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good morning / evening, my friends. it is not me who being sensitive. i'm being happy. but my flower being sensitive. it cries away when i told story about me being dumped. lol. sorry, my friend, i really love flower, i could die, so i post my flower again. can't promise, but i hope i can do something different tomorrow. have a great weekend, my friends. and keep smiling and shooting.
Onoclea sensibilis —aka sensitive fern— in...
DeKalb County (Forrest Hills), Georgia, USA.
24 May 2022.
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▶ "Onoclea sensibilis —the sensitive fern, also known as the bead fern— is a coarse-textured, medium to large-sized deciduous perennial fern. The name comes from its sensitivity to frost.
The fronds of Onoclea sensibilis have independent stalks originating from the same rhizome, quite different from other ferns. Clusters of spore cases (sorus), 1/10-1/6 inch in diameter (2–4 mm), appear like beads on upright fertile fronds, hence the common name 'bead fern.'
Onoclea sensibilis grows best in moist shaded or partially shaded areas, dwelling in a variety of swamp and wood habitats and roadside ditches. It is native to the Russian Far East, China, Eastern Asia, and North America, and has become naturalized in western Europe and New Zealand."
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— ISO: 200
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Substrate: Watercolour paper 180gsm
Light sensitive anthotype dye: Turmeric in alcohol and water
Development: ~8% w/v Sodium bicarbonate solution.
Application: dip
Opaque layer: Leaves from unknown deciduous tree.
Exposure time: 4 days intermittent winter sunlight plus 1.5h 365nm 100W UV lamp @5cm above anthotype.
JAMAL KHASHOGGI
Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (Medina, Saudi Arabia, 13 October 1958 – Istanbul, Turkey, 2 October 2018) was a Saudi journalist, political commentator, and dissident voice who became a global symbol of the price of truth when truth disturbs absolute power. His story is not that of an ordinary reporter: it is the story of a man who grew up within an authoritarian system, who understood the machinery of power from the inside, and who therefore knew exactly how propaganda can turn into violence.
Origins, family, and education
Khashoggi was born in Medina, one of the most important cities in Islam. He came from a well-connected and socially recognized Saudi background: his family had status and access, and he grew up close enough to institutions and elites to understand how authority truly functions. This point is crucial: Jamal Khashoggi was not a dissident “from the margins.” He was a man who knew the structure—and became dangerous precisely when he chose not to lie.
He studied and developed part of his education abroad, which helped shape a broader view of politics and freedom of expression. His professional identity was built on journalism rooted in facts and direct observation: he did not write to entertain, he wrote to expose.
Journalistic career and public role
For decades, Khashoggi worked as a journalist in Saudi Arabia and across the Arab world. He had close knowledge of political life and witnessed crises, wars, transformations, and power struggles. He wrote about sensitive subjects: corruption, extremism, internal repression, war, and the relationship between society and religious authority.
In this stage, his role was complex: on one side he was a journalist with access and connections; on the other he tried to preserve an independent space of thought. This tension reflects a country where speaking truth is always dangerous and every sentence becomes a negotiation with the limits imposed from above.
Exile and the choice to speak
In the final years of his life, as political repression intensified in Saudi Arabia and the control of critical voices grew harsher, Khashoggi increasingly collided with power. His public positions, his call for reform, his criticism of censorship, and his denunciation of arrests of opponents made him unacceptable to the regime.
He moved to the United States and began writing as a columnist for The Washington Post. At that point his voice became international—and therefore even more intolerable. He was no longer a manageable dissenter within the country’s borders: he had become a global witness.
Private life and his relationship with Hatice Cengiz
On a human level, Jamal Khashoggi was not only a political symbol: he was a man with a private life, love, and plans. He was engaged to Hatice Cengiz, who would later become a crucial witness after his disappearance. Their story makes the tragedy even more brutal: Khashoggi entered a building expecting to complete paperwork necessary to marry and build a life, and was instead erased.
His death: how, where, and why
On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, to obtain documents required for his marriage. He never came out.
International investigations and reconstructions indicate that he was lured into a trap: inside the consulate a team of Saudi agents was waiting. Khashoggi was killed and his body was made to disappear. The brutality of the operation—carried out inside a consulate, a formally diplomatic space—turned the case into a message to the world: no place is safe if power decides you must vanish.
The murder of Khashoggi was not “just another killing.” It was a political execution. An act of state terror against an unarmed man, guilty of only one thing: writing, criticizing, thinking.
Those who ordered it, and its historical meaning
Questions about who ordered the murder and higher-level responsibility have marked the entire case. The most disturbing truth is this: an operation of that kind is not the action of uncontrolled criminals, but the expression of a power structure capable of using death as a political instrument.
Khashoggi became a symbol of the violation of press freedom, the repression of dissidents, and the fragility of human rights when they collide with economic interests and geopolitical convenience.
