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SEH 38 3199, OsterbrĆ¼cken (ligne Ottweiler - Schwarzerden), 25 AoĆ»t 2007.
Le week-end des 25 et 26 AoĆ»t 2007, la 38 3199 du musĆ©e d'Heilbronn Ć©tait l'invitĆ©e d'honneur de l'Ostertalbahn, une association qui exploite une ligne musĆ©e entre Ottweiler et Schwarzerden. Le 25 au matin, le convoi est vu sur les hauteurs depuis le village d'OsterbrĆ¼cken.
Pour l'exploitation vapeur, la sociĆ©tĆ© SLM Winterthur a rĆ©alisĆ© huit locomotives, numĆ©rotĆ©es de 1 Ć 8. Ces machines prĆ©sentent des caractĆ©ristiques communes, Ć ceci prĆØs que les cinq premiĆØres sont Ć vapeur saturĆ©e (206 tubes Ć fumĆ©e, puissance de 250 ch), et les trois derniĆØres Ć surchauffe (90 tubes et 15 Ć©lĆ©ments surchauffeurs, puissance de 280 ch). La chaudiĆØre est inclinĆ©e de 10 %, de faƧon que l'eau soit Ć un niveau suffisant au-dessus du foyer mĆŖme dans les fortes rampes.
More and more people are realising these days that cows are not just commodities to be exploited for food. No human needs animal products to survive, no matter what you believe about protein and iron. It's all crap. Cows are individuals, they are social, maternal, intelligent, and have just as much a will to live as you do. Exploiting them unnecessarily is cruel and inhumane, no matter how quick the death or how happy their lives were. We all have the responsibility to make the decision to step away from animal exploitation by adopting a vegan lifestyle. It really is the least we can do.
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Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
What they eat:
Seeds and scraps.
Measurements:
Length:14-15cm
Wingspan:21-25.5cm
Weight:24-38g
Population:
UK breeding:5,300,000 pairs
Where and when to see them
House sparrows can be found from the centre of cities to the farmland of the countryside, they feed and breed near to people. It is a species vanishing from the centre of many cities, but is not uncommon in most towns and villages. It is absent from parts of the Scottish Highlands and is thinly distributed in most upland areas.
Breeding
House sparrows usually nest in loose colonies and since they don't defend a proper territory, nests can be as little as 20-30 cm apart.
How house sparrows nest
Nests are often placed in holes and crevices within buildings and they will readily use nestboxes. Free-standing nests are also frequently built, in creepers against walls and in thick hedges or conifers.
Pairs often remain faithful to their nest site and to each other for life, although a lost mate of either sex is normally replaced within days. A hole is filled with dry grass or straw with a nesting chamber lined with feathers, hairs, string and paper. Feathers may be plucked from a live pigeon!
The main nesting season is from April to August, although nesting has been recorded in all months. Most birds lay two or three clutches, but in a good year fourth attempts are not uncommon.
About house sparrow chicks
The female lays two to five eggs at daily intervals and often starts to incubate part way through egg-laying. Both sexes incubate, and the chicks hatch after 11-14 days. The parents share nesting duties equally. Chicks are brooded for 6-8 days, but can control their own body temperature only when 10 or 11 days old.
The youngsters are fed on a variety of invertebrates, including aphids, caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers. Seeds and vegetable matter are also given, particularly during periods when invertebrates are scarce (e.g. cold weather) and become more important after the chicks leave the nest.
The young fledge 14-16 days after hatching. They are unable to feed themselves for about a week after leaving the nest and are cared for by their parents for around a fortnight. Post-fledging care is frequently left to the male as the hen prepares for the next brood. She can begin laying her next clutch of eggs within days of the previous brood leaving the nest.
Newly independent young often gather in large flocks, anywhere there is an abundance of seed, invertebrates and other suitable foods. These may be areas of wasteland or around garden feeding sites. Later, rural flocks may move on to grainfields to feed on the ripening grain, often joined by adult birds, once they have finished nesting. Flocks tend to break up through the autumn and birds return to their nesting colony sites.
