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Ruphus
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 RE: My photo of the week 29 (in reply to Escribano)
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Not to devalue what Ramzi is pointing to, for when it is about images of single persons I would hesitate too / ask for permission in advance or tell them afterwards with the option to delete.
And yet, all in all, what´s the fuzz about in general; with the exeption of the muslim world, and some indigene cultures who fear spirits to be captured in photography?
In the muslim culture it is all about suppressed sexuality and the consequential insuiniation / paranoia that someone could please himself with looking at images of a person in question.
From there I see girls paniking, fearing that I could show their image around or worse even display it in the internet. As if the world was waiting to drool over photographies, no matter even whether the motive be good looking at all or not in the first place.
And when asked to take shots on weddings you´ll always notice some grimmly looking guys in the periphery, worried that you could be taking pictures of female family members; until the hosts quietly ensuring them that I am acquainted and secret.
Not to mention images yet with the lad´s scrafs off.
This I have exclusively been allowed when either considered suitor ( and still all the time going on like "Please, please don´t show to anybody, ... please ..."), or in homes of fathers whom I am close friends with and who know that they can rely on me to not show around any pics for their sake.
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So many actual yelling issues around, and then such obsolete focus on really nothing.
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- Just today the doghouse was stolen that I had set up for stray dogs. Organized, paid for and worked on; gone.
How instead about concerns on mentality of bigottery and theft for a change.
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It is really amazing what that little camera can do, Escribano.
All that option, and that while taking place in one´s pants pocket. Crazy stuff!
And on a very different note:
Looking up the S95 just out of interest after your last picture, I thought to not hurt if I besides peeped into D5 updates.
And being all on fire again about that dang that me had put on halt. ( Meanwhile also a grand less expensive in anticipation of coming version III.)
Drooling again, fighting with myself back and forth, until it whispered into my ear that I could start out with a downgraded wishlist of just the body and an EF 70-200 2,8 L IS II USM.
Now already comparing prices here and in the EU ...
And what I want to actually say is ...
Escribano, it is your fault!   
Ruphus
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Date Jan. 31 2012 13:36:14
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Ruphus
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RE: My photo of the week 29 (in reply to Escribano)
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Hey Ron,
You come to my mind every once in a while, wishing you strong and humoured as you are.  :O)
Naturally, the less religious seem to care much less, but will oft times bow into mainstream still, because of what´s broadly considered honor. ( Whichs special version has nothing to do with ethics, but with sexuality.)
To a degree understandably so, for wo likes the surrounding to be rumouring about your female kids to be slapper, just because of utter insignificant BS.
What folks make "of the glut of pornography on the Net"?
You guess it in a prude environment. Would demand for stimulous typically be lesser or increased? 
Over internet acces should be a bit cumbersome due to millions of banned websites and required VPNs, but satellite TV receivers are installed everywhere ( and reinstalled after vice squad tearing down the dishes from housetops in intervals), and rather likely not just for watching movies.
The doghouse was in the dump, though hidden behind a wall.
What after all did stupid I expect?
That it might not be taken, only because it had written something to the extend of "This has been bought and installed as doghouse. Who might want to take it away shall be aware that it would be stealing".
As if anyone could be caring in a rotten mentality, just because of a dishonorable action being unquestionably declared / obvious.
I´m still slapping my front head for my hopeless silliness.
... And damn, why does it sound hollow like a cajon?
Ruphus
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Date Jan. 31 2012 15:36:28
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gbv1158
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From: Italy
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RE: My photo of the week 29 (in reply to Escribano)
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I'd like to say a lot about this photo, but it is difficult in English, so I'll use short sentences about the main first characteristics I note:
1) value of composition due to the many elements : the girl, the location (interior bus), the sky in the window, the drape of the clothes, the space defined by the sets, etc., the all generating an interesting blend between interior and exterior;
2) perfection of the light due to the lively presence of it (the sky in the window) and the warm in the red cloth (the first reminds me of the sense of the light in Michelangelo and the second the one in Caravaggio);
3) the sense of the beauty in a face of a girl "while sleeping" (that adds a sense of mystery);
4) the idea that the beauty is something “alive” when somehow the human figure is involved in the “phenomena” ( the scene in the photo);
5) the erotic component of the beauty due by the subject of the young gilr sleeping so sweetly;
6) the sense of drama generated by the light in the photo compared with the subject of the young sleeping girl;
7) the sense of general ( the entire scene of the photo) and sense of the details ( the poster on the window, the things on the folding table, etc)
This photo really impresses me!
ciao,
giambattista
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Date Jan. 31 2012 20:08:53
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Ruphus
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RE: My photo of the week 29 (in reply to kudo)
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ORIGINAL: at_leo_87
to be fair, so is every other religion
Would that mean that dimension and prepared being or rather neglection to reform won´t matter to you?
I am far from defending the backwardness of say orthodox catholics or orthodox jews, but you need to inform yourself about actual differences in the corresponding landscapes. Measures of impact on daily life, conventions and ways of judicative.
- You see how openly the orthodox in Israel are currently opposed and critisized for their retardedness?
Unthinkable in a muslim country.
- You noticed the catholic´s and protestant´s reforms over the past centuries?
Nothing thelike in the muslim world, with exception of the first 4 moderate centuries, before the orthodox took over until today.
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Let´s leave it at that. Don´t want to risk a soldering iron shoved up my butt for mentioning the truth; as just another religious way of dealing with entity.
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ORIGINAL: at_leo_87
i think that applies to women in general, religious or not.
Nonesense.
The European girls I photographed were all proud to have their beauty shown around. ( Including catholic raised Italians.) Actually they couldn´t wait to have their prints duplicated. Some including their esthetic nude pics.
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ORIGINAL: kudo
just a quick question, im really surprised by how much ruphus knows, the amount he posts in each posts, and how much free time he has. all which makes me think he is either really good and fast at writing and reads a lot and experienced a lot, or he is just an old retired man
Is it biased inability to recognize or accept information that left you entangled with sources petty like my age?
I am around 50, yet attracting amazons that you possibly wouldn´t dare to dream of. 
And I can afford to do what I want, including eliciting selected projects. - Like just today with positive reply from a quality electronics manufacturer who kindly confims interest in me becoming their sole agent for this area.
Can´t tell yet whether this very project will be really sealed in the end, naturally, but sure do appreciate the privilege of being allowed to taking the time and see. May that turn you off, hadji.
Yours senile, just bubbling around,
Ruphus
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Date Feb. 1 2012 11:09:59
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Arash
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From: Iran (living in Germany)
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RE: My photo of the week 29 (in reply to Escribano)
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Well, i was born in a "muslim" country and have first hand experince.
First let me tell you that those Mullahs are all motherf.ckers and just use "islam" to be in power and make money. so f.ckem all.
But, my grand parents were muslims, they prayed, and my grandma always wearing a black chador in public etc..... but suppression?...no way, she was the BOSS in the house and my grandpa was just there to make money and give it to the familly , actually he was the supressed one,
I personally am not religious, because my knowledge about the Universe, Science, etc. just tells me that that God has better things to do than come to earth and talk to someone and make him a prophet..
But at the same time i respect all religios people and in fact i think many of them are better people than many atheists, because they fear punishment and so they behave much better and try to do only good things.
Of course we also have those Mullahs and those Bishops who like to have sex with little boys...but honestly , most religious people i have met were good people
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