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Excerpt from torontounion.ca/event/artist-spotlight-janice-toulouse/:
Toronto is home to many talented artists, and Union and City of Toronto are committed to the exhibition of public art to enrich communities and shine a spotlight on local artists. Frequently, open calls for submissions are held for public art projects, and we are constantly enthralled by the breadth and depth of work submitted, making it challenging to select only one finalist. This project was born out of a love for Janice’s art, and although she was not selected for the Unionale project, the programming team was committed to finding a home for her pieces here in the Front Street promenade. Her work will rotate on a quarterly basis for the duration of 2023.
Currently on display: Red Drum and Save The Trees
Red Drum Acrylic on canvas, 22 x 60 inches, 2020. During an artist retreat in the picturesque south of France, Janice ventured outdoors to embrace the liberating world of abstract gesture painting. Little did she know that her canvas would transform into a beautiful semblance of a drum and its stick – a shape she holds close to her heart as a player of the Ojibwe traditional hand drum. Now, she’s thrilled to bring this creation back to her home country, Canada, and share it with all of you.
Save The Trees Acrylic on canvas, 22 x 60 inches, 2020. Janice’s journey in the south of France led her to create this poignant masterpiece while immersed in the freedom of abstract gesture painting. As she was trying to paint peacefully, an unfortunate incident occurred – witnessing a neighbor cut down a tree so harshly that it left the tree looking sad and devastated. This profound moment inspired her to advocate for a cleaner climate and an end to clearcutting forests. Her artwork serves as a powerful reminder that we must stand together to preserve our precious trees and protect nature’s delicate balance.
Janice Toulouse
Janice Toulouse is a senior Ojibwe artist, a member of Garden River First Nation, born and raised in Serpent River and Toronto. She lives in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. She was the first in history Indigenous graduate and earned a Master of Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal in 1985. She taught Painting and Indigenous Art History at Emily Carr University in Vancouver for twenty years until retiring in 2017. Her art practice is to share her life as a Anishinaabe Kwe painter and storyteller. Her artworks investigate land rights and the respect of nature and traditional spiritual beliefs. She pursues her artistic work to create paintings and installations that honor her Anishinaabe ancestry. Her work is in public collections across Canada. She has exhibited internationally, in Canada, U.S.A, and Europe. Toulouse is an awards recipient, including: 2019 Ontario
Arts Council Indigenous Arts Award, 2017 Canada 150 Hnatyshyn Art Award, and 2009 Canada Council of the Arts, International Travel Grant.
Committed to Rollei RPX 25 using a Mamiya 645 1000S and 80 mm f1.9 lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
Committed to Ilford FP4+ using a Leica M6 and 50 mm Summicron V3 lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
Ok, so yesterday I committed my own personal cardinal sin, by uploading something that I wasn't really happy with.
So I took the photo down and worked on this guy a little more, until I was happy with the overall look of the face. I lowered the brow to sort out the eye shape and I sculpted a jaw piece and repainted the teeth (it's not as smooth as I would like, but I don't really think there's much I can do about that).
I also decided to ditch the minigun, as it just looked too big and I wanted the fig to remain a little more true to the original character.
Anyway, hope you like it better this time ; )
Committed to Rollei RPX 25 using a Mamiya 645 1000S and 80 mm f1.9 lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
"She" (he) is absolutely committed...
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Committed to expired Kodak Portra 160 and Kodak Ektar 100 using a Mamiya 6 with 75 and 50 mm lenses. Developed using a C-41 kit from Ars-Imago and digitised with a digital camera. Positive conversion, colours and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning and final tweaks in Photoshop.
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Committed to expired Fujifilm Superia 100 using a Leica M6 and 28 mm Summicron ASPH lens. Developed using a C-41 kit from Ars-Imago and scanned using an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion, colour and levels done with Negative Lab Pro.
Committed to Ilford FP4+ using a Hasselblad X-pan and 45 mm lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see -
For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen -
Judge tenderly - of Me.
E.D.
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcome X
Dr. King's philosophy was one of non-violence, and this article looks at the alternative views of Malcolm X which are not aired quite so frequently.
