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Fotoloco Inquirer's 15th Anniversary LAB Gastropub Oceana 100

A few nice photo lab images I found:


Fotoloco Inquirer's 15th Anniversary LAB Gastropub Oceana 100
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Image by FOTOLOCO!
Fotoloco photo booth pictures @ Inquirer's 15th Anniversary | LAB Gastropub Oceana, Pasay City | All-you-want photo prints and greenscreen from Fotoloco photo booth


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photo lab
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Fotoloco photo booth pictures @ Inquirer's 15th Anniversary | LAB Gastropub Oceana, Pasay City | All-you-want photo prints and greenscreen from Fotoloco photo booth


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photo lab
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Fotoloco photo booth pictures @ Inquirer's 15th Anniversary | LAB Gastropub Oceana, Pasay City | All-you-want photo prints and greenscreen from Fotoloco photo booth

Nice Image Stock photos

A few nice image stock images I found:


Free Knitted Yarn Stock BackgroundsEtc Wallpaper - Magenta
image stock
Image by webtreats
Free tileable, high quality background images in size 512 x 1024px. Ideal for desktop wallpapers, graphic design, twitter, myspace and other purposes. If using for Twitter make sure you select the "tile background" checkbox when uploading.

Click here to visit our sister site,
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Free Knitted Yarn Stock BackgroundsEtc Wallpaper - Purple
image stock
Image by webtreats
Free tileable, high quality background images in size 512 x 1024px. Ideal for desktop wallpapers, graphic design, twitter, myspace and other purposes. If using for Twitter make sure you select the "tile background" checkbox when uploading.

Click here to visit our sister site,
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Free Sequenced Circles Stock BackgroundsEtc Wallpaper - Coral Salmon
image stock
Image by webtreats
Free tileable, high quality background images in size 512 x 1024px. Ideal for desktop wallpapers, graphic design, twitter, myspace and other purposes. If using for Twitter make sure you select the "tile background" checkbox when uploading.

Here's the link to download this image:
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Cool Digital Photos images

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Red !
digital photos
Image by fs999
Pentax K-5 • 80 ISO • Pentax DA* 200mm f:2.8 ED SDM
Hoya Pro1 Digital Filter Close-Up N°3

Tulip


Sweet Flavour
digital photos
Image by fs999
Pentax K-5 • 80 ISO • Pentax DA* 50-135mm F2.8 SDM
Hoya Pro1 Digital Filter Close-Up N°3


Little Daisy
digital photos
Image by fs999
Pentax K-5 • 200 ISO • Soligor Tele-Auto 135mm f:2.5
Hoya Pro1 Digital Filter Close-Up N°3

Cool Image Editor images

Some cool image editor images:


Lake Serene Panorama
image editor
Image by Richard Cassan


panorama of munnar sky
image editor
Image by { pranav }
I shot this sky panorama from the balcony of my hotel in Munnar. Used Microsoft's ICE tool to stitch together the shots.

I strongly recommend to view Original Size.

Nice Photo Editing Free photos

Some cool photo editing free images:



Dark Blue Dirty Grunge Texture
photo editing free
Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!


Grandfather and Grandson on Train
photo editing free
Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!

Clifton B. Cates Letter, 14-16 June 1918, Page 4 of 8

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Clifton B. Cates Letter, 14-16 June 1918, Page 4 of 8
photo letters
Image by Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections
From the collection of Clifton B. Cates (COLL/3157), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections

OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH


Clifton B. Cates Letter, 14-16 June 1918, Page 5 of 8
photo letters
Image by Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections
From the collection of Clifton B. Cates (COLL/3157), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections

OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH

Happy New Year for 2012! Sunrise from Coral Cove Park.

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Happy New Year for 2012! Sunrise from Coral Cove Park.
photo software
Image by Captain Kimo
captainkimo.com/happy-new-year-for-2012-sunrise-from-cora...


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Untitled

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Untitled
photo book
Image by Smithsonian Institution
Description: Although Thomas Smillie, the Smithsonian's first photographer and curator of photography, used images to catalog much of the institution's physical object collection, he also extensively photographed pages of books on topics of personal interest to him as a way of copying the material for future use. Smillie also photographed letters and documents as a method of preserving the Smithsonian's records.

