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A woman is having a rest on a bench at the icy beach on a bright winter day. Everybody else seems to be out there for some excercise.
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An unexpected sunset over Hong Kong harbour, with the sun's rays poking through the thick haze and stormy clouds.
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Horizontal long-exposure image of The Clyde Auditorium (familiarly known as 'The Armadillo') at Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) and the SSE Hydro in late afternoon with smooth water surface and reflection beside with the Bells Bridge and SSE Hydro in Glasgow City, Scotland.
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"On the pier, I wasn't seeing anything. I could see only a graveyard of ships."
BAN KI-MOON, upon touring Central Asia's Aral Sea; once among the world's four largest lakes, it has shrunk 90% ever since the rivers that feed it were largely diverted in a Soviet project to boost cotton production in the arid region.
The beached ships of Aral Sea at Moynaq, once a vibrant fishing port. The ships now stand more than 150km from the water. They are sobering symbols of an ecological disaster of tragic proportion. Once the world's fourth-largest inland sea with an area of 68,000 km², the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking since the 1960s, after the rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya that fed it were diverted by Soviet Union irrigation projects. By 2004, the sea had shrunk to 25% of its original surface area, and a nearly fivefold increase in salinity had killed most of its natural flora and fauna. By 2007 it had declined to 10% of its original size, splitting into three separate lakes, two of which are too salty to support fish. The once prosperous fishing industry has been virtually destroyed, and former fishing towns along the original shores have become ship graveyards. With this collapse has come unemployment and economic hardship.
The Aral Sea is also heavily polluted, largely as the result of weapons testing, industrial projects, pesticides and fertilizer runoff. Wind-blown salt from the dried seabed damages crops, and polluted drinking water and salt- and dust-laden air cause serious public health problems in the Aral Sea region. The retreat of the sea has reportedly also caused local climate change, with summers becoming hotter and drier, and winters colder and longer.
The plight of the Aral Sea is frequently described as an environmental catastrophe. There is now an ongoing effort in Kazakhstan to save and replenish what remains of the northern part of the Aral Sea (the Small Aral). A dam project completed in 2005 has raised the water level of this lake by two metres. Salinity has dropped, and fish are again found in sufficient numbers for some fishing to be viable. The outlook for the far larger southern part of the sea (the Large Aral) remains bleak.
Black-to-black. A moody and minimalist landscape photo of dark waters and the pounding white surf crashing onto a black sand beach, Dyrhólaey, Iceland, May 2016, Sony A7RII.
"Male Cardinal in Snow" by Patti Deters. A brightly colored red male cardinal looks around as he sits on a tree branch covered in snow. Texture added for artistic effect. If you like this image, I invite you to please share or see more (without watermark) at patti-deters.pixels.com
www.thetravelpictures.com: Two old doors of a garage in the rural Finland. The harsh weather puts the wooden doors to the test. - ift.tt/2rffJQj //
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A common wish, but always so hard to achieve...
Taken with an extension tube for macro photography, in manual mode.
Also pretty ::: On Black :::
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People strolling and running on the towpath next to Hertford Union Canal, with longboats on one side, construction on another, Gherkin in the distance and an aircraft heading to Heathrow in the sunny blue sky.
An old man is resting at the shopping center during Christmas time. There are quite a lot of Christmas decorations around him.