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About the Killing Fields
The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge regime, during its rule of the country from 1975 to 1979, immediately after the end of the Cambodian Civil War (1970-1975).
Analysis of 20,000 mass grave sites by the DC-Cam Mapping Program and Yale University indicate at least 1,386,734 victims. Estimates of the total number of deaths resulting from Khmer Rouge policies, including disease and starvation, range from 1.7 to 2.5 million out of a population of around 8 million. In 1979, communist Vietnam invaded Democratic Kampuchea and toppled the Khmer Rouge regime.
Cambodian journalist Dith Pran coined the term 'killing fields' during his escape from the regime. A 1984 film, The Killing Fields, tells the story of Dith Pran, played by another Cambodian survivor Haing S. Ngor, and his journey to escape the death camps
About Choeng Ek
Choeung Ek, the site of a former orchard and Chinese graveyard about 17 km south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is the best-known of the sites known as The Killing Fields, where the Khmer Rouge regime executed about 17,000 people between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing 8,895 bodies were discovered at Choeung Ek after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. Many of the dead were former political prisoners who were kept by the Khmer Rouge in their Tuol Sleng detention center.
Today, Choeung Ek is a memorial, marked by a Buddhist stupa. The stupa has acrylic glass sides and is filled with more than 5,000 human skulls. Some of the lower levels are opened during the day so that the skulls can be seen directly. Many have been shattered or smashed in.
Walk bout at Barr Lake with just a slip of a view of the walk path that goes out to the gazebo to get a closer look at the eagle nest.
Tree-mendous Tuesday
Georgia O'Keeffe Style.
Snapped this in the NE Heights of the city one afternoon when we went for lunch.
The National Tree of the Philippines.
Illustration produced for Endangered Species International for use on interpretive signs in the Mount Matutum protected landscape in the Philippines.
These trees in a Cambridge park had turned white due to being covered in silky cobwebs produced by millions of caterpillars. Larvae of the Bird-cherry Ermine moth was the cause of this eerie sight!
Gnarly is a 70's surfer term meaning a wave that's big but without good form for riding. Then it came to mean beyond radical, beyond definition, among the young surfers.
It originally meant old, knotted and twisted. So this gnarly is a good mix, it's old and twisted and beyond radical. The form is atrocious!
It's gnarlier on black!
Dropping down the hill to Lanner Barton and feeling colder than the socks on an Eskimo's washing line.
I should've used the compact camera with its variable and more encompassing focusing, but went for the 450D and focused on the tree on the right to make sure something was in focus.
The 450d only has nine focus points and stray away from them and it seems you get punished with photo duffery. Operator failure is also a factor mind you.
But my next DSLR, when the time comes eventually, will have more focus points and also a flippy flappy rear screen.
A truly massive tree :-)
Queens Park in Maryborough. We spent some time in this lovely park on the way back from Hervey Bay.
The magnificent Banyan Fig specimen (Ficus Benghalensus) is thought to have been planted as early as the 1870s and is one of the largest in Australia.
maryboroughopenhouse.com.au
Old trees can be fun to photograph, this is no exception. Monte Bello hiking trail, near Palo Alto, CA, Oct. '09.
Our second night in the country (as Mongolian people call all it's outside Ulaan Baator). We camped in this "nowhere" close to this tree.
Played around with the macro and the christmas tree. Feel free to use under the Creative Commons license on the pictures.
Crochet Christmas tree skirt using this pattern from Red Heart. m.favecrafts.com/Crochet-for-Christmas/Granny-Tree-Skirt-...