Honey Girl

Would you like a piece of duck?

Journey to the last matriarchal society in China

Lugu Lake, Yunnan, China

The Fallen Princesses

source: Fallen Princesses by Dina Goldstein

Life and Death

Edelgard Clavey, 67
First portrait:
December 5 2003
Edelgard was divorced in the early eighties, and lived on her own from then on; she had no children. From her early teens she was an active member of the Protestant church. She contracted cancer about a year before she died, and towards the end she was bed-bound. Once she was very ill she felt she was a burden to society and really wanted to die.

Second portrait:
January 4 2004
"Death is a test of one’s maturity. Everyone has got to get through it on their own. I want very much to die. I want to become part of that vast extraordinary light. But dying is hard work. Death is in control of the process, I cannot influence its course. All I can do is wait. I was given my life, I had to live it, and now I am giving it back.

German photographer Walter Schels was terrified of death, but felt compelled to take these extraordinary series of portraits of people before and on the day they died. His partner Beate Lakotta recorded the poignant and revealing interviews with the subjects in their final days.

source: Life Before Death, This is the End

Winter, Spring,

source: Oriontrail

Rainbow Catcher

source: Zach Genin

Night Lights

source: Gustavo Sanabria

Tulip Fields

source: Holland by Adam Salwanowicz
source: Tulips in Netherlands

Fireflies

source: Digital Photo Blog

Dear Cate,
Remember libélula from seven years ago? I immediately thought of you when I saw these photographs.