tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post7808549638656763151..comments2023-08-22T21:11:59.355+12:00Comments on pohanginapete: The ruins of the momentpohanginapetehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-23476461302190736592010-12-21T10:31:59.067+13:002010-12-21T10:31:59.067+13:00Thanks for that wonderfully generous comment, Lydi...Thanks for that wonderfully generous comment, Lydia. <br /><br />Part of me stayed in India.pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-52279864940069856402010-12-21T10:22:20.291+13:002010-12-21T10:22:20.291+13:00I am so glad that you linked to this from a more r...I am so glad that you linked to this from a more recent post. My life is better for having read your words, "Yes, tiger," and for having seen these gorgeous shots. If anyone ever deserved a trip to India it is you, Pete.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11135393270656573516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-6656072690019344322007-11-06T10:39:00.000+13:002007-11-06T10:39:00.000+13:00CGP, welcome :-)The Snow Leopard does tend to pola...CGP, welcome :-)<BR/><BR/><I>The Snow Leopard</I> does tend to polarise opinions, so please approach it without expectations — indeed, as Matthiessen tried to approach his own journey.<BR/><BR/>When I was in Nepal earlier this year (I'll be writing about it soon) I picked up a cheap second-hand copy and re-read it. It seemed appropriate to read it while I walked among mountains near those pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-71060073736194468852007-11-06T02:56:00.000+13:002007-11-06T02:56:00.000+13:00So wonderful that you saw the tiger, but good als...So wonderful that you saw the tiger, but good also that you weren't too singleminded about that goal! Wonderful what else you saw along the way.<BR/><BR/>You're right how much poorer the world will be if we lose wild tigers. <BR/><BR/>Peter Mathiesson's book Snow Leopard is on my shelf, must read it soon.Crafty Green Poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02486633917197181851noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-16649811193873547552007-10-29T07:44:00.000+13:002007-10-29T07:44:00.000+13:00Lené, being able to share moments like these with ...Lené, being able to share moments like these with people who understand their significance is a privilege for me, also. Thanks :-)pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-53813005974232464532007-10-24T13:21:00.000+13:002007-10-24T13:21:00.000+13:00Pete, What a privilege to "join" your journey thro...Pete, <BR/>What a privilege to "join" your journey through words and photographs. The way you weave your internal experience into the story makes it all the more engaging. I appreciate the way you find metaphor and meaning along the way--whether it is in the loss of a treasured gift or the shady photographs of a tiger-- you help us smile and find meaning in the details of our own lives. Thanks.Lené Garyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10018280698586741856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-59621674956053266572007-10-22T20:17:00.000+13:002007-10-22T20:17:00.000+13:00Peregrina, that langur photo works strongly on me ...Peregrina, that langur photo works strongly on me too. I'm not sure I know what it is about it, nor whether I even want to know; all I do know is that it seemed to frame itself in much the same way that some of the writing that works best for me (mine, I mean) seems to write itself. It's what makes photography and writing, and I assume any other endeavour with similar characteristics, so scary. pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-6860082132903965142007-10-22T18:29:00.000+13:002007-10-22T18:29:00.000+13:00Pete, wow. The observations and feelings, both sub...Pete, wow. The observations and feelings, both subtle and vivid, that you share so skillfully, are so detailed that they almost seem to take up residence in my "own" memory -- I can imagine that as (what I think is) my own memory gets fuzzy (rather: even more fuzzy than it already is), I will actually "remember" seeing those magenta- and green-headed parrots on the brown ground below the fort...christy lee-engelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09582663710897858255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-25583447402961118682007-10-19T22:27:00.000+13:002007-10-19T22:27:00.000+13:00Vivid writing, stunning photographs, as always, Pe...Vivid writing, stunning photographs, as always, Pete. If I couldn't be there, then the next best thing is peering over your shoulder. <BR/><BR/>Of the images, the one I love best is the first - not just the lines of the composition and the detail of the hair, but mainly because of what those two tiny hands imply. It's perfectly cropped. To have included the mother's head wouldn't have been Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-53980715664892495242007-10-19T08:49:00.000+13:002007-10-19T08:49:00.000+13:00Bev, thanks. The sort of time with youngsters you ...Bev, thanks. The sort of time with youngsters you mention is something I love, although I seldom have the opportunity. Seeing the excitement on a child's face when together you see something a little special... well, that's something more than a little special.pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-77855491923085385382007-10-17T05:34:00.000+13:002007-10-17T05:34:00.000+13:00the thought that if anyone should be lucky enough ...