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A lady shopper receives her change in the Sunday market in Paramaribo, Suriname / South America, Sunday, 3rd of November 2013.
Ertugrul Kilic - Copyright © 2013 - All rights are reserved.
A little girl changing diaper in the MTR station, and I was spotted by her ; )
Nikkor 80-200 at f2.8
Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
De wondere wereld van klimaat verandering. Bekeken door een infra rood voorzet filter.
De weilanden beginnen blank te staan omdat de rivieren overstromen.
De rivieren stromen over omdat de 35 stuwdammen het water niet goed kwijt kunnen. En als ze alles tegen houden dan breken ze. Wij zitten op 600 meter hoog wel veilig, maar In Argentat is men nu al alle kostbare spullen naar de eerste verdieping aan het verhuizen. Het is zomaar een observatie.
Magnitude is no more than an illusion. A changed perspective and an altered proximity can both, dwarf an enormity or make a giant out of an elf.
I was not so happy being lonely
Living without you
So I prayed so hard for your love
In my heart I needed you
Then I looked up in the sky
And I'm thinking why oh why
These are all the many changes in my life
After all the caring and the laughter
No one else like you
I am not a preacher with a sermon
I'm so in love with you
'Cause to live without your love
Like the sun that shines above
Is the magic of the changes in my life
And I'll never forget your love
You and I
We were meant to be
Sweet as rain falling from the sky
You and I
These are all the many changes in my life
*1. **Introduction & Background*
10/10/10 International Day of Climate Change was celebrated in Booni,
Chitral, Pakistan, through the joint venture of Chitral Association for
Mountain Area Tourism (CAMAT) and Orion School of Learning (OSL). The event
was facilitated by 350.org. the theme of the day was ‘Breaking of Booni
Glacier, Its Relation to Climate Change’. As many as 500 people from
different walks of life e.g. community leadership, women representatives,
scholars, volunteers, parents and students participated.
The day has had significance for the people of Booni, Chitral as they have
recently witnessed a devastating flood destroying their valuable property
and causing them major health problems, psychological twists and
infrastructure disruption. This bitter experience has sensitized the locals
to seriously think about saving the natural environment.
*2. **Objective*
The objectives to observe the day was to join the worldwide communities in
highlighting problems—breaking of glacier, untimely melting of snow,
frequent floods and unpredictable climate conditions—in the Hindu Kush
Mountains apart from sensitizing the local communities.
* *
The activities of International Day of Climate Change were as follows:
*3. **Speeches*
To begin with, speeches aimed at enumerating the prospects of climate change
in the Hindu Kush Mountains, were delivered. Mr Sadruddin, the principal of
Orion School of Learning (OSL) impressed upon the participants to prepare
themselves and their children for the protection of Booni village by
protecting natural environment. He pointed out that such preparation could
be attained through inculcating environmental-friendly education to children
within the family right from their childhood. In turn, this will make the
task easier for teachers, once they are admitted to schools. He also said
that ecology/ natural biodiversity had to be included into the curriculum of
government/ private schools as compulsory subject right from class 1st.
Meanwhile; teachers need to be imparted skill enhancement training with
regards to natural environment.
Mr Shams Uddin, Manager CAMAT, who was also organizer of the event, upheld
that nature has the characteristics quite like those of a loving mother.
Nonetheless, the difference is that ‘mother’ along with her children is
dependant on a healthy ‘mother nature’ for sustainable life. Nature feeds us
with a variety of cereals, fruits and vegetable. It provides us with oxygen
and clean water to mention a few. Bearing this in mind, we have to take
great care of nature, the manifestation of which could be the adoption of
environmental-friendly manners and values by the entire society.
