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- on the evening of February 5th, before the passage of the float with Saint Agatha, via Etnea "seems to be on fire" due to the presence of large burning candles; gradually, with great effort and effort, these burning candles are carried on the shoulders along the procession route; in ancient times, in the absence of artificial lighting, they illuminated the path with their flame, anticipating the passage of the float;
- la sera del 5 febbraio, prima del passaggio della vara con Sant'Agata, via Etnea "sembra incendiarsi" per la presenza dei grossi ceri che ardono; progressivamente, con grande impegno e fatica, questi ceri ardenti, vengono portati in spalla lungo il percorso della processione; anticamente in mancanza della illuminazione artificiale, illuminavano con la loro fiamma il percorso, anticipando il passaggio della vara;
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Religious devotion, at times, in Sicily seems to take on the face of women, like that of the two Sicilian saints Agata and Lucia along the Ionian coast of Sicily, or the face of Rosalia, on the opposite side, in Palermo. The lives of Agata and Lucia are closely linked, even though they never met. Agata was martyred in 251, Lucia was not yet born, she was born 32 years later. On February 5, 301, she went to Catania to pray at Agata's tomb to invoke her intercession, hoping to obtain the healing of her mother, who was seriously ill. Agata appeared to her in a dream, confirmed her mother's healing (her mother was healed), but also confided in her that she would be martyred because of her faith in Christ: Lucia was martyred on December 13, 304, during the persecutions of Diocletian. What has been said as an incipit of the photographic story that I present here, created on the occasion of the celebration that Catania dedicates to its Patron Saint Agatha, described as the most important religious celebration in Catania, also considered the third Catholic religious celebration in the world (first are the “Semana Santa” in Seville, and the “Corpus Domini” in Cuzco in Peru), a ranking that takes into account the huge number of people who participate every year. The celebration of Saint Agatha takes place on several dates, from 3 to 6 February, on 12 February and on 17 August: the February celebration is linked to her martyrdom, the August celebration commemorates the return to Catania of her mortal remains, initially taken to Constantinople as spoils of war by the Byzantine general Maniaces, and remained there for 86 years. The young Agata lived in the 3rd century, she belonged to a rich patrician family of Catania, since she was young she had embraced the cult of the Christian religion, the governor Quinziano (or Quintiliano) fell in love with her, Agata to escape him hid in his house in Palermo, Quinziano managed to find out where she was hiding, so he had her taken to Catania, here his attempts to bend Agata's will and make her give in to his flattery were in vain, after her umpteenth refusal he changed his intentions, accused her of being of the Christian religion, condemned her to death, not without first having led her to martyrdom, he amputated her by tearing off both her breasts, in this way in addition to the torment of physical pain, the psychological one was added, humiliating the girl in her femininity, then he gave her death by dragging her on burning coals, Agata was 20 years old. After her death, the cult of her began to spread, even the pagans began to venerate her figure, there is news about her origins starting from 252, the year after her death: the inhabitants of Catania were proud of this young woman who rebelled against the will of the dictator. The feast of Saint Agatha begins on February 3, there is the procession "for the offering of wax", the two eighteenth-century carriages of the senate pulled by horses come out along the streets of the city, "the candelore" make their appearance; on February 4th the celebration begins with the “Mass of Dawn” which is celebrated in the cathedral, after the reliquary bust of the Saint and the silver casket, they are placed on the “vara” (or “fercolo”), to be carried in procession in its “external tour”, the procession begins by crossing the “Porta Uzeda” and thus reaching the arches of the marina, the procession then circumscribes the historic center of the city, going to the places where Agatha’s martyrdom took place; : On February 5th the “Pontifical Mass” is celebrated, on this occasion by lining up in the cathedral, you can go and see the reliquary bust of the Saint, as evening comes, the bust and the casket are placed back on the heavy float for the last procession, which goes along the “internal tour” (or “noble tour”), which crosses the historic center of Catania, a procession preceded by the passage of lit candles carried on the shoulders of devotees (of various weights and sizes, some reach exceptional dimensions and weight, historically these candles illuminated, when electricity did not exist, the passage of the Saint), then the “candelore” pass, they are gigantic and heavy wooden “candelabra”, in baroque style, painted in gold, each one represents an ancient corporation (butchers, fishmongers, bakers, pork butchers, greengrocers, etc.), finally the float with Saint Agatha passes, the long-awaited moment, with the reliquary bust that it contains inside some parts of her body, the other parts of her body are inside the casket, so, with both on the float, Agata's entire body can travel the streets of the city of Catania. The float is pulled by hand, by the many devotees who wish to participate spontaneously in this very particular rite, using two large cords more than 200 meters long, to the end of which are connected four handles. The photographs were taken on February 4 and 5, 2024 and 2025, they are not organized in series taking into account either the year or the days; I obtained a "bilocation effect" by using different shooting points in the two years, visible especially when the float passes through the Porta Uzeda; I made portraits of the devotees, posed and not, in particular the portrait of a devotee who seemed almost enraptured in ecstasy at the passage of Sant'Agata (and perhaps she really was), it represented for me the absolute, profound and concrete synthesis of the attachment of the "citizens" (synonym of "devotees") of Catania towards this young martyr, who has become a symbol of those who oppose violence against women, and protector of women suffering from breast cancer. I photographed two beautiful and sweet models who embodied the "two ages of Agata", with the aim of raising awareness among women in the prevention of breast cancer (the ceramic decorations corresponding to the breasts are the work of "Nenè sculptures of art by Nancy Coco); I captured in some images, the custom of some devotees, to carry with them images of loved ones who passed away too soon (photos placed on candles or printed on the characteristic white habit, called "sacco", which is part of the characteristic way of dressing of the devotees); finally I thank the owner of the Beniamin Art Gallery, in via Umberto, an artist himself, for giving me the opportunity to photograph the Pop icon exhibited in his gallery entitled "Aga Pop".
