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Renri is the 7th day of Zhengyue, the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar. According to Chinese customs, Renri was the day human beings were created.
Caminando por la ciudad de Trujillo, me tope con estas dos señoritas, y me di cuenta de que seria el momento perfecto para una foto de ellas pasando por el marco de puerta. Me dio suficiente tiempo para sacar la cámara y hacer la toma.
-Walking through the city of Trujillo, I met these two ladies, and I realized that it would be the perfect time for a photo of them passing through the door frame. He gave me enough time to get the camera out and make the shot.
From The People of Detroit Photodocumentary
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There are two weather conditions that make for great street portrait light: 1) overcast days when the sun's harsh light is scattered by clouds and 2) Sunset/sunrise when the sun's light is warm and directional but not too harsh as it is partially diffused by the oblique path it travels through the earth's atmosphere.
This is Iyende. She is a make-up artist and transplant from Ohio. She was kind enough to let me photograph her recently as the sun set on the city. I think Iyende photographs well, don't you?
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Noah Stephens founded The People of Detroit Photodocumentary in April 2010 as a counterpoint to media fixated on despair and disrepair in the storied birthplace of American auto manufacturing. Since, TPOD has received national and international attention. Portraits from the project have appeared in Bloomberg BusinessWeek and other national publications.
In early 2011, a creative director saw the project online and hired Noah to shoot an ad campaign for McDonald's Corporation in Shanghai, China.
The People of Detroit Photodocumentary is funded in part by a grant from CEOS for Cities and the John S. And James L. Knight Foundation.
NAMIBIA - 20/31 AGOSTO 2019
Viaggio fotografico in collaborazione con ATGlobe Tour operator
We have a Minneapolis Councilperson, Lisa Bender, who has quite a self-centered vision of what Minneapolis SHOULD be . . . high density housing and no cars, only bicycles. She has her followers every bit as detrimental to the notion of an inclusive urban community as Lisa is herself.
Lisa is a one-agenda airhead. Even when nightly weekend shoots in down town Minneapolis were plaguing the city, Bender and her male, and equally airheaded colleague, Cam Gorden, were addressing such earth-shattering plagues as prohibiting plastic bags and menthol cigarettes.
Lisa's solipsistic view is that even in winter people will ride to work and perform other errands.
Lisa Bender is bat-crap crazy. A Mosow model and photographer very atune to global weather, commented, "Your winters are much like Moscow's"
Yes, Lisa, a woman 4900 miles away in Moscow has noticed what you have failed to notice . . . it's gets damn cold and heaped with snow in Minnesota.
Now I like riding my bike around the lakes, on the Greenway, down by the backwaters of the Mississippi. In fact this photo was prompted by the connection I see between bike riding and good health.
Unfortunately, I may not be the "right kind" of Progressive willing to ride my bike with snow drifting up to my bike's hubs.
The look of uncertainty on this young high school student's face and of those around her was particularly poignant since I took it at Minneapolis City Hall during a student protest against proliferation of guns.
I say, "poignant" because no young person should be in fear of their life when in school . . . or anywhere for that matter . . . but certainly in school.
That hit me pretty hard to see these young people exhibit wariness of their surroundings . . . there was little joy and laughter that day.
That's really, really, sad and heart rending.
Boxing in Cuba (18)
A young six-year old boy watches a fight between two boxers on the ring of a gym in Guanabacoa, a colonial township in eastern Havana.
Cuban children today begin to box at 8 or 10 years of age. There’s no time to lose—there are many competitors in an island filled with boxers. If you don’t start to train at an early age, you’ll never get to be a champ. Also, Cubans are famous for their skills in all combat sports. A chain of gyms throughout the country give young boys the chance to practice boxing under all requisite rules and regulations as well as safety measures. “Sport is the right of the people” is the slogan of the National Institute of Sport, Physical Education and Recreation.
One of the seven hills on the roof at the new California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Installation is now underway on the largest living roof in California, a 2.5-acre expanse of native plants atop the museum under construction and set to open in 2008. Hailed as the most complicated roof ever constructued by architects and contractors alike, the 2.5-acre roof features seven dramatic hills blanketed with nine species of native California plants. This innovative roof, which creates a new link in the ecological corridor for wildlife, will make the museum--both figuratively and literally--the greenest ever constructed. Design by Pritzker Prize winner Renzo Piano, the new building is expected to be the first museum to achieve a LEED platinum certification and will stand as an embodiment of the Academy's mission to explore, explain and protect the natural world.
