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staff of zurich's lush shop campaigning against the use of animals in circuses.
aktion zircus ohne tiere: www.azot.ch
kein applaus für tierquälerei: www.zirkusinfo.ch
lush switzerland: www.lush-shop.ch
Loch nan Eilean with the Cuillins reflected in the still waters.
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EN In the north of Sweden there are several iron ore mines. Almost all of them are exploited by the state owned company LKAB.
To transport the iron ore towards the harbours of Narvik (in Norway) or Luleå (at the Gulf of Bothnia), LKAB has his own rail transport company called Malmtrafik (MTAB). MTAB transports the iron ore from the mines near Kiruna, Gällivare and Svappavaara.
MTAB uses for these heavy iron ore trains the IORE type locomotives. They are built by Adtranz (later Bombardier) which are actually two locomotives merged together two one. The IORE locomotives are currently the strongest locomotives in Europe.
In the "evening" light (~ 14.30) Malmtrafik 121 + 134 are ready for departure at Kiruna with an daily empty iron ore train from Kiruna towards the mine near Svappavaara (train 39987). At Svappavaara the train will be loaded with iron ore and then driven towards the harbour of Narvik or Luleå.
NL In het noorden van Zweden zijn diverse ijzerertsmijnen te vinden. Deze worden bijna allemaal geëxploiteerd door het staatsbedrijf LKAB.
Het staatsbedrijf heeft op zichzelf een vervoersmaatschappij met de naam Malmtrafik (MTAB). Malmtrafik heeft als doel de ijzererts te transporteren vanuit de mijnen bij Kiruna, Gällivare en Svappavaara, naar de havens van Narvik (in Noorwegen) en Luleå.
De tractie wordt geleverd met de IORE-locomotieven van Bombardier (eerder Adtranz). De locomotieven zijn eigenlijk 2 losse units (met eigen nummers en namen) aan elkaar geplakt. Samen vormen ze de krachtigste locomotieven die rondrijden in Europa momenteel.
In het "avondlicht" (~ 14:30) staan IORE 121 en 134 vertrekklaar met een lege ijzerertstrein richting de mijn van Svappavaara. Deze trein 39987 rijdt normaal gesproken elke middag.
Te Svappavaara wordt de trein beladen om vervolgens dan naar de haven van Narvik of Luleå te gaan. Rechts op de foto is de deels afgegraven berg Kiirunavaara zichtbaar.
On this International Workers Day, let us remember the millions of workers all over the world, especially in the world's poorest countries, who do the hardest, dirtiest and most dangerous work for the lowest pay. They contribute so much to our daily lives, yet they ask for so little in return, just enough so they can feed their families. Too often, they are invisible; we don't see their blood, sweat and tears. They have my deepest respect, and their hardships will not be forgotten.
For millions of brick workers in Bangladesh, life is incredibly hard. In the 8,000 brick fields, according to the United Nations Development Program, men and women carry loads of bricks on their heads for 8 or more hours a day. Each brick weighs about 2.5 kilos (5.5 lbs), and many workers carry between 10-20 bricks up to 30 kilos per load. For this exhausting and grueling work, they get paid about US$2-3 a day. The kilns used for baking the bricks burn wood and coal, even plastic and tires, spewing toxic pollutants, smoke and ash. Their day long exposure to so much environmental pollutants, smoke, heat and dust without any protective equipment cause many workers to suffer from lung diseases like asthma, bronchitis, silicosis and cancer, as well as skin diseases and injuries due to falling bricks. Debt bondage forces many workers to labor under such hazardous and punishing conditions. Often, entire families with children old enough to work, labor for years, trapped in a spiraling cycle of poverty to pay off their debts to the bosses /moneylenders. It was heart-breaking for me to see the exploitation and suffering of the brick workers, and moved me to tell their story.
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Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Read more at www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a...
The House Sparrow is a small but sturdily built bird with a stout bill designed for eating seeds. Adult males are distinctive; the crown and nape are grey and only the sides of the head are brown. The black bib is wide and extends down onto the chest. The back is warm brown, streaked with black but with a few white wing feathers. Adult females and juvenile birds of both sexes are typically sandy brown in colour with brown and grey streaks on the back and wings.
