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Another stormy power struggle while our country's credibility flows down the drain........

  

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I think this image sums up our state of political division quite well. On the positive side, they are sharing the same branch. (Anhinga on the left - Anhinga anhinga; Double-crested Cormorant on the right - Nannopterum azurites) (Sony a1, 600mm lens, 1/2500 second, f/4.5, ISO 160)

What is going on with the Trump Presidency????

 

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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity.

Robert Kennedy

 

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One LED daylight lamp, edited in Fuji's raw converter and refined in Luminar.

Goast town Varosha / Famagusta / Northern Cyprus

 

The sad story of Varosha:

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I caught this guy in Washington D.C. selling his vote for peanuts. What a scandal! Why is no one reporting this? I actually did photograph this guy near the Whitehouse. I don't really know his political affiliation though....

In a town where the mayor is also your barber, it serves you well to approach casual politcal discussions with care.

I took a short walk today in the nearby Humber Bay Park, West. There were only 10 swans left in the lake. Marking World Autism Awareness Day - April 2!

 

Happy weekend, my friends.

The title of the book I have been reading is "Household Politics" by Don Herzog, published by Yale University Press in 2013.

Herzog is not a professional historian, his academic specialty is politics.

 

You might think that my new image is a tranquil scene of early modern England peasant domestic life. But it is actually a design for a scene in video I am creating in the Ravensway series.

 

Herzog tells us that the early modern household was as unruly, chaotic and occasionally violent as the world we still live in. It is still the same world. It just hasn't changed.

 

What evidence does he present for the politicized peasant household? Everywhere. From the layout of the thatched cottage to the objects found in it. But what I found most interesting is the cultural evidence he presents. He goes for the bottom drawer, the stuff considered unworthy. He finds out what is going on in the early modern household in jokes, "popular" entertainment (like Shakespearan plays or murderous stories), chapbooks, household manuals, sermons, proclamations, journals, letters and Jonathan Swift whose scatalogical poem never appeared in the anthologies I was assigned in my post graduate English studies.

 

This was the age when print became cheap enough and distributed widely enough to reach the hands and eyes of the common rural labourer. It was cheap pulp, the equivalent of the dime novel of the 50s. And today, what household do you gain entry to by watching a Hallmark Christmas romance? The movie "Pulp Fiction?" "Barbie?"

 

So what are my couple in the new image talking about? I think I know. I can hear them talking. I am learning to listen.

 

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Street and Reportage photography from Glasgow, Scotland. This was the Friday School Strike in George Square, Glasgow, as part of the climate change movement started by Greta Thunberg.

 

A hundred and more school children were engaged in good-natured chanting and singing in full voice directly opposite Glasgow City Hall, and guarded by a line of police officers who did not take too kindly to me walking in the road to get these shots (even though I was moving past stationary traffic).

 

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Name: Pressor, Garvik

Age: 32

Race: Human, male

Class:Smuggler

Rank: Amateur (Lvl 1)

Equipement: DL-44 blaster pistol

 

Bio: Garvik's homewordl is Corellia, as manny Space pilots and Smugglers. For his 32 years long life, he has never been successful in life, failed in Corellian army as pilot. Jobs vere mostly some pirate and raid helps, few times securing crew etc. Also sometimes transporting escapers on rent ship. After new political revolution in the heart of Galactic Republic started by Palpatine, he has moved on Imperial Center to find a better job, earn some money to make real his dream - get a ship and become a real Smuggler.

 

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picture taken at documenta14, at Athens School of Fine Art

 

Bili Bidjocka

​(b. 1962, Douala, Cameroon)

The Chess Society

 

and a blog article on the website about re-interpreting art by taking a picture of it. Am I an artist when shooting art?

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and also on the blog "About Darkness in Photography".

 

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A close up version of a shoot I did a while back.

 

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This bison cow and calf have more clearly and concisely expressed my opinion much better than I can about the debates and activities that are ongoing in our national circus headquartered in Washington D.C.

 

Apologies to anyone who finds this picture offensive, but I find the current dysfunction and lack of cooperation just as offensive. I just couldn't resist this one. This picture was originally to be titled "bad manners" ... maybe that's what I'm showing today.

 

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, June 2014

 

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Whether you agree with his politics or not George Orwell was a giant amongst twentieth century writers. I wasn't known at school for being a diligent student but two books I recall reading from start to finish were Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. The list of phrases or statements he coined seems almost endless with many now having found a way into our everyday lives. "Big Brother" being an obvious one for a start.

 

This portrait depicts Eric Arthur Blair, as he was born (he took the name Orwell from a river close to Southwold) and can be found on the Southwold Pier amusement building wall.

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St. George ...

 

Putin is increasingly generating himself in his nationalism as St. George in the media, while Donald Trump now often generates himself as God's messenger for the Bible-belt, e.g. in the courtroom next to Jesus, and it has an effect on his followers, as well as he is generating himself as perpetrator as victim ...

 

Two pictures that couldn't be more different and yet they have something important in common ...

 

the picture on the left shows St. George with a sword, defeating the dragon and is by Hilma Af Klint ...

 

the one on the right is by Wassily Kandinsky and also shows St. George slaying the dragon on horseback ...

