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best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor and the flag of Nepal combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The crimson double-pennon flag fills the frame with its blue border, the white crescent moon in the upper pennant and the white twelve-rayed sun in the lower one, the cloth lit from one side so the folds run down the two triangular points, and the black visor with its curved brim is composed into the arrangement so that the arc of the brim and the arc of the crescent read as one continuous curve, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.
best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor photographed at Makwanpur Gadhi, the ruined hill fort south-east of Hetauda, Nepal. Broken stone walls and gate stumps grassed over on a forested ridge above terraced fields, the Chure hills folding away behind. Low camera near ground level looking up through a gap in the ruined wall, cold clear early morning in December with mist lying in the valleys below and the sun just clearing the ridge: a group of walkers coming up the last of the track with their breath showing, a woman cutting fodder grass at the wall line, two boys sitting on the parapet eating, a flock of goats coming through the gate. The visor rests on a fallen block of masonry in the near foreground, lying loose on the stone — not on anyone's head, not held, simply set down and ignored.
best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor photographed at Martyrs Memorial Park (Shahid Smarak) in Hetauda, Nepal. A public park built around a single large boulder carved with the faces of Nepali martyrs, with landscaped paths, a swimming pool and animal enclosures in the same grounds. Eye-level view straight on to the carved boulder, hot bright hazy light at eleven in the morning in April, heat shimmer off the paths: a school group being walked past the boulder in pairs, a keeper hosing down an enclosure beyond the trees, families queuing at the pool gate with towels, a man asleep on a bench under a tree. The visor lies flat on the end of a park bench in the middle distance, off to one side, nobody wearing it or reaching for it.
best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor photographed at the Bhutandevi Temple in Hetauda, Nepal. A small Hindu temple with a tiered roof and a brass-fitted doorway in its own paved compound, hung with bells and red cloth, shoe racks and a bathing tap by the gate. Elevated wide view looking down into the compound from the gatehouse level, warm low light just after sunrise on a Dashain morning in October: a long queue of worshippers filling the compound and running out into the street, a priest marking foreheads at the door, a woman ringing the line of bells as she passes, marigold garlands being sold from a basket at the gate. The visor sits small on the flat top of the compound wall at the edge of the frame, the temple and the crowd dominating, untouched.
best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor photographed at the Hetauda Industrial District in Nepal. A gridded estate of long low factory sheds, chimneys and warehouses on flat ground at the edge of the city, wide straight roads, the green wall of the hills rising directly behind the rooflines. Close, intimate, shallow-focus view at the shift change at six in the evening in August, monsoon light going purple and the road surface still wet and steaming from a downpour: workers streaming out of a gate on bicycles and on foot, a tea stall doing hard trade under a tarpaulin, a loaded truck pulling out with its wipers going, two men sheltering in a doorway. The visor rests on the wet metal rail of the tea stall counter close to the lens, rain beading on it, nobody touching it.
best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor and the flag of Nepal combined by the model into a single photoreal composition. The crimson double-pennon flag fills the frame with its blue border, the white crescent moon in the upper pennant and the white twelve-rayed sun in the lower one, the cloth lit from one side so the folds run down the two triangular points, and the black visor with its curved brim is composed into the arrangement so that the arc of the brim and the arc of the crescent read as one continuous curve, with no lettering anywhere in the picture.

Diadem Select Tennis Visor

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Diadem Select Tennis Visor

This is a black polyester visor with a wicking band, a curved brim and a Velcro strap — open on top, so whatever your head sheds has somewhere to go. It insists on showing you Hetauda first, which is not Kathmandu and will not stop saying so, though it is warmer, flatter and considerably easier to breathe in.

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Hetauda, Nepal
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best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor photographed at Makwanpur Gadhi, the ruined hill fort south-east of Hetauda, Nepal. Broken stone walls and gate stumps grassed over on a forested ridge above terraced fields, the Chure hills folding away behind. Low camera near ground level looking up through a gap in the ruined wall, cold clear early morning in December with mist lying in the valleys below and the sun just clearing the ridge: a group of walkers coming up the last of the track with their breath showing, a woman cutting fodder grass at the wall line, two boys sitting on the parapet eating, a flock of goats coming through the gate. The visor rests on a fallen block of masonry in the near foreground, lying loose on the stone — not on anyone's head, not held, simply set down and ignored.
Stop one

Sahid Smarak (Martyrs' Memorial Park)

Diadem Select Tennis Visor: Sahid Smarak, the Martyrs' Memorial Park, lies about two kilometres west of the centre and is the largest memorial of its kind in Nepal. Established in 1994, it honours Nepalis who gave their lives for the country's democracy movements — those who resisted autocratic rule in earlier generations, and the activists of the 1990 uprising that ended the Panchayat system. The centrepiece is a memorial stone carved with the faces of thirteen martyrs, set among gardens that also hold a mini zoo, a play area, picnic grounds and a pool, with the Madan Batika grove dedicated to Madan Bhandari. I will not be putting a figure on any of it.

