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Oral hygiene here is of primary importance!!
MUONG girl watching out from her house, built in bamboo and rushes, near Hoa Binh, Vietnam.
Smoke And Toothbrush
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Two officer aspirants riding in the back of a military truck at the end of the survival week.
I always loved riding in the back of the truck. Waiting till everyone else got in and the hopping on last. Driving in the trucks was nice. It ment a break, a break from having to follow orders, sometimes a break from giving orders, sometimes a break from having to deal with the mates, from having to do anything.
One could glance out the back, enjoy the landscape passing by, feeling the wind in the face and the hair (that is one could take off the hat, one always has to carry, have a smoke, eat something, take a nap and have a talk with the mate next to you about women, God, the world or simply the soccer game the next weekend.
How romantic ... Or one could brush his teeth, shave or - did I say take a nap? Yeah, during the survival week most of the time it was about taking a nap, getting a bit of sleep. On rainy days again, it wasn't all peaches and cream riding in the back, actually the most soaking wet place there is ...
Anyways, I can't really think of a bad thing driving in the back of a truck (okay, alright, the CO2 and too much fuel and too much emmission and too much blablabla ...), it really is one of the most enjoyable things in military. I'm looking forward to driving again ...
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Set: Military (» see other shots from "Military")
Refinements: I added contrast (wanted it to be dark), removed noise, cropped and resized.
Equipment: Nikon D70s, AF Nikkor 28-80mm G, UV filter 58mm
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A macro photography of a toothbrush. My first try at using gels.
Strobist info: One 430EX with a CTB behind the brush / through a paper, and a second 430EX with a CTB underneath the head of the brush. A white paper was held above the brush to bounce some light back on top of it.
Another trying the macro lens. This is a crop from a larger photo. Bit of noise creeping in with the higher ISO, but I quite liked it.
Hooray!! my new Oral-B electric toothbrush promises to remove all those nasty little plague bacteria from my gums.
This photo is of my Gen Z male friend's bathroom. We see beauty products such as Axe body spray and Dawn dish soap that doubles as hand soap. His beauty routine is emphasized by the daily contacts that are left out as well as the toothbrush that is on its last legs.
By Jackson Stublar
He now has 4 teeth and we're teaching him to take care of them. He actually likes brushing his teeth when I do it, too.
i bought this little guy, who is actually a votive candle holder, then realized i had no votives! i do have a toothbrush, though. so for now he'll hold that.
This one broke in the kiln, but he still functions as a toothbrush holder! He's kind of a rockstar frump.
Toothbrush isolated on white background
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Toothbrush isolated on white background
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Hamer like many people in Africa use a special piece of wood as toothbrush.
The Hamar is a catlle herder tribe which lives on the Eastern side of the Omo Valley in Southern Ethiopia. Honey collection is their major activity and their cattle is the meaning of their life. There are at least 27 words for the subtle variations of colours and textures of a cattle ! And each man has three names: a human, a goat and a cow name.
The Hamar have very unique rituals such as a bull-leaping ceremony, that a young men has to succeed in order to get married. The cow jumping is an initiation rite of passage for boys coming of age in Hamar tribe. Cows are lined up in a row. The initiate, naked, has to leap on the back of the first cow, then from one bull to another, until he finally reaches the end of the row. He must not fall of the row and must repeat successfully the test four times to have the right to become a husband. While the boys walk on cows, Hamar women accompany him: they jump and sing. Totally committed to their initiated sons, the mothers are whipped to blood, in order to prove their courage and accompany their sons during the test.
The Hamar are very preoccupied with their beauty. They have at times spectular haidresses.
Men use a wooden head rest which prevents the hair from touching the ground. You can see them walking with it everywhere ! It is used as head rest to protect the clay wig that some do on the top of the head, but it is also usefulas a seat ! Even if there is a chair close to them, they prefer to use the head rest !
Women know many ways to do their hair. The most famous hair style is when their hair is in short tufts rolled in ochre and fat or in long twisted strands. These coppery coloured strands are called "goscha", it's a sign of health and welfare.
They also wear bead necklaces, iron bracelets around their arms, and decorate their breast with lots of cowry shells, like a natural bra.
Around married women's necks, you can see "esente": torques made of iron wrapped in leather. These are engagement presents; they are worn for life and indicate their husband's wealth. One of the necklaces catch more especially the attention: it is called the "bignere". It's also an iron and leather ring, which has a phallic-shape end. But this jewelry can only be worn by a man's first wife.
I remember a woman I have met. On her neck, there were three necklaces. According to what I just explained about the bignere, the biggest one at the top means she was "First Wife". This is important, as her statut is the higher one in Hamer society. But as she has two more simple necklaces around her neck: that means her husband took two more wives... The Hamar women who are not first wife have a really hard life and they are more slaves than wives... During my trip, I could see some of these women, working like slaves for the men: their skin were covered with clay, butter and animal fat... So they were a little scary ! Another thing to know about these women: the more scars one has on her back, the higher is her status.
The young unmarried girls, for their part, wear a kind of oval shape plate, in metal. It is used like a sunshield, but it tends to be rare in the tribe. Some of them have fund their future husband, but have to wait in their house until the so-called prentender can provide all the money for the ceremony: he has to pay for all the cows the bride-to-be's family asks for. These girls are called "Uta" and have to wait three months, entirely covered with red clay... And no right to take baths or showers ! They cannot go out of the house, let alone the village.That's why it is very rare to see or take a photo of a Uta. A cruel tradition still has currency for some Hamar: unmarried women can have babies to test their fertility, but some of them are just abandonned in the bush. This tradition tends to disapear but NGO still save abandonned new borns. Abandonments are all the more frequent than some Hamar believe that a child born out of formal marriages has "mingi", as to say something abnormal and unclean. For them, it is the expression of the devil, which may cause disasters such as epidemics or drought in the village. So, illegitimate children are abandoned. This kind of beliefs can also be observed in other Ethiopan tribes: many parents prefer to sacrifice their own child rather than risk being affected by the evil eye.
© Eric Lafforgue
This is my second toothbrushing picture of the Project 365. I figured I could get in close and get a good reflection in the tap. Once I tried it I realised it was quite obvious it couldn't work very well. With a lot of cropping I got somewhere near. You can see the camera on the tripod if you look closely at the reflection.
Phil.
I saw these toothbrushes the other day, sold by Poundland. Yes, that does say 'FLOURIDE'. And the spelling is repeated on every single instance on the packaging - and even on the toothbrushes themselves (see photos).
What's odd is that even with the right spelling, 'Fluoride toothbrushes' doesn't really mean much either. It's not as if the bristles are impregnated with sodium fluoride or something similar: they're just normal cheap toothbrushes.
All I can think is that since the word 'Fluoride' is associated in many people's minds with healthy teeth, someone at Poundland's supplier thought it would be a good 'hook' for the toothbrush line. But is the misspelling deliberate, or accidental? Given some of the other spelling on the back of the packet, it is probably accidental.
Although - it's interesting to see "Certified Quality and Management System ISO 9001" marked on the packet, which must refer to Poundland and not the product itself. But how many shoppers know this when they see a toothbrush with the words "Certified Quality" on it?
Toothbrush isolated on white background
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