3arabawy BookMarx 09/02/2010 (a.m.)

• BBC News – UK failing wounded troops, say Welsh soldier’s parents

  tags: Military Occupation Britain Health Afghanistan

• U.S. military adopts new role in Iraq

  tags: USA Occupation Military Iraq

• S.Africa state workers reject new pay offer | Reuters Annotated

  tags: southafrica Strikes unions

  • COSATU said earlier on Wednesday it was suspending a one-day sympathy strike this week by all its member unions, including private sector workers, to give the state workers more time to consult.
  • Suspending the sympathy strike, which could have shut the vital mining sector, removes some of the pressure on President Jacob Zuma’s ruling African National Congress to reach a deal fast.

• The Frame: Life in Afghanistan in August

  tags: Afghanistan USA Military Imperialism Occupation Photography

• Afghanistan, August, 2010 – The Big Picture – Boston.com

  tags: Afghanistan USA Military Imperialism Occupation Photography

• ‭BBC Arabic‬ – ‮العالم‬ – ‮الشرطة تردي مهاجم قناة ديسكوفري وتحرر الرهائن‬ Annotated

  tags: Nature Discovery TV Police Terrorism USA

  • وهاجم لي القناة احتجاجا على برامجها التي يقول انها لا تفعل شيئا لانقاذ البيئة، وقالت مصادر امنية انه لف عبوات حول جسمه.

• Alaska, Hawaii, Washington Pictures, Stock Photos, Photography Tours | Cornforth Images

  Nature photography by @CornforthImages

  tags: Nature Photography

• القيادات العمالية المفصولة تعتصم بمقر الاتحاد العام | مركز الدراسات الاشتراكية – مصر

  tags: Egypt Workers StateBackedUnions

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3arabawy BookMarx 09/01/2010 (p.m.)

• ZORIAH – A PHOTOJOURNALIST AND WAR PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG: BP Oil Spill – Pictures of the Gulf Coast Disaster

  tags: USA BP Environment Photography

• Mark Steel: If anyone is fanatic it’s Sarah Palin – Mark Steel, Commentators – The Independent

  tags: Palin Islamophobia USA Racism

• Chain-smoking Greeks face tough ban – Europe, World – The Independent

  tags: Greece Smoking

• المثقفون فى الأرض | المصري اليوم، أخبار اليوم من مصر

  tags: Saad Eddin Ibrahim Egypt تعريص

• BBC News – Possible the world’s oldest champagne is being salvaged

  tags: Finland Diving Archeology

• اليوم السابع | نقيب الأشراف: الحديث عن الرئاسة فى وجود مبارك “لا يليق”

  tags: Egypt أشراف Mubarak تعريص Succession

• France24-Monte Carlo Doualiya – العام 2010 الأكثر دموية للجيش الأمريكي بالبلاد Annotated

  tags: Afghanistan Occupation USA NATO Resistance Military

  • وبوصول حصيلة الجنود الاجانب الذين قتلوا في افغانستان منذ مطلع العام الى 490، بينهم 323 اميركيا، ينذر 2010 بانه سيكون العام الاكثر دموية على الاطلاق للقوات الدولية منذ بدء تدخلها في هذا البلد اواخر 2001، علما ان العام 2009 كان بدوره الاكثر دموية بتسجيله مقتل 521 جنديا اجنبيا بينهم 317 اميركيا.

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3arabawy BookMarx 09/01/2010 (a.m.)

• Egypt, Marsa Alam, Utopia Beach Club – a set on Flickr

  Photos by an Italian visitor.

  tags: Marsa Alam Egypt Photography Red Sea

• Afghanistan bomb attacks kill twenty-one US soldiers in 48 hours – Telegraph

  Good luck to the Taliban.

