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I was looking through some of my many older photos recently and came across this taken in my garden .
Flood tide on the beach at Binalong Bay.
From the film archive C. 1994.
Nikon F3HP, Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.5 AiS, Kodak TRI X 400
Took this shot a couple of winters ago. Finally got around to posting it 😊 another old abandoned Alberta home.
The main staircase of the Old National Archives building is quite dramatic, and it made a good subject for this kind of saturated post-processing. Kind of spooky, isn't it?
Dipping into my photo archives in past weeks I found this shot in the Pornic file. Until I became used to it, the naming of places after important dates did seem a particularly French custom. This date resonates with me and brings to mind the concluding pages of my father's diaries.
In the early hours of 8th May 1945, my father was in a column of prisoners being marched away from the PoW camps. They had reached the German-Czech border, after a 'stopover' in a tin mine at Zinnwald. My dad saw the guards shine their torches down and feared they would have no option but to sleep on the wet ground. He suggested to his pals that they leave the column.... Which they did. Unnoticed.
There followed a time of living on their wits for food and shelter, plus a few adventures, until they met three American ex-PoWs, who had found a 15 cwt truck. My dad and his mates hitched a lift to Pilsen where they were officially registered as recovered allied PoWs by the Third US Army.
There followed a flight to Reims in France and thence onward to England where my dad finally arrived home to his wife at 4.30 p.m. in the little village of Claydon, Suffolk on 25th May 1945.
I was born the following year - nearly a Christmas baby. A new little family; a different life.
As my Flickr friends who have read the story know, the help of a fellow member of a local U3A Photography Group has been invaluable to me in publishing, in paperback and kindle format, my father's diary account of his WW2 service, captured at Tobruk, subsequently as a PoW in N. Africa, Italy and Germany:
www.amazon.co.uk/Till-We-Meet-Again-Gunner/dp/154404870X
My royalties are donated to the Red Cross, without whose food parcels sent to the PoW camps, my father felt that 'a lot of us wouldn't have come back'.
Sunset from Glacier Point 10.24.09 | View Large
Hello flickr, how have you been?
Thank you all for the well-wishes and emails during my absence. I'm fine, I've just been lazy. I needed to check out for a while, and I did just that. It's likely I won't be around as much in the near future: its winter and I seem to lose a lot of motivation. I have a hard time finding the beauty in things when I can't feel my toes and its dark @ 4:30pm. I'm still trying to shoot and I've got lots of archive stuff (see above) so I don't think I'll be going dormant. A photo a day seems like a bit of a stretch though.
Photographically speaking, 2009 was a pretty amazing year for me. Much of my success is due to the amazing network of contacts and friends I've developed here. Your commentary and criticism is fantastic, your work is inspiring. All of you drive me is some way to become a better storyteller through photos. You all rock, I really can't thank you enough.
So, Happy (much belated) New Year. I wish you the very best in 2010, I cant wait to see what you have to show in the coming year!
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Two years ago, Pumpkin and her Boys ;)
Obviously, the mud cobra field does
not look like this at the present time.
It's under a meter of, swamp water!
Now think of it like this - In a couple
of months it will be back to looking
like this and I too will be back here.
See just how quick that 1/2 full glass
turned into a full glass of cool water.
Easy Peezy, Thanks for stopping by ;)
Jon&Crew ;)
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The covid-19 pandemic could set back gains in gender equality, according to a report by UN Women. With more people around the world staying at home due to lockdowns and other restrictions, the need for household chores has increased, says the report. But analysis of data from 38 countries suggests that, while all people have increased their unpaid workloads, “women are still doing the lion’s share”. The report also found that women are taking on a greater intensity of care-related tasks compared to men. “Everything we worked for, that has taken 25 years, could be lost in a year,” UN Women deputy executive director Anita Bhatia.
La pandémie de covid-19 pourrait faire reculer les progrès en matière d'égalité des sexes , selon un rapport d'ONU Femmes. Avec plus de personnes dans le monde restant à la maison en raison de verrouillages et d'autres restrictions, le besoin de tâches ménagères a augmenté, indique le rapport. Mais l'analyse des données de 38 pays suggère que, bien que tous les gens aient augmenté leur charge de travail non rémunérée, «les femmes font toujours la part du lion». Le rapport a également révélé que les femmes assument une plus grande intensité de tâches liées aux soins que les hommes. «Tout ce pour quoi nous avons travaillé, qui a pris 25 ans, pourrait être perdu en un an», a déclaré la directrice exécutive adjointe d'ONU Femmes Anita Bhatia.
The Bauhaus Archive / Museum of Design in Berlin. I shot this photo a really hot summer day. I was in town only for the day and lucky because ske sky was blue with some soft white clouds - perfect for a B&W photo.