Hi Bloggers! Do you have to share a story or a short reflection tagged with the letter “V”? For example I’ve written about the VEIL duty (read below) or Vancouver, about Venice and Valencia, Valparaiso or Venezuela, a Volkswagen or a vampire, vibraphones and visitors, about the hanging tram in Vohwinkel and the choir of grievance in Vienna, about Vermeer and Visbeek, about the photographers Vittorio and Valery, violins and violinists, about Volvo and Venlo, virgins and videos, about Vietnam and violence, victims or victories etc. – I’m sure you’ll find an own story or a short reflection tagged with “V”! Feel free to add in the comments the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “V”!!!
VEIL duty
“A religion, which makes humans dark, is wrong…” Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) wrote. If one connects this with his remark: “It is the greatest incumbency of a philosopher and becomes most seldom found anyway to be consistently …” – then one has to brood, how resilient people have to behave versus a gloomy religion opinion. Since “September Eleven” one asks not only how to react versus the Islam-bound fundamentalism, but also how to act against obstinately Christian crusade reflexes. Kant behaved with pleasure quite rationally to the at that time usual religiousness: But it almost was not possible to show more than quiet irony alike: “Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”
Miss Mouna smiling under her veil, Salalah, Oman photo by Eric Lafforgue – the photographer writes himself, commenting his wonderful portrait: “…for those who say that muslim women do not like pictures, i can tell you that once i gave Mouna a Polaroid of her, all her friends came to ask for one too!”
© Eric Lafforgue visit: www.ericlafforgue.com
related:
“V” Photo Archive + “V” Challenge + “V” Galleries + ABC visualized: V! + Veil duty
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websites: 1 - my daily wordpress blog "flickrcomments" , 2 - photo pool at frizztext, 3 - flickr group BLOG IT!, 4 - photography news, 5 - twitter etc.
Hi there Frizz, this reminds me of the time that I taught teachers in Bahrain for a course module connected to their professional development. Most of my beautiful female teachers have veils like this. I shared a few photographs here: http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/photo-journal-weekly-photo-challenge-foreign-teaching-in-bahrain/
For the A-Z Photo challenge though, my offering this week is Water in “Vancouver”
Here’s the link:
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/photo-journal-a-z-photo-challenge-v-is-for-vancouver/
hi Myra,
nice cartoon they draw, featuring you,
the stranger without any veil …
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2012/10/27/photo-journal-weekly-photo-challenge-foreign-teaching-in-bahrain/
Loved the photo AND the final comment.
Here is my entry for this week:
http://ohmsweetohmdotme.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/story-challenge-letter-v/
hi Allan,
master of balance,
stunning nightly Golden Gate bridge VERTICAL close up –
I’m glad, that you never decided to jump off the bridge …
Me, too. I would miss the view.
Miss Mouna’s portrait is just stunning.
There’s an award for you on my blog. Congratulations.
for once, i’m not tardy! here’s a post about a great specialty soup from the province where i live in ecuador.
http://playamart.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/v-is-for-viche-specialty-soup-of-manabi-ecuador/
nice recipe! we eat in this season pumpkin-soup with ginger …
stunning photo…so straight up.. and the eyes… ^^
here’s mine ^^ quick and short one http://theeclecticeccentricshopaholic.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/story-challenge-letter-v-is-for-vodka/ thanks ^^
I like your VODKA poem
“Velvet promises…
Vanity won, virtue lost,
Virginity gone.”
-kz ^^ too Vulgar?
- no …
haha figured i’d throw it in for an additional V ^^ thanks
trying to find an illustration
for your poem:
MYRA G.B. (see above, first entrance) about VANCOUVER:
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/photo-journal-a-z-photo-challenge-v-is-for-vancouver/
“in water there lives yet the echo of the Music…” – a wonderful quotation!
and in Vancouver are many kinds of water (my daughter has been there)
my post is another way of seeing, sort like your photo:
http://canoecommunications.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/an-abstract-view/
Vortography = really new for me!
I find your image for this weeks challenge wonderful. Since I missed last weeks challenge I hope you don’t mide that I included it with this weeks. http://wp.me/p23TG1-1IG
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
Hi Francine,
your valley view could be in my neighborhood, 5 km distance!
Vishnu
http://truthaboveallreligions.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/story-challenge-letter-v-vishnu/
now I know Vishnu!
Here are some blooms small children just can’t seem to keep their hands off of! Please have a look at
http://acrossthebored.com/2012/11/28/story-challenge-letter-v/
“Virtual Visitors to Victoria View Very Velvety Violet Vignettes…” – such an explosion of V-words!
I get a kick out of your Story Challenges!
Wonderful choice for the letter V. Here is my contribution to the letter V: http://danajoward.wordpress.com/2012/11/18/story-challenge-letter-v/
my shortlink: http://wp.me/p2EF02-sn
Hello Frizztext and fellow A-Zers. Here’s my multi-leveled take on this week’s V Challenge:
http://stephenkellycreative.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/a-to-z-challenge-the-letter-v-vessels/
perfect 3×3 tableau-design!
http://ledrakenoir.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/vegetable-oil-a-letter-v-word/
vegetable oil
Yes this drink is definitely V for vegetable oil – it’s right that coffee is C, but this drink is for those who doesn’t like coffee… ‘hahahaha’
I’m work on it…
A thought provoking post Frizz! Here’s my post for this challenge:
http://perceptionsofareluctanthomemaker.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/the-evergreen-street-vendors/
thank you, deepa, for your document
featuring street VENDORS in India!
and: VENICE!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/sets/72157602025134061/