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Started by GG Mora, Dec 10 2006 02:47 PM
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 02:29 PM
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 03:41 PM
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 05:30 PM
I used a card printed with this image to send a note to a friend whose father just committed suicide. It seemed so appropriate.
I haven't been able to shake this from my thoughts. So poignant.
"Nana, I just counted to infinity really fast!" Logan, age 5-1/2
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 08:25 PM
I love this shot!to continue the bird theme, and to introduce the surreal one:
“I used to be eye candy but now I’m more like eye pickle"
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“I hope to set an example, you know, for children and stuff."
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 09:16 PM
Street music in Venice: Glass Organ
Cambridge University Professor of Electrical Engineering, Sir Charles Oatley, in October, 1948, along with his student Dennis McMullan, began the research that led to the production of the first scanning electron microscope in 1965.
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 09:22 PM
Limestone karsks in Quelin China.
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 09:24 PM
Cormorant fisherman in Quelin China.
"Pippa, I'm going to tell you something and it's important. Sometimes you have to go to work."__Hannah Marie Konstadt, Two years, nine months.
'How high can you stoop?"__Oscar Levant.
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 09:26 PM
Swan in front of Brantome, oldest monastary in France.
"Pippa, I'm going to tell you something and it's important. Sometimes you have to go to work."__Hannah Marie Konstadt, Two years, nine months.
'How high can you stoop?"__Oscar Levant.
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Posted 19 December 2006 - 09:53 PM
She's inescapable.
Cambridge University Professor of Electrical Engineering, Sir Charles Oatley, in October, 1948, along with his student Dennis McMullan, began the research that led to the production of the first scanning electron microscope in 1965.
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Posted 20 December 2006 - 12:27 AM
This is my most viewed/downloaded photo over at MorgueFile. Taken of Logan last summer.
"Nana, I just counted to infinity really fast!" Logan, age 5-1/2
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Posted 20 December 2006 - 12:44 AM
I don't understand what is happening here. Please 'splain. How do you fish for birds? I've seen sea gulls grab fishing bait while casting, but it was not the intention to catch the bird.Cormorant fisherman in Quelin China.
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Posted 20 December 2006 - 01:05 AM
My guess is that the bird is tethered, and when the bird catches a fish, the fisherman reels in bird and fish, takes fish, and sends bird back in the water to catch more fish. Cormorants dive waaaaaaaaaaay down and travel far underwater, and so can bring up fish that would otherwise be unreachable to a human.
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Posted 20 December 2006 - 01:10 AM
I don't understand what is happening here. Please 'splain. How do you fish for birds? I've seen sea gulls grab fishing bait while casting, but it was not the intention to catch the bird.
Cormorant fisherman in Quelin China.
The fisherman is using the cormorant to catch fish. The bird is bound at the throat so it cannot swallow a large fish. The bird is allowed to dive under the water, partially swallow a fish. It then returns to the thin bamboo raft where the fisherman pulls the fish out of the birds gullet. What you see in the photo is the bright silvery fish being pulled out of the mouth of the bird. Cormorant fishermen keep flocks of birds. There are still some bands of cormorant fishermen in China, but the practice has largely become obsolete.
"Pippa, I'm going to tell you something and it's important. Sometimes you have to go to work."__Hannah Marie Konstadt, Two years, nine months.
'How high can you stoop?"__Oscar Levant.
'How high can you stoop?"__Oscar Levant.
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Posted 20 December 2006 - 01:11 AM
I don't understand what is happening here. Please 'splain. How do you fish for birds? I've seen sea gulls grab fishing bait while casting, but it was not the intention to catch the bird.
It's a practice that dates back over a thousand years in China, especially near the Li river and Guilin. Fishermen raises Cormorants and put a ring around their neck. The ring only allows small fish to pass. The larger fish are removed by the fishermen.
The method seems cruel, but it's been in existence for over a thousand years, and for those who've seen it live, there is an undeniable bond between a fisherman and his birds. They have a symbiotic relationship, and besides the ring around the neck, the birds are free to go anywhere, but they always come back to the boat belonging to their owner.
