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my friends Rami..expressing at the demonstrations in Beirut down town....
..another part of the lebanese...but we are all one..
This was shot a while back and unfortunately i was just starting to learn how to use GND filters. I learned the hard way that combining them can lead to some nasty color casting on the final output. I really like this shot so i decided to take a different approach on it and convert it to b&w. Since i'm a beginner with conversion, i'm not so sure how it looks but i figured i'd post it anyway. :)
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many thanks to varuni7 for the complete processing and the harmonious cooperation!
Girls in the remote mountainous regions of Pakistan do not have access to even basic education. They stay at home, helping their mothers with daily chores till the time they are old enough to be married off at an early age. I took this photo one September Monday morning. Their expressions were so natural and innocent even though their mothers were standing behind them in the fields, smiling as I was taking this shot.
Although self expression may not have been a concept to the Neanderthals, it has become one of the most important parts of life for some modern humans. To me, this art represents the desire to succeed along with the struggles of comparing yourself to others like you (as the penguin cannot fly, but tries anyway because it is a bird). If future archeologists discovered this art, they may conclude that our society had left certain individuals feeling a sense of struggle against the odds, but a determination to succeed against them. Without context however, there is nothing to say that those future scientists might not think we literally and ritualistically tied penguins to balloons as sacrifices for our deities.
"-Why did you make sex so good, so spectacular, so powerful a human experience if all we are to do is stay away from it as much as we can? What gives?
-There is so much more to be said about sex than is being said here - but nothing more essential than this: sex is joy, and many of you have made sex everything else but.
Sex is sacred, too - yes. But joy and sacredness do mix (they are in fact the same thing) and many of you think they are not.
Your attitudes about sex form a microcosm of your attitudes about life. Life should be a joy, a celebration, and it has become an experience of fear, anxiety, "not enough-ness," envy, rage, and tragedy. The same can be said about sex.
You have repressed sex, even as you have repressed life, rather than fully Self-expressing with abandon and joy.
You have shamed sex, even as you have shamed life, calling it evil and wicked, rather than the highest gift and the greatest pleasure.
The energy which underscores sex is the energy which underscores life; which is life!. The feeling of attraction and the intense and often urgent desire to move toward each other, to become one, is the essential dynamic of all that lives. I have built this into everything. It is inbred, inherent, inside All That Is.
The moral codes, religious constrictions, social taboos and emotional conventions you have placed around sex (and by the way, around love - and all of life) have made it virtually impossible for you to celebrate your being.
From the beginning of time all man has ever wanted is to love and be loved. And from the beginning of time man has done everything in his power to make it impossible to do that. Sex is an extraordinary expression of love - love of another, love of Self, love of life. You ought to therefore love it!"
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"The actions of the body were meant to be reflections of a state of being, not attempts to attain a state of being"
Conversations with God
N. D. Walsch
A dolmen (also known as cromlech (Welsh), anta, Hünengrab, Hunebed, Goindol, quoit, and portal dolmen) is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table). Most date from the early Neolithic period (4000 to 3000 BC). Dolmens were usually covered with earth or smaller stones to form a barrow, though in many cases that covering has weathered away, leaving only the stone "skeleton" of the burial mound intact.
"Dolmen" originates from the expression taol maen, which means "stone table" in Breton, and was first used archaeologically by Théophile Corret de la Tour d'Auvergne. The etymology of the German Hünenbett or Hünengrab and Dutch Hunebed all evoke the image of giants building the structures. Of other Celtic languages, "cromlech" derives from Welsh and "quoit" is commonly used in Cornwall. Anta is the term used in Portugal, and dös in Sweden.
Megalithic tombs are found from the Baltic Sea and North Sea coasts south to Spain and Portugal. Hunebedden are chamber tombs similar to dolmens and date to the middle Neolithic (Funnelbeaker culture, 4th millennium BC). They consist of a kerb surrounding an oval mound which covered a rectangular chamber of stones with the entrance on one of the long sides. Some have a more complex layout and include an entrance passage giving them a T-shape. It has been suggested that this means they are related to the passage graves found in Denmark and elsewhere.
Dolmen sites fringe the Irish Sea and are found in south-east Ireland, Wales, Devon and Cornwall. In Ireland, however, dolmens are more to be found on the west coast, particularly in the Burren and Connemara, where some of the more well-known examples, such as Poulnabrone dolmen, are to be found. Examples have also been found in northern Ireland where they may have co-existed with the court cairn tombs. It is thought that the dolmens themselves evolved from a simpler cist burial method.
