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I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
April 28, 2015 - USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) Leader Bill Berger arrives in Nepal.
Photo Credit: Natalie Hawwa / USAID
The medal struck for the rescuers. Because of the time taken to strike them, the original ones presented were made of cardboard! Coulson's was made of gold, the rest were silver or bronze. All the men engaged in the shaft received a pound per shift and were afterwards presented with a silver medal as a reward for their services. The medal shown above is bronze and were presumably awarded to surface workers.
Hartley Coliery Disaster of 1862.
Image (c) Sean Elliott
The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board(36 passengers, 61 crew), there were 35 fatalities; there was also one death among the ground crew.
The disaster was the subject of spectacular newsreel coverage, photographs, and Herbert Morrison's recorded radio eyewitness report from the landing field, which was broadcast the next day. The actual cause of the fire remains unknown, although a variety of hypotheses have been put forward for both the cause of ignition and the initial fuel for the ensuing fire. The incident shattered public confidence in the giant, passenger-carrying rigid airship and marked the end of the airship era.
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A little bump, no bigger than hundreds of others, and Charlie lost all power and wouldn't start again.
Luckily we were only about 30km from the next town, so Helen got a lift with another team to go search for a tow-truck, while Neil sat in the desert waiting, and trying to fix him...
It's a strange feeling to be sitting in a desert by yourself, completely reliant on being "found". We were also very worried about poor Charlie!
Mongolia
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
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A town were people have lost the art of building where nothing really matter but spending as less is possible and earning as more is possible. No art in this, no cure for historical buildings, no responsability towards the others. The sign of this in the tissue of the town. Carrara, northen part of Tuscany, Italy.
Original shot taken with a Polaroid Land Camera 450 on Fujifilm FP-100C silk instant film, almost no post processing, just scanned.
my mini quilt for the savVy {seasons} swap - after my dogs had trashed it :(
the rescue mission is on and hopefully I'll still meet the deadline.....I'll llet you know if I might be late!
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
Finsbury Gardens, London
The Moorgate tube crash occurred on Friday 28 February 1975 at 08:46 on the Northern City Line. A southbound train failed to stop at the Moorgate terminus and crashed into the wall at the end of the tunnel. Forty-three people died as a result of the crash, the greatest loss of life during peacetime in the London Underground, and a further seventy-four were injured. With no fault being found with the train equipment, the Department of the Environment report found that the driver had failed to slow the train and stop at the station and there was insufficient evidence to determine the cause.
I was 13 years old at the time and vividly remember following the progress of the rescue operation through the daily press - partly because in those pre-internet days there was not such an expectation of instant news. but also because the crash site was so severe it took four days to recover all the dead and the survivors.
There is a very fine memorial plaque in Johnston Sans Serif (the classic London Underground font) on the wall of Moorgate station. This rather gloomy marble plinth was unveiled above the approximate site of the disaster in Finsbury Gardens in July 2013.
The writer Laurence Marks, whose father died in the disaster, presented a Channel 4 documentary Me, My Dad and Moorgate on 4 June 2006, maintaining his personal belief that the crash was caused by the driver's suicide. A 2009 BBC Radio 4 In Living Memory episode also suggested that the driver may have confused the terminus with the closed Essex Road station which he had passed through moments earlier.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
Today is Illustration Friday and the theme is disaster relief, this is my submission. Since I can't go myself to help the tsunami victims I pray that God would go with the people that do, that there would be special help sent, generous hearts and great compassion to love and sacrifice for those who have lost so much. Prayer and Compassion!
In other news, Tanner's cough has turned into that kind of choking cough that makes sleep difficult, we were up again in the night in spite of the medicine, bleh. Poor little guy will be sore today I'm sure because he did so much coughing. It's weird too, because he really doesn't cough that much in the daytime.
Also, today is art day in his class. I am taking him to school late since he's not sick in any way besides the cough. After that I'm going to have coffee with my mom because I miss her, I haven't gotten together with her in weeks. Then off to school again to help with the art project. I'm glad it's Friday so Tanner can rest more this weekend.
Wish I didn't have to run this morning, I'm tired too.
Ian, Casey and I went back to our spot by Lake Seneca to watch the Antares launch. I had my eye in the camera and Casey was watching the horizon with binoculars as we listened to the countdown on NASA TV on my phone. Ian was watching the video feed. So he was the one who actually saw the rocket fail and we quickly turned our attention to the screen.
What a shock! Fortunately there were no deaths or injuries from this dramatic explosion. My heart goes out to those who put so much work into this system.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
CFA fire crews are stationed outside the Norman Lindsay Gallery in Faulconbridge. Photo by Gregory Nelson from ABC News.