Creator/Photographer: Thomas Smillie
Birth Date: 1843
Death Date: 1917

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1843, Thomas William Smillie immigrated to the United States with his family when he five years old. After studying chemistry and medicine at Georgetown University, he took a job as a photographer at the Smithsonian Institution, where he stayed for nearly fifty years until his death in 1917. Smillie's duties and accomplishments at the Smithsonian were vast: he documented important events and research trips, photographed the museum's installations and specimens, created reproductions for use as printing illustrations, performed chemical experiments for Smithsonian scientific researchers, and later acted as the head and curator of the photography lab. Smillie's documentation of each Smithsonian exhibition and installation resulted in an informal record of all of the institution's art and artifacts. In 1913 Smillie mounted an exhibition on the history of photography to showcase the remarkable advancements that had been made in the field but which he feared had already been forgotten.

Medium: Cyanotype

Date: 1890

Collection: Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95) - Thomas Smillie served as the first official photographer for the Smithsonian Institution from 1870 until his death in 1917. As head of the photography lab as well as its curator, he was responsible for photographing all of the exhibits, objects, and expeditions, leaving an informal record of early Smithsonian collections.

Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives

Accession number: RU95_Box78_0012


Book Fotografico
photo book
Image by memoflores
Book Fotográfico para modelos.




Más Fotos / More Photos:
www.memoflores.com/blog/book-fotografico/


Bookshelf
photo book
Image by rich_w
Simon commented recently on a photo of mine and called these shelves the bookcase- o'-much-orderedness.

I thought I'd indulge myself show how my books are arranged and categorised. Note that these are my non-fiction books only.

Nice Online Photos photos

A few nice online photos images I found:


AP photo - Panjwai, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, March 11, 2012 ... US Soldier Held for Shooting Afghan Civilians (March 11, 2012 ) ...item 2.. US soldier kills 16 Afghan civilians – video ...item 3.. Mail Online - 12 March 2012 ...
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Image by marsmet511
Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, could offer only a few details about the shooting that took place in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar Province.

“What we know so far is that, in the very early morning hours of this morning, under the hours of darkness, a U.S. soldier left a forward operating base in the Panjwai area in the west of Kandahar. He went into the nearby village and shot innocent civilians under circumstances which still have to be investigated, then returned to the base and handed himself in, and he is in U.S. custody at the moment,” he said.
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Afghan National Army soldiers keep watch as Afghans gather outside a U.S. base in Panjwai district Kandahar province, March 11, 2012.

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In Afghanistan, a U.S. soldier has been detained after shooting Afghan civilians Sunday. Afghan officials report at least 16 dead.

Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, could offer only a few details about the shooting that took place in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar Province.

“What we know so far is that, in the very early morning hours of this morning, under the hours of darkness, a U.S. soldier left a forward operating base in the Panjwai area in the west of Kandahar. He went into the nearby village and shot innocent civilians under circumstances which still have to be investigated, then returned to the base and handed himself in, and he is in U.S. custody at the moment,” he said.

Jacobson could not confirm the number of casualties, nor the motivation behind the attack but said a full investigation would soon be underway.

Asadullah Khalid, the Afghan minister of border and tribal affairs, says the U.S. soldier went on an unprovoked killing spree in the nearby villages.

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He says a number of people were martyred in a few houses, in one house 11 people were martyred and in another house many people were wounded and one was martyred.

Both ISAF and Afghan officials have condemned the incident and expressed concern for the victims and their families.

The Panjwai district in Kandahar had been considered a Taliban stronghold in the recent past. In 2010 it was the scene of heavy fighting between U.S. forces and the Taliban. General Jacobson says the military is concerned that this incident could jeopardize progress made to stabilize the region.

“ISAF has made great progress in recent weeks and months in stabilizing an area that was once very much hardcore land of the Taliban," he said. "So we are looking at this incident also from the perspective, does it do any damage to what we are doing, to the work that is done there in the hand-over process of responsibility to Afghan national security forces.”

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There is concern that this shooting could further increase anti-American sentiment in Afghanistan. Relations between the two countries have been tense since U.S. soldiers inadvertently burned Qurans at an American military base in February. That incident sparked a week of violent protests nationwide and a number of deadly attacks against U.S. soldiers. The U.S. military has temporarily recalled staff from Afghan ministries.

