the real costs of a booming economy...??

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NPPA's The Best of Photojournalism 2010 Awards

1st Prize in the Environmental Picture Story Category

by Lu Guang / Contact Press Images



Many defective babies are abandoned in Shanxi Province every year. Kong Zhenlan, from Qi County, who makes her living scavenging, fosters every abandoned baby she finds. She now takes care of 25 children. April 14, 2009

click here for the full story...
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FREEEE... as a fish....

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continued from yesterday's get me outta here....



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get me outta here....

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(photo from my flickr...)


to be continued...

WIKILEAKS.ORG: Collateral Murder...

watch this newly leaked video showing how democracy is brought to iraq, and spread across the middle east...

march of the soldiers...

Earth Day 2010

light painting fun...

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..with my little cousins on hulhumale' beach at the family bbq...

..and the greatest thing was that the painting, modelling and photography were done all by themselves... all i had to do was watch and laugh...

painter: Anha; model: Yumn


painter: Haavy; model: Muan


painter: Mikko; models: Anha & Yumn


painter: Yumn; model: Anha


painter: Muan; model: Mikko


painter: Firax; model: Haavy


..and in the end they did a wonderful job signing their names too... with light...






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invading fiddlers threaten hithadhoo residents...

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hehehe.. not really... but seeing them for the first time, they sure did look like an angry invading army out to take over the island, if not the world...





...for those who thought i Photoshoped these crabs icy blue...



do check out the following pics and more interesting fiddler info from the web...



http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/backwell3/Fiddler_Crabs.htm

...apparently a 100 different species of fiddler crabs can be found across the globe... read more...

dealing with the heat - inguraidhoo style...

she gets some ice...



while he goes shirtless...


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