear share.
Good shot.
May the new dawn be bright as the sun...

jean paul

Iuli (838) 2007-12-28 22:09

Hi Jose!
Great choice for a new year's card. How many people do you think have a photo actually appropriate and specific for a celebration as arbitrary as the new year's eve?...
Hey, this is from Nepal... I remember your first shots were some Nepalese mountain landscapes :) Also scans, I guess they're from the same trip.
Happy New Year!
Iulian

UnTrained (0) 2007-12-28 23:42

Ol� Jos�,
with this amount of wishes for a New Year in so many languages there is each grant given :-)
I am only astonished that wishes for the new year had been published in early November. Must be a very different coubnting by this culture.
A Happy New Year to you and yours, Feliz Ano Novo
Um abra鏾, Ulf

vincz (19113) 2007-12-29 1:27

Happy new year Jose! Good idea to get back to your neplases souvenir for this occassion. It is so interesting to see all these different characters there. Happy new year for all the world!

noborders (1010) 2007-12-29 3:05

Great multilingual "greeting card" ! F閘icitations d'avoir retrouv� ceci dans tes "archives", la qualit� n'est pas ce qui compte, c'est plut魌 l'intention, le message et l'int閞阾 de la photo ! Les WS sont aussi int閞essants...

Meilleurs voeux � toi aussi, paix et bonheur pour tous ceux qui t'entourent,
Amiti閟,
Cath.

feather (51130) 2007-12-29 4:18

Quality is not the issue here. Very appropriate Jose
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Kath

danos (110407) 2007-12-29 8:21

Ola Jose,
never mind for the quality of the photo.I never seen a scene with wishes for the New Year like this way.If there was not the election posters above would be much better.Informative your note too.

I wish you Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year,Danos

paura (25802) 2007-12-30 6:45

Jos�,
O interessante na sua fotografia � mostrar que as pessoas est鉶 sempre querendo dizer alguma coisa... No fundo acho que todos somos ou seremos iguais.

Abra鏾, amigo.

Paulo

Bluejeans (64251) 2008-01-01 13:22

Oi Jos�
T醩 perdoado em quaest鉶 a qualidade :), s鉶 muito interessantes estes cartazes politicos tem umas letras parecem de ET , gosto muito destas fotos antigas ,parabens!!!
Um abra鏾 Gon鏰lo
Bom ano novo 2008

tatadalou (7459) 2008-01-02 11:52

Bonjour Jos�,
Feliz ano novo ! Tu es tout pardonn� pour la qualit� de la photo (un scan je suppose?) par le message universel qu'elle d閘ivre. La superposition des panneaux souhaitant les v渦x et les affichettes 閘ectorales donnent un caract鑢e 閠onnant � ton clich�. Techniquement, j'aime bien ton cadrage qui divise la photo en trois parties in間ales : les t阾es, une large part d閐i閑 aux voeux et en haut les affichettes.
Amicalement,
Delphine

pboehringer (770) 2008-01-05 10:34

Jose,
the digital quality on this one is certainly no the major thing. This shot is all about the wishes that you have for all of us and that is extremely well expressed through this shot. There are only three languages that I'm really able to read. What are all the other languages?
Cheers, peter

ninaL (21348) 2008-01-09 0:03

Hi, Jose.
Not very good technically but very interesting scene.
I like your composition.
Best regards. Grazyna.