Population trends
The house sparrow is common through most of its world range, and can tolerate a wide variety of climates.
The recent decline of house sparrows
UK house sparrow populations have fluctuated greatly over the centuries, with a gradual decline during the last 100 years.
Causes for the rapid recent declines, particularly in urban and suburban environments, remain largely undetermined, although research is underway that aims to establish the cause(s), and develop conservation solutions.
Declines in rural house sparrow populations are thought to be linked to changes in agricultural practices, particularly the loss of winter stubbles and improved hygiene measures around grain stores.
House sparrow numbers were not monitored adequately before the mid-1970s. Since then, numbers in rural England have nearly halved while numbers in towns and cities have declined by 60 per cent. Because of these large population declines, the house sparrow is now red-listed as a species of high conservation concern.
Relations with humans and other animals
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. However, control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
Their relationship with humans
People have a love-hate relationship with the house sparrow. For many they are the most familiar of wild animals, bringing life to city centres and other man-made places, bereft of wildlife.
The house sparrows partiality to grain crops and the damage and destruction this caused resulted in attempts to control their numbers. From the mid-18th century most parishes had sparrow clubs with the sole objective to destroy as many sparrows as possible. Bounties were paid for sparrows until the late 19th century, when it was accepted that the control measures did not work. Similar failures were recorded in a number of other European countries.
Ironically, as people in Europe were paid to kill sparrows as pests, others deliberately introduced them to places as far apart as Australia and New York. Initially they were welcomed, although later appreciation turned to serious concern for the impact on crops. By then sparrows had become well established and control attempts have failed to limit the sparrows numbers and range.
How sparrows behave with other animals
Sparrows are aggressive tend to dominate feeders in gardens and prevent other birds from getting to the food. They harass other birds and steal their food and take over their nests, particularly house martins. The eviction and interference often results in a reduction in breeding success and can cause desertion of even large martin colonies.
Sparrows frequently tear to pieces the nests of martins and swallows and eject any eggs or chicks therein. The owners are unable to stop them.
Sparrows are very resilient and for their size have remarkably few serious predators. Main predators are domestic cats, owls (especially tawny) and sparrowhawks, but none are capable of affecting the size of the sparrow population, with the possible exception of localised effects by cats.
Organic mini tomatoes flown in all the way from Okinawa. They are sweet and delicious eaten alone.
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Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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The House Sparrow is a small but sturdily built bird with a stout bill designed for eating seeds. Adult males are distinctive; the crown and nape are grey and only the sides of the head are brown. The black bib is wide and extends down onto the chest. The back is warm brown, streaked with black but with a few white wing feathers. Adult females and juvenile birds of both sexes are typically sandy brown in colour with brown and grey streaks on the back and wings.
Although adults will feed themselves on wide range of seeds, they need to find plenty of aphids and small caterpillars for their growing youngsters, especially in the first few days after hatching.
House Sparrows like to nest colonially, so one box on its own is unlikely to attract a breeding pair. They may nest in hedges and in climbing plants ā but this does not mean that they are Hedge Sparrows or Tree Sparrows!
House Sparrows are red-listed birds of conservation concern.
Small nest box with hole (32mm)
Nest height: over 2m above ground
The nest is an untidy domed structure made of grasses, lined with feathers, hair and wool
Egg laying starts between mid March and early August. Up to four broods
4 to 5 eggs. White or pale blue with darker spots
Incubation time: 13 -15 days
Nestlings fledge after 15-17 days
For more information, please visit www.bto.org/about-birds/nnbw/nesting-birds/house-sparrow
"Above the fog"
RĆ©serve naturelle nationale de la Combe Lavaux (CĆ“te d'Or)
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we love the circus, but without animal exploitation.
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I'm still exploiting the little plant I bought about 6 weeks ago. I believe that these are my favorite flower to light and photograph because of the elegant shapes. Some of the black and white photos I've seen that were done a long time ago by famous photographers are amazing works of art.