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La devozione religiosa, a volte, in Sicilia sembra assumere il volto delle donne, come quello delle due sante siciliane Agata e Lucia lungo la fascia Ionica della costa sicula, od il volto di Rosalia, sul versante opposto, in quel di Palermo. Le vite di Agata e Lucia sono tra loro legate in maniera strettamente indissolubile, pur non essendosi mai conosciute, Agata morì martirizzata nel 251, Lucia non era ancora nata, nascerà 32 anni dopo, il 5 febbraio del 301 si recherà a Catania a pregare sul sepolcro di Agata per invocare la sua intercessione sperando così di ottenere la guarigione di sua madre, gravemente malata, Agata le appare in sogno, le conferma la guarigione di sua madre (sua madre ebbe la guarigione), ma anche, le confida, che per lei ci sarà il martirio a causa della sua fede in Cristo: Lucia fu martirizzata il 13 dicembre del 304, durante le persecuzioni di Diocleziano. Quanto detto come incipit del racconto fotografico che qui presento, realizzato in occasione della festa che Catania dedica alla sua Santa Patrona Agata, descritta come la più importante festa religiosa di Catania, considerata anche la terza festa religiosa cattolica al mondo (prime la “Semana Santa” di Siviglia, ed il “Corpus Domini” di Cuzco in Perù), graduatoria che tiene conto del grandissimo numero di persone ogni anno vi partecipano. La festa di Santa’Agata si svolge in più date, dal 3 al 6 febbraio, il 12 febbraio ed il 17 agosto: la ricorrenza di febbraio è legata al suo martirio, quella di Agosto rievoca il ritorno a Catania delle sue spoglie mortali, portate inizialmente a Costantinopoli come bottino di guerra dal generale bizantino Maniace, e li rimaste per 86 anni. La giovane Agata visse nel 3° secolo, apparteneva ad una ricca famiglia patrizia di Catania, sin dalla giovane età aveva abbracciato il culto per la religione cristiana, di lei si invaghì il governatore Quinziano (o Quintiliano), Agata per sfuggirgli si nascose in una sua casa a Palermo, Quinziano riuscì a sapere dove si nascondeva, quindi la fece condurre a Catania, qui i suoi tentativi di piegare la volontà di Agata e farla cedere alle sue lusinghe furono vani, all’ennesimo suo rifiuto egli mutò i suoi propositi, la accusò di essere di religione cristiana, la condannò a morte, non senza averla prima condotta al martirio, le amputò strappandole entrambi i seni, in tal modo oltre allo strazio del dolore fisico, si aggiungeva quello psicologico, umiliando la ragazza nella sua femminilità, poi le diede la morte trascinandola sui carboni ardenti, Agata aveva 20 anni. Dopo la sua morte si iniziò a diffondere il culto verso di lei, anche i pagani iniziarono a venerare la sua figura, si hanno notizie sulle sue origini già a partire dal 252, anno successivo alla sua morte: gli abitanti di Catania erano orgogliosi di questa giovane donna che si ribellò al volere del dittatore. La festa per Sant’Agata inizia il 3 febbraio, si ha la processione “per l’offerta della cera”, escono lungo le vie della città le due settecentesche carrozze del senato trainate da cavalli, fanno la loro comparsa “le candelore”; il 4 febbraio la festa inizia con la “Messa dell’Aurora” che si celebra nella cattedrale, dopo il busto reliquiario della Santa e lo scrigno d’argento, vengono messi sulla “vara” (o “fercolo”), per essere portati in processione nel suo “giro esterno”, la processione inizia attraversando la "Porta Uzeda" e giungendo così agli archi della marina, la processione quindi circoscrive il centro storico della città, recandosi nei luoghi ove avvenne il martirio di Agata; il 5 febbraio si celebra la “Messa Pontificale”, in questa occasione mettendosi in fila nella cattedrale, si può andare a vedere il busto reliquiario della Santa, col sopraggiungere della sera, busto e scrigno, vengono nuovamente messi sulla pesante vara per l’ultima processione, che percorre il “giro interno” (o “giro nobile”), che attraversa il centro storico di Catania, processione preceduta dal passaggio dei ceri accesi portati in spalla dai devoti (di vario peso e dimensioni, alcuni raggiungono dimensioni e peso eccezionali, storicamente questi ceri illuminavano, quando non esisteva l’energia elettrica, il passaggio della Santa), poi passano le “candelore”, sono dei giganteschi e pesanti "candelabri" in legno, in stile barocco, dipinti in oro, ognuna rappresenta una antica corporazione (macellai, pescivendoli, panettieri, pizzicagnoli, fruttivendoli, ecc.), infine passa la vara con Sant’Agata, il momento tanto atteso, col busto reliquiario che racchiude al suo interno alcune parti del suo corpo, le altre parti del corpo si trovano all’interno dello scrigno, in tal modo, con entrambi sulla vara, tutto il corpo di Agata può percorrere le strade della città di Catania. La vara è trainata a mano, dai tantissimi devoti che desiderano partecipare spontaneamente a questo rito così particolare, tramite due grossi cordoni lunghi più di 200 metri, al cui capo sono collegate quattro maniglie. Le fotografie sono state realizzate il 4 ed il 5 febbraio del 2024 e del 2025, esse non sono organizzate in serie tenendo conto né dell’anno, nè delle giornate; ho ottenuto un “effetto di bilocazione” sfruttando differenti punti di ripresa nei due anni, visibile soprattutto quando la vara passa attraverso la Porta Uzeda; ho realizzato ritratti dei devoti, posati e non, in particolare il ritratto di una devota che sembrava quasi rapita in estasi al passaggio di Sant’Agata (e forse lo era veramente), ha rappresentato per me la sintesi assoluta, profonda e concreta dell’attaccamento dei “cittadini” (sinonimo di “devoti”) catanesi nei confronti di questa giovane martire, diventata simbolo di chi si oppone alla violenza sulle donne, e protettrice delle donne ammalate di cancro al seno. Ho fotografato due belle e dolci modelle che impersonavano le “due età di Agata”, con lo scopo di sensibilizzare le donne nella prevenzione delle neoplasie alla mammella (i decori in ceramica in corrispondenza dei seni, sono opera di “Nenè sculture d’arte di Nancy Coco); ho colto in alcune immagini, l’usanza di alcuni devoti, di recare con se immagini di persone care scomparse troppo presto (foto messe sui ceri o stampate sul caratteristico saio bianco, chiamato “sacco”, che fa parte del modo caratteristico di vestire dei devoti); infine ringrazio il proprietario della Beniamin Art Gallery, in via Umberto, artista egli stesso, per avermi dato la possibilità di fotografare l’icona Pop esposta nella sua galleria dal titolo “Aga Pop”.
January 17, 2016, 9:58 a.m.
