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I was about to leave Spitalfields Market and recognized our stranger leaving with a so called "early morning sunday face". Sundays - speaking of which. If you ever thought about doing strangers, consider starting on a Sunday. Most shops are closed and everyone seems to enjoy just sticking around - waiting for you to take advantage of moments like these.
About this stranger
Meet Simon, 34 old. A south african who lives in London for more than ten years now. He works as a financier - "You know: Money. Public Policy and stuff".
He loves movies by this crazy french guy(?). He liked that movie about the landlord of an apartment building who occasional prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants. as You might have know already: It's Delicatessen by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. "City of lost children" and of course his masterpiece "Amélie" are also to be mentioned here. He didn't like his last effort "Micmacs" and recommended not to watch it since this seemed to be the only Jeunet movie I missed so far.
Simon has a weakness for bikes - apparently everyone in London has. He enjoys to repair and assembling things if life permits the time.
Let's have a look at the things he is carrying: Newspaper, two cups of coffee and a cinnamon roll. "The most aromatic you might get around here, but the best thing about a Sunday mornings are: cinnamon rolls. You should try one of these!"
It was very nice talking to Simon. The shoot was fun and if he had not remembered why he was actually holding two cups of (in the meantime cold) coffee, it could have been going on and on. So he had to move on to rejoin his beloved wife in bed.
Therefore he must be the: The Sunday Faced Cupholder.
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LIMENI, MANI - ΛΙΜΕΝΙ, ΜΑΝΗ
Located just 5 km from Areopolis and approximately 27 km from Gythion, Limeni is one of the most beautiful and traditional coastal villages of Mani combining harmoniously the sea and the unique landscape.
Taken during a 5 day vacation with my English wife Theresa Jane Brown.
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Professional Photographer, retired.
Athens, Greece.
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I just got back from shooting for a week in Los Angeles and have to say that the highlight of my trip was shooting industrial stuff down in Long Beach Harbor with Photographer David Sommars. David is an amazing photographer who regularly shoots industrial stuff around L.A. and he shared with me some of the most fantastic vantage points to shoot this sort of photography in Long Beach.
Unfortunately our photowalk around the Port of Long Beach was not without incident. Three times we were blinted while photographing. I've been stopped plenty of times while legally shooting in the past. Most of the times I've been able to be respectful but insistent on my legal rights to shoot wherever I'm shooting. Every so often though an incident turns into a more serious altercation.
The first two times Sommars and I were stopped we were stopped by private security agents working for Securitas on behalf of BP's Carson Refinery. They asked us not to shoot the refinery and suggested that it was a "double standard" that we'd insist on our constitutional rights to shoot in public while not honoring BP's request that we not shoot their facility from a public sidewalk. I couldn't quite get my arms around the "double standard" argument coming from BP. Ironically one of the shots that I took of their refinery was probably the largest United States flag I've ever shot. Let's hear it for Patriotism.
The hassle from BP's agents though didn't really bother me all that much. We were insistent on our rights to shoot the facility and they seemed to understand that in the end there was nothing that they could do about it. Their security guard snapped photos of both of us with his camera phone (and I returned the favor of course) and then they followed us when we left in my car in order to get my license plate, but they seemed to pretty clearly understand that while they were free to ask us not to shoot the plant, it was clearly within our rights to do so.
The more disturbing incident came later when we were atop a bridge, again on a public sidewalk, shooting another plant and long exposure bridge shots. Here we were stopped by real cops this time, rather than security guards. The cops in question were from the Long Beach Harbor Patrol. Their officer explained to us that it was his job to monitor the side of the bridge that we were on while L.A.P.D. had jurisdiction over the other side of the bridge.
Basically the conversation went something like this.
Long Beach Harbor Patrol Officer: "I'm going to have to ask you guys to leave."
Us: "But, why, were simply taking art photographs."
Long Beach Harbor Patrol Officer: "You're not allowed to photograph these plants."
Us: "But we're on a public sidewalk. What law doesn't allow us to photograph here?"
Long Beach Harbor Patrol Officer: "You'll need to come back tomorrow and get a permit if you want to shoot in the Harbor."
Me: "I'm only down in Long Beach for tonight and won't be able to do that."
