Waching daily Feb 25 2018

We need to reflect a lot before photographing and never when photographing

We need to grasp the good subject and situation, not to generate them

the best is simplicity, the natural, the living detail

ours is a work of great responsibility

The photojournalist through the newspapers exposes his point of view to many people

the danger is that in the text tendentious juxtapositions are made that alter the truth

Hi friends, welcome to this new video that we opened today with the images of Henri Cartier Bresson

walking around the street taking pictures

but even more important are his words that define what street photographer is and what is street photography

this video is dedicated to those who want to enter the world of street photography

but also to those who already do street photography and who have doubts about its aspects

today we will not talk about the history of street photography

but we will try to identify the most important characteristics that characterize it

Unlike other photographic genres such as portrait photography, landscape photography, architectural photography, etc.

street photography is a bit more complex

which resulted in discussions or doubts over time

in fact some of you identify some street photos while others do not street

so it's time to clarify what are the key features of street photography

Today we will try to identify what are the characteristic elements of street photography

and in my opinion they are simply two and we will see at the end of the video

we will try to answer some doubts, not with my personal opinion

but looking at the pictures of the great masters of street photography

Meanwhile, we give a general definition of street photography

and as the name says, its main setting is the street

Is this sufficient to define street photography or are there other elements to analyze?

Obviously yes! and we will analyze it in this video

However, before saying what street photography is, let's analyze some of the questions I've read on the web

The first question we will clarify is the most recurrent one:

only a photo set in an urban context is to be considered street

or even a picture taken in an extra-urban context is considered as street photo?

In my opinion, even a photo taken in an extra-urban context (not in a big city)

such as at the seaside, in the countryside, etc., can be identified as a street photo

This is not just me, but let's see what the great masters of street photography have achieved

For example, Elliott Erwitt in this photo that made him famous all over the world

has immortalized these two lovers not in an urban context but certainly suburban

Even Cartier Bresson used an extra-urban context to take this very famous photo

as well as Robert Doisneau

The second question we want to answer is this:

a picture is considered only street if taken on the street, or even if taken inside a building?

In my opinion, even a photo taken inside a building can be considered a photo street

Obviously I do not just say it, but also the great masters of street photography say it through their photos

Here, Cartier Bresson took this photo clearly inside a building because an internal stairway is visible

as well as Erwitt

but also the great Robert Frank

Another open question on street photography is this:

is it considered a photo street if the face of the subjects is not clearly visible?

Many say that if the face is not clearly visible, even their emotions are not clearly perceptible

so these can not be considered street photos.

In my opinion, even if a subject is depicted, for example, from behind, we can define that a photo street

Even here, great photographers help us

in fact many of them have realized this kind of photography

This photo is by Henri Cartier Bresson

but also Elliott Erwitt

Robert Frank

and Robert Doisneau

Finally, let's take a last look at the choice of color or black and white

Many say that street photos must be in black and white

In reality, we see that there are discordant opinions on this choice

There are certainly artists like Cartier Bresson who only produced black and white

and many others have done this by artistic choice

Instead there are others such as Erwitt who took pictures both in black and white and in color

Still others have chosen black and white for economic reasons because a black and white film cost less than one in color

It must also be said that the very first street photographers were shooting in black and white because the color film did not exist yet

So ultimately we can say that the choice of black and white or color makes the photographer for artistic choices

and not for a law that identifies black and white for street photography

So we tried to clarify some doubts that maybe some of you had

or to all those who might have before starting to do street photography

Let us now try to establish what are the secure characteristics of street photography

the one that followed all the great photographers like Cartier Bresson, Erwitt, etc.