Although adults will feed themselves on wide range of seeds, they need to find plenty of aphids and small caterpillars for their growing youngsters, especially in the first few days after hatching.
House Sparrows like to nest colonially, so one box on its own is unlikely to attract a breeding pair. They may nest in hedges and in climbing plants – but this does not mean that they are Hedge Sparrows or Tree Sparrows!
House Sparrows are red-listed birds of conservation concern.
Small nest box with hole (32mm)
Nest height: over 2m above ground
The nest is an untidy domed structure made of grasses, lined with feathers, hair and wool
Egg laying starts between mid March and early August. Up to four broods
4 to 5 eggs. White or pale blue with darker spots
Incubation time: 13 -15 days
Nestlings fledge after 15-17 days
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I'm still exploiting the little plant I bought about 6 weeks ago. I believe that these are my favorite flower to light and photograph because of the elegant shapes. Some of the black and white photos I've seen that were done a long time ago by famous photographers are amazing works of art.
Lighting stuff: I placed a YN560 in a Rogue grid behind the flower and slightly to the right at 1 o'clock for backlighting, and used a YN560-III in an 8.6 inch Lastolite softbox in front and slightly to the left of center for fill. Both flashes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
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My cycling exploits continue. Before I went away there was a lot of press about the Mayor of London introducing a bicycle hire system similar to the one recently successful in Paris. When I arrived in Seville I noticed that they had one themselves. Seville is ideal for cycling - the centre has very little traffic and as everyone walks in the shade it leaves the sunny side of the avenues free to cycle on. Even I had a go - took me a while to work out the strange ticketing system and several attempts to get the bike moving, but I did manage two very short rides before I was defeated by my lack of skill, the cobblestones and the 40 degree heat.
Saw this couple eating their lunch and asked if I could take their photo which they kindly agreed to ...
The French colonial administration of Indochina was determined to exploit the Mekong River to aid a route into China, and in doing so help counter British colonial expansion in Upper Burma. ... However, the key obstacle lay in southern Laos, where at Siphandon Islands, the river splits into numerous channels forming formidable rapids collectively known as the Khon (or Khone) Falls. Attempts in 1891, 1892, and 1893 to scale the falls failed; there are accounts of steamships ‘engines roaring and boilers near bursting, with hundreds of men hauling from the rocks on ropes and others pushing from the decks with pikes’ ...
Thus, alternatives modes of transport had to be found. One idea came in the form of a British tidal expert resident in Siam, Herbert Warington Smyth, who suggested, perhaps half-cynically, that a tramway ... should be built around the falls. The latter, he reckoned, ‘would satisfactorily cripple the French economy (Source: Wikipedia).
Well, the French did just that, building boat landings south and north of the falls and connectiong both by a railraod.
I found no source of the factual impact of this adventure on the French economy yet a nice description of how it was to travel with that steam engine in the middle of deep jungles:
The train, struggling and grating amid the clashing sound of steel, hauled us across the island, which is covered by teak trees and bamboos whose branches brushed our faces. The temperature was very high and the sun, filtering through the trees, roused noxious fever-vapours from the tangled undergrowth. Sweat caked my hair under my sun hat; the heat burned my arms through my clothes; and the mosquitoes took advantage of my predicament to attack me as they pleased, all over my hands and face…
—John Keay, Mad About The Mekong: Exploration and Empire in South East Asia
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Obviously many 'western' images of African people are directly connected to exploitation and slavery. But it is often forgotten that there's also an idealist ideology that sees non-Europeans as good and free and noble, indeed as exemplary. This photo is part of the latter tradition. The insets provide some background.
In 1610 one Barthelomeus Moor (1573-1636) bought a piece of land on what is now the Rokin in Amsterdam and built a house there; the pictured decorative statement was probably added later in the style of Louis XIV. He'd been born in Antwerp and was one of many merchants, often Calvinist, who fled the southern Low Countries in the wake of their fall to the Catholic Habsburgs and the onset of religious persecution. They found religious freedom and independence from monarchy in the Dutch Republic. Around 1600 Antwerp's population had diminshed from about 100,000 to a mere 42,000, and something like 30% of the population of Amsterdam was made up of Flemish Dutchmen. Many of these immigrants were merchant families soon to become wealthy in the prospering northern Low Countries.