An official military inquiry into the Quran burnings is still pending and American soldiers involved in the incident could face disciplinary actions.

Andrew Wilder, director of Afghanistan and Pakistan programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace says this attack against Afghan civilians will fuel more anger against the U.S. but it will probably not significantly alter the complicated relationship between the two countries.

"Afghans are very ambivalent about the presence of international forces in Afghanistan," said Wilder. "I think primarily because they are not perceived to have brought security that is probably the biggest cause of resentment. However, they also fear the rapid withdraw of international forces as they fear that would be very destabilizing. So even despite these kinds of incidents rightfully anger Afghans, I don't think that necessarily translates to the majority of Afghans wanting international forces rushing to the exits."

As late as Friday, relations seemed to be mending as the two countries agreed to transfer full control of an American detention facility to Afghanistan in six months. The agreement removed a major obstacle in developing a strategic partnership that will define a U.S. role in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdraws most of its 98,000 combat soldiers in 2014.

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...US Service Member Kills At Least 16 Afghan Civilians
...Afghanistan Blast Kills Six British Soldiers
...Karzai: US-Afghan Strategic Deal Makes Progress
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US soldier kills 16 Afghan civilians – videoAn American member of the Nato force in Afghanistan has left his base in Zangabad, Kandahar province, and shot dead 16 civilians including children in an adjoining village. The soldier was later arrested. The case adds to tensions between the US and Afghanistan over the continued foreign military presence and the deaths of civilians in drone strikes and other attacks

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...U.S. and British officials warn of reprisals against troops after massacre
...Taliban vows to avenge deaths, saying more than one soldier involved
...Shooter identified as Army staff sergeant from Fort Lewis, Washington
...Base regarded as 'most troubled in the military' with history of killings
...'Entered three homes, shot 16 dead after suffering mental breakdown'
...Nine children and three women among those reported dead
...Relative: He 'poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them'


By BETH STEBNER and THOMAS DURANTE
PUBLISHED: 08:54 EST, 11 March 2012 | UPDATED: 04:22 EST, 12 March 2012

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NATO troops in Afghanistan are on high alert after the Taliban vowed to avenge the deaths of 16 innocent civilians - including nine children and three women - who were shot and killed by a rogue U.S. soldier who opened fire after suffering a 'mental breakdown' early Sunday morning.

The Army staff sergeant, stationed at a U.S. base in Kandahar, entered three Afghan family’s homes at 3am and began the vicious killing spree. Relatives of the dead said he then 'poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them.'

The shooter is an Army staff sergeant from Fort Lewis-McChord in Washington state, and was believed to have acted alone.

Military officials are investigating the incident and working to discover what made the soldier - believed to be a father of three - snap to such extremes that he would embark on a killing mission.

With tensions rising in the region, U.S. and British officials said they were now braced for a backlash as the Taliban claimed the killings were the work of 'more than one soldier'.

Militants condemned the 'blood-soaked and inhumane crime' by 'sick-minded American savages' on its website and vowed to take revenge 'for every single martyr with the help of Allah'.

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Disbelief: Two grief-stricken Afghan men look into the van where the body of a badly burned child lays, wrapped in a blue blanket

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Horrific: The bodies of an elderly Afghan man and a child killed in the Alkozai village of Panjwayi district are shown wrapped in blankets

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Station: The shooter was identified by U.S. officials as an Army staff sergeant from Fort Lewis, Washington, which has troubling history

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Initial reports indicated the gunman returned to his base after the shooting, calmly turned himself in and was taken into custody at a NATO base in Afghanistan.

In a statement, Afghan President Hamid Karzai left open the possibility of more than one shooter. He initially spoke of a single U.S. gunman, then referred to 'American forces' entering houses.

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The statement quoted a 15-year-old survivor named Rafiullah, shot in the leg, as telling Karzai in a phone call that 'soldiers' broke into his house, woke up his family and began shooting them.