<I>the thought that if anyone should be lucky enough to see these tigers it should be these young girls, because they're the people who will most directly affect the tigers' future.</I><BR/><BR/>I often have that thought when I'm on an outing with young people and we see something a little extraordinary - not tigers, of course, but even swallows diving for insects over a pond, or a beaver burning silohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03699849089828169389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-68212264972176759392007-10-15T17:35:00.000+13:002007-10-15T17:35:00.000+13:00Avus, yes, I think that thought haunts many of us....Avus, yes, I think that thought haunts many of us. Let's hope "many" means "enough", so we'll see sufficient change, fast enough to prove Paxton wrong.<BR/><BR/>R.R, as far as I know, it's original — ignoring the obvious comment about nothing being truly original, and ignoring cryptamnesia. Thanks :-)<BR/><BR/>Butuki, you and the others who comment here encourage me to believe there really are apohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-38755331328089423402007-10-15T08:34:00.000+13:002007-10-15T08:34:00.000+13:00There is something about the hands on those little...There is something about the hands on those little primates, so much like our own, but not. I once held a Gibbons' hand (at a zoo), it was cool to the touch and surprisingly soft. Glimpsing a tiger must be like looking back in time. So much of the megafauna on earth are gone, your tiger is both here and a heartbreaking relic. <BR/><BR/>I've just finished reading Alan Weisman's <B>The World robin andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13390482190562312928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-86421427392498960662007-10-15T04:41:00.000+13:002007-10-15T04:41:00.000+13:00I have met that baby langur, many times in my life...I have met that baby langur, many times in my life, mostly in the pulpit, but I think it is preferable to the human variety.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-22061068403243820922007-10-15T02:06:00.000+13:002007-10-15T02:06:00.000+13:00I meant to comment this morning, but I needed time...I meant to comment this morning, but I needed time through the day to digest what you wrote and then return once again, this evening, to read it again. I felt as if I was watching both myself, in the way you approached traveling and photography and thinking about animals and people, and a good friend who understood without having to be told why, when you first saw the tiger, a quiet response was butukihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12473964455146342069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-65718035116436862572007-10-15T01:11:00.000+13:002007-10-15T01:11:00.000+13:00P.S.'........the ruins of the moment.'Is that orig...P.S.<BR/>'........the ruins of the moment.'<BR/>Is that original or a quote?<BR/>Lovely, either way, and possibly a great book title. Hopefully? Some day fairly soon?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-82137953639241750112007-10-14T02:14:00.000+13:002007-10-14T02:14:00.000+13:00I enjoyed that great "moon" picture, Pete. Beauti...I enjoyed that great "moon" picture, Pete. Beautifully done. What will be left of the flora and fauna of this planet in, say, 200 years time? At the rate man is debauching them, coupled with global warming, very much less I imagine. I guess that is the natural order, "survival of the fittest" (i.e. man), but the world will be a more desolate place.<BR/>An old Tom Paxton song has come to mind, Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-10881517100897694032007-10-13T11:32:00.000+13:002007-10-13T11:32:00.000+13:00Emma, rich is an appropriate word. And, if tigers...Emma, <I>rich</I> is an appropriate word. And, if tigers vanish from the unconfined world, as seems probable, the world and we will be poorer than we (most of us, sadly) realise. Things move into the past in different senses, some of which I hope might never be said of tigers.<BR/><BR/>r.r., speaking of synchronicity, I see <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7042257.stm" REL="pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-40553690216634500982007-10-13T04:44:00.000+13:002007-10-13T04:44:00.000+13:00Truly wonderful photographs, and some touching syn...Truly wonderful photographs, and some touching synchronicity (or is it?). Helen Freeman of the Snow Leopard Trust,devoted so much of her life to the study of these creatures. She died very recently, never having seen a Snow Leopard in the wild.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-84982291542367489552007-10-13T04:25:00.000+13:002007-10-13T04:25:00.000+13:00Oh! What a phenomenal series of events! How wonder...Oh! What a phenomenal series of events! How wonderful, and how rich. So much to take away from this... though from all of it, this resonates most for me: <I>They'd been a gift, many years ago, and with their damage, she moved a little further into the past.</I> Yes. (o)Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06193158939182430887noreply@blogger.com