Category: Photography
Photographic postings.
Priest, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
A priest escorts the tabot to the Timkat ceremonies at Jan Meda ffield, Addis Ababa.
Procession #2, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
One of the tabot from the Timkat procession before the ceremony.
Procession, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Near the beginning of the Timkat (Epiphany) procession, the priests accompanying the tabot (a replica of the Tablets of the Law, said to be the contents of the Ark of the Covenant), which is carried covered, over the head of the priest on the left edge of the image, pause to wait for the tabot of another group of churches to join them in procession to Jan Meda field, where a dozen churches will converge to celebrate together.
Drummer, Timkat (Epiphany), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Timkat (Epiphany) is a three-day festival, when all the tabot (replicas of the ten commandments tablets, said to be stored in the Ark of the Covenant) are paraded to a source of water, which is blessed for symbolic re-baptism.
Here, a drummer beats out a merry beat as the parade accompanying the tabot goes from church to church.
Portrait, Pushkin Square, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Racing #2, Leddet (Ethiopian Christmas), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Racing, Leddet (Ethiopian Christmas), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
Horse racing is one of the traditional games during Leddet, the Ethiopian celebration of Christmas.
Head-dress, Leddet (Ethiopian Christmas), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 2009
A man wears a traditional Oromo cultural head-dress (in former times, made from the mane of a lion–since lions were hunted out in Ethiopia, perhaps more likely horse hair) at the Leddet games in Jan Meda field, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Friday Links
Behind the Lens is George Barr’s excellent blog, in which he speaks a lot about composition and the thinking side of photography. George loves industrial photography in a way that I never will, but the difficulty of the subject and his preference for monochrome really refines compositional thought, and he has a lot that is interesting to say.
Mark Graf’s Note’s from the woods showcases his beautiful nature photography (shooting for prints and stock) and has a lot of little insights about doing that kind of photography, in addition to technical and artistic details.