ghost ships of s.hithadhoo...

similar wrecks line up the eastern shoreline of the island...



it's a beautiful, beautiful sight alright... but one could hardly stand the stench of raw sewage in this area... quite a few pipes from nearby households and neighborhoods can be seen emptying into the lagoon... a lot of this SHIT, literally, is then washed back on to the beach...



- hithadhoo 2009

happy birthday photoshop...

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Photoshop - the software that changed the way we view the world - is 20 yrs old...

also WATCH the founders talk about how Photoshop evolved over the years...

i march on a road of flowers...

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in shackles....


dedicated to Nelson Mandela, who along with much of the world is celebration 20 years since his release after 27 years in prison in the fight against racism and apartheid... the only shame is that Mandela' is still in the dreaded List of Terrorists in the US... oh well... one man's freedom fighter really is another man's terrorist....


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life unfurls...

...also the works of german artist, photographer Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932)...

kilometer after kilometer...

mile after mile.... they carpeted the length of the road with flowers....

Trivandrum Kerala India

only when it's dark enough can we see the stars...

- Martin Luther King, Jr




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