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Sigirîya (Sri-Lanka) - Cette photo a été prise à proximité de mon hôtel. Les éléphants sont présents pour les touristes. La famille propriétaire de deux pachydermes a installé une haute plateforme en bois, accessible par un escalier pour que les touristes puisse monter sur les éléphants, sans le moindre effort. J’ai sympathisé avec les cornacs, mais j’ai refusé de faire « un tour d’éléphant » car je suis contre l’exploitation des animaux sauvages. Même si je suis conscient que c’est le gagne-pain des cornacs. Malgré les chaînes je n’ai pas eu le sentiment que les éléphants aient été maltraités, mais je ne peux rien assurer. En revanche, j’ai accepté l’invitation d’un cornac, pour faire une série de photos sur le bain et la toilette des deux pachydermes.
Elephant Bath
Sigiriya (Sri Lanka) - This photo was taken near my hotel. The elephants are there for tourists. The family that owns two pachyderms has installed a high wooden platform, accessible by a staircase so that tourists can climb on the elephants, without the slightest effort. I sympathized with the mahouts, but I refused to take an "elephant ride" because I am against the exploitation of wild animals. Even though I am aware that this is the mahouts' livelihood. Despite the chains I did not have the feeling that the elephants were mistreated, but I cannot guarantee anything. On the other hand, I accepted the invitation of a mahout, to take a series of photos on the bathing and washing of the two pachyderms.
This kitty refused to make eye-contact and did an excellent camouflage job but I had to take a picture anyway .-)
Odd that at the end of January, this remains liquid. A small bay sheltered from the current of the St. Lawrence without a trace of ice.
There's another foot of snow in the high country, and it tried to snow in the city today. But I'm here, refusing to accept winter. :)
© Web-Betty: digital heart, analog soul
Revelation 13:15 “And power was granted him to give breath to the statue of the Wild Beast, so that the statue of the Wild Beast could even speak and cause all who refuse to worship it to be put to death.”
“Young People Who Refuse To Do National Service Could Lose 'Access To Finance', Rishi Sunak Reveals”
This lovely female speckled bush cricket was quite happy to come onto my hand (though she refused to face the camera!).
Haughmond Hill - Shropshire
"It is indeed typical that you Earth people refuse to believe in the superiority of any world but your own."
('Metaluna Mutant' by NECA / Ultimate)
Diorama by RK
... refusing to pose (my way !)
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As a child, I remember seeing photos of massive cacti against the incredibly blue skies of the American southwest in old photography magazines. I used to think that the colors of this landscape were an after-effect of the film rendering or a post-processing style. On my first visit, I realized how incredibkly vivid the colors get here in the desert, especially during golden hour. While visiting Saguaro National Park, I wanted to get a few images of the cactus bathed in golden light from the blue sky; this was my first attempt. It took me a few tries to get the white balance settings right, but I think I got it close to those images from the old photo magazines.
To remain neutral, to refuse to take sides in a dispute; often used in a derogatory way about someone who lacks the courage to decide:
As I was watching the heron, it slowly made its way over to the geese where their goslings were hunkered down on the bank. Mr Heron politely asked Father Goose if one of his chicks might want to join him for lunch (if you know what I mean). Somewhat rudely, Father Goose declined the very thoughtful invitation.
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History refuses to stay buried; it is reclaimed by dreams and mid-night memories turning up like stones from the bedrock on freshly cultivated field... Quote Patricia .. On Remembering
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a person who searches along a shore, as for salable refuse or in this case for seashells...
the Tokina 12-24 lens was (is) very prone for showing an awful green circle flare.. sold the lens after all. (I am going thru some older hard drives hence the "old" photo ;)
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In its Coronation livery,66023 passes Shrivenham on 07/Jan/25 working 6C03 09.55 Northolt to Severnside SITA loaded refuse containers.
2/52 weeks for dogs
Since Harry broke into the ice at the lake , just a little bit with his paws, he refuses to go to the shore . So I had to take my picture of him only nearby the lake .His face clearly says I won't come nearer any step !