No doubt, the choice of Moor or his family for this sculpture was motivated by the meaning of his family name. But added to that are the connotations of freedom, independence and desire for trade imputed to non-Europeans exemplified by that self-conscious, proud 'Moor'. He could well be a Carib or else maybe a Guinean. The inset top right is after a drawing by John Gabriël Stedman (1744-1797) of a Carib family. The one on the left is in the first book on African Guinea (more or less present-day Ghana) by Pieter de Maarees around 1602. It depicts Dutch (?) and African merchants and traders. Note the similarity in head dresses of the 'Guineans', the Carib and our 'Moor'.
Shoreditch, City of London.
"There's winners and losers in life "
- Charlie Mullins ( Pimlico Plumbers )
" Money is the root of all evil " is a common adage, but what is the root of money besides the exploitation and suffering of others?
As in a good part of the wealth generated in the 17th and 18th centuries - and which is tightly kept in the same families today - had its roots in enterprises such as the South Sea and the East India Companies which openly indulged in mass slave trading and oppression of millions. *
Link to others in the series;
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* The East India Company (EIC), both British and Dutch,
was extensively involved in slavery and violence, including murder, as integral parts of its commercial operations and colonial rule from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
Slavery
Direct Involvement: The EIC was directly involved in the slave trade and the use of enslaved labour. The British EIC's involvement began at least as early as the 1620s, with a specific order in 1684 to transport 250 enslaved people from Madagascar to St. Helena. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) also used a global network to source enslaved people for its extensive commercial empire.
Source and Location: EIC slavery was largely concentrated in the Indian Ocean region rather than the transatlantic trade. Enslaved people were sourced from various Asian societies and Madagascar to work as domestic servants, labourers in factories (trading posts), and on plantations in company settlements like Bencoolen (Sumatra) and the Cape Colony.
Conditions: The conditions for enslaved people were brutal, involving physical abuse, high mortality rates from disease, and a lack of legal protection.
Abolition Pressure: The EIC eventually ended its involvement in the slave trade in 1834 due to increasing pressure from the British government and the abolitionist movement, though slavery as an institution persisted in some forms in British colonies until later.
Murder and Violence
Company Policy and Law: Violence, including murder, was a pervasive feature of EIC rule. The company's administration of justice often prioritised its commercial interests and the maintenance of authority over the protection of the enslaved and local populations.
Violence against Enslaved People: Enslaved individuals faced extreme violence. For example, some were murdered by their masters or suffered severe punishments. In one incident on the VOC ship Meermin in 1766, half the crew and nearly 30 enslaved Malagasy captives died during a mutiny.
Exploitant : Transdev Montesson les Rabaux
Réseau : Entre Seine et Forêt
Ligne : 21
Lieu : Ermitage Pont (Le Port-Marly, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/33513
Group of people waiting for the amazing lights of the sunset.
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Situés sur la commune d'Aigues-Mortes, en Camargue, les salins couvrent une large partie des Marais de Peccais, au sud-est du village fortifié. Ils sont accessibles par la route
L'exploitation du sel à Aigues-Mortes est une activité économique qui remonte à l'Antiquité. La première activité des salins est attribuée à un ingénieur romain, Peccius, qui laissa son nom au marais de Peccais. Durant le Moyen Âge, alors que le village d'Aigues-Mortes est fortement influencé par l'abbaye de Psalmodie toute proche, l'économie est essentiellement tournée vers la pêche et les salins.
La production aux salins d'Aigues-Mortes est une production classique de sels de mer, localisée en bord de côtes méditerranéennes, sur un sol totalement plat. L'activité maximale se situe en période estivale, afin de bénéficier d'un ensoleillement optimal, pour une évaporation de l'eau et cristallisation du sel sous l'action conjuguée du soleil et du vent.
Le fonctionnement du salin se fait, par étapes, dans cinq types de bassins consécutifs, reliés entre eux par une circulation de l'eau. Les premiers bassins, les partènements, recueillent l'eau de mer pompée (taux de salinité d'environ 38 g par litre). Les bassins sont, en effet, situés quelques mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer, et l'absence de marées importantes en Méditerranée oblige à l'usage de pompes. L'eau circule ensuite de bassins en bassins, son taux de salinité augmentant au fur et à mesure. Ce circuit, d'une longueur de plusieurs dizaines de kilomètres, amène l'eau saumurée aux bassins de réserve.