Mr Karzai condemned the attacks as 'an assassination' and furiously demanded an explanation from the U.S.
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High alert: American soldiers keep watch at the entrance of a military base near Alkozai village following the shooting of Afghan civilians, after which the Afghan Taliban vowed revenge

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Little is known about the soldier who committed the atrocities, including his name, but a U.S. official said he is married with three children, and served three separate tours in Iraq.

He was assigned to support a special operations unit of either Green Berets or Navy SEALs engaged in a village stability operation.

Such operations are among NATO's best hopes for transitioning out of Afghanistan, pairing special operations troops with villagers chosen by village elders to become essentially a sanctioned, armed neighbourhood watch. He has reportedly been stationed in Afghanistan since December.

Fort Lewis-McChord is about 45 miles south of Seattle and home to about 100,000 military and civilian personnel.

A former soldier out of Fort Lewis shot and injured a Salt Lake City police officer in 2010, and on January 1, a 24-year-old Iraq War veteran shot and killed a Mount Rainier National Park ranger.
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Watchful eye: Afghan soldiers stand guard outside the houses where 16 civilians were shot dead by a U.S. soldier

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Tragedy: Locals people gather outside the houses where 17 civilians were murdered by a U.S. soldier in a horrific house-to-house killing spree

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Four Lewis-McChord soldiers were convicted in the deliberate thrill killings of three Afghan civilians in 2010. The military newspaper Stars and Stripes called it 'the most troubled base in the military' that year.

The attack is sure to further tarnish relations between Afghanistan and the U.S., as it comes weeks after NATO soldiers burned copies of the Koran - the Muslim holy book - sparking a violent protest that has left some 30 people dead.

And the former Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, said British troops could now be targeted in revenge and that the massacre would also erode the vital trust allied forces have built up with Afghan civilians over the course of the war.

He told ITV's Daybreak: 'I think every soldier in Afghanistan, British, American and other allies, will be sickened by a person wearing their own uniform literally going door to door and killing people as they sleep in their houses.

'These are the very people that this soldier and his comrades are supposed to be in Afghanistan to protect not kill.

'You would have to make a very persuasive case that these actions were due to mental stress, that's not to say that the stress isn't there for every soldier in Afghanistan.'

Neighbours said they had awoken to crackling gunfire from American soldiers, who they described as laughing and drunk.

'They were all drunk and shooting all over the place,' said Agha Lala, who visited one of the homes where killings took place. 'Their [the victims'] bodies were riddled with bullets.'

A senior U.S. defence official in Washington rejected witness accounts that several apparently drunk soldiers were involved.

'Based on the preliminary information we have this account is flatly wrong,' the official said. 'We believe one U.S. service member acted alone, not a group of U.S. soldiers.'
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TALIBAN DOUBTS 'BLOOD-SOAKED' CRIME WORK OF ONE SOLDIER

The Taliban posted on its website today that 'American savages' committed the 'blood-soaked and inhumane crime'.

It also expressed doubt that a single soldier could have carried out the shootings in houses over a mile apart.

Villagers told Afghan officials they heard shots being fired from several directions.

Abdul Rahim Ayubi, a lawmaker from Kandahar province, said the distance between the houses raised questions about how a single soldier could have carried out all of the shootings.

He said: 'It is not possible for only one American soldier to come out of his base, kill a number of people far away, burn the bodies, go to another house and kill civilians there, then walk at least 2 kilometers and enter another house, kill civilians and burn them.'

Abdul Ghani, a local councilman in Panjwai district, said local villagers reported seeing two groups of soldiers.

He said: 'The villagers said they were hearing machine gun fire and pistol fire from different directions.'

But a spokesman for U.S.-led forces, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings, said that their reports still indicate a single soldier carried out the attacks.

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Tears of grief: An Afghan youth mourns for his relatives, who were allegedly killed by the U.S. service member

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Aftermath: Families gather in the Panjwayi district hours after the rogue U.S. soldier opened fire on innocents in three houses, killing 16 people, including nine children

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An AP photographer reported that he saw 15 bodies of Afghans - some of them burned and some covered with blankets - in the villages of Alkozai and Balandi in Kandahar province's Panjwai district.

One man told the AFP news agency of his great loss. ‘Eleven members of my family are dead. They are all dead,’ Haji Samad said.

'They [Americans] poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them,' a weeping Mr Samad told Reuters at the scene.

