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Les beaux jours sont là, s'il vous plait, le soir, la nuit, levé le pied !
Encore hier, deux petits à deux mètres d'intervalles écrasés sur le bas côtés ! Les hérissons sont en voie d'extinction. Selon certaines études, le hérisson pourrait disparaître d'ici deux ans ! Un geste citoyen de chacun de descendre sa vitesse pourrait en sauver quelques uns.
S'il vous plait partager, faites tourner cette photo afin d'essayer de donner une prise de conscience aux gens. Merci.
The sunny days are here, please, in the evening, at night, up!
Just yesterday, two little ones at two meters intervals crushed on the bottom sides! Hedgehogs are on the verge of extinction. According to some studies, the hedgehog could disappear within two years! A citizen’s gesture of lowering his speed could save a few.
Please share, rotate this photo to try to make people aware. Thank you.
Place The Netherlands
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Created for ''6th Annual Hypothetical Interiors'' challenge -The Hypothetical Awars groups activities.
www.flickr.com/groups/1179479@N25/discuss/72157656010828209/
The Maxcon building site close to my office as seen from further awar against a cloudy grey sky. It is growing taller by the day as that red concrete crane pumps out more floors.
En el período clásico de la historia del Japón, se acuño el término Aware, que significa sensibilidad, sensibilidad ante la transitoriedad de las cosas. El cerezo blanco que florece y declina, las nubes que forman tenues trazos en el cielo y se van, los cantos rodados que el mar envuelve y se lleva, las hojas marrones que en otoño se aferran a los árboles para desaparecer inevitablemente, en fin, la vida misma, breve e inasible, que reverbera sólo fugazmente para eclipsarse en la muerte.
Pero en su esencia Aware es nostalgia, la etérea y tibia tristeza por lo que se despliega, flota por un momento y huye para siempre del Ser.
"Wir waren jene, die wussten, aber nicht verstanden,
voller Informationen, aber ohne Erkenntnis,
randvoll mit Wissen, aber mager an Erfahrung.
So gingen wir, von uns selbst nicht aufgehalten."
"We were those, who knew without understanding,
filled with informations but without awarness,
full to the brim with knowledge but so little experience.
So we were going on and could not stop ourselves."
- in Erinnerung an Roger Willemsen, aus seiner Zukunftsrede 2015 -
- in memory of Roger Willemsen, a quote of his Speech of the Future in 2015 -
This picture was taken by Kasey Macbeth. Sim is Lighting The Way - Autism Awareness 2016 that I designed. Great charity...and wonderful place to talk some pictures. Sim is now open until April 17th. Come check it out! maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SkyBeam%20Hideaway/112/230/17
Of course, I am aware that the artistic value of this photo is rather low, because at this point in time it was already dusk and therefore there was very little light available.
Nevertheless, the photo has great meaning for me because it symbolizes my first hike in a forest near the town of Sebnitz in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains. A place that will be my home in about three months (which probably won't interest many of you, but I still want to put it into words).
And just as confusing and uncertain as the foreground seen here is my future, into which I took the first step today by signing a rental agreement.
Many areas are still hidden in the dark, but I am very confident that these will brighten up in due course.
Natürlich ist mir bewusst, dass der künstlerische Wert dieses Foto eher gering gehalten ist, denn zu diesem Zeitpunkt war die Abenddämmerung schon angebrochen und demzufolge zu nur sehr wenig Licht verfügbar.
Trotzdem hat das Foto für mich eine hohe Bedeutung, denn es steht symbolisch für meine erste Wanderung in einem Wald nahe der Stadt Sebnitz im Elbsandsteingebirge. Eine Ort, der in ungefähr drei Monaten mein Wohnort sein wird (was wahrscheinlich nicht so viele von Euch interessieren wird, was ich jedoch trotzdem in Worte fassen möchte).
Und genau so unübersichtlich und ungewiss wie der hier zu sehende Vordergrund, ist auch meine Zukunft in die ich heute, mit Unterzeichnung eines Mietvertrages, den ersten Schritt gegangen bin.
Noch sind viele Bereiche im Dunkeln verborgen, doch ich bin sehr zuversichtlich, dass sich diese zum gegebenen Zeitpunkt aufhellen werden.
more of this on my website at: www.shoot-to-catch.de
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Vous lire est un plaisir.Merci de votre visite,vos commentaires,vos invitations et favoris.