Formation des camelles
Les « tables salantes » (ou « cristallisoirs »), derniers bassins, permettant la récolte du sel, sont moins profonds que les précédents. Le taux de salinité atteint alors 260 g de sel par litre d'eau. Il s'agit de la partie la plus marquante de la production : d'une part, par la couleur des bassins, due à la présence d'algues microscopiques dans l'eau, la Dunaliella salina ; d'autre part le mode d'extraction du sel. Une fois la vidange de l'eau effectuée, une couche de 8 à 15 centimètres de sel, le « gâteau de sel » recouvre le fond des bassins. Autrefois récolté manuellement, par les paludiers (ou sauniers), le sel est recueilli de manière mécanique, par des tracteurs à chenilles muni de pelle à l'avant. Le sel ainsi récolté est entreposé sous forme de monticules de 10 à 15 mètres, les camelles que l'on voit sur le photo ci-dessus.
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From time to time, I like to exploit my food, in addition to eating it. I like the shapes and textures of this garlic and decided to emphasize those qualities using side lighting.
Lighting stuff: I placed the garlic on a piece of black perspex, and then lit it from the side with a YN560-III in a 24 inch soft box at camera right. Fill light came from a small hand held mirror at camera left. The flash, in manual mode, was triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N. I converted the image to black and white using Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2.
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A bird of the Eastern woodlands, the Great Crested Flycatcher, not only had a lemon-yellow belly and wonderful reddish-brown accents, but it also has a great crest of feathers on its head. Unlike other flycatchers, these birds have exploited a niche higher up in the canopy, to avoid competing for food. Because of this, they are more readily heard than they are seen. We spend a good deal of time before we were able to capture these beautiful birds closer to the ground. Sometimes I wish I had a lift on my truck so I could also sit in the canopy. Don't think that will happen anytime soon. #iLoveNature #iLoveBirds #iLoveWildife #Wildlife in #Delaware #Nature in #NorthAmerica #USA #DrDADBooks #GreatCrestedFlycatcher #WildlifeConservation
Phnom Penh (Cambodge)
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Rennes-les-Bains est une station thermale consacrée au traitement des rhumatismes. L'exploitation des eaux thermales est connue depuis l'antiquité. On peut toujours y admirer les vestiges des thermes romains.
La commune est traversée par la Sals, une rivière dont la source est salée (60g/l deux fois plus que l'eau de mer) mais arrivée à Rennes les bains, elle n'en contient plus que 2 g/l du fait des apports d'eau douce de ses différents affluents.
C'est un village-rue de 200 habitants dont la traversée est difficile du fait de la fréquentation touristique. J'ai profité de la plus faible affluence de la fin d'année pour m'arrêter et prendre quelques clichés de cette station thermale au charme désuet.
Rennes-les-Bains is a spa dedicated to the treatment of rheumatism. The exploitation of thermal waters has been known since antiquity. You can still admire the remains of the Roman baths.
The town is crossed by Sals, a river whose source is salty (60g / l twice as much as sea water) but arrived in Rennes les Bains, it contains only 2 g / l because of the freshwater inflows from its tributary rivers.
It is a street village of 200 inhabitants whose crossing is difficult due to tourist frequentation. I took advantage of the least crowds at the end of the year to stop and take a few pictures of this quaint spa resort.
Nikon FE, Nikkor ai 50mm F2.0
Film Kodacolor 200,
Développement en kit Tetenal C41
Balades tout autour de Port-Vendres, chemins de randonnée, sentier du littoral, sentier d'exploitation des vignes ou simplement buissons et fleurs des jardins méditerranéens... avec les chaussures adéquates et même si le terrain est un peu pentu quelque fois, cela en vaut la peine!
Vipérine à feuilles de plantain, ou vipérine pourpre. Aussi Echium...
Et quelques mots sur les vertus de la vipérine, en général: une plante dont les sommités fleuries et séchées ont des vertus médicinales! Elles sont adoucissantes et ont des propriétés pectorales, dépuratives et diurétiques. Elles peuvent être un traitement d'appoint pour soigner bronchite, toux et grippe... Mais attention, il ne faut pas tenter ses propres baumes et traitements... la vipérine commune avec laquelle une confusion est possible est toxique!
