No water! No Starbucks! No you! No pretty pictures!

September 2, 2011 @ 8:33PM

No water! No Starbucks! No you! No pretty pictures!

NOT A PRETTY PICTURE!

By John Neel

"I wish I had gotten into the environmental work earlier because I think that's a citizen's fundamental responsibility. The channeling of creative arts in that direction has been very difficult. As I said, I never made a picture with a direct environmental objective, but if they can be used for that, that's fine. I think young people are pretty aware of the dangers, but they're sort of pessimistic. They think everything is set up and it doesn't make a difference who they vote for. They don't realize they have to go out and vote themselves."- Ansel Adams

Source - "Ansel Adams Last Interview," Art News, Summer 1984, pp 76, USA

Read the article posted here - ANSEL ADAMS-THE LAST INTERVIEW

Even the FILTHY RICH, the "Corporatocracy" and those Silly Republicans need these life supporting systems to be as clean as possible! Nobody escapes pollution. Not the rich or the poor, the CEO or the dictator, the every person or the photographer. We all will suffer the demise of nature.

Those amazing skies, beautiful waterfalls and terrific panoramas we all want to photograph may be just as lethal as they are beautiful! Now is the time to save them before it is too late!

Extreme Republicans in Congress are trying to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, repeal the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act, and defund efforts by the Department of the Interior to protect our nation's wildlife and natural treasures.

Important Link! http://www.barbaraboxer.com/petitions/epa#.TmElt2NUx7A.facebook

Join Senators Boxer and Cardin: Tell Congress that you support clean air, clean water and America's treasured lands!

Sign our petition today and tell Congress that you support clean air, clean water and America's treasured lands, and that you oppose efforts to roll back fundamental environmental protections.

This is much more important than a new camera, a new lens or anything else!

No water! No Starbucks! No you! No me! No tomorrow! No pretty pictures!

While not directly about photography, I think that this post should be extremely important and hopefully inspirational to photographers.

And then there is the radiation…

…caused by actual Bomb testing…

"Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming."