Texture

This is an image I have used as an example of texture. Although it would be smooth if you held it, it has a rough surface as seen in this photo. I like this photo because I like the macro effect used, I always like macro shots.

Colour Photogaphy

This is an example of an image with colours. I decided to use a picture taken with the camera set to a low shutter speed because it makes the image look lively and sped up. I like this image because of the colours that come from the fairground ride, it looks fun!

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The head of a man, who was ambushed while driving with his family, lies beside the road on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez, in northern Mexico. The city, on the border with the USA, is a smuggling crossroads and a battleground in the drug wars that afflict the region, with thousands killed each year. The man’s wife was fatally wounded by gunfire during the attack, and he was forced from the vehicle and abducted, leaving behind his children aged three and four. Police later found his body some 20 kilometers away.

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Hang Song Doong, 1st doline with massive phytokarst formations, view from the rat run gallery with its enormous window towards the skylight. The just recently flooded giant gaua mirrors the formation and underwater lights illuminates the flowstone formations. A British caving team discovered the world’s biggest cave passage in Vietnam, sometimes up to 200 meters high.

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Hang Ken, only recently surveyed, is 3.8 kilometers long. Hang Son Doong, in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam, is believed by many to be the largest cave on earth. It is more than four kilometers long, with a continuous passage as wide as 90 meters, and, in places, well over 180 meters high—spacious enough to accommodate an entire New York City block of 40-story buildings. It is part of a system of 150 or so caves, many still not surveyed, under the Annamite Mountains, formed two to five million years ago, when river water scoured a tunnel along a fault in the limestone.

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A Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) soldier lies dead in a pool of oil next to a leaking oil facility in the town of Heglig, after a clash with the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA).
The SPLA is the army of the Republic of South Sudan. For more than half a century Sudan’s northern regime in Khartoum fought the south in a conflict that cost two million lives. South Sudan gained its independence from the north in 2011, but the exact demarcation of the border was not settled, and some areas remained contested.
In April a battle broke out between Sudan and South Sudan over disputed oil fields, with the area around Heglig—officially in the north but claimed by the south—seeing some of the fiercest fighting. In September 2012, the presidents of Sudan and South Sudan agreed trade, oil and security deals, and planned to set up a demilitarized buffer zone, but border disputes remained unresolved.

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Bodies lie on the floor of a pool hall, after an attack by unidentified masked assailants, in Choloma, on the outskirts of San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
A wave of violence has made Honduras one of the most dangerous places on Earth, with an annual rate of 86 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. San Pedro Sula, often cited as Honduras’ most violent city, has a murder rate double the national average. Criminal gangs operate almost with impunity, imposing reigns of extortion, murder, and drug trafficking.

Serj Takian