From __aila
To all the Fotolog Mamas, Madri, Mamans, Moeders, Madres, Mütter, Majis, Matajiyam, Mödrar, Okaasan, Mães, Matek, and Mamis out there: Happy Mother’s Day!
From duviolett__xx
From carriehs
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From alvrin
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From karmek
There are days when the world looks infinitely more beautiful when seen while standing on your head, peering through a looking glass. Here are some dispatches from the shimmering upside-down districts of Fotolog.
From sterko
From dftone
From placeinsun
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From hanna_quevedo and 14formasdesoplar
Happy Cinco de Mayo to all, from hanna_quevedo and Fotolog!
From rolfweber
Some days you just gotta shout, shout, and let it all out.
Ahhhh, that feels better.
This has been a Fotolog Public Service Announcement. Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
From jacarandarosa
From rodolphe
From bigcats
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From heif
Dick gets tech support for his Blackberry from his son via iChat. His son is looking at the screen from the camera on the mac and talking Dick through what to do.
More and more these days we seem to be supporting our technology, not the other way around. Great capture, heif.
From flopoow, on laughing
Pure laughter is truly contagious, and it’s sure caught on in all corners of Fotolog. Here are a bunch of great examples—not smiles or grins or crazy mugging for the camera, but full on honest to goodness laughs. Do you have some of your own? Post the link in the comments and we’ll add your pic. Maximum bonus points for a photo of someone actually ROTFL!
From legaalmentrubia
From alwayslookaround, on laughing
From tulinhaa, on laughing
From lucky_duck
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I guess that’s what they mean by “Paying the Devil his due.” Hell of a shot, _g_.
From mashuga: Homeless veterans Mike and Bob.
From Gary Clark, aka mashuga, the longtime Fotolog member who we profiled way back at the beginning of The Daily F’log, important news of a greater attention to the plight of homeless persons in the U. S., specifically veterans: CNN has produced a program of interviews and visits with Gary and three homeless veterans in Pennsylvania. The show airs in the U.S. tonight, April 12, at 10:00 pm EDT, and again Sunday April 13 at 10 EDT. Here is an excerpt from mashuga’s description of the special on his log today:
CNN traveled to N.E. Pa., to do a story with myself and three homeless, or formerly homeless veterans in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. They came here yesterday. A reporter for the network interviewed each of us for quite a while about homeless veterans issues, and as for myself we discussed the wider issue of homelessness in this country and also focused on homeless veterans. CNN reporter Dan Lothian interviewed Mike, Bob, Pinky and myself. “Mike,” shown in this photo [above left], is a former police officer of 28 years and also “homeless vet,” who was placed on indefinite suspension because he missed training while he was away. He has still not been given the missed training and has become in effect homeless. Bob [above right] is an Iraqi War Vet, formerly living under a bridge. He has been in approximately 1,000 combat missions in Iraq been wounded, and has been diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.) Bob could not concentrate to hold a job and was put out on the street by the VA. (CNN visited with Bob and interviewed him around and under the bridge where he lived as recently as last December.) “Pinky,” is a Vietnam Vet and formerly homeless, he now lives in doors and holds a job. Later Dan Lothian and his video man, drove around with me to get a few views of homeless campsites and a better over view of the Wilkes-Barre area while interviewing me. I’ll admit driving around with a CNN reporter, and having a video camera in my face is quite a bit unnerving. I don’t know how articulate I was in this circumstance, but I hope that I stated the central issues of Homelessness clearly. I also hope what I had to say about the veteran’s issues would be understood by the public that hears my views. I am not an “expert,” but I have been working as a street photographer and chronicler of the homeless for quite a few years. During that time I have seen first hand how pervasive these problems are and I feel compelled to speak out and call for solutions. This as most of you know is an election year and it is the time therefore to demand changes in how we treat our veterans, the poor and addicted, and people with mental and emotional problems. A country is judged on how it treats its most vulnerable and we face grave consequences as those numbers grow. There are approximately 196,000 veterans on the street in the United States on any given night. That is, one out of every four homeless men, women or children in the United States is a veteran.
Gracias por la traducción al Español, kura220!
