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Palau de l'Agricultura (1928)
Carrer de Lleida, 53-61
Barcelona
The Teatre Lliure in Barcelona is one of Spain's most important creative and exhibition centres. It is a member of the mitos21 European network of public theatres.
The Lliure's objectives today fall within four areas: the stage, the digital stage, cultural action and educational action.
They are all linked by a commitment to society and the community, and the engagement with the city is combined with a national and international profile; contemporary creativity in hybrid formats, highlighting the timeless value of the performing arts as a whole. Making theatre accessible to all audiences goes hand in hand with managing an institution within the framework of the new parameters of economic and environmental sustainability, as it is about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.
The Teatre Lliure Was founded as a cooperative in 1976 by a group of artists led by Fabià Puigserver, and is now a private foundation, in which the following public authorities have a shareholding: Barcelona City Council, Barcelona Provincial Council, the Government of Catalonia and the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
So I set up the camera outside the stables, the parents are zooming in and out feeding the new fledglings (of which seem to be down to 4 now) it’s real hard, they are so quick, so out of about 500 phots,,,,, this one
I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
Ernest Hemingway
The Commitments - In the midnight hour
There is a moment when all becomes still and life is just solely about the two people in that moment
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Dear all! I'm painfully behind right now due to other commitments. Hopefully I'll be catching up with you all very shortly 💕
Another hard year for farmers and my best wishes to them this Christmas.
Photo taken through the window of an Avanti West Coast train to Glasgow.
A hectic few days for us, as some family and friends can only do some or part days due to work commitments. I won't be back for more than a few minutes until after Christmas.
Finally, I'd like to wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
Have fun!
These two kids are a lot of inspiration for me. I hope not to get bored with it, which seems to become a series. Still untitled, however.
I was thinking, looking at the image, of how much freer and happier the times of my childhood were compared to today's childhood. But will it be like this or is it just an adult vision? One thing is certain. The world was smaller, the space around the house was wild enough for explorations of all kinds and, above all, we were always outside, without too many commitments, less controlled, without a cell phone and with the keys in the lock on the front door.
I found this musical mashup and found it interesting. Not many DJ can mix songs in a good way. I prefer one song at a time if this happens.
Bob Marley and Billy Idol - "With a Rebel Yell, She Cried, 'Don't Give Up the Fight'"
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Autumn in the Jardin de Luxembourg
This is again an attempt to photograph people and daily life in Paris in a way that keep the anonymity of the person. I will post soon some examples where people are recognizable. Here I was fascinated by the light on the chairs and his way of raking the leaves
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Sometimes I get lucky. This pair did not notice me standing with my tripod. They swam up close, completely undisturbed. Their gift presentation was also a gift to me; Clark's Grebes; Aechmophorus clarkii; Santa Margarita Lake; CA; USA
Between dull weather and work/family commitments, I can't get out as much as I'd like these days.....so it's time to go backwards through some old shots I think? :)
Determination, commitment, focusing, balance, courage, strength. Some of the things that a daring climber must have. Now I am not a climber by any means but those are the words that came to my mind when I saw that woman climbing Cathedral Ledge. Cathedral Ledge is a 700ft tall vertical rock just a few miles away from North Conway, NH. It belongs to Echo Lake state Park and it is a quite popular destination among climbers for obvious reasons. From the top of the rock you have breathtaking views of the Saco river valley and the White Mountains. The good thing is that in order to enjoy this view, you don't have to be a fearless and experienced climber like this woman as there is a road that will take at the very top!
And here's a photo that I posted a while ago where you can see the view:
www.flickr.com/photos/rabican/26160066379/
Αποφασιστηκοτητα, δεσμευση, προσηλωση, ισορροπια, θαρρος, δυναμη. Μερικα απο τα πραγματα τα οποια ενας πραγματικος ορειβατης πρεπει να εχει. Ενταξει, ορειβατης δεν ειμαι ουτε κατα διανοια, ομως αυτες οι λεξεις μου ηρθαν στο μυαλο οταν ειδα αυτη τη γυναικα να σκαρφαλωνει το Cathedral Ledge. Ο Cathedral Ledge ειναι ενας οριζοντιος βραχος υψους 213 μετρω και βρισκεται μερικα χλμ εξω απο την πολη North Conway του New Hampshire. Ανηκει στο πάρκο της λιμνης Echo και ειναι δημοφιλης προορισμος για ορειβατες για πολυ προφανεις λογους. Απο την κορυφη του βραχου μπορει καποιος να δει την κοιλαδα του ποταμου Saco καθως και τα Λευκα Ορη (του New Hampshire, οχι της Κρητης!). Το ευτυχες ειναι πως για να απολαυσει κανεις αυτη τη θεα δε χρειαζεται να ειναι ατρομητος ορειβατης σαν την κοπελα αυτη αφου υπαρχει δρομος που φτανει ως την κορυφη του βραχου!
Παραπανω μια φωτογραφια της θεας που ειχα ανεβασει πριν καιρο
this link and idea was given to me by jimmy-black
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and if you add your pink photos to the Pink group you can help to raise up to €30,000 for local charities.
