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Summer silhouettes against a burnt orange, summer sunset.
In this scene a young boy is swatting at and/or trying to capture a bug. If you look close enough you can see the insect.
The Swat River (Urdu: دریائے سوات, Pashto: سوات سیند) is a perennial river in the northern region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. The river's source is in the high glacial valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains, where it then flows into the scenic Kalam Valley before forming the spine of the wider Swat valley – an important tourist destination in northern Pakistan for its scenic beauty, and former stronghold of the ancient Gandhara region with numerous ancient Buddhist sites scattered through the region.
The Sanskrit name may mean "clear blue water." Another theory derives the word Swat from the Sanskrit word shveta (lit. 'white'), also used to describe the clear water of the Swat River. To the ancient Greeks, the river was known as the Soastus. The Chinese pilgrim Faxian referred to Swat as the Su-ho-to.
I don’t normally place much belief in dreams, but this time it was so powerful I actually got out of bed to start working on it before I forgot. I was “told” that I had to create several images that are black and white (not monochrome) with the emphasis on white, framed, contain people, and a bit of color. Oh yeah, the titles had to start with L, M, F, B, Q, or A (that’s the order I was given). After a couple of days, this collection is what I came up with. I also threw in a couple starting with S and T just for shits and giggles.
The beautiful valley of Swat which was once considered Switzerland of Pakistan and was one of Pakistan’s most attractive tourist destination is today a battle scene between Pakistan armed forces and the Taliban.
The human exodus from the war-torn Swat valley in northern Pakistan is turning into the world's most dramatic displacement crisis since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 . Reference - www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/18/swat-valley-pakistan...
Watching CNN this morning I realized once aging the media is being irrational by saying aid can be misused by Pakistan to create more nuclear weapons. Food, tents, medical aids coming through international agencies can not be turned into nuclear bombs.
I visited Swat couple of times and my recent photographers are from the summer of 2006. I have created a set for you to take a look at the people, children, women and men, their lifestyle and surrounding. The very same people are living in miserable state in refuge camps and need our help. Please forward the link to your friends and try helping the people with your donations.
My set on Swat valley flickr.com/photos/kamisyed/sets/72157600012984445/
Tag Game: The autumn is here!
Barbie Misty Copeland
Tag game initiated by Stellas Dolls
The days are getting shorter, there are also times cool and rainy days.
How do you imagine the fall for your dolls?
Sunny?
Plays the dolls with colorful leaves or gather chestnuts?
Or they are relaxing at home with a cup of tea?
How to spend your Dolls fall?
Everybody can participate
I look forward to your pictures!
Thank you for the tag Irene www.flickr.com/photos/94083541@N05
Such a fun tag game! I love dolls in knitwear, waring cosy garments so I gave Miss Dasha a ribbed oversize sweater and she's ready for the Fall :)
And finally, here it is, the future of police militarization coming to protests in a dystonian hellscape near you. This is another "fer shitz" build that will definitely see future use. It's also another build that I made entirely on my own but I feel like someone else has already made. For the weapons, I imagine those dual guns on the inside of the hands are non-lethal riot rounds, the one on the outer left is a tear gas dispenser, and the one on the outer right is some big, unnecessary 30mm Cannon. The chestplate is a minifig.cat riot shield.
Hmm, getting spanked on a car that is backing up along the parade route, yeah that seems like safe fun, NOT.
Yes this pic is shitty. No I'm not giving you a better one. You will when it's done. This pic is actually from a month or so ago and the damn thing is like 3 parts away from completion after some overhauling here and there. It's the goddamn Panzerhund all over again.
Got the new Space Police CMF recently, figured that shield would help make some nice updates to this old thing. Also a good excuse to show off my new SWAT officer design.