Dr. King is probably remembered as the most famous African-American leader in US history. At the time of his assassination in 1968 he was at the forefront of the civil rights movement in the US. He left behind him a legacy of committed, non-violent resistance to an unjust system. But perhaps his greatest legacy is his aspiration for a future in which racial division would be a thing of the past: his famous dream.
But there were limits to the effectiveness of King’s philosophy. His approach was essentially what theorist Robert Cox would call a ‘problem solving’ approach - in other words, King seemed to be trying to work for change within an existing system for most of his life. Another 1960s black leader whose ideas presented more of a challenge to the existing structures of US society:
Malcolm X. He was similarly assassinated three years before Martin Luther King. Although his approach to the problem of institutional racism in America was an essential component of the civil rights struggle, we hear much less about his ideas.
Whenever Malcom X is brought up it is first necessary to dispense with the inevitable accusations: yes, Malcom X was - for a time - a so-called ‘racist in reverse’. He once believed in an exclusionary form of Islam, believing that the white man was the devil. This did not refer to some white people, or to most white people, but to ALL white people.
But Malcolm X changed his views on that score. Indeed, his entire life was marked by his willingness to alter his views. He made many remarkable changes throughout his life, moving from a life of armed robbery, gambling, and dealing in cocaine and marijuana to an ascetic life as a devout Muslim. And by the time of his return from visiting Mecca in 1964, he had changed his views on white people. His travels through the Middle East and Africa had led him to learn the error of his racist views of whites. In a dramatic turnaround, he wrote an open letter for distribution to the press in which he rejected his earlier racism.
He still believed in his struggle to fight for the emancipation of his race, but no longer believed that all white people were his enemies.
Of course, the reality of 1960s North America was that many whites were the enemies of black people. And both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were struggling to change the situation, so that African-Americans would not continue to be the victims of America.
Their methods and views were very different. Dr. King was a Christian minister, whereas Malcolm X not only became a Muslim in a jailhouse conversion, but had a history of hostility towards Christianity. One of the most powerful images in Spike Lee’s biopic of Malcolm X is of Denzel Washington, as Malcolm, arguing in jail about the colour of Jesus’ skin. He was arguing that Jesus was born in a part of the world where the indigenous population had historically been ‘people of colour’.
He later moderated his criticism of Christianity, and was willing to work alongside black Christian leaders, but - similar to a Marxist view of religion - he always felt that black people in America had been kept passive by Christianity since the time of slavery. They would tolerate hell in the present because of the promise of heaven in the hereafter.
One of the most interesting differences between the philosophies of the two men, and one which is pertinent today given the imminent 1916 celebrations, is their attitude to violence. Martin Luther King espoused a ‘turn the other cheek’ philosophy, whereas Malcolm X had a philosophy of “vigorous action in self defence”. These two philosophies were juxtaposed in another Spike Lee film, ‘Do the Right Thing‘, which finishes with a quote from each man.
However, Malcolm X did not believe in violence in all crcumstances, and generally spoke about violence as a defensive mechanism rather than as aggression. He suggested that black people should form rifle clubs. It should be remembered that gun ownership was entirely legal, and that this was in a context where the Ku Klux Klan were very active, and civil rights legislation had yet to be enacted.
On one occasion, he advocated self defence after seeing television footage from Alabama of Martin Luther King being knocked down by a racist. He sent a message to Lincoln Rockwell, one of the white supremacist agitators in Alabama and the leader of the American Nazi Party, warning him that if these racist attacks continued they would be met with “maximum physical retaliation”. His philosophy was not motivated by hate, but by ‘intelligence’. He believed that self-defence was morally justified, and also cited hypocrisy of the US drafting black men to be violent in its army, but then condemning them for being ready to defend themselves in a just cause at home:
"They're violent in Korea, they're violent in Germany, they're violent in the south Pacific, they're violent in Cuba, they're violent wherever they go. But when it comes time for you and me to protect ourselves against lynchings, they tell us to be nonviolent" (Detroit, Feb 14th 1965 - 8 days before his death).
It is important to remember, as noted in Malcolm’s eulogy by actor Ossie Davis, that Malcolm X was never personally associated with any violence himself. His view was that a black population that was willing to defend itself would make for a more peaceful society, as they would be less likely to be the victims of attack. It was also clear that the government was failing to protect the black community, and Malcolm X believed that a proactive African-American policy of self defence would force the government to step in and do its job.