  tags: USA Afghanistan Occupation Imperialism Taliban Military

• 10 MORE Quick Composition Tips

  tags: Photography Tips Composition

• How to Photograph Silhouettes in 8 Easy Steps Annotated

  tags: Photography Tips Silhouette

  • Most modern digital cameras have automatic metering which are pretty good at sensing how to expose a photograph so that everything is well lit. The problem with this is that most cameras are so smart that they will light up your subject instead of underexposing it to get a silhouette so you need to trick it. Most cameras work out the exposure levels in auto mode when you push your shutter half way down (at the same time that they focus). So point your camera at the brightest part of your picture and then press the shutter halfway down (don’t let go). Then move your camera back to frame your shot with the subject where you want it and then finish taking the shot. With most digital cameras this will result in a silhouetted subject. In effect what you’re doing is tricking your camera into thinking that the bright part of the image is the mid tone of it so that anything darker than it will be exposed as a nice dark shadow.
  • Some digital cameras also have ’spot’ or ‘centered’ metering modes that you can switch on which helps with the above technique as they will set the metering on the central spot of your frame rather than multiple spots. This means you can accurately tell your camera exactly which bit of the bright background you want it to set the exposure on.
  • One last tip on Silhouettes – while a total silhouette with a nice crisp and black subject can be a powerful shot, also consider the partial silhouette where some detail of your subject is left. Sometimes a touch of light on them makes them slightly more three dimensional and ‘real’. This is the beauty of bracketing your shots as it will leave you with total and partial silhouettes to choose form.

• Egyptian Chronicles: ElBaradei To Return Back to Egypt tonight

  Baradei is hardly in town.

  tags: Baradei Egypt

• 10 Quick and Easy Tips to improve your Photography

  tags: Photography Tips

• ‭BBC Arabic‬ – ‮الشرق الأوسط‬ – ‮اسرائيل تتوعد بالرد على مقتل الاسرائيليين الاربعة‬

  tags: Israel settlements Palestine Occupation Resistance Hamas

• France24-Monte Carlo Doualiya – مقتل أربعة إسرائيليين في هجوم في الضفة الغربية

  tags: Israel settlements Palestine Occupation Resistance Hamas

• حماس أعلنت مسؤوليتها..مقتل 4 اسرائيليين في الضفة الغربية عشية المفاوضات

  tags: Israel settlements Palestine Occupation Resistance Hamas

• الشرطة : مقتل 4 اسرائيليين بالرصاص في الضفة الغربية | أخبار الشرق الأوسط | Reuters

  tags: Israel settlements Palestine Occupation Resistance Hamas

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3arabawy BookMarx 08/31/2010 (p.m.)

• Practical Tip: Backlight | Online Photo Resource | Photography Tips and Tools

  tags: Photography Tips

• Flickr: NASA on The Commons’ Photostream

  NASA on Flickr.. This is really awesome!

  tags: NASA Photography Flickr

• Inbox Hero: Gmail Priority Inbox Has Doused My Raging Email Fire — For Now

  tags: Gmail

• Three digital myths – Le Monde diplomatique – English edition

  tags: wikileaks Media Journalism

• YouTube – Squalo Longimanus Elphistone Reef Marsa Alam

  tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red Marsa Alam Sharks Longimanus Elphinstone

• YouTube – A “very” curious Longimanus shark in Elphistone Reef – Re

  tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red Marsa Alam Sharks Longimanus

• YouTube – Südtour von Marsa Alam Rotes Meer / Diving Safari South Red Sea Egypt

  tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red Marsa Alam Sharks

• YouTube – Marsa Alam – Dugong Dance / Seekuh

  tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red Dugong Marsa Alam

• YouTube – Ägypten – El Quseir bis Port Ghalib

  tags: Diving Egypt Sea Red القصير Dolphins

• YouTube – Elphinestone Riff

  tags: Diving Elphinstone Sharks Marsa Alam Red Sea Egypt

• YouTube – Elphinstone Reef

  tags: Diving Sharks Marsa Alam Elphinstone Egypt Red Sea

• YouTube – Great White Shark Accident

  tags: Diving Sharks

• YouTube – Shark Week 2007 – Hypnotizing a Deadly Shark

  wow

  tags: Diving Sharks

• YouTube – Whale Shark at Elphinstone Reef, Egypt

  tags: Diving Red Sea Sharks Marsa Alam Elphinstone

• YouTube – ELPHINSTONE REEF, EGYPT

  tags: Diving Red Sea Sharks Marsa Alam Elphinstone

• YouTube – Tiger Shark at Elphinstone reef (Marsa Alam – Egypt)

  tags: Diving Red Sea Sharks Marsa Alam Elphinstone

• YouTube – Oceanic white tip sharks – red sea Egypt

  tags: Diving Red Sea Sharks

• YouTube – hammerhead sharks Tiran 2009 Egypt with emperor divers

  tags: Diving Marsa Alam Red Sea Sharks

• YouTube – Sharks in Egypt – Elphinstone reef

  tags: Diving Elphinstone Marsa Alam Red Sea Sharks

• Advanced Open Water Diver Course from PADI Professional Scuba Divers’ Training Organization

  tags: Diving PADI

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South Korea extends military service timing