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I'm more than pleased to say that I've just passed the 4 million views mark. And, it's all thanks to you !!! My friends, my contacts and my fellow Flickrite photographers.
To say that I'm humbled - is an understatement.
Thank you all again -- four million times.
My cousin Ellen (ellenmckennadesign.com) designed cousin Barb's house. Every window was placed specifically for the views. Awesome, Awesome!!!!!
Thank you all!
3,000,000 views basically since November 2012 - where I started using my Flickr account for good...
View from Parliament Hill in North London. The sight line to St Paul's Cathedral are a protected view.
Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Golygfeydd o Ddolgellau
Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002)
Dyddiad/Date: September 1, 1971
Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd ffilm / Film negative
Cyfeiriad/Reference: (gcc41469)
Rhif cofnod / Record no.: 006200091
Rhagor o wybodaeth am gasgliad Geoff Charles yn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
More information about the Geoff Charles Collection at the National Library of Wales
Mae ffotograffau Geoff Charles hefyd yn rhan o Broject Europeana Libraries
Geoff Charles' photographs also form part of the Europeana Libraries Project
Panorama taken with four iPhone camera shots (though Exif data won't display as it's been combined using the AutoStitch App). The view features St Paul's Cathedral, just right of centre, Blackfriars Bridge to the left, the Millennium Bridge which leads pedestrians from the Tate gallery across the Thames to St Paul's, and Southwark Bridge just in view on the right.
The high rise offices of the Square Mile, which is the City of London, seem to increase in number every time I take a photo of this view! I counted the number of cranes just in this shot, and there were 27, which testifies to the amount of construction going on.
Fly view background graphic available for download at http://dryicons.com/free-graphics/preview/fly-view-background/ in EPS (vector) format.
View similar vector graphics at DryIcons Graphics.
Lake View Terrace is a middle-class suburban district of Los Angeles near the large Hansen Dam. Near the Verdugo Mountains the area is nearly rural, with farms and a large equestrian community. The area is said to be named for a now-dry Holiday Lake, which was a popular vacation area in the 1950s. Lake View Terrace however is most notoriously known as the site of the Rodney King beating that would lead to the massive 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s was wealthy and prosperous, having received international acclaim for its recent successful 1984 Summer Olympics and with massive foreign investment coming in from Asia, most notably Japan. The city however was also fraught with tension. By the early 1990s, widespread unemployment, poverty and the rise of crack cocaine led to the rise of powerful street gangs in the city, especially in South Central Los Angeles. This was faced with the Los Angeles Police Department, a tough, widely-respected force led by Police Chief Daryl Gates, credited with developing SWAT. However the LAPD was also frequently accused of using excessive force and extremely heavy-handed tactics, including arresting some 25000 people under Operation Hammer, mostly without charge.
After the Korean Conflict, a large influx of Koreans moved to the Los Angeles area, where many of them opened small shops, often in poor areas dominated by African-Americans. Tensions quickly arose, as African-Americans resented the Korean-Americans, who they saw as taking money and getting rich off of their community ( Black Korea was an infamous song later accused of inciting violence).
Into this came Rodney King, a taxi driver previously convicted of armed robbery and having served a year in prison. Released on probation, on the morning of March 3, 1991, King was driving home with two friends after a night of drinking. Police officers noticed King speeding and pursued, the pursuit later reaching speeds of 185km/hr as King later confessed that he attempted to outrun the police to avoid a DUI charge that would violate his parole. After a massive chase involving several patrol cars and a helicopter, King was cornered near this intersection (directly behind me).
The King's friends were arrested (and they claimed attacked), while Rodney King remained in his car. He was then ordered out. At this point the LAPD took control of the situation, led by Sgt Stacey Koon, as well as officers Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno, and Rolando Solano. The five LAPD officers swarmed and grabbed King, who resisted. He was then tasered twice, falling on the ground.
At this point, George Holliday began videotaping the incident from his apartment overlooking the site of the arrest. King got up and collided with Officer Powell, whether to attack or escape remains unclear. Holliday pulled out a baton and began beating Rodney King with it, knocking him to the ground. When King rose again, Sgt Koon ordered his officers to use "power strokes", repeatedly beating and then kicking the prone figure. King was then arrested and sent to the hospital. Rodney King was struck a total of 33 times, and kicked six, suffering fractured facial bones, a broken right ankle, and multiple bruises and lacerations.
George Holliday sent the 12-minute video to a local news channel, and it soon became widely viewed across the United States, infuriating the public, especially in the Los Angeles area where many had complained about excessive police brutality for years. Officers Koon, Powell, Briseno and Wind were charged with use of excessive force. Judge Stanley Weisberg was assigned after a previous judge was removed and controversially he decided to move the venue from Los Angeles County to the neighboring and far more conservative (and white) Ventura County. On April 29, 1992, to the shock and fury of many, the jury acquitted three of the four officers of excessive force and hung on the fourth.
There remain divided opinions about the decision. Some have claimed that the acquittals were based on the blurry initial three seconds of the video that show King running into Powell before the beating. Others claimed that the defense simply desensitized the jurors by repeatedly playing the video until it had lost its emotional impact. Many however darkly claimed that the jury, made up of 9 Caucasians, 1 biracial, 1 Latino, and 1 Asian (and no African-Americans), simply would not choose to convict white officers over an African-American.
Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley held a press conference immediately after the verdict, stating:
"Today, the jury told the world that what we all saw with our own eyes was not a crime. My friends, I am here to tell the jury...what we saw was a crime. No, we will not tolerate the savage beating of our citizens by a few renegade cops.
...We must not endanger the reforms we have achieved by resorting to mindless acts. We must not push back progress by striking back blindly."