Advocate Amir Akber Khan, himself a social worker, said that we did not have
to loose time waiting for another catastrophe to happen. We have to stand
united to tackle the flood in future. First, proper canalization of the
stream bed stream is paramount importance. Second, ‘as charity begins at
home’, there has to be hectic and coordinated fund raising campaign in the
Booni village. “In order to save the village from further devastation, even
livestock have to be sold out and the same amount be invested on canalizing
the stream bed and construction of protective walls along the stream line”,
he said. Meanwhile, grazing on the Booni Gol rangeland has to be
restricted
for ever. Without coming forward to deal with the problem with our own
resources, we should not expect government and NGOs to play role in this
regard.
He categorized the local communities into those educated ones who read out
from books and watch television that is helpful in raising their
understanding and motivate them for practical action. Second, there are
people who just learn from witnessing some unforgettable events being
unfolded, as was the breaking of the Booni glacier, which he termed as an
eye-opener for the people.
*4. **Theatre*
The students arranged an exciting theatre centering on the Booni flood and
its aftermath. The play they enacted depicted social, political, cultural
complexities in times of crisis and highlighted the helpfulness of modern
technology. For instance, mobile phone was used as an instrument for Early
Warning System (EWS) by volunteers high up in the Booni stream. Similarly,
they played of individuals who remained oblivious towards natural hazards as
they basically lacked the inbuilt knowledge and skills to assess the
enormity of a natural disaster. Likewise lack of medical care,
non-existence of portable water that led to widespread water born diseases
was effectively highlighted. Further, the women’s drudgery of fetching water
from long distance for household use and cattle constituted interesting part
of the play.
The participants appreciated the efficiency of the students in preparing the
theatre work and the way they played.
*5. **Songs for Environment*
The students sang songs of love for nature apart from the serene beauty of
the Chitral district with its lakes, snow-capped peaks, forest, alpine
meadows, flowers, medicinal herbs, fruits and crops, all of which depend on
a suitable natural climate. The singers mourned the missing of the valuable
bird species from the ecological chain. Some birds used to live when most of
the participants were young people. It was indicated that climate change has
been responsible for the migration/ extinction of the precious bird species.
*6. **Poems*
*‘Don’t turn my heaven into hell’ *was the theme of poetic session. The
student poets wisely couched the issues climate change into poetic language.
They appealed to the sentiments of the participants to save the natural
environment of the region to degrade into a sort of ‘hell’ by becoming
unbearably hot. Further, funny anecdotes related to natural environment were
shared with the audients. Pieces of engaging wits were skillfully blended
into making the cause of climate change more motivating. It must be noted
that *Khowar* poetic sessions have been used as an effective tool of
campaign to mobilize communities for political issues, poverty, financial
corruption and forced marriage and so on.
*7. **Walk*
A placard bearing walk of parents and students through the Booni village was
taken out from OSL, which ended as it reached near the Booni Market. The
purpose of the walk was to spread the message of International Day of
Climate Change amongst the villagers.
The participants of the International Day of Climate Change in Booni,
Chitral, northern Pakistan, put forward the recommendations as follows:
· That there has to be an effective fund raising campaign by the
local communities to protect the Booni from the catastrophe of natural
hazards in future. To this end, every household has to contribute a sizeable
amount even if they have sell out their livestock.
· The environmental-unfriendly practice of irration grazing of the
Booni Gol rangeland by the nomads, who keep as many as 6000 goats and sheep,
has to be halted forthwith.
· Standard research work by reputed glaciologists and environment
scientists is what the participants recommended to properly evaluate,
understand and establish authentic baseline data on the deteriorating
condition of natural environment in the mountains of Chitral.
· In order to protect the Booni from the spillover of mud-flood in
future, check dams need to be constructed in the side valleys high up in the
Booni Gol rangeland.
· Protective walls have to be constructed at different points where
the flood has already broken into the villages. However, such protective
walls have to be technically sound with their foundation deep into the
ground.
· Deforestation of juniper, birch and shrubs in the Booni Gol
rangeland has to be immediately stopped and efforts for plantation on a wide
scale has to be undertaken by communities/ school students.
· The bed of the Booni stream needs to be canalized to provide
permanent course for the stream. This way the stream can wash into the
Mastuj River the material that the flood deposited all along the stream bed.
