Photos that make us take a second look
by
Nicole Mc Donald |
February 21, 2011
As we go through our photos there are always some that make us say “huh?” This new section will feature interesting photos of what we see throughout St Lucia every week.
Some people must have not heard about the four percent economic growth. Or photographer David Pascal took a telling photo this week of a man digging for garbage.
Michael Gaspard from GIS is also apparently a fashion expert or is it just that it pained him to see the injustice Soufriere's Mr Dalson had done to his tie?
Our photographers are fascinated by signs! Especially when the activities happening below the signs seem to contradict them, which often happens in this paradise of ours. Vendors set up shop almost anywhere and horses, well, let’s just say they know not what they do, but what about their owners? As for that other sign which we photographed pointing in a certain direction marked ‘bad people’ this is definitely not an official announcement and we hardly think all the people in the Corinth area can be labeled as such. This has more to do with mischief than anything else. Above Photos by Bill Mortley and David Pascal.
Since we started this new section there have been some very interesting photos featured here, none quite like this however. Our photographer who often finds himself in several nooks and crannies came across this house built, yes, you are seeing right, around an electricity pole. We are pretty sure the pole was there first and the structure came up around it somehow. And hopefully Lucelec and the owners of the house have some kind of agreement! (Photos by Bill Mortley)
Labour in life and death? Allan Louisy is taken to his final resting place (Photo by Bill Mortley)
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As police cordoned off the Wilton’s Yard area early Wednesday morning some people obviously didn’t get a chance to brush their teeth and decided to do it where ever they could. We give the man points for hygiene but not so much for the location of his dental care: he decided to wash out his mouth in a gutter right next to cop directing traffic and people. The officer kept on doing his job, oblivious to the man’s exhibition.
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These men had a tough time getting this container truck off the Millennium Highway near the site for the new hospital. The truck was full of cement and had toppled over. It took two tractors and some serious manpower and teamwork to finally get it off the main road.
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Not exactly sure what made these raging bulls decide to battle it out but we’re guessing it had something to do with a certain hefer!
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Before and After: The first picture was featured on the cover of Tropical Traveller magazine last year of a quaint little house in Soufriere. After Tomas the house was washed away. The second picture shows the area as it is now. (Photos by Bill Mortley)
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This week our roving photographer Bill Mortley took to the busy city of Castries, amid the arrival of cruise ships and the zipping off of taxi drivers and buses. But in all the usual city chaos his camera lens was drawn to what may be a usual sight to many as they go about their day. This homeless man was taking a nap right on the water’s edge under a sign that obviously did not read ‘ no sleeping
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Our photographer Dave Pascal could not resist capturing a photo of these contenders for the local version of Dancing with the Stars. Minister for Tourism Allen Chastanet lets loose at the opening of Rituals Diner with daughter Rhyan who seems to really know how to dance the jig!
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It seems business is on remote control as this vendor takes a nap under the shade an umbrella in the market. (Photo by Bill Mortley)
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At the recently held Independence parade not everyone could hold it together. A female Cadet fainted momentarily no doubt from the effects of the heat. We were assured after some attention from medics she was given a clean bill of health. (Photo by David Pascal)
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Some people have to travel really far to get water. Our photographer Bill Mortley saw this man with buckets upon empty buckets on the Canaries road, heading south in search of the new gold!
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Labour in life and death? Allan Louisy is taken to his final resting place (Photo by Bill Mortley)
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Since we started this new section there have been some very interesting photos featured here, none quite like this however. Our photographer who often finds himself in several nooks and crannies came across this house built, yes, you are seeing right, around an electricity pole. We are pretty sure the pole was there first and the structure came up around it somehow. And hopefully Lucelec and the owners of the house have some kind of agreement! (Photos by Bill Mortley)
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Our photographers are fascinated by signs! Especially when the activities happening below the signs seem to contradict them, which often happens in this paradise of ours. Vendors set up shop almost anywhere and horses, well, let’s just say they know not what they do, but what about their owners? As for that other sign which we photographed pointing in a certain direction marked ‘bad people’ this is definitely not an official announcement and we hardly think all the people in the Corinth area can be labeled as such. This has more to do with mischief than anything else. Above Photos by Bill Mortley and David Pascal.
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Michael Gaspard from GIS is also apparently a fashion expert or is it just that it pained him to see the injustice Soufriere’s Mr Dalson had done to his tie?
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Some people must have not heard about the four percent economic growth. Or photographer David Pascal took a telling photo this week of a man digging for garbage.
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” in this odd world of ours” lol!!!!!!
These photos are endemic of St. Lucian culture. You won’t find moronic idiocy like this anywhere else on the planet. This is Lucian Kolcha.
You obviously need to travel some more and expand you experiential background, then you will definitely amend your position. These things happen in most, if not all, third world countries.
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Seriously???!!! (as my 8yr old would say)
didn’t say “huh?” for the second photo…or maybe i didn’t get it…lol
To each his own
Botox,
I’ll agree with you on the first photo; the second one happens a lot more often than you think, and in the more safety conscious parts of the world. It looks to me that a concrete mixer tipped – that can happen given the relative wetness of the concrete. If the concrete is too dry, the load can throw the truck off-balance. This happens even in the most safety-conscious countries. And, given that the Millenium Highway was a total engineering failure, it doesn’t surprise me to see this.
You are right, that highway is really bumpy and awkward to drive on.
Stupidity happens when your brain functions only on the commands of others, when you have no ability to think creatively, when foresight happens only when you look backwards.
Botox/Charlotte
I’ve travelled to many countries and this is nothing.You guys make it sound like only in St.Lucia you will see something like that.
This is not a third, second or third world thing, it’s just a thing that can happen anywhere or everywhere.
I once saw a man defecate and urinate in a rush hour New York city train and no one said a word. You know why no one said anything? This is because things like that happen all the time and it was not suprising to them..
We are too quick to denigrate our country. let us talk up our country instead.
Wow, I really wish I could see that, popcorn and all. Now that is sick. In St. Lucia you can see people assaulting building and light post all the time
The zombie photo is very sad, those two people are someone’s children. They are humans in need of care. That photo should be in the health section of your paper. We need to help each other in this world.
The no swimming is racist, it has a black man with a red line across it, I think those rules are on most of the beaches in St. Lucia, some places even erect walls to keep out locals. That is not cool at all.
I dont believe the first picture is funny. Making a mockery of a mentally challenged young is simply out of taste!
I dont think the star means the section to be funny. Obviously it seems some of the photos may be funny but I think the photos just highlight things that make us do a double take. Good job star. I have to say you can find this stuff in any other local newspaper. You guys have great photographers and writers that always give a different perspective to things. keep it up!
If anyone think that the first photo is a disgrace to stlucia, GROW THE HELL UP. Travel to the us or better yet Google… Los Angeles’s Skid Row.
I saw new MPH signs being erected just days ago in the Bar D’isle. MPH? Just when i thought “we” as “one” country should be going metric!!!
Well done photographer. Your remarkable photos are quite endearing and depicts the actions fully. Very well taken.
You are indeed the David Bailey of St Lucia. Bailey being the avant garde of British photographers. They say a picture paints a thousand words. These striking portraits certainly does.Impressive pix at large for all to review without mercy the mixture of melancholy and the benign landscape of our splendid island that is being delineated here.
You have captured and presented with the greatest of ease the fullness of action taking place in the respective pix.
You deserve an accolade for jazzing up and elucidating them. Once more well done!