Please no favourites on this..
For each pink photo you add to www.flickr.com/groups/pink2008, Yahoo! for Good will donate €1, up to a maximum of €30,000. We will split the total equally between 5 charities in UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy.
- In the UK Cancer Research UK will use this donation to fund breast cancer research.
- In Germany Deutsche Krebshilfe will use this donation to fund a breast cancer project.
- In France Association Le Cancer du sein, parlons en ! will use this donation to fund screening.
- In Spain FEFOC will use this donation to fund information about prevention and detection.
- In Italy LILT will use this donation to fund breast cancer research.
You can add 5 pink photos a day during October, so please think about making a month long commitment to sharing your pink photos!
Commitment
GRIEF CAN TAKE CARE OF ITSELF, BUT TO GET THE FULL VALUE OF A JOY YOU
MUST HAVE SOMEBODY TO DIVID IT WITH.
mark twain (1835 - 1910 )
Some family commitments involving a trip upt’ North stopped me posting over the weekend, so to prevent another Flickr blockage I made sure I did photoshop editing on my return to keep things loose, so to speak. However, when I thought this LE seascape was going to be a gas, I was wrong. It turned out a bit lumpier than I expected and I had a lot of cleaning up to do. Overconfidence can lead to embarrassing mistakes. That’s all I’m going to say about that.
"Remember the fallen. Honor those who serve. Teach the next generation the value of freedom."
These are the words from Wreaths Across America's (WAA) website noted as "Our Mission". And, it is clearly observed in their commitment to the soldiers buried across the country in the many "national cemetery's" with the wreaths placed against the headstones. However, this is just one of the many ways that WAA remembers, honors, and teaches the next generation about our fallen. Please check out their website for more information about the many ways they accomplish this goal...
Additionally, the location of the photograph above is the Nashville National Cemetery in Madison, Tennessee (just north of Downtown Nashville) which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). More information about this "national cemetery" can be found here:
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Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Excerpt from www.cbc.ca/arts/a-kind-of-order-band-gallery-union-statio...:
A new public art exhibition is inviting commuters in Toronto’s busiest train station to slow down and reflect.
A Kind of Order is part of Union Station’s year-long commitment to promote BIPOC creatives and to accessible public art. Presented in partnership with BAND Gallery, the exhibition features four contemporary artists — three local, one international — whose collage art embodies themes of movement and transformation.
These words came to mind when Joséphine Denis, BAND’s Director of Curatorial Initiatives, thought of the type of art she’d like to see in a station like Union. “[Union Station] is a place of coming and going that promises beginnings and marks the ending of journeys and of relationships,” says Denis, “I take that train a lot and it's been a sort of symbolic meaning of a lot of things in my life… but it's also a marker of these very daily quotidian lifestyles and rhythms.”
The art is spread throughout the station, ensuring that commuters can engage with the art no matter where they’re headed, even if it’s just a passing glimpse. “This is not a white box where people come and sit and look, [we had to think about] what people are able to get out of just a glimpse… just walking and turning their head and seeing something.”
Excerpt from the plaque:
A Kind of Order, Cross Section by Timothy Yanick Hunter
Cross Section (2026) looks downward to the subsurface as a shared field of circulation, where what is treated as extractable keeps rerouting relations. Across six prints and a monitor, the image field is built from magnified soil, larvae, pebbles, and cropped fragments of scientific language. Halftone grain and visible seams make the surface feel reproduced, sampled, and reassembled, like knowledge that arrives in pieces. Pixelation suggests the work is constantly re-tuning its own frequency to the motion it tracks. The grain reads like recalibration: information coming into focus, slipping out again, brewing in motion rather than settling into certainty. What appears as life and death here is not an event but a remainder, the visible residue of cycles: metabolism, labour, decay, renewal. Rectangular insertions behave like core samples or windows of study, while page margins and white gaps read as a refusal of total access, a reminder that extraction can measure, classify, and remove, but it cannot take hold of the whole field.
Across the series, the ground is not a backdrop but a system: brood chambers, pebble collections, bundled cables, and clipped captions offering different languages for how matter is organized and made to travel. Timothy Yanick Hunter’s ongoing research treats migration as more than the movement of bodies. Migration appears as ongoing circulation: fragments carried forward, reassembled, and re-tuned, moving through archives, infrastructures, and informal networks of passage. Extending from projects first developed for exhibitions at Cooper Cole Gallery and Bradley Ertaskiran, Cross Section asks what becomes legible as “resource” and what kinds of relation keep gathering at the edges of extraction. It asks not simply what lies beneath, but who gets to name what is underneath, and what refuses to be given over to ownership, enclosure, or the “complete” account.
Palace Theatre London The Commitments Musical
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The Organization of Cape Verdean Women (OMCV) in partnership with the Cape Verdean Institute for Gender Equality and Equity (ICIEG) and other partners announced on Sunday, March 7th in the City of Assomada, the main commemorative event of International Women's Day under the motto Djuntu na Paz, nu kombati violênsia na Cabo Verde (Together in Peace, in the fight against violence in Cape Verde).
