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The thrill of shooting with a Leica M6, thanks NyYankee
Leica M6
Noctilux 50 mm 1.0
Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Color 100
Epson Perfection V500
I am unsure what this slogan means , on the side of this London Overground Class 378 Bombardier Derby built Electric Multiple Unit
378216 has just arrived from Clapham Junction , where it departed at 1132 , on Service 2L51 .
Stratford Station , East London .
Tuesday 13th-November-2018 .
We are most grateful to Rock Arsenault ( www.flickr.com/people/arsenault/ )
for a Pro Account and his support to humanitarian issues. You Can View his beautiful image “here”.
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Combating climate change and making the planet greener and cleaner is an issue for everyone. How times have changed since World Environment Day was launched by the United Nations General Assembly 36 years ago. We wonder if they considered then that today climate change and other environmental impacts would have such an impact on world hunger and poverty. The world has yet to figure out how it will deal with global warming, changing rainfall patterns, melting glaciers, rising sea-levels and climate refugees. In many countries defence forces might find themselves torn between humanitarian relief operations and guarding their borders against climate refugees, as climate change and scarce resources, forcing millions of climate refugees across the borders.
Climate change is expected to put an estimated 50 million more people at risk of hunger and water stress by 2020. It poses a serious threat to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially during a period of global economic recession, when resources needed to cope with climate change may be reassigned. Agriculture and deforestation account for 30 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions. These two sectors can therefore contribute to reducing emissions if agricultural practices are changed.
Poor people in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The negative impacts on their crop yields are already being felt and will be increasingly severe. Climate change is likely to affect forest expansion and migration, and exacerbate threats to biodiversity resulting from land use/cover change and population pressure. Marine and coastal ecosystems are likely to be affected by sea level rise and temperature increases. Human health will also be adversely affected. Rising temperatures and rainfall variability had led to more climate-induced diseases and heat stress. Experts predict climate change-related stresses -- including disasters, food and water shortages and conflicts over scarce resources -- could permanently uproot 200 to 250 million people by mid-century.
United Nations demographers estimate that the world’s population will grow from today’s 6.7 billion people to somewhere between 7.8 billion and 10.8 billion by 2050. The solutions of global warming, climate refugees, extreme poverty and high levels of population growth will require entirely new relationships between the world’s human and natural systems.
According to new technique and research our planet's continents were arranged 2.5 billion years ago. We are homo consumens of the earth and very young specie still trying to understand the mysteries of nature and in our ignorance we have destroyed it. Climate change offers humanity no second chances. Only rich countries can break the deadlock crippling international climate negotiations and prevent the world lurching into climate disaster. We should find a way to measure the general well-being of the people and planet rather than just raw economic growth.
You Can Easily Green Your Daily Routine. View Tips “here”.
Your Planet Needs You!
Unite to Combat Climate Change!
Encourage Slower Population Growth!
You can view slide pages from Social Geographic. “here”.
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
And it doesn't matter… it doesn't matter if we are fourteen, sixteen, twenty-three, forty, fifty… doesn't matter… even as we change as seasons change… even when the color turns black & white… our architecture inside us doesn't change. We are the same youth yearning for the same things as decades ago.
How to be Happy — Excerpt The Conquest of Happiness
(1930) often cited as one of Bertrand Russell's most accessible and favorite books.
"Whatever we may wish to think, we are creatures of Earth, our life is part of the life of the Earth; and we draw our nourishment from it just as the plants and animals do. The rhythm of Earth life is slow; autumn and winter are as essential to it as spring and summer, and rest is as essential as motion. To the child, even more than to the man, it is necessary to preserve some contact with the ebb and flow of terrestrial life. The human body has been adapted through the ages to this rhythm, and religion has embodied something of it in the festival of Easter.
have seen a boy of two years old, who had been kept in London, taken out for the first time to walk in green country. The season was winter, and everything was wet and muddy. To the adult eye there was nothing to cause delight, but in the boy there sprang up a strange ecstasy; he kneeled in the wet ground and put his face in the grass, and gave utterance to half-articulate cries of delight. The joy that he was experiencing was primitive, simple and massive. The organic need that was being satisfied is so profound that those in whom it is starved are seldom completely sane.
Many pleasures, of which we may take gambling and drink as a good examples, have in them no element of this contact with Earth. Such pleasures, in the instant when they cease, leave a man feeling dusty and dissatisfied, hungry for he knows not what. Such pleasures bring nothing that can truly be called joy.
Those, on the other hand, that bring us into contact with the life of the Earth have something in them profoundly satisfying; when they cease, the happiness that they have brought remains, although their intensity while they existed may have been less than that of more exciting dissipations.
