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On the threshold of a dream, so said the Moody Blues Two ladies squeeze in a doorway watching the flow From the sidelines, the Masquerade looks bigger and brighter Like the city lights seen at night from an airplane window The living memories of the first Carnival, the first crush The first heartbreak… Photo Hugh […]
A young cyclist waits for the sunset, nobody is immune to poetry This inner pain triggered by irresistible beauty The longing to belong and to drown in a deep fascination Narcissus looking for a reflection he can’t even recognize It is the moon rising over the river as the day fades into the mist Photo […]
Floating like a white ghost in a black crowd In his mouth a red balloon with white spots An hallucinated magician with a poisonous shroom The Masquerade is a kaleidoscope of illusions They are apparitions that belong to hallucination A photograph may record or distort the instant Maybe it is just some kind of surreal […]
The booming broom market in Niamey Sand and dust get everywhere even in your food You can sweep all day it will always come back The sandman is a busy man so is the broom vendor Crossing the bridge over the brown waters of the River Niger The desert is on both sides it it […]
The king of the moment strolls down Chepstow in his underwear A black beauty queen at his right arm and a shapely blonde at his left Cloud nine is just halfway between heaven and hell in this brave new world We follow our inclinations in the hot pursuit of unattainable dreams The quest follows a […]
The huge emptiness of the desert swallows every human trace A vast sand plain where the where the wild winds run screaming The desert is a broken hourglass spilling the sand into timelessness A few huts and small single room adobe houses, a bramble corral The last outpost in an overwhelming wilderness holding fast against […]
All the earthly goodies, cold champagne is like ice on fire and a smile to beckon From the gates of Eden you can see the spiralling staircase of Hell And through the billowing smoke the flames of the bonfires burning below Running blind and empty on the winding road to your destiny You will reach […]
A young black beauty offers a sweet smile Strike the pose for a moment of posterity Torn and sandblasted jeans fishnet stockings Orange blouse, gold powder and golden waist chain Suddenly the masquerade commotion seems to a stop Like a rainbow in a stormy sky until she fades away Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 […]
The elders, the young and the youngest gather for the end of the day They take a few minutes to watch the sky turn gold and then blue Night will fall at tropical speed, the sky will turn into a lapis lazuli canopy The flickering stars will send their mysterious messages light years away Patiently […]
All dressed-up gran making videos of the unique moment Looking askance and half-surprised by my portrait shot In a world of selfies where phones are touted as cameras Real cameras look suspicious, probably the paparazzi syndrome Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery Hits: 19