2nd Long Beach Harbor Patrol Officer (shrugging her shoulders): Oh, well, you're just going to have to leave. Photography is not allowed here without a permit."
During this altercation both David and I were asked to present identification to the police. They used our IDs to run background checks on both of us.
Now personally I have no problem with the cops stopping to talk to us and check out what we were doing. I also had no problem with Securitas photographing me earlier or following me to get my license plate number. But I think that it went too far when the Long Beach Harbor Patrol ran background checks on us and I think it also went too far when they required us to leave our shoot location. As far as I'm aware there is no law which requires permits in order to shoot the Long Beach Harbor from a public sidewalk. And to kick us off of the bridge that we were legally on was not justified and violated our constitutional rights.
We repeatedly tried to argue for our right to shoot at this location for about a half an hour. The entire time the cops were insistent that we were not allowed to shoot there without a permit. David showed the cops in question photos of his on his iPhone in order to share the type of photography that we were after, but none of this seemed to matter. We were on their turf and they weren't going to stand for that. He just kept repeatedly bringing up 911 over and over telling us that we were going to need to leave.
What bothers me even more is that this is not the first time that David (who shoots in Long Beach Harbor more regularly than I do) has been harassed by the cops there. David has had lots of previous run ins there. David told me that he's been stopped about 10 times in the last six months while shooting in Long Beach Harbor. About half of those stops involved actual police in addition to security guards. On one occasion the cops actually handcuffed him and in another incident 4 police cars and a black SUV converged on him. He's also had FBI agents call on him over his photography. Personally I think it's wrong to handcuff peaceful photographers for the "crime" of photography while questioning and detaining.
I've contacted the media relations department at Long Beach Harbor regarding this incident but have yet to hear back from them. I'll post more from them once/if I do hear back.
What I am tired of though is the harassment that photographers face on a regular basis while out documenting our world. Photography is not a crime. 911 didn't suddenly magically turn photographers into criminals. And as long as photography is not a crime, I think that cops, security guards and other authority figures should be required to live within the legal system as it now stands. Maybe some day they will pass a law that shooting Long Beach Harbor is in fact a crime. Or maybe they'll actually pass a law that permits *are* actually required to shoot there. But until that day happens (and I'd be one vocally opposing any such rule like that) this sort of harassment ought not take place. And it's unfortunate when it does.
Update: Art Wong from the Port of Long Beach's Media Relations Department has contacted me and told me that he's asking their officers for information on this incident. I will post any update from the Port of Long Beach as it becomes available.
Update 2: On Digg here: digg.com/travel_places/Thomas_Hawk_s_Digital_Connection_L...
Update 3: The Port of Long Beach's Assistant Director of Communications Art Wong, responds to this incident here.
The Hamar (or Hamer or Hammer) is a tribe with a total population of about over 35,000, which lives in Hamer Bena woreda, a fertile part of the Omo River valley, in the Debub Omo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (SNNPR). They are largely pastoralists, so their culture places a high value on cattle, the menaning of their life. There are at least 27 words for the subtle variations of colours and textures of a cattle! And each man has three names: a human, a goat and a cow name.
Honey collection is their major activity.They are as well semi nomadic and migrate every few months to find pastures for their goats and cattle. They have a special relationship with Bana-Bashada group than the others as they share a common language and culture.
Hamer society consists of a complex system of age groups. To pass from one age group to another involves complicated rituals. The bull-jumping is the most significant ceremony in the social life of the Hamer, the final test before passing into adulthood and in order to get married. The teen must jump naked over a number of bulls without falling. That is why we can mention it as cow jumping or bull leaping. If he is able to complete this task, he will become a man and be able to marry a woman.
The Hamar are very preoccupied with their beauty. They have at times spectacular haidresses.
Men use a wooden head rest which prevents the hair from touching the ground. It is used as head rest to protect the clay wig that some do on the top of the head, but it is also useful as a seat.
Women know many ways to do their hair. The most famous hair style is when their hair is in short tufts rolled in ochre and fat or in long twisted strands. These coppery coloured strands are called "goscha", it's a sign of health and welfare.
They also wear bead necklaces, iron bracelets around their arms, and decorate their breast with lots of cowry shells, like a natural bra.