The two-year-old boy whom I spoke of a moment ago displayed the most primitive possible form of union with the life of Earth. But in a higher form the same thing is to be found in poetry. What makes Shakespeare's lyrics supreme is that they are filled with this same joy that made the two-year-old embrace the grass. Consider
"Hark, hark, the lark", or "Come unto these yellow sands"; you will find in these poems the civilized expression of the same emotion that in our two-year-old could only find utterance in inarticulate cries.
Or, again, consider the difference between love and mere sex attraction. Love is an experience in which our whole being is renewed and refreshed as is that of plants by rain after drought. In sex intercourse without love there is nothing of this. When the momentary pleasure is ended, there is fatigue, disgust, and a sense that life is hollow.
Love is part of the life of Earth; sex without love is not.
The special kind of boredom from which modern urban populations suffer is intimately bound up with their separation from the life of Earth. It makes life hot and dusty and thirsty, like a pilgrimage in the desert. A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live."
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Black Lives Matter Silent March, in the rain. Mostly white, almost totally silent, 100% masked.
Seattle, June 12, 2020.
This sign is painted on a door in an alleyway beside Party Downtown in Eugene, Lane County, Oregon, USA.
No matter what you are doing,
ask for guidance.
It saves time and energy and
often a lifetim of misery.
--- Florence Scovel Shinn ---
"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well being of ones companion." — Gordon B. Hinckley
Location: Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
Canon EOS-1V HS
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Rollei Reto 80s
Tania Dussey-Cavassini, Vice-Director General Federal Office of Public Health, Swiss Ambassador for Global Health, during the Session "Mental Health Matters" at the Open Forum Swiss Alpine High School at the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 20, 2017. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Valeriano Di Domenico.
We are delighted to share these two pages from the Rooke Wicklow Album, showing on the left Henry & Thomas Lloyd Rooke and on the right Mrs Henry & The Rev Henry Rooke. Rooke should prove a good name to research it’s not like there are thousands of them out there. It will be interesting to see how the young lads progress in life.
Photographer: Unknown
Date: Circa 1870 - 1879
NLI Ref.: ALB341
FÓGRA: Photographs in our Albums are generally not individually catalogued, so if you want to examine this photo in the NLI catalogue, just scroll to image 5 of 8 in this Rooke Wicklow Album.
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Clojure eXchange 2016, Thursday, 1st - Friday, 2nd December at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/7430-clojure-exchange-2016 Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Peaceful protest in front of the Los Angeles Hall of Justice, held in honor of families that have lost their children because of police violence.
We often reiterate on the importance of timing. This image was about that. I recently made a long road trip to tulip farms 3 states across. And we were late by a whisker. While a few farms were completely topped in Skagit Valley, some like this patch in Woodburn was plucked/topped here and there leaving a pleasing view of the partially topped rows of Tulips.
I found the fallen rows of petals in between kind of melancholic.
PS: Does it appear as if the colors are bleeding?
Umbraco UK Festival 2016. Thursday, 3rd - Friday, 4th November at CodeNode, London. skillsmatter.com/conferences/8460-umbraco-uk-festival-2016. Images copyright www.edtelling.com
Herbert Matter ad for Knoll around 1958. From Knoll Design by Eric Larrabee, designed by Vignelli and published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York.
[This photo is for C. London's 52 Weeks of Photography Challenge - www.clondon.me/blog/52weeks0]
" The paper says the whole world is on fire. But this street is quiet... "
I hope as things start to feel a little less raw, we don't forget the way the last week has felt. The anger may fade, and so might your shame, but the determination to fix things should not fall from your conscious. Continue to provide support and messaging in the ways that you can. Continue to support businesses owned and operated by people of color. Continue to donate, and keep these issues front of mind when you vote in November and every opportunity after that. The establishments that are in power in this country want you to feel satiated and content again so that they can continue business as normal. Our attention span is one of the largest threats to equality and justice in this country.
This photo challenge is a selfish endeavor. It's solely about myself and my goals. This hasn't been the time for me to focus on me, and I shouldn't be trying to make myself the center of attention. The world outside is much more important. This prompt was "Your Neighborhood".
I just came across this gorgeous gray invitation by kate spade. Perfect for a sophisticated soiree, this card might be best used as an invitation to a friend's birthday bash.
Decorate your party space with a color palette of simple grays, creams and pale pinks for a simple, yet elegant affair that's sure to let your guest of honor shine.
Gray and white dot cake -- Cakegirls
Simple gray invitation by kate spade -- FineStationery
Cream hydrangea arrangement and table cards -- The Knot
Pretty crystal votive holders -- Neiman Marcus
Ladylike frock in light pewter -- J.Crew
Gray and cream dining room -- Better Homes and Gardens