Lighting stuff: I placed a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind the flower and slightly to the right at 1 o'clock for backlighting, and used a YN560-III in an 8.6 inch Lastolite softbox in front and slightly to the left of center for fill. Both flashes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
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Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash. www.flickr.com/photos/9422
"Rescue rope"
CentiĆØme anniversaire pour la Grande Guerre de 1914/1918 - Chevigny Saint Sauveur (COTE D'OR 2018)
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"Attention at the Start !"
Gare de Fukuyama (Japon)
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"Orange channel"
Amsterdam (Pays-Bas)
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"ArdĆØche Temple"
Bois de PaĆÆolive (ArdĆØche)
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Sitting quietly and enjoying the sun.
P.S. Love my new tablecloth. (o:
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The 'Vital Spark' was made famous through BBC Scotland's local sitcom back in the black and white TV days of the 1960s. Based on the antics of crafty Skipper Para Handy and his motly crew's exploits and escapades running down the River Clyde and out to the Western Islands. Here she is in Inveraray Harbour and has been there since October 2008.
Originally VIC72 - First renamed "Eldessa", and later "'Eilean Eisdeal"
(NB the name "Vital Spark" was fictional but this puffer has now been re-registered as "Vital Spark of Glasgow" )
La riviĆØre Dachsteinerbach coulant le long du chĆ¢teau du Baron de Turckheim Ć Dachstein (Bas-Rhin - Alsace)
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or: So you spend big bucks for your photo/video gear and you give your images away "for the experience/exposure???"
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Australia 2011/12
WIKIPEDIA: The raw material for the limestone of the Pinnacles came from seashells in an earlier epoch rich in marine life. These shells were broken down into lime rich sands which were blown inland to form high mobile dunes.
The mechanisms through which the Pinnacles were formed from this raw material are the subject of some controversy, with three mechanisms having been proposed:
they were formed from lime leaching from the aeolian sand (wind-blown sand) and by rain cementing the lower levels of the dune into a soft limestone. Vegetation forms an acidic layer of soil and humus. A hard cap of calcrete develops above the softer limestone. Cracks in the calcrete are exploited by plant roots. The softer limestone continues to dissolve and quartz sand fills the channels that form. Vegetation dies and winds blow away the sand covering the eroded limestone, thus revealing the Pinnacles.
they were formed through the preservation of cast of trees buried in coastal aeolianites where roots became groundwater conduits, resulting in precipitation of indurated (hard) calcrete. Subsequent wind erosion of the aeolianite would then expose the calcrete pillars.
On the basis of the mechanism of formation of smaller āroot castsā occurring in other parts of the world, it has been proposed that plants played an active role in the creation of the Pinnacles, rather than the rather passive role detailed above. The proposal is that as transpiration draws water through the soil to the roots, nutrients and other dissolved minerals flow toward the root. This process is termed "mass-flow" and can result in the accumulation of nutrients at the surface of the root, if the nutrients arrive in quantities greater than needed for plant growth. In coastal aeolian sands which have large amounts of calcium (derived from marine shells) the movement of water to the roots would drive the flow of calcium to the root surface. This calcium accumulates at high concentrations around the roots and over time is converted into a calcrete. When the roots die, the space occupied by the root is subsequently also filled with a carbonate material derived from the calcium in the former tissue of the roots and possibly also from water leaching through the structures. Although evidence has been provided for this mechanism in the formation of root casts in South Africa, evidence is still required for its role in the formation of the Pinnacles.
Lenka's story at the Venice Biennale 2024.
Colonialism, exploitation of plant and animal resources, anthropocentrism and speciesism: a denunciation at the Venice Biennale.
La storia di Lenka alla Biennale di Venezia 2024.
Colonialismo, sfruttamento delle risorse vegetali e animali, antropocentrismo e specismo: una denuncia alla Biennale di Venezia.
