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This is more clear and more interesting if you let it upload a couple of extra seconds.
I think the stone used to make the columns was basalt, but I'm not at all sure.
"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
Well, the cat's starting to get out of the bag, so here goes...
Basically, Adobe (the maker of Photoshop, etc) is starting a huge global campaign for their new Creative Cloud line. Like, a HUGE global campaign that's expected to hit millions and millions of people around the world and last for almost a full year. They held a competition and picked 12 student artists from around the U.S. who use Adobe products in their workflow. There were a few fashion designers, web designers, illustrators, and just two photographers... and I'm one of them!!!
A few weeks ago, Adobe representatives and a production team came to LA and filmed me for a full day, with an interview in my apartment, shooting an amazing sunset at the beach, working some processing magic on my shots, and just living and being crazy and being me. It was a total dream and I'm so, so lucky and fortunate to finally have had a major opportunity to shine. The footage is now being condensed into stills and a 2-minute video that tells my story of how I use my background in meteorology to predict the best weather for landscape photography and how I use Lightroom and Photoshop to breathe life into an image. Once the campaign starts in late August, they're telling me I'll be everywhere -- all Adobe social channels, all over their website, literally around the world. The producers told me they put my video and profile together first because they thought it was the best of the 12. I'll let y'all know when it comes out, but you probably won't miss it!
Regardless of how you feel about the new Creative Cloud, I just wanted to take a moment to thank anyone who has ever commented on or faved my images, or shown one of my photos to a friend, parent, coworker, or anyone else. You all are helping me live my dream, and I'd never be able to do it without you. Day by day, minute by minute... this thing called life is getting real. :))
I post this image now because this is the shot I'm processing in the video, using Lightroom!
all the best,
- Jeff
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This is in the countryside near Fall Creek, a tiny town in Lane County, Oregon. It is so small that for a fire department they have six midgets with Water Pik.
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Physics predicts the universe will end in heat death -- photons alone in the deep cold void.
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 25mm f/1.2 Pro hand held in very low light. This is not an AI generated image.
One can consider the presentation of this spectacular hardtop coupe as an ultimate afford to gain attention of the audience to persuade them for buying a Packard. The financial position of Packard was terrible in 1956. But it wasn't much of a help.
Richard 'Dick' Teague (Los Angeles, 1923-1991) designed the Predictor. It was built at Carrozzeria Ghia, Torino in Italy on a Clipper platform. In ninety days the Italians managed to get this project ready, just in time for the Chicago Car Show (see photo).
The Predictor had all kinds of new automotive features, like tilting headlights, roof doors rolled back when opening the door, lowering back window, swiveling seats, dashboard design which followed the hood profile, a power operated trunk lid, and a wraparound windshield that curved into the roof.
Many car brands copied several novelties: the grille at the 1958 Edsel, the roof line at the 1958 Lincoln Premier, the rear bumper at the 1958 Oldsmobile, opera windows or portholes in the rear pillar at the 1957 Thunderbird, and the headlights at the 1962 Corvette.
Only one Predictor was made. It still exists and is on display at the Studebaker National Museum, South Bend, Indiana.
6128 cc V8 engine.
Production Packard Predictor: 1956.
Picture was taken from:
James M. Flammang, Cars of the Fabulous '50s, a Decade of High Style and Good Times, Publications International LTD, Lincolnwood, 1995.
Original photographer, place and date unknown.
Book collection Sander Toonen (2018, present from Willem).
Halfweg, Nov. 3, 2024.
© 2024 Sander Toonen, Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
A bit of a different hinting technique and I never caught the move. What looks like the edge of the water on the bank of the bayou is actually a drifting mass of water hyacinth that has set up it own tiny ecosystem on the bayou. This mass is being blown over the surface of the water by the wind. This Tri-colored Heron had set up station on the edge of the drift mass and would fly off over the water and attempt to snag fish while he was in flight. Not sure what type of weed is growing on the edge of the hyacinth, but it has also become a part of the drifting mass. They hyacinth in the background is a separate mass.
Also want to update everyone on tropical storm Imelda. The storm was expected to drift northward yesterday, but tropical storms always have a mind of their own. Instead of the storms drifting northward the flow has been a bit more to the southeast and is dumping huge amounts of waters on Houston. The flooding has begun, and we can only hope that it will be minimal, but that doesn’t ever seem to be the case around. I am high and dry, but a lot of residents are not that fortunate. I know that there is also flooding going on from Houston to Beaumont.