According to Al Jazeera, the soldier went into three separate houses at 3am local time when it was pitch black and shot the civilians, who were sleeping in their beds.
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Bloody Sunday: Afghan soldiers and villagers congregate outside the houses where 17 civilians were killed by a U.S. soldier

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Perched: An elderly Afghan man sits next to the covered body of a person who was killed early today by a U.S. service member

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Scene of the crime: Afghan men investigate at the site of an shooting incident in Kandahar province

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In shock: Relatives sat in shock in a van also carrying the bodies of their kin wrapped in blankets

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Beyond tears: A grieving Afghan sits in a van next to one of the bodies (left) while another man sits in a truck bed keeping watch over the body of a young boy

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Beyond tears: A grieving Afghan sits in a van next to one of the bodies (left) while another man sits in a truck bed keeping watch over the body of a young boy

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A resident of Alkozai, where the shootings took place, said 16 people were killed as the U.S. service member went into three different houses and started shooting.

The villager, Abdul Baqi, said he had not seen the bodies himself, but had talked to the family members of the dead.

‘When it was happening in the middle of the night we were inside our houses. I heard gunshots and then silence and then gunshots again,’ Mr Baqi said.

'Eleven members of my family are dead. They are all dead.'
-Haji Samad

Reports say that 15 members from two Afghan families were slaughtered, as well as an unidentified sixteenth person.

Mr Karzai also said that five people were wounded. Their conditions are unknown.

Defence Secretary Leon Panetta called the Afghan president to express ‘profound regret’ and assure him that ‘this terrible incident does not reflect our shared values or the progress we have made together,’ his office said in a statement.

He concluded: ‘We will bring those responsible to justice.’

Maj Jason Waggoner, another spokesman for ISAF said: ‘The civilian casualties were not the result of any operations. The soldier was acting on his own. After the incident, he returned to the compound and turned himself in.’
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'Deeply saddened': President Obama talks with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai from the back of his vehicle in Chevy Chase, Maryland

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Demanding answers: Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the shootings as an 'assassination' and said it 'cannot be forgiven'

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NATO-led International Security Assistance Force deputy commander Lt Gen Andrian Bradshaw would not speculate the reasoning behind the seemingly random attack.

Mr Karzai said in a statement that he was sending high-level authorities to investigate the shooting and deliver a full report. NATO officials, too, are conducting an inquiry.

‘This is an assassination, an intentional killing of innocent civilians and cannot be forgiven,’ Mr Karzai said in a statement, adding that he has repeatedly called for the U.S. to stop killing Afghan citizens.

President Obama issued a statement this afternoon saying he is ‘deeply saddened’ by the ‘tragic and shocking’ killing of Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier.

He said: ‘This incident is tragic and shocking and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan.'

The White House said that Mr Obama phoned Mr Karzai to personally express his regret.

The president also vowed to ‘get the facts as quickly as possible and to hold accountable anyone responsible.’

On Sunday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement: ‘We are deeply concerned by the initial reports of this incident, and are monitoring the situation closely.’

There are precious few details on the alleged shooter. Officials have only said that he was an Army staff sergeant who was acting alone.

On CBS’ Face the Nation, Newt Gingrich commented on the escalating tensions in Afghanistan and elsewhere, saying: ‘I think that we have to reassess the entire region,’ noting Washington’s tumultuous relationship with neighbouring Pakistan as well.

Twelve of the dead were from Balandi, said Samad Khan, a farmer who lost all 11 members of his family, including women and children.

Mr Khan was away from the village when the incident occurred and returned to find his family members shot dead and burned.

One of his neighbours was also killed, he said. It was unclear how or why the bodies were set ablaze.

To prove that the bodies had been set on fire, Afghan villagers brought out badly burned blankets, the New York Times reported. More than 300 people came out to protest the senseless violence.

An AP photo showed the bloodstained corner of a house next to a large black area that was charred by fire. The charred area appeared to be remnants of blankets and possibly bodies that had been set on fire.

Villagers packed inside the minibus looked on with concern as a woman spoke to reporters. She pulled back a blanket to reveal the body of a smaller child wearing what appeared to be red pajamas.