To read your comments is a pleasure. Faves, comments, invites are welcome, great thanks :-)
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Please also REFRAIN FROM POSTING YOUR OWN IMAGES within my photostream, thanks.
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FR : Le ciel, entre terre et mer
Cette photographie a été prise depuis le sommet de la Dune du Pilat (Gironde), en regardant vers l'ouest en direction de l'océan Atlantique. Située entre la forêt des Landes et le bassin d'Arcachon, la Dune du Pilat est la plus haute dune d'Europe..... Pas facile de monter au sommet la nuit avec tout le matériel photographique..... Mais l’effort en valait la peine !
Sur une bonne partie du ciel sont visibles des "nuages oranges"... ? C'est ce qu'on appelle le "airglow", un phénomène naturel causé par une réaction chimique dans la haute atmosphère, où les rayons du soleil excitent les molécules, qui émettent alors une très faible lumière (chimiluminescence) de couleur verte ou orange. Ce phénomène ne peut être observé que sous un ciel pur, exempt de pollution lumineuse, ce qui est le cas ici vers l'ouest, en direction de l'océan. D'ailleurs, il n'est pas ou peu visible sur la gauche de l'image, à cause de la pollution lumineuse de Biscarosse.
Au-delà du Airglow et de la Voie lactée, on peut voir Jupiter (tout à gauche), et à sa droite Saturne, Altaïr et Véga. Un bel alignement d'autant plus que Jupiter, la plus grande planète du système solaire, était très brillante (un mois après son opposition).
Sur le côté gauche de l'image, vous pouvez voir une partie de la forêt des Landes de Gascogne. Cette forêt a été tristement rendue célèbre, cet été, à cause d'un terrible incendie qui a ravagé plus de 20 000 hectares de nature... On prend encore plus conscience de la fragilité de notre petite planète face à l'immensité de l'univers.
: Panorama de 14 photos prises avec un Canon 6d Astrodon (modifié pour l'astrophotographie), et le Sigma 28mm f/1.4. Temps de pose total 7minutes. 13 novembre 2022.
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Merci d'avance
En : The sky, between land and sea
This photograph was taken from the top of the Dune du Pilat (Gironde), looking west towards the Atlantic Ocean. Located between the Landes forest and the Arcachon basin, the Dune du Pilat is the highest dune in Europe..... Not easy to climb to the top at night with all the photographic equipment..... But the effort was worth it!
On a good part of the sky are visible "orange clouds"... ? This is called "airglow", a natural phenomenon caused by a chemical reaction in the upper atmosphere, where the sun's rays excite the molecules, which then emit a very weak light (chemiluminescence) of green or orange colour. This phenomenon can only be observed under a clear sky, free of light pollution, which is the case here towards the west, towards the ocean. Moreover, it is not or hardly visible on the left of the image, because of the light pollution of Biscarosse.
Beyond the Airglow and the Milky Way, we can see Jupiter (far left), and to its right Saturn, Altair and Vega. A nice alignment, especially since Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was very bright (one month after its opposition).
On the left side of the image, you can see a part of the Landes de Gascogne forest. This forest was made infamous this summer because of a terrible fire that destroyed more than 20,000 hectares of nature... We become even more aware of the fragility of our small planet in the face of the immensity of the universe.
: Panorama of 14 photos taken with a Canon 6d Astrodon (modified for astrophotography), and the Sigma 28mm f/1.4. Total exposure time 7minutes. November 13, 2022.
Thanks in advance
Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz (Doosra Dashak's Adolescent Girls literacy camp, Rajasthan)
"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India and other Asian countries. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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April in Skinnskatteberg 2011
Thank you my wonderful friends for your visit in my photoalbum and thanks for comments and favs.
"Save the girl child campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC"
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict ( Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ). Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ). We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism".The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. The Census Report of 2001 reveals a highly skewed child sex ratio (0-6 year-olds), that fell from 945 females per 1,000 males in 1991 to an all-time low of 927 in 2001. The ratio even dropped further to 800:1,000 in some specific parts of the country. Additional data from the India’s birth and death registration service indicates that the figures have further fallen to fewer than 900 females per 1,000 men over the last few years.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008.
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Dowry and Violence Against Women!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance, Education and Empowerment!!!!
I am very thankful for every one who leaves some words about my images. Really. But please: Don't leave any Banners & Group Awars without any words of your own. At least try. Thank you.
In Leiden heb je talloze mooie grachten. ‘De Grachtwacht’ werkt aan het plasticvrij maken en maakt de mensen bewust van de stadsnatuur in en rondom de grachten. Met hun kanovloot organiseren zij wekelijkse clean-ups en wordt wetenschappelijk onderzoek gedaan naar plasticvervuiling. Meer dan 1000 vrijwilligers doen mee aan de wekelijkse clean-up. In het brugwachtershuisje op de Marebrug worden de spannendste vondsten geëxposeerd.
Leiden has many beautiful canals. ‘De Grachtwacht’ is working on making them plastic-free and making people aware of the urban nature in and around the canals. With their canoe fleet, they organize weekly clean-ups and scientific research is done on plastic pollution. More than 1000 volunteers participate in the weekly clean-up. The most exciting finds are exhibited in the bridge keeper's house on the Marebrug.
Kleurrijk Leiden in een lijstje #19
Colorful Leiden in a frame #19
We are most grateful to Richard ( www.flickr.com/people/68137880@N00/ ) for his warm testimonial.
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Ladli — which in Indian languages (Hindi and Urdu) means ‘beloved daughter.’
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LADLI - The loved one! campaign by SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIC
Photo: Firoz Ahmad Firoz
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"Worst of all, violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country and culture. It takes a devastating toll on women’s lives, on their families and on society as a whole. Most societies prohibit such violence -- yet the reality is that, too often, it is covered up or tacitly condoned." (UN SECRETARY-GENERAL in International Women’s Day 2007 Message.)
“Almost every country in the world still has laws that discriminate against women, and promises to remedy this have not been kept.” (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the eve of International Women's Day 2008)
According to one United Nations estimate, 113 to 200 million women are “demographically missing” from the world today. That is to say, there should be 113 to 200 million more women walking the earth, who aren’t. By that same estimate, 1.5 to 3 million women and girls lose their lives every year because of gender-based neglect or gender-based violence and Sexual Violence in Conflict.
In addition to torture, sexual violence and rape by occupation forces, a great number of women and girls are kept locked up in their homes by a very real fear of abduction and criminal abuse. In war and conflicts, girls and women have been denied their human right, including the right to health, education and employment. “Sexual violence in conflict zones is indeed a security concern. We affirm that sexual violence profoundly affects not only the health and safety of women, but the economic and social stability of their nations” –US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, 19 June 2008 (Read more about UN Action against Sexual Violence in Conflict www.stoprapenow.org/ ).
Millions of young women disappear in their native land every year. Many of them are found later being held against their will in other places and forced into prostitution. According to the UNICEF ( www.unicef.org/gender/index_factsandfigures.html ),Girls between 13 and 18 years of age constitute the largest group in the sex industry. It is estimated that around 500,000 girls below 18 are victims of trafficking each year. The victims of trafficking and female migrants are sometimes unfairly blamed for spreading HIV when the reality is that they are often the victims.
According to the UNAIDS around 17.3 million, women (almost half of the total number of HIV-positive) living with HIV ( www.unaids.org ). While HIV is often driven by poverty, it is also associated with inequality, gender-based abuses and economic transition. The relationship between abuses of women's rights and their vulnerability to AIDS is alarming. Violence and discrimination prevents women from freely accessing HIV/AIDS information, from negotiating condom use, and from resisting unprotected sex with an HIV-positive partner, yet most of the governments have failed to take any meaningful steps to prevent and punish such abuse.
United Nations agencies estimated that every year 3 million girls are at risk of undergoing the procedure – which involves the partial or total removal of external female genital organs – that some 140 million women, mostly in Asia, the Middle East and in Africa, have already endured.
We can point a finger at poverty. But poverty alone does not result in these girls and women’s deaths and suffering; the blame also falls on the social system and attitudes of the societies.
India alone accounts for more than 50 million of the women who are “missing” due to female foeticide - the sex-selective abortion of girls, dowry death, gender-based neglect and all forms of violence against women.
Since the late 1970s when the technology for sex determination first came into being, sex selective abortion has unleashed a saga of horror in India. Experts are calling it "sanitized barbarism”. The 2001 Census conducted by Government of India, showed a sharp decline in the child sex ratio in 80% districts of India. In some parts of the country, the sex ratio of girls to boys has dropped to less than 800:1,000.
