Just for fun post a non-porn pic.

[belamy]

We just might have to re-evaluate our definition of non-porn for this thread.

If it makes you giggle foolishly does that make it a non-porn photograph?

It looks more "obscene" than properly "porn" to me... who was the lawhead of JUB, Zeremonie? We need the big one Chart Of Porn Of The JUB Union.

 

[dpnice]

I don't think that we have welcomed MattieMich to this thread.

He seems to be an excellent addition to all you other members posting such amazing photographs.

Keep it up your finds are appreciated.

 

[blackbeltninja]

Mars sets in the west over Table Bay as dawn breaks in Cape Town, with Table Mountain/Devils Peak at far left with Lion's Head and Signal Hill following on the right.

Mars was visible without a telescope for about 6 weeks in 2003 and about 3 months again in 2005. It will not get this close again for another 300 years.

I took the pic at about 5:30am in August 2003 from Plattekloof III in the Tygerberg Hills in the northern suburbs of Cpt. The pink splash on the right side of the pic is light bleeding through the eyepiece of the camera which I forgot to cover up.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

My chicks

 

[Tigryto]

I don't think that we have welcomed MattieMich to this thread.

He seems to be an excellent addition to all you other members posting such amazing photographs.

Keep it up your finds are appreciated.

Yes I agree. But, please no more Kevin Carter's or Iraq Soldiers.

These are great pics that have to be shown but we want just some fun...

 

[SouthBeach30]

X55, I disagree, MattieMich is welcome to post any type of photo he pleases. I had the book that photo comes from and despite the nature of the photos, it is good that a book that really does show the outcome of war exists. In the US, the public is treated as if we are 5 year old children, unable to bear watching a coffin on TV or a dead body burned to death by one of our laser targeted bombs.

 

[Tigryto]

Of course I agree with you. I want to see these great pics, and I think they should be seen as you have said. I only say that with the title of this thread (just for fun, non-porn...) they are a bit out of place. I think they deserve a more serious place. Please, pardon me if I have offended someone, it is not my intention.

 

[dpnice]

Please, pardon me if I have offended someone, it is not my intention.

No offence taken on my part. Your opinion is totally understandable - we would all rather look at photographs of cute little kittens.

But there is a real world out there and from time to time I appreciate being shocked and woken up by seeing such images.

 

[flyingfree]

The success of this thread (truly my favorite) is that there is one common theme; no pornography. Some of the pictures posted are very funny, some are thought provoking, some are artistically beautiful and some may even be controversial.

What I most enjoy about this thread is how diverse the pictures are from post to post. My thanks go out to everyone who has posted on this thread and to nwdavis who started it all. This thread is worthy of the JUB Hall of Fame with the hope that it never ends.

On Topic: This is a caption of one of two photomurals by William Wegman located in the Washington, DC metro (subway). The murals can be seen in the station closest to the NASA offices and the Air and Space Museum.

 

[belamy]

- we would all rather look at photographs of cute little kittens.

Bof, speak for yourself, you doddering old...

 

[dpnice]

And who posted this cute little kitten I ask myself.

"Doddering old fool" indeed - I think you mean incurable romantic and sentimentalist.

 

[belamy]

And who posted this cute little kitten I ask myself.

"Doddering old fool" indeed - I think you mean incurable romantic and sentimentalist.

Oh, I thought that was a bodyless funny furry little monster.

 

[wit_afrika]

Morning has broken.......

 

[jaysizzles]

Duomo

 

[buzzj]

Taken from Table Mountain 17 June 2006

That may just be your best yet!!

 

[buzzj]

I don't want to be a "Debbie Downer" but I'm always moved by this photo and the story behind it.

Kevin Carter's winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993. In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated child.

Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the "Bang Bang Club" who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the atrocities committed during apartheid.

Haunted by the horrific images from Sudan, Carter committed suicide in 1994 soon after receiving the award. Unable to cope with his success coming from such an image, the criticism he received for taking the photograph rather than helping the girl, the overall violence and pain which he saw daily, and the death of his best friend, he eventually took his own life. His suicide note read "I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen... The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist."

What a brutal photograph. But, let's face it, life is brutal for many of our brothers and sisters on this planet!

 

[buzzj]

A man in Spain walks among horses

 

[buttons]

Thank you for those beautiful photos. Hydrangeas are among the first flowers I remember from my childhood in Tennessee. We had a pink Sarah Bernhardt peony next to the front porch and a blue hydrangea on the north side of the house. There's nothing like the scent and feeling of burying your face in the cool petals of peony and hydrangea blooms...

I live in Mississippi now and have tried for years to grow them in this hard-pan clay soil with no success. Finally, three years ago, I double-dug a flowerbed near the front porch, added topsoil, leaves, and compost, and planted three hydrangeas, one of them a French lace-cap under the drip line of the house. The French lace-cap bloomed two years ago and again last year. One of the blue ones had two decent sized blooms on it last year. So far, the third one hasn't done anything... This year, they are all as high as my head and just the other day, I noticed blooms budding out on two of them... So who knows...?

Maybe I should think about planting some peonies now...

You're welcome I love hydrangea's. But I guess most of you might have noticed I love plants and flowers from the pictures I've posted so far.
I'm not familiar with the term French lace cap so I'll have to google or and wait till your's have blossomed and you've taken pics of them (and posted them here). But I have fallen in love with the hydrangea quercifolia this summer, now all I need do is find out where I can get one. It has bright green and white flowers that grow in a cone shape. I love the way the flowers just keep getting better and better throughout the year and seasons and the colour changes almost daily.
As for peonies...I've had no luck at this year with them, might be because there's an ant nest in the large pot I grow them in. It's another favourite of mine as well and every flowerstall and shop in Holland sells them in abundance in an amazing array of colours and sizes. I saw a coral almost orange coloured one a few weeks ago that I'd like to have.

 

[buttons]

Blarney Castle

There is a stone there
That whoever kisses,
Oh, he never misses
To grow eloquent
'Tis he may clamber
To a lady's chamber
Or become a member
of Parliament

(is it me or is this blarney?)

 

[blackbeltninja]

Mamaroneck Station, approx 20 minutes from Grand Central in New York on the Metro-North line. I stayed there with a friend of mine for a week last April and commuted through to New York City every day.

In case anyone is wondering, the picture was taken using Kodak 400Tx BW film with a red filter over the lens just before sunset.