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First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs.

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Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

Ria Bacon, Photographer

Another string to my fiddle, to add to those of editor, translator and trainer — marked by the first time I have been paid for one of my photos!

Here it is, a double half-page spread in the New York Magazine.

Regular readers of this blog may have already seen the picture gracing the header on this web

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5 comments to Ria Bacon, Photographer

zonasedna

May 1, 2009 at 1:52 pm · Reply

brava, congratulazioni for your picture on the NYM!

ZS
Mimi

May 1, 2009 at 3:03 pm · Reply

Hey Congratulations! On the baby and the photo.
BarbadosInFocus

May 2, 2009 at 2:03 am · Reply

Congratulations, it always feels nice to be published.
Stunner

May 28, 2009 at 1:12 am · Reply

Wow! Congrats!
Charlene Collins

July 22, 2009 at 1:22 pm · Reply

Hi Ria, congrats! Its one of the nicest photos of Pelican Bar around. Hope you got your asking price.

I now get requests weekly from persons/oraganisations wanting to use photos for free, even though they are most likely selling the product. Everybody stands to be reimbursed except the photographer. I just delete the emails unanswered now.

All the best, and the Observer now pays!

Deep in it

Just heard that our stuff, including essential babyware and car, will now be leaving Dakar around the date it was supposed to arrive in the Netherlands. Apparently the delay is due to congestion in the port. The whole coast of Africa must be gridlocked if it takes two weeks to clear the way to port. I

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Leaving this place

I’m not profligate with my categories (nor with my posts). So when I see that I have 22 posts in the category “Leaving this place”, I know that I’ve been leaving more than I’ve been staying these last few years.

And on a night like this, at 1:13 am, with the cold Harmattan wind whipping through the

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Dave

January 18, 2009 at 9:20 am · Reply

All that is well and nice, but you never mentioned *whence* you are moving (or did I miss it)? That would be a way to alleviate the repetitiveness: replace your “Leaving this place” by “Moving to this place” :-)
Tim

January 18, 2009 at 12:11 pm · Reply

Keep still, will you? I can’t keep up.
And what Dave said – wherever next?

Ghetto can’t hold you back

The athletics results this last week in Beijing represent the summum of success for Jamaican runners, putting them in first place in the gold medal league table, equal with Russia and ahead of the US.

Bear in mind that Jamaica has a population of only 2.7 million.

The first gold medal went to Shelly-Ann Fraser in the women’s

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Sidi Mansour vs Ma Baker

Life in Kingston, Jamaica was sometimes like living in a war zone: occasional bursts of excitement — driving after dark through a ghetto zone, boarding up the windows as a hurricane approached — interspersed with long periods of boredom, for the city does not offer much in the way of amusement for a young family of

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haagjes

July 18, 2008 at 5:57 pm · Reply

Ik hoefde niet meer te worden overtuigd :-), maar de mix is erg goed gelukt! Als ik nog eens iemand moet overtuigen, verwijs ik ze naar jouw logje… Leuke weblog, trouwens.
Stunner

July 20, 2008 at 8:51 am · Reply

Hmm, there are a lot more things to do in Kingston than just go out to eat, even though Kingston has its fair share of food restaurants. There are the various parties on the weekends, the club, the cinema, plays (even through they are mostly Roots plays). And if that fails, then you’ll have to take it out f down and take a .
Es

July 30, 2008 at 9:40 am · Reply

Is dat typisch nederlands??? Good to hear it’s not just me ;-)
Ik heb het inmiddels op CD gezet, een aantal keren geluisterd in de auto en ik ben nu echt overtuigd. Misschien niet typisch nederlands, maar gewoon eigenwijs…. :-)
dini

August 11, 2008 at 5:49 am · Reply

Three ours of work just to prove your point?
Marieke

August 15, 2008 at 4:21 am · Reply

In reaction to Dini – taken over some Dutch “eigenwijsheid”? Nice mix though!
G-man

March 16, 2010 at 2:27 pm · Reply

Was using this goto a randomly blog feature on randomizer and ended up here, a great way to read something new like this. Thanks for taking your time and efforts to create this blogpost.
Alice

May 4, 2010 at 4:19 pm · Reply

HEY!!!NICE TO MEET YOU! IM SO GLAD THERE IS ANOTHER PERSON IN THIS WORLD THAT HAVE SEEN IT, AT LEAST YOU UNDERSTAND ME. I HAVE TO LET YOU KNOW IM ALSO THE TYPE OF OBSSESSED PERSON, OBSSESSED FOR MUSIC AND LOOK-ALIKES BETWEEN SONGS…GOOD JOB, I UNDERSTAND YOUR 3 HOURS WORK, EVEN I WOULD HAVE DONE SMTGH LIKE THAT, JUST TO PROVE THE LOOK-ALIKE…ANYWAY, I GUESS SIDI MANSOUR IS THE ONLY ARABIC SONG I CANT GET ENOUGH OF, AND ALSO MA BEKER FOR AMERICAN MUSIC….CHEERS!
Roman

June 21, 2010 at 3:25 am · Reply

nice mix! ;)

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