A third dead child lay in a pile of green blankets in the bed of a truck.
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Response: U.S. armoured vehicles parked outside the a U.S. base in Panjwai district Kandahar province following the attacks as Afghan citizens looked on

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Standing guard: Afghan National Army soldiers keep watch inside the base after the brutal attacks

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East meets west: A U.S. soldier, part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force the military base and passes a stone-faced Afghan man

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Eagle eyes: U.S. Army and Afghan soldiers were perched in a guard tower at their base in Panjwai following the deadly shootings

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'This is an anti-human and anti-Islamic act,' said Mr Khan. 'Nobody is allowed in any religion in the world to kill children and women.'

Mr Khan demanded that Karzai punish the American shooter.

'Otherwise we will make a decision,' said Mr Khan. 'He should be handed over to us,’ he told the Associated Press.

‘I cannot explain the motivation behind such callous acts, but they were in no way part of authorised ISAF military activity,’ he said in a statement.

There were reports of protests in Panjwai following the shooting and the U.S. embassy warned travellers in Kandahar province to ‘exercise caution.’

The Afghan Taliban would take revenge for the deaths, the group said in an e-mailed statement to media.
‘The so-called American peacekeepers have once again quenched their thirst with the blood of innocent Afghan civilians in Kandahar province,’ the Taliban’s statement read.

The shooting comes after weeks of tense relations between U.S. forces and their Afghan hosts following the burning of Korans and other religious materials at an American base.

Though U.S. officials apologised and said the burning was purely accidental, the incident sparked violent protests and attacks that killed some 30 people and a host of anti-American protests.

Six U.S. troops have been killed in attacks by their Afghan colleagues since news of the Koran burnings came to light.
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President Obama issued a statement Sunday saying he is ‘deeply saddened’ by the ‘tragic and shocking’ killing of Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier.

He said: ‘This incident is tragic and shocking and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan.’

The president also vowed to ‘get the facts as quickly as possible and to hold accountable anyone responsible.’

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Age of innocence: Afghan boys sit on the ground near the scene where Afghans were killed by a U.S. service member

AP

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Furious: Afghan civilians gathered outside the military base today; tensions between the U.S. and Afghanistan have been tense at best for the past decade

AP

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In the capital, meanwhile, Mr Karzai said the government still expects to sign a strategic partnership agreement with the United States by the time a NATO summit convenes in Chicago in May.

The agreement would formalize the U.S.-Afghan relationship and the role of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after NATO's scheduled transfer of security responsibility to the Afghan government at the end of 2014.

'The so-called American peacekeepers have once again quenched their thirst with the blood of innocent Afghan civilians in Kandahar province.'
-Afghan Taliban

But Mr Karzai stressed the importance of foreign forces leaving Afghanistan to preserve the country's national sovereignty.

Any international forces that remain after 2014 would have to operate under strict guidelines governing their responsibilities and when they could leave their bases, he said.

‘We have a strong army and police, so it is to our benefit to have good relations with the international community, not have international troops in our country,’ Mr Karzai said at a public event in Kabul.
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Retaliation: The political and religious party Jamat-e-Islami burn an effigy of President Obama in response to Koran burnings last month at a NATO base, heightening tensions

Reuters

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The president has demanded that international forces stop night raids on the homes of suspected militants as a condition to signing the strategic partnership agreement.

The raids have caused widespread anger among Afghans.

All foreign combat troops are slated to withdraw by end of 2014 from a costly war that has become increasingly unpopular.
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img code photo ... Prominent Afghan women's rights activist Malalai Joya

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Assassination attempt: Prominent Afghan women's rights activist Malalai Joya said a gunman tried to take her life Sunday

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Also Sunday, a prominent Afghan women's rights activist said gunmen attacked her office in a western province in an apparent assassination attempt.

Malalai Joya, a former Afghan lawmaker and vocal critic of both the Taliban and of criminality in the Afghan government, said the attack on her office in Farah province was the sixth attempt on her life to date.

Armed men tried to storm the compound before dawn on Saturday, she said.

The attackers did not get into the building but two of her guards were seriously injured and are currently in the hospital.

Ms Joya said she was in Kabul at the time but had planned a trip to Farah soon and news of that may have leaked out.