The characteristics of a photo street are essentially two

The first characteristic is human presence

This is a fundamental element

In every street photo there must be human presence

just as the great masters did

The second characteristic is spontaneity

That is, the subjects must be caught in a moment of naturalness

The photographer must not interfere on the realization of the photograph nor on the subjects photographed

As we have seen, all the great masters have followed this fundamental rule

The reason is that street photography is the exaltation of emotions

it is necessary to exalt the emotions of the photographed subjects

so they must be caught in the naturalness of the moment

If you remember the initial clip where you see Cartier Bresson walking down the street to take pictures

we note that it is always taken from the shoulders, never in the face

the reason is that he himself asked not to be recognizable to those who filmed or photographed him

this, not because he particularly cared about his privacy, but because he feared to be recognized on the street in the future

this would have altered the emotions of the subjects he wanted to photograph

This is another lesson that Cartier Bresson gives us

In fact, the photographer must be transparent, not visible and present within the scene

because this alters the emotions of the subjects we want to photograph

So we tried to answer some questions and define the characteristics of street photography

As we have seen, the settings can be different: the street, inside a building, an extra-urban setting

we can capture faces or not

The important thing, however, is to follow those two simple rules that we have identified before

they were followed by all the great photographers who gave life to this photographic genre

I hope that with this video we have made clear why on the web they say many different things

so I ask you what you think of street photography and if the analysis we have done is correct

because I tried not to give my personal interpretation, but I simply looked at what some great masters of street photography have done

to identify the true characteristics of street photography

Now I greet you all and I'll meet you at the next video. Good street to everyone! Bye!

For more infomation >> What is really street photography - Duration: 13:29.

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Why Is Cape Town Running Out Of Water? | NowThis World - Duration: 6:40.

A major metropolitan city is running out of water.

Cape Town, South Africa, is home to 4 million people, and those residents get their water

from six major reservoirs.

In 2014, the biggest reservoir - which provides half of the city's water - looked like this.

And this is what it look like now.

The government has put the city on a ticking time bomb, awaiting the day those levels get

too low, and engineers shut off the taps.

They're calling it: Day Zero.

Hey guys I'm Judah, this is NowThis World, and on this episode we're going back in

time to figure out how Cape Town went from experiencing one of its wettest years in decades,

to the precipice of becoming the first major city in the world to have to turn off its

taps.

Let's jump back to 2013.

Cape Town saw almost 27 inches of rainfall - making it the third wettest year since the

mid-seventies.

Dams were actually overflowing.

And climatologists predicted even wetter years to come.

But things dried up pretty quickly.

In 2014, Cape Town saw 7 inches less than the year before.

Then 7 and a half inches less than that in 2015.

By then, they were down to just 12 inches of rain in the whole year, and the city entered

a full-on drought.

And things kept getting worse.

In 2016, the city saw just under 9 inches of rainfall.

And last year?

Just 6 inches.

To put that in context, that's just 2 inches more than the average for parts of the Sahara

desert.

A hydrologist at the University of Cape Town who studies water and climate change impact

analyzed the past 5 years of rainfall compared to rainfall records dating back almost 100

years.

He found that the likelihood that two back-to-back years as dry as 2016 and 2017 would occur

once in 1,150 years.

So, is Cape Town just that unlucky?

Environmental scientists agree that people can expect "more severe and more frequent

droughts" to come - in Cape Town and other global cities.

The three-year drought has been slowly depleting the city's reservoirs.

The largest dam that most residents rely on went from being at full capacity down to just

12% capacity.

But Cape Town had more problems than just the weather.

Those years of severe drought revealed deeper obstacles in the city's infrastructure plans

- ones that exacerbated the drought rather than alleviate its effects.

The first thing that's important to know about Cape Town's water infrastructure,

is that the national government is in charge of maintaining and planning it.

A University of Cape Town water expert told the New York Times that the city focused too

heavily on expensive, long-term projects like desalination plants to help address the water

crisis, rather than quicker, cheaper options like tapping into groundwater resources.

A project that was reportedly started, but put on hold in 2011.

And when, in 2015, the Western Cape provincial government applied to declare the drought

a "national disaster" - a necessary step in order to get funding for local drought

preparation - the national government rejected their application.

A few months later, the national government accepted the disaster application for a few

municipalities.

They were promised almost 3 million U.S. dollars from federal water and development departments.

Meanwhile, Cape Town applied for a city-wide disaster status in early 2017.

Remember - this was the year that saw just 6 inches of rainfall.

The national Department of Water Affairs rejected the application, saying "although the water

situation is concerning, it is not yet at crisis level."

