International Vulture Awareness Day
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery” (Anaïs Nin)
A bull elephant stands under the shade of a tree in the midday heat of 34C during Winter at Etosha national park, Namibia...the only movement was its ears flapping to keep cool and this very slight turn of its head acknowledging that it was aware of our presence...
For this weeks theme "blue for you me - 2023".
Our health is the most precious thing we have, we cannot take it for granted.
Breast cancer death rates declined 40% from 1989
to 2019 among women. The progress is attributed
to improvements in early detection.
This picture is dedicated to all women in Flickr please auto explore and you can save your life!
I tried to approach stealthily, but even though I had some foliage between us, this song sparrow knew I was there. I find that there follows a short time that, unless I move on, the bird will. This was during that window.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, please help spread awareness, prevention is always the best thing !
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Very very happy day and THANKS my friends.
(feeling a bit better......)
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The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (Resolution 54/134).[1] The premise of the day is to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence; furthermore, one of the aims of the day is to highlight that the scale and true nature of the issue is often hidden.
Situational awareness (or lack of it, in fact) in Rome.
For an account of a few interesting days in Rome:
Over the next few days I intend to post a sort of mini-exhibition of some of the faces of Nepal that I encountered two years ago when I was there. I hope to raise awareness of the current situation there in the wake of the earthquake, to honor these beautiful people, and hopefully encourage support for the relief efforts that will be going on for a long time. I am still waiting to hear news of a dear friend and his family whose house is near the epicenter...
Here are two ways that you can pitch in:
Background:
"Forget ME not" was created to raise awareness about M.E (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) - an extremely debilitating, life changing, complex chronic disease that has received shamefully low attention and fundings for research for decades. Patients are being disbelieved, misunderstood and dismissed. There is no treatment and no cure.
Over 20 million people across the globe are affected and in the aftermaths of COVID this number is quickly rising (many Long Covid patients end up being diagnosed with M.E).
During our events in May we will create awareness, break the stigma and fundraise for the "Open Medicine Foundation" who conduct research into M.E, Long Covid, Fibromyalgia and related chronic conditions. They are a registered, US based non-profit organization that has been around for over 10 years.
You can also support by wearing this blue ribbon exclusively made by Enewa, when you click the information box at the Forget ME Not sim.
Get it here in-world: Forget ME Not events place and exhibit 💙
To know more about the event and how you can raise awareness and support the cause to research and find cure for ME/CFS, link here: Facebook: forgetMEnotSL 💙Flickr group: forget ME not SL
💙 Website and donation page: Forget ME Not SL site
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This is for all cancer fighters, survivors, and their caregivers. You are all beautifully strong. You have my utmost love and respect. If you are in the middle of it; please hold on, and keep fighting it, one moment at a time. Love you all. ♥
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Kaleidoscope- Monarch Education Project
I know the school of thought that you should ask a human subject for permission to take their picture, which I agree is nice for some situations, but it doesn't allow you to capture the unselfconscious ballet of human behavior. (Here, admittedly, self-consciousness is on display, but that's the charming point.) We in fact did interact before and after I shot this, and they were aware that I was there shooting them shooting each other.
I...am everyday people: flic.kr/s/aHsmW43zQm
Smile on Saturday - Made by Me
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A Statement Against Pollution
This was a sculpture I did for an exhibition done in collaboration with the Moving Ethos Modern Dancer Company called Purity & Pollution. It was floating in the pool during the exhibition. It is entirely made out of garbage (rubbish) and is mostly made of plastics, although glass and cans (tins) are included and the surfboard of course. I am trying to encourage people to throw their garbage (rubbish) in the appropriate places, not just throw it anywhere thereby destroying, land, birds, animals, the ocean, and other waterways.
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Be aware! Amazing creatures are coming to harass your life :)
Zenit + Kodak Ultramax (I don't remember the ISO) :P
(One picture in the comments too)
Maybe not everybody's cup of tea. But I was excited after I got home and found this image of the stag beetle on my SD-card. The largest insect of the Netherlands is not common. In fact I only found them a couple of times. This male with it's huge antler-like jaws looked tired after mating season was finished.
I hoped for a close up with shallow depth of field of the impressive jaws, and this is what I got.
Enjoy!
(do yourself a favour and click L for a full-screen)
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E' una parola giapponese intraducibile in italiano.
E' la sensazione struggente che si prova quando si sta vivendo un momento di grande bellezza, che si sa effimero e destinato ad esaurirsi velocemente.
