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I would like to thanks all my Flickr friends and contacts for commenting and/or voting on my image "Wrestling with Gravity". It has won the Carl Zeiss 2011 Photo Contest. Your support was, in all honesty, fantastic!

Since you have asked, the girl in the background is probably the elder sister. A married woman would according to the tradition cut off her hair and wear sheitel (kerchief) or wig, in order not to stirr attention of other men.

Finally had a window of time where I could spend a morning prowling the streets of Mea Shearim (a neighborhood in Jerusalem populated mainly by ultra-orthodox Jews) and took few shots just before the rain started again. I parked myself few meters away from the puddle, fixed my focusing ring and waited for my hero to jump over the puddle. Actually the photo I initially had in mind was the 1946 silver print of Henri Cartier-Bresson's Derrière la Gare Saint-Lazare however reality can be sometimes surprising as the moment I spotted my fair hero. He was so confident he would cross the puddle with ease that he hasn't faced the next barrier. What happened next I'll have to leave to your imagination…But here is a hint, The Monkey Business Illusion. Test yourself, it's fun.

The winning photo of the Carl Zeiss Photo Contest, 2011 "Every moment tells a story"

His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem sanctifies the water at the Church of Resurrection commemorating the baptism of Christ and the divine revelation of the Holy Trinity during the feast of the Theophany (Epiphany).