One of the department's higher-ups even reportedly accused Cape Town of just trying

to secure funding for future projects.

Also according to South African journalist William Saunderson-Meyer, there could be political

motivations behind the mismanagement.

The Western Cape (including Cape Town), are governed by a party called the Democratic

Alliance.

But the national government is run by a different party, the African National Congress - which

has been the dominant ruling party in post-apartheid South Africa.

But this doesn't just come down to political motives.

It also has to do with widespread income inequality and the residents who benefit from it.

Cape Town's population grew 80% from 1995 to 2018.

A booming tourist hub, its growing populace has only contributed to South Africa's extreme

wealth disparity.

According to the UN Human Development Index, South Africa has the highest degree of income

inequality of any country in the world.

So while many low-income communities in and around Cape Town have already been suffering

from years of water shortages, unreliable access to clean water, and long communal distribution

lines, the wealthy have been installing private water tanks in their homes - and many have

failed to cut back their usage to meet the city's standards.

Last year, the city asked locals to restrict their water usage to 23 gallons per day, a

target number that 60% of residents didn't meet.

In January, the government decreased that number to just 13 gallons per day - and it's

unclear how many residents are sticking to that

The rich are much more likely to overuse tap water for things like pools & gardens, and

much more likely to be able to pay the city's growing tariffs and fines for doing so.

But about a million people live in Cape Town's more than 400 informal settlements.

Those people make up a quarter of the population, but use just under 5% of the city's water.

And people in those communities are more likely to have leaky, unreliable and difficult-to-access

communal water taps.

Often, 10-20 families share access to porta potties, because of a lack of plumbing.

Some say this Day Zero water crisis is just highlighting the fact that under-resourced

communities in Cape Town have been experiencing water shortages for years, without much government

help or viral hashtags.

So, if you live in or are visiting Cape Town - what can you expect to happen on Day Zero?

To be clear, Day Zero isn't the day Cape Town runs out of water.

But it is the day that most people in the city would turn on their taps, only to find

that nothing comes out.

No drinking, bathing, or even toilet water.

According to the city's disaster plan, 13.5% is the magic number.

When Cape Town's reservoirs get down to holding just 13.5% of capacity, the water

that's left will go to hospitals, nursing homes and communal taps designed where folks

will be required to line up for a daily, pre-approved amount of 6.6 gallons per person.

And it's unclear how long that system would last.

But this should serve as a wake-up call to local and national governments around the

world.

Cape Town isn't the first city to suffer severe water shortages - more than 800 cities

across Brazil entered a state of emergency just last year after millions were forced

to ration water, for many of the same reasons that led Cape Town to this point.

And it won't be the last city, either.

Climate scientists are warning the international community that water crises are inevitable

as the effects of climate change and urbanization build up.

So will local governments look to Cape Town as a cautionary lesson to prepare for the

future - or will other cities soon face their own Day Zeroes?

Let me know what you think below!

Thanks for watching NowThis World and please don't forget to like and subscribe!

For more infomation >> Why Is Cape Town Running Out Of Water? | NowThis World - Duration: 6:40.

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THIS IS MAJOR! Obama And Hillary FLEE Into Hiding After MEMO Info Comes To Light! - Duration: 20:52.

THIS IS MAJOR!

Obama And Hillary FLEE Into Hiding After MEMO Info Comes To Light!

#Releasethememo!

As the hashtag continues to gain momentum in social media, it becomes increasingly obvious

that the Obama administration used its power as a political weapon against not only Republicans,

but the American people – and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama don't want to answer for

any part of it.

The four-page memo, prepared by Republican Congressman Devin Nunes from California, who

chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, is already said to contain

such explosive revelations that the American public will be outraged.

Members of Congress who have read the memo have said that it outlines a systematic abuse

of executive power that ranges from the disastrous "Fast and Furious" operation and the targeting

of citizens by the IRS to the deliberate plot to cover-up the circumstances surrounding

the September 11, 2012, Islamic terrorist attack on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi

when four Americans, including Christopher Stevens, Ambassador to Libya, died waiting

for Sec. of State Hillary Clinton to make a decision about what uniforms a rescue team

should wear.

