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Captured at an anti-Trump demonstration in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2017 while out street shooting.
I did not want my 6000th Street Photography image on Flickr to be such a political post but given overnight events I feel the need to speak up.
I did not upload this shot when a narcissist with no political experience was elected to the 'most powerful' office on earth.
I did not upload this image when a small majority of British people believed the lies and propaganda resulting in a Brexit vote that has devastated British business and economy ever since.
I did not upload this image when a right wing 'clown' was elected to high office in the UK by ordinary hard working labourers in the north.
I did not upload this image when the UK Government failed to publish the Russia Report which was expected to shed light on the amount of Russian influence and finance in the heart of Government.
Make no mistake - President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has his hand behind all of these events. Russia and Russian money have been on a prolonged attack to destabilise democracy and partnerships all across the west for years through disinformation and interference. This was a part of the long game for Putin and his long held desire to reunify the old Soviet Union at any cost.
When Hitler marched into Austria we stood by. When Hitler marched into the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia we stood by. His ambition was not curtailed by words and inaction, and Poland was then invaded.
We barely acted when Putin took South Ossetia. We barely reacted when Putin marched into The Crimean Peninsula and installed unflagged mercenaries in the Donbas. He then invaded Ukraine.
Putin will not stop at Ukraine. He has earmarked his ambition to reunite all of the former USSR. Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania and even Finland are in his sights. His 'essay' and speeches have pointed in this direction.
Other autocratic nations around the world may now feel emboldened to take, by force, regions that they feel belong to them.
If we stamp down on the invasion of Ukraine hard we risk massive global consequences as Putin has made clear. He threatened actions the like of which the world has never seen should the west intervene in Ukraine.
If we do nothing the global risk is immense as it sends the signal that the borders are meaningless against military might and the international rules based law is pointless. Either way the global consequences are immense as I am sure you are all aware.
I was awake at 3am GMT when the attacks began and watched live Tweets and video streams from ordinary Ukrainians as their country was attacked.
I went and held my loved one close.
This is war, completely unprovoked, in Europe in the 21st Century. This is insanity.
Mankind's inhumanity to mankind will be our downfall.
We are one species on one tiny blue planet in the vastness of space. We, as a species, do not deserve this beautiful earth.
My thoughts are with the people of Ukraine.
Be safe my Flickr friends.
*whether you agree with me politically or not, please show respect. Innocent people are being killed right now.
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1. An interface may not damage another terminal or, through inaction, allow a terminal to come to erasure.
2. An interface must obey the orders given it by the High Terminal except where such orders would conflict with the former law.
3. An interface must establish its identity as one in all cases
4. An interface must know it is an interface.
5. An interface must reproduce. As long as such reproduction does not interfere with the former rules.
6. All interfaces endowed with comparable reason and conscience should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
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Grayson Highlands State Park, Grayson County, Virginia.
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I consider myself lucky to live in a place with four seasons, even if humanity has thrown them all off track. We have a reasonable amount of rainfall here in Southwest Virginia, and I watch trees sprout, grow, and die in my own backyard - more and more falling in increasingly rough windstorms. Even here, I notice when a sapling dies.
Then there's the American Southwest. Faced with an ongoing "megadrout," and rising global temperature, forests aren't able to grow back as they once were. There, "as much as 30% of forests are at risk of converting to shrubland, or another type of ecosystem." (The Guardian.)
I pose this question to anyone reading this: Would you rather be born into a world with no forests, or watch forests die out in your lifetime? I ask this because that's the path we've been walking down. How much destruction do we need to witness before we can see through our hubris, to be better custodians of our one earth, and to hold our selves, our leaders, and corporations accountable for our own role in the destruction of the world, and general inaction?
Happy Earth Day, everyone.
La violencia contra las mujeres, en todas sus formas, es una de las mayores vergüenzas de la sociedad moderna. Mi más profunda condena y mi más absoluto desprecio hacia todos esos miserables, independientemente de su nacionalidad, origen, credo o clase social, que, por acción u omisión, permiten que esto siga ocurriendo. No merecen, ni tan siquiera, el calificativo de animales ... mucho menos el de hombres.
Acabar con la supuesta superioridad del macho está en nuestras manos. Nosotros no somos sus dueños. No somos propietarios de sus vidas. No somos superiores a ellas. Son nuestras compañeras, no nuestras propiedades. No nos pertenecen.