· There have to be awareness raising seminars, workshops and
conferences on climate change and its impacts on the mountainous communities
of Chitral.
· Last but not the least, the participants thanked Chitral
Association for Mountain Area Tourism (CAMAT) and Orion School of Learning
(OSL) for organizing the event of International Day of Climate Change, which
the local community so urgently needed.
Inside a mall in New Delhi, India.
Evidence of globalization can be found everywhere, intermingled with history and tradition, in a way that is uniquely Indian.
Looks better larger, on black.
Changing of the Queen's guard - London, England, UK
changing of the guard schedule here:
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Andrew posted an update to the Ambassador program over at the BZPower boards. It seems staffing changes were brought on by the financial issues we reported on previously. A re-org due to financial reasons is never good; change is an inevitable after effect and there’s no doubt the...
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Trichrome photography involves taking three exposures of the same subject on black and white film. Each exposure is taken through a red, green or blue filter.
One of the early users of the process, over a hundred years ago, was Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky , he used projectors with coloured filters to make a combined image, nowadays it can be done with photo editing software such as Photoshop.
For this trichrome, I used the Harris Shutter technique, which was invented by Robert Harris of Kodak for making colour photographs with the different primary colour layers exposed in separate time intervals in succession. Using an Olympus ECR35 35mm camera, I took three photos of the scene on black and white film (Rollei RPX400) with a red, green or blue filter in front of the lens. It took several seconds to change the filter, so moving subjects, such as clouds or people, appear in different positions and in different colours, while static subjects appear normal.
Todo empezó queriendo documentar mi cambio de vida. Estaba seria, solemne, y hasta con coraje, y de repente, me di cuenta que esto no tenia que ser el final de mi vida, quizás mas bien un comienzo.
Empece a soñar, a imaginar, a verme en un mundo distante al mio, que estaba triste y vació. Al verme ahí, quizás acompañada de aquella persona que me había ayudado a ver mi realidad, empece a sonreír, empece a posar para conquistar...sin detenerme.
No se, hubo algunos días, si no es que meses que estuve irreconocible. Estaba demasiado lastimada, o mas bien harta. No me importaba mas saltarme las reglas. Las reglas no me habían servido de nada.
Changing pad with a dedicated pocket for your wipes and another amply sized pocket for diapers and baby-changing accoutrements.
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Well ...
Spent an afternoon with Erik and Marc shooting in Old Montreal
There Marc was explaining to Erik the fine points of Nikon photography
Or is it the other way around ?
Being a Canon guy
I was out of that loop and gently minding my own business
:-)
Erikr1200 flickr
jmarcdube flickr
Erik advised me to listen to a song that he and wife Marie like
He feels I will relate or be reminded of something or someone
So here goes
Will be my first listen when I link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdvFs7goXSA
Amos Lee - Kid
Cheers et bonne semaine
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BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 17: Natália "daiki" Vilela of Team Liquid competes at the VALORANT Game Changers Championship Knockouts Stage on November 17, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Michal Konkol/Riot Games)
sooo this is my first crack at some sweet FGR/TRP action. i've been meaning to get into these groups for quite a while, themed photos are soo much better. so thanks to AndYaDontStop for the theme,
1. change and
2. writing a testimonial for a fellow flickr person.
soooo world meet the pure awesomeness that is Sydney. i' never done a testimonial but couldn't think of a better place too start. don't let her fool ya
she
is
something
special.
92|365
"MANY CITIZENS USE BERLIN'S POST OFFICES FOR WRITING THEIR LETTERS
This is one of Berlin's many branch post offices. The public writing room is well lighted, with comfortable chairs, tables, inkpots and blotters. No doubt Teutonic thoroughness and painstaking also provide pens that will write!"
Photograph by Douglas Chandler
(This historic photograph is from a National Geographic article in the February 1937 issue titled "Changing Berlin". It offers a fascinating look at Berlin, Germany, a few years before the start of World War II.)