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bib number (in order)
placing
time
pace per km
bib
name
residence
M/F
category
place in category
10k FEMALE RACERS
2…..52 1:00:23 6:02 2 Jetje Antonietti Ottawa F 60-69 3 of 12
11….10 0:47:32 4:45 11 Daphne Ballard Ottawa F 40-49 3 of 19
12….21 0:52:46 5:17 12 Vicki Bencze Ottawa F 40-49 5 of 19
20….43 0:57:07 5:43 20 Terri Bolster Ottawa F 60-69 1 of 12
23….18 0:52:10 5:13 23 Lucie Boudreau Gatineau F 50-59 6 of 34
25….60 1:02:26 6:15 25 Amelie Brouillard Duhamel-Ouest F 20-29
8 of 9
27….14 0:50:00 5:00 27 Karen Burns Orleans F 50-59 4 of 34
28….51 1:00:22 6:02 28 Laura Butler North Gower F 50-59 16 of 34
30….48 0:59:44 5:58 30 Anne-Marie Carter-Mcauslan Carleton Place F 60-69 2 of 12
37….3 0:43:09 4:19 37 Melanie Clement Kanata F 30-39 2 of 19
39….69 1:04:23 6:26 39 Peggy Cooke Carp F 50-59 23 of 34
45….65 1:03:25 6:20 45 Deena Desson Richmond F 50-59 20 of 34
47….47 0:59:26 5:57 47 Sheryl Dore Ottawa F 50-59 13 of 34
49….53 1:00:41 6:04 49 Stephanie Dunne Ottawa F 60-69 4 of 12
50….61 1:02:47 6:17 50 Robbie Duval Williamstown F 50-59 18 of 34
51….20 0:52:26 5:15 51 Sue Duval Alexandria F 50-59 7 of 34
53….13 0:49:58 5:00 53 Marigold Edwards Ottawa F 50-59 3 of 34
59….92 1:13:49 7:23 59 Cynthia Field-Rose Ottawa F 60-69 10 of 12
60….50 1:00:17 6:02 60 Ellyn Floyd Carp F 50-59 15 of 34
62….70 1:04:43 6:28 62 Sandy Fredette Ashton F 50-59 24 of 34
65….73 1:05:05 6:30 65 Zoe Frouin Ottawa F 50-59 27 of 34
66….37 0:56:25 5:39 66 Tammy Frye Kanata F 30-39 12 of 19
67….74 1:05:51 6:35 67 Tanya Frye Ottawa F 30-39 17 of 19
68….59 1:02:24 6:14 68 Lyson Gélinas Drummondville F 20-29 7 of 9
69….35 0:55:05 5:31 69 Christine Geraghty Ottawa F 30-39 11 of 19
73….88 1:09:39 6:58 73 Cheryl Gillies Richmond F 50-59 31 of 34
76….4 0:43:34 4:21 76 Stephanie Gordon Ottawa F 30-39 3 of 19
79….38 0:56:38 5:40 79 Tessa Grant Mallorytown F 20-29 3 of 9
81….67 1:03:39 6:22 81 Norma Green Richmond F 50-59 22 of 34
86….79 1:07:13 6:43 86 Heather Hamann Ottawa F 50-59 29 of 34
88….95 1:15:18 7:32 88 Emma Hamilton Ottawa F 14+Unr 1 of 1
89….87 1:09:09 6:55 89 Reta Hamilton Munster F 60-69 9 of 12
92….91 1:11:26 7:09 92 Sara Howse Kemptville F 30-39 19 of 19
93….39 0:56:43 5:40 93 Marysa Irvine Richmond F 40-49 13 of 19
98….89 1:09:44 6:58 98 Elizabeth Keighley Nepean F 50-59 32 of 34
99….2 0:41:48 4:11 99 Hunter Kelly Ottawa F 20-29 1 of 9
102…41 0:56:53 5:41 102 Taylor Kelly Ottawa F 20-29 4 of 9
103…68 1:04:10 6:25 103 Michelle Keough Ottawa F 40-49 16 of 19
104…45 0:58:27 5:51 104 Dawn Kiddell Lancaster F 50-59 12 of 34
107…8 0:46:16 4:38 107 Ingrid Koenig Ottawa F 40-49 2 of 19
108…77 1:06:20 6:38 108 Colleen Kohlsmith Kanata F 60-69 6 of 12
111…40 0:56:45 5:40 111 Sandra Lang Ottawa F 50-59 11 of 34
115…11 0:48:30 4:51 115 Heather Lewis Ottawa F 50-59 1 of 34
118…24 0:53:02 5:18 118 Keitha Lynch Richmond F 40-49 6 of 19
120…6 0:45:12 4:31 120 Katie Macaskill Kanata F 15-19 1 of 2
122…5 0:44:35 4:27 122 Kim Macaskill Kanata F 40-49 1 of 19
124…94 1:14:24 7:26 124 Sally Macinnis Merrickville F 60-69 11 of
12
125…25 0:53:06 5:19 125 Sandy Macleod Ottawa F 40-49 7 of 19
128…97 1:17:34 7:45 128 Donna Magher Williamstown F 60-69 12
of 12
129…1 0:39:48 3:59 129 Maureen Mahoney Ottawa F 30-39 1 of 19
134…63 1:02:57 6:18 134 Martina McGinn Ottawa F 70+Ov 1 of 1
137…54 1:00:42 6:04 137 Fanie Michaud Saint-Hyacinthe F 20-29 5 of 9
139…90 1:11:15 7:07 139 Sharon Moore Kanata F 50-59 33 of 34
141…86 1:08:16 6:50 141 Eileen Mortimer Ottawa F 60-69 8 of 12
143…84 1:07:50 6:47 143 Gabrielle Nadeau Ottawa F 50-59 30 of 34
146…9 0:46:35 4:40 146 Eryn O'Neil Ottawa F 30-39 5 of 19
149…42 0:57:01 5:42 149 Jennifer Parker Orleans F 40-49 14 of 19
152…72 1:05:03 6:30 152 Elaine Petrie Nepean F 50-59 26 of 34
153…7 0:45:46 4:35 153 Deidre Pollard Bussey Ottawa F 30-39 4 of 19
154…76 1:06:12 6:37 154 Jackie Poole Ottawa F 60-69 5 of 12
155…26 0:53:17 5:20 155 Eniko Popescu Ottawa F 40-49 8 of 19
158…44 0:57:19 5:44 158 Jennifer Rice Ottawa F 30-39 13 of 19
161…55 1:00:44 6:04 161 Sandra Roberts Gatineau F 50-59 17 of 34
162…58 1:01:38 6:10 162 Genevieve Robidoux Howick F 20-29 6 of 9
163…85 1:07:52 6:47 163 Marie-Claude Robillard Ottawa F 15-19 2 of 2
166…29 0:54:40 5:28 166 Jenn Ross Merrickville F 40-49 9 of 19
171…64 1:03:08 6:19 171 Michelle Ryan Ottawa F 30-39 16 of 19
172…28 0:54:36 5:28 172 Catherine Sainte-Marie Ottawa F 30-39 9 of 19
173…17 0:51:48 5:11 173 Claire Samson Ottawa F 50-59 5 of 34
177…56 1:01:15 6:08 177 Julia Scouten Richmond F 30-39 14 of 19
179…34 0:54:52 5:29 179 Janet Shepherd Mallorytown F 50-59 10 of 34
182…71 1:05:00 6:30 182 Laurie Shusterman Ottawa F 50-59 25 of 34
186…96 1:17:33 7:45 186 Brenda Smith Williamstown F 50-59 34 of 34
188…62 1:02:49 6:17 188 Cindy Southgate Kanata F 50-59 19 of 34
