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That's it folks, another 365 project under my belt. This makes the 3rd time I have taken on this feat (selfies, macro, textured) and I can honestly say this will be the final attempt at such a project. Yes, I know, I said that after each of the first two but I am certain that this will NEVER happen again. I thought this edition would be easy as the image could be anything but what I have learned from this round is that many photos don't take kindly to having a texture added to them, so each day was a struggle to find images that would texture well.
Now, maybe I can concentrate on more fun shooting and not have to worry about getting that daily shot in. Sometimes I think that was all I was shooting for and it limited me. So, here's hoping 2014 will be shot differently.
For those of you who followed this journey, thanks for your interest and comments along the way.
Texture compliments of les brumes.
This is the third artwork I could find which was completed in honor of the victims of the Parkland shooting and their cause, and which is licensed to allow others to share it. This drawing is by Alex Hiam who posted it with the message: "Inspired by the kids protesting in Florida. They need our support". Alex is also on Flickr, and other work by the artist can be seen here:
www.flickr.com/photos/93345791@N04
Here is the list of students and teachers who were shot and killed in the school on that day (Valentine's Day, February 14, 2018):
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Alyssa Alhadeff, 14
Martin Duque, 14
Jaime Guttenberg, 14
Cara Loughran, 14
Gina Montalto, 14
Alaina Petty, 14
Alex Schachter, 14
Luke Hoyer, 15
Peter Wang, 15
Carmen Schentrup, 16
Nicholas Dworet, 17
Joaquin Oliver, 17
Helena Ramsay, 17
Meadow Pollack, 18
Scott Beigel, 35
Aaron Feis, 37
Chris Hixon, 49
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On 24 March 2018 In DC and other cities, hundreds of thousands of students and others marched to demand common sense gun control in the wake of deadly school shootings in the U.S.
What the!! Well I'll give this water droplet photography a go... How hard can it be ehh, just drop some water into a glass and hit the shutter!! The only one out of hundreds!! Need one of those fancy laser trigger type things that Colins got!!
Think I'm going out light painting instead of this!
The Morris Mini-Traveller was launched in the public arena in autumn 1960. This was an estate version with windows of the Morris Mini-Minor four-seater small car that had been launched in 1959.
When I was 18 years old, I had a boyfriend who drove a Morris Mini-Traveller. He took me to his local pub and put a 10p piece in the pub’s fruit machine. He somehow managed to win the jackpot but the machine only paid out in tokens which had to be spent in the pub. It was almost 10pm so boyfriend recommended I tried a triple vodka + grapefruit juice. With one token left, he put it in the fruit machine and won again! It was a race to consume another 2 drinks before the pub called time! I was not a well bunny and he was too frightened to take me home as I was almost green in colour! I have never touched vodka since.
The Boston event began at 9AM in Roxbury at the Madison Park Technical & Vocational High School, from where students and supporters marched down Columbus Ave through Boston's South End to Park Square, ending on Boston Common our a massive rally. While police estimated that 50,000 people marched, that doesn't include the many thousands who lined the march route, held signs, and cheered on the marchers, or the many people who attended the rally on Boston Common but did not march. Organizers estimated that more than 100,000 people marched and rallied on Boston Common, which is easy to believe seeing photos of the event.
never again to feel her small hand in mine
never again to smell the scent of her baby skin
never again to smooth her pretty dress
never again to hear her laughter in the breeze
never again to see her small feet dance
never again...
©Teag Mcgillivary
Thousands of protesters armed with placards filled most of Whitehall outside Downing Street. They were rallying to demand that prime minister Theresa May repudiate Donald Trump's shameful blanket entry ban on all Syrian, Iraqi, Somali, Yemeni, Iranian, Sudanese and Libyan nationals for the next 90 days as well as the indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees.
Some also demanded that his planned state visit as a guest of the queen be revoked and that the British government also take decisive action to help desparate refugees and ease the conditions within the UK for asylum seekers.
