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Just the other day I wrote an article on ethics . What from the Faroe Islands , an independent nation within the Kingdom of Denmark, happens can not describe with words, do not hold with the mind. And it shows what occurs to the people as the worst of all animals.

"Stop the Atrocitiy" . - Stop the cruelty Jörg Leichtfried of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament has launched an inquiry to the Commission :

For years, the EU country Denmark pilot whales, beaked whales and dolphins are tortured and killed most shameful manner. This is done primarily on the Faroe Islands, under the guise of a Viking tradition. Often hundreds of copies to be lured into a bay and alive slashed so they bleed to death slowly. This whole families are killed, which also threatens the gene pool of the species massive.
The Faroe Islands are part of the Kingdom of Denmark and are subsidized by it, rather than to halt the massacre. Although the islanders are living below the Danes and the Danish Flag, Denmark refers to the self-government and cultural autonomy of the islands. If it were not an EU country and it would therefore not be treated as such!

Accordingly, the problem seems quite unknown not to be. The response from 3.3.2009, also found in his blog is, unfortunately, not so, as one might wish for:

The hunting of pilot whales from the IWC, but unfortunately not regulated, as to date no agreement on the competence of the IWC is for small cetaceans. Given the current discussions about the future of the IWC, the Commission hopes that the EU and other parties to the IWC'll also be able to address problems in small cetaceans.

Climb into the problem, there are some sites on the net that deal with it. Two pages I want to mention proxy: OpenPR (from there is also the image above) reports that Paul Watson, co-founder of Greenpeace has once this year with plans nother activist campaigns against the whale slaughter. On the "sea acrobats" and other links are offered. The last link in the list does not like that, but here you get to the article "Grindwaljagd on the Faroe Islands - Between Tradition and barbarism" to Polarblog.de.
And: Possibly determines it does not bring too much if one sets up a protest note to the Ministerpräsideanten the Faroe Islands, but at least we find the justified anger of the right channel:
The email from Jóannes Eidesgaard, the Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands: info@tinganes.fo.

Why there are actually small whales and dolphins en masse * in a carnival atmosphere in the presence and participation of children abeschlachtet?

From a Viking tradition are still slaughtered whales, although that is no longer needed food source. In the cultural awareness of the Faroes is missing an ethic that condemns the slaughter of whales. Tradition is paramount, children in this way is exemplified. The catch is then divided among all, to ** the cohesion and strengthen Faroese identity.

Some cultures have given up in the wake of the safe supply of food and social change traditions, but they continue to live here, to be cherished. However, some do have concerns about the image of the island group. For the eyes of the rest of the world is only barbaric, but, as so often in life, subject to ethical evaluations to the eye of the beholder. Even whaling nations like Japan and Norway do not feel it as a crime against nature and always find excuses between tradition and science.

In the comments the article "Stop the Atrocity" to find items such as:

You caint call people who do this animals because animals are not cruel like humans. Humans are at the bottom of the chain of living creatures and all life entities. [Ragan]

I'm about to cry. [Cuddlebones]

This is awful, heartbreaking and so unethical. [...] We have a serious problem on this planet with our ethics, treatment and perspective around animals. From factory farming practices to the whale, dolphin and seal slaughters around the world - it is all wrong.
Where are our ethics? Where is the humane treatment? How can we expect to create a better world for people when we do not treat other life with any respect? [Jefftego]

What remains is shaking their heads in disbelief and bewilderment in the face of such practices. And the question of a converted, lived environmental ethic. Tearing lions in Africa, cattle and goats from strains that penetrate ever further into the territory of the big cats, they are attacked as dangerous. Attacks by wolves or bears, for example, by the expanding human habitats are also becoming increasingly restricted, lead to discussions about hunting permits. Such animals are then just "problem bears" or "problem wolves". We tend to make us the world the way it is acceptable to us. Self-Appointed, we refer to ourselves as the culmination of creation. No animal deserves that name kills for fun or for personal edification. We believe, however, as the ax in the forest may proceed.

The planet would be in balance if we do not use this setting would be. The extinction of animal and plant species not only means that there are a few species, metabolized to carbon dioxide oxygen, respectively. Types have their place in a structure that is much larger and more complex. The results of death for at least a threat of extinction of other species, because food chains are broken. Types have a meaning beyond itself circuits.

What exactly is our contribution to that? What would change if we are in a day would not be here? This question may ask yourself ... everyone but the spectrum of possible answers can draw from a pool of a nearly empty lot.

Someone once claimed that humanoids are the crowning glory of creation, because our thinking organ is most developed. To the advanced state of development of our brain we do not explain away. Alone therefore suggests itself to the question of why we do not turn and then use.

Ultimately it's this: In the context of evolution must go types, but also new ones are coming. Of evolution, it does not matter who on this planet, carbon dioxide or oxygen consumed metabolized - the main thing, everything is in balance. But only we, the oh-so-standing above all other life humanoids sawing off the branch on which we sit. With growing enthusiasm and with open eyes.

No other life form would think to change the environment so vital that it can no longer serve this purpose. This is stupid, which is narrow-minded, that's ignorant and self-destructive. But who thinks outside of us in categories such as "profit maximization" or "yield enhancement"?

The Cree-old wisdom is often quoted, almost worn out - but it's damn true, as before:

Only when the last tree is felled,
the last river poisoned,
the last fish is caught,
You will find
that you can not eat money!

Addition:
Just a new comment is added. The author complains that the article presented a bias, a bias in terms of goals, well Unkennntnis in the traditions of the Faroe Islands. He argues that everyone will be killing the whales observed by anyone who recorded and discussed. It says:

Being humans, i would suspect that by killing animals in this way gives the individuals involved a sense of profound awe and reverence in mortality with for nature that you are probably incapable of imagining.

He continues:

I think they're disgusting for doing this, but on the other hand, I recognize that I am not one to judge. For once, these people are not living in the same prepackaged, sterile world as you, and a glimpse of that scares you so much because you realize how awfully empty, meaningless, and mundane your life in this experience, devoid society we live in really is. Tap into those fucking keyboards misdirected anger now, you tedious, stumbling hypocrites.

This is so everybody can make his own thoughts. Wars, killing in order of the State - even here there are traditions. Important in this context is the reflection, the assessment on an ethical background. And against this background, the massacre of cetaceans not better. Is it really not up to us to be able to evaluate such practices only because we live in a different environment? With all due respect, with such arguments, we could even the bustle of the Sudan to stand idly by.

And the comment is:

And yet, with your haughty, privileged supposedly civilized values, you see red tides in some tiny little foreign Iceland where a bunch of locals who have never done anything to you engage in a traditional (and you have no idea how they willingly engage in this either, btw, it could be that kids who do not are ostracized by their communities and peers) that far more cash than any organicity it to profiteer driven animal slaughters, and it tugs your heartstrings naive.

Profit-driven animal slaughter - this is not a duldbarer state conditions during transport of animals and factory farming using chemical lobes are equally worthy of condemnation. (This is why we rarely eat meat, and if so, it comes from farmers around the corner, we have a rural part Allermöhe in Hamburg fortunately available in different styles.)

* I know dolphins are 40 species with the largest group of whales.

** To make matters worse are the marine mammals are no longer fit for human consumption - their exposure to contaminants is too high. Tradition or not - the fact that the animals are not even in the sense of tradition that the hunt is based, can be recycled, makes things any better.

I just Ulf a beautiful piece of music heard. And that inspired me - the muse took me almost kissed. Multiple and full broadside. Before I leave the house must be, I would like to add here one of the most beautiful pieces of music that I know: Spiegel im Spiegel by Arvo Pärt from. Is one of the pieces, which can drive spontaneous tears in their eyes.
The sound is unfortunately a bit low, the entire piece of music is already mesto and pianissimo. But that should not stop anyone from approaching this piece.

Spiegel im Spiegel - Arvo Pärt. I wish you a pleasant tissue destruction!

PS: yes YouTube is a really beautiful thing. Embed and share. (Maybe a little worse for wear, the image of the verzeckten armed with GEMA.) Valid XHTML code, but get the not materialize. Alone, 7 (in words: SEVEN) produces the error scrap of code above. But in this case, it is my value. So much for the code purists among the visitors. (Incidentally, I am also an explicit supporter of clean programming.)

Dodges and tricks

• In order not to annoy a totally wayward white balance, it is advisable, in the so-called raw mode to shoot. (However, this is always advisable, not only in landscape photography!)
• Higher ISO numbers, that high-speed film or a corresponding adjustment to the digital camera is expected to coarseness and noisy images.
• The use of a tripod is a must. It protects against vibration at slow shutter speeds, thus ensuring consistently sharp images. Is the home well protected just as you would like to go take a picture, the camera can be placed anywhere or ajar. Bridge railing, flat rocks, anything can be found determined.
• With wide-angle close-ups may emphasize regular patterns in trees.
• A long focal length (telephoto) can accentuate foregrounds by the background is compressed.
• If you turn the camera slightly to the side, can image details excluded or new details are included.
• Individual trees or tree structuring can Grupen through the image. The same applies to tractor tracks, rivers or roads.
• Look for in a sequence of images at varying foreground detail. Always the same thing at the same place does get boring. You can also try to change the foreground or in the field in perspective, if the range of possible details that could be used instead, is limited. Again, be courageous! Try it!
• Hood use, especially on sunny days, turn off the scattered and reflected light. Otherwise, it can reduce the contrast and thus come to a sluggish haze effect.
• When shooting from a moving vehicle is part of the country should be included stem, which lies far away as possible and therefore not easily pass by. Be sure to trees, other vehicles (especially trucks and buses), utility poles, etc. that respect then cover the subject in whole or in part. Further objects, then pass the course more quickly, should be photographed with a fast shutter speed 1/2000 sec; for the ISO speed may appropriately fit.

A few ideas "off topic"

A centrally placed motif that seems to be calm and balanced indeed, but also boring and static can by oblique structures such as knots, pull the image from one of the corners into the center, gaining power. On the main diagonal of the picture are incredibly important to the composition.
Large areas look more interesting if they are structured in (cereal box ...). Large open spaces are already a counterweight in a small contrasting point.
A little blur in the foreground (stone, bush ...) brings life into the image that is gaining in depth.
Wide Open Space (Note: risk of barrel distortion), with a telephoto compresses the background.
Sometimes it's enough to go with the camera a few steps to the side to get a better view without distracting foreground or background have. Thus, for example, a traffic sign can hide behind a tree trunk.

The camera seems to many photographers as stuck in landscape mode (landscape mode is the classic depiction of landscapes and brings the length to advantage). We give but a lot of options: high-format motifs such as flowers or a single rocket is better represented in the portrait. Tall, narrow and elongated images of living of circumcision and the reduction to the essentials. The portrait is dynamic and underscores the upward urge, but can also act gracefully.
However, oblique images are possible to capture the dynamics of the moment.
In general, the larger the image is mapped, the better the effect. The image is too small, the effect goes down. The format can be adapted to the particular subject and compress an image of Sun

Of course, in retrospect, can be realized even in unusual formats, such as the ISO format (with an aspect ratio of 1:1). In such a square image often lacks the power, it seems more quiet, unobtrusive and well-proportioned, and is therefore especially suitable for images with such properties. If we are planning something, you have to think square, keep tight floor plan and take into account circumcisions.

The German was sometimes even better, but OK ... "We make a PNG transparent" so everyone can. Anyway: My good friend and neighbor of oblique übern Fleet was desperately in front of Mac's wedding is coming up and for the invitation he needed a transparent PNG. Specifically: The background should be transparent.

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Bird instead Frog - Pictures from above

Photos like a model railway: from top to open up new perspectives. Now it's easier to become a frog as a bird, but when we sit on the plane to provide photos of almost. Otherwise, the works of bridges, mountains, tall buildings, etc. downstairs. It should clarify a detail, from where the image has been created: bridge piers, house fronts, or a wing. In the mountains to offer cabins, rocks or trees nearby.

The depth of the space

Where the main subject is ultimately, does not really matter as long as the viewer is led. Yes, it can even stand in the background. Especially with a wide angle lens you can not do all sorts: the viewer is drawn into the picture when narrowing Kafkaesque house fronts to the rear or street schienbar in the background dissolves because the roadsides strive toward a distant point. As for motives, which are the same size that works with the spatial depth makes a good start: A line of parked cars, for example, which are diagonally positioned behind each other in the image, produces a sensation of depth, because they seem to be getting smaller.

More distant objects are seen less and thus less detailed. This effect gives an image depth.