View across East River, New York Copyright
BANNING WHALING IS ONE OF THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVES ON THE LONG LIST OF ANIMAL LIBERATION. THIS SHOULD BE ONE OF THE VERY TOP PRIORITIES DUE TO THE SIMPLE FACT THAT THIS BATTLE IS WINNABLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE BECAUSE OF THE EXPOSURE OF ITS CONSEQUENCES. PAST MILITANT DIRECT ACTIONS OF THE OCEANS SUCH AS THOSE OF ‘GREENPEACE’ AND THE MORE RADICAL ‘SEA SHEPHERDS SOCIETY’ HAVE BROUGHT ABOUT MANY POSITIVE CHANGES WITH REGARDS TO THE UNETHICAL, ANTI-ENVIRONMENTAL AND CAPITALISTIC PRACTICE OF WHALING. AFTER OVER TWO DECADES OF DIRECT ACTIONS, COMMERCIAL WHALING AND ALL ITS RELEVANCE HAS BEEN WOVEN INTO THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF THE WORLD COMMUNITIES, ESPECIALLY WITH ATTITUDINAL CHANGES IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE AND OF COURSE JAPAN. IF I AM CORRECT, THERE HAS BEEN NEWS ABOUT HOW JAPAN, BEING HOME TO SOME OF THE LARGEST WHALING CORPORATIONS IN THE ORIENT ALONE, IS TALKING ABOUT BANNING THIS EVIL AND ANTHROPOCENTRIC PRACTICE OF GENOCIDE ONCE AND FOR ALL.
Studies with several species have shown that whale meat often contains dangerously high levels of environmental toxins such as PCB, mercury and dioxin. The highest concentration of EDCs (Endocrine Disrupting Compounds) ever found in any animal was measured recently in the blubber of a Minke Whale, a species commonly hunted by Japanese whalers in Antartic waters. These toxins are particularly dangerous for pregnant women and growing children, which calls into the question the practice providing whale meat lunches for school children. This is common in whaling areas but it is also on the increase in parts of Japan that do NOT engage in the inhumane practice of whaling.
Tathra Wharf 1996 The Bega Valley council responded to a call from local community requesting that Shark fishing be banned
Don’t!!!! Carriage rides exploit Horses. From a rubber stamp carving i carved, added color & text on the computer
Meningie, South Australia.
Not the breed! This is my next door neighbors dog who is part pit bull and is the sweetest dog ever, and the most spoiled! She isn’t in a cage or anything, this is just a pic through the fence and she just happened to have that sad look on her face. I’m a huge animal lover and I don’t believe that pit bulls are born cruel, they are trained by humans that make them the way they are. Don’t forget, if you want a pet, don’t go to pet shops, go to animal shelters, pets in shelters need homes too!!! / Sad Reality – Only 1 in 600 Pit Bulls will find a home – For every Pit Bull placed in a loving home, 599 DIE! /
London , Summer 2008 dog licks bowl © 2008 Urban Umbra
Children swimming in the sea at Port Ban, Iona, Scotland I took this photo with a Motorolla mobile phone cam in 2006. The resolution was so poor that it languished on my computer for a while with some of the others I took that week. Recently I started playing around with these photos using PhotoImpact and after many hours of tweaking produced some rather nice watercolour effects. PhotoImpact has a Watercolour button that provides this effect, however it does not look good on all photos, so I had to alter the colours and blend the photo heavily before applying the effect. / Unlike some of the other photos I’ve used this technique on, this one needs to be seen larger to appreciate the effect. As an indication of the amount of work gone into this photo compare it with the other one posted with it…both taken within 20 minutes of each other from different angles!!
Another image from the calendar assessment
These flowers always bloom in the evening. In Thailand we call them “Ban Yen”.
Have you ever felt this way? / Main figure is a Cinema4D render; rest is postwork
This was captured in Yorkville in Toronto during a 60ies Summer Festival. Shot with a Nikon D80, VR Nikkor 18-200mm
In a shop so small I couldn’t stand behind the counter, a cute mirrored girl sells sunglasses on a San Francisco street with everything from live sex shows to Macy’s. All the big names in style and fashion were here: Fendi, Adidas, Chanel, Spy, Ray-Ban, Gucci, Coach, Versace, DNKY, Armani, Diesel, Calvin Klein, Serengeti, Gargoyles, Arnette, Lacoste, Harley Davidson, Nike, and tons more. These grasses are really inexpensive, too. For just $10, you could get any brand your heart desired. And the really cool part was that you buy any 2 pair and get a 3rd pair FREE! WOW! That’s 2 pair of Gucci and 1 Armani for (Gasp!) $20 and California sales tax!!! There were some catches posted on the wall but they were obvious things like: No Discounts and No Refunds and No Exceptions. But SOSF DID offer Exchanges within 48 hours if you still had the receipt. Cool, huh? If the sunglasses broke in, say, 29 hours, you could run back to the store and get a brand new pair for just the price of a taxi ride or $25 parking (whichever is cheaper in SF). Nowhere else on the planet could you get a deal like this. Trust me. A long time ago, I bought a pair of Ray-Bans for about $3 from a drug store. I was dizzy and nauseous before the sun went down that day. Something about the glass in them being made so badly they caused my 11-year old eyes to try to re-learn how to see. It would have cost me a lot more but I could have ridden my bike to Shades Of San Francisco and gotten some Gucci’s! They would have matched at least ONE of my Armani suits or Versace handbags I owned back then. (Don’t ask.) $3 for a crummy pair of knock-offs or $30 for THREE pair of brand new Gucci’s. I got sooooooooo ripped off when I was 11. The image was sweetly featured in San Francisco Group
Produced in Painter X from a rendering using Bryce and Poser
A reminder of the colourfull era of peace music love and whatever else you smoked at that time.
It is a common political goal to stop the general public from reaching the light of enlightenment. Das Got ist forbodden. / Enlightenment must be extinguished. / Freedom is death. Yet, the light has a habit of shining through the barbed wire.
Banning State Park, Minnesota, USA. / Autumn in full swing along the Kettle River.
Along the Great Ocean road near to the main scenic point of the 12 Apostles rocks there used to be several beaches that the keen person could get down to. There was a series of ladders enclosed in a mesh tunnel so you could not fall out into space, down the side of a cliff like the one seen in this shot of the beach. We, our friends, and our children loved it, because you seldom found anyone on the beach, which was pretty much only available at low tide, and you could gambol to your hearts content. Occasionally we would find a fisherman down there, but usually we were the only ones. The last time we went a couple of years ago we were horrified to find that the local council had put a barricade along the top of the cliff, and the ladders down in the wire cage were covered in barbed wire to prevent anyone getting onto or into the wire cage. It was not considered a safe place for people to go, and there was a big plastic covered sheet of legalise to tell us why. Of such is progress. I will never see this again. Taken with a Pentax Z1p camera and Pentax 28 mm shift lens on Kodachrome 200 film 1/500 f 16.
Somewhere in Amsterdam
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