De Gary Clark, aka mashuga, el Fotolog miembro desde hace mucho tiempo que hemos perfilado camino de regreso al comienzo de The Daily F’log, noticias importantes de una mayor atención a la difícil situación de las personas sin hogar en los EE.UU., concretamente los veteranos: la CNN ha elaborado un programa De entrevistas y visitas con Gary y tres veteranos sin hogar en Pensilvania. El show saldrá al aire en los EE.UU. de esta noche, 12 de abril, a las 10:00 pm EDT, y de nuevo Domingo 13 de Abril a las 10 hora del Este. Aquí está un extracto de mashuga la descripción de la especial en su diario de hoy:
CNN viajó a N.E. Pa, que hacer una historia de mí mismo y de tres personas sin hogar, o que antes de veteranos sin hogar en Wilkes-Barre, Pa Vinieron aquí ayer. Un reportero de la red entrevistó a cada uno de nosotros durante bastante tiempo sobre cuestiones de los veteranos sin hogar, y como yo mismo hemos hablado de la cuestión más amplia de la carencia de vivienda en este país y se centró también en los veteranos sin hogar. Reportero de la CNN entrevistó a Dan Lothian Mike, Bob, Pinky y yo. “Mike”, se muestra en esta foto [arriba a la izquierda], es un ex oficial de policía de 28 años y también “sin hogar veterinario”, que fue puesto en suspensión indefinida, ya que perdió la formación, mientras estaba ausente. Él todavía no se ha determinado la perdida de formación y se ha convertido en efecto sin hogar. Bob [arriba a la derecha] es una guerra iraquí Vet, que antes vivían bajo un puente. Él ha estado en alrededor de 1000 misiones de combate en Iraq resultaron heridos, y ha sido diagnosticado con PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.) Bob no podía concentrarse para tener un empleo y fue puesto en la calle por el VA. (CNN con Bob visitó y entrevistó a alrededor de él y por debajo del puente donde vivía, en fecha tan reciente como el pasado mes de diciembre.) “Pinky”, es un antiguo y Vietnam Vet hogar, que ahora vive en las puertas y posee un trabajo. Más tarde Dan Lothian y el vídeo el hombre, con alrededor me llevó a obtener algunas opiniones de los campings y sin hogar más de una mejor vista de la zona de Wilkes-Barre mientras que entrevistar a mí. Voy a admitir en torno a la conducción con un reportero de la CNN, y con una cámara de vídeo en mi cara es un poco enervante. No sé cómo articular yo estaba en esta circunstancia, pero espero que me dijo de los temas centrales de vivienda claramente. También espero lo que tenía que decir acerca de las cuestiones del veterano sería entendido por el público que escucha mis opiniones. Yo no soy un “experto”, pero he estado trabajando como cronista y fotógrafo de la calle de los sin techo durante bastantes años. Durante ese tiempo he visto de primera mano cómo estos problemas son generalizados y me siento obligado a hablar y exigen soluciones. Este como la mayoría de ustedes saben es un año de elecciones y es el momento, por tanto, a exigir cambios en la forma en que tratamos a nuestros veteranos, los pobres y adictos, y las personas con problemas mentales y emocionales. Un país se juzga sobre la forma en que trata a sus personas más vulnerables y nos enfrentamos a graves consecuencias como los números crecen. Hay aproximadamente 196000 veteranos en la calle en los Estados Unidos en cualquier noche. Es decir, uno de cada cuatro hombres sin hogar, las mujeres o los niños en los Estados Unidos es un veterano.
From 1_piopio
1_piopio’s recent chic shot of silk Italian cravatte artfully arranged by hue brought back a visible-light spectrum’s worth of vivid color memories. While a rainbow-infused composition may be impossible to resist, and therefore just slightly cliché, these committed Fotolog colorists have posted some of the most original and satisfying pieces of eye candy. Enjoy.
From bsamp
From rodrigov, on prism
From dizid, on prism
From johannaneurath
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From miranda027
Fotolog never fails to surprise. Even though Bruno Miranda has been posting here as miranda027 since the summer of 2003, I only discovered his stuff recently. And it’s really good stuff. At the tender age of 26, Bruno has been a working photojournalist now for at least 4 years, traveling throughout Brazil and into Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia, chasing news events and composing more traditional photo-stories, most recently for the periodical Folha de São Paulo and the photographic agency Na Lata. His subjects have included “post-modern hippies,” hip-hop culture, street demonstrations, prison life, and religious assemblies. With his sharp instincts and wide-ranging sensibility, Bruno seems well on his way to a brilliant career. Check him out, so you can say you knew him when!
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From wies
Looks like fun, but I think there was some seriousness involved: since they’re fully clothed, maybe wies’s granddaughter Merel’s class was learning important survival swimming techniques? Good work kids, I hope you all passed Level C with flying colors!
 
 
Shot(s) of the Day: This gorgeous two-frame story from stealaway, one of our most evocative artists. It’s a love song to his son Yui, who was born ten days ago. Welcome, Yui!
From colorstalker
Great news from Tim Connor (aka colorstalker), a longtime Fotolog member and contributor to The Daily F’log: 8 of his soulful views of goings on in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, are now on public view, in the form of huge 4′ x 6′ lightbox transparencies, in the borough’s Atlantic Ave. subway station. The show, titled Steps to the Subway, is part of the city’s Arts for Transit series. Here, the photographer describes his street tactics:
My method is to move around waiting for pictures to embed themselves in the world for a single instant — before they morph into something else. This is even true of supposedly stationary objects, like statues, which are also changing every second. At the moment I claim them, my best pictures are already complete in the world. Drawn directly from what is there, like haiku, they are recognized, not created. They are both descriptively precise & philosophically unreliable. As the great street portraitist Diane Arbus put it, “The more specific you are the more general it will be.”
Tim’s specific universalities are likely to be glimpsed by tens of thousands of New Yorkers every day. Congratulations colorstalker!
Installation view by Ranjit Bhatnagar
Installation view of Tim Connor surveying his photos, by Lucy Winner
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From damonannison
Citizen protests and a violent Chinese government crackdown have wracked the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China for a week now, and are continuing:
Protests and killing spread across Tibet today, in defiance of the Chinese government’s crackdown on the protests in Lhasa that began more than a week ago on the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule.
Our thoughts and deep concerns are with the people of Tibet, several of whom can be seen here in more peaceful settings, in the excellent travelogues of Fotolog members damonannison and rgf. We were unfortunately unable to find photos from native Tibetans, either living in their homeland or in exile. If you know of any Tibetan Fotolog members, please let us know in the comments and we’ll post their photos here.
From rgf
From damonannison
From rgf
From damonannison
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From geogblog
There are only two kinds of people in the world,
The Irish and those who wish they were. –Irish saying
Here are a few examples of the way people around the Fotolog world are celebrating today. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
From monikagata
From irishmary
From lasermon
From kerrykilkenny
From luli
From weresolucky
From nuriaip
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