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I also want to warn everyone about some gutter garbage people that are present here on Flickr. Perverts trolling for anything that they can put their filthy hands on. Seem like they have returned so make sure you know what you are looking at if your children are on here and have your safe search dialed in as well. Nothing is free from corruption any longer. It just took me far too long to get her posts deleted!!!!
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As I was about to step out for shopping this morning, the unique clouds formation in the sky deeply attracted me, just a quick snap. Kind of interesting, it was like the map. Please click on the upper right corner the image for better viewing. You can also visit me at www.azimaging.ca and www.500px.com/azimaging
The weather forecast had predicted cloudy skies for the 27th-28th night, but when I went to bed I was glad to see that the sky was entirely cloudless. I set my alarm clock for 4am.
I awoke from a slightly scary dream (a ghost made of light) and immediately thought "oh no, the clock hasn't rung, I've missed it". Then I got out of bed, thinking that I might still see some of the eclipse. It was dark outside, and I went back to my room, to check the clock. 4am! I'd awoken a few moments before the clock rung.
I stood outside taking photos for about an hour, witnessing the last sliver of penumbra leaving, and then returning. It was quite awe-inspiring to see the moon so red.
I showed it to my cat, telling him he probably wouldn't see it again, but he wasn't interested.
On Friday night we had the most beautiful snowfall in a long time,
it was only couple inches, not anything like the predicted,
This is taken from the kitchen window, it is the pond area of the garden,
see bellow,
Have one great Sunday, and some of you great Monday morning:-)
Spenny Bridge at dusk. Bristol, December 2016.
I thought the sky looked good for a decent sunset and popped out with my camera. Unusually, I predicted correctly this time!
I predicted a nice sunset and grabbed my camera and my graduated ND-filter and walked into the center of the town. I think it turned out pretty well!
(Some of you might have seen this yesterday, but I had to edit a little thing that bothered me, thats why I re-uploaded it! So please leave a comment and fav it again! :-))
The local weather forecast had predicted a chance of light fog for the coming morning so I had planned on taking a canoe around the shore of the small forest lake looking for wildlife to photograph. As you can see from the image, the forecast was more than a little off with the fog forecast. It was so thick I could barely see beyond the bow of the canoe. With the lake and forest wrapped in a thick blanket of fog, any possibility for wildlife photography was out of the question. Paddling along the shoreline I came upon a small, almost closed off, bay and turned in to explore. From the middle of the bay I looked back toward the entrance and saw the rising sun beginning to cause the fog to glow.
From my vantage point in the bay the scene looked almost like a nature-made abstract. It was the best photo op I had seen since I had set out. However, it lacked a foreground element to give the composition some depth. The canoe was the solution. With a line, I tied it to the shoreline near the bay entrance and then gently push it back out on the water. I walked around the shore, found a location, and waited a little for the canoe to drift into the best position. I used an exposure to keep the fog from becoming too bright and let the rest of the scene fall where it may. I took two images. One with no camera movement to hold the shape of the canoe and the other with a small amount of ICM to render the forest into greater abstraction and then blended them together in photoshop.
Pylon Lookout
Sydney Harbour Bridge
New South Wales
In our hectic lives, it is often very easy to lose track of time and forget some of our side goals. I am definitely guilty of that! I have neglected my photography for way too long, in pursuit of other more intangible goals.
Now more about this image. A sunset shot from the pylon lookout is only possible in the month of June, as the lookout closes at 5pm. On the day of the shoot, I wasn't very optimistic about the sky, it was clear blue. The forecast predicts cloud cover clearing in the afternoon. Thankfully, I decide to go against my gut instinct and was treated with an unexpected surprise!
Just as the sun was setting, it lit up the only band of clouds that was located behind the city. By now, everyone at the lookout was congregating at the ledge, blown away by the breathtaking view. Knowing that it is impossible to set up a tripod, I increased the ISO and opted for 3 exposures bracketing. I took dozens of shots hoping to get some of them to be sharp.
In post production, I manually blended the sky with cityscape foreground to achieve the necessary dynamic range. I sometimes forget how rewarding photography can really be!