190…82 1:07:32 6:45 190 Arlene Steadman Kanata F 60-69 7 of 12
192…83 1:07:48 6:47 192 Amanda Strass Nepean F 20-29 9 of 9
193…15 0:50:54 5:05 193 Karen Svab Osgoode F 30-39 6 of 19
194…27 0:54:06 5:25 194 Stephanie Tait Kingston F 30-39 8 of 19
197…78 1:07:10 6:43 197 Brenda Tirrell Stittsville F 50-59 28 of 34
198…49 0:59:49 5:59 198 Darene Toal-Sullivan Kanata F 50-59 14 of 34
200…66 1:03:32 6:21 200 Suzann Townend Carleton Place F 50-59 21 of 34
203…93 1:14:21 7:26 203 Lori Urquhart Merrickville F 40-49 19 of 19
205…16 0:51:41 5:10 205 Elysia Van Zeyl Ottawa F 30-39 7 of 19
206…33 0:54:50 5:29 206 Jennifer Vincent Ottawa F 30-39 10 of 19
207…57 1:01:17 6:08 207 Susan Wallace Richmond F 30-39 15 of
19
209…19 0:52:20 5:14 209 Elodie Watson Merrickville F 40-49 4 of 19
211…23 0:52:51 5:17 211 Gillian Williamson Ottawa F 50-59 8 of 34
217…81 1:07:23 6:44 217 Jing Zhang Ottawa F 40-49 18 of 19
219…80 1:07:16 6:44 219 Kelly Wojnarksi Ottawa F 30-39 18 of 19
222…22 0:52:48 5:17 222 Stephanie Sothcott Ottawa F 20-29 2 of 9
224…30 0:54:43 5:28 224 Emilie Braisin Ottawa F 40-49 10 of 19
226…12 0:49:46 4:59 226 Louise Hamelin Ottawa F 50-59 2 of 34
228…32 0:54:48 5:29 228 Judy Curry Ottawa F 50-59 9 of 34
229…31 0:54:46 5:29 229 Kimberlie Schonewille Ottawa F 40-49 11 of 19
232…75 1:06:06 6:37 232 Karen Beutel Nepean F 40-49 17 of 19
233…46 0:59:16 5:56 233 Anelise Alarcon Ottawa F 40-49 15 of 19
457…36 0:55:20 5:32 457 Lara Winnemore Stittsville F 40-49 12 of 19
10k MALE RACERS
1…..72 0:52:39 5:16 1 Jim Allard Ottawa M 60-69 6 of 10
3…..69 0:52:21 5:14 3 Wally Archibald Metcalfe M 50-59 30 of 52
6…..86 0:54:38 5:28 6 Yves Arseneault Gatineau M 50-59 40 of 52
7…..66 0:51:46 5:11 7 Adam Ashton Nepean M 15-19 2 of 2
8…..44 0:47:47 4:47 8 Peter Ashton Nepean M 50-59 18 of 52
9…..101 0:59:17 5:56 9 Thomas Atkins Ottawa M 50-59 46 of 52
10….50 0:48:51 4:53 10 Rick Balderson Nepean M 50-59 21 of 52
13….56 0:49:48 4:59 13 Derek Bergmann Richmond M 30-39 10 of
19
14….15 0:41:36 4:10 14 Pascal Bessette Ottawa M 30-39 6 of 19
15….34 0:45:59 4:36 15 Michael Best Kanata M 50-59 11 of 52
16….113 1:03:42 6:22 16 Tony Bettino Ottawa M 50-59 51 of 52
18….3 0:37:11 3:43 18 Michael Blois Ottawa M 40-49 1 of 24
19….19 0:42:34 4:15 19 George Bodoni Ottawa M 50-59 6 of 52
21….22 0:43:52 4:23 21 Richard Borsos Ottawa M 60-69 2 of 10
22….47 0:48:03 4:48 22 Andrew Bouchier Ottawa M 50-59 19 of 52
24….33 0:45:43 4:34 24 Chris Bright Orleans M 40-49 6 of 24
26….7 0:39:19 3:56 26 Phil Brunet Ottawa M 30-39 3 of 19
29….106 0:59:46 5:59 29 Roch C0urcy Gatineau M 30-39 17 of 19
31….40 0:46:50 4:41 31 Clark Carvish Nepean M 50-59 15 of 52
32….54 0:49:39 4:58 32 Ben-Zion Caspi Ottawa M 60-69 4 of 10
33….91 0:55:47 5:35 33 Mike Champagne Ottawa M 50-59 43 of 52
34….111 1:02:44 6:16 34 Doug Arnold Richmond M 70-79 5 of 7
35….67 0:52:06 5:13 35 Mike Christie Nepean M 50-59 28 of 52
36….36 0:46:11 4:37 36 Sean Clancy Orleans M 50-59 13 of 52
38….18 0:42:27 4:15 38 Randy Cocek Nepean M 40-49 4 of 24
40….21 0:43:51 4:23 40 Gary Cooper Ottawa M 20-29 3 of 4
41….58 0:50:05 5:01 41 Robert Criger Ottawa M 50-59 24 of 52
43….4 0:37:26 3:45 43 David Dawson Ottawa M 30-39 2 of 19
44….35 0:46:09 4:37 44 Francois Deleseleuc Ottawa M 50-59 12 of
52
46….80 0:53:04 5:18 46 Kel Doig Ottawa M 50-59 38 of 52
48….37 0:46:18 4:38 48 Paul Doucette Kanata M 40-49 7 of 24
52….52 0:49:00 4:54 52 Bob Ebsary Rockland M 50-59 22 of 52
54….99 0:58:45 5:52 54 Joe Elliott Ottawa M 30-39 14 of 19
55….29 0:45:01 4:30 55 Costas Farassoglou Ottawa M 30-39 8 of
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The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), is a large, even-toed ungulate with one hump on its back. The dromedary is the smallest of the three species of camel; adult males stand 1.8–2 m (5.9–6.6 ft) at the shoulder, while females are 1.7–1.9 m (5.6–6.2 ft) tall. Males typically weigh between 400 and 600 kg (880 and 1,320 lb), and females weigh between 300 and 540 kg (660 and 1,190 lb). The species' distinctive features include its long, curved neck, narrow chest, a single hump (compared with two on the Bactrian camel and wild Bactrian camel), and long hairs on the throat, shoulders and hump. The coat is generally a shade of brown. The hump, 20 cm (7.9 in) tall or more, is made of fat bound together by fibrous tissue.
Dromedaries are mainly active during daylight hours. They form herds of about 20 individuals, which are led by a dominant male. This camel feeds on foliage and desert vegetation; several adaptations, such as the ability to tolerate losing more than 30% of its total water content, allow it to thrive in its desert habitat. Mating occurs annually and peaks in the rainy season; females bear a single calf after a gestation of 15 months.