The memo outlines the abuse of power by the IRS, the CIA, and the FBI during the eight

years of the Obama administration – so where are Obama and his first Sec. of State, Hillary

Clinton?

Have they come forward to defend their honor?

To clear their names?

To explain their actions?

The damning intelligence contained in the memo does not just relate to events in the

past – the use of executive power against "the enemy" extends to surveillance of

the Trump campaign and possibly Donald Trump himself during his successful run for the

presidency and the transition between the election and the inauguration.

But Mrs. Clinton, who seemed unable to exist without media attention following the publication

of her memoir of her failed bid for the presidency as her book tour took her around the country

and the world is nowhere to be seen.

Nor has former President Obama, who bought a home in an exclusive neighborhood in Washington

D.C. from which he said he would continue to speak out on issues that concerned him,

made appearances on mainstream media news programs that are friendly to him.

It may be time to ask why they are so suddenly reclusive just as "The Memo" is ready

to be made available to the America public.

Do you think Obama and Hillary will be forced to come forward and explain their actions

once the Nunes Memo

is released

to

the public?

For more infomation >> THIS IS MAJOR! Obama And Hillary FLEE Into Hiding After MEMO Info Comes To Light! - Duration: 20:52.

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Eckhart Tolle Meditation - Part 2 This Moment Is The ONLY REALITY - Duration: 6:48.

at the same time not attaching yourself to the external this is not impossible

otherwise happiness would be impossible it's something like going on an ocean

voyage that was at his time a little bit more hazardous than it is now what can I

do pick the captain the boat the date and

the best time to sail but then a storm hits

well it's no longer my business I've done everything I could it's somebody

else's problem now namely the captain's but then the boat actually begins to

sink what are my options I do the only thing I'm in a position to do and drown

but fearlessly

without balling or crying out to God because I know that what is born must

also die I'm not father time I'm a human being a part of the whole like an hour

in a day like the hour I must abide my time and like the hour pass what

difference does it make whether I go by drowning or disease I have to go somehow

so you can whatever is in whatever you can control about externals you you do

what you can this I can't do something about this I can do this I can do then

it begins to unfold and then in ways that you could not have predicted very

often and then it comes you become aligned with what is as it unfolds now

there's a one or two things that affected us did not yet see totally that

is one is to some extent your inner state of consciousness and the external

reality that you experience as your reality are linked they're not totally

separate so he doesn't talk about that frame this there's the external that we

need to accept whatever is beyond our control but as your inner state changes

your reality also changes not in ways that is exact you can cannot trace

everything that happens to some thought or something like that but your habitual

state your bit your vibrational frequency emotional state habit you of

thinking patterns they tend to create certain reflections also in the outer

very simple examples of course if you believe that most humans are dishonest

and out to deceive you then you know you beat those people all the time

isn't it strange any deep-seated belief that you have about other people or life

it tends to confirm itself in your experience if only because perception

becomes selective if you believe that everybody is dishonest then you will

look for you will your perception is selective and honest people you won't

even see them this is just one example they could give hundreds of examples you

don't see if you look for the bad you don't see the good in humans for example

so yes percept become selective and then reality confirms to you that all your

thought patterns are actually correct yes they are all evil they're all

dishonest because because it's become selective that's one aspect and also

there are certain attractions you attract people that whatever you afraid

of you tend to attract that so if yet afraid of being robbed you tend to

attract that I asked a famous person that I met a couple of years ago do you

have a you don't have a bodyguard because I've met some other famous

people always walk around with bodyguards and he said well he's

actually I'll tell you it is I'm sure he doesn't mind sting he said so I said you

don't have a bodyguard said no that would be like walking around with a gun

in your pocket and then you attract certain situations where you need the

gun and of course that's very true so that's

inner states and outer reality another thing he didn't quite see yet as deeply

is that thinking can be transcended altogether not continuously but the

ability to step out of the stream of thinking and just be present in that

spaciousness that's a creative state creative in the sense of not necessarily

creating a work of art could be that but doesn't creative in the sense of dealing

with life as it happens in this moment in a creative fashion and not a

conditioned way responding creatively to what this moment requires that's

creativity