Check out the picture that is on the RAPID programme web page at the Overseas Development Institute. I took it in Eastern Indonesia in the province of NTT while walking in the coastal city of Larantuka. http://www.odi.org.uk/programmes/rapid
Pagodas and monasteries in Hong Kong. They are like islands in this city. I took these pictures in Nan Lian Garden and the Chi Lin Nunnery on Fung Tak Road and at the Chuk Lam Sim monastery (Bamboo Forest monastery) near Tsuen Wan MTR station.
Turn right, a photo by Arnaldo Pellini on Flickr. Winter roots of a creeper on a wal at the Wetland Park in Tin Shui Wai, Hong Kong. Should we go right?
Hong Kong. Busy Sunday morning in Kowloon. Thousands of people walking in streets packed with electronics shops selling hundres of different smartphones models, Nikon and Canon cameras, lenses, TV sets, laptops, ipod, ipad, tablets. Iphones can be unlocked at the corner of the street. In all this a lady was writing using white sand on a red plastic blanket laying on the street’s asphalt. People stopped by, used their smartphones and took pictures of the lady who, I thought. […]
Hong Kong architecture, a set on Flickr by ArnaldoPellini. Pictures taken in Hong Kong in the following areas: Kowloon, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Cultural Centre and the Wetland Park in Tin Shui Wai.
Every time I go to Silliman beach It looks a bit different. I went for a late afternoon walk and liked the clouds flying low over the sea and the shape of the island of Siquijor barely visible at the horizon. Groups of student from Silliman university had also gathered at the beach playing guitar and drinking rum.
I have always liked to go to visit churches, pagodas, mosques when travelling. I like sitting there and observe the people who come to pay to a God, a profet, a teacher. Those are peaceful places where I think it is possible to some extent to connect and feel the presence of the belief and faith people have. Last October I was in Larantuka, on the island of Flores (Indonesia), to conduct a study on […]
Branches b&w, a set on Flickr. Was in Cremona (Italy) over new year. Was back in winter after a long time. Since I have been living in Southeast Asia for the last 10 years I felt I was not used to the shapes and lines that barren trees draw on a winter sky. Was nice to be back during winter again.
On our way back from Italy to the Philippines we did a stop over of 24 hours in Assen (Holland). We visited our friends Connie and Ignas. It has been five years since we say good bye in Phnom Penh and now we met at their place. Cambodia is still a strong link with many people we know and who lived there when we lived there. It was a short visit (too short) but it […]
Riflessi, a photo by Arnaldo Pellini on Flickr. University House at ANU in Canberra, after sunset.