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Paul Lara
{K:88111} 8/27/2005
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Wonderful photo and splendid explanation, Luke.
You cannot limit my freedoms just to 'keep me safe'. Freedom has inherent risk, and it is always a risk worth taking.
The shot: I like the differing angles here, but there seems to be some motion or focus issues. It helps to use a fast shutter and small aperature for these type of shots, unless motion blur is part of your calculation.
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 8/26/2005
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all the flags have always a great sense of the land..
congrats
roby
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Luke Luther
{K:14693} 8/24/2005
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Thanks, for the explanation, Markus...that makes complete sense to me.
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Markus Scholz
{K:23722} 8/23/2005
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Your about sounded like a prayer to me, and we end prayers with "amen". Thats all!
Cheers, Markus
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Neal Nye
{K:15827} 8/23/2005
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An interesting shot Luke. A picture of the flag unlike any others I've seen. Hard to photograph such a thing differently, but you succeeded very well.
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Luke Luther
{K:14693} 8/23/2005
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Not sure who your Amen was directed to, but that simple guttural response is an indication of your reaction to something that happened here. Appreciated.
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Luke Luther
{K:14693} 8/23/2005
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Randy, the contrast boost was a good idea. Not sure I like the rotation as much. Thanks for the ideas and the comments. Every viewpoint has merit here. I was not thinking of a political discussion but an ideological one about freedom and what great responsibility it carries.
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Luke Luther
{K:14693} 8/23/2005
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Your encouraging words also appreciated, Jim. The discussion generated here should not be a simple dualistic polemic, but a discussion launching into honest dialogue. What if this were another country's flag. What would it represent?
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Luke Luther
{K:14693} 8/23/2005
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David, I understand and appreciate your comments. If you read what the symbol represents then you might be more willing to hear that beyond what the FLAG has been traditionally represented as I think we as individuals also have to respond to the tyranny and indifference. I agree that there is much to be fought in terms of evil here. But we can't wait for others to start that fight. We have to look our own evils in the eye in order to combat it. We also can't simply ignore the good that this represents. I want people to see flag as a symbol that requires action, not simply words. Actions to right the wrongs - both here and abroad. I want the flag to be a dynamic image that represents freedom to all. Hope this makes sense.
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 8/23/2005
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Thanks for adding the numbers, man. I was too tired (read 'lazy') to look 'em up. You did your country proud.
JIL
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Randy Lorance
{K:24769} 8/23/2005
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Randy Lorance
{K:24769} 8/23/2005
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A salute to you for presenting this symbol in a positive context. Too often, including here on UseFilm, it is shown, villafied, and seemingly cast as the cause of the world's problems. I in no way suscribe to the notion that all is right with the U.S.A., but I also don't suscribe to a prevalent view that conveniently points a finger at the U.S. for most of the world's problems and let history be damned.
This is no place to carry on an endless discussion, but to elaborate a bit on points brought up by David, so far in 2005, the US has provided 143,000 tons of food assistance to Southern Africa with more to come...will have provided $67 billion in student aid for post secondary education, and joined the U.K. in forgiving debt interest to third world countries.
There is currently a brutal,(no BRUTAL!) dictator being tried for crimes against humanity in a country that has held elections for the first time in generations. And where are the worldwide protests against the thugs mercilessly murdering innocent men, women and children on a dailey basis. "Bring our troups home now!"...so these same 'good-doers' can deliver that country to what?
Back to your picture, although your intention was to show the flag blowing in the wind, I might rotate it and add a little saturation and contrast to give a little more boldness to it.
Randy
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 8/23/2005
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Well, we have a differing perspective. I see a shining star, you the Sword of Damocles. I see a light at the end of the tunnel, you an oncoming train. As they say in Japan: ?Shigata go Nai.?
Or in France, ?C?est la Vie.?
So it goes?.
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Markus Scholz
{K:23722} 8/23/2005
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Amen!
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David Hofmann
{K:22223} 8/22/2005
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com on it is a well known fact to educated people that the interest the third world has to pay in many forms (money, goods, natural resources) exceeds the aid going to them.
Please show me a source that proves the statement the US would give more than everybody else combined.
After the Tsunami disaster the EU alone (which represents about the same amount of people as there are in the US) gave about 3-4 times as much as the US.
How can it be that California alone has the biggest economy in the world, one of the highest numbers of extremely rich people, but still there are 1.5 million kids without health insurance? Why is access to a decent (not even talking about good) education only a privilige to people who can afford living in an expensive community? Why does the US has the highest ratio of people living below the poverty line from all 1st world countries? Where is their freedom?
I admire your faith in the good in this world, but at the same time it is good to keep a healthy amount of scepticism and critical view on things.
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 8/22/2005
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And the US also gives more humanitarian monetary aid to 3rd world countries than ALL other nations combined. We are a giving people. Our military is NOT one of conquest... say what ya may, the US has liberated far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far, far more people than they have enslaved.
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David Hofmann
{K:22223} 8/22/2005
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interventing in other countries, getting involved in more military actions than any other nation, operating over 100 military bases around the world has very little to do with freedom. Its to assert america's national interest in the world. Its obvious if you look at the places where the US shows presence and action. There is zero in poor countries with no natural resources regardless how cruel, surpressing and violent governments in those countries are.
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Jim Loy
{K:31373} 8/22/2005
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Ooh-Ra! Semper Fi.
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