Wisely, Step 10 does not emphasize a moral inventory, which becomes too self-absorbed and self-critical, but speaks instead of a “personal inventory.” In other words, just watch yourself objectively, calmly, and compassionately. You will be able to do this from your new viewing platform and perspective as a grounded child of God. “The Spirit will help us in our weakness” (Romans 8:26). From this most positive and dignified position, we can let go of, and even easily admit, our wrongs. We are being held so strongly and so deeply that we can stop holding onto, or defending, ourselves. God forever sees and loves Christ in us; it is only we who doubt our divine identity as children of God.
We now have an implanted position and power whereby we can see ourselves calmly and compassionately, without endless digging, labeling, judging, or the rancor that we usually have toward our own imperfection. Don’t judge, just look can be our motto— and now, with the very eyes of God. That will awaken consciousness, and then things will usually take care of themselves, with even the least bit of honesty and courage. A wonderful Indian Jesuit, Anthony de Mello (1931–1987), used to say, “Awareness, awareness, awareness!”…
… To be fully conscious would be to love everything, on some level and in some way—even our mistakes. To love is to fall into full consciousness, which is contemplative, non-dualistic, and includes everything—even “the last enemy to be destroyed, which is death itself” (1 Corinthians 15:26). That is why we must, absolutely must, love!
-BREATHING UNDER WATER SPIRITUALITY AND THE TWELVE STEPS, RICHARD ROHR
The first Saturday in September each year is International Vulture Awareness Day.
Vultures are an ecologically vital group of birds that face a range of threats in many areas that they occur. Populations of many species are under pressure and some species are facing extinction.
The International Vulture Awareness Day has grown from Vulture Awareness Days run by the Birds of Prey Programme of the Endangered Wildlife Trust in South Africa and the Hawk Conservancy Trust in England, who decided to work together and expand the initiative into an international event.
It is now recognised that a co-ordinated international day will publicise the conservation of vultures to a wider audience and highlight the important work being carried out by the world’s vulture conservationists.
Many species of vultures are considered endangered. Of the 23 species, 16 of them are considered endangered, vulnerable, or threatened. In some parts of the world, the number of vultures has declined by 90 percent. Conservation groups, especially in Asia and Africa, actively educate and advocate to protect the vulture.
This beautiful Lappet-faced Vulture or Nubian vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) was captured busy polishing off a wildebeest carcass during a photography safari on an early morning game drive in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
I have been debating recently whether to post about this. Its a bit of a tussle between me being reluctant to go into my health publicy vs a strong desire to raise awareness to my like minded friends about something a bit nasty that I think landscape photographers, hikers, campers (really anyone that loves the outdoors) should be really careful of.
My health was great until the summer of 2019 when I was suddenly knocked off balance by a range of weird symptoms. I was put on beta blockers for a racing heart. My speech went all weird. I was pretty scared. Finally this summer I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease (aka the Great Imitator) as it copies other illnesses and can be misdiagnosed. I had to be tested to rule out MS etc... Even after the correct antibiotics I am left with speech fatigue (I just sound a bit drunk all the time), brain fog and constant nerve tingling. This is the reason why I had to take redundancy from my job.
However I am lucky. I have a reasonable quality of life. For a start I still have enough energy to get up for sunrises. Some sufferers are in a lot of pain, fatigued and bedridden. I know of someone who partly lost his eyesight.
I may have to seek private treatment in the New Year from a Lyme specialist clinic despite having no job. This is the reality for a lot of LD sufferers.
Because ordinary mosquitoes love me (I'm always getting bitten) I don't remember my tick bite and this proved costly and made diagnosis harder, I spent months blaming the meno.
Please look out for ticks all year round. If you do get a bulls eye rash go to the doctor without delay and get antibiotics. Don't wear shorts on summer shoots. Carry a tick removal kit.
There is loads of information on the Lyme Disease UK website and their support group has been invaluable to me.
Thank you to my friends on here for being supportive. Sorry for the long post x
The world drifts, aware of its own daze, caught in a massive maneuver toward shipwreck. Old values fade as new ones rise, spitting shrill blasts like the trumpets of Jericho. An abandoned shell, an urban skeleton, the last breath of solitude. The death of the new through the old, and of the old through the new. Birth and collapse. A whole that amounts to nothing.
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El mundo va a la deriva y se sabe aturdido, inmerso en una masiva maniobra de naufragio. Los viejos valores se difuminan y se erigen otros nuevos que escupen estridencias como trompetas de Jericó. Cascarón abandonado, esqueleto urbano, último aliento de soledad. Es la muerte de lo nuevo a través de lo viejo y viceversa. Un nacimiento y un colapso. Un todo que es la nada.