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Published: 2013-02-05 17:47:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 738; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 12
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No photography greatness here, but it's a pretty cool scene and pretty typical of day to day life in an Afghan city. There's a lot going on here, download the full version and look around for a while.Related content
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Typical for Afghanistan. Anything can happen, I still love that coutry!
Good picture
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Looks more peaceful than a lot of Wally-Worlds.
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It's one of those things that's nice to have done but not so nice to do.
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I haven't really been in a situation quite like that but think I have an idea. I recall reading in a journal entry of yours that you would like to visit there, just if it had been in a different decade. Was it culturally and naturally pleasing at all?
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Really the whole place has a tremendous feel of wasted potential. The culture is just about as old as any you can find on Earth, but they are forgetting customs that came before Wahhabi Islam. The women are absolutely gorgeous but you can't see them because Wahhabi Islam insists that they wear a veil. The terrain is a beautiful combination of desert and mountain, but you can't go look at it because they'll try to kill you because you don't practice Wahhabi Islam. Same for their music and art. It's like a house with a beautiful hardwood floor that someone has glued a tacky shag carpet over.
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Sounds like such a unique place! I wish it were a welcoming place though. It would be awesome to visit 
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That is very neat! To be honest, you are traversing in areas of the world that I have been taught in my studies. Their culture is so different than our own, I find it very fascinating!
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Yeah, they are certainly different. Sometimes it's cool, sometimes it's frustrating, but always different.
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i like this shot. lots going on within the frame and does give an nice insight into a lifestyle most western civilians never see. taken from the top of an armoured vehicle by the looks of things??
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Thanks. Good eye. Sadly most of the pictures I take are from the top of an armored vehicle. Not only do I not get to frame shots how I'd like, but I can only give a cursory attention to it because I'm really supposed to be looking out for damn dirty terrorists (or whatever we're calling them). Furthermore it beats the crap out of me and my equipment, not a lot soft about armored trucks.
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Twas the high angle that gives it away. But there's nowt you can do about it really and the insight is still the same. Not worth getting into trouble over a more artistic angle now is it? Insurgents is my word of choice. It's very.....syllabley
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Thanks for sharing this look at a culture so very different from mine. There is beauty to be found everywhere, isn't there?
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Luckily photos don't transfer smell.
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I can see you captured it just right, street photos are wonderful when they show things as you have. Have a safe week my friend.
Cindy
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To me this is sad, to have to see a woman so cover that she can barely see...it is cruel.
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I think so. But they don't seem much inclined to change. I think the Western mindset doesn't have enough in common with this culture to ever have a hope of understanding it. So much of what they do seems senseless, but I expect the opposite is true and they are just as mystified by our motives for the things we do.
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True enough. I know I don't, no matter how many books or documentaries I watch. I try, I really do, but I just cannot get over the cruelty to woman...and now they want to cover babies due to men sexually abusing them.
Really...
I work with abused kids here in the States, and that is horrendous, but would covering them change a pedophile...I think not.
And covering these women...well the men are still abusive and still rape...
Oh I am rambling.
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ugh! I'd love to be there right now. markets in any culture are cool.
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Yeah. Someday I hope this place is peaceful enough to come back as a tourist. "See that hole over there grandkids, it used to have more smoke and blood in it."
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