Honorable Mention
Beauty in the eyes of the beholders
DESCRIPTION
The photo was taken from the famous U Bein Bridge in Amarapura, Myanmar — reputedly the longest teak footbridge in the world with its 1.2 km length. A row of boats was lining up on the Taungthaman Lake in front of the bridge to witness the impending sunset, forming a colourful and tumultuous diagonal in stark contrast with the pale and peaceful water expanse, closed by a dim horizon of greenery with some sparse pagodas. AUTHOR
Eden Antho is the pseudonym I have chosen for my pursuits in the photographic art, especially in the field of travel photography. I have always felt inspired by Apollinaire's brilliant couplet:Avec ses quatre dromadaires
Don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira
Courut le monde et l’admira
Il fit ce que je voudrais faire
Si j'avais quatre dromadaires
i.e. (my translation):
Riding his four dromedaries
Don Pedro d'Alfaroubeira
Travelled the world near and afar
You bet the world I fain would scour
If I had dromedaries four.
Luckily, my profession as a Linguist, Indologist and Orientalist has afforded me ample opportunity to travel far and wide in the Orient and especially in India to do field research, producing photographic documentation that I have sometimes used to illustrate my writings and lectures.
As for photography in itself, I have cultivated it since my youth, developing and printing in the darkroom, both in black and white and cybachrome. Since the advent of the digital era, I have been taking advantage of the unprecedented possibilities offered by a wide range of software to elicit the best out of my Nikons. Recently I have come back to film photography to some extent, both in full-frame (Nikon) and medium format (Hasselblad, Mamiya, Fuji).