The dromedary has not occurred naturally in the wild for nearly 2,000 years. It was probably first domesticated in Somalia or the Arabian Peninsula about 4,000 years ago. In the wild, the dromedary inhabited arid regions, including the Sahara Desert. The domesticated dromedary is generally found in the semi-arid to arid regions of the Old World, mainly in Africa, and a significant feral population occurs in Australia. Products of the dromedary, including its meat and milk, support several north Arabian tribes; it is also commonly used for riding and as a beast of burden.
The Rub' al Khali is the largest contiguous sand desert in the world, encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. The desert covers some 650,000 square kilometres including parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It is part of the larger Arabian Desert. One very large pile of sand!!!
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I wanted to take a picture of Mili but she was uncooperative. She ran off with her treat and then peed on the floor.
Have I ever mentioned that she gets treats for breathing?
“I was in my own head, quite internal as a child. I remember I used to spend a lot of time in my room. I didn’t fit into a lot of things. Not only the high school environment but even with my own family. I’d often think ‘Where do I fit in this world?’ Literature kept me sane. It helped me appreciate the natural world around me. I found myself needing some kind of output. I expressed it through writing. I write a lot, poetry especially. It helped me piece things together. And I’ve come a long way since then. I imagine a lot of people go through the same. We don’t have to be happy all the time. But being content was important for me. I had to change to become content with myself. That was the most important thing.”
A happy wanderer-arounder seems content with Reading Buses 1212 at the BUSES Festival at Gaydon. Just putting the registration plate details into the Flickr search box - shows this bus wasn't new to Reading, but spent its formative years in Wales.
Pure joy and happiness
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Plant intelligence is an ongoing scientific field which combines physiology, ecology and molecular biology to investigate whether certain species of plant could be considered intelligent. Studies indicate that some species are capable of communication[1] and grow healthier while listening to music.
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Published online: 2 September 2005
Abstract Intelligent behavior is a complex adaptive phenomenon that has evolved to enable organisms to deal with variable environmental circumstances. Maximizing fitness requires skill in foraging for necessary resources (food) in competitive circumstances and is probably the activity in which intelligent behavior is most easily seen. Biologists suggest that intelligence encompasses the characteristics of detailed sensory perception, information processing, learning, memory, choice, optimisation of resource sequestration with minimal outlay, self-recognition, and foresight by predictive modeling. All these properties are concerned with a capacity for problem solving in recurrent and novel situations. Here I review the evidence that individual plant species exhibit all of these intelligent behavioral capabilities but do so through phenotypic plasticity, not movement. Furthermore it is in the competitive foraging for resources that most of these intelligent attributes have been detected. Plants should therefore be regarded as prototypical intelligent organisms, a concept that has considerable consequences for investigations of whole plant communication, computation and signal transduction.
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No brainer behavior
Messages, memory, maybe even intelligence — botanists wrangle over how far plants can goBy Susan Milius June 20th, 2009; Vol.175 #13 (p. 16) Text Size
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ACTIVE VEGETATION
Plants move. Time-lapse photography reveals the circular sweep of a Lonicera japonica vine during two hours of growth. But an evolving definition of plant behavior doesn't even require motion. It turns out, plants behave in myriad, often-hidden ways. Ash Kaushesh and Katherine Larson In a somewhat different world, Consuelo M. De Moraes would be revolutionizing vampire fiction.
Her lab at Penn State University studies predators that entangle prey in a tight embrace, pierce victims’ tissue and suck out nourishment. In the last few years, De Moraes and her colleagues have found that the predators even hunt down prey by scent.
Creepy as her predator, Cuscuta pentagona, is, it is also, frankly, a plant. Better known as five-angled dodder, its orange tentacles bypass the porcelain throats of young women in favor of the slim stems of young tomato plants. De Moraes and other researchers are showing that plants behave and misbehave as dramatically as animals. But there’s still not much hope for a feature-length dodder movie.
“I think most people regard plants as being pretty unresponsive and stuck in one place,” laments ecologist Richard Karban of the University of California, Davis. “Now, animals, they’re interestingbecause they can change and act in response to their environment.”
It’s a dichotomy Karban doesn’t accept for one second. When he and an animal behaviorist recently supervised a grad student, he remembers, “I would constantly want to say, ‘Oh yeah! Yeah! Plants do that too!’” Recent findings on plant capacities, he declares in a 2008 paper in Ecology Letters, reveal “high levels of sophistication previously thought to be within the sole domain of animal behavior.”
Even plants less vampirish than Cuscuta vines forage strategically for their food, and there’s evidence that plants fight each other over resources. In a broad sense of the word, plants communicate — some essentially scream for help. Also, a plant can respond to stimuli depending on its history of previous experiences, a tendency Karban is willing to call a sign of memory.
Karban stops there, but other plant scientists go much further in borrowing animal terminology. In May, researchers gathered in Florence, Italy, for their fifth annual meeting on “plant neurobiology,” and some of these green neuroscientists talk about searching for a plant “brain.” The June issue of Plant, Cell & Environment, devoted to plant behavior, even begins with a paper that uses the term “plant intelligence.”
Expanding the language for describing plants to include at least some “behavior” words could expand ideas for research, Karban contends. Plant researchers might do well to borrow analytic techniques from animal scientists, he adds. Finally, everyone may discover just how exciting it can be to watch grass grow.
Movement in animal time
One of the first questions posed to believers in plant behavior is, “How can plants behave if they can’t move?”
Part one of plant behaviorists’ almost universal answer: Plants do move.
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The delicate-looking swollen bladderwort, Utricularia inflata, can kick into action quickly. An unsuspecting bug that finds its way to one of the underwater plant's traps (shown above) will be sucked in through a trapdoor. Barry Rice/Sarracenia.comTime-lapse photography of growing shoots reveals spooky, circular sweeps called nutation. The circular motion arises because a shoot does not necessarily grow evenly, with cells on one side elongating as fast as cells on the other. Growth rate varies on different sides. Over hours or days, the growing tip moves like a turning searchlight.
And as plant scientists relish pointing out, some plants do move in animal time, especially those that hunt animals for food. When it lands inside the open jaws of a Venus flytrap, a fly may jog trigger hairs. An electrical signal zaps through the plant tissue and the two sides of the trap can close like a book in less than a second. And a water flea that bumbles into a little cup of a bladderwort likewise confronts the peril of touch-sensitive triggers. A trapdoor opens within 30 milliseconds, and the flea whooshes down into a digestive chamber.
No insects are harmed when white mulberry trees bloom, but the Morus alba flowers open with a quick puff of yellow pollen. In a lab setup, a team of aerosol specialists at Caltech found the mulberry flower’s parts moving at speeds exceeding Mach 0.5. Pollen flinging could thus be the fastest biological movement yet observed, the team reported in 2006, and team member James House says he’s not aware of any challenges since.
But while plants trap and snap with boastable speeds, the second theme of a typical plant scientist’s comments about motion is that it doesn’t really matter in defining behavior.