2 exp shot, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Comments and constructive criticisms are appreciated!
“No!” she shrieked. “NO! This cannot be happening. . . . It cannot . . . I refuse to accept it!”
“You didn’t realize this was coming?” said a high girlish voice, sounding callously amused, and Harry, moving slightly to his right, saw that Trelawney’s terrifying vision was nothing other than Professor Umbridge. “Incapable though you are of predicting even tomorrow’s weather, you must surely have realized that your pitiful performance during my inspections, and lack of any improvement, would make it inevitable you would be sacked?”
“You c-can’t!” howled Professor Trelawney, tears streaming down her face from behind her enormous lenses, “you c-can’t sack me! I’ve b-been here sixteen years! H-Hogwarts is m-my h-home!”
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 26
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Sorry for the delayed vignette. The last week was very busy again for me.
But you won’t have to wait long for the next one - I promise ;)
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If you haven’t seen the first four parts so far, please have a look at the albums of my predecessors.
1. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
created by Marcel
2. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
created by Markus
3. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
created by Kevin
4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
created by Thorsten
You can also find all the vignettes in our flickr group.
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tarot reading_what does the future hold in this time of crisis
mixed media on wood: acrylic paint, metallic paint, tarot cards, sharpie pen, stamps
12" X 24"
jennifer beinhacker
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art outside the edge
MEANING OF THIS PIECE: the turning point of a disease when an important change takes place, indicating either recovery or death........physically, economically, leadership, organizational misdeeds .
now, in this age of covid 19, is a crisis point of history.
soon we will be at the zero hour........ point of no return.
i fear for our humanity....for our future.
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The Aurora forecast on the 6th of August was predicting extreme Aurora activity. Even though it was very early August and the night would not get fully dark I went out as the Aurora can be seen in deep twilight conditions. I saw the Aurora for a 1-2 minutes that night. I did not get a good picture of it though. Instead we witnessed this even rarer phenomenon called noctilucent clouds.
These are clouds that seem to glow in the night. They are the worlds highest clouds located in the mesosphere at altitudes of around 76 to 85 kilometers. They are very thin and only visible in deep dusk when the sun lights them from underneath and were first witnessed and recorded in 1885. Noctilucent clouds can be seen by observers at a latitude of 50 to 65 degrees north or south and in summer when the mesosphere is at its coldest (-120°C).
These clouds where extremely beautiful to look at and reminded me of the Aurora but where much more stationary and had this beautiful blue color. Some people where actually confusing these clouds with the Aurora as they were told about extreme Aurora activity that night. They where equally interesting to see and photograph as the Aurora.
The sculpture in the foreground is called the Sun Voyager. It is one of Reykjavíks most iconic sculptures and represents a viking boat sailing into the sunset as can be seen on late summer nights. It is a very popular subject amongst photographers and some call it a cliché. Nevertheless it is beautiful and interesting to photograph.
Einstein predicted that time slows down the faster you travel and the time-dilation hypothesis has since been proven by flying atomic clocks on aircraft.
The three fastest human beings at the moment are NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques (pictured) and Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Kononenko who are orbiting Earth on the International Space Station at a speed of around 28 800 km/h.
They are travelling so fast that they will return home to Earth after their six-month spaceflight 0.007 seconds younger than if they had stayed with their feet on the ground.
But how do astronauts perceive time in space? Space Station crew report that time seems to speed up in microgravity so European researchers are trying to find out more by immersing astronauts in virtual reality and testing their reaction times.
A virtual reality headset is used to block external visual cues that could influence the results. The experiment focuses on how astronauts estimate time duration as well as their reaction times. They are asked gauge how long a visual target appears on screen. Their reaction times to these prompts are recorded to process speed and attention.
The astronauts run the experiment before flight, on the International Space Station and again when they land to compare results. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst was the first test subject to take part in this experiment in 2018. Anne and David did a session in February in ESA’s Columbus laboratory.
Understanding how time is perceived in space is important as astronauts are often required to conduct precision work where timing is everything. This research in microgravity will help reveal clues as to what helps keep our brains ticking the seconds accurately.
Credits: NASA
This is a real row of trees (silhouetted) at sunset in Springfield, Lane County, Oregon USA.
"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
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Predicted rain came close but did not arrive at White Sands National Monument near Alamogordo, NM on the evening of the full moon.
