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Calgary is complicated. It is a Cowtown and an oil town, after oil and natural gas was discovered in Alberta in 1947. Fortunes rise and fall in Calgary according to the international crude prices. International oil companies compete with home-grown players and they come and go due to many economic, business and political factors.
Shell Centre, Shell Canada's offices in Calgary. Shell Canada is part of the Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell plc.
400 4 Avenue SW, Calgary
The story behind this image;
July 2014, Greenpeace posted a powerful video on Youtube asking Lego to drop their corporate partnership with Shell. To be fair, they don't need it (unless the oil provides cheap plastic, but thats not been mentioned). Lego responded with the following statement.
"A co-promotion contract like the one with Shell is one of many ways we are able to bring LEGO® bricks into the hands of more children."
Which is bullshit. There are plenty of other ethical co-promotion opportunities. And please don't bring the children in to it. Manipulative. 'wont somebody think of the children.'
But there is no need to make Lego a scapegoat here. Unless you live in a handmade bamboo shack without any power or connection to civilisation you are part of the problem. Thats the planet we live on.
My personal objection came on the 11th July, when Warner Bros had YouTube remove the video! Another massive "co-promotion contract" stepping in, and preventing Greenpeace to share an opinion. It was a bad PR move and showed a misunderstanding of modern communication and how we share ideas.
So I used my #minifig365 instagram.com/minifig365 project to keep the message out there, albeit a small gesture. Everything is NOT Awesome.
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back lit cactus to the morning sun...
see flickr.com/photos/silkway/2170761288/ for another try directly to the sun...
more shots below...
Shell Creek runs through Shell Canyon in the Bighorn Mountains of Big Horn County, Wyoming. This photo was taken just to the west of the stock bridge near the canyon mouth east of the little town of Shell.
Some call this Liswi and some call this Bongkawil or Aninikad. Whatever is that the soup is good and this menu will keep you busy pulling the small meat inside using a safety pins.
For some of you in other countries, this kind of shell is new to you. But for Filipinos this is a good food to eat.
Macro Mondays - theme white background.
This was a hard one to do since the shells were also white. But I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.
I found the owls on sale several years ago and finally decided to use the crushed shell on them. Since the picture I dry-brushed a light gray paint around the edge of the head so that it shows up better from a distance. Several others have aqua stars and glitter tile pieces within the shell. They are kind of funky fun! :)
Walk-by shooting, tonight. Too many trees to see the old fashioned Shell design. Must return in Winter.
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
--Rumi
Passing Dungeness power station, Romney Marsh, Kent, England.
The date is unknown, however Dungeness 'A' was opened in 1965, and as this is a black and white photo, I suggest it was taken circa 1965.
A Shell Tankers (UK) Ltd. vessel.
Launched on 20/11/1956, and completed during may 1957, by Smith's Dock Co., South Bank, Middlesbrough, England 🇬🇧 (1243)
12,189 g.t. & 19,964 dwt., as:
'Haminella' until sold to Spain for demolition.
Arrived Vinaroz on 28/04/1976.
From the collection of the late Shell Master, Captain John Cusson, and with the kind permission of Pat Cusson, John's widow.