It's alarming that even liberal states like those in the northeast have taken to disposing of girls. Worryingly, the trend is far stronger in urban rather than rural areas, and among literate rather than illiterate women, exploding the myth that growing affluence and spread of basic education alone will result in the erosion of gender bias. The United Nations has expressed serious concern about the situation.
Over the years, laws have been made stricter and the punishment too is more stringent now. But since many people manage to evade punishment, others too feel inclined to take the risk. Just look at the way sex-determination tests go on despite a stiff ban on them. Only if the message goes out loud and clear that nobody who dares to snuff out the life of a female foetus would escape effective legal system would the practice end. It is only by a combination of monitoring, education, socio-cultural campaigns, and effective legal implementation that the deep-seated attitudes and practices against women and girls can be eroded.
The decline in the sex ratio and the millions of Missing Women are indicators of the feudal patriarchal resurgence. Violence against women has gone public – whether it is dowry murders, the practice of female genital mutilation, honour killings, sex selective abortions or death sentences awarded to young lovers from different communities by caste councils, rapes and killings in communal and caste violence, it is only women’s and human rights groups who are protesting – the public and institutional response to these trends is very minimal.
Millions of women suffer from discrimination in the world of work. This not only violates a most basic human right, but has wider social and economic consequences. Most of the governments turn a blind eye to illegal practices and enact and enforce discriminatory laws. Corporations and private individuals engage in abusive and sexist practices without fear of legal system.
More women are working now than ever before, but they are also more likely than men to get low-productivity, low-paid and vulnerable jobs, with no social protection, basic rights nor voice at work according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) issued for International Women’s Day 2008. Are we even half way to meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals?
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Unite To End Violence Against Women!
Say No To Sex Selection and Female Foeticide!!
Say No To Female Genital Mutilation!!!
Say No To Dowry and Discrimination Against Women!!!!
Say Yes To Women’s Resistance !!!!!
Educate & Empowered Women for a Happy Future !!!!!!
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Terwijl we in de ochtend in WIllemsdorp aan het wachten waren op de vertraagde European Sleeper, was de "Flying Dutchman" één van de locomotieven die we mistten, toen die met een containertrein richting Rotterdamse haven spoorde.
Stilletjes spraken Wouter en ikzelf de hoop uit dat deze gerust nog eens mocht terugkomen die dag en zo geschiedde ook.
Het was namelijk één van de twee cargo's die wij konden fotograferen op het talud in Dordrecht-Zuid nabij de nieuwbouwwijk Wilgenwende, waar we naar toe verhuisd waren na afscheid genomen te hebben van onze medespotters in Willemsdorp.
Oh ja voor de statistici: de tweede cargo die we hier zagen tijdens ons uurtje dat we hier stonden betrok de Duisburg-shuttle van KRE, spijtig genoeg met een logoloze RailPool Vectron op kop. De fraaiere locs van KombiRail konden we dus nog niet afstrepen, maar deze leuke ELL-huur Vectron dus wel ;-)
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Those who knows us, are aware of the fact that Wouter and myself don't stay very long on the same place. So after three hours in Willemsdorp (at both sides of the bend) we decided that it was more than time to make a move.
The slope in Dordrecht Zuid was our next destination and after an half hour waiting time, we could cratch the "Flying Dutchman" of LTE of our lists of never photographed advertising locos. That went quite well also!
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Dordrecht Zuid, 05/06/2024
LTE 193 232
42753 Waalhaven Zuid - Mannheim
(Ara ararauna) B28I1732.jpg Bom Jardim - Mato Grosso - Brazil
A number of Macaws live in this private lagoon. The place serves as a dormitory where they gather at night but it also serves as a nesting place thanks to the many cavities in the dead trees.
It is thus without question an exceptional place to protect. The owners are only partially aware of this, because they allow families to come and play or picnic around this lagoon with their stereophonic devices at full volume. Strange cohabitation! Fortunately the Macaws remain at a distance because of the presence of water. Is the balance sustainable?
In any case, it is the only place of this type, there is no equivalent government project and no intention either!
Un certain nombre de perroquets vivent dans cette lagune privée. L'endroit leur sert de dortoir où ils se rassemblent le soir venu mais il leur sert aussi de lieu de nidification grâce aux nombreuses cavités présentes dans les arbres morts.