She said she believes the attackers thought she was in the building.

The shooting spree took place in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province this morning.

Captain Justin Brockhoff, Nato spokesman confirmed a U.S. service member had been detained following the attack.

The wounded are receiving treatment at a medical base and U.S. forces are investigating the shooting with Afghan authorities.
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Cool Photo Christmas Card images

Some cool photo christmas card images:



Minted Submission
photo christmas card
Image by blush printables
Submitted to 2010 Holiday Card Spectacular on minted.com

vote for me!

Nice Photo Search photos

Some cool photo search images:


Sailors conduct boarding exercises aboard USS Mason (DDG 87).
photo search
Image by Official U.S. Navy Imagery
110511-N-MM360-112
GULF OF ADEN (May 11, 2011) Members of the visit, board, search, and seizure team aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) practice tactical maneuvers aboard the ship. Mason is assigned to Combined Task Force (CTF) 151, supporting counter-piracy and maritime security operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jeffry A. Willadsen/Released)


iraq
photo search
Image by The U.S. Army
U.S. Army Soldiers attached to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment search for three missing Soldiers in the streets of Yusifiyah, Iraq, May 14, 2007. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr.) www.army.mil


Step out of the car please, Sir
photo search
Image by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Following the Easter Rising, British Army soldiers are about to search a car that they've stopped on Mount Street Bridge over the Grand Canal, in an area of Dublin that had seen fierce and prolonged fighting.

The car registration is RI 2987. (Dublin registered - RI 1 to 9999 ran from December 1903 to April 1921). According to the Irish Motor Directory and Motorists' Annual for 1915-16, the owner of RI 2987 was Frank D. Mockler, Dunavara, Lucan. Think that the label on the trunk at the back may be a White Star Line label.

Great array of posters in the background for Bass, the Coliseum Theatre, the Tivoli and the Empire, and for Kennedy's Bread.

Note also the frame of one of the Ringsend gasometers at top left. So this photo was not taken early in the morning as the inner cylinder is down (i.e. not full of gas).

If you stood at this spot today, the scene (structurally) would be almost unchanged...

To get some flavour of the atmosphere in Dublin at the time, have a look at this.

Date: Early May 1916

NLI Ref.: INDH23

bookshelf

Some cool picture framing images:


bookshelf
picture framing
Image by nirbhao
add notes and tag with authors and titles, if you so desire


Assorted Pictures
picture framing
Image by mikecogh

Goodbye Bachelorhood, Hello Marriage!

Check out these image upload images:


Goodbye Bachelorhood, Hello Marriage!
image upload
Image by MightyBoyBrian
So I got married...

That's why I haven't uploaded in a while. I've been editing the tremendous wall of shots that I took during my honeymoon in Jamaica. More to come of course. I'm not going anywhere soon :-).

This was taken on the last day of the honeymoon. The wife and I went up to the roof to watch the sunset and this is what we got to see. Hope you like it! No, Hope you like it large


Into the Past For An Alternate Future
image upload
Image by michmutters
. . Original image by @postaljeff, #Decim8 (Veth, Agency, Graboid, 59.94), 100Camerasin1, PS Express, #Decosketch, #Mextures, Glaze, Camera Awesome, Vintage Reality, Snapseed


Jellybean Fantastico 3/3
image upload
Image by michmutters
: : for "Clint Cline Made Me Do It" week 2 on EyeEm using Deco Sketch + iColorama + 2 apps of our choice.
I used Glaze & Pixrl-o-matic as my 2 choice apps

: : Image of Ferris wheel at night taken in Slow Shutter > manual mode > light trail. image in Deco Sketch with brush opacity 100%, photo opacity 0%. Then in iColorama using Presets, Effects, Adjust & Forms. Image cropped and rotated in iPhoto. Pixrl-o-matic filters.

Division 1, Color, Military Life category

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Division 1, Color, Military Life category
photo contest
Image by The U.S. Army
1st Lt. Andrew H. Kim titled this image, “Cannon” and entered it in Division 1, Color, Military Life category.

All-Army photo contest needs your vote for 'Best of Show'

Team Warren Christmas Card

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Team Warren Christmas Card
photo christmas card
Image by Brian Warren
A bit late getting our Christmas Card photo taken, but we're all for Christmas being 12 days long, so we feel we have plenty of time to get it sent off!