Malcolm X saw the futility of trying to change the system from within, and in appealling to the government for change. He believed in taking action to improve circumstances of discrimination or oppression. He spoke about a 'do it yourself philosophy, a do it right now philosophy, an it's already too late philosophy'. He knew that African-American people could not achieve fairness in the system of the time, and this was the reason for his militancy and urgency. But he was also conscious that his militancy would make the more moderate path of Martin Luther King appear more acceptable in comparison. At a speech in Jan/Feb 1965 in Selma, Alabama, where King was in jail, Malcolm X spoke at a rally and sat beside King's wife on the podium. Dr. King's wife told ‘Jet’ magazine that Malcolm X told her that he "wanted to present an alternative; that it mght be easier for whites to accept Martin's proposals after hearing him (Malcolm X)... He seemed rather anxious to let Martin know that he was ...trying to make it easier [for him]" (cited in Alex Haley's introduction to The Autobiography of Malcolm X). So in his militancy, Malcolm X was also consciously attempting to open up a space for more moderate voices to be heard.
Malcolm X's approach was an essential component of the civil rights struggle, and I believe that his commitment, his militancy, and his unwillingness to compromise or be co-opted mean that his ideas have far more emancipatory potential than those of Martin Luther King.
Malcolm X died while his ideas were still developing - who knows what solutions he would have come up with if he had been allowed to live?
The lily does not strive for beauty.
Committed to Fomapan 200 using a Hasselblad 500 C and 100 mm lens with a 56 mm extension ring. Developed using Ars-Imago R9 (rodinal) 1:50 as per the Massive Dev chart (though I think the listed times are too short and will be adding at least a minute to them in the future) and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning, sharpening and final contrast in Photoshop.
Committed to Rollei RPX 25 using a Mamiya 645 1000S and 80 mm f1.9 lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
Committed to Fomapan 200 using a Hasselblad 500C and 100 mm lens with a 56 mm extension ring. Developed using Ars-Imago R9 (rodinal) 1:25 as per the Massive Dev chart (though I think the listed times are too short and will be adding at least a minute to them in the future) and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust cleaning, sharpening and final contrast in Photoshop.
His story:
CC-3333, nicknamed "Bow," was a clone trooper Lieutenant during the first year of Clone Wars, the galaxy-wide conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. He later became a Commander(mainly leader of the Clone Marines of the 501st), and finally Senior Commander(leader of the 501st). In the first year of the war, Bow was in second command of Torrent Company, a unit of the famed 501st Legion in the Grand Army of the Republic alongside his superior at the time; Captain Rex. Bow served under Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and Captain Rex, and was a freethinking, tough, and aggressive trooper. He was loyal and committed to his duty and to his fellow clones, Bow proved to be a extremely smart and capable leader, even under extreme circumstances, he fought on even in the face of death, but proved victorious. Bow displayed a strong working relationship and a degree of friendship with fellow Clone Troopers, Appo, Vill, and their Captain; Rex. Bow served in countless battles, and succeeded them 100%. Of the 501st, Bow be came a famed Clone Officer, who was well-known, and admired by his superiors and his Clone Brothers.
Order 66:
By the final year of the Clone Wars, Bow became a Clone Commander, mainly in command of the clone marines of the 501st, and the third leader of the 501st Legion. In that same year, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine declared the Jedi Order enemies of the Republic and issued Order 66, a contingency order for the Republic's Grand Army. Bow, Appo, and Vill led the 501st against the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant, serving alongside the Emperor's new apprentice Darth Vader, formerly Anakin Skywalker during Operation Nightfall. Bow and his marines killed a number of Jedi and Temple guards that night, counting of almost all of the Jedi dead; along with the others of the 501st. When Senator Bail Organa came to the Temple to investigate what had happened, Appo, Bow, and several troopers met him on one of the Temple's landing platforms. Appo informed Organa that there had been a rebellion, but when Organa tried to enter the Temple, he, Bow, and the other troopers drew their blaster upon the Senator and ordered him to leave. As Organa turned to go, a Jedi Padawan, Zett Jukassa, rushed onto the pad and began slashing at some of the troopers with his lightsaber. Appo ordered his troops to open fire on Organa, only to be cut down by Jukassa. Appo's fellow Commander; Bow, killed Jukassa, but allowed Organa to escape. Jukassa's attack seriously wounded Appo, but with the help of Bow he survived and recovered, later filing a report on the death of Jukassa and a number of other Jedi killed in the Temple.