An estimated ten thousand gathered outside Downing Street including human rights activist Peter Tatchel, former England striker Gary Lineker and singer Lily Allen.
Among the most frequent chants heard were "May shame on you", "dump Trump", "build bridges not walls" and "refugees are welcome here". Protesters pointed out that all the countries effected were Muslim majority nations and yet none of the countries targeted had any nationals implicated in any recent terrorist attack within the United States.
Ironically it is US foreign policy in the Middle East, including years of bombing and support for regional dictators that is one of the main causes of the current refugee crisis.
folk art American flag.
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
On 24 March 2018 In DC and other cities, hundreds of thousands of students and others marched to demand common sense gun control in the wake of deadly school shootings in the U.S.
Thousands of protesters armed with placards filled most of Whitehall outside Downing Street. They were rallying to demand that prime minister Theresa May repudiate Donald Trump's shameful blanket entry ban on all Syrian, Iraqi, Somali, Yemeni, Iranian, Sudanese and Libyan nationals for the next 90 days as well as the indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees.
Some also demanded that his planned state visit as a guest of the queen be revoked and that the British government also take decisive action to help desparate refugees and ease the conditions within the UK for asylum seekers.
An estimated ten thousand gathered outside Downing Street including human rights activist Peter Tatchel, former England striker Gary Lineker and singer Lily Allen.
Among the most frequent chants heard were "May shame on you", "dump Trump", "build bridges not walls" and "refugees are welcome here". Protesters pointed out that all the countries effected were Muslim majority nations and yet none of the countries targeted had any nationals implicated in any recent terrorist attack within the United States.
Ironically it is US foreign policy in the Middle East, including years of bombing and support for regional dictators that is one of the main causes of the current refugee crisis.
CLOSE THE CAMPS - Day 28 of a month of actions outside ICE San Francisco
August 28 - Day 28 - Fat & Disability Communities Unite to CLOSE the Camps!
An amazing and powerful turnout by the Fat & Disability communities to Day 28 of this month of noon rallies in front of ICE in San Francisco!
From the organizers of Day 28:
"Calling all Fat people, all Disabled people, all Seniors, all our loved ones, and anyone who has experienced being separated, shut away, controlled, disposed of, incarcerated in prisons, nursing homes, fat camps, psych institutions, or generally told they are the problem for society’s woes to UNITE in solidarity with migrants. Together we demand an end to the brutal treatment of migrants, an end to concentration camps, and an end to ICE. We know Disabled POC are at greater risk for incarceration and deportation. And we know that part of disability justice means we must absolutely hold community members whose impairments are created intentionally as a result of state terror, incarceration, border policing, war, and so many tools of domination. As Disabled and Fat people of many communities, we know and therefore must insist:
NO BODY IS DISPOSABLE!
WE ARE RESILIENT AND STILL HERE!
WE WILL NOT ALLOW THE ERASURE OF IMMIGRANTS!"
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This rally was part of the Month of Momentum: 30 Days of Action to Close the Camps (ICE SF)
On April 24, Armenians commemorate the genocide that took place at the hands of the Ottoman Turks beginning in 1915. By its end about 1923, about 1.5 million Armenians had been slaughtered and their population displaced from Anatolia. There were many contemporary accounts written of these events, which filled American newspapers at the time. After World War I Turkey even began a process of trying the perpetrators. In the aftermath of the genocide the term 'crimes against humanity' was coined. Then realpolitik emerged and the Armenians were forgotten. On the eve of the holocaust Hitler famously asked 'who now speaks of the murder of the Armenians?'
We Armenians, wherever we live, will not forget, nor will we allow the world to forget. In recent years a number of nations, notably France and Canada, have recognized the genocide. Several times legislation has been proposed in the United States and received wide bipartisan support, but fails in the face of Turkish pressure. I have personally know people who lost parents, grandparents, siblings and children in this, the first genocide of the 20th century. After 93 years, most of these survivors are gone but they are not forgotten.