Motion seems an unfortunately strict requirement, even for animal behavior, says Jonathan Silvertown of the Open University in Milton Keynes, England. He studies plant communities, and in 1989 worked with animal behaviorist Deborah Gordon, now at Stanford University, to outline a framework for defining plant behavior. A hedgehog playing dead is certainly behaving, they wrote.
Still behavior
“Behavior,” they proposed, applies to “what a plant or animal does, in the course of an individual’s lifetime, in response to some event or change in its environment.” This concept does not include intent, the team wrote, and Karban concurs. “Even in people, determining intent is very difficult,” he says.
This motion-free, intent-free definition allows the concept of behavior to embrace an activity in which plants excel: releasing chemical bursts, says plant community ecologist Kerry Metlen of the University of Montana in Missoula. Plants secrete secondary metabolites, chemicals that go beyond the basics of metabolism. These substances can prospect for food, wage war and call for reinforcements, all the while gossiping in chemical detail. “Plants are prodigious chemists,” Metlen says.
These chemical doings also show two other qualities that Metlen requires for plants behaving. A behavior should start relatively fast and it should be reversible, he and his colleagues contend in the June Plant, Cell & Environment.
Fighting tooth and chemical
Consider foraging, Metlen says. Iconic scenes of animal behavior star cheetahs streaking toward an antelope lunch. Underfoot, it turns out, the plants are hunting too, just by different means.
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Exposed to a secretion from an invasive knapweed, the root of a blanketflower within an hour responds with its own secretion (right, shown as gel acidifies and turns yellow). At left is an unexposed root. Tiffany Weir et al./Planta 2006In a very basic sense, plants hunt by sending out roots. Decades of research have established that plants are strategic, allotting root growth to the promising patches and skimping on dead zones.
Plants also have their version of the cheetah pounce, but it’s chemical. Metlen’s favorite example, he says, comes from a study of fava beans by Long Li at China Agricultural University in Beijing and a network of colleagues. Like other plants, the beans need phosphorus. When researchers put the plants in phosphorus-poor agar gel, the beans took “action.” They acidified the material around their roots, causing malate and citrate concentrations in the agar to increase in such quantities that the gel’s pH dropped by about two units within six hours. Driving down soil pH increases plants’ phosphorus uptake, so chemically those bean roots were chasing and grabbing the food they needed.
One plant Metlen is studying now, spotted knapweed, adds a root-war twist to the chemical-pounce scenario. Back in its native Eurasian range, Centaurea maculosa grows here and there as an occasional member of mixed-plant communities. Its roots exude a substance called catechin, which makes phosphorus more available in certain soils.
Spotted knapweed has moved to North America. Where it once had an occasional presence, it is now a land grabber. Knapweed blankets entire slopes and pushes out native vegetation. One of the secrets for its new success may be the catechin. European neighbors of knapweed don’t seem bothered by catechin seeps, but some North American species can’t cope. A handy dietary aid has turned into an invader’s chemical weapon.
It’s root versus root, and research, including a 2006 Planta paper, suggests that some native species fight back, chemically of course. A lupine and a blanketflower can still grow when knapweed erupts in the neighborhood. Expose the two species to catechin and their roots exude extra oxalate, four times the normal level for the blanketflower and 40 times normal for the lupine. The oxalate may defang the catechin, with protection extending beyond the blanketflower and lupines to other native species growing near enough.
Volatile messages
It’s not neighboring plants but insects that come to the rescue when a plant cries for help. Karban, in his 2008 paper, argued that these behaviors amount to a plant version of communication.
When mites or caterpillars bite into leaves or stems, the attacked plant releases volatile compounds. It’s not just that sap dribbling from an open wound happens to have a scent. In corn, for example, insects boring into the stem prompt leaves to release complex blends of volatile chemicals.
Blends include a lot of information. Some plants enduring the indignity of a researcher snipping their leaves will release volatiles, but not of quite the same aroma as when caterpillars bite.
Some of the insects that prey on other insects react to these volatiles, swarming to the attacked plant to dine on the attackers. Research has found that certain of these ambulance-chasing predators respond selectively, flying toward the aromatic news of pests they prefer to eat while ignoring aromas from attacks by species they don’t fancy. For example, a little wasp that can only manage to inject its eggs into young caterpillars reacts to volatiles of plants under the attack of such tender youngsters. But the wasp doesn’t respond to volatiles from infestations inflicted by older caterpillars.
Neighboring plants can eavesdrop on the volatile signals too, and some respond by priming their own defenses.
Karban is willing to use the term “communication” for these chemical outbursts. He acknowledges, however, that strict definitions of communication demand that both the cue-emitter and the receiver benefit from the exchange. Plant volatiles that bring insect rescue may fit even this tougher definition, he says.
Remember me?
Warfare, chemical or otherwise, changes surviving plants much as it might animal survivors, according to research on the phenomenon of priming.
A poplar leaf once scarred by insect attack kicks its defense genes into high gear faster during the next attack than a naive leaf does, says De Moraes. “Memory comes with so much baggage,” she says, so she uses the term priming or preparedness. Karban, among other researchers, does compare this effect of past experience in plants to memory in animals.
And De Moraes’ work shows that even a rumor of war can create a state of preparedness in a naive leaf. The way poplars’ internal plumbing system is structured means that a leaf does not have a direct connection to its immediate neighbor. When De Moraes experimentally “attacks” leaf number one, volatiles waft to near neighbors, and those volatiles can constitute gossip about the nature of the attacker. Should she challenge those neighbors later with their own crisis, they rev up their defense genes faster than does a leaf prevented from receiving the informative volatiles. Biochemical gossip has its value.
That warnings waft over a plant’s own leaves may help explain how the volatile cues evolved, De Moraes says. Biochemical messages benefit the gossiping plant itself, rather than just its neighbors.
Neighboring plants may be listening in, but perhaps the wounded plant is getting big benefits just from talking to itself, De Moraes says. And plants may be able to distinguish self from nonself, according to Karban’s current research effort. He is finding evidence that a sagebrush plant shows signs of distinguishing its own airborne signals from those of other sagebrushes. A sagebrush plant that sniffed volatiles from wounded neighbors that are genetically identical to it was more resistant to attack than were sagebrush plants exposed to volatiles from genetically different plants, he and a colleague report in the June Ecology Letters. That plants have some powers of self-recognition opens a new arena of comparisons with animals.
Green neuroscience
De Moraes, Metlen and Karban borrow animal terms moderately, but other plant scientists go much further. Anthony Trewavas of the University of Edinburgh freely uses the phrase “plant intelligence.”
For defining intelligence, he says that “a capacity for problem solving is the best descriptor that I have come across, and problem solving is something all organisms have to do.”
Botanists have already borrowed plenty of other originally human terms, such as arms races, foraging, cross talk and vascular system, even though the plant versions rely on mechanisms that are different from the human ones. People comfortably say computers have memory and can even learn. Trewavas is now working on a book on “plant behavior and intelligence.”
