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Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby Ibon » Thu 28 May 2009, 02:07:14

I just recently returned from the cloud forests of central america. Way up several miles of an old logging road bordering old growth cloud forest I came upon a site that made me feel somewhat like the first archeologists that discovered the ruins of the fallen mayan civilization. In this case it was an image of what some future archeologist may come across of our own civilization.

As the sound of Bellbirds echoed in the forest this old car sat silenced and rooted to the ground. It was all but a fleeting moment, this brief century of automobiles zipping about. All the minerals extracted for this brief ride......and slowly entropy bringing all the minerals once again back into the ground......with the help of ever resilient nature.

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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby like_the_dinosaurs » Thu 28 May 2009, 03:21:29

Amazing photos, thanks for sharing them. Time stops for nobody
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby Grautr » Thu 28 May 2009, 06:08:05

In a squat in the center of the city here they are using an old Citroen as a giant flower pot. I must go and get a picture of it.
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby Maddog78 » Thu 28 May 2009, 09:05:56

Nice pics.

You see similar sights at abandoned homesteads in northern Canada.
Doesn't take nature long to break down man made things.
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby Ludi » Thu 28 May 2009, 09:12:26

Wow, it must have taken months to walk down there and walk back.
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Unread postby Ibon » Thu 28 May 2009, 09:46:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')ow, it must have taken months to walk down there and walk back.


Ludi, I'll keep my eye open next time to see if there are any decomposing airplanes!
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby Ludi » Thu 28 May 2009, 09:50:44

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')Ludi, I'll keep my eye open next time to see if there are any decomposing airplanes!



So you flew there?

Good to know. Now I know when you use the word "hypocracy" in a thread discussing human footprint, I'll know you're talking about yourself. :|
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby Revi » Thu 28 May 2009, 10:00:22

I used to live in a town near the cloud forest in Guatemala.

Great pics of the jungle reclaiming that truck.

Somebody drove it in there.
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby Jotapay » Thu 28 May 2009, 10:37:33

Been all through that region. It's beautiful, especially the cloud forests. The volanoes are something else too.
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby dunewalker » Thu 28 May 2009, 11:16:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '&')quot;Green tourism" has got to be the height of hypocrisy.


Agreed. I'd say it qualifies as an oxymoron, except for backpacking. But Ibon has etched new images into our consciousness, of how much of the world will look within our lifetimes, possibly adding motivation to our efforts to prep, at least emotionally and psychologically.
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Unread postby AAA » Thu 28 May 2009, 11:43:42

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dunewalker', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '&')quot;Green tourism" has got to be the height of hypocrisy.
Agreed. I'd say it qualifies as an oxymoron, except for backpacking.

Backpacking has a huge carbon footprint. Unless you travel with no gear and no clothing. Same thing for the Prius. Toyota will not release the carbon footprint of the Prius.
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby dunewalker » Thu 28 May 2009, 11:56:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AAA', '
')Backpacking has a huge carbon footprint. Unless you travel with no gear and no clothing.


No larger carbon footprint than if you stay home, assuming you wear clothes, use bedding and eat when you're home. Of course, this is assuming that you start all backpack trips from your front door. If you drive and/or fly to do your backpacking, then of course not. We presume that Ibon did some hiking/backpacking on his photo trip, but he only gets points for the great photos! The amount of embedded carbon in a backpack probably equals that in the lawnchair you sit in at home.
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby Nefarious » Thu 28 May 2009, 11:57:15

The pics remind me of the show "Life After People"
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby AAA » Thu 28 May 2009, 12:08:39

The American Version is the Cadillac Ranch in TX.

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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby Ibon » Thu 28 May 2009, 12:18:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ibon', '
')Ludi, I'll keep my eye open next time to see if there are any decomposing airplanes!



So you flew there?

Good to know. Now I know when you use the word "hypocracy" in a thread discussing human footprint, I'll know you're talking about yourself. :|


I have never spoken of the hypocricy of our culture or morals or ethics without including myself. How could any of us think to do that?
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby dunewalker » Thu 28 May 2009, 12:25:26

Nice image, AAA. As long as we're juggling carbon footprint and photography on this thread(thanks, Ibon), I wonder if there are any studies measuring the reduction in resource and energy use resulting from the world switching from print film photography to digital imaging. It would seem that the savings are huge. Just think, Kodak had to dig up some resources, make some film, box it up, ship it around the world, to be bought by us, exposed in our cameras, taken back to the developer, who digs up some more stuff to make our prints, then we have a photo. That entire resource-intensive process has been largely eliminated. (sorry for the 2 puns in that last sentence).
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Re: Image: It was only for a fleeting moment

Unread postby AAA » Thu 28 May 2009, 12:39:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dunewalker', 'N')ice image, AAA. As long as we're juggling carbon footprint


My beef is everything has a much bigger carbon footprint than it should and many people don't realize it especially the environmental community.

Everything is either made using oil or is shipped using oil.

Besides pure wilderness, I cannot think of one thing that does not use oil or got there because of oil.
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