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Monday 16 October 2017

Edward Sanders: End of Times

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untitled | by Alexey Dushutin

Untitled [Saint Petersburg]: photo by Alexey Dushutin, 16 September 2017

untitled | by Alexey Dushutin

Untitled [Saint Petersburg]: photo by Alexey Dushutin, 16 September 2017

untitled | by Alexey Dushutin

Untitled [Saint Petersburg]: photo by Alexey Dushutin, 16 September 2017

Learn to recognize the point of equilibrium, where all the unresolved elements in the composition seem to hang in the balance. On this point of not-knowing, of uncertainty, of irresolution, pause.  Put the thing down. Do something else for a while. When you come back, pretend to be doing something else for a while. Then actually do something else.

Is that smoke? 

 
Is it me, or does the sun have a strange apocalyptic hue this morning? endtimes: image via Helen Ingram @drhingram, 16 October 2017
 

Weird red sun this morning #therapture #bringit #endtimes: image via Melissa Harrison @M_Z_Harrison, 16 October 2017
 

Sooo ... looks like it’s the apocalypse then? #ENDTIMES: image via Chef Luke A @JustLukeyA, 16 October 2017


Ophelia hits Europe: Worst Ireland storm in 50+ years 300+ fires in Portugal and Spain, 30+ dead Red sun in London from Saharan dust + smoke: image via Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus, 16 October 2017



Ophelia hits Europe: Worst Ireland storm in 50+ years 300+ fires in Portugal and Spain, 30+ dead Red sun in London from Saharan dust + smoke: image via Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus, 16 October 2017



Ophelia hits Europe: Worst Ireland storm in 50+ years 300+ fires in Portugal and Spain, 30+ dead Red sun in London from Saharan dust + smoke: image via Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus, 16 October 2017



Ophelia hits Europe: Worst Ireland storm in 50+ years 300+ fires in Portugal and Spain, 30+ dead Red sun in London from Saharan dust + smoke: image via Eric Holthaus @EricHolthaus, 16 October 2017


Last night, I saw this lonely wheelchair at the end of a Santa Rosa driveway, and finally cried. I get to go home. Countless others won't.: image via Karl Mondon @karlmondon, 13 October 2017


 Even more upsetting with so many still missing. Especially the aged. Hopes and prayers. Photo @bdvbrug @latimesphotos #SantaRosa #californiafires: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 13 October 2017


A #Halloween decoration is the only thing remaining at a home destroyed by the #Tubbsfire in #SantaRosa #santarosafire: image by Justin Sullivan @sullyfoto, 12 October 2017

 
Photo not just news, but forensic? The powerline as culprit. Photo @bdvbrug #SantaRosa #californiafires: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 13 October 2017


Like nothing ever seen. Photo Jim Wilson @nytimesphoto #Sonoma #californiafires: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 13 October 2017
 
 
Jim Wilson of @nytimes is such a good photographer.: image via Quentin Hardy @qhardy, 13 October 2017
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 In light of hill blaze, fear builds for crop loss. Hard to tell vineyard from cemetery. #GlenEllen @SFChronPhotos #wine #californiafires: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 16 October 2017
 

Perhaps most real oval op shot so far. @EvanVucci's photo captures misdirection, the incoherence. #Trump off center. Photo @AP @WhiteHouse: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 11 October 2017


Pic of #Trump dazed and confused, forgetting to pen ex order torpedoing #ACA, totally Emperors New Clothes. More fearlessness from @EvanVucci: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 12 October 2017

 
The world atilt, Sonia Torres in Aibonito #PuertoRico still has no water or power. What she does have is photographer @mario_tama #Maria: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 12 October 2017

 
@berkeleyside the tragically beautiful Bay Area sunsets continue. From Panoramic Hill: image via Fred Werner @SustainableFred, 14 October 2017


 @berkeleyside the tragically beautiful Bay Area sunsets continue. From Panoramic Hill: image via Fred Werner @SustainableFred, 14 October 2017


@berkeleyside the tragically beautiful Bay Area sunsets continue. From Panoramic Hill: image via Fred Werner @SustainableFred, 14 October 2017

  
@berkeleyside the tragically beautiful Bay Area sunsets continue. From Panoramic Hill: image via Fred Werner @SustainableFred, 14 October 2017


The sky over #London takes on a very end-of-days hue as the remnants of hurricane #Ophelia reach the UK and Ireland. @PA: image via Dominic Lipinski @domlipinski, 16 October 2017


#Syria A #SDF member monitors  #ISIS positions on the western frontline in #Raqqa. By @Kilicbil @AFP: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 16 October 2017
 

Picture shows apocalyptic aftermath of the scene of bombing; Ministry of Foreign Affairs is just on the left behind the trees. #Mogadishu: image via Harun Maruf @HarunMarif, 14 October 2017
 