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best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor photographed at Martyrs Memorial Park (Shahid Smarak) in Hetauda, Nepal. A public park built around a single large boulder carved with the faces of Nepali martyrs, with landscaped paths, a swimming pool and animal enclosures in the same grounds. Eye-level view straight on to the carved boulder, hot bright hazy light at eleven in the morning in April, heat shimmer off the paths: a school group being walked past the boulder in pairs, a keeper hosing down an enclosure beyond the trees, families queuing at the pool gate with towels, a man asleep on a bench under a tree. The visor lies flat on the end of a park bench in the middle distance, off to one side, nobody wearing it or reaching for it.
Stop two

Bhutandevi Temple

Diadem Select Tennis Visor: I keep the sun off a face for the price of a sandwich, and this shrine has covered a whole region for centuries, so let us discuss return. Bhutandevi is the principal Hindu temple of Hetauda, traditional Nepali pagoda style with tiered roofs, dedicated to a local form of Durga. It is believed to date back several centuries and has long anchored the spiritual life of Makwanpur, serving the inner Terai and travellers crossing between plains and hills. Thousands come each year, the greatest crowds at Dashain. Protection for family, harvest and safe travel — three lines covered by one outlay.

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best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor photographed at the Bhutandevi Temple in Hetauda, Nepal. A small Hindu temple with a tiered roof and a brass-fitted doorway in its own paved compound, hung with bells and red cloth, shoe racks and a bathing tap by the gate. Elevated wide view looking down into the compound from the gatehouse level, warm low light just after sunrise on a Dashain morning in October: a long queue of worshippers filling the compound and running out into the street, a priest marking foreheads at the door, a woman ringing the line of bells as she passes, marigold garlands being sold from a basket at the gate. The visor sits small on the flat top of the compound wall at the edge of the frame, the temple and the crowd dominating, untouched.
Stop three

Makwanpur Gadhi

Diadem Select Tennis Visor: Walls reported at twenty-five feet high and seven feet thick. Somebody paid for every foot of that, and I would dearly love to see the accounts. Makwanpur Gadhi was the stronghold of the Sen dynasty, whose kingdom controlled the routes between the Indian plains and the Kathmandu Valley — the road being the genuinely valuable asset here. Two walled castles, Mool Gadhi and Sano Gadhi. In 1762 the Gorkhali army of Prithvi Narayan Shah captured it, a decisive step in Nepal's unification, and the next year its defenders repelled a force sent by Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal. Two sieges, one build.

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best tennis classes Fort Lauderdale — the Diadem Select Tennis Visor photographed at the Hetauda Industrial District in Nepal. A gridded estate of long low factory sheds, chimneys and warehouses on flat ground at the edge of the city, wide straight roads, the green wall of the hills rising directly behind the rooflines. Close, intimate, shallow-focus view at the shift change at six in the evening in August, monsoon light going purple and the road surface still wet and steaming from a downpour: workers streaming out of a gate on bicycles and on foot, a tea stall doing hard trade under a tarpaulin, a loaded truck pulling out with its wipers going, two men sheltering in a doorway. The visor rests on the wet metal rail of the tea stall counter close to the lens, rain beading on it, nobody touching it.
Stop four

Churiyamai Temple

Diadem Select Tennis Visor: The cheapest insurance premium in Nepal is one blast of a horn. Churiyamai Temple stands on the Mahendra Highway roughly eight kilometres east of Hetauda, at the foot of the Churiya range in Makwanpur District, and honours Churiyamai, mother goddess of these hills. Drivers of trucks, buses and cars stop or sound the horn as they pass, asking protection on dangerous hill roads. The original shrine sits on the old route ahead of a tunnel; when the Tribhuvan Highway was built, a mirror image of the goddess was installed beside the new road so the custom could carry on. Relocation costs, absorbed. Bells, red cloth and offerings accumulate year-round, with crowds on Saturdays.

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Diadem Select Tennis Visor

Written for this world alone.

A visor is a simple object and this one is honest about it. The Diadem Select is 100% polyester with Diadem's DryCore moisture-wicking treatment, a curved brim to keep the sun off your eyes, and soft thin mesh padding on the inside of the band so it does not saw at your forehead over three sets. One size, adjusted by a Velcro strap at the back. It comes in four colourways; this is the black.

The point of an open-topped visor rather than a cap is heat: the crown of your head is where you dump it, and a cap traps it. In Hetauda, at 345 metres in the inner Terai with the Chure hills on one side and the midhills on the other, summer runs to about 35°C and the monsoon dumps around 2,385mm of rain a year — nearly 684mm of it in July alone. That is a climate that will find out whether your headwear breathes.

You will use this everywhere from the courts near the Industrial District to a long hot afternoon at Makwanpur Gadhi, and by the way — it is also perfect for a town where the correct way to spend an afternoon is a plate of momo and a walk along the East Rapti, because it packs flat and nobody is carrying a bag for it.

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