Word: afar
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...still Soviet cool. And the lens still comes from the St. Petersburg factory, so the visual quirks - intense colors, sharp contrast, wacky focus - remain intact. A new multiple exposure switch allows unlimited shots on a single frame, while the added cable release lets you fire the shutter from afar. At $320, this model also costs more, but one thing hasn't changed: Lomo is sticking to film. Says Lomographic Society head Matthias Fiegl: "Because young people are used to digital photography, analog is special. Putting the film in the camera, exposing the lens, the chemistry ? It's very exciting...
DAHUK NINEVEH ARBIL SULAYMANIYAH TA'MIM NAJAF WASIT DIYALA MUTHANNA SALAHADDIN ANBAR QADISYAH KARBALA BABIL MAYSAN DHIQAR BASRA Kirkuk Mosul Arbil Nasiriyah Baqubah Najaf Sulaymaniyah Karbala Hillah Samarra Diwaniyah Fallujah Ramadi Tikrit Tall 'Afar Kut Samawah Faisaliya Basra Amarah...
...been after me ever since 2002," Buck says. His sentence includes a ban from ever going back to China, but Buck says he still has a network of people in the country helping run the underground railroad, and he will now figure out ways to help them from afar, in part by raising money to house and feed North Korean refugees in China. "Every day in prison--457 days-I thought about the refugees and prayed to God to help them. My work is nowhere near finished...
...these human figures, arranged on either side of vertical lines, images of sailors clinging to the masts of ships? Do they depict visitors from afar, or locals involved in some rite or ceremony? Other petroglyphs in this area-many thought to be at least 6,000 years old-depict fish, reptiles, kangaroos and birds, as well as human figures. According to experts, they show wide variation in style and technique, suggesting that they were created in different eras. The images are still visible, thanks to the contrast between the dark red-to-black patina of iron oxide that covers...
...administrative offices, to be photographed. Plans are afoot to capture more of the tourist dollar, through art and guided tours of Gooniyandi country. "The demise of trad-itional communities is due to structures, such as the [defunct] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Comm-ission, that have been imposed from afar by governments," says school principal Len Boyle. "It's far better now that the money, and responsibility, is in the hands of local comm-unities." Independently run by an Aboriginal community board, the school draws on funding from Perth, Canberra and philanthropists. Indeed, filing grant applications is the heart...