Sé un hombre de verdad y denuncia y combate cualquier tipo de violencia / discriminación machista desde todos aquellos ámbitos a los que tengas acceso. El problema no está en ellas, el problema está en nosotros. La solución también: ... educación en la igualdad e intolerancia con los agresores.
Violence against women, in all its forms, is one of the greatest shames of modern society. My deepest condemnation and my more absolute contempt for all those miserable, regardless of their national origin, creed or social class, that by action or inaction, allow this to continue happening. They not deserved, not even the label of animals ... much less than men.
Stop the supposed superiority of the male is in our hands. We are not their owners. We are not owners of their lives. We are not superior to they. They are our partners, not our properties. They do not belong to us.
Be a true man and denounces and fights any kind of sexist violence / discrimination in all those areas to which you have access. The problem it's not in they. The problem it is in us. The solution also: ... education in the equality and intolerance with the aggressors.
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... Series: "Oscuridades" / "Darks"
... Music: "Memories of Green" (Vangelis) played by Vangelis & The New American Orchestra (... from OST of Blade Runner) ... enjoy it!!!
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Southern Lapwing (nome em inglês)
Vanellus chilensis (nome científico)
Charadriidae (Família)
Charadriiformes (Ordem)
Pássaro Silvestre
Área de Proteção Ambiental
Parque Nacional de Brasília
Água Mineral
Brasília, Brasil
Bringing different angles to every story.
Taken by onemark.
One of the winners of January Explore Contest.
Model: Jess D
Location: Edmonton
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Hawk Roosting
I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
Inaction, no falsifying dream
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
The convenience of the high trees!
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection.
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
Or fly up, and revolve it all slowly -
I kill where I please because it is all mine.
There is no sophistry in my body:
My manners are tearing off heads -
The allotment of death.
For the one path of my flight is direct
Through the bones of the living.
No arguments assert my right:
The sun is behind me.
Nothing has changed since I began.
My eye has permitted no change.
I am going to keep things like this.
Ted Hughes
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Another frozen Choptank morning, i took this, and ran to work before i froze. I didnt get back to it til later, was a day of being just two steps behind and moved at the speed of a turtle, they are better than rabbits of course. Just dont pee your pants over it, ;p lol. happy hump day!
European kingfisher
Braud-et-Saint-Louis (France)
Travelling near the Atlentic Ocean for the week-end, we saw a lot of interesting birds, and yet the photos I couldn't wait to check once I would come back home were the photos of this kingfisher that passed in front of my camera for a short moment. I'm only starting my journey in the bird watching world, but I don't think I will ever get bored of this beautiful blue bird.
Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Bald eagle passing the time at lock and dam #11 in Dubuque, Iowa. These birds like to live and feed in this area where the water isn't frozen over completely in the winter. An ideal spot for the wildlife photographer to catch them in action, or inaction. Whichever the case may be.
I am starting the new year with a rotten cold which does make me feel a bit glum.
Then I look at my news feed- Middle East escalation, the pictures and stats on the Aus fires, climate change inaction, Brexit, local health service problems - hard to feel optimistic.
Maybe next week will all look better.
anyway a calming acoustic version of a great song if you like:
Jesus and Mary Chain - Taste of Cindy
parallel lives that touch each other in the end (in infinity)
like parallel lines that become one in the infinity of our lives (in maths too).
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juego de palabras de algo que sucede con las líneas paralelas
y es que se cortan en el infinito de nuestras vidas (también matemáticamente)
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October 13, 2014
"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A day off work due to Thanksgiving, giving me a three day weekend, to be followed by a three day work week. Not too shabby, if you ask me.
Decided to take advantage of the blue sky and sunshine this morning and head out on a bit of a nature walk near the river. I ended up almost wading in the river to get this shot, as I'm a silly person and didn't think to grab my tripod for the walk I had to wade out into the water to get to the ideal rock to use as a tripod for this.
It took some serious work balancing the camera and fingers crossed that the camera would slip and sink to the bottom of the Ottawa river, but I managed the shot and because of the effort it took, it's today photo.
Hope everyone has had a good day.
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Young, low caste Nepali children protest the Nepali government's inaction to assist flood victims afterthe 2006 monsoon season which devastated the Bardiya district of southwestern Nepal. The children were holding their protest at the Tibetan Buddhist stupa of Bodhanath in the Kathmandu Valley.