Gift card to shopping nirvana
photo christmas card
Image by chemisti
Just a few snapshots of our little family enjoying the season. While they are not spectacular, they are greatly improved over the blue tinged, harshly shadowed, redeyed, nasty flash I used to use.

Technique: Similar to this Strobist blog post.

More images in this series.

Strobist info:
1 - SB-600 into 43" convertible umbrella (used conventionally) on 10' Amvona light stand
1 - SB-600, wide diffuser fired at the ceiling
1 - SB-800 with diffuser cap, used as master and for fill.
All triggered via CLS.
All gelled with 1/2 CTO to get close to the ambient.

Variety of settings used, but generally:
D300 - manual mode
F2.8 - F5.6
1/160 - 1/250
ISO 400 - 800
(Hey, a little experimentation going on here!)

Finally figured out that it is better to shoot with camera on manual mode even though CLS does the exposure work!


Ruelle de Noël - Montréal, Québec, Canada
photo christmas card
Image by Marie Berne

Nice Picture Frames photos

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totoro_effected
picture frames
Image by __REN__


hugmee_effected
picture frames
Image by __REN__


good_effected
picture frames
Image by __REN__

Nice Photo Booth photos

A few nice photo booth images I found:


Big Omaha 2011 Photo Booth
photo booth
Image by Silicon Prairie News


Big Omaha 2011 Photo Booth
photo booth
Image by Silicon Prairie News


Big Omaha 2011 Photo Booth
photo booth
Image by Silicon Prairie News

Nice Photo Books photos

A few nice photo books images I found:



Books
photo books
Image by vasta
Inspired by Katya and Paul.

Took a photo of whatever books were lying on my bed at this exact moment. (I piled them up before I did.) I think I had even more books sitting on my desk at the same time.

I've read everything I own now though, so anyone have any good ideas for a summer reading list? (I'm a non-fiction fan, but not averse to a good novel or collection.)

Mme. Alda (LOC)

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Mme. Alda (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Mme. Alda

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.20308

Call Number: LC-B2- 3662-10


Prince Adalbert (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Prince Adalbert

[between 1910 and 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph shows Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884-1948), a son of Kaiser Wilhelm II. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.18129

Call Number: LC-B2- 3348-3


Leonard Abbott (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Leonard Abbott

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.16567

Call Number: LC-B2- 3148-9

Cool Picture Framing images

A few nice picture framing images I found:


Wrong Focus
picture framing
Image by Stewart


119: Consumerism/Vanity/Opportunity
picture framing
Image by Genna G
You be the judge.

Yeah, I'm in my PJs.


Framed Tape Art by BRNA
picture framing
Image by urbanartcore.eu
..."framed tape on cardboard in urban context"!

I recently finished some new tape artworks. Here’s an example of the new style...

If you have some picture frames, you don’t need, please write me a message. thx

ezimba-web- Colors Tint - Olive

A few nice free photo editor images I found:


ezimba-web- Colors Tint - Olive
free photo editor
Image by krossbow
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
www.ezimba.com/index.html

I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.

Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.


ezimba-web- Shapes 3D Flat Box Last 3 Images
free photo editor
Image by krossbow
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
www.ezimba.com/index.html

I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.

Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.

Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace, 1911; Canadian Parliament House (LOC)

Check out these photo library images:


Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace, 1911; Canadian Parliament House (LOC)
photo library
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Festival of Empire, Crystal Palace, 1911; Canadian Parliament House

1911 (date created or published later by Bain)

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.10199

Call Number: LC-B2- 2373-6

Cool Christmas Card Photo images

A few nice christmas card photo images I found:


2007 - Day 337 - Cards
christmas card photo
Image by Jonathan_W (@whatie)
Writing greetings cards today, I took loads of xmas related photos in November and then I couldn't decide which one I liked the most to use on all my cards so I got one of each via moo instead. Not the best plan in the world, I think that I am still going to be using them next year. Whoops.


Holiday Card
christmas card photo
Image by _rockinfree
My dad had these made from this picture!



christmas card photo
Image by tess_marie
Christmas card photo trials.

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