Elimination of the Jedi:
On many accounts, Clone Commanders Appo, Vill, and Bow led the 501st Legion, now under the direct command of Darth Vader, to kill the remaining Jedi over the Galaxy. In the process, they succeeded, but Appo and Vill were killed. Bow now became the leader of the 501st Legion. They became Vader's fist. They kept their armor, instead of taking the new Imperial armor, which was an honor. They kept the Galaxy in balance as they fought beside Lord Vader. They also fought beside Lord Vader or his agents.
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Hey, guys it's been a while since I upload a custom though. I'm just starting up new projects with my new applebarrell paints. I've got an idea, should I do every clones commander that have been seen in the clone wars and in episode 3?! Please tell me the answer in the comments bellow. This fig is for BX's customs's Order 66 contest. I sure hope you all like it and as always Comments and favorites are appreciated
Thanks guys,
Hugo.
PS: The backpack is a small adding to the fig and this version of bow is actually the armor he wore during "Operation Knightfall"(Order 66) when he was third in command of the 501st legion.:)
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The news is a constant stream of atrocities and war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine. There is no other war in history where so many criminal, murderous, reckless and senseless acts have been so well documented and immediately shared with the world. I often feel like we all have a front-row seat to the most terrifying events in our lives and yet are powerless to do anything to help. This message is a further reminder that we are all not powerless.
We can all work together to help. We can create artwork, attend rallies, write to politicians, donate our time or money, and some truly heroic individuals head straight for the war to take up arms or deliver humanitarian aid while risking their own life. I am not that brave, but we are doing everything we can here to help.
This week we delivered four car-loads of groceries, supplies, toys, medicine, and general aid to the refugee effort here in Varna, Bulgaria. There are two centres open now, partly due to the main sports complex requiring a scaled back operation as they resume their normal activities. We’ll continue bringing supplies, and we are incredibly grateful to all those that have donated for this effort.
This image took a few missteps but finally was completed today. The concept was to get blue and yellow fluorescing ink in the center of a gerbera daisy, which has a very similar resemblance to a small sunflower (and we have some novelty sunflower seeds on order for more images). The first attempt was using highlighter ink, but the blue ink did not fluoresce. The second attempt was using fluorescent tempera paint, but still the blue did not fluoresce. Today we visited a specialty art store and they had what I needed, though it felt odd walking around shining a UV flashlight on their product offerings. The daisy is illuminated with a Convoy S2 UV flashlight after carefully painting the center of the flower with the two colours. Yellow fluorescence tends to be a bit yellow-green, so this needed to be adjusted in editing to properly emulate the Ukrainian colours.
“Peace” talks may continue, but Putin has showcased his complete disregard for any agreements, treaties, humanitarian corridors, international law, and more. The longer this war continues, the more I realize that there really is no negotiating with the devil. NATO and other allied nations need to find a way to remove Putin from power without creating an existential threat for Russia, and threading such a needle is damn near impossible. I’m certain that the most brilliant military minds in the world are working on this, but here we still sit, watching in horror of the daily crimes against humanity. I fear we will become numb to this in time, but should not simply be complacent regarding our own safety or the lives of other human beings just like us. Please, write to your politicians about your thoughts. Tell them to take action, whether it be increasingly harsh sanctions or military involvement. We all must do more to stop this brutal genocide.
This daisy was bedraggled and bruised, but shining brightly. Just like the heroes in Ukraine. Their hearts are filled with their freedom, and they will fight to their last breath. And like all images in this series, I deliberately enter it into the Public Domain so anyone can use it for any purpose without crediting me or any license required. Just another way to support the cause – and there is always more to do.