Around married women's necks, you can see "esente": torques made of iron wrapped in leather. These are engagement presents; they are worn for life and indicate their husband's wealth. One of the necklaces catch more especially the attention: it is called the "bignere". It has a phallic-shape end. This jewelry can only be worn by a man's first wife.
Her statut is the higher one in Hamer society. The Hamar women who are not first wife have a really hard life and they are more slaves than wives...
The young unmarried girls, for their part, wear a kind of oval shape plate, in metal. It is used like a sunshield, but it tends to be rare in the tribe. Some of them have fund their future husband, but have to wait in their house until the so-called prentender can provide all the money for the ceremony: he has to pay for all the cows the bride-to-be's family asks for. These girls are called "Uta" and have to wait weeks, entirely covered with red clay... And no right to take baths or showers . They cannot go out of the house. Friends bring her food.
A cruel tradition still has currency for some Hamar: the babies who have the upper teeth first coming out, are abandonned in the bush. This tradition tends to disapear but NGO Omochild still save abandonned new borns in Jinka. Abandonments are all the more frequent than some Hamar believe that a child born out of formal marriages has "mingi", as to say something abnormal and unclean. For them, it is the expression of the devil, which may cause disasters such as epidemics or drought in the village. So, illegitimate children are abandoned. This kind of beliefs can also be observed in other Ethiopan tribes.
The weekly markets in Turmi and Dimeka are meeting points where tourist observation and photography can be satisfy against money.
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My name is Zidane !!!
Zoo de Bordeaux-Pessac - Gironde - Aquitaine - France
L’opéra des girafes
Opéra triste en plusieurs tableaux
Comme les girafes sont muettes, la chanson reste enfermée dans leur tête.
C'est en regardant très attentivement les girafes dans les yeux qu’on peut voir si elles chantent faux ou si elles chantent vrai.
Jacques Prévert
The giraffes opera
Sad opera in several scenes
As the giraffes are dumb, the song remains locked up in their head.
It is by looking very attentively at the giraffes in the eyes that you can see whether they sing out of tune (false in French) or if they sing true.
Jacques Prévert
Giraffa camelopardalis
Après des millions d'années d'évolution, l’anatomie de la girafe s’est modifiée pour lui permettre de brouter la cime des arbres : autrefois, son cou était beaucoup plus court, mais la nourriture se raréfiant, il s’est allongé de plus en plus. Cependant celui-ci ne comporte pas plus de vertèbres (7) que celui des autres animaux (ou que l'homme).
La longueur de ce cou fait que les girafes n’ont pas de cordes vocales. Elles communiquent en se caressant.
Chez les Grecs, la girafe passait pour la fille du chameau et du léopard.
Longévité : 25 ans en liberté, jusqu'à 35 ans en captivité
Taille et Poids : Un adulte mesure environ 5,30 mètres. C'est le plus haut des mammifères terrestres. L'adulte mâle pèse plus de 1,5 tonne et la femelle 1 tonne.
Habitat : Centre et Sud de l'Afrique
Régime alimentaire : herbivore
Les girafes se nourrissent du feuillage des arbres, principalement des acacias. Leur langue préhensile, qui peut atteindre 50 cm, permet d'attraper les feuilles les plus hautes. Les girafes consomment environ 30 kilos de nourriture par jour et autant de litres d'eau mais peuvent rester un mois sans boire.
Organisation sociale :La girafe vit en groupe, de 2 à 10 individus, dirigé par un mâle dominant.
Le grand mâle tente de dominer ses rivaux en leur coupant le passage et en dressant sa tête le plus haut possible. Le combat éclate lorsqu'un rival refuse de baisser la tête, de laisser le passage, ou fronce la lèvre en sa présence.
Dans les combats de girafes, les mâles utilisent leur tête comme une massue. Les deux mâles se cognent jusqu'à ce que l'un d'eux abandonne, mais le perdant est rarement tué ou blessé à mort et ils ne se battent jamais à coups de sabots.
Une fois qu'un mâle a conquis une femelle, ses amours sont caressants et paisibles, avec beaucoup de coups de langues.
