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• asival (3514)
• [2008-04-21 1:48]

Hi Dennis

Very good picture with informative note behind it ... together it's a very good journalistic story

TFS

Assi

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• ktanska (11783)
• [2008-04-21 2:13]
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Hi Dennis,
Very thought provoking. And well chosen title that made me open this image. Maybe it's partly about languages too, I haven't heard about reconstruction projects on this context in Finnish news.
I like the photo too. 'UN' peeled off on the other helmet make me wonder was the project over there abandoned.
Kari

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• Floydian (24243)
• [2008-04-21 2:31]
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Hallo Dennis,
Heb altijd het idee dat de UN zo weinig bijdraagt, conflicten worden gewoon uitgevochten en zij staan er bijna met de neus bovenop en kunnen of willen weinig doen. Ze zullen vast en zeker goed werk doen, maar ik zie vooral daar in Afrika ozo weinig van terecht komen....en dan vooral in Dafur, maar hopelijk heb ik het mis. Je note en bijgaande foto heb je heel mooi weten te verwoorden in je eigen gevoelens daarover en je foto laat het dan ook goed zien....man je hebt echt een oog voor dit soort dingen en gevoelens daaromtrent bij te plaatsen...top..!!!
Groet, Henk

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• DownUnder (1169)
• [2008-04-21 2:56]
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This is a very powerful image Dennis.. technically, I would have preferred a lower pov but I like the strong saturated colours and excellent detail.. it is also hard not to agree with your note, well done.

aK

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• Jeppo (4854)
• [2008-04-21 3:29]
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a pic full of sensibility and political criticism.
I do agree with you on UN.
remember sebrenica - Bosnia

ciao
Silvio

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• WichardGraas (267)
• [2008-04-21 3:45]
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Hi Dennis,

Very strong picture, good colours and an interesting text. For us its 'normal' that these missions take place, but its good to think twice about the effects, as you mention, are not always effective... But without those missions there could have happend even worse things, we would never know im afraid...

Wichard

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• oochappan (34092)
• [2008-04-21 4:48]

Goed deze randbemerking Dennis bij een world policy, worden we weeral eens een rad voor de ogen gedraaid ? Ik geloof eerder in het fatsoen om zich niet in een andere family te moeien, dat brengt nooit aarde aan de dijk.
Goed gezien deze twee helmen met een gradueel klaarte, de aarde rood contrastrerend werd al teveel bloedrood.
groeten
Henk

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• Polonaise (15749)
• [2008-04-21 5:06]

A symbol of our times...
A symbol of our incapability...
Of our good deeds?? Good will ?

At least we do something !

Good stuff, Dennis bro.

g.

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• ryno (3526)
• [2008-04-21 10:04]

Interesting shot, Dennis. The mud-spattered and obviously discarded and neglected UN helmets seem symbolic, a metaphor of something, though what exactly is up to the viewer. A thought-provoking and useful contribution to TE. Good work!
Regards,
Ryno

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• wolf38 (6926)
• [2008-04-21 10:42]

Hello Dennis. A picture says more than thousand words. And who reads UN, knows, with which problem this organization must concern itself. A worth seeing contribution for TE. Best regards, Wolfgang.

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• pboehringer (18442)
• [2008-04-21 12:36]
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Comfortable? Are you nuts? I'm all but not comfortable with what is going on at all these places that you mentioned, but tell me what are the options? What can we normal creatures do? The post and your note are provocative and that seems to be your usual. I like that! Although I question myslef what to do than. OK, I'm not expecting an answer besides that TE is probably not the rigth forum for such an debate either.
Peter

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• vapours (7465)
• [2008-04-22 13:50]
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An image where your note is just as important as the photo itself. Certainly the dirt on the helmet seems to have some kind of symbolic gesture to what you are getting across.

In regards to being critical on the photo itself, I would love to see something else such as a person walking away in the distance...just some kind of extra element. So as a photo itself I'd say its so-so, but combined with your note it makes a good little story.

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• j-mune (2)
• [2008-04-23 3:35]

une photo qui montre la bien la tregédie d'un peuple,et l'impuissance de l'o n u
god picture i'am see the very story very
tres bonne prise bravo
god day Y M

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• batalay (14381)
• [2008-04-23 4:31]

Hello Dennis,

A poignant image complemented by a brilliant note. What is it that makes us come to accept, slowly perhaps, but accept nonetheless the totally intolerable. That is what what to me is emblematic in these helmets.

Warm regards,

Bulent

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• euryan (7718)
• [2008-04-23 11:19]
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Its crazy how Orwell's book is still so relevant today. 1984 is my favorite book by the way. Your photo is interesting and I think it symbolizes the uselessness or rather the incapability of the UN peacekeeping missions. Well written note.
Regards,
Ryan

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• MarcT (13025)
• [2008-04-23 12:30]

Hi Dennis,
I like your picture and your note because it is so true. There isn't to much going better in the world!
Cheers
Marc

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• xavis (2780)
• [2008-05-20 2:54]
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Hola.
i like a lot the picture, and what you says. Nice to meet someone who critics what arrives in our world, nice to meet someone who thinks.
Is powerfoul what medias do, with TV, photographies and all the information that we have, and it's sometimes difficult to look far away to found the real reality. Because every day we have the "reality" in our Tv screns and in the newspapers,...not easy to not finish as a paranoiac, trying to better understand what happens in Iraq, Afganistan...and why UN don't do someting more powerfoul in Darfour. Not easy to think that, finaly, UN is just the way to clean the occidental faces about the world problems...

Thanks,

Hasta la vista,

Javier

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• Mistral (11652)
• [2008-05-25 11:17]
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Ciao Dennis,
these helmets are a symbol of the uncapabilities of many missions of UN and your note is great as we can just being critical to the facts of the world. In several situations maybe we can't do nothing but in some other our attention can helps.
A smile for your week!
Rain, rain, rain & rain, here! :-((
Luca

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• devimeuxbe (45792)
• [2008-06-04 4:17]

Hi Dennis
You have an interesting galery with lot of diversity. This one is interesting and this is also a rare report.
I was happy to meet you last week end
Bertrand