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Morning Coffee Talk~ 11/365

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date December 11, 2021
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Good Morning,

When you are like me and you love exploring this planet and learning about its inhabitants, then some places haunt you for years after you visit them. One of these places is Varanasi in India. You probably have heard of Varanasi, its floods of pilgrims, swamis, holy men and women, the river Ganga and its famous healing powers, great promise of immortality for those lucky ones who are cremated and released into its waters, or the miraculous healing to those who bathe in its folds.

I arrived there with an open mind, camera and great eagerness to document what I see. I saw and felt so much more than I could possibly hold on to, but to single out one topic from that journey for the sake of economy, it would be ‘faith’.

If you want to study faith, how people adopt it, how it leads their lives and actions, how it fortifies them against all challenges, then Varanasi is the place.

There is so much more to say about it, but I leave you with these 4 images for now until I dive into that world again.

Tags 365, belief, blog, daily blog, exploration, faith, ganga, ganges, india, photography, planet, project, projecxt, religion, river, travel, varanasi

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Living in Deep Freeze~

It’s always a good time to restart a blog, but there is something more compelling about living through:

a global pandemic
a general breakdown of norms as we know them
an increase in conductivity (trust me on that)
incredibly strange weather patterns
varied degrees of lockdown measures
living vicariously through my photographic archived memories
becoming great friends with my teenage daughter
a complete change of domestic circumstance
a complete halt on all travel plans and viewing humans as 2 dimensional beings through Zoom.
adding a whole new set of skills to my arsenal (Motion Graphics)! (More on that soon)

Yesterday I decided to just go see what other people are doing during this almost 10 days of unusual arctic temperatures in Germany. So after spending one hour trying to remove thick ice from the car, I made it on the icy roads to Duesseldorf, to find joyful people, walking in the bright sun, on white frozen snow, next to a Rhein River in high tide, some masked, some not and I was in awe of finding out how much I missed people in general, the passing conversations with strangers and the funny smiles I get when I perform my weird acrobatics to get strange angled shots.

what have you been up to these days?

Tags animation, arctic, bridge, cold, covid 19, deutchland, drive, duesseldorf, germany, high tide, ice, icicles, life, lockdown, low temperature, pandemic, photography, Rhein, river, snow, story, street, winter

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Before they wake up~ Düsseldorf

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date September 30, 2018
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Before the city awakens, when the light slowly paints the dark blue horizon, that’s when magic happens. To think of how many mornings we end up not witnessing this wonder makes me wish to miss more sleep.

What is your favorite time to practice street photography?

Photos taken early this morning on the banks of the river Rhein in Duesseldorf.

Tags bridge, Düsseldorf, deutschland, duesseldorf, germany, long exposure, mimo khair, photography, Rhein, river, sunrise, Turm

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Somewhere magic lives on~

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date March 27, 2018
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Somewhere magic lives on~ how can it not?

Day 84 of 365~

Image taken in magical Myanmar

Tags black and white, burma, Fine art, magic, man, mimo khair, myanmar, photography, river, street, street photography, tree

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The color of simple existence ~ Myanmar

Post author By ~mimo~
Post date March 26, 2018
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My favorite places to travel and capture images are those where life is still simpler and where basic living is the color of the day. In those places color is celebrated not managed and there is a refreshing freedom of whimsical mix and match.

Day 83 of 365~

Image taken last year in Myanmar

Tags asia, bagan, basket, burma, color, girl, head, load, mimo khair, myanmar, photography, river, street, walking

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Holy water~

When I was a small child, we lived close to a very special monastery. In that monastery was a very magical well that always fascinated the dreamy child in me. We were told that the well was always empty but if you prayed and your prayers were accepted then the water flowed and you could have a drink of holy water. I was in utter awe of seeing my suspended bowl attached to a piece of rope sometimes come up full.

In my travels I saw several cultures revere water in different ways. On this riverbank in Myanmar locals considered this water a miracle cure for their ailments, the river Ganga in India is considered the ultimate destination for Hindu worshippers.

There is so much mystery in something as simple as water. We are 70% mystery ourselves!

Day 64 of 365~

Image taken on the river bank near Bagan, Myanmar

Tags asia, bagan, belief, holy, mimo khair, myanmar, photography, religion, river, tradition, travel, water

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Remembering to forget~

How often do we catch ourselves lingering on past events with a melancholic obsession? We task ourselves with carrying the baggage of emotional hurt like an armor that only keeps us from moving forward. The way forward is lighter, freer and leaves no room for old heavy anchors.

Day 61 of 365~

Image taken in Siena, Italy of a beautiful soul who humored my experimentations with long exposure and ghosting. July 2012

Tags andrea keyrouz, faces, future, ghosting, history, italy, long exposure, night, river, siena, travel

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I don’t see what you see~

Are we living in a time where up is down and down is up? Has our value system transformed beyond recognition? Has the fine line between good and band become a highway?

Isn’t it time for a reset? Or has it already begun?

Day 50 of 365~

Image taken in Limburg an der Lahn

Tags black and white, bridge, lahn, life, Limburg an der Lahn, mimo khair, photography, reflection, river, standards, street, tower, values

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Where do we go in sleep?~

Its a natural law, everyone must sleep. But where do we go when we sleep? We surrender completely to a process we know very little about and lay in a still state recharging as part of us travels to who knows where! And then don’t get me started on dreams!

Day 49 of 365~

Image taken of a bird flying over the river Lahn

Tags bird, black and white, blur, germany, lahn, limburg, mimo khair, movement, nature, photography, river, sleep

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A Stark Reminder~ India

There is a place on the bank of the Ganges River in the holy city of Varanasi, where more than 300 bodies get cremated daily and the ashes thrown into the river with the belief that the soul of the dead will be allowed a chance at a new life through reincarnation. Hindus from all over India and Asia carry their dead to award them that honor. I sat for a long time on a boat watching the burnings and the surreal picture they painted while this regal bird circled around the ghat reminding me of the certain mortality of the physical body. It was eerie in a good way, because life begs us to question death and death urges us to value life.

Image taken last April in Varanasi, India

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