Moorea - Ancestral canoe and modern liner's by mamielle

Papeete - French Polynesia from the Poterie de l'aquarium

Uploaded: Mar, 03 2006 | Taken: Aug, 04 2004| Viewed: 47 times  | 8 votes

terje - Mar, 03 2006 08:03pm Brilliant photo! This is the kind of contrasts in a photo that I really like! rangutan - Mar, 03 2006 10:03pm 5*artwork Marielle, we need ~ pages to describe this picture properly. Pictures like this are about travel itself! rangutan - Mar, 03 2006 10:03pm ... badly composed, yet hundreds of stories and details within this captured moment to be heard of..... marianne - Mar, 04 2006 06:03am mamielle, Good contrast big/small boat, rich/poor. The threatening cloud gives the picture admosphere. I would have given 5* if the top of the mountain had been in the picture. marianne - Mar, 04 2006 06:03am I don't mean the one obscured by the cloud, but the two small peaks onthe left which seem to be truncated. mamielle - Mar, 04 2006 06:03am It seems it’s a reproduction of war canoe Maori. Polynesians are adventurous people. They used a tree called the apape in canoe-making. The war canoe was an imposing vessel which, when powered by the mamielle - Mar, 04 2006 06:03am the end : the extra-large Maori warriors, knifed through the water at an amazing speed. marianne - Mar, 04 2006 06:03am Mamielle, If only you could have captured them on a photo, but they probably went too fast