[Leica] Sao Paulo

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

Jayanand, that was a great look you got from the prime male in Family, 
and it's great to see the holiday smiles from Neela and the Firkins.
Douglas


On 22/02/2017 12:08, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> I suddenly discovered that I had not put up my photographs taken during our
> couple of days in Sao Paulo on the way to the Pantanal in Brazil in August
> last year. Rio was hosting the Olympics at that time, so we decided to go
> via Sao Paulo, a decision made easy by the fact that a very good friend of
> mine, Armando Bruck, a regular street photography cohort in Chennai over
> the preceding three years, had relocated to his home town of Sao Paulo. In
> fact it was the best decision we made, because Armando, being a local, took
> us to various nooks and corners of Sao Paulo, something we would not have
> dared to do by ourselves, given the city's fearsome reputation of being one
> of the most dangerous cities in the world.
>
> Armando on his BMW:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3531.jpg.html
>
> On the afternoon of the day Neela & I arrived, before Alastair and Helen
> Firkin had joined us from Australia, we took a half day guided tour of Sao
> Paulo
>
> Parque Trianon is a small swathe of natural, native forest, carefully
> preserved in the heart of Sao Paulo:
>
> Exercise:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3539.jpg.html
>
> Privacy:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3542.jpg.html
>
> Family:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3545.jpg.html
>
> Avenida Paulista, or Paulista Avenue, is the commercial heart of Sao Paulo,
> Brazil's commercial capital, and is closed to traffic on Sundays, so the
> people take over:
>
> Busker:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3552.jpg.html
>
> Traffic Lite:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3559.jpg.html
>
> Sap Paulo is a city full of superb museums, funded by the coffee barons
> over the years. The Sao Paulo Museum of Art on Avenida Paulista is given
> over to Western Art, from the middle ages to the present:
>
> Classics:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3563.jpg.html
>
> Neela and the Modiglianis:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3569.jpg.html
>
> Inspection:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160807-3572.jpg.html
>
> The next day, reunited at last, the Firkins and the Govindarajs set off for
> a walk to the sprawling, huge Ibirapuera Park near our hotel in the safe
> side of town:
>
> Trio:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160808-3583.jpg.html
>
> Black Swan:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Brazil/Sao+Paulo/Sao+Paulo-20160808-3596.jpg.html
>
> Please see LARGE
>
> Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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