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The history of the region is complex and often misunderstood. At the time of the Roman occupation, shortly before the birth of Christ, Judea was a marginal province, bordering the Negev desert and separated from Gaza. Its size was limited, and Samaria, more central and vast, constituted a distinct region. This territorial configuration is documented in various historical sources.
Today, in 2025, we see the State of Israel showing its true face: a face that many still refuse to recognize. To remain silent would be complicity, it would be betraying the truth that Jews and Orthodox Christians have always told, the truth that we know and feel in our hearts.
This photo cries out what history and conscience demand we not forget: the pain of peoples, moral responsibility, the humanity that should guide us. This is not a light judgment, nor an empty word: it is the need to bear witness, to remember, to look squarely at what has been and what continues to be.
Map of the Empire of David and Solomon 1000-925 BC.
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Map of Judea in the Roman period
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Committed to Ferrania P30 using a Leica M6 and 50 mm Summicron V3 lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
I have committed to making 24 projects this year, and the first will be a new pole to help put out campfires when I am camping.
The first one I made off an idea and design I came up with while walking- it was a rare gem of an idea that worked perfectly. I have tweaked a couple things with this design and hope it will be perfection.
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Year Fifteen Of My 365 Project
This morning was the wettest, windiest and foggiest day you could imagine, saturated, but happy to see the Mighty steam locomotive 6029 pass. Assisted by C502 and S311.
First of all (1 & 2) down and through the Goondah Sweeper then (3) entering Binalong.
It is on its way to do shuttles at Dubbo over the weekend. - www.canberrarailwaymuseum.org/dubboshuttles
New South Wales, Australia
- if it wasn't snow, it was only a minor technicality in the difference!!!
Committed to Lomography Babylon using a Leica M3 and 50 mm Summicron dual-range lens. Developed using Ars-Imago R9 (rodinal) 1:99 in a semi-stand process for 80 minutes and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
Someone committed arson and burned this lovely church down on May 20, 2017, just a handful of months after this photo was taken. I was looking forward to photographing it again. There is a long and complicated history of mistreatment of indigenous peoples in Canada, and the arson was possibly linked to that history. There is talk of rebuilding, but that is challenging due to changes in materials and workmanship over the years, and also that aforementioned history.
Committed to Film Ferrania P30 using a Leica M6 and 50 mm Summicron V3 lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
Committed to long expired Kodak Ektar 25 using a Konica Autoreflex T3 and 50 mm f1.4 lens. Developed using a C-41 kit from Ars-Imago and scanned using an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion, colour and levels done with Negative Lab Pro.
How committed am I to this 365? Enough to drink this wine and save the corks so that on a Sunday when I didn't have anything else to shoot I could haul them out, shoot them, and sit back and relax.
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Committed to Fomapan 200 using a Leica M6 and 35 mm Summicron v3. Developed in Ars-Imago R9 (rodinal) 1:50 for 9 minutes and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro. Dust removal and further contrast adjustment in Photoshop.
Committed to Rollei RPX 25 using a Mamiya 645 1000S and 80 mm f1.9 lens. Developed using Ars-Imago FD as per the Massive Dev chart and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
Having shut himself off from access to Heaven and having several times repeated—within ever narrower limits—his initial fall, man has ended by losing his intuition of everything that transcends himself, and he has thereby sunk below his own nature, for one cannot be fully man except through God, and the earth is beautiful only through its link with Heaven. Even when a man still believes, he forgets more and more what religion really demands: he is astonished at the calamities of this world, without its occurring to him that they may be acts of grace since—like death—they rend the veil of earthly illusion and thus allow man “to die before dying”, hence to conquer death.
Many people imagine that purgatory or hell are for those who
have killed, stolen, lied, committed fornication, and so on and that it suffices to have abstained from these actions to merit Heaven; in reality the soul is consigned to the flames for not having loved God or for not having loved Him enough; this can be understood if we recall the supreme Law of the Bible: to love God with all our faculties and all our being. The absence of this love does not necessarily involve murder or lying or some other transgression, but it does necessarily involve indifference; and indifference, which is the most generally widespread of faults, is the very hallmark of the fall.
It is possible for the indifferent not to be criminals, but it is
impossible for them to be saints; it is they who go in by the “wide gate” and follow the “broad way”, and it is of them that Revelation says, “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth” (3:16).