BREAKING: Smoke after huge explosion in #Mogadishu KM5 junction, casualties unclear until now. #Somalia: image via Mogadishu Update @Magdashi3, 14 October 2017 



Death toll from twin #Mogadishu Saturday blasts hits 277 with 300+ injured making it DEADLIEST SINGLE INCIDENT IN SOMALIA'S MODERN HISTORY!: image via Charles Obyango-Obbo @cobbo3, 16 October 2017 


218 confirmed dead, 290 confirmed injured by #Mogadishu hospitals. My condolences, so much sadness. Pole Somalia. #PrayForMogadishu: image via AdamMainaTravels @AdamMaina, 15 October 2017



218 confirmed dead, 290 confirmed injured by #Mogadishu hospitals. My condolences, so much sadness. Pole Somalia. #PrayForMogadishu: image via AdamMainaTravels @AdamMaina, 15 October 2017



218 confirmed dead, 290 confirmed injured by #Mogadishu hospitals. My condolences, so much sadness. Pole Somalia. #PrayForMogadishu: image via AdamMainaTravels @AdamMaina, 15 October 2017

 
Thank you @guardian for covering yesterday catastrophic terror attack in #Mogadishu on your front page tomorrow. We are very grateful.: image via A Fidow @IamFidow, 15 October 2017
 

#India A laborer rests after work as push carts and cycle rickshaws make their way through a street in #NewDelhi By @Ilungta @AP_Images: image via Photojurnalism @photojournalink, 15 October 2017
 

  #Libya Migrants look out of a barred door at a detention center in Gharyan. By Hani Amara @reuterspictures: image via Photojurnalism @photojournalink, 15 October 2017


  #Kenya A politician of the NASA coalition reacts after a gas canister fired by police hits his car during a protest #Nairobi @BazRatner: image via Photojurnalism @photojournalink, 15 October 2017

Civilians carry the body of an unidentified man from the scene of an explosion in KM4 street in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia.: photo by Feisal Omar/Reuters, 16 October 2017

Living in End Times

Miriam keeps saying
we are living in End Times
Tom Pacheco left a telephone message the other day.
He said, “I just want to say one thing— 
It seems like we’re living
in the Ends of Time now 
There’s a sense of apocalypse
that so many people are feeling—
from the fires in California,
the hurricanes, an insane man
as president who seems like he is
going to blow his top
        & take the world with him.

“It’s a horrible time all over the world.
It’s really scarey.  It’s dangerous times, 
I sense it every where I go,”
said Tom Pacheco
We are living in End Times 
We are living in End Times
We are living in End Times
o Lord

So much cruelty & violence
So much chaos & shackles
So much warfare & killing
Too Much  Too Much  Too Much  Too Much
o Lord

Miriam keeps saying
we are living in End Times
Tom Pacheco left a telephone message the other day.
He said, “I just want to say one thing—
It seems like we’re living
in the Ends of Time now 
There’s a sense of apocalypse
that so many people are feeling—”

We are living in End Times
We are living in End Times
We are living in End Times
o Lord o Lord o Lord 
  
                          10-14-17 E.S.

 

End of Times glyph: Edward Sanders, 16 October 2017 
 
red meat to the base

... | by Fermin Guzman

 Tradicional matanza de chivos en la hacienda El Rosario. Huajapan de León, Oaxaca 2017: photo by Fermin Guzman, 13 October 2017

... | by Fermin Guzman
  
Tradicional matanza de chivos en la hacienda El Rosario. Huajapan de León, Oaxaca 2017: photo by Fermin Guzman, 13 October 2017

... | by Fermin Guzman
  
Tradicional matanza de chivos en la hacienda El Rosario. Huajapan de León, Oaxaca 2017: photo by Fermin Guzman, 13 October 2017

© Spiros Soueref, Ethiopia, 2016 | by Spiros Soueref
Ethiopia, 2016: photo by Spiros Soueref, 25 August 2016

Welcome to the Jungle | by stephane Grasset

In the jungle [France]: photo by Stephane Grasset, 4 June 2016

Welcome to the Jungle | by stephane Grasset

In the jungle [France]: photo by Stephane Grasset, 4 June 2016

Welcome to the Jungle | by stephane Grasset

In the jungle [France]: photo by Stephane Grasset, 4 June 2016

116/366 | by Marina Shuklina

161/366 [Saint Petersburg]: photo by Marina Shuklina, 25 April 2016

116/366 | by Marina Shuklina

161/366 [Saint Petersburg]: photo by Marina Shuklina, 25 April 2016

116/366 | by Marina Shuklina

161/366 [Saint Petersburg]: photo by Marina Shuklina, 25 April 2016

Hardcore China Street-The last market | by Eason Q

Hardcore China Street - The last market [Changshu]: photo by Eason Q, 17 September 2016

Hardcore China Street-The last market | by Eason Q


Hardcore China Street - The last market [Changshu]: photo by Eason Q, 17 September 2016

Untitled | by .:*ghost*:.
 
