IWD

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James Brown & Luciano Pavarotti - It's a Man's World... beautiful...

 

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This is the colour version

 

 

International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day is marked on March 8 every year.

It is a major day of global celebration of women. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements.

Now you all know that I am a passionate photographer. One of the reasons why I love it is that it can be so versatile, it is NOT just working in a studio, it opens all kinds of experiences, because of my job, I had a (rare) insight into many different and more unusual lives. Examples include:

*the inside world of BBC, both radio and TV and its people there, the introverts and the extroverts, I'll let you figure out who's who...…

*Universities, the professors and their advanced research and researchers…

*I experienced the tensions and vigilance on the bridge of a huge Ferry in one of the busiest sea-lanes in the world, the captain, his crew and their advanced technology...

*A small shrimp trawler, the hardship of fishing during the night, managed by a skipper and his mate…

*A veterinary surgeon performing complicated operations…

*Ballet dancers in their studios, showing us the tough regime and performing their art…

*A brief glimpse into the interesting world of travellers…

*The behind the scenes of a casino, where you really get the sense of drama that goes on there often, it’s a place of ‘mysterious mood’ to me…

*Several times travelled through Europe, in a truck, a world within our world… a world people do not know much about, day and night, monotonous drives on looooong stretches of road, and the people that transport EVERYTHING we have in our homes

*As a woman, to visit and get the tour of a mosque, being shown and everything…

*A lady at her home, mother and wife, waiting for a ‘better’ day, so that I could take portraits of her, with her boys, her husband… because she was terminally ill with cancer…

*The world of horse-breeders, farmers, bikers, fish-smokers, painters, glass-artist, sculptors, singers, actors, business entrepreneurs, politicians and so many more...

* I photographed the new-borns, the young, the’ in love’, the sad and lonely, the happy, the old, been in the presence of world-famous people… people are people to me… I enjoyed it…

Yes, I enjoy it, in case you had not received that message yet, lol!

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There is very little, if anything, we cannot do!

www.flickr.com/photos/9550033@N04/5502358791/ Get Real! Wise Women Speak...official trailer (for once I was in front of the camera not behind it; a self portrait was used as a still in the film).

This film fits right in! Please promote it, send it to your friends!

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!

Magda (*_*)

 

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Why not view the set as a slide-show?

Also I often upload more than one image at the same time, I see a tendency to only view the last uploaded...

Done