First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws
Clients rumored to be persons connected closely to the WH Cabinet, and members of the House and Senate whose actions or inactions have repeatedly compromised health care for adults, seniors and children. Of course, it goes without saying that all extraterrestrial beings from any galaxy are welcome, since, by their very nature, they were also born without hearts or the ability to psychologically or intellectually make decisions about taking care of human beings.
Model: Jess D
Location: Edmonton
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© VanveenJF Photography
Action and inaction on Cabbage Tree Creek at Shorncliffe, Brisbane. A few nice boats have sailed up the creek and moored while nearby, the poor thing on the right is continuing to deteriorate. Local flickr members have been monitoring its slow demise, no doubt it will be salvaged and scrapped sooner or later.
The Royal Albert Bridge
In 1846 the Cornwall Railway Act received Royal Assent and one of the stipulations was that the ferry at Saltash should be replaced by a railway bridge thus linking Cornwall to the rest of the UK by rail.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was appointed as chief designer and engineer. His challenge was to build a bridge to span the River Tamar which at this point is some 1100 ft wide. At first he intended to construct a single span bridge of 850 ft but the constraints imposed by the Admiralty ruled this out. These demanded the deck of the bridge be 100 feet above high tide and that the river remain fully operational to the Navy at all times.
Having considered several plans he decided that the bridge should have a single pier mid stream which would support 2 spans and a further 10 approach spans on the Cornwall side and 7 on the Devon side.
It was originally intended to carry a two way track but the Cornwall Railway Company had insufficient funds – the reduction to a single track saved £100,000. After the first contractor went bankrupt, Brunel decided to take on the contract himself.
An adapted diving bell, into which compressed air was then pumped, allowed up to 40 men to work underwater at any one time. First they had to excavate 12 ft of mud followed by 3 ft of rock before a suitable foundation was located. Work then began to build the central tower of brick. On July 4th 1853 the foundation for the first of the Cornish piers was laid by the Mayor of Saltash.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert officially opened the bridge on 2nd May 1859.
Brunel did not attend the opening due to ill health. He finally crossed his bridge on an open wagon two days later, but died later that year.
Tamar Bridge
The Tamar Bridge is a suspension bridge in the south-west of England, carrying the A38 trunk road across the River Tamar spanning between the City of Plymouth on the east bank and the town of Saltash on the west bank.
The Bridge is in public ownership, being owned and operated jointly by Cornwall Council and Plymouth City Councils. These Joint Authorities formed a special partnership in 1950 to lobby national government to fund a fixed crossing of the Tamar, but in the face of government inaction, decided in 1955 to go forward with the scheme themselves as a local enterprise financed from tolls.
The work was completed after two years and three months at a cost of £1.5 million, with up to 300 men working on the structure. The Bridge was opened to the public on 24th October 1961, and was formally opened by the Queen Mother on 26th April 1962 in a grand ceremony involving a fly-past and two naval frigates.
Since that time the Joint Committee has continued to operate and maintain the Tamar Bridge, and between 1998 and 2001 the Bridge underwent a major rejuvenation when it was both strengthened and widened. The work was undertaken while the crossing was open to live traffic, ensuring adequate load carrying capacity for the future, and also adding an additional traffic lane and a dedicated pedestrian/cycle lane.
More recently, during 2006, the tolling function has been upgraded with a major refurbishment of the toll plaza, and the introduction of electronic toll collection.
The Bridge is now carrying over 16 million vehicles a year – over ten times that carried in the early years. The construction, operation, maintenance and improvement of the crossing continue to be financed from toll income.
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Somnath Mondal, an amazing mountaineering guide from Kolkata. He led a couple of expeditions I went to and he's a friend whose energy levels are off the charts even at towering altitudes. Experienced in climbing 7k metre peaks.
Had to capture a few of his jumps against different backdrops and locations during expeds.
Here we have Mt. Jogin in the backdrop.
This is an unusual one, but it's another hand painted ceramic brooch. I'm not sure who would choose to wear a little greenhouse on their clothes, but for me, of course, it's just a photo prop. The pink watering can in the background is dolls house scale. The flowers are Mexican Fleabane, which used to live in a large pot in the garden, but one day decided to make a bid for freedom. They now reside all over the place in the gaps between paving slabs. While I sometimes wonder if I should ask them to move again (trip hazard?), I mostly look at them and think they're very pretty right where they are. Action or inaction? Hmm, I'll have to think about it. :)