June 16 was just two days after the first anniversary of the defining event in the UK last year — the Grenfell Tower fire, an entirely preventable disaster, in which 72 people died when an inferno engulfed a 24-storey tower block in North Kensington in west London — and, to mark the anniversary, the survivors’ group Justice4Grenfell and the Fire Brigades Union organised a solidarity march in central London, starting and ending outside 10 Downing Street, and including a visit to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on Marsham Street. This photo, of a fire engine showing solidarity, was taken on the corner of Marsham Street and Great Peter Street.
At each of the locations, there were powerful speeches about the need for accountability, and the need for everyone affected by the fire — everyone in social housing, for example, and everyone who understands the dangers of the prevailing neo-liberalism that preys on everyone except the rich — to keep on working together, to build on the extraordinary solidarity created in the Grenfell community in the last year, and to always remember those whose lives were so needlessly lost.
The disaster last June should never have happened because the tower was built of concrete that is largely resistant to fire, and because of a ‘compartmentalisation’, which is meant to ensure that any fire will be contained within the individual apartment in which it breaks out for an hour, giving the fire services time to arrive on the scene. However, Grenfell’s structural integrity had been fatally compromised during recent refurbishment, which was designed to make it look better, but which involved the application of highly flammable cladding.
The truth about Grenfell, which is slowly coming to light in the government’s official inquiry but was known to anyone paying attention at the time of the fire, is that those responsible for the safety of the residents of social housing in tower blocks — central government, local government, management companies and contractors — were all part of a world in which red tape had deliberately been cut to enable greater profits to be made, and it was somehow considered acceptable for dangerously inflammable material to be used as cladding. It’s also important to note that the establishment’s position now seems, shamefully, to be to blame the FBU for the disaster, when , of course, the real blame lies with those who turned a safe tower into a death trap in the first place.
For a truly shocking warning of the fire before it happened, see this Grenfell Action Group article from November 2016, just one of many ignored by Kensington and Chelsea Council and the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation, which managed all of the council’s social housing: grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/kctmo-playin...
Please also read my article for the 1st anniversary: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2018/06/14/grenfell-one-year-on...
And check out ‘Grenfell’ by my band The Four Fathers: youtu.be/BLehKWOhMyY
The International Day for Disaster Reduction is a day to celebrate how people and communities are reducing their risk to disasters and raising awareness about the importance of disaster risk reduction.
For more information, visit: www.unisdr.org/iddr
Cover story about the Hillsborough Disaster as reported as the cover story in The Palm Beach Post newspaper on April 16, 1989.
What begins as a night of boogie fever quickly changes to panic as the ship succumbs to multiple disasters, such as earthquakes, tidal waves and infernos. As the night turns into day, everyone struggles to survive and, quite possibly, repair the love that they've lost... or at least escape the killer rats.
- Photos by Kevin S. Abel
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
Adding cornstarch to some of the cooking liquid. I misread, and added tablespoons instead of teaspoons.
The Bureau of Land Management manages 517 wilderness study areas containing about 12.6 million acres located in the Western States and Alaska. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the Bureau to inventory and study its roadless areas for wilderness characteristics. To be designated as a Wilderness Study Area, an area had to have the following characteristics:
Size - roadless areas of at least 5,000 acres of public lands or of a manageable size;
Naturalness - generally appears to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature;
Opportunities - provides outstanding opportunities for solitude or primitive and unconfined types of recreation.
In addition, Wilderness Study Areas often have special qualities such as ecological, geological, educational, historical, scientific and scenic values.
The congressionally directed inventory and study of BLM's roadless areas received extensive public input and participation. By November 1980, the BLM had completed field inventories and designated about 25 million acres of wilderness study areas. Since 1980, Congress has reviewed some of these areas and has designated some as wilderness and released others for non-wilderness uses. Until Congress makes a final determination on a wilderness study area, the BLM manages these areas to preserve their suitability for designation as wilderness.
In Oregon/Washington there are 83 wilderness study areas comprising 2,642,289 acres. These 83 wilderness study areas are primarily located in southeast Oregon in the Prineville, Lakeview, Burns and Vale Districts.
To learn more about wilderness study areas head on over to: www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/oregon-w...
Photos from Portland's innagural Disaster Relief Trials.
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I had a chance to shoot with the Apocalyptic Band Disaster Face and jumped at it. It's not a genre I have much experience with and I knew I had to figure out a unique way of processing the shots.
Here are my faves from the shoot.
Today was Disaster Recovery Day.
Mr Fox had decided it prudent to check all the necessary mechanisms were in place for Mrs PB, and those below her in the food chain, to survive an unplanned bean outage.