Une petite idée de site à consulter:
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Palais royal de Phnom Penh (Cambodge)
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Woodland in the winter. Not something I've particularly worked at before. Much exploited over the last year or so, so I thought I'd give it a go. Difficult to put an individual stamp on, but I guess I have to start somewhere. There'll be a few to come, so it'll be interesting to see what response they get. I do get the attraction of doing woodland, as it's generally very accessible locally, and there's a lot to go at. To be honest, I enjoyed the day just wandering about, and will be doing a bit more while we have the conditions we have at the moment. I hope to be able to get out when there's frost and mists to go at. The latter illuded me somehow this weekend, as the locations I went to weren't particularly misty!
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This morning's sunrise .. it sure was good!
I think I will be exploiting this location a bit more often in the next few days ..
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Now, it is time for the horse-drawn carriages of Victoria to be banned for the inhumane practice of forcing horses to wade through city streets and endangering public safety.
This is animal exploitation, plain and simple. Every time we go out into the community to raise awareness and challenge this industry we meet concerned citizens who agree, horse-drawn carriages in Victoria need to end. For the horses and for all of us.
25 Neonlight Nighttime Pictures from Japan, Korea and Hongkong
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Arnold Henry Savage Landor (June 2, 1865 - December 26, 1924) - view of Kyoto from the hills (1889) - oil on wood - Exhibition "Painting Asia from life" - MAO, Museum of Oriental Art, Turin
Artista, antropologo, esploratore, avventuriero, scrittore, fotografo, giornalista e inventore: Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1865-1924) è una figura poliedrica estremamente interessante, che ha goduto di grande successo in vita e che, per motivi non del tutto chiari, è caduta totalmente nell’oblio dopo la sua morte. Savage Landor nacque a Firenze da padre inglese e madre italiana. Visse la sua adolescenza in un ambiente colto, in cui letteratura e arte erano passioni quotidiane. Tra i suoi maestri vi fu Stefano Ussi (1822-1901), che intuì le capacità del giovane e suggerì alla famiglia di lasciare che si dedicasse alla pittura. Partito presto alla scoperta del mondo, il giovane Henry visitò prima alcuni paesi dell’Africa settentrionale e dell’America, per muoversi poi alla volta dell’Asia: Giappone, Corea, Cina, dove dipinse centinaia di opere dal vero in uno stile 'impressionistico-macchiaiolo' di rapida esecuzione.
L'unicità documentaria delle sue creazioni appare evidente: in un periodo in cui ci si affidava già all'immediatezza della fotografia, Savage Landor ha persistito a lungo nel dipingere en-plein-air, prendendo però nettamente le distanze dalle visioni fantasiose e dallo stile minuziosamente classico della pittura di genere Orientalista per immergersi invece nel mondo asiatico reale, restituendone i vari aspetti con i tratti espressivi della modernità . Lo stile dell’artista anglo-fiorentino, rapido e conciso, si rivela infatti estremamente efficace nel 'fotografare' con immediatezza luoghi e persone che di lì a qualche decennio sarebbero completamente cambiati per conseguenza dell'incipiente globalizzazione.
Explorer, adventurer, writer, photographer, journalist and inventor: Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1865-1924) is an extremely interesting figure, who had great success in life and, for still unclear reasons, fell into oblivion after his death.
Savage Landor was born in Florence to an English father and an Italian mother. He spent his childhood and adolescence in very lively intellectual circles, where literature and art were daily passions. Among his teachers was Stefano Ussi (1822-1901), who sensed the young man's skills and suggested his family to let him devote to painting. Leaving home to discover the world, young Henry first visited some countries in North Africa and America, then moved to Asia: Japan, Korea, China, where he made hundreds of paintings in real life.
The documentary uniqueness of his creations is evident: at a time when the immediacy of photography was already being exploited, he long insisted on painting en plein air.
Although he was well aware of Orientalist painting, he stayed strictly away from its edulcorated, fantastical visions and from its meticulously classic style, preferring to plunge into the real world of Asia and portray it in a modern artistic manner.
The style of the Anglo-Florentine artist, quick and concise, proves to be extremely effective in "photographing" places and people who would have completely changed after a few decades as a result of the incipient globalization.