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Charlie
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🇬🇧 Marseille, France,
books, being outdoors, horses, dogs, cats, human rights, 35mm photography, poetry, literature, cinema, music, pianist, Church of England, UNA-UK 🇺🇳 Je parle français. Parlo italiano. Ich spreche Deutsch.
In its war with Ukraine, Russia has lost 1,002,690 soldiers,
10,937 tanks, 29157 artillery pieces, 22798 armoured vehicles, 416 aircrafts (one third of its strategic bombers), 337 helicopters and 28 ships.
June 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
La diplomatie est le meilleur moyen de résoudre les conflits internationaux. L'escalade militaire conduit toujours à un cycle de violence.
🔴 Guerre Israël-Iran en direct : "Téhéran brûlera" si l'Iran poursuit ses tirs, avertit Israël
Israël et l'Iran se sont mutuellement attaqués, samedi, à coups de missiles et de frappes aériennes. Deux personnes ont été tuées dans le centre de l'État hébreu et au moins 60 à Téhéran. L'armée isra...
www.france24.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Trump as France’s Marianne. Food for thought.
June 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
La lecture de « En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule », de l'écrivain et sociologue queer français Édouard Louis, m'a dévastée, consternée, choquée, étonnée, émue, interpellée, enragée et amusée. Ce livre est disponible en anglais.
June 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Covent Garden Alley London UK
Leica M7 with Summicron 50mm lens with green filter
Film Ferrania P33 Film 160 ISO
f/5 auto shutter speed
June 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Charlie
It is impossible to watch these videos of Ukrainian Defenders returning home from Russian captivity without feeling emotional...
June 9, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I believe in the power of love!
Deee-Lite - Power Of Love (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Deee-Lite
youtu.be
June 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Red Fox Chilham, Kent UK
Leica M7 with Summicron 90mm lens
llford Delta ISO 100 f/4.0 1/250th
UV haze filter
June 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Wet Routemaster London — Inspired by painting 'Rue de Paris temps de pluie’ Gustave Caillebotte, I shot a roll of CineStill 800 ISO with my 1973 Yashica Electro GSN with f/2.8 aperture. I wanted blurred background like French impressionist painting. A rare foray into colour which intimidates me.
June 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
St. Dunstan in the East Church Garden London
1965 Hasselblad 550C ZEISS Planar 80mm lens
(inherited from dad — use mostly for portraits)
Kentmere PAN 200 f/16 1/500
June 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Es gibt drei Dinge, die sich nicht vereinen lassen: Intelligenz, Anständigkeit und Nazi.

There are three things that cannot be combined: Intelligence, decency and Nazism.

Gerhard Bronner
June 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Cobble Stones — Wapping High Street London UK
52-year-old Yashica Electro GSN 35mm camera
aperture f/5.6 with auto shutter speed
Berlin Kino B&W ISO 400 (used intentionally for more grain)
yellow lens filter
June 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A short film about social media addiction — soulless and sad.
June 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The Glassblower Pub in Piccadilly Soho
@ 0345 Sun 18 May 2025
Leica M7 with Summicron 50mm lens
Kodak Professional T-MAX Film 400 ISO
continuous-tone panchromatic, low-grain
Tiffen cross-screen filter
f/2.8 tripod, auto shutter speed
This was best of 12 shots.
June 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Observer les récriminations mutuelles et les attaques virulentes entre Trump et Musk, c'est comme regarder deux chauves se battre pour un peigne.
Elon Musk et Donald Trump : la fin d’une idylle qui pourrait avoir des conséquences économiques
Après des mois d’idylle, la rupture devient violente entre les anciens alliés Donald Trump et Elon Musk. Le président américain s’est dit déçu du patron de Tesla le 5 juin.
www.franceinfo.fr
June 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Gold Hill — Shaftesbury, Dorset UK

Leica M7 with Summicron M 35mm lens
aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/1000
Kodak Tri-X ISO 400 (65-year-old film brand)
no lens filter needed, dramatic clouds that day
June 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Vittoriosi usciremo vittoriosi
Victorious We Will Come Out

Mario Stefani 1968 🇮🇹🏳️‍🌈

Vittoriosi usciremo da questa lunga lotta con il tempo
ci attend forse maggiore felicità del passato.

Victorious we will get out of this long struggle with time
perhaps greater happiness than in the past awaits us.
June 6, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Just another reason not to be a member of the Labour Party.
Fury as Labour peer criticises Zelensky over drone strikes in Russia
Lord Dale Campbell-Savours stunned the House of Lords by suggesting Mr Zelensky had been 'allowed to run amok' with his country's celebrated weekend attack on Russian airfields.
www.dailymail.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 3:06 AM
"All life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
The Rev’d Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Christmas sermon 1967
June 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Affamamento di massa dei bambini a Gaza — Gesù ha detto, "In verità vi dico che in quanto l’avete fatto ad uno di questi miei minimi fratelli, l’avete fatto a me. Perché ebbi fame e non mi deste da mangiare; ebbi sete e non mi deste da bere.”
La fame a Gaza sta distruggendo ogni speranza di ripresa per la città. Ed è quello che vuole Israele
Mentre il mondo sta a guardare, la distruzione delle infrastrutture agricole e il blocco degli aiuti umanitari a opera dello Stato ebraico stanno lentamente decimando la popolazione della Striscia. Ha...
www.wired.it
June 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Church of St. Andrew & St. Mary
Grantchester Cambridgeshire UK
parish church used for ITV/PBS television show
Leica M7 with Summilux 50mm lens, f/5.6, auto shutter speed CineStill ISO 250 (motion picture film in 35mm format) green filter (for contrast in brick work, clouds, foliage enhancement)
June 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
With the world’s fourth-biggest defence budget, Germany is kriegstüchtig — war ready. With the threat of Russia and Trump’s shaky NATO commitment, Germany needs to be ready. No one in the Bundeswehr was alive during the Third Reich — Germany is no threat to Europe. The UK needs a bigger Army.
Germany is building a big scary army
Its allies are ready. But are the Germans?
www.economist.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Auf Bundeskanzler Fritz Merz (UUU — Unchristliche, Undemokratische Union) ist kein Verlass, wenn es um moralische Führung geht. Niemand, der wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit angeklagt ist, ist in einem Land mit humanen und ethischen Werten willkommen.
Merz kann Netanjahu-Festnahme stoppen – aber nicht legal
Wegen des IStGH-Haftbefehls müsste Israels Premier in Deutschland verhaftet werden. Wie der neue Kanzler das verhindern könnte und was das Recht davon hält.
www.lto.de
June 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Gemeinschaft (Community)
by Gunnar - "Der Kreis" 1960s

Im Aufschaun ging die Welle Deines Blicks bis an mein Ufer.
Ein ungesprochnes Wort baute die Brücke zwischen Dir und mir.

Looking up, the wave of your gaze arrived upon my shore.
An unspoken word built the bridge between you and me.
June 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM