Sunset, November 15, 2004 – Persian Gulf

It’s one of a series.
Enjoy!

22 Replies to “Sunset, November 15, 2004 – Persian Gulf”

Wow. Them’s a lot o’ beautiful and/or powerful images, Kate. Thanks for the link. Note, folks, that at the end of the article there are links to full-size versions of the images, should you like to capture one or more of your favourites (I think number twenty is my favourite, but it’s a tough call).

Here’s another image that comes from that region.
http://www.worldpressphoto.com/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=view&id=875&Itemid=
Upsetting, disturbing, and lots of other words apply

Beautiful photos, and they went very nicely with the new cd I put in of Gospel music.

1) Gord Tulk – yeah, that U.S. Marine at least has true love. It’s abominable the toll the War on Terror is taking on our bravest. See this post for more.
2) Kate – I saved some of those photos to my hard drive. Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

I did. Thanks.

Fantastic. Good pick Kate. Loved the Thai sunset too. A good reminder of what’s important in life. I have enjoyed some beautiful sunrises this winter. A great way to start the day.

Thanks for that info Vitruvius. Will send Thai one to friend who just married a teacher from there, bought land to farm, and is building.

Sorry, I forgot to give a hat tip to Damian Penny as it was on his blog (www.damianpenny.com) where I saw the above photo.

Speaking of beautiful and/or thought-provoking images (and I hope I’m not going too far astray here Kate), it turns out that yesterday I published an Argumentum ad YouTube essay entitled Man & His Machines to my Vitruvius’s Friends mailing list. It turns out that said essay happens to contain links to related collections of other examples of beautiful and/or thought-provoking imagery (in this case including motion and audio).
Since it’s a beautiful winter Sunday evening in most of our parts, during which some of the Friends of SDA may be interested in these findings resulting from my techno-artistic explorations, I hope it’s ok for me to offer for your viewing delectation, dear readers, said essay & imagery, which I have now published here:
sagaciousiconoclast.blogspot.com/2007/02/man-his-machines-part-1.html

Dbl check #6 (Alaska) it looks more like a nuke explosion.

sarge here, yeah number 6 looks about right. little georgie is gona nuke the mid east. sarge likes the little photoshoped submarine in #5. nice pics enjoy em while ya can mid east sky will be all oil smoke and radioactive dust this time next year

Sarge: Why do you say #5 is a photoshop job? Just a guess or what? Why would they (USN) photoshop the boat into the picture? And when exactly do you expect the US to start throwing nukes around? Do you know something we don’t?

Sure, everyone knows we have to nuke Iran. Whats the big deal? Conventional earth penetrators can’t go beyond 30 feet of reinforced bunker. The Iranian’s largest underground centrifuge chamners are 45 to 75 feet down. No one is going to leave the job half done. That’s why I love President bush. He’s decisive when he acts for America’s best interest. Not like those Dumbocrat traitors who want to get all touchy feelie with those towel headed killers.
Iran is headed towards nuke weapon development and will do everything it needs to acquire one or two or more. Then put the tech on the market and get it into the hands of terrorists who will detonate a mushroom cloud over ??
or perhaps fit a freighter with a launching mechanism, and light one off to explode over the United States, EMP blast sets us back in time about 50 years, then what? I say when in doubt whip it out. I havn’t been on the sidelines cheering on the Bush camp to nuke any one at all, but when it comes to the very survivability of America and the potential for disaster if Iran gets the weapon of choice, then I say pull the trigger. To hell with Reid and Pelosi too, two weak, milk toast democrats who would have surely told the British where the colonists were hiding their arms just to prove a f_cking point. If America gets whacked do we have anybody to blame but ourselves? My thought, nuke Iran before they hit us or anybody else.

I hate to be a party-pooper, Penny, but it is not the case that any single EMP event will set anyone back in time about 50 years. John Allen Paulos goes into the degree to which humans are really bad at risk analysis in his excellent book Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences.
I we are going to do a good job of managing our never-ending efforts to better our lives and fix the mistakes caused by our last attempt to better our lives, it would behoove us to not be distracted by inappropriate risk analysis.

Jeeez – Sarge or Penny or whoever you are ……… sorry I asked the questions but I won’t touch your answer with a ten foot pole. If I wanted to listen to lunatic comments I’d switch to a Liberal blog. I hoped for better here.

Breathtakingly beautiful. It looks like a gallion ploughing through a rough sea with God at the helm.

…nuclear fallouts make for pretty sunsets.

Well well Mr. Vitrivious, look who thinks he’s an expert all of a sudden. I’ll have you know anyone who can read popular mechanics knows more that that. America I ripe to be destroyed by EMP devices. Just one EMP device on a hot day in manhattan and the WTC would have been just as out of action as if it were hit by a plane full of Al Queada goat rompers. Top sarge I say ‘so what if there’s a little kerfuffle in the mid east and a few battlefield nukes tossed around? Some times you have to break a few eggs to make a free democracy in the middle east. They will certainly respect us a little more. I think hippy scum and lie-berals like sarge should be deported out of the USA.