When Galileo offered his opposers the chance to look into the telescope, many of them refused. They thought that that instrument was a trick of the Devil, a deceit to our perception to drift man away from the way of Truth - away from God. This so-called argument had been used so many times - e.g. when the opposers of the theory of evolution claimed that the Devil put bones and skulls of stranger antediluvian beasts into the rocks to deceive man - to demonstrate the mighty powers of unreason. I really cannot grasp how people can maintain such stances today but, well, this happens all the day, so this could be a limitation of my own little mind. However nobody can deny that that rough telescope - together with Van Leeuwenhoek's primitive microscope - was the beginning of a revolution in our way to look at the world and understand it. The scope of our (admittedly augmented) senses spans now from elementary particles to the remotest regions of space and time, including along the way that awesome marvels that we call cells.
That said, this humble shot portraits a coin operated telescope (a rather pompous name, but I am aware that many people love them, and there is even a group in Flickr dedicated to them) in Montisola, Lake Iseo, Italy*. I must admit that I have not looked into it (just like Galileo's foes...), but I loved the strikingly fresh view on the world offered by its external metal shell - especially how it creates two images of myself: one could go at work as usual, and the other could leisurely wander capturing photos all the time ;-)
* In the background on the right you can see the small island of Saint Paul
Photography is a great uniter of countries, cultures, neighborhoods, families and friends. I’ve started a group named Photo-Phactory. Please share your best images with me.
Many accuse me of indifference and passivity when I refuse to go into hiding; they say that I have given up. They say everyone who can, must try to stay out of their clutches, it’s our bounden duty to try. But that argument is specious. For while everyone tries to save himself, vast numbers are nevertheless disappearing. And the funny thing is, I don’t feel I’m in their clutches anyway, whether I stay or am sent away. I find all that talk so cliché-ridden and naive, and can’t go along with it anymore. I don’t feel in anybody’s clutches … They may well succeed in breaking me physically, but no more than that. I may face cruelty and deprivation the likes of which I cannot imagine in even my wildest fantasies. Yet all this is as nothing to the immeasurable expanse of my faith in God and my inner receptiveness. I shall always be able to stand on my own two feet even when they are planted on the hardest soil of the harshest reality. And my acceptance is not indifference or helplessness. I feel deep moral indignation at a regime that treats human beings in such a way. But events have become too overwhelming and too demonic to be stemmed with personal resentment and bitterness. These responses strike me as being utterly childish and unequal to the “fateful” course of events. (ET 2002, 487)
-Etty Hillesum
Meet Weera, a 4 years old Bracco Italiano girl from Finland, who was recently diagnosed with cancer..
Despite the desease, she is very happy, playfull, full of energy and joy so even the owners refuse to believe she is sick
Lets send her best wishes and health
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This picture has been made as a gratitude. It was taken last week in the island of Tinos. Tinos is the island I visit each year as a pilgrimage; it is a promise I made a long time ago..
I feel grateful and blessed for so many things in my life...
My gratitude also goes to this man who has been my teacher and mentor the last years. Radical life change is hard. Changing a lifetime of thoughts and patterns is also hard. However, Wayne Dyer has helped me change the way I looked at things and now the things I look at, change.
Life has always taught me this: IF you are willing to change, IF you are willing to listen, IF you are willing to accept, YOU CAN! Wayne Dyer confirms it to me every time I apply any of his quotes.
Sadly he passed away last August and I've been thinking........now that things are getting really bad around, why now? Now that humanity needs people like him most...And then I had the answer in front of me: the legacy he left is huge...anyone, ANYONE willing to make a change CAN just listen to him on Youtube, read his books and meditate.
When things are getting well there is no point...Timing is right and as he always said: " There is no such thing as luck or accidents in this purposeful universe. Not only is everything connected to everything else, but no one is excluded from the universal Source called intention. And genius, since it’s a characteristic of the universal Source, must be universal, which means that it’s in no way restricted. It’s available to every single human being. It certainly can and does show up differently in every single one of us " . This is the challenge and of course I shall take it. Will you?
Happy Thanksgiving!
Namaste!
"If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.
Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong, with you there is no wrong,
together we shall go until we die. My, my, my.
An inspiration is what you are to me, inspiration, look... see......."
First of all, I sprayed the water a bit too enthusiastically, sending some of the seeds flying. Then Auto Focus refused to cooperate. The last straw was when the water made them close up! One of my contacts makes photographing these things look so easy!!
Design and artwork using elements from the government 'Recycle now' iniative. These graphics fit into the councils new Agripa graphic system which is applied to their full fleet of refuse collectors. The graphics are inter-changeable, depending on the season or the promotion the council want to use.