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Candid eye contact street photography from Glasgow, Scotland. Most street photography works better in monochrome because of the vast array of competing colours that can detract from the main attention of the story or subject. With a scene rich in just two main colours it can make a more striking image in colour. Hoping that you all have a wonderful weekend!
Hello my friends ..... 1st let me thank you for the great comments on the " Door man " shot ..... and yes .. I do love candid shots .. I love people .... even before I ever held a camera I had this thing of looking at people and trying to imagine what they were thinking and feeling... the joys.. the sorrows...the amazement of being in a new place ... all of that ....
And now with my faithful companion by my side ... well I click ... and still wonder..
Like this little East Indian tourist, he was riding the Zig Zag train ... it was a chilly and overcast day in the Blue Mountains and he was in his own little world ... So yeah.... what is going through his little mind.. all of these new sights... the people...the cold ....
Does it bring me back to my childhood days .... yes.... it does.....
Have a superb day my friends.... and again... Thank You .... ALL ....
For FGR and 6 Million People.
From their mission statement:
"During World War II, Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered approximately six million Jews. According to the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the Holocaust is the name used to define a systematic, bureaucratic, and state-sponsored campaign of persecution and murder. Beginning with racially discriminatory laws in pre-World War II Germany, the Nazi campaign expanded to the mass murder of all European Jews by the War's end. The goal of this group is to collect 6 million pictures of different people, with one person in each picture, as a representation of the massive number of Jews the Nazis murdered during World War and to help remember both them and the other victims of Nazi Germany.
Although Jews were the primary victims of Nazi racism, others targeted for death included tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies) and at least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans persecuted and murdered millions of other people. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, or maltreatment. The Germans killed tens of thousands of non-Jewish Polish intellectual and religious leaders, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labor. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others deemed to be socially unacceptable were persecuted. Thousands of political dissidents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) were also targeted. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.
The United Nations General Assembly reaffirms that 'the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people along with countless members of other minorities, will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice.""
For every life extinguished, there were songs that will be never be sung, sonnets that won't be written, children who were never played with, art that will never be made. For every life taken, there was someone who mourned, someone who lost a piece of themselves--of their history--as someone who was deprived of a future. I like this group. I like the idea of impressing upon us that these were people. Not just statistics, not just numbers. It's easy to distance ourselves when we look at numbers. It's much more difficult when we remember the faces.
And, it is so important that we never, ever forget. Even if you're not a member of the FGR, I encourage you to submit a picture to our chosen group today.
Thanks and love to TwistedAngelTX for reminding us that these things still go on--even today: http://action.savedarfur.org/campaign/savedarfurcoalition
#105 in interestingness (on 2008-01-18)
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Make It Interesting ~ Challenge #4
This is a composite image, not my photography. Credits below....
Starter image (castle) with thanks to Nizurack
Girl from *Mizzd-stock @ deviantArt
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Mountains from code1name @ sxc
Steps from kaliyoda @ sxc
Sky from me.
Bird brush and tree brushes from Shadowhouse Creations
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Smoke brush by Colorburned
colorburned.com/2009/07/stunning-smoke-effects-42-stunnin...
With many thanks to the above....
Model: elajasmina
Thanks for your time and recognition. Appreciate all kind of feedback.
A bit of humour tonight...
Notice the smiling faces? These are reeds and clouds reflecting in the lake... The movement in the water made them appear like cartoon characters! Feel free to name them; I have no idea who they look like! :)
Shot taken in the filming of Infectio! More info here -> on.fb.me/1tknO3R
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