Why Khashoggi belongs in this series
Jamal Khashoggi died for truth in a modern and terrifying way: not in a public execution, but through a planned disappearance, inside an official building, in the twenty-first century.
His death forces a question the world continues to avoid: how many times does global politics choose silence over justice when truth becomes inconvenient for the powerful?
I've never been into Architecture photography, but this was too perfect to be not shot.
Things are going so well for me, I hope it will last. I still have a long long road.
© Jeff R. Clow
I could wait for a long time and never have a better photo opportunity than this fleeting encounter between two tender souls.
I shot this of my wife caressing a baby wild rabbit as she returned it to the woods behind our house after it had wandered up to our back door......
An image of the South/West facade of the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute or IMA building) in Paris, France.
Visible behind the glass wall, a metallic screen unfolds with moving geometric motifs. The motifs are actually 240 photo-sensitive motor-controlled apertures, or shutters, which act as a sophisticated brise soleil that automatically opens and closes to control the amount of light and heat entering the building from the sun. The mechanism creates interior spaces with filtered light.
Basically, the building lets in the requisite amount of light, each of the shutters reminded me of the aperture of a camera (hence the title!), and the building is just as stunning inside as it is outside, well worth a visit if you are in Paris :)
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Stop watering the weeds in your life and start watering the flowers
Mimosa pudica also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, action plant, , touch-me-not, shame plant, or shy plant is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family, the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken, defending themselves from harm, and re-open a few minutes later.[Wikipedia]
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Littleleaf Sensitive-briar (a.k.a. Eastern Sensitive-briar, Sensitive Brier, Little Leaf Mimosa, Catclaw Sensitive Briar, Smooth-leaf Sensitive Briar, Pink Sensitive Briar, Shame Vine; Mimosa microphylla) - Woody Pond, Woody Pond Road Loop, Tiger Bay WMA (Wildlife Management Area), Daytona Beach, Florida (29.07768, -81.18110)
Check out the notes in the above image to learn more about this amazing little plant.
Name: Vrek Klilarn
Age: 20’s
Species: Trandoshan
Bio: During an early age, Vrek was fascinated with Jedi legends and stories of the Ghost crew, which he claimed his family has met Ahoska and Hera Syndulla as a kid. He didn’t really believe in the Scorekeeper and Jagannath points, but ironically, he still became a bounty hunter like most of his species and his family wanted him to do so.
During one of Corran Tamok’s travels, he encountered Vrek, who was looking for fresh kills and seeking money. Both fought over a canyon, but the fight resulted in stalemate. Corran convinced Vrek to stop hunting and pursue what he wanted, to which he agreed. Soon the two became fast friends and eventually, both developed a brotherly rivalry that led each other to sparring.
After Corran left, Vrek did bounty hunting as a part time job while he mainly focused on scrapping parts, recovering Jedi artifacts and traveling planets. He would eventually join Corran and his other friends on a quest.
Powers and abilities: As a Trandoshan, Vrek has infrared range which allows him to see distances thanks to his eyes, as well as being able to regenerate limbs and skin. He also has claws that enabled him to climb and fight better, notably beating five Wookies in combat weaponless. Due to his encounter with Corran and specific adventures, it is possible that Vrek is Force-sensitive as he was able to levitate a small rock to save a child, and also has a ability to repair lightsabers. Other than that, Vrek is a skilled sniper, gunslinger and combatant.
Equipment: A white discarded, slightly damaged Stormtrooper armour, which he gets mistaken as a First Order/Empire soldier a few times, protective clothing and garb, including baggy trousers. He carries two small black blaster pistols, which also functions as a whip. Also has a jetpack that he uses sometimes, various weapons.
Littleleaf Sensitive-briar (a.k.a. Eastern Sensitive-briar, Sensitive-briar, Sensitive Brier, Little Leaf Mimosa, Catclaw Sensitive Briar, Smooth-leaf Sensitive Briar, Pink Sensitive Briar, Shame Vine; Mimosa microphylla) - Bear Island Road (the path to Indian Lake), Tiger Bay State Forest, Volusia County, Florida (29.16435, -81.16479)
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Many large March flies were visiting the Stylidium. This fly was caught by the sensitive 'trigger' getting pollen on its thorax, moved to one side continuing to feed on nectar from the flower centre. It will visit another flower, be hit again by the 'trigger' thus mixing the pollen from the two flowers. An ingenious pollination process by Stylidium plants.
Photo: Fred
Every time I visit the Newton family I get to experience so much wonderful things that the time seem to double.. this November week in the Highlands was no exception but if I have to choose one single moment it was meeting this big, hairy and kind fellow.. after the Captain showed the way even sensitive me was brave enough to touch him. Made me cry.
Thanks Mike for giving me that moment <3
More to come later.