The opening ceremony was co-chaired by His Excellency the Prime Minister, Jose Maria Neves and the UN System Resident Coordinator, Mrs. Petra Lantz and was also attended by the US Ambassador, Government representatives, and representatives of local municipalities, among others.
Celebrating International Women's Day we know that we join thousands of people around the world, to celebrate a date that marked the world 100 years ago. It is celebrated worldwide this year under the motto Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All.
At the same time, the 15th anniversary of the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is celebrated. In 1995 during the IV World Conference on Women, world leaders committed themselves to promote equality, development and peace to women around the world.
The Beijing Declaration remains as current as it was 15 years ago: as long as women are not liberated from poverty and injustice all the objectives for which we work – peace, security and sustainable development - will be threatened. There are several examples of progress, although gender stereotyping and discrimination based on gender persist in all cultures and communities.
The International Women's Day is an opportunity to make a critical review of the successes achieved over the past 15 years, which are not few, and to take stock on how to achieve what is missing.
In Cape Verde a lot has been done since the independence in favor of women, allowing to create a favorable environment for increased participation of women, and to contribute to the development of the country. Great results have been achieved with emphasis on education, health, and political participation of women over the last years. Highlighting at the government level, among the ministers, eight are women.
However, it cannot be said that women have achieved the same equality as men, to emphasize the important achievements in favor of women in Cape Verde and thereby stimulate and continue this struggle. Because social ills still persist, such as unemployment, extreme poverty which affects mostly female heads of households, and the violence against women, that are in flagrant contradiction with the promise contained in the Charter of the United Nations "to promote the social progress and better standards of life in a broader concept of freedom".
The consequences of the violence for women and girls as well as to their families, communities and societies are incalculable. Too often the crimes are unpunished and the criminals go free. In this context the States have the responsibility to protect women and punish their aggressors, ensuring a continuing improvement of judicial processes.
With increasing frequency, men manifest themselves against this blot in our society. It is not easy to change mentalities and habits that endure for generations. It is a task for all – individuals, organizations and governments. We should work together to declare, loud and clear at the highest level, that violence against women will not be tolerated, whatever form it takes, the context in which it occurs and the circumstances that surround it.
Recognizing this fact, the African Union at the Conference of 15-year review of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action that was celebrated in March 2010 in New York, launched the African Women's Decade 2010-2020, reaffirming the commitment assumed since the Dakar and Beijing conferences and the resolutions on gender equality and women empowerment taken by the Assembly of the African Union, to accelerate the achievement of results set out in the Millennium Development Goals.
*Ministry of Youth and President of the Council of Ministers, Ministry of Work, Family and Social Unity, Ministry of Education and Sports, Ministry of Environment, Rural Development and Marine Resources, Secretary of State Adjunct of Prime Minister.
The humanly side of photography contains at least three elements:
subjectivity
creativity
human initiative
If you going to purchase a camera and lenses you should try to be a photographer; however, for some (photographers?) laziness replaces human initiative.
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Camera: Canon PowerShot A560
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I took this snap with help of my 2 Bhatija :)
2 bandors you may call :)
Not posted for a few days - been busy gigging and teaching - so here's something fun because I'm happy to be free from commitments for a few days! I tracked this Pheasant through Swineholes Wood for about 15 mins waiting and hoping for it to do something interesting and then it started singing an operatic aria! hehe!
Did some processing to make it a little more interesting (well, in my mind anyway!) desaturated the background down to about 15% to make the bird stand out more - and then graduated the the colour of the bird from top to bottom.
I hope the week is going well for you my friends
For Project 365 2022 Edition: Day 3/365
This week's theme is introduction. So this is me, bundled up and ready to go. I hope to combine my commitment to a photo every day this year with another goal of walking every day.
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in October. I could control it with better diet and exercise. So I've been trying to walk every day since Nov. 3. My initial goal was simply to get outside for an hour every day. That was successful during the first month. Then I switched the goal to trying to walk 3 km (1.8 m) every day. It's harder because I have to push myself past comfort, but it only takes 45 minutes. Each day of the week I go a different direction and follow a different route, to keep it interesting. The second month was less successful partly because of the holidays and other stressors. But I'm not giving up. January 3 starts my 3rd month of exercise.
I'm combining it with Project 365. Photography is one kind of incentive to get myself out the door.
Today is the coldest day of the winter so far. I don't like the cold. Winters in southwestern Ontario are damp, biting, and often dreary. Nevertheless I bundled up and pushed myself outdoors. That would have been enough. I told myself I could turn around if I got cold or tired. It was -9C (16F) when I set out. I live in a suburban area with lots of nice green space and significant woods, but Monday's route dips southeast into Waterloo's Research & Technology Park. It is the most industrial, least appealing, of the 7 walks. But I didn't turn around. I went the full 3.1-km mapped route for the first time today.
Small victories! Here's to the year ahead.
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