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"The war in Ukraine reminds us how unjust and painful the construction of a people's identity, the affirmation of national independence and the reclamation of one's roots can be. Repairing serious and profound wounds inflicted throughout history is a slow, complex and difficult process. A metaphor and monument of a similar condition is Lenka, in the Czech Pavilion. The famous giraffe captured in Kenya in 1954, transported to the Prague zoo, survived in captivity for only two years, then taxidermied and preserved in the museum, after having thrown its organs into the city sewers. Eva Kotakova's work, Ā«The heart of a giraffe in captivity is twelve kilos lighterĀ», is a walkable environmental installation that reproduces the inside of the long dissected neck of the animal arranged in a circle. In the center of the room there is a blackboard and a space for meeting and reflection to learn about its history, its meaning and its cultural implications. On the floor, Lenka's skeleton is reproduced and as a sound that pervades the Pavilion the hymns of the countries that the giraffe crossed on its long journey to Prague, many of which no longer exist today."
"La guerra in Ucraina ci ricorda quanto ingiuste e dolorose possano rivelarsi la costruzione di unāidentitĆ di un popolo, lāaffermazione dellāindipendenza nazionale e la rivendicazione delle proprie radici. Risarcire gravi e profonde ferite inflitte nel corso della storia ĆØ un processo lento, complesso e difficile. Metafora e monumento di simile condizione ĆØ Lenka, nel Padiglione della Cecoslovacchia. La celebre giraffa catturata in Kenya nel 1954, trasportata allo zoo di Praga, sopravvissuta in cattivitĆ solo due anni, poi tassidermizzata e conservata nel museo, dopo aver gettato gli organi nelle fogne cittadine. Lāopera di Eva Kotakova, Ā«Il cuore di una giraffa in cattivitĆ ĆØ dodici chili piĆ¹ leggeroĀ», ĆØ unāinstallazione ambientale percorribile che riproduce lāinterno del lungo collo sezionato dellāanimale disposto a cerchio. Al centro della sala una lavagna e uno spazio di incontro e riflessione per conoscerne la storia, il suo significato e le sue implicazioni culturali. Sul pavimento lo scheletro di Lenka riprodotto e come suono che pervade il Padiglione gli inni dei Paesi che la giraffa attraversĆ² nel suo lungo viaggio verso Praga, molti oggi non piĆ¹ esistenti."
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I was exploiting sunflowers last week, and I thought the textures and shapes in this sunflower petal would make a good subject.
Lighting: I placed the petal on a mirror and lit it with a Yongnuo flash in a 24 inch soft box at camera right. Fill light came from a mirror at camera left. The flash was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
It is time for us to renew our relationship with the planet and to stop the rampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of agriculture, intensive farming, mining and infrastructure development, as well as the exploitation of wild species. The choices we make from now onwards will be key to the future of the planet and to our own very existence.
Broto, Sobrarbe, AragĆ³n, EspaƱa.
Broto es un municipio de EspaƱa en la provincia de Huesca, Comunidad AutĆ³noma de AragĆ³n. Tiene un Ć”rea de 128,50 kmĀ² con una poblaciĆ³n de 531 habitantes (INE 2018) y una densidad de 4,28 hab/kmĀ².
La villa de Broto es la cabecera natural del Valle de Broto, y tradicionalmente ha sido el lugar de reuniĆ³n del Conzello de Broto, una instituciĆ³n del valle que antiguamente hacĆa las veces de parlamento y diputaciĆ³n de todos los pueblos del mismo, donde se debĆan tomar todas las decisiones que implicasen a los vecinos de Ć©ste; concesiones de explotaciones forestales y agropecuarias, regulaciones econĆ³micas y arrendamientos, facerĆas (especialmente importantes en este lugar las que lo unĆan con el valle francĆ©s de BarĆØges), tribunal, etc. La instituciĆ³n todavĆa es funcional hoy en dĆa, aunque en un grado mayor de como lo estaba antiguamente, hoy en dĆa es gobernada sobre todo por los nĆŗcleos de Broto y la vecina Torla-Ordesa. Sus funciones estĆ”n hoy muy menguadas respecto al grado de autonomĆa de que gozaba con los antiguos fueros, dado que contaba con auspicio de la casa real aragonesa, siendo por primera vez regulado su funcionamiento en el siglo XIII.