A great many examples can also be found on the Channel Island of Jersey, such as La Pouquelaye de Faldouet, La Hougue des Géonnais and La Sergenté. The most famous of these sites is La Hougue Bie a 6,000 year old neolithic site that sits inside a large mound; later a chapel was built on the top of the mound.
Amongst the vast Neolithic collections of the Carnac stones in Brittany, France, several dozen dolmens are found. And all around the country, several dolmens still stand, such as the ones of Passebonneau and des Gorces near Saint-Benoît-du-Sault.
Various menhirs and dolmens are located around the Mediterranean islands of Malta and Gozo. Pottery uncovered in these structures allowed the attribution of the monuments to the Tarxien cemetery culture of the Early Bronze Age.[1] This later culture is not to be confused with the Neolithic inhabitants of Malta, who built the Tarxien Temples circa 3100 BC.
In France, important megalithic zones are situated in Brittany, Vendée, Quercy and in the south of France (Languedoc, Rouergue and Corsica). More than 10,000 dolmens and menhirs cover a large part of the country (west and south). Importants menhirs alignments in Brittany (Carnac's alignments count more than 1,000 menhirs)
In Spain dolmens can be found in Galicia (such as Axeitos, pictured below), Catalonia (like Romanyà de la Selva or Creu d'en Cobertella) and Andalusia (like the Cueva de Menga).
Dolmens can be found all over Portugal, from simple ones [1] to the more complex examples of megalithic architecture, such as the Almendres Cromlech or the Anta Grande do Zambujeiro.
In Mecklenburg and Pomerania (Germany) and Drenthe (The Netherlands), large numbers of these graves were disturbed when harbours, towns, and cities were built. The boulders were used in construction and road building. There are still many thousands left today in Europe.
In Italy some dolmens can be found in the south (Puglia) and in Sardinia.
In Bulgaria there are many dolmens, and more are being recorded by archaeologists.
The largest dolmen in Europe is the Brownshill Dolmen in County Carlow, Ireland. Its capstone weighs about 150 tonnes
Les dolmens de Kerbourg ou aussi "dolmens de l'ile de la Motte", sont des allées couvertes situées sur la commune de Saint-Lyphard, à proximité du Village de La Madeleine (commune de Guérande), dans le département de la Loire-Atlantique, en France.
Les dolmens de Kerbourg sont situés au sud-ouest du hameau de Kerbourg, près de La Madeleine, à peu près à mi-distance entre Saint-Lyphard et Guérande, sur le bord d'un champ et est accessible grâce à un chemin, à coté des moulins.
Lors du défrichement des landes en 1874-1876 au sommet de la colline de Kerbourg, près des moulins à vent, deux dolmens ont été dégagés. Le ou les (?) cairns ont alors été arasés ne laissant que la partie mégalithique en place.
L'aspect de ces sépultures devait être celui du cairn de Gavrinis, ou celui du tumulus de Dissignac à Saint-Nazaire.
Les dolmens de Kerbourg sont classés à l'inventaire des monuments historiques depuis 1951.
Datant du néolithique ancien ou moyen (vers 4500 / 4000 avant JC), d'une longueur de 7 mètres et d'une largeur de 3, souvent qualifié d'allée couverte, il s'agit en réalité d'un dolmen à couloir (dit en P)[1]. Il est constitué d'un corridor débouchant sur une chambre plus haute et plus large.
La structure mégalithique est bien conservée et est toujours recouverte par quatre tables de granite. Son style de construction est à rapprocher du Tumulus de Dissignac. Ce dolmen était auparavant recouvert d'un cairn, actuellement disparu et dont les derniers vestiges ont probablement été arasé lors du défrichement de 1874-1876. Un dessin de 1866-1867 montre le dolmen dans la même configuration qu'aujourd'hui[2]. Les fouilles sommaires de l'époque ont montré que ces sépultures avaient été vidées à la fin du Néolithique, au Campaniforme, et pillées à l'époque romaine. (Fouillé par le Capitaine Lukis, le produit de ces fouilles non publiées serait, sous toute réserve, au British Museum, à Londres)
Ce second dolmen, probablement de même nature que le précédent, est très ruiné. Seuls subsistent des éléments de la chambre sépulcrale, sur le bord du chemin, une vingtaine de mètres après Kerbourg 1. Elle a fait l'objet de fouilles sommaires de M. Benoist, notaire à Guérande, puis par H. Quilgars en avril 1897.