Noted predictor of the future, Merlin the Wibbly-Wobbly, fears foreboding omens for the Spring... along with a pile of rain.
We're Here says Spring Has Sprung today.
It takes 2 days driving in an all wheel drive from Nairobi to arrive in Loiyangalani on the Turkana lake shores… you have never heard about this place? And yet it’s here that they filmed « The Constant Gardener » with Ralph Fiennes.
The Lake Turkana region presents a lunar landscape, somewhat desert, covered in black volcanic rocks. It’s an extremely inhospitable environment for humans and their livestock. There is no potable water and limited pastures. The rainfall averages is less than 6 inches a year. During the day the high temperatures (up to 45°C) are come with strong winds (up to 11 meters per second), pushing dust. But it’s just a magical place on earth !
No human should be able to live in these conditions and yet 250,000 Turkana people are living here. Their territory extends to northern Kenya around Lake Turkana, and on the boundaries with south Sudan and Ethiopia. In 1975, the lake (400 km long, 60 large) was named after them.
Herders Above All Else : The importance of livestock
They are a traditionally pastoralist tribe, moving their livestock (goats, sheep, camels, cattle, and donkeys) and their homes to search water for their animals. Turkana have not been affected by western civilization yet and live in a very traditional way. The number of animals and the diversity of the herd are closely linked to a family’s status in the community. The herds are their bank account.
They depend on the rain to provide grazing for their animals, and on their animals for milk and meat. Because water is so hard to find in the area, they often fight with other tribes like Dassanech. Their main concerns are land and how to win it or to keep it!
The Turkana place such a high value on cattle that they often raid other tribes to steal animals. These razzias have become more dangerous as they now use guns. As the Turkana are one of the most courageous groups of warriors in Africa, fights are serious!
After a raid, the robbers ask some friends from neighboring villages to keep some cows. Their herd is scattered between several places to reduce the risk of being stolen the whole.
The Turkana choose their good friends as neightbors more so than people they share kinship ties with. The clans (ekitela), 28 in number, no longer have a social function. Each clan owns water wells dug in the dried river beds. Unless an explicit request is made, the community can deny water to those passing by.
Even today, the Turkana never kill their livestock to sell their meat. They only kill for celebrations. The Turkana need their animals since they use them as currency in marriage or various social transactions. If a man loses his livestock to drought, he is not only impoverished but shamed. In these cases, NGOs often help get him back on his feet but he can’t reclaim his pride until he has reestablished his herd.
The animals are given very poetic names which the owners often take on as well. It’s common to call a good friend the name of his favorite bull. The Turkana even write songs for their favorite animals. Once a young man has selected his favorite bull, he shapes its horns into bizarre forms to make it stand out. Many tribes use to do this in the area.
The Fish is Taboo for the Herdsmen
Turkana people traditionally do not fish and do not eat fish. But during the droughts, Turkana people are encouraged to fish to get some food. Fishing has been regarded as something of a taboo, a practice reserved for the very poorest in Turkana society.
Social Structure
The Turkana are organized into generational classes. All males go through three life stages (child, warrior, and elder).
To become a man, the turkana teen must go through a ceremony where he will have to kill an animal with a spear, but he must kill it in one throw! Once done, the old men will open the stomach of the animal and put the content on the body of the new adult. It is the way they bless him.
For women, the process is different. They become adult when they reach puberty. Unlike many other tribes in Kenya, the Turkana do not practice FGM and circumcision.
The Turkana live in small households. Inside live of a man, his wives !as he can marry more than one), their children and sometimes some dependent old people. The house is called « awi ». It is built with wood, animal skin, and doum palm leaves. Only the women build the houses!
Herding is a family affair. The father assigns various tasks to his children depending on their age. It’s common to see kids walking long distances with the cattle. Later they will take care of sheep and goats. The girls carry water and collect wood.
Newborns receive their names in a unique way. They take the name of a parent who has huge prestige and add the name of the most beautiful animal in the herd.
Parents learn very early to the kids the taboos: you must not lie, be coward, steal, neglect elders…
Turkana have their own justice and the revenge system is working well: if a crime is committed, the family of the victim will try to kill the murderer or someone from its close family. They also can steal to the suspect a large amount of cattle. Usually, the elders try to make a reconciliation ceremony. It is an never ending story as the family will also want to make a vandetta of the vendetta !