El Conzello efectuaba sus reuniones dentro del edificio de la CĆ”rcel, que ademĆ”s incluye dependencias que se utilizaron hasta el siglo XVIII como prisiĆ³n, y donde algunos de los reclusos realizaron grabados en las paredes, algunos de ellos con singular destreza, que se han convertido en uno mĆ”s de los mĆŗltiples atractivos de la villa, siendo visitables en fechas concretas.
El nĆŗcleo de Broto se estructura en torno a la carretera nacional, llamada Avenida de Ordesa a su paso por la villa, con todos los comercios abiertos a ella. La iglesia se encuentra en la parte mĆ”s elevada del pueblo, al mismo lado de la carretera que la cĆ”rcel, aunque esta segunda se encuentra mĆ”s cerca del rĆo. Por el lado sur de la carretera cabe buscar la Plaza de las HerrerĆas (tambiĆ©n llamada "de la Santa Cruz" o "de los Porches") que constituye una de las visiones mĆ”s hermosas de la poblaciĆ³n.
Los dos barrios que componen Broto estĆ”n separados uno a cada orilla del Ara, con el barrio de la Santa Cruz en el norte, y en el sur el llamado Barrio de los Porches. Es una costumbre muy arraigada en los pueblos del Alto AragĆ³n considerar y nombrar como barrios diferentes simples agrupaciones de casas que, como en este caso, estĆ”n separadas Ćŗnicamente por un curso de agua sobre el cual se levanta un puente. Antiguamente ambos barrios estaban unidos por un Ćŗnico puente medieval que fue desgraciadamente destruido en el transcurso de la Guerra Civil (cabe destacar la crudeza que alcanzĆ³ dicho conflicto en esta zona de AragĆ³n, llegando a su punto cumbre con el fenĆ³meno llamado la Bolsa de Bielsa). Hoy en dĆa entre ambos barrios la carretera circula por un puente de hormigĆ³n.
Actualmente, puente romĆ”nico sĆ³lo se conserva el que cruza por encima del rĆo Sorrosal junto a la llamada Cascada del Sorrosal, un salto de agua que se precipita de una pared de roca hasta caer por debajo de la villa de Broto. El puente del Sorrosal estĆ” hoy en dĆa cerrado al trĆ”nsito de personas que tienen que pasar por un puente paralelo habilitado a pocos metros y que, asĆ mismo, conduce al vecino lugar de Oto.
Broto is a municipality of Spain in the province of Huesca, Autonomous Community of Aragon. It has an area of āā128.50 kmĀ² with a population of 531 inhabitants (INE 2018) and a density of 4.28 inhabitants / kmĀ².
The town of Broto is the natural head of the Broto Valley, and traditionally it has been the meeting place of the Conzello de Broto, an institution of the valley that formerly served as parliament and deputation of all the towns of the same, where they had to take all decisions involving its neighbors; forest and agricultural exploitation concessions, economic regulations and leases, faceries (especially important in this place those that linked it with the French valley of BarĆØges), court, etc. The institution is still functional today, although to a greater degree than it was in the past, today it is governed mainly by the towns of Broto and neighboring Torla-Ordesa. Today its functions are greatly diminished with respect to the degree of autonomy it enjoyed with the old fueros, since it was sponsored by the Aragonese royal house, its operation being regulated for the first time in the 13th century.
The Conzello held its meetings inside the Prison building, which also includes rooms that were used as a prison until the 18th century, and where some of the inmates made engravings on the walls, some of them with singular skill, which have become one more of the multiple attractions of the town, being visited on specific dates.
