gems

I recently visited the Milnerton Market which is held on the weekends. This market brings traders who sell just about anything, from handy andy in old cola bottles to tools old and new, from old books to old toys. It's junk to be blunt. But junk is relative isn't it? One of the purchases I made was a handful of old National Geographic magazines (R5/each), you know, the ones which have been faded, where the photographs become unsaturated (specifically the green, which turns into the green of the forest after the rain). Today, to avoid the mountain of books and research that needs to be tackled, I paged through the magazines I bought. It prompted me to look up some more recent photographs on the National Geographic photography website. Here are some of my favourites, of the black and white photographs:

Children playing in rain, Bangladesh (2010)

Humpback whales, Tahiti (2009)

Light and Shadow, Agra, India (2009)

Persian Scholars, Iran (2009)