In a similar vein, other plant scientists argue for what they call “plant neurobiology.” In a 2006 manifesto introducing the field to readers of Trends in Plant Science, Eric Brenner of the New York Botanical Garden and five colleagues describe their aim as understanding “how plants process the information they obtain from their environment.” They write that, almost a century ago, researchers reported electrical activity in plant tissues as part of the early explorations of electrophysiology in all living things. Also, the major neurotransmitters in animal nervous systems, including acetylcholine, serotonin, GABA and glutamate, occur naturally in plants.
Figuring out what all of this means for plants is drawing researchers’ attention. “The most important thing is that we’re missing something,” Brenner says.
Applying neurobiology terms to plants has sparked debate aplenty. “I see no reason why one can’t simply talk about signal transduction in plants,” objects David G. Robinson of the University of Heidelberg in Germany.
He also argues that even simple animals can be trained to respond to a stimulus, so he challenges plant neurobiologists to train a plant, perhaps to bend toward yellow light or to avoid blue. “My guess is that neither experiment would work,” he says. His final take on plant neurobiology: “Absolute rubbish, rubbish!”
Plant neurobiology isn’t yet attracting many enthusiasts, says Michael J. Hutchings of the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, who adds that he is not a fan. But he says a wide range of plant biologists do think of their subjects as having some capacity to behave.
Failing to use “behavior” language feeds a notion of “plants as really boring,” as Hutchings puts it. For bringing a more dynamic vision of plants into research and teaching, he says, “It’s about time.”
I don't write erotic content and this is a story suitable for young adults.
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January 22, 2020, the Flickr release of my freshman story. I decided that I have been on Flickr now longer than any other platform and near 35 Million views, This is my gift to those here who have supported me over the years.
Enjoy
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FAMILY FRIENDLY STORY: Not erotic!!!
A perfect match! Valentin and Lison in Librarian-themed shirts from Questionable Content and Chris Baldwin!
This guy just one an auction for a live pig which was a present to the deceased's family but surplus to meat requirements for the funeral ceremony. It cost him about 30% less than market price and he was very pleased.
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In front of Brooklyn Bridge. Sunday. in the morning.
The Tokyo Big Sight booth has been decided.
It is as follows.
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I published a book in old days.
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How to write a novel.
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I made a sentence about what I felt, and left it.
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U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin
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There are two reasons why a person faces the sea.
One, to enjoy a slice of shine in the sea like children bubbling over in the beach.
The other, to brush the dust of memory like an old man who misses old days, staring at the shine
quietly.
Those lead to only one meaning though they do not seem to overlap. It’s a rebirth.
I face myself to change tomorrow, a vague day into something certain.
That is the meaning of a rebirth.
I had a very sweet girlfriend when I was 18.
After she left, I knew the meaning of gentleness for the first time and also a true pain of loss. After
she left, how many times did I depend too much on her, doubt her, envy her and keep on telling lies
until I realized it is love?
I wonder whether a nobody like me could have given something to her who was struggling in the
daily life in those days. Giving something is arrogant conceit. It is nothing but self-satisfaction.
I had been thinking about such a thing.
However, I guess what she saw in me was because I had nothing. That‘s why she tried to see
something in me. Perhaps she found a slight possibility in me, a guy filled with ambiguous, unstable
tomorrow. But I wasted days depending too much on her gentleness.
Now I finally can convey how I felt in those days when we met.
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Fin.
images.
U2 - No Line On The Horizon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related
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Title of my book > unforgettable'
Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa
Out Now.
ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
in Amazon.
www.amazon.co.jp/Unforgettable’-Mitsushiro-Nakagawa/dp/...
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The schedule of the next novel.
Still would stand all time. (Unforgettable '2)
(It will not go away forever)
Please give me some more time. That is Japanese.
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An exhibition in 2019.
May 18th. 19th.
theme.
Silence Is the Way.
designfesta.com/about-artist-detail/?md=detail&id=t0%...
Booth No. H-40
■ Venue MAP (available in PDF)
designfesta.com/jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/vol49_map.pdf
place. Tokyo Big Site.
Sponsoring. Design festa.
2020.
Date unknown.
DIC Kawamura Memorial Art Museum attached gallery.
place. Sakura City, Chiba Prefecture.
theme.
From that day, forever ...
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flickr.
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/
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YouTube.
www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/
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instagram.
www.instagram.com/mitsushiro_nakagawa/
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Pinterest.
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YouPic
youpic.com/photographer/mitsushironakagawa/
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fotolog
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twitter.
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facebook.
www.facebook.com/mitsushiro.nakagawa
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Do you want to hear my voice?
:)
I updated Youtube.
It is only in Japanese.
I explained comments on photos etc.
If your time is permitted, please look.
:)
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About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. First type.
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About the composition of the picture posted to Flicker. Second type.
3
About when I started Fotolog. Architect 's point of view.
Four
Why did not you have a camera so far?
Five
What is the coolest thing? The photo is as it is.
6
About the current YouTube bar. I also want to tell, I want to leave.
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About Japanese photographers. Japanese YouTube bar is Pistols.
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The composition of the photograph is sensibility. Meet the designers in Milan. Two questions.
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What is a good composition? What is a bad composition?
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What is the time to point the camera? It is slow if you are looking into the viewfinder or display.
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Family photos. I can not take pictures with others. The inside of the subject.
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About YouTube 's photographer. Camera technology etc. Sensibility is polished by reading books.
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About the Japanese newspaper. A picture of a good newspaper is Reuters. If you continue to look at useless photographs, it will be useless.
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About Japanese photographers. About the exhibition.
Summary. I wrote a novel etc. What I want to tell the most.
New Year’s greetings 2019.
www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/
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Japanese is the following.
Title of my book unforgettable' Mitsushiro Nakagawa Out Now. ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
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タイトル。
ブルックリンブリッジの手前。日曜日。午前中。
( LUMIX G3 shot )
２０１９年の展示。
5月１８日。１９日。
designfesta.com/about-artist-detail/?md=detail&id=t0%...
テーマ。
Silence Is the Way.
ブースNo.H-40
■会場MAP(PDFでご覧いただけます)
designfesta.com/jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/vol49_map.pdf
場所。東京ビッグサイト。
Sponsoring. Design festa.
Manhattan . New York. USA. 2017. shot ... 4 / 6
(Today 's picture, it is unpublished.)