The nucleus of Broto is structured around the national highway, called Avenida de Ordesa as it passes through the town, with all the shops open to it. The church is located in the highest part of town, on the same side of the road as the jail, although the latter is closer to the river. On the south side of the road, you can look for the Plaza de las HerrerĆas (also called "de la Santa Cruz" or "de los Porches") which constitutes one of the most beautiful views of the town.
The two neighborhoods that make up Broto are separated, one on each bank of the Ara, with the Santa Cruz neighborhood in the north and the so-called Barrio de los Porches in the south. It is a deeply rooted custom in the towns of Alto AragĆ³n to consider and name as different neighborhoods simple groupings of houses that, as in this case, are separated only by a watercourse over which a bridge rises. Formerly both neighborhoods were linked by a single medieval bridge that was unfortunately destroyed in the course of the Civil War (it is worth noting the harshness that this conflict reached in this area of āāAragon, reaching its peak with the phenomenon called the Bielsa Stock Exchange) . Today between the two neighborhoods the road runs over a concrete bridge.
Currently, the only surviving Romanesque bridge is the one that crosses over the river Sorrosal next to the so-called Cascada del Sorrosal, a waterfall that falls from a rock wall until it falls below the town of Broto. The Sorrosal bridge is nowadays closed to the transit of people who have to go through a parallel bridge enabled a few meters away and that, likewise, leads to the neighboring place of Oto.
"Supreme Master"
Statue de Samdech Chuon Nath, fondateur du dictionnaire khmer et compositeur de l'hymne national khmer (Phnom Penh - Cambodge)
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Finlays Tea Exploitation
Bandarawela, Sri Lanka
May 2015
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Obviously many 'western' images of African people are directly connected to exploitation and slavery. But it is often forgotten that there's also an idealist ideology that sees non-Europeans as good and free and noble, indeed as exemplary. This photo is part of the latter tradition. The insets provide some background.
In 1610 one Barthelomeus Moor (1573-1636) bought a piece of land on what is now the Rokin in Amsterdam and built a house there; the pictured decorative statement was probably added later in the style of Louis XIV. He'd been born in Antwerp and was one of many merchants, often Calvinist, who fled the southern Low Countries in the wake of their fall to the Catholic Habsburgs and the onset of religious persecution. They found religious freedom and independence from monarchy in the Dutch Republic. Around 1600 Antwerp's population had diminshed from about 100,000 to a mere 42,000, and something like 30% of the population of Amsterdam was made up of Flemish Dutchmen. Many of these immigrants were merchant families soon to become wealthy in the prospering northern Low Countries.
No doubt, the choice of Moor or his family for this sculpture was motivated by the meaning of his family name. But added to that are the connotations of freedom, independence and desire for trade imputed to non-Europeans exemplified by that self-conscious, proud 'Moor'. He could well be a Carib or else maybe a Guinean. The inset top right is after a drawing by John Gabriƫl Stedman (1744-1797) of a Carib family. The one on the left is in the first book on African Guinea (more or less present-day Ghana) by Pieter de Maarees around 1602. It depicts Dutch (?) and African merchants and traders. Note the similarity in head dresses of the 'Guineans', the Carib and our 'Moor'.
Still exploiting gourds. I placed these on a mirror so that I coulde see more of the gourds. Photographing objects on a mirror is when you really need and want a black background, because no matter how well you clean your mirror, you still get all kinds of little white specks on it. With a black background, you must use the black paintbrush in post, and paint stuff out.
Lighting stuff: Lit with YN560-III in a 24 inch softbox at camera left, as the main light, and a YN560 in another 24 inch softbox at camera right. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other still life images that I've attempted are in my Still Life album. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157635247182331/
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The USMF's elite pilots (those given the rank of Paladin) are a tough breed whose exploits are well known across the galaxy. Though qualified on a wide array of different craft (including ones not used by the USMF) most Paladins operate solo or in small groups; often great distances from allied bases or capital ships and thus have found great use in one-man fighter craft with FTL capability.