The spark was lit. In South Central, police arrested a suspect throwing rocks at a patrol car, only to retreat when a large, angry crowd gathered. The police were ordered out of the area, and the crowd began looting neighboring shops and attacking vehicles, pulling out people and beating them. Larry Tarvin was knocked unconscious before being helped by an unknown Samaritan to drive to safety. Soon after Reginald Denny, a white truck driver who had unknowingly driven into the area, was pulled from his truck and severely beaten by a mostly black crowd, which was broadcast live on television. Seeing the report led a local black Samaritan Bobby Green Jr. to run to the scene and drive Denny to safety. About an hour later Fidel Lopez, an immigrant, was attacked and tortured before the crowd was stopped by Rev. Bennie Newton, who told the rioters: "Kill him, and you have to kill me too."
Meanwhile Police Chief Gates, who had been called to resign but refused after the Rodney King verdict, went to a political fundraiser. In downtown Los Angeles a crowd attacked police officers and overturned cars and fired at firefighters trying to put out a blaze. Another crowd assembled here at the site of the beating, and rock throwing and firing occurred until the crowd was dispersed by riot tactics.
The next day the Los Angeles riots were all over the news, and horrified viewers watched as it appeared as if a major US city was tottering on the brink of chaos. Mayor Bradley signed a dusk to dawn curfew over the major areas of unrest, and California National Guard units began to move out.
At this point a second racial component arose, the poor relationships between the African-American and Korean-American communities reaching a boiling point. Thirteen days after the Rodney King beating, Latasha Harlins was killed following a dispute over a bottle of orange juice at a convenience store when Soon Ja Du, thinking that the teenager had stolen the drink, shot her in the head. Du was convicted of voluntary manslaughter but only fined $500 and sentenced to five years of probation and 400 hours of community service, infuriating the African-American community. Now many in the angry crowds of looters began to specifically target Korean stores. Many of them veterans of the Korean Conflict and feeling abandoned by the LAPD which seemed to give more priority to protecting the rich areas like Beverly Hills, the Korean-American community converged on Koreatown and their stores, armed with weapons. Several public gun battles raged out between Korean shopkeepers and potential looters.
Finally, the police response began to organize as reinforcements converged on the city. Pres George Bush spoke out stating that "anarchy" would not be tolerated, while the Justice Department began federal investigation of the Rodney King beating as a civil rights violation. The next day, Rodney King himself had an impromptu conference asking "People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?" Pres Bush invoked the Insurrection Act via Executive Order 12804, federalizing the California National Guard. By the end of day 4, some 13500 troops were in Los Angeles, and the riots began to die down. Some 30000 people marched through Koreatown, supporting merchants and racial healing.
The 1992 Los Angeles Riots finally ended on May 4, 1992. 63 people had been killed and over 2000 injured. 12000 were arrested. Over 3700 buildings had been destroyed, 2300 from Korean shops, causing over $1 billion in damages.
The LAPD was widely criticized from all quarters. It had exhibited police brutality in the Rodney King Beating, but had all but disappeared from much of the city during the actual riot. At best, it showed itself incompetent and unable to control the situation. At worse, many felt, it had acted out of spite to "punish" the city for its critiques. Having already resigned, Daryl Gates stepped down immediately in the aftermath of the riots. On April 17, 1993 two officers of the LAPD, Laurence Powell and Stacey Koon—were found guilty of Civil Rights violations, while officers Theodore Briseno and Timothy Wind were acquitted. While the city waited with bated breath over the results the decision passed peacefully. All four officers involved in the Rodney King beating have since left the LAPD.
Rodney King was never charged for the DUI that started the entire incident. He was awarded $3.8 million in damages from the City of Los Angeles, which he used to start a hip-hop label "Straight Alta-Pazz Records", that soon folded. King had several more-run ins with the law, though he generally tried to remain out of the spotlight. In 2012 Rodney King was found dead of an accidental drowning in the family pool, likely related to alcohol.
The Rodney King Beating and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots were major incidents in the history of Los Angeles, and gave the city a negative reputation that persists to this day, even as crime has dropped and demographics have changed. The controversies related to police brutality and law-and-order and policing policies also remain national issues.
Lakeview Terrace, Los Angeles, California
Bamboo Pinhole Camera- Le Bambole Mk. III - "the Bamboocha”
4x5 large-format, 47mm focal length.
Pinhole aperture approx. f/150, 0.3 mm diameter.
The front view here.
We stayed at a working farm in Iceland that also was an inn. Terrific food and a wonderful place to watch the sunrise. This is the view that we had eating breakfast.
The ABN AMRO tower in Zwolle is, with its 96 meters of height, the largest tower of the city. The unofficial name of the tower is "De IJsseltoren" ("The IJssel Tower", named after the IJssel river).
The tower offers a very unique view over the city. Unfortunately, it's closed for public.
But lucky me, someone could sneak me into the building. The office lights were very bright, so the reflections were too heavy to take real good long exposure shots. So I decided to take some short exposure handheld pics with ISO 1000 (sorry for the noise).
On the left you see my dear host Elias reflected in the window, taking a cup of coffee; in the background you see the city of Zwolle.
View from the top of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Construction for the "New" bridge piers can be seen.
Another poor photo session!
Snow, into the sun and, for the most part, distant so that many shots are cropped
Yes, I reached 1,000 views today. So I made this little picture to say thanks to everybody who faved, commented, added me as a contact, and just viewed.
I hope to get better in the future and maybe win some contests along the way. (Not very likely, :P)
Note: (That is a brown PPSh with stick mag and everything painted black except the stock. It is Toywiz JD's mod, I just made my own. And yes, I realize you can hardly see it)
I added people that I just remembered as either helping/inspiring me, or commenting.
Anyways, thanks again!
-Magus