Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/05/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I look at them Tina, but it is not always easy to keep up with you :-) I really like this part; also nice to see some women for a change. The way they are hidden away from public life in that part of the world sometimes gives the impression that the societies in Iran or Saudi consist of self-reproducing, mostly bearded, men ;-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 10 May 2016, at 20:36, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > > PESO: > > I'm not sure any of these are getting through but I'm continuing to post > anyway!! We visited an ancient Zoroastrian red mud village in the > mountains near Isfahan. There are only 30 families left there and they are > mostly elderly people. The kids have all left for the cities. We visited > a bakery, met some women on the street and talked to Soghra, an Abyanaki > widow. The women here wear a colorful chador which is their traditional > costume. They speak Middle Persian here which is very different from Farsi > but Hossein managed to translate most of what she had to say. She had come > back to visit but now lives in Tehran. Her only son, a doctor who lived in > Kerman, had died of a heart attack when he was only in his 50's. She comes > back to the village for the quiet and to get away from the city. We really > like this village and would go back any time. I have a lot more photos to > process from there! > > http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000PrFtiRdZnKo > > And keep going until there aren't any more!! > > C&C greatly appreciated. > > Tina > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information