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Bolivian Grandma with Grandchild   6 comments

Bolivian Grandma with Grandchild — Image by kenne

Your bowler hat sits
like a quiet defiance—
not loud, not pleading,
simply present.

The child leans into you,
a question not yet spoken:
Will I have to fight as you did?

You tighten the shawl—
your answer
is warmth.

— kenne

The Isle Of The Sun   Leave a comment

Isle of the Sun — Photo-artistry by kenne

On the Isle of the Sun
the houses lean open—

not broken, not abandoned—
the doorways don’t close
just unwilling to keep anything in.

Each window
leans forward,
hungry for light,
for the shimmer of the lake 
breathing sky back into itself.

I stand in one threshold
and feel the old stories
press through my ribs.
I walk through a room
and the sun walks with me—
no permission asked.

And still—
the openings remain,
wide, insistent,
as if to say:
nothing we love
was ever meant
to stay contained.

And the lake—
always the lake—
keeps answering
with a brightness
that does not belong to me
but enters anyway.

— kenne

Bolivian Street Scene   3 comments

Bolivian Street Scene (08/24/19) — Image by kenne

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature.
We are not here to oppress anybody –
but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.

— Evo Morales

Bee On Orange Blossom   5 comments

Bee On Orange Blossom — Image by kenne

“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”

― Mary Oliver

Eyespot Butterfly   1 comment

Eyespot Butterfly, Bolivian Amazon (09/19/19)– Image by kenne

Watch me; I’m looking at you.

La Paz Bolivia Buildings   Leave a comment

La Paz Bolivia Buildings (08/17/19) — Image by kenne

La Paz is located in a bowl, with the satellite city of El Alto above it, on the bowl’s rim.
If you are walking, you are either going up or down. 

Sunset Over Lake Titicaca   5 comments

Sunset Over Lake Titicaca (November 26, 2019) Photo-artistry by kenne

I don’t like gurus. I don’t like people who ask you to follow or believe.

I like people who ask you to think independently.

— A. S. Byatt

Campsite Supply Boat   Leave a comment

Campsite Supply Boat On A Foggy Morning On The Tuichi River In The Bolivian Amazon — Painting by kenne

I bear many scars,
but I also carry with me moments
that would not have happened
if I had not dared
to go beyond my limits.

— Paulo Coelho

 

 

A Tuichi River Foggy Morning   2 comments

Foggy Morning Breaking On The Tuichi River In The Bolivian Amazon (09/05/19)— HDR Image by kenne

 

Tuichi River In The Bolivian Amazon   3 comments

Tuichi River In The Bolivian Amazon (08/21/19)– Image by kenne

Early morning fog

burned off

by mid-morning

taking with it

the wet air

and the jungle

darkness.

— kenne

La Paz Street Scene   Leave a comment

La Paz Street Scene — Image by kenne

Bolivian Fresh Flowers Women   Leave a comment

Bolivian Fresh Flowers Women (August 2019) — Image by kenne

Posted September 4, 2023 by kenneturner in Bolivia, Capturing the Moment, Information

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Fighting Cholitas    1 comment

Fighting Cholitas in El Alto, Bolivia (August 18, 2019) — Images by kenne

The Fighting Cholitas are a group of female wrestlers who perform in El Alto, Bolivia. Like the general population of El Alto,
which consists almost entirely of Aymara and Quechua residents, the Cholitas are indigenous.

El Alto is the largest city in Latin America with a mostly Indigenous population. About 76% of its inhabitants are Aymara,
9% are Quechua, 15% are Mestizo (descendants of Indigenous and Europeans), and less than 0.1% are Criollos (White).

— Source: Wikipedia

Balsa Wood Rafting On The Tuichi River Revisted   4 comments

Bolivia

Balsa Wood Rafting On the Tuichi River, Madidi National Forest (August 2019) — Images and Video by kenne

Macaws In The Bolivian Amazon   Leave a comment

Macaws In The Bolivian Amazon August 22, 2019) — Images by kenne

Posted August 28, 2023 by kenneturner in Amazon, Bolivia, Information, Photography

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