Images…
Cabaret Noir - Ballade Du Nuage
次の小説のイメージ。
Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)
（いつまでもなくならないだろう）
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プロフィール。
2014年11月、たった1機種で世界を塗り替えた携帯電話の広告を請け負った選考者の目に留まり、秘密保持同意書を結ぶ。
stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2019/02/2019-profil...
youpic.com/photographer/mitsushironakagawa/
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インタビューと小説。
僕の本について。
僕は、昔に本を出版しました。
その際に、僕のインタビューをPDFでネット上へアップロードしていました。
その日本語と英語。
僕は、無料でを公開します。
詳細は、アマゾンのサイトへ解説しました。
小説の書き方。
写真の撮影方法。
作品への距離感。
これらはすべて共通項があります。
僕は、僕が感じたことを文章にして、残しました。
僕のテキストが多くの人に読んでもらえることを望みます。
ありがとう。
Mitsushiro.
１ インタビュー 英語版
「interview_eng.pdf」
stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...
２ 小説。unforgettable’ 英語版。
「novel_unforgettable_eng.pdf」
stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...
３ インタビュー 日本語版
drive.google.com/file/d/1w5l2hrV5a6lraDiC_Lz2tG_HqatqUCO5...
stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...
４ 小説。unforgettable’ 日本語版。(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)
「novel_unforgettable_jpn.pdf」
stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...
５ 流線形の軌跡。 日本語のみ。
「streamlined_trajectory.pdf」
stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2018/08/interviews-...
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iBooks.電子出版。（現在は無料）
0.about the iBooks.
stealaway.cocolog-nifty.com/stealaway/2017/03/about-digit...
1.unforgettable’ ( ENG.ver.)(This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216576828?ls=1&...
For Japanese only.
2.unforgettable’ ( JNP.ver.)(この小説は未来のアーティストへ捧げます)
itunes.apple.com/us/book/unforgettable/id1216584262?ls=1&...
3.流線形の軌跡。
itunes.apple.com/us/book/%E6%B5%81%E7%B7%9A%E5%BD%A2%E3%8...
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僕の小説。英語版
My Novel Unforgettable' (This book is Dedicated to the future artist.)
Mitsushiro Nakagawa
All Translated by Yumi Ikeda .
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Fin.
images.
U2 - No Line On The Horizon Live in Dublin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oKwnkYFsiE&feature=related
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Title of my book > unforgettable'
Author : Mitsushiro Nakagawa
Out Now.
ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
in Amazon.
www.amazon.co.jp/Unforgettable’-Mitsushiro-Nakagawa/dp/...
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次の小説の予定。
Still would stand all time.(unforgettable'2)
（いつまでもなくならないだろう）
もう少し時間をください。それは日本語です。
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２０１９年の展示。
5月１８日。１９日。
テーマ。
Silence Is the Way.
designfesta.com/about-artist-detail/?md=detail&id=t0%...
ブースNo.H-40
■会場MAP(PDFでご覧いただけます)
designfesta.com/jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/vol49_map.pdf
場所。東京ビッグサイト。
Sponsoring. Design festa.
２０２０年。
日時未定。
DIC川村記念美術館付属ギャラリー。
場所。千葉県佐倉市。
テーマ。
あの日から、ずっと…
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flickr.
www.flickr.com/photos/stealaway/
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YouTube.
www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/
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instagram.
www.instagram.com/mitsushiro_nakagawa/
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Pinterest.
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YouPic
youpic.com/photographer/mitsushironakagawa/
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fotolog
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twitter.
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facebook.
www.facebook.com/mitsushiro.nakagawa
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あなたは僕の声を聞きたいですか？
:)
僕はYoutubeを更新しました。
日本語だけです。
僕は写真などの解説をしました。
もしも、あなたの時間が許されれば、見てください。
:)
1
フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。１種類目。
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フリッカーへ投稿した写真の構図について。２種類目。
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Fotologを始めた時について。 建築家の視点。
4
なぜ、今までカメラを手にしなかったのか？
5
何が一番かっこいいのか？ 写真はありのままに。
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現在のユーチューバーについて。僕も伝え、残したい。
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日本人の写真家について。日本のユーチューバーはピストルズ。
8
写真の構図は、感性。ミラノのデザイナーに会って。二つの質問。
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良い構図とは？ 悪い構図とは？
10
カメラを向ける時とは？ ファインダーやディスプレイを覗いていては遅い。
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家族写真。他人では撮れない。被写体の内面。
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ユーチューブの写真家について。カメラの技術等。感性は、本を読むことで磨く。
13
日本の新聞について。良い新聞の写真はロイター。ダメな写真を見続けるとダメになる。
14
日本の写真家について。その展示について。
まとめ。僕が書いた小説など。僕が最も伝えたいこと。
www.youtube.com/user/mitsushiro/
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新年の挨拶ほか
ブログに書きましたが、諸事情により今回アップした動画のフルバージョンは以下です。(^O^)／
Newyearsg2019.mov - drive.google.com/file/d/1-inz3c7QVLO3rFx1YYC9X3ukH1-eTRWh...
容量が大きいのでスマフォには落とさないように注意してください(^O^)／
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Title of my book unforgettable' Mitsushiro Nakagawa Out Now. ISBN978-4-86264-866-2
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I was always fascinated by the hardworking precision bound dabbawalas ..and it goes a long way back, in the early 80s I was working at a fashion store at Bandra and so the dabbawala bought my meals from home at Strand Cinema Colaba..and for that one service so many years back in gratitude I shoot the Dabbawalas I promote their gospel of peace .. and the Dabbawalas are pucca Marathi Manoos , simple and non controversial.. the only time they took a holiday in the history of the Dabbbawalas was to support Mr Anna Hazare at Azad Maidan I shot that too.. so if I have a camera I stop them and shoot them , ..I know most of the guys from Bandra , and they know me and I inquire about their head man Mr Sopan..
And an American Management college to showcase the Dabbawalas requested me for their pictures and from an Italian photographer .. so now you know what Dabbawalas mean to me,,and what my pictures of Dabbawalas mean to the international community too.
I shoot them at NM Joshi Marg or Bandra Station ..I shot them in the rains , I shot them during the difficult times in the city ,,,Photography should have a purpose it should showcase other communities , faith cultural ethos ,, we street photographers show you darkness it is our leaders who should add light ,, we are just catalytic nothing more nothing less .
Will the government give them free housing , better facilities to their children , I dont know we as Indians are as hollow as drumsticks that dry and fall from trees.
See the Mill textile workers still waiting along with their third generation ,our political leaders in Maharashtra became multi billionaires on the votes of the common man and the Dalits.. and sadly both are waiting for change .. will it come I dont know.. it will come but perhaps only change the lives and lifestyle of our leaders only.
And this is certainly not a picture this is a story board of pain in a single frame, we shoot ,,, we are not film makers ..
Dabbawalas are a proud race , proud of being Maharashtrians and humble and respectful to their profession.. And I dont shoot Dabbawalas to write hogwash thesis ..I write with light ..
And for once I am happy to be a blogger I maybe opinionated , but I write shoot truthfully ,,, and Google Search keeps our dictum of faith in humanity alive ,,,if only Google Search would give bloggers like us free cameras and lenses .. but that has nothing to do with our content or our dreams..