If the homicide was an accident, it can be solved by giving a daughter in marriage.
Marriage
When a man wants to marry a girl, he must ask his own parents if they agree. His mother will have to check if the girl he wants is a good worker! The blood relationship between the families is forbidden, so the elders will check the family links before any agreement.
The man must pay the bride parents (30 cattle, 30 camels and 100 small stock minimum, sometimes a gun is added). It means that a man cannot marry until he has inherited livestock from his dead father. It also means that he collects livestock from relatives and friends. This strengthens social ties.
Daily life
Cattle dungs are used as fuel to cook the food, the urine is used as soap for washing when chemical soap is not available. I saw people using the urine to wash the milk containers, so I always refused to drink milk!
Camels are used for transportation of goods and are well adapted to the very arid climate of Turkana and the lack of water. They are also used in transactions for weddings, or economics deals.
Donkeys have a special status in Turkana tribe: the people do not drink its milk. They use them to carry their houses when they move or weak people with a special wood saddle. But even if donkeys are very useful, they are mocked by the turkana people. Donkey meat is eaten only in the Turkana, where it is savored as a delicacy while others tribe hate it!
They like chewing tobacco and often walk around with a chewed up ball of it on their ear. They also like snorting powdered tobacco.
Danses and songs are important in the social life. Dances allow the people to meet and to flirt. Circle dances are are performed by group of young unmarried girls. The men and young girls join hands and the circles move around. The men may then jump into the centre of the circle raising their arms to imitate the cow horns.
Spirituality, Superstitions, Beliefs
In 1960, a famine started in Turkana area, and so the « Africa Inland Mission » established a food-distribution centre in Lokori, bringing also christianity. But conversion did not meet a huge success (5 % may be converted) as Turkana are nomadics and still have strong believes in their own god. Some Turkana elders even told me :
« I wear a christian cross around my neck and go to the church to get an access to the help provided by the the missionaries for food and clothes! »
The majority of the Turkana still follow their traditional religion. There's one supreme God called Akuj, who is associated with the sky. If God is happy, he will give rain. But if he is angry with the people, he will punish them. In the old believings, giraffes were supposed to tickle the clouds with their high heads, and make the rain come !
Four million years ago, the Lake Turkana bassin may have been the cradle of mankind. You can spot some very nice engraving sites showing a mixture of giraffes and geometrics patterns made around 2000 years ago close to the lake.
Deviners, called the « emuron » are able to interpret or predict Akuj's plans through their dreams, or through sacrificed animal's intestines, tobacco, and through the tossing of …sandals ! Sandals are very important for the oracle. He blesses the sandals by spitting on them. He throws them up into the air and gives a meaning to the patterns they create when they fall on the ground.
When someone dies, the Turkana only hold funerals and burry the body. In the old times, people were were not given a burial, but were abandoned to hyenas.
As I was taking pictures of an old Turkana lady, after 3 pictures, she asked me to stop, and started to shout : « You’re sucking my blood, you make me feel weak » and she left. I was explained by a young boy that the old people believe that pictures are taking their blood away.
Medecine
Scarifications on the belly are made by traditional doctors to cure ill people: it is a way to put out the illness from the body. Scarification is practiced for aesthetic reasons too. Scars are a sign of beauty or to show how many people he has killed, if he is a man.
The skin is cut with an acacia or a sharp razor blade that may be shared by the people and bring diseases.
Turkana believe that a person who experienced illness and recovered from it can treat someone else who’s suffering from the same illness. This means that everybody can be a doctor ! If this does not work, they say that the animal slaughtered was the wrong one.
A good Turkana tip : if you suffer from a severe headache, you just have to take out the brain from a living animal, like a goat, and put it on your head !
Or, another solution : to lift a sheep over the patient, to cut the throat so that the blood strickles on the patient’s head.
The Turkana have the highest instance in the world of echinoccocus (7%) due to their proximity with dogs, who live and defecate everywhere. The dogs lick up blood and vomit and the women use the dog’s excrement as a lubricant for the necklaces that touch their neck.
This parasite has three hosts : sheep, dogs, and humans. In Turkana, these three species live very close, surrounded by little else in the vast desert, ideal conditions for the proliferation of the parasite. The diease causes huge cysts that can be removed by surgery. The locals believe that this "disease of the large belly" is due to a spell cast by the neighboring enemy tribe: the Toposa.
