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Business Trip to Hanoi Vietnam, Walking around with the Canon G10.
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-Nir
This concludes my Flag Ponds series.
- Whoops, I was mistaken! I have a couple more I forgot about - :-P
Evie and I came across this flag on a walk around the neighborhood.
Lyrics from K,naan (Waving Flag)
When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back
Born to a throne, stronger than Rome
But Violent prone, poor people zone
But it’s my home, all I have known
Where I got grown, streets we would roam
But out of the darkness, I came the farthest
Among the hardest survival
Learn from these streets, it can be bleak
Except no defeat, surrender retreat
So we struggling, fighting to eat and
We wondering when we’ll be free
So we patiently wait, for that fateful day
It’s not far away, so for now we say
When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back
So many wars, settling scores
Bringing us promises, leaving us poor
I heard them say, love is the way
Love is the answer, that’s what they say,
But look how they treat us, make us believers
We fight their battles, then they deceive us
Try to control us, they couldn’t hold us
Cause we just move forward like Buffalo Soldiers
But we struggling, fighting to eat
And we wondering, when we’ll be free
So we patiently wait, for that faithful day
It’s not far away, but for now we say
When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back
When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back
(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And everybody will be singing it
(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And you and I will be singing it
(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And we all will be singing it
(Ohhh Ohh Ohh Ohh)
When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back
When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back
When I get older, when I get older
I will be stronger, just like a Waving Flag
Just like a Waving Flag, just like a Waving flag
Flag, flag, Just like a Waving Flag.
Jasper Johns Flag 1954-55
"One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag," Johns said, "and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it." Those materials included three canvases that he mounted on plywood, strips of newspaper, and encaustic paint - a mixture of pigment and molten wax that has formed a quivering surface of lumps and smears. The legible newspaper scraps beneath the tactile surface - some dating from 1955 and 1956, when Johns repaired the painting - lend the timeless, public icon historical specificity. While this image is something "the mind already knows," Johns acknowledged, its execution complicates the representation and invites close inspection. A critic of the time encapsulated this painting's ambivalence by asking, "Is this a flag or a painting?"
Photo taken at MOMA March 2007.
Perkins Restaurants are famous for flying huge flags. I saw this one and some nice-looking clouds behind it after eating, so I went into the parking lot and took this shot. Unfortunately I had had the White Balance on Tungsten and with my free editing I couldn't get it all out.
(here we go again! -- NO INVITES OR ICONS PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!)
I think it says, "Sothport Dragon Boat Racing 2013"
If anyone does know what it says, please let me know!
Southport Dragon Boat Racing -- 14 04 2013
f/11
1/500s
ISO 200
I set my Nikon on continuous and fired away until the flag was in the exact position that I wanted. There were lots of shots missing the canton (blue part with the stars) since the only way to shoot the photo was underneath the flag. I also wanted the flag to have a "wave". I almost filled an 8GB card to get this shot. All the other photos that I took of the flag were underwhelming so I was very pleased to get this shot.
Grunge texture flag of Finland on vintage paper
EDIT 4/22/2013: This grunge flag is now released under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to the same free image from my website, www.freestock.ca
Isn't she cute?
Here's an example of a very contemporary drapo or Vudu/Vodou flag that is fully beaded. The beading on this flag is not padded as it is on the Obama/Baron Samedi drapo. The squarish object to her left in the photo is her mirror. She's got to look good for the sailors I guess.
This is an image of La Siren, the Queen of the Sea