What an incredible but timely coincidence!
In Focus, the photo blog of The Atlantic, has just featured 39 photographs of Hindu festivals…and yes, you guessed it, 3 of those are of the preparations for the Durga Puja in Kolkata.
I am traveling this evening from London to Delhi, where I’ll spend a couple of nights, then on to Kolkata to for my Kolkata’s Cult of Durga Photo Expedition/Workshop.
The expedition/workshop will involve a lot of street photography, and at its core is the Durga Puja festivities.
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Festivals, Hindu Festivals
If youll be doing a lot of rolling on flat, smooth surfaces, this Atlantic Compass 2 suitcase glides along with almost no effort. It also comes in at eight pounds even thanks to a honeycomb framing system and EVA foam construction. Thats about as light as youre going to get for a sturdy suitcase with good construction, four wheels, and lots of pockets.
If Im doing real travel thats going to involve stairs, dirt, and uneven sidewalks, Ill leave the wheelie suitcases at home and lighten up with a backpack or the Tom Bihn Aeronaut. When its going to be nothing but planes, trains, and automobiles though, it makes a lot of sense to take something with wheels.
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Atlantic Compass, Suitcase
It was a tough job to whittle the list of semi-finalists in our “Beheaded Bride Weds on P&O’s Arcadia” caption contest – you outdid yourself in
coming up with funny quips to describe this photo.
You remember this story: According to a report in The Sun, a couple had gotten married onboard Arcadia and hired a ship’s photographer whose photos of the one-time event-of-a-lifetime were disastrous.
Out of the 42 caption submissions, we’ve narrowed the selection down to these five. Please vote for your pick – the winner will receive a gift of Cruise Critic swag. Voting closes Thursday, 5 p.m. And as always
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Caption Contest, Contest
Irakleia, Greece (Photo by Dan Saltzstein)
Pulling into Aghios Giorgios, the main port on Irakleia, a tiny island in the Aegean Sea, I was, to my surprise, not seasick. This was a change from previous ferry trips I had made in the Cyclades, the sprawling group of Greek islands south of Athens. In the open waters between, say, Syros and Sifnos, a combination of big, choppy waves and ferries not much bigger than my Prius often resulted in me stumbling onto piers looking about as blue-green as the Aegean waters.
But Irakleia, nine square miles of rocky terrain with a permanent population of about 130, is sheltered from northerly winds by the significant bulk of Naxos, to the north.
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David Dixon comes back to Haida Gwaii every summer to work as a watchman – a guardian of ancient Haida villages.
If you think a lighthouse issues a bright beam, you should see David Dixon’s huge smile shining from the shore of Skedans, a ruined village in a remote part of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia.
Dixon, 45, usually lives in New Westminster and works for a catering company but this summer he has transformed into a Haida Watchman – spending three months living with only basic amenities and welcoming visitors to heritage sites. Reb
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Watchman