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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

KETCH ROSSi

KETCH ROSSi said:
Oh, btw, back in DUBAI... I LOVE THIS TOWN!!


iPhone, shaky hand night shot... ;)
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Cool. Which panoramic app did you use?
 
LIving the rock star life it looks like. I on the other hand i tend to end up on mud floors of huts in a jungle. We all have our favorite accommodations.
Shots of the building look amazing Ketch. Are those all one pic or are they stitched?
Thanks for sharing.
 
Russ Fill said:
LIving the rock star life it looks like. I on the other hand i tend to end up on mud floors of huts in a jungle. We all have our favorite accommodations. Shots of the building look amazing Ketch. Are those all one pic or are they stitched? Thanks for sharing.
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He he, don't full yourself Russ, I do see my share of Jungles and mud, don't forget the Salton Sea trip with buddy Tom Lowe, oh boy I still remember that one... ;)This were a series of 7/8 shots taken with my Leica D Lux5 then stitched together on PS on my Laptop, no corrections of any kind just a quick stitching job.I'm doing some test on Epic for a series of Giga pictures for print, those will be cool to see printed really BIG once ready.
 
KETCH ROSSi said:
Okay, this one is a daylight shot of the Majestic Burj Khalifa in Dubai... ;)


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Wasn't so majestic for the guys that were shipped in to build this thing:

Burj Khalifa was built primarily by workers from South Asia. On 17 June 2008, there were 7,500 skilled workers employed at the construction site. Press reports indicated in 2006 that skilled carpenters at the site earned UK£4.34 a day, and labourers earned UK£2.84. According to a BBC investigation and a Human Rights Watch report, the workers were housed in abysmal conditions, their pay was often withheld, their passports were confiscated by their employers, and they were working in hazardous conditions that resulted in an apparently high number of deaths and injuries on site. During the building of the Burj Khalifa