LATimes' Framework: Chhath Festival

Photo © Narendra Shrestha/EPA

 The Los Angeles ' Times large image photoblog Framework has featured a number of lovely photographs from around the world this past week. I liked this one by EPA photographer Narendra Shrestha of a Nepali woman staring while offering fruits and coconuts to the setting sun during the Chhath festival in Kathmandu.

The Chhath festival is observed by Hindus in India and Nepal, and it's performed in order to thank the Sun god Surya for sustaining life on earth, and to ask for the granting of wishes. The rituals include bathing, fasting and abstaining from drinking water, standing in water for long periods of time, and making offerings to the setting and rising sun.

Next Week on The Travel Photographer

For the week starting Monday November 14,  apart from off-the-cuff posts, the following is in the pipeline:

1. A photographer's multimedia photo essay on the Sami people of the Scandinavian Arctic.
2. A photographer's gallery of his freshly-minted photographs of East Africa.
3. The work of a Vietnamese photographer of his homeland.
4. Another interesting edgy documentary on illegal emigrants from Central America.
5. Hard-hitting images from a photojournalist out of Haiti.