Beauty
Turkana girls and women love to adorn themselves with a lot of necklaces. Beads can be made of glass, seeds, cowry shells, or iron. They never remove them! This can only happen when they are ill or during a mourning time. It means they sleep with those huge necklaces… A married Turkana woman will also wear a plain metal ring around the neck. This is a kind of wedding ring (alagama). A Turkana man will do all he can to make sure that his women folk are dressed in beads of class. Even if some are not able to take their girls to school, they will still ensure that they have beads. By the quantity and style of jewelry a woman wears, you can guess her social status.
Beads colors have specific meaning. Yellow and red beads are given to girl by a man when they are fiancé. If a woman wears only white beads, it means she is a widow. Little girls wear few beads, usually given to them by their mothers, but the older ladies and women wear many, which are in sets rows.
A woman who cannot move her neck is envied! The big necklaces are heavy, like 5 kilos.
A woman without beads is bad, men will ignore her. « You look like an animal without beads! »
Young children only wear a simple strand of pearls. Adolescents wear small articles of clothing to cover their sex. These articles are often decorated with mulitcolored pearls or ostrich egg shells. They wear more and longer clothing as they approach puberty.
NakaparaparaI are the famous ear ornaments. They are made by the men of the tribe in aluminium most of the time and look like a leaf.
Men love to make an elaborate mudpack coiffures called emedot. It is a kind of chignon: the hairstyle takes the shape of a large bun of hair at the back of the head. They decorate it with ostrich feathers to show they are elders or warriors. 2 ostrich feathers costs 1 goat.
Men use a wood pillow (ekicolong) to sleep on it and protect the bun. It can last 2 months and must be rebuild after.
Tattooing is also common and usually has special meaning. Men are tattooed on the shoulders and upper arm each time they kill an enemy — the right shoulder for killing a man, the left for a women.
Lower incisors are removed in childhood, with a tool called « corogat », a finger hook. The origin of this practice was against tetanus, as people are lock-jawed, so they can feed them with milk through the hole. It is also a way to force the teeth at the top to stand out and not interfere with the labret many put on the lower lip. The is useful to spit through the gap of the teeth, without even opening the mouth. The Turkana enjoyed to have labrets, but nowadays, only the elders can be seen with on. They used to put an ivory lip plug, then a wood one, and for some years, they use a lip plug made of copper or even with plaited electric wires.The hole between the lower lip and chin is pierced using a thorn.
The finger hook is also used as a weapon, for gouging out an ennemy’s eye !
Hygiene
Since water is so rare, it’s used only for drinking, never for washing. The Turkana clean themselves by rubbing fat all over their skin.
Turkana women put grease paint on their bodies which is made from mixing animal fat with red ochre and the leaves of a tree to have nice perfume. They say it is good for the skin and it protects from the insects.
Women also put animal fat all around their neck and also on their huge necklaces to prevent from skin irritation.
They also use dog shit as a medicine and lubrificant for their neck.
Both men and women use the branch of a tree called esekon to clean their teeth. You can see them using it all day long…The Turkana people have the cleanest bill of dental health in the country.
For long, Turkana people did not use latrines because it is a taboo for men and women to share same facilities like a latrine. Campaigns have now been initiated to sensitize people on the importance of using latrines for hygiene.
Animal fat is considered to have medicinal qualities, and the fat-tailed sheep is often referred to as "the pharmacy for the Turkana. »... when they do not grill it to eat it!
Futur
Recently, oil has been found on their territory… many fear Turkanas people may loose their traditions, but the Turkana succeeded in maintaining their way of life for centuries. Against all odds they manage to raise livestock in the confines of the desert. Their knowledge allows them to live where most humans could not.
The recent discovery of massive groundwater reserves in the ground (3 billion cubic meters, nearly three times the water use in New York City) could allow them to keep their traditions for a long time.
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when I get back to PA this week. They'll be about $4, free shipping. e-mail me at predicttable@yahoo.com or message me on here if you're interested.
Numbers, letters, lets look at the blueprints. Puzzles, messages, lets look at the plan. Encrypted, decrypted, encoded information, the cipher of the decipher of the text. Predicted, restricted, classified information, the data of the metadata of the context. What are the algorithms, the sequences, the calculations of the code of the Beast Mode? What is the linguistics of the morphology of the syntax of the semantics of the schematics?
