[Leica] Sao Paulo

[Philippe]

Brings up to the surface excellent memories of the place, back in the late 70.

I remmener the museum very well, it was such a starch contrast with the not so distant favelas …

Same with the park - I recall the zoological gardens too - and the vegetables I had never seen before

And cherry on top, Alastair (my Barcelona duet partner) and Helen, whom ALice and I found a fantastic lady.

Maybe some day, some place we can meet too.

In the meantime, thanks a lot for the nice reminders.

Amities
Philippe, with so little time on his hands these days …



> Le 22 févr. 2017 à 13:08, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> 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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