 

The legend of the dragon slayer Gregory, who frees the country from a tyrannical dragon if the people allow themselves to be baptized in return, emerged in the 12th century and is recorded in the medieval text collection Legenda aurea.

 

St. George is one of the fourteen holy helpers. He is the patron saint of various countries, noble families, cities, knightly orders and scouts. The first name George (and its linguistic variations) is one of the most popular first names.

 

Its symbol in heraldry is the George Cross. The red cross on a white background is included in many coats of arms and flags. In addition to the cross of St. George, the dragon and his depiction as a knight with a lance on a horse are also used to identify the saint.

 

Further links to Russia:

In the Orthodox churches, he is venerated as a great or arch-martyr.

Russian Order of St. George

Rouble coin

Icon depictions

Coat of arms of the city of Moscow - patron saint of Moscow and Russia as a successful warrior

Georgia owes its name to the saint ...

  

Politisch hoch aktuell ...

 

St. Georg ...

 

Putin generiert sich in seinem Nationalismus zunehmend als St. Georg in den Medien, während Donald Trump sich als Täter als Opfer generiert ...

 

Zwei Bilder, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, und doch haben sie etwas Wichtiges gemeinsam ...

 

das linke Bild zeigt den heiligen Georg mit dem Schwert, der den Drachen besiegt und ist von Hilma Af Klint ...

 

das rechte Bild stammt von Wassily Kandinsky und zeigt ebenfalls den heiligen Georg, der den Drachen zu Pferd tötet ...

 

Die Legende vom Drachentöter Gregor, der das Land von einem tyrannischen Drachen befreit, wenn sich das Volk im Gegenzug taufen lässt, entstand im 12. Jahrhundert und ist in der mittelalterlichen Textsammlung Legenda aurea festgehalten.

 

Der heilige Georg ist einer der vierzehn heiligen Helfer. Er ist der Schutzpatron verschiedener Länder, Adelsfamilien, Städte, Ritterorden und Pfadfinder. Der Vorname Georg (und seine sprachlichen Varianten) ist einer der beliebtesten Vornamen.

 

Sein Symbol in der Heraldik ist das Georgskreuz. Das rote Kreuz auf weißem Grund ist in vielen Wappen und Flaggen enthalten. Neben dem Georgskreuz werden auch der Drache und seine Darstellung als Ritter mit einer Lanze auf einem Pferd zur Identifizierung des Heiligen verwendet.

 

Weitere Verbindungen zu Russland:

In den orthodoxen Kirchen wird er als Groß- oder Erzmärtyrer verehrt

Russischer St. Georgs-Orden

Rubel-Münze

Ikonen-Darstellungen

Wappen der Stadt Moskau - Schutzpatron von Moskau und Russland als erfolgreicher Krieger

Georgien verdankt seinen Namen dem Heiligen ...

 

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Tbilisi, Georgia

 

Leica MP, Kodak UltraMax 400

Anyone know of any good political exorcists? We could use one. The demon of fascism has inhabited that body of the majority of voting Americans.

As you can see, there is not much to read... I am still trying to catch up. But I really wanted to show you this book. When I was in DC, there was an exhibition of Herblock's political cartoons. Amazing person, amazing drawings. You can pretty much study American history by looking at them. Recently they published a new book which includes a dvd with 18,000 cartoons. I loooooooove them!

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Palace of Westminster, London, England - Monday February 2nd 2009.

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Well, I know this shot has already been on Flickr before, as I saw it on the FP of Explore on Tuesday...it was probably taken by the person who got in my way..lol

I was on my knees, in the cold, wet snow and slush...when I somebody cut in front of me and spoiled my shot!!!!...Grrr!!!

Thus I missed the top off of the real "Big Ben"...she...for it was a she...then spent sooooooo long taking her shots, I gave up and went to the park instead...I have noooooooo patients lol..:O)))

I would have said something to her, but she was good looking and smiled at me, when she turned around and saw me on my knees...although that didn't make her move out of the way!!!!

I'm a sucker for a beautiful woman...they will be my downfall for sure..lol..:O))

For those that have asked...I didn't make this snow model, twas somebody with a lot more talent then I have..lol..:O))

There were a lot of very talented snow artists out and about in the snow here in London on Monday, what with this and all the snowmen I saw in the Park..:O)))

 

Well, the promised snow for central London today didn't arrive!!!...:O(((

We just got a mixture of rain, sleet and snow flurries...Big Boo to that..:O((

 

Oh well...at least tiss Friday...so welcome to the weekend...I hope everybody has an awesome one...:O))

Left, Right and Center.

The interior of the governor's house, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania after an arson attack targeting governor Josh Shapiro and his family after the Passover seder.

 

Not my photography.

Photo credit: Commonwealth Media Services

In the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago

We continue to squabble, long after they've burned Rome.

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Candid street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Captured at a rally in George Square where there are calls for another independence referendum. This guy clearly wearing his political ideology on his sleeve, his lapels and his cap. Enjoy!

Exmouth, Devon isn't really known for its baseball so this theme proved to be a bit tricky...a lack of bats, balls and mits meant that until yesterday, inspiration was well and truly lacking...until I read the weekly round up of news...and hey presto...Ed Milliband saves the day!!

A tendril grows in a twisting pattern exploring space and looking for new ways to achieve its objective, sunlight

 

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