Yin and Yang

Don't really know if the title is relevant but I quite liked the (obvious) contrast between the couple in this shot; the man determined, the woman more carefree behind, and framed by Sugar Loaf Mountain here in Copacabana.

I had other shots that would have perhaps evoked better or differently this classic strolling day in Copa, but this kept jumping out of the shortlist...what can you do!

For the record, breakfast in the studio with the most delicious papaya I have ever tasted (sweetness, firmness, colour just perfect...so much so I photographed the empty halves as a possible blip!), a dive into the Alladin's Cave of our local shopping centre and what a thrill to find a new theatre on the first floor but with all the tickets for Bibi tonight all sold out , (how appropriate would that have been!), then a stroll along a busy shopping street to Cervantes and their trademark sandwich of filet mignon, foi gras and a slice of cooked pineapple, before at last reaching the Orla (shore) and a long pad of a walk right along the front to Arpoador and the surfers like brilliant gems in the sunlit waves, a caipiroska (why not!) watching the sunset, and then along the front of Ipanema finally finding a needy man to give my left over half-sandwich to, and onto some social calls with hotel managers and taxi drivers we know in this part of the town; so we have always established our social webs and it's nice to feel its support especially when you are alone. Blipping now from a reliable wifi botequin with live singer doing his own and standard reportoire (and, you know, I never tire of Girl from Ipanema,), before preparing to Skype DD, who is also, as I write, finalising her blip of the day!

Now, dinner? Probably, the place on the park...what do you think, DD?

PS
For those interested, and I'm thinking LoJ, this year is the 40th anniversary of 'Transa' the Tropical album recorded by Caetano Veloso and four chums in London in 1972. They've all got together again there to reminisce, and the original tracks are being reissued on CD and vinyl having been re-mastered in Abbey Road recording studios.
Bb