A proximité des dolmens de Kerbourg, de l'autre coté de la route reliant Guérande à Saint-Lyphard, se trouve le menhir de la Pierre Blanche (ou menhir de La Madeleine). C'est un bloc de quartz blanc, haut de plus de 2 m. Un second menhir se trouvait à proximité immédiate, mais il a été détruit au début du XXe siècle.
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I was just taking pictures. I have no idea why these expressions happened. But, Sally is the cockatoo . . .
David Dickinson & Mathew Jinks prepare to tackle during Morpeth's narrow victory this afternoon by 22-20 at Mitford Road. Much enjoyed being 'back home' for a change where I think I know most of the blades of grass!
We usually point our camera where the action is.
Some times you can capture good expressions from the people who are watching the action.
Here is a 84 year old lady adoringly watching her husband singing.
how far can devotion go? well it can go as far as your faith tells you to. from the dawn of civilization people have been showing their veneration to god through different methods which only the individual will see fit in his own way to express his devotion. many of these ways have become customs and traditions in different cultures. to some it may even be caring for a statue of the child jesus and caring for it just like a child, bathing it and changing its clothes everyday because they believe this form of expression of their devotion will bring them security and good blessings. in manila there is an industry that makes a living out of selling clothes for different saints for any occasion or just for daily use. some of these clothes are very elaborate and very colourful!
Capturing the expressions of smokers... kind of scary how it can be addicting.
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© 2012 Teresa Escamilla, All rights reserved.
The Internet Freedom Fellows program funded by the U.S. Department of State and managed by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, brings human rights activists from across the globe to Geneva, Washington, and Silicon Valley to meet with fellow activists, U.S. and international government leaders, and members of civil society and the private sector engaged in technology and human rights. A key goal of the program is to share experiences and lessons learned on the importance of a free Internet to the promotion of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly as fundamental human rights. The Fellows are in Geneva June 19-22 during the 20th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. This year’s Internet Freedom Fellows, all human rights activists and active practitioners of digital media, are from Syria, India, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Venezuela and Azerbaijan. In Geneva they will participate in a global conversation, webcast from the United Nations, on “Global Networks, Individual Freedoms” Wednesday, June 20 at 1000 EDT (14:00 UTC).
The 2012 Fellows are:
Dlshad Othman (Syria): Mr. Othman is a Syrian activist and IT engineer who provides Syrians with digital security resources and assistance so that they can utilize online communications and advocacy freely and securely in spite of increased online government repression in the form of censorship, sophisticated cyber attacks, and intense surveillance.
Pranesh Prakash (India): Mr. Prakash is a program manager at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore. He works primarily in areas where technology and public policy intersect, engaging in research and policy advocacy on issues relating to online freedom of expression, access to knowledge, intellectual property rights reform, and Internet governance.
Koundjoro Gabriel Kambou (Burkina Faso): Mr. Kambou is a journalist-reporter at Lefaso.net and an animator of blogs. He campaigns for and promotes human rights and the values of democracy and freedom of the press. He publishes videos and articles to sensitize people to and educate them on human rights issues.
Sopheap Chak (Cambodia): Ms. Chak is the Program Director of the Cambodia Center for Human Rights (CCHR) and is one of Cambodia’s leading human rights bloggers. She mobilizes young activists around the country in civic engagement through the Cambodian Youth Network for Change. She is a contributing author for Global Voice Online, UPI Asia Online, and Furutre Challenges.
Andres Azpurua (Venezuela): Mr. Azpurua is committed to generating digital tools that empower Venezuelans to better exercise their human rights. He has contributed o the creation of a digital platform that promotes and defends voters’ rights. He is also the founder of a digital initiative that seeks to build a volunteer base from civil society to promote the right of association in Venezuela.
Emin Milli (Azerbaijan): Mr. Milli is a writer and a dissident who has actively used online networking tools to spread information about human rights violations in Azerbaijan. He was imprisoned for 16 months for his critical views about the government of Azerbaijan. He was conditionally released in 2010 and is currently writing his dissertation in London on “New Media and Arab Revolutions”.
U.S. Mission Photo by Eric Bridiers