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The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything. Albert Einstein
*happy monday and have a great week ahead.*
"The west was getting out of gold,
The breath of air had died of cold,
When shoeing home across the white,
I thought I saw a bird alight.
In summer when I passed the place
I had to stop and lift my face;
A bird with an angelic gift
Was singing in it sweet and swift.
No bird was singing in it now.
A single leaf was on a bough,
And that was all there was to see
In going twice around the tree.
From my advantage on a hill
I judged that such a crystal chill
Was only adding frost to snow
As gilt to gold that wouldn't show.
A brush had left a crooked stroke
Of what was either cloud or smoke
From north to south across the blue;
A piercing little star was through."
- Robert Frost, Looking for a Sunset Bird in Winter
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Late night on the platforms of the dimly lit Tbilisi railway station didn't feel like the safest place, especially when I had my camera out. There were a few non traveling locals using the station footbridge as a means of getting from one side of the tracks to the other, many of which clocked my presence.
Of course I wouldn't normally hang around in the dark on such a station, but my cross border sleeper service was due shortly.
Having visited the station during daylight hours it was soon apparent that most freight was scheduled to run at night. This photo shows an unidentified CME 3 locomotive catching a little light as it runs through the station. It had just come off shed.
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piercing, pirsing, tatoo, dövme
Bir insan kendini ancak bu kadar şekilden çıkarabilir
Bir insan kendini ancak bu kadar şekilden çıkarabilir.
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Close-up candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Someone apparently not enjoying the music in the rainy streets of the city, or perhaps not enjoying the attention. It's been a while since I received some proper 'stink eye'. Enjoy full screen by pressing 'L' or clicking the image.
Turning Torso - my first local Malmö Flickr picture... Fantastic structure, isn't it?
You can see all 9 sections here... flats start in the 3rd section, 14th floor. I've been told that the rent for a one-room flat on the 14th floor starts at around 7700SEK / month (ca £550).
Reached #9 in Explore.
Mursi mother with ornamental clay lip-plate, wild boar's tusk, facial chalk markings, and decorated goat-skin clothing - pastoral settlement in southern Ethiopia's lower Omo Valley.
On the meaning of lip-plates in Mursi culture and society
The Mursi are one of the last groups in Africa where women still wear large wooden or clay plates in their lower lips. Most Mursi women wear lip-plates as an aesthetic symbol of cultural pride and identity, signifying passage to womanhood/adulthood. They are more frequently worn by unmarried or newly wed women and are generally worn when serving men food or during important ritual events (weddings, men's duelling competitions, communal dances, safari photo-ops).
Debunking popular myths
Contrary to popular opinion among travellers and other passing strangers, ethnographers found little or no connection between the size of a woman’s lip-plate and the size of her bridewealth (cattle, guns).
Anthropologists and ethnographers have debunked another popular myth surrounding the lip-plate in this region. They found no evidence that the labret originated as a deliberate attempt to disfigure and make women less attractive to slave traders, yet this myth seems to surface regularly in accounts by professional and amateur photographers, tourists, and bloggers alike.
The Mursi and Mursiland
The Mursi are semi-nomadic farmers and herders who depend on shifting hoe-cultivation (mostly drought-resistant varieties of sorghum) and cattle herding for their livelihood. They number less than ten thousand today.
Most Mursi live in small settlements dispersed across Mursiland, a remote territory of about thirty by eighty kilometres between the Omo and Mago Rivers in southwestern Ethiopia, near the border with South Sudan and northern Kenya.
The terrain varies from a volcanic plain dominated by a range of hills and a major watershed to a riverine forest, wooded grasslands and thorny bushland thickets. The climate is harsh and unstable with low rainfall and daily temperatures regularly exceeding 40°C in the shade during the dry season.
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"To possess the world in the form of images is, precisely, to re-experience the unreality and remoteness of the the real." Susan Sontag, On Photography
Definitive ethnographic accounts on the meaning of lip-plates in Mursi culture and society include:
David Turton, "Lip plates and the people who take photographs: uneasy encounters between Mursi and tourists in southern Ethiopia", Anthropology Today, 20:3, 3-8, 2004.
Shauna Latosky, "Reflections on the lip-plates of Mursi women as a source of stigma and self-esteem", in Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydall (eds.) The perils of face: Essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia, Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrika-Forschung, Lit Verlag, Berlin, 2006, pp. 371-386.
This fisherman was in low spirits and he was not fishing but just sitting altough there were obviously plenty of fish caught by others.
From photoshoot with model Sasha.
Shot on Hasselblad 503CW and Zeiss Planar 80 2.8
Film: Kodak Tmax 400 exposed at 800 iso.
Taken at Lower Peirce (yes, that is the correct spelling) Water Reservoir Park. Photoshoot together with GB Flickr friends Filan, Etharanz and Bro Noynoy! I really had fun with you guys! Til next time! Bon voyage, Filan!
Samyang Fisheye mit sony6000 eigentlich wollter er mir sagen er sucht neue Bekanntschaft und hat es nicht leicht...
I am happy because I have won this piercing and it fits me perfectly for walking on the beach. Thank you ENAMOUR! 😍
This is a color shot of the spot where the church of St. John once stood in Ioannina, Greece, within the North-Eastern citadel of the Castle. It is in the church’s place that Aslan Pasha’s mosque was built in the early 17th century (c.1618). The old Turkish Library is visible (below-centre) in front of the mosque. The mosque has got a square floor plan; in its South-Western corner stairs lead up to the minaret.
The minaret is as tall and thin as a sudden Scream PIERCING the heavens’ Silence and Serenity! It was from up there that Muslims were loudly called for prayer by the muezzin. The presence of so many Ottoman buildings in the town awakens painful memories of four hundred and eighty three years (1430–1913) of Turkish occupation—oppression, blood, tears and martyrdom. It also reminds us of the horrendous events that occurred in Constantinople in early September 1955.
Since 1930 the Municipal Museum of the city of Ioannina has been housed in the mosque; a Greek, a Jewish and a Turkish collection are exhibited there.
Taken on a ride along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The fog was very dense along this stretch until we rounded the next curve. Then the sun was nearly blinding as it quickly burned off the mist covered mountain. I pulled over and ran back up the road to get a few shots. The drama faded, and within a few minutes the fog was gone. Thanks for looking.
Technical aspects: Straight out of the camera image. Added -2/3 stop of exposure compensation to capture the sunbeams as my eyes were seeing them. MIMO8486
Piercing calls and distinctive wing markings make the otherwise subdued Willet one of our most conspicuous large shorebirds. Whether in mottled brown breeding plumage or gray winter colors, Willets in flight reveal a bold white and black stripe running the length of each wing. These long-legged, straight-billed shorebirds feed along beaches, mudflats, and rocky shores. Willets are common on most of our coastline—learn to recognize them and they’ll make a useful stepping-stone to identifying other shorebirds.
A Northern Harrier looking at me with great intensity. At Ankeny National Wildlife refuge. South of Salem, Oregon.