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The photo is from Scarborough, early spring 1995 from when this building allowed people to paint between the loading docs. Wall by Duro3 and shouts to the security guard who didn't shoo us away but showed us around. This is just past the East side 13 wall I've posted a few times.
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I recently had my extensive photodocumentary project featured on a wonderful site called Tidings of Magpies. They reached out to me and we had a long talk on some interests of mine which never fell off. It's pretty long and it has a stack of photos with it. It's all about my interests and motivations tied up in 29 years of documenting the same (changing) landscape of graffiti. They have a really interesting mix of the arts on their website. This is the good arts/creative content you have been looking for. And yes, I guess I do Infact live in the past.
I'll post bits of it with some old photos. Or you can read the whole thing here: magpiesmagazine.com/2023/03/22/living-in-the-past-an-inte...
The Darul Quba mosque is on a little traveled street in the Cedar-Riverside area of Minneapolis. That back area is suffuse with excellent prospects for photo compositions, IMO.
I saw this gentleman towards the mosque and in the flat lighting of mid-day he wasn't well-defined with his light robes in the overhead sunlight. So, I waited until he got into the shade of the doorway before I took this photo.
As you know, salat is "The ritual prayer of Muslims, performed five times daily in a set form, one of the Five Pillars of Islam.I gathered that since it was noon, the man was on the way to mid-day prayer . . . called dhuhr.
Darul Quba also serves as a cultural center and is the site of inter-faith, educational, and social events.
The Days We Wear Masks 20210226
Health officials have ordered everyone working at Tsim Sha Tsui’s K11 MUSEA mall to undergo mandatory Covid-19 tests, as a cluster linked to a restaurant there continues to expand.
On Saturday, authorities reported 15 more new cases linked to the Ming’s Chinese Dining cluster, bringing the tally of infections related to the restaurant to 34 people.
The Centre for Health Protection’s Dr Chuang Shuk-kwan said more than 60 people who’ve visited the restaurant around the same time with the patients have been quarantined, and authorities are still tracing about a dozen more who dined there.
Chuang added everyone working at the K11 MUSEA mall has been ordered to undergo mandatory tests as a precaution.
“We are not sure about the exact risks of those visitors to the K11 Musea. Since we have observed a possibly super spreading event in that restaurant and there are also quite a number of staff and patrons getting infected, it is possible the infections may not just occur in the restaurant because the staff may be infectious during entrance or in the mall,” she said.
She also called on people who’ve been to the mall on or after February 19 to pay attention to their health or get tested.
(20210228 RTHK News)
Architect: Frank Ghery
The ultra modern exterior of the Weisman, (in photostream) belies the bright, airy, interior with beautiful hardwood floors throughout. This is the mail gallery that leads to the other galleries..
The permanent collection is augmented periodically by special exhibits. The museum also provides work-study opportunities for students.
"The building is one of the major landmarks on campus, situated on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River at the east end of the Washington Avenue Bridge. The building presents two faces, depending on which side it is viewed from. From the campus side, it presents a brick facade that blends with the existing brick and sandstone buildings. On the opposite side, is an abstraction of a waterfall and a fish in curving and angular brushed steel sheets."
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"The Weisman’s permanent collection includes over 25,000 works of art and is especially rich in the areas of American modernism, ceramics, Mimbres pottery, and Korean furniture."
Dōbutsuen-mae Station (動物園前駅 Dōbutsuenmae-eki, Shinsekai) is a railway station on the Osaka Municipal Subway in Nishinari-ku, Osaka, Japan. The name in English means "in front of the zoo". It is one of the nearest stations to the Tennōji Zoo and Tsutenkaku.
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I am humbled and delighted that BLURB featured on their blog my labor of love, the photo book "Thirty Three Doors" as INDIE BOOK OF THE WEEK !!
Check it out here : blog.blurb.com/indie-book-week-doors/
Heather started out in photography as an undergrad arts major at St. Kate's in St. Paul. Now the Mom of two bright teenage daughters and the "Boss Lady" of Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center (www.cafac.org), Heather is heavily involved in the arts community of the Twin Cities. Her website is very interesting to browse.
Heather arranges classes for 8yo on up. She currently has a group of city young people who take to the discipline of learning fire arts safely. I'm really grateful to Heather for allowing me access to photograph and get to meet these really great kids do things very few of the peers will get to do in their lifetime. She's got a super sense of humor that goes a long way with the young people . . . and anyone who meets her has well.
I'm especially delighted to see young women take to these arts. Heather is a terrific role model for young persons and especially for young women.
Her artistry and collaboration with other artists has produced any number of public works just "hanging around" the Twin Cities. Recently she had a speaker who made artistic, sculpted prosthetics.