Indifference toward truth and toward God borders on pride and is not free from hypocrisy; its seeming harmlessness is full of complacency and arrogance; in this state of soul the individual is content with himself even if he accuses himself of minor faults and appears modest, which in fact commits him to nothing but on the contrary reinforces his illusion of being virtuous. It is this criterion of indifference that makes it possible for the “average man” to be so to speak “caught in the act”, for the most surreptitious and insidious of vices to be as it were taken by the throat, and for every man to have his poverty and distress proven to him; in short it is indifference that is “original sin” or its most general manifestation.
Indifference is diametrically opposed to spiritual impassibility
or contempt of vanities as well as to humility. True humility is to know that we can add nothing to God and that, even if we possessed all possible perfections and had accomplished
the most extraordinary works, our disappearance would take nothing away from the Eternal.
Even believers themselves are for the most part too indifferent to feel concretely that God is not only “above” us “in Heaven”, but also “ahead” of us, at the end of the world or even simply at the end of our life; that we are drawn through life by an inexorable force and that at the end of the course God awaits us; that the world will be submerged and swallowed up one day by an unimaginable irruption of the purely miraculous—unimaginable because surpassing all human experiences and standards of measurement. Man cannot possibly draw on his experience to bear witness to anything of the kind any more than a mayfly can expatiate on the alternation of the seasons; for a creature that is born at midnight and whose life will last but a day, the rising of the sun can in no way enter into the series of its habitual sensations; the sudden appearance of the solar disk, unforeseeable by reference to any analogous phenomenon that had occurred during the long hours of darkness, would seem like an unheard of and apocalyptic prodigy. Now it is thus that God will come. There will be nothing but this one advent, this one presence, and by it the world of experiences will be shattered.
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Frithjof Schuon: Light on The Ancient Worlds
At this point, the bird in the image is committed to landing on the large branch in the forground. It had flown in from a launch point 100m or so off to my left front, during a photoshoot day at The Hawk Conservancy just outside Andover. You can see another member of the day's group already checking his shots in the upper left of the picture. I will admit it was a mistake on my part to have him in the image, but it gives great context and some sense of size.
The White-headed Vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) is the least well-known vulture species in Africa. There has been no comprehensive study done of this species and, compared with other vultures, relatively little is known about its basic biology. Key features such as feeding ecology and factors affecting breeding performance remain poorly understood.
In 2007, the category of risk assigned to it by The World Conservation Union (IUCN) increased to ‘Vulnerable.’ This assessment incorporates recently reported severe declines in West Africa. These have exceeded 60% in protected areas, whilst the species has completely disappeared from rural areas.
In southern Africa the population was estimated to number 500 pairs in 1997 and has been revised more recently to 430 pairs in 2004. Zimbabwe holds a significant proportion of the regional breeding population, whilst in South Africa, the Kruger National Park and neighbouring conservation areas contain the largest population of White-Headed Vultures in South Africa. In southern Africa, the species is largely confined to conservation areas. - Hawkconservancy.org
It has a pink beak and a white crest, and the featherless areas on its head are pale. Its has dark brown upper parts and black tail feathers. The feathers on its lower parts and legs are white. It has a wingspan of 2m and spends a lot of time soaring looking for food. It roosts in tall trees near to water at night. - Wikipedia.
The Hawk Conservancy is helping to better understand these birds. Field sites are in South Africa (Kruger National Park) and Mozambique. Research efforts are focused on: habitat requirements; feeding ecology; specific relationships; and biology. Fundraising efforts raise money for supporting fieldworkers and research costs.
Committed to Ferrania P30 using a Leica M3 and 50 mm Summicron dual-range lens. Developed using Ars-Imago R9 (rodinal) 1:99 in a semi-stand process for 80 minutes and scanned with an Epson V850 using Silverfast. Positive conversion and contrast done with Negative Lab Pro.
Just as I was leaving the park, I see this lady coming out with the crutches. I had to have this pic. What sells it for me is the way the son is looking at his mom!
the wine was excellent - very refreshing - while I couldn't put down his first book, The Sympathizer, this one is dragging.... not sure if I'm committed to finishing.
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