Miniaturizing FTL jump drives is a complex and costly process, but the benefits of a faster-than-light starfighter are numerous. For years, the USMF Paladins utilized the AX-20 "Katana" in this role. While a sturdy and fast ship, the Katana's production foundry was completely destroyed in the beginning stages of the Dimension Wars, and as such, it's service numbers dwindled further from the already small amount (in comparison to non-FTL fighters in the fleet).
Starcom Solution's answered the call for a "faster-than-light jack of all trades" by introducing the "Tekkan" (a name of Japanese origin inspired by its spiritual predecessor "Katana"). Starcom Solutions, living up to it's name, conquered the complex issue of small FTL jump drives with a unique solution; the drive systems were built at the capital ship shipyards on Saturn and then shipped to Neptune where quantum technology was used to shrink the units down to a smaller size.
Impressed by the originality of Starcom Solutions' engineering prowess, the USMF quickly requested a Tekkan for immediate trial runs. The first Tekkan produced (which was painted red with white markings as tribute to the Katana) passed its tests with flying colors (no pun intended) and was assigned to Paladin Kira Janus.
The Tekkan features twin heavy repeating lasers (much like those found on Hyperius Industries' "Scorpion"-class heavy fighter) and twin "Mjƶlnir"-type lightning cannons, which fire thunderous bolts of energy across great distances. These weapons pack quite the punch and require no ammunition, but require a great amount of charge time. If safety protocols are bypassed, the capacitor banks can overcharge and result in a devastating chain reaction.
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RĆ©seau : Entre Seine et ForĆŖt
Ligne : 21
Lieu : Ermitage Pont (Le Port-Marly, F-78)
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Yeah, I'm exploiting his cuteness factor. Competing in Flickr 64 (formerly known as March Madness) against the oober talented Shelby and Maria. We're in round three, and have had more fun this week than we can all remember when! Wish him (and me) luck!
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Train journey to HanoĆÆ (Gia Lam station)
Voyage en train en direction de HanoĆÆ - Gare de Gia Lam (Vietnam)
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Jack Crawford is celebrated as a hero on Wearside for his exploits at a famous battle. Crawford was born in the East End of Sunderland and, as a youngster, worked as a keelman until 1786 when he joined the crew of the 'Peggy' at South Shields as an apprentice. It is worth bearing in mind that at this point, he was still only 12 years old!
In 1796, he was press-ganged into the Royal Navy and served on HMS Venerable under Admiral Duncan, the Royal Navy Commander-in-Chief of the North Seas.
It was Jack Crawford's actions at the Battle of Camperdown (11 October 1797) that would eventually establish him as a legend.
During the battle, part of the HMS Venerable's mast was shot down and with it, the admiral's flag. Despite being under intense gunfire, Crawford climbed the mast and nailed the colours to the top of what was left of the mast.
Later, at a victory procession in London, he was formally presented to the King and was given a government pension of Ā£30 a year. He later received a silver medal from the people of Sunderland.
Unfortunately in later life, Jack Crawford fell on hard times. He liked a drink or two and was regularly in a state of drunkenness. Eventually, he ended up selling his medal.
Tragically, he became the second victim of the cholera epidemic of 1831 and ended up buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
It was some years after Crawford had died, that interest in the so-called 'Hero of Camperdown' was re-kindled after a play about his life went on tour. Crawford's un-marked grave ended having a memorial headstone be-fitting a hero, not to mention a separate memorial in nearby Mowbray Park that was paid for by public donations.
The after effects of war. Children replace parents who are either incapacitated or dead due to the collateral damage caused by the pursuit of ridiculous agendas. Exploitive capitalism doesnāt help either.
Poipet Cambodia, a child hauls fruit crates in the border market.
"THERE IS BEAUTY IN SIMPLICITY"
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Exploitant : Transdev Les Cars Rose
RĆ©seau : ValParisis
Ligne : 38-01
Lieu : Mairie de Montlignon (Montlignon, F-95)
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