This sign is displayed at the Armenian Church of Our Saviour, here in Worcester.
You may notice a gap in the comments as I seem to be having a dialouge with no one. I got into it with a Turkish revisionist. I am clearly not going to convince him and he certainly isn't going to convince me of anything. This is the same with Holocaust deniers. There is no point in discussing anything with them.
--Gen. Roméo Dallaire
Genocide Memorial.
Nyamata, Rwanda.
June, 2005.
Links/Books on the Genocide in Darfur:
spaces.msn.com/stopsudangenocide/ (fantastic)
www.genocideintervention.net/GIF_index.php
www.darfurgenocide.org/index.php
www.kukummi.org/frame.html (for high schoolers)
www.passionofthepresent.org/ (outstanding)
WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT DARFUR
hrw.org/english/docs/2004/06/24/darfur8954.htm
Gerard Prunier's Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide.
Please visit www.flickr.com/photos/josephwenkoff/sets/72057594070852804/ for dignifying images of a genocidaire.
Mother with Child Portraits from Rwanda By Kresta K.C. Venning Book Preview
On 24 March 2018 In DC and other cities, hundreds of thousands of students and others marched to demand common sense gun control in the wake of deadly school shootings in the U.S.
San Francisco Pride 2025 — there were approximately 50,000 people marching, and 250,000 in-person spectators.
All of us are tired of being indoors due to rain. We did venture out barefooted in the rain--due to stir-crazy-ness. The little one loved it--going out again today.
This is 6th St., not the main area on Pennsylvania Avenue, but the crowds were so immense that the police cars were enveloped.
Just bloomed. Watched it's astonlishingly rapid growth with amazement. Was a lovely Christmas present.
For June 12th, 2018, closing in on the second anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub Massacre in Orlando, Florida, there were nationwide protests led by youth to call for better gun regulations and safer schools. The cause became even more urgent in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas School Shooting in Parkland, Florida, on March 7, 2018, and the continued refusal by politicians funded by the National Rifle Association to do anything about gun violence.
As the Pulse had been a nightclub catering to gay men and transgender women of Latino/Latina backgrounds, there was a lot of intersectional advocacy at the protest on behalf of LGBT and people of color communities as well.
I was honored to witness the Los Angeles rally and die-in next to City Hall.
The keynote speaker was actress Alyssa Milano.
San Francisco Pride 2025. This was my first time participating as a marcher in any Pride parade, and to have be in SF… well, that was one of the highlights of my life.
Eventually, there were 7 of us, but we were semi-officially attached to State Senator Scott Wiener's contingent, so we were in position 27 of around 210. This means we didn't have to wait too long to start the parade, and the crowd was still at the peak of fierce, joyful energy.
… you must whip it….
… When something's going wrong,
You must whip it
Whip it good
Leather fetishists at SF Pride
Thousands of protesters armed with placards filled most of Whitehall outside Downing Street. They were rallying to demand that prime minister Theresa May repudiate Donald Trump's shameful blanket entry ban on all Syrian, Iraqi, Somali, Yemeni, Iranian, Sudanese and Libyan nationals for the next 90 days as well as the indefinite ban on all Syrian refugees.
Some also demanded that his planned state visit as a guest of the queen be revoked and that the British government also take decisive action to help desparate refugees and ease the conditions within the UK for asylum seekers.
An estimated ten thousand gathered outside Downing Street including human rights activist Peter Tatchel, former England striker Gary Lineker and singer Lily Allen.
Among the most frequent chants heard were "May shame on you", "dump Trump", "build bridges not walls" and "refugees are welcome here". Protesters pointed out that all the countries effected were Muslim majority nations and yet none of the countries targeted had any nationals implicated in any recent terrorist attack within the United States.
Ironically it is US foreign policy in the Middle East, including years of bombing and support for regional dictators that is one of the main causes of the current refugee crisis.