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Autumn scenes
It's that time of year again, the Earth's northern hemisphere is tipping away from the warmth of the Sun. Days in the north are getting cooler and shorter, leaves are changing, animals migrating and many harvests are underway. The wet summer in New England this year should make 2009 a banner year for brightly-colored fall foliage in the area. Collected here are a group of photographs of recent Autumn scenes around the northern hemisphere. ( 32 photos total ) <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
This photographic report exposes the proliferation of processed foods in the western diet and in the diets of many developing countries the world over.
What The World Eats - Shocking Photos
People of Clouds
In the Mixteca, one of the most impoverished regions in Mexico, migration to the United States has arrived like a storm. In a place so insular that pre-columbian languages like Mixteco, Trique, and Asmuzgos are still spoken more widely than Spanish, and where cars, electricity and indoor plumbing are recent introductions, if they exist at all, northern migration has emptied communities and transformed the lives of those left behind. Some villages have lost as much as 80% of their population to the north and have become little more than ghost towns, home to just a handful of old men, women and the left-behind children of migrants. In San Miguel Cuevas -- or Nuyuco, Face of the Mountain, in Mixteco -- just 500 people out of 3000 remain. Its streets are largely empty, its fields stand deserted, its century-old way of life lies in shambles as families dissolve to the north, rending the social fabric of this traditional agrarian society.
President Barack Obama told war-weary Americans in a 15 minute address from the East Room of the White House that the United States had largely achieved its goals in Afghanistan and that a withdrawal of American troops would be set in motion. He said Afghanistan no longer represented a terrorist threat to the United States and that the "tide of war is receding." He announced plans to withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year. The remaining 20,000 troops from the 2009 "surge" would leave by next summer. He added that the drawdown would continue "at a steady pace" until the US handed over security to the Afghan authorities in 2014.
Obama: US troop withdrawal to begin
「白宮群英買兇拍人」經典照片
拉登死了，卻火紅了一張照片。這張「白宮群英買兇拍人」照，據報道早前已成為Flickr點擊率的榜首。隨之而來，關於該照片的討論和新聞也熱爆全球，似乎是爛得不能再爛的了。不過，歸納和伸延一下還是好的。
2011 International Garden Photographer of the year - in pictures | Art and design
UK-based photographer Colin Roberts was named the competition's overall winner for his image of sea thrift flowers taken at Widemouth Bay, Cornwall, entered in the wildflowers category. Judge Clive Nichols said: 'This image struck me immediately - the depth of field is superb, leading the eye from the beautifully backlit flowers in the foreground all the way to the sea on the horizon, giving a great sense of depth to the picture and placing the thrift in context' Photograph: Colin Roberts/IGPOTY <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
之前紅遍半邊天的 東京漂浮少女 ，讓人發現攝影有相當多變的玩法，最近台灣也出現了 仆街少女 ，引起小小的話題；筆者發現最近遠在地球另一端歐洲也出現了一位摔跤少女，以假亂真的摔跤技巧令人驚艷，作者也大方公佈摔跤照的拍攝技法，除了需要前製手動加工、事後也用到一些後製修圖技巧，讓我們一起來看看。 出生於捷克布拉格的 Zuzi ，是位喜歡攝影的少女，除了拍正常的東西外，也很擅長拍摔跤的照片。
來自布拉格的摔跤少女，拍攝技法大公開
Text by Susie Parr Spring has come to Guernsey. Recent downpours have given the earth a thorough, much needed soaking. A watery sun emerges and starts to warm away the chill of the past few days.