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Hello Darkness, my old friend:
Total Solar Eclipse, Poplar Buff Missouri on April 8, 2024 Poplar Bluff, a small town (population est. around 16,000) in South-East of Missouri, was my location of choice to view the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024. Poplar Bluff High School campus was the spot of a gathering of a mix of locals and…
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Holcomb, the Clutter family murder history.
The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there is much to see-simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Railroad.…
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Extinction Rebellion protest Groningen, Netherlands
Extinction Rebellion organized a protest in Groningen at ING bank office location last Friday, December 29, 2023. The ING bank is targeted by Extinction Rebellion because the bank is allegedly the major investor in the fossil industry. Extinction Rebellion demands an immediate stop of and beak away from all investments in the fossil industry by…
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Commemoration of siege of Groningen
Each on the 28th of August, the city of Groningen commemorates that the city was under siege by the army of Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Bishop of Munster. This event Gronings Ontzet a.k. Bommen Berend as it is called in vernacular language. On this day, a wide variety of festivities are organized throughout the city.…
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Goffs Ghost Town, California USA
The sound of the horn of a freight train that passes ghost town Goffs is a reminder of more prosperous times that once were. The wheels of the sheer countless number of wagons produces a constant cadence that resembles the rhythm of daily routine in a ghost town that once was a lively community for…
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Extinction Rebellion: Black Friday protest against over consumption
Friday, November 25 2022, Extinction rebellion held a protest mars against over consumption in the inner city of Groningen, Netherlands. This series of photos shows the mars going through the ‘oude kijk in ’t jatstraat,’ a busy street with a lot of stores organizing Black Friday discounts. The mars went through the inner city of…
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Sunset over Saguaro NP and Joshua Tree NP
During this years holidays, I traveled the south-west of the USA, the states California and Arizona. I visited Saguaro NP and Joshua NP and in both parks went out to photograph sunsets at the end of the day. The gallery above shows some results. Rijko