C'est donc sans conteste un endroit exceptionnel à protéger. Les propriétaires n'en sont que partiellement conscients car ils autorisent les familles à venir baguenauder ou pique niquer autour de cette lagune avec leurs appareils stéréophoniques à plein volume. Etrange cohabitation ! Heureusement les Macaws demeurent à distance à cause de la présence de l'eau. L'équilibre est-il durable ?
De toutes façons, c'est le seul lieu de ce type, il n'y a pas de projet gouvernemental équivalent et pas d'intention non plus !
Ever noticed the candles sparkle with a particular brilliant light before blowing out?
The shiny flame of Susanna Volpe, aka SusyFox, left a trail of dazzling light among all those who knew her, before blowing out prematurely.
SusyFox is now a bright star up in the skies and will remain unforgotten.
In memoriam Susanna Volpe, Italian from Torino,
✞ Oct. 27th 2021 R.I.P.
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I never came to know personally Susanna aka SusyFox, I had not this privilege, my fault, I was never a member in the groups she had founded but she was an adjoint admin of the Group "Crème de la Crème" that I have been guiding for two years until Alf.G. absurdly closed it.
When I have been requested to become an admin of that Group, I noticed in the circle of admins SusyFox's profile and that her buddy icon had an added phrase "off for health problems". She never came back "on", sadly, but tons of people on Flickr knew and loved her humanity and inventions in creating or administrating groups.
The light... Susanna had also an intense and heartfelt passion for photography and remarkable photographic skills.
A great human being devoted to the Good who has left behind a dazzling trail of light in the memory of many people, even here on Flickr.
As the most recent admin of Crème de la Crème, I felt the urge to do something in her memory, just a little nothing but, still, to do it!
I've checked if I had taken photos on the day she left but I was not shooting that day. The closest photo to that date, the 27 October, I could retrieve is this 9-candle silver candlestick, shot 4 days before, a photo I had not shared yet.
I want to dedicate this picture to Susanna, thinking at her like the brightest flame (as the candle to the far right of my photo), the shiniest one that blowed out prematurely.
Notice I've used all white tealights for this shooting but, a bit magically, in the darkness they turned out pink, in different pinkish hues, as it is well documented by this photo.
No more sufference, anguish, no more pain nor wounds now, dear Susy, only happiness where you are...
REMEMBRANCE is the tribute Group that just recently started out in her memory, for those who wish to join:
www.flickr.com/groups/remembrance-inricordodellacaraamica...
Susyfox's stream: www.flickr.com/photos/fotosusy57/
Sonderausstellung im Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte:
Hunnen, Awaren, Ungarn
Bis zum 25.Juni 2023
Großformatige Bilder im Patio ziehen den Blick über den Goldschatz zum Reiterkrieger.
www.landesmuseum-vorgeschichte.de/sonderausstellungen/rei...
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Mimi asked us to write some words about the reason why we have chosen to partecipate to the Breast Cancer Awarness Quilt 2009...
Those above are my square and my reason why...
More info about my quare and about the Quilt 2009
To see the Breast Cancer Awareness Quilt 2009 click HERE
Special Thanks to:
Mimitalks for organizing the whole Quilt thing and for the template
All patercipants for making this possible
some thoughts:
*Nearly one million UK women trapped with a dangerous abuser because of economic abuse
*Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners
*Criminalising poverty
* domestic violence
*mental health
*poverty trap
*social inequality
*war
“Not all prisons have bars. You should know that better than anyone, Princess.”
― Amanda Hocking, Torn
* digital draw maniplulated via gimp
iPhone 5s
3rd place - Trees Category iPhone Photography Awards 2014
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Sur le chemin, une petite fille propose pour un sol de se faire prendre en photo avec son alpaga. Tous deux sont joliment apprêtés et forment un charmant duo.
Je ne résiste pas et pointe mon appareil vers eux. J’en suis bien conscient, elle est là pour l’argent et ne fréquente peut-être pas l’école. Mais ai-je le droit de m’indigner et de la juger ? Que sais-je d’elle et de la misère dans laquelle elle se trouverait, elle et sa famille, sans cet apport de revenu ? A mon sens, avec notre opulence d’Européens, nous sommes mal placés pour imposer une morale.
Je lui tends cinq soles. Elle me sourit, elle est contente !
On the way, a little girl offers to have her picture taken with her alpaca for a fee. They're both beautifully dressed and make a charming duo.