Reproduction : Après une période de gestation de 15 mois, la femelle donne naissance à 1 petit et plus rarement 2. Le nouveau-né, le girafon, mesure à sa naissance 2 mètres pour un poids variant de 40 à 80 kg et tombe d'une hauteur de 2 mètres. À la naissance la girafe n'adopte son petit que s'il est capable de se tenir rapidement debout : au bout d'une heure il doit tenir sur ses pattes pour atteindre les mamelles de sa mère. Dans le cas contraire, elle l'abandonne ou même le tue. La mère se fait comprendre de son petit en le caressant avec le bout de son museau. Elle l'incite ainsi à la suivre et à la téter, créant ainsi le lien maternel.
Giraffa camelopardalis
After millions of years evoluting, the giraffe’s anatomy changed to allow it to graze the summit of the trees: formerly, its neck was much shorter, but food rarefying, it lengthened more and more. However, this neck isn’t made of more vertebrae (7) than the other animals’ one (or than the man’s one). Because of their neck length the giraffes don’t have vocal cords. They communicate caressing each other.
The Greeks thought that the giraffe was the camel and leopard’s daughter.
Longevity: 25 years in nature, up to 35 years in captivity
Height and Weight: An adult measures approximately 5,30 meters. It’s the highest terrestrial mammal. The male adult weighs more than 1,5 ton and female 1 ton.
Habitat: Center and South of Africa
Diet: herbivore
The giraffes eat trees foliage, mainly acacias. Their prehensile tongue, which can reach 50 cm, enables it to catch the highest leaves. The giraffes approximately eat 30 kilos of food per day and as many litres of water but can remain one month without drinking.
Social organization: The giraffe lives in group, from 2 to 10 animals, directed by a dominating male. The great male tries to dominate its rivals by blocking their way and drawing up its head as high as possible. The fight breaks out when a rival refuses to lower the head, to allow him to pass, or curls up its lip in his presence. In the giraffes fight, the males use their head like a bludgeon. The two males knock themselves until one of them gives up, but the loser is seldom killed or mortally wounded and they never fight with blows from hooves. As soon as a male conquers a female, its love is cherishing and peaceful, with many blows from tongue.
Reproduction: After a 15 months gestation, the female gives birth to 1 baby and more rarely 2. The new-born baby measures 2 metres for a varying weight from 40 to 80 kg and falls from a 2 metres height. The giraffe adopts its baby only if it is able to stand on its hind legs quickly: after an hour, it must stand on its legs to reach its mother’s udders. Otherwise, the mother forsakes it or even kills it. The mother communicates with her baby by cherishing it with her muzzle. She thus encourages it to follow her and to suck her.
And what’s a medieval port without a crane? After all, this one allows loading strong Skellige ale — much to the delight of every adventurer in town!
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Link to Cincinnati Zoo..............Malayan Tiger Cub........Male
One of six living subspecies of tiger, the Malayan tiger wears the characteristic striping pattern of black stripes on orange and white that provides excellent camouflage in the forest. Using its quiet stalking ability, a tiger will ambush large prey, often pouncing on it from the rear. Other than females with their young, tigers are solitary and come together only to mate. Each tiger defends its own territory from others of the same gender. Territories must be large to provide enough prey for a tiger to eat. As more and more forests disappear, tigers struggle to maintain a territory with sufficient prey.
A tiger may travel up to 20 miles a night in search of prey.
Unlike most cats, tigers seem to enjoy swimming and soaking in water.
A tiger’s roar can be heard up to two miles away.
One out of every 10,000 tigers will lack the orange coloring. These white tigers are not albinos; they simply express a recessive gene.
Fact File
Length: 7.6 to 9.3 ft
Weight: 220 to 400 lbs
Lifespan: 15 yrs in wild
Habitat: Forest
Prey: Deer, wild pigs, and cattle
Status: Species at Risk (IUCN—Endangered)
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Sorry that I posted so many photos on this one page but I just wanted you all to see how this little tiger kept stalking this bird. The bird would fly out of reach but kept coming back within distance of the tiger so once again the little tiger tried to catch the bird. This went on for a little while when finally the tiger got tired of the game. It sure was cute to watch. My photos of this event aren't the best but they are cute.
