I need to start with an apology for failed notifications, multiple notifications, and extra notifications. Hati and Skoll is now in its third year, and websites tend to run into mail problems at about this point thanks to an army of e-parasites.  I am working on a “permanent” solution and hope to have it in place over the weekend.  But in the meanwhile please bear with me.

Week’s end and I have been going through the usual “Best Photographs of the Week” sections on various sites and there are a few beautiful images to share this week.  There is a wonderful silhouette by Anindito Mukherjee for Reuters showing workers building a rail bridge over the River Yamuna in New Delhi, India.  Silhouette is one of those over done art forms, but when it works, as in this wonderful image, it can be gorgeous, a surrender of grey tones towards a simple geometric statement in black and white. In fact, the man on the right with his blue shirt represents a kind of contrast to the otherwise pure monochrome of the image. Here the appeal is in the vertical geometry of the bars that essentially eclipses the workman.