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Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar). It has an area of 6.7 km2 and is bordered to the north by Spain (Campo de Gibraltar). The landscape is dominated by the Rock of Gibraltar, at the foot of which is a densely populated town area, home to some 32,688 people (2022 estimate), primarily Gibraltarians.
Gibraltar was founded as a permanent watchtower by the Almohads in 1160. It switched control between the Nasrids, Castilians and Marinids in the Late Middle Ages, acquiring larger strategic clout upon the destruction of nearby Algeciras c. 1375. It became again part of the Crown of Castile in 1462. In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession, and it was ceded to Great Britain in perpetuity under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. It became an important base for the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars and World War II, as it controlled the narrow entrance and exit to the Mediterranean Sea, the Strait of Gibraltar, with half the world's seaborne trade passing through it.
The sovereignty of Gibraltar is a point of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations, as Spain asserts a claim to the territory. Gibraltarians overwhelmingly rejected proposals for Spanish sovereignty in a 1967 referendum, and for shared sovereignty in a 2002 referendum. Nevertheless, Gibraltar maintains close economic and cultural links with Spain, with many Gibraltarians speaking Spanish as well as a local dialect known as Llanito.
Gibraltar's economy rests on financial services, e-gaming, tourism and the port. With one of the world's lowest unemployment rates, the largest part of the labour force are resident in Spain or non-Gibraltarians, especially in the private sector. Since Brexit, Gibraltar is not a member of the European Union but negotiations are under way to have it participate in the Schengen Agreement to facilitate border movements between Gibraltar and Spain. As of March 2023, talks seem deadlocked.
Brexit is almost upon us, food shortages predicted by certain sections of UK Parliament, but ........ we,are,ready!
London Taxi LTI Fairway Austin FX4
I have alienated the tattoos of the young junkie and deliberately I show no shooting data so that the poor chap cannot be identified. Also the location of the photograph remains my secret.
The picture expresses my current mood...
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Die Tattoos des jungen Junkies habe ich verfremdet und zeige bewusst keine Aufnahmedaten, so daß der arme Kerl nicht zu identifizieren ist. Auch der Aufnahmeort bleibt mein Geheimnis.
Das Bild drückt meine momentane Stimmung aus...
Olympus® E-M5 - 12-50mm ƒ=3.5-6.3
ISO 3200
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(###86489, uncropped b&w-version)
March for a People's Vote on Brexit organised by the Put It To The People campaign. In my estimate, this demonstration was as big as the anti-Iraq war protest in 2003, so about one million people. It may also be fair to say that this protest was not only political (clearly anti-Brexit and pro-Europe) but also morally motivated: people felt manipulated and that they had been fed lies.
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGIFublvDes
Serge Gainsbourg - Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais
March for a People's Vote on Brexit organised by the Put It To The People campaign. In my estimate, this demonstration was as big as the anti-Iraq war protest in 2003, so about one million people. It may also be fair to say that this protest was not only political (clearly anti-Brexit and pro-Europe) but also morally motivated: people felt manipulated and that they had been fed lies.
And see, my son! the hour is on its way,
That lifts the Goddess to imperial sway;
This favourite isle, long severed from her reign,
Dove-like, she gathers to her wings again.
Now look thro’ fate! Behold the scene she draws!
What aids, what armies to assert her cause!
See all her progeny, illustrious sight!
Behold and count them, as they rise to light.
Pope - Dunciad
Qué casualidad encontrarnos este cacharro el dÃa después del famoso divorcio del Reino Unido con la EU !!! Me encantan estos ratos de adrenalina !!!
It was great for us finding this british oldie unexpectedly abandoned in the middle of nowhere. A day later of the famous UK´s EU divorce.
;-)
L
To see Richard Goodwin throw his muscle Pitts S-2S around the sky is always something special, pictures can never really do his display justice, if only to freeze in part his mesmerizing twist and turns for posterity.
Bray Airshow 2017
(29th July - 18) Bray Airshow, Co Wicklow, Ireland.
An anti-Brexit protestor outside Parliament in London (after I took this picture I went to see the Taylor-Wessing portrait photography exhibition in the National Portrait Gallery and coincidentally this lady was in one of the shortlisted pictures).
Tensions are running high here over the whole Brexit debacle.
Article 50 was triggered today (I don't want to listen to the news for 2 years! - it will just be so depressing with inaccurate predictions).
Posted 29 March 2017
Good. UK did the right thing. It will find it's way. UK has been around a while. Now the Nannycrats will scream, and the press will spread ill rumors. But things shall turn out better because the people are in control. We hope.
Brexit demonstrators outside the front of the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, London.
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Brexit is almost upon us, food shortages predicted by certain sections of UK Parliament, but ........ we,are,ready!
Leica MP
Leica Elmarit 28mm f/2.8 III
Ilford Delta 100
Ars Imago FD 1+59
5 min 45 sec 20°C
Scan from negative film