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Swept Under


Swept Under
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Copyright: Rabani HMA (rabani) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1335 W: 1 N: 3174] (9194)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-06-11
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Canon EOS 300D, Sigma 18-125mm DC
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/200 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-06-15 4:05
Viewed: 898
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Not everything is good and nice to look at scenery wise. There are places which the camera might not like to see at all, let alone captured.

It was on a photo assignment in the east coast. Walking the streets in one of the towns, someone asked me to shoot the fish market by the waterfront. Not at the fish market the person said, but under it.

What you are seeing is a natural example that Mother Nature, or the sea technically, sweeps the rubbish thrown at her, which she could not digest, back at us. If it is not biodegradable, it will decorate our beaches, waterfronts and water edges. If it is biodegradable, the seawater is black and toxic. Not the kind anything could live in it.

So, anything you throw into the sea, some day, it might come back up again haunting us. And you found, violating on the edges of your life, all the rubbish that everybody else had chipped in.

I guess we lived in, our own Landfill.

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  • Great 
  • kclai Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 744 W: 38 N: 506] (2259)
  • [2005-06-16 1:40]

Hi Rabani
Yeah, it's a eye-sore looking at what human did to the Mother Nature. POLLUTION! With the world developing vast, including us in Malaysia, but human tends to lack on civic-minded, and as the result you got such a shot for us in TE to rethink our action to Mother Nature.
Eric Lai

Hi Rabani,
is not usual see picture like this! everybody prefer to send nice and wonderful picture with nice panoramas, beach, sunshine, city, etc..
but this... that you sent is something different, something to THINK!
byebye
daniele

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  • CliffW Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 473 W: 85 N: 334] (2298)
  • [2005-06-21 17:26]

Rabani, I completely agree that to tell something about the world, you have to show more than beauty. Eventually, scenes like this will someday overtake all of those shots of pristine beaches if we don't give some thought to changing it. You certainly found a strong example of your case and presented it well.

Good shot and excellent note - as a practitioner of surfing and diving I could not agree more.

This is a sad view - each of us holds responsibility for that.
Thanks for pointing this out in such a graphical manner.

(putting a green smiling face although a sad face would be more appropicate..)

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