(always) Learning to See ...

MET 20 in Asam as we exited Bhutan from the East and stopped despite the drivers anxiety about stopping managed to place our daily cuppa in some sort of context

MET 19 Again in Kashgar these two young women were (I think) looking on a dating site in an internet cafe  and laughing a lot.

MET 18 In Kashgar, these two  seem to exemplify the transition from boy to man

MET 17 In an Uzbekistan market. Not sure why but I really like this image. Something about the out of focus foreground green, her shirt and her GAZE. She was keen to be photographed and then really met the cameras gaze.

MET 16  from the start of the Cottesloe Beach to Rottnest Island swim. The multimedia is here  http://www.robertvankoesveld.com/Gallery/Rottnest_Swim.html

MET 15 We met these two VERY excited women in Venice on their way to a birthday party. I made this capture as they tiptoed away in the rain experiencing a new dimension to the historical  theatre of their costumes

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MET 13 No names for this couple who have come to represent relationship to me although the temptations of pastries prompted the shot, the more I look at this image, the more it has come to represent intimacy and relationship.

MET 12 I try not to ‘steal’ portraits, but didn’t want to interrupt these two friends chatting together in a garden in the UK. I think of them as Daphne and Iris

MET 11 a proud man engaging in Thaipusam in Penang Malaysia. A medical practitioner he was proudly supported by his extended family. I little multimedia i made can be found here http://www.robertvankoesveld.com/Gallery/Thaipusam_Penang.html

MET 10 an image of a cameleer during the Pushkar festival in India. This image has been on my wall for many years since it was made on slide film years ago. Now displaced by other images he remains part of my MET family.

MET 09 adoptive parents and their child pose with a guard in THE square in Beijing, one imagines as they make images to show their child in the future. I find this image moving.

MET 08 perhaps not strictly a MET but a person who I spotted in Xian China. I suppose a ‘street person’ of sorts. This image draws me back although it is somehow unsettling, I guess he says something for me  about being on the outside of the new consumerism.

MET 07 this is a gentleman I met in China as he flirted with some passing women in the Hakka village we were lucky to stay in. I have a friend who designs dentists rooms who is waiting for the practice playful enough to allow her to use the image. If you are such a dentist here the link to my friends design company. www.levitch.com.au

MET 06 This gentleman is a FRG (friendly retired guy - something I at least aspire to rather than a GOM) who I met in a square in Florence as he walked his small dog. We chatted at some length, he had been in the air force as I recall. A warm and impeccable presence.