The coming apocalypse, the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The prince of darkness, the Mark of the Beast. Mystery Babylon, Babylon the Great. The battle of Armageddon, the second coming of Christ.
Psalm 75:8 “In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs.”
They control the information. They control the information flow. They collect the information. They run the data through computer models and simulations. Data is the future. Those who control the data will control the future. In fact, you could say: Those who control the data will know the future. The more AI advances, the more it can predict the future. That’s why those at the top think: if we can predict the future, we can control the future. Well, that’s what they think. In reality, they can’t see their own future demise. They can’t beat God. They can fight against Him, but in the end they will lose.
Technology speeds up time. Not that time itself speeds up, but that more can be accomplished in the same amount of time. “But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.” Technology has allowed us to “rush” here and there. Technology has caused knowledge to increase. The coming technology will change the current landscape forever. “The end will come like a flood.” As time speeds up more and more, these crazy technological ideas/goals will come in quickly and take many by surprise. The globalists have this goal in mind: to usher us into the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What does this mean for humanity? It means transhumanism: 666 the Mark of the Beast.
Isaiah 26:20-21 “Come, my people (bride), enter your chambers (wedding chamber), and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves (in the Lord) for a little while (7 years) until (God’s wrath/Tribulation) the fury has passed by. For behold, the LORD is coming (second coming of Christ)out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.”
It was raining off and on when I took this photo, but it is not a Rainting, as I didn't shoot through any sort of glass or window. It was just me out there in the rain admiring my little cerise flowers. I planted all but 1 of them a couple of years ago. The original one was where I got the seeds.
For Dave C., That's the *soul* of this is that I lovingly sowed the seeds to grow them.
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"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
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With cloud cover predicted for most of Washington on that fateful night, I was not particularly hopeful in capturing the aurora. Despite the low probability, I drove through a treacherous winter storm hitting Snoqualmie pass and hunted around the central Washington for a dark place with clear opening to the north. I finally found a dark canal bank with a possible opening. And within moments of spreading out the tripod, the aurora showed its true colors, with pillars rising so high above me that even the vertical composition couldn't capture its full height. If it were any clearer, the camera would have been saturated with the auroral glow.
After that high, I was dreading the drive back. The winter storm over Snoqualmie pass had become even more intense, with a layer of sleet and ice covering miles of the highway. Lack of any traffic meant that there was no help around if I had a spinout. If not for that heightened alert level after the aurora, I would not have made it home safely. Hopefully this occurs again before the PNW settles into its summer.
Quincy
WA
These gears pass some the energy provided by the operator turning a crank to the rear section of Tide Predicting Machine No. 2, a special purpose mechanical analog computer for predicting the height and time of high and low tides.
The U.S. government used Tide Predicting Machine No. 2 from 1910 to 1965 to predict tides for ports around the world. The machine, also known as “Old Brass Brains,” uses an intricate arrangement of gears, pulleys, chains, slides, and other mechanical components to perform the computations.
A person using the machine would require 2-3 days to compute a year’s tides at one location. A person performing the same calculations by hand would require hundreds of days to perform the work. The machine is 10.8 feet (3.3 m) long, 6.2 feet (1.9 m) high, and 2.0 feet (0.61 m) wide and weighs approximately 2,500 pounds (1134 kg). The operator powers the machine with a hand crank.
A massive snowstorm is heading our way so I obviously have snow on my brain! I thought everyone would enjoy some snow from an earlier storm! I fell in love with this frosty fence ... looks like frosted wheat cereal or maybe a scrumptious sugar coated dessert doesn't it?
So ... it is being predicted that this blizzard may surpass the blizzard of 1967; the benchmark for all major snowstorms in Chicago. I just happen to remember that blizzard ... but on the other side of the lake. Chicago received 23 inches, and my hometown of Kalamazoo reported 28 inches.
After the snowfall, I remember vividly this story: our dog Fluffy was in her doghouse throughout the storm. I have no idea why my parents didn't bring her inside!! Looking out into the yard, it was a smooth plane of snow over the entire backyard ... and I vividly recall that we located her by the steam vent she made through the snow! We had to forge our way through the snow and dig her out. Isn't that crazy? Poor Fluffy! But she did survive it!! And the snow was very deep, the 50 mph winds had whipped up some mountainous snow drifts ... some up to 15 feet tall!