After-all, no one's quite sure how quickly she'd resort to cannibalism!
You'll be relieved to hear it all went according to plan and nothing (or no one) was devoured that shouldn't have been.
We even had some time left over to enjoy the sunlight!
Today's vintage-style pinup art is another tribute to the late great Bill Randall with ‘Thanksgiving Disaster'!
Autumn’s turkey is burned, her cheeks now red,
"I got distracted!" is all that she said.
In just her undies, she’s caught in a plight,
Thanksgiving’s a bust, but she’s still a delight!
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KAKEGAWA, Japan – Swirling sand obscures the sunlit sky as a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter touches down on a freshly cut baseball field. Mere moments pass before the Huey’s Japan Ground Self-Defense Force crew chief dismounts from his metallic steed and sprints toward four U.S. Army Soldiers bearing a stretcher. The crew chief’s commanding shout cuts through the roar of rotor blades, springing his American partners into action. With swift, expert precision, the stretcher bearers carry their wounded comrade—a mannequin sporting an Army Combat Uniform—to the Huey.
Casualty evacuation was one of the many training missions orchestrated during Shizuoka Prefecture’s annual Comprehensive Disaster Drill conducted here Sept. 4, 2016. The drill demonstrated the emergency response capabilities of a diverse collection of local, regional, national and international organizations. Its static displays, interactive classes and practical workshops conducted throughout Kakegawa also provided lifesaving lessons for the city’s citizens.
“The people of Shizuoka Prefecture have organized this annual exercise for 35 years,” said Yuka Ogura, a supervisor for the prefectural government’s Emergency Countermeasures Division. “Although the drill’s size and scope has become increasingly complex with the inclusion of specialized government agencies and advanced equipment, the individual residents play the most pivotal role in preparing for the worst.”
Among the participants stood a dozen Soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Japan, I Corps (Forward) and Public Health Command-Pacific. The group packed two Humvees with fuel, rations and medical supplies before embarking on their 120-mile journey from Camp Zama to Kakegawa.
“The U.S. Army has actively participated in this drill since 2010,” said Maj. Donald Kim, U.S. Army liaison officer for to the JGSDF's Eastern Army and Central Readiness Force. “It demonstrates our capabilities in humanitarian response assistance by testing our troops’ expertise in first aid, supply distribution, convoy operations and medical evacuation. Our participation also sends a strong message to our Japanese partners that we are willing and able to provide immediate support when disaster strikes.”
“Since the great east Japan earthquake and tsunami [in 2011], local communities have a greater understanding and openness to collaborate with international agencies in the aftermath of a major disaster,” added Ogura. “The U.S. Army has proved on many occasions that it has the talent and resources to respond to any emergency in the country.”
Throughout the exercise, the American Soldiers worked closely with their Japan Ground Self-Defense Force partners from the 34th Infantry Regiment, Eastern Army, JGSDF. The respective units set up their base of operations at a local gym where they combined resources to coordinate convoy routes, establish mobile communication sites, and set up supply distribution points.
“The JGSDF and U.S. Army have specialized equipment and highly trained personnel that many of our civilian counterparts cannot afford,” said JGSDF Sgt. 1st Class Miura Hatoshi, a squad leader in the 2nd Company, 34th Infantry Regiment. “However, these assets are practically worthless if we don’t properly use them. That’s why it’s essential that we seize every opportunity to train together so we may make the right decisions together.”
The drill concluded with a closing ceremony at a demolished neighborhood used as a training site for search, rescue and recovery operations. Standing alongside hundreds of service members, firefighters, police officers and first responders, Heita Kawakatsu, governor of Shizuoka Prefecture, expressed his appreciation for the American participants.
“The citizens of Shizuoka Prefecture and I are grateful for the support from the U.S. Army and Marines,” said Kawakatsu. “Your skill and professionalism were second only to your care and compassion.”
As the troops shook hands and exchanged small tokens of appreciation with their gracious hosts, Kim reflected on his team’s immense effort, energy and enthusiasm.
“I’m proud of these men,” said Kim. “Many of them have Military Occupation Specialties far separated from the desired skillsets for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions. However, their proficiency in their basic warrior tasks and their eagerness to learn from the experts shows our Japanese partners that they can count on us anytime, anywhere.”
Photo by Sgt. John L. Carkeet IV, U.S. Army Japan
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Residents walk past damaged houses in Tacloban city, Leyte province, central Philippines on Nov. 10. The city remains littered with debris from damaged homes as many complain of shortages of food and water and no electricity since Typhoon Haiyan slammed into their province. (Bullit Marquez/Associated Press) #