Photography Workshop in Jordan! - Ken Kaminesky Photography. Join us this Nov 22nd to November 30th 2012 for the trip of a lifetime AND help a wonderful cause at the same time. The Treasury at Petra in Jordan Giving back We will be working alongside the Iraq Al-Amir Women’s Cooperative Society which provides special training projects for women in the capital city, Amman. From learning to make beautiful crafts, handmade pure soaps, chemical-free hand-made paper, stunning pottery, to quality fabrics, the Cooperative Society provides women with the opportunity to create sustainable income for their families.
Funded by the Swiss Government, the Cooperative Society has been helping women in Amman since 1993. Roman theatre in Petra Trip of a lifetime Join our team to support this Society, visit where the women are working, take photos of their crafts and work for publication on their website and promotion materials. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc The incredible rock formations of Petra – Henry Miller – John Steinbeck. Rare remains of soldier found at Waterloo. Reuters gallery. Photos - POTD for 06/12/2012 - Fine Art Print & Stock Photography by Adam Romanowicz. Khvbcpij Shared by MiraclesGoddess. Silhouette " by Andis Kakeli. 40 Beautiful Flower Pictures.
Discover Another World with this Macro Photography. Photographer Discovers Another World with Macro Photography. How to Spot Income Inequality from Space: Look for the Trees. Per Square Mile/Public Domain Above, find a satellite snapshot of Oakland. Below, see a similar photo of nearby, but much richer, Piedmont, California. Even from space, it's easy to tell which neighborhood is poor and which is rich. It's pretty straightforward: richer communities can afford more space for trees, and place a higher premium on growing and maintaining them. All you need to do to spot better-off neighborhoods is to look for the tree cover. Tim DeChant, who blogs over at Per Square Mile, has a pair of interesting posts up documenting this phenomenon. For every 1 percent increase in per capita income, demand for forest cover increased by 1.76 percent. In the second post, he uses satellite photos to compare poor and wealthy neighborhoods in 6 different cities.
This is thoroughly unscientific, of course, but the effect is pretty stunning. And It all makes a pretty powerful argument in favor of tree-planting initiatives in lower income neighborhoods. These 100-Year-Old Aerial Photos Were Taken by Pigeons. Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Although pigeons nowadays are largely regarded as grubby urban pests, bumblers for bread crumbs, and unwelcome statuary redecorators -- in the not-too-distant past, their service to mankind was much loftier indeed. Not only were these hardy birds used to swiftly carry important messages and materials across great distances, for a brief stint at the turn of the last century, an elite group of camera-wielding pigeons also became early pioneers of a then burgeoning field: aerial photography.
Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 In 1903, a German pharmacist named Julius Neubronner started employing carrier pigeons to receive and fulfill emergency prescriptions from a hospital in the region. One day, after a bird of his mysteriously returned after being lost a month late, Julius began to devise a way to track their flights. Check out these fantastic, century old, pigeon-produced pics: Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 From Wikipedia: Via BoingBoing. 40 Wonderful Panorama Photography. [ad#link-unit-post] We can say that Photography is a great field and the Photographers always seem busy to capture the creative peace of the Photographs, because like others field Photography is also a creative field.
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Luscious Rich Dark Chocolate Tart Dusted with Cocoa Powder. Oozing Brie, Prosciutto and Roasted Red Pepper Panini on Crusty Italian Bread. 12 Examples of How to do Food Photography...... 10 Brilliant Portrait Images from "Creating Peoples Dreams"... Super Girl - Traveler Photo Contest 2012. "This is not pornography!" say nude online protesters. “Listen, Chinese Government, Nudity is Not Pornography!” Under this rallying cry, dozens of Chinese Internet users have posted naked photos of themselves online. The daring move came after the Beijing authorities opened an inquiry last Friday into whether photographs taken by one of artist Ai Weiwei’s assistants are “pornographic”. Online protesters immediately launched their nude self-portrait campaign to condemn this move, which they see as yet another attack on Ai Weiwei, the artist who rose to international notoriety for speaking out on human rights violations in China.
In the photo, taken a year ago, Ai Weiwei is seen posing nude with four women. Titled “One tiger, eight breasts”, the photo went unnoticed by Chinese authorities until last Thursday, when the photographer was questioned by the police. They accused him of having published “obscene” material on the Internet. Conservation Photographer Offers 4 Photography Tips. B1YK2.