A postcard from Germany
Wednesday 28 September 2005
Jaroslav Poncar, wonderful panoramic photographer of Ladakh and other places, has sent me a pdf postcard. It announces the launch of his new book Himalayas: where gods and man meet. He calls it a supercoffeetablebook. At 34 x 48 cm it would fit on our coffee table, but it’s too big for the book shelves. I want one!
On the postcard is a sweeping panorama—a rock-strewn riverbed in the foreground, stupas in the middle distance, backed by a village, mountains and a big sky. It’s altogether too much to fit onto this page, so I have cropped out this small sample.