 Untitled [Osaka]: photo by .:*ghost*:., 20 March 2009

How much Human is still in us humans ? | by People & Street Guy

How much human is still in us humans? The fact that there are people who need to procure food for survival in the rubbish of our prosperity  is a sad certainty. But how deep we are sunk that we watch idly that this struggle for survival is taking place in the midst of densely populated cities? Is it not our damn duty and obligation, no matter which nation, to prevent this and to help? Anyone who can look at such scenes without guilty feelings can not call himself a "human".: photo by Carsten Osterwald, 7 June 2017

How much Human is still in us humans ? | by People & Street Guy

How much human is still in us humans? The fact that there are people who need to procure food for survival in the rubbish of our prosperity  is a sad certainty. But how deep we are sunk that we watch idly that this struggle for survival is taking place in the midst of densely populated cities? Is it not our damn duty and obligation, no matter which nation, to prevent this and to help? Anyone who can look at such scenes without guilty feelings can not call himself a "human".: photo by Carsten Osterwald, 7 June 2017

Untitled | by BoRIS THE FLASH

Untitled: photo by Boris THE FLASH, c.  2017

Billy Bragg | by nearthecoast.com

Billy Bragg [Letheringham, UK]: photo by nearthecoastdotcom, 4 July 2015

Billy Bragg | by nearthecoast.com

Billy Bragg [Letheringham, UK]: photo by nearthecoastdotcom, 4 July 2015

Billy Bragg | by nearthecoast.com

Billy Bragg [Letheringham, UK]: photo by nearthecoastdotcom, 4 July 2015

Portrait - Malawi | by Vincent Karcher

Portrait [Malawi]: photo by Vincent Karden, 17 June 2016

Drugs all over the world | by People & Street Guy

Drugs all over the world. 
I stood on a bridge and waited.
He asked me for fire.
I asked him if I could photograph him. He nodded.
He lit his self-made drug whistle, tipped after 2 moves to the side and sank into nowhere. 
[Vietnam].: photo by Carsten Osterwald, 7 June 2017

Drugs all over the world | by People & Street Guy

Drugs all over the world. 
I stood on a bridge and waited.
He asked me for fire.
I asked him if I could photograph him. He nodded.
He lit his self-made drug whistle, tipped after 2 moves to the side and sank into nowhere. 
[Vietnam]: photo by Carsten Osterwald, 7 June 2017

Drugs all over the world | by People & Street Guy

 Drugs all over the world. 
I stood on a bridge and waited.
He asked me for fire.
I asked him if I could photograph him. He nodded.
He lit his self-made drug whistle, tipped after 2 moves to the side and sank into nowhere. 
[Vietnam]: photo by Carsten Osterwald, 7 June 2017

Toujours l'envie, malgré tout | by www.danbouteiller.com

 Toujours l'envie, malgré tout [Rouen]: photo by dan bouteiler, 9 September 2017

Toujours l'envie, malgré tout | by www.danbouteiller.com

 Toujours l'envie, malgré tout [Rouen]: photo by dan bouteiler, 9 September 2017

Toujours l'envie, malgré tout | by www.danbouteiller.com

 Toujours l'envie, malgré tout [Rouen]: photo by dan bouteiler, 9 September 2017

............... | by HankA_O

Untitled [Berlin]: photo by Hanna Ostashver, 17 October 2017

Untitled | by pablo wayne

reunion island: photo by pablo wayne, 25 December 2016

Untitled | by pablo wayne

reunion island: photo by pablo wayne, 25 December 2016

Untitled | by pablo wayne

reunion island: photo by pablo wayne, 25 December 2016

Rural Decay Alberta. | by Bernard Spragg

Rural Decay Alberta: photo by Bernard Spragg.NZ, 26 September 2017

Rural Decay Alberta. | by Bernard Spragg

Rural Decay Alberta: photo by Bernard Spragg.NZ, 26 September 2017

Rural Decay Alberta. | by Bernard Spragg

Rural Decay Alberta: photo by Bernard Spragg.NZ, 26 September 2017

Havana, Cuba | by f.d. walker

Havana, Cuba: photo by f.d. walker, 17 November 2016

Havana, Cuba | by f.d. walker

Havana, Cuba: photo by f.d. walker, 17 November 2016

Havana, Cuba | by f.d. walker

Havana, Cuba: photo by f.d. walker, 17 November 2016


A man walks past an anti-U.S. mural in Tehran: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 16 October 2017

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