I can't resist and point my camera at them. I'm well aware that she's here for the money and perhaps doesn't go to school. But do I have the right to be outraged and judge her? What do I know about her and the poverty she and her family would be in without this income? In my opinion, with our European opulence, we're in no position to impose moral standards.
I hand her five soles. She smiles at me; she's happy!
Pensée du jour :
La douleur te rend plus fort. Les larmes te rendent plus brave. Les séparations te rendent plus conscient. Remercie le passé pour un meilleur futur..
The pain makes you stronger. Tears make you braver. The separations make you more aware. Thank the past for better future
Eine Fibel (lateinisch fibula ‚Klammer‘, ‚Bolzen‘, ‚Spange‘, ‚Schnalle‘, ‚Heftnadel‘, ‚Schließe‘) ist eine metallene, dem Prinzip der Sicherheitsnadel entsprechende Gewandnadel, deren älteste nachgewiesene Formen aus der Bronzezeit stammen und die bis ins Hochmittelalter verwendet wurden.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibel_(Schließe)
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La bellezza non è qualcosa per cui si gareggia: ciascuno ha qualcosa di bello da scoprire; l'attenzione è la chiave della scoperta.
(Dacia Maraini)
La bellezza "vera" è tra la gente che s'incontra per strada, non certamente su Flickr..........
dove si commenta esclusivamente per "contatti", una "logica" che a me non piace...
"Amo la Sicilia, ma non perchè ci piove pochisssimo, per il suo mare che mi rasserena, per i suoi tramonti di luce calda, sempre una bellissima luce la sera...., una luce vera che ti avvolge, che ti abbraccia e non ti lascia mai....
Per la bellezza della sua terra,dei suoi profumi, ma molto di più ancora per la sua bella gente. "
(I misteri di Trapani)
Fino al 8 Maggio 2013 gli anni migliori di i Flickr, adesso vediamo uno "specchio" vuoto di contenuti e soprattutto di persone poco intelligenti, con scarsi interessi , mi mancano molto quelle belle persone incontrate in Sicilia,
e anche quelle che purtroppo non ci sono più...
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Uffa........... Flickr lentissimo, si blocca continuamente, non riesco ad aprire immagini.
We’re aware of the problem and are fixing it. Thanks for your patience.
Ke palle....
Felice settimana , Dan !
Aus der Ausstellung "Reiternomaden in Europa", Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale)
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"The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly awar"
Ionesco
Benabarre (Huesca). Castillo de los Condes de Ribagorza.
La fortaleza musulmana Ibn Awar fue conquistada a finales del año 1062 por el rey aragonés Ramiro I. De esa misma época data la defensa perimetral del cerro en que asienta, con cubos de muralla de base rectangular.
Entre sus tenentes figuran Ponce de Cabrera, Jaime II y el hijo de éste Pedro IV, Alfonso IV y Alfonso V.
El castillo fue reformado en el siglo XIV, y posteriormente en los siglos XVI al XVIII, levantándose nuevos lienzos de muralla, así como una serie de defensas externas con ángulos, acordes con las necesidades poliorcéticas del momento.
En el siglo XIX se construyó sobre sus restos un fuerte fusilero que jugó un importante papel en las tres Guerras carlistas.
Este castillo palacio vivió los momentos más prósperos del condado de la Ribagorza hasta que después de muchas batallas y asedios fue desmantelado por Felipe II en 1596.
La fortaleza se extendería por el borde de la plataforma caliza sobre el que se levanta, ocupando una superficie de unos 2.100 metros cuadrados.
Se conservan restos de lienzos y zonas de la roca vaciadas para asentar los muros. A finales de los años 80 del pasado siglo XX aún podían verse restos de una torre de unos 9 metros de lado.
Fuente: www.monumentalnet.org
- im Benediktinerstift Admont kann man die größte Klosterbliothek der Welt bestaunen -
- the hugest monastery library of the world in the Benedictine Abbey Admont -
"Wir waren jene, die wussten, aber nicht verstanden,
voller Informationen, aber ohne Erkenntnis,
randvoll mit Wissen, aber mager an Erfahrung.
So gingen wir, von uns selbst nicht aufgehalten."
"We were those, who knew without understanding,
filled with informations but without awarness,
full to the brim with knowledge but so little experience.
So we were going on and could not stop ourselves."
- Roger Willemsen, Zukunftsrede/speech of the future 2015 -