Jackie will be stuck downtown for the storm and I wish I was with her. It would be very cool to see the city under a blanket of snow. The strong winds will definitely whip that lake up over Lake Shore Drive. I'd love to be down there with my camera!! I bet I won't be able to talk Jackie into going out for some photos with her P&S!!
I apologize for being a poor contact my Flickr peeps but I have been enjoying the down time and the time spent with Rachel. Since we'll most likely be snowed in, I'll have time tonight and tomorrow to catch up!!
A little bit of purple/mauve in my texture makes this perfect for Purple Tuesday & Texture Tuesday:
According to folklore, if the wooly bear caterpillar has a wider band of rust color, the winter will be mild; wider black bands, more cold and snow. According to this wooly bear at the nature reserve in Wells, Maine, it looks like we can expect a pleasant winter ahead!
I had predicted that the sun would just lick the front of 50008 as it passed this location at its expected time. I didn't know of any location better for sun angles. There had been a build-up of squiff from the west that wouldn't put me off having a go at this.
I was surprised to see few people here but was pleased to be in the company of P.T. amongst others.
These are the chickens from my downstairs neighbors. They are chick just a month back. It was difficult to save them from cats and other predictors. But somehow they managed to survive. Lets see how long they can keep up!
Today here in Michigan the temps are predicted in the upper 80's. Just a couple weeks ago when the lilac bush was beginning to bloom, I woke up to see that along with those fragrant lilac blooms, there was cotton blooms on the lilac bush. In recent years we just go from a long winter, to a peek at spring and just jump into these summertime temps. It makes it hard to adjust to that drastic change in seasons.
OK, here is the Tiny True Story. I was given a whole box full of seeds, new packages of all kinds, vegetables, flowers, etc. There are some beautiful packages in the box, some very plain, but some with lovely artwork illustrating what the seeds will grow. The catch is that they just about all expired in 2019.
My plan was to post some colorful pictures of some of the seed packets or of the mass amount in the whole box, or whatever. I wanted to do that partly for the fun and art of doing so, and partly to illustrate a question I planned to pose to my Flickr friends who have experience gardening. I was hoping someone could advise me whether there is any point at all in planting expired seeds. Would none grow at all, or would it be likely a percentage of them would grow? If so, approximately what percent?
Armed with that information. I planned to pick out three or so geographically close friends to give a bunch of seeds to. I have no place to even plant very many at all, but some of my friends have acreage.
I was outside, moving the seeds in the huge box all around for different photo ideas. I took a lot of shots, some horizontal, some vertical. It was kind of fun, but it was hot out, and I was getting to the point where I just wanted to be done. I wanted to go inside and decide which pictures I just took would work nicely with some painterly techniques, cropping, etc. and which ones I should toss. I sat on my bench, and grabbed a handful of seed packages out of the box, to look them over more closely. That handful of the packages slipped into my lap!
I began trying different angles and amounts of macro, or not, to finish up. They kept slipping around my short pants. My shorts have a rather wild (but kind of cool) free-form lines and circles in very bright colors on a plain black background. The nicer I tried to get shots of the seed packages in my lap, the hotter the weather got, and the more slick the packages got. I kept getting snippets of the bright colors of my short pants in my compositions. I really didn't like that, and didn't want it. Artistic composition wise, they just didn't seem to fit. I didn't have in mind anything in my photos but the seed packages. Even though I was clothed, it was a little weird to have half a dozen seed packages slipping down between my thighs. It was uncomfortable and - "I" didn't make for great composition. It was cumbersome to compose any shots at all. Finally, I decided that instead of fighting the competing colors and angles on my shorts with those of the seed packages, just to go with the flow and maybe make some intriguing photos that had nothing to do with whether expired seeds would grow, or how I got the wild colored lines mixed in with my compositions of seeds. Just art, for no other reasons.
So there you have it. THE END
For Dave C., the *soul* of this picture is that I put my heart and soul into accepting really strange and uncomfortable angles for my seed pictures, and got this painterly look art that I think is awesome.
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For ABCs and 123s" "I" is for "Intriguing" use of different colored and shaped items to make "Interesting" Art.