I went to the zoo today and now I'm extremely tired. I don't know how much I'll be on flickr because of that and my having RSD. My foot and leg are bothering me quite a bit today. Thanks for everything! Hope your weekend has gone nicely so far. Have a great week! Hugs!
Fortunately there are still a few gems to be seen in Malta!
GHQ016, Sammut Brothers venerable 6x4 LAD cabbed Dodge and its usual fork-lift trailer are seen mixing it in Qormi with a virtually new Attard Brothers DAF 8-wheeled concrete mixer.
Will the CF last quite as long I wonder?
Finally, northern Italy without clouds... Hello everyone!
Finalmente il nord Italia senza nubi... Saluti a tutti!
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Without question, discovering several young Hickory Horned Devil cats at Splinter Hill is the premier event of several years of caterpillar hunting for me! The opportunity to hopefully witness and document their progress is beyond compare! The current rainy weather has been frustrating... wanting to revisit them today, I set my alarm for 3:45 am to check the hourly weather... it didn't look worth going, so I texted Karen to that affect and went back to sleep... hours later, she called, saying a short window of opportunity appeared as the forecast updated! We rushed to Splinter Hill and had a couple of hours to hike and see these unearthly guys... and she found a 4th one as well!!! We made it back to the SUV just before the bottom fell out!
This young mother crossed a busy Bamako street without supporting her baby child, trusting him not to let go.
For more photos of Mali, go to my Mali album.
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#officepark luck without a permit.
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Finally I found it. This toucan is found in the Southern and Southeastern regions of Brazil.
Parque Barigui - Curitiba
Ramphastos dicolorus
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Leave me without the love you once threw at me...... bound me with lies.....tell me i'm not worthy..... I cant keep up with how you see me through your eyes..........
Hello thought I would take full advantage of the lighting today, and learn to look at lighting in a different way..... I took these with my new remote....."I love it" ..... I took 194 photos.... I am ashtonished at how many workable images, with variety and diversity I got .....so i will be uploading them over the coming days..........
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• Imposantes Naturschauspiel mit starker Gischt. Hier benötigt man Regenkleidung und guten Schutz für die Kamera.
Die Wanderung entlang des Flusses oberhalb des Wasserfalls ist traumhaft schön - man sollte sich dafür unbedingt Zeit nehmen.
• Imposing natural spectacle with strong spray. Here you need rainwear and good protection for the camera.
The hike along the river above the waterfall is fantastically beautiful - you should definitely take your time for this.
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London | Architecture | Night Photography | London Eye
EXPLORE #332
That night, the color of London Eye was purple and the color of the Moon was..er..white...;-}
Colors Reflection.
01 02 2015 a view from Roseberry Topping
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This image represent me but I believe some other people will feel same or similar (in this photo there is a person in a little boat so far away from little lighthouse - his life goal). I can't find any better photo that can describe me from my gallery. When I was in high school I didn't understand and I didn’t think about materialism & capitalism, I was too young & too naive to understand. When you grow up everything become crystal clear. Before few years I saw a Soviet movie Interdevochka (1989) in which main female character Tanya Zaytseva works in hospital in Leningrad but after work she is a prostitute, she said that every profession is a prostitution and everybody is selling themself the best they can (lawyer, architects etc.) and maybe she is right... We are living in a crazy world.
This is the movie that I mention
I don't see myself in this kind of world, everything is moving around bank credit, making profit etc. I think our world is very ill, only we can cure it together.
Our world become like a huge supermarket (you can get everything for money legal and illegal), only money matter not human values. How much I tryed to reach my goal I can't. Fisherman in his boat in this photo is trying to catch the light but he is always too far, will he ever reach his goal…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Su-5ro-Rh8
I choose one song that I like, I think many people don't know this song, it have unusual but cool intro.
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Without doubt, the person with whom I took the most photos at Keystone, was Jamie Kendall. From funny selfies to posed snaps, she is always around to capture the spirit of the moment!
In the future I will be sharing some really fun series that were taken with Jamie's phone.
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Sin duda la persona con quien más fotos me tomé en Keystone, fue Jamie Kendall. Desde selfies muy divertidas hasta fotos posadas, ella siempre está allí para capturar el espíritu del momento.
En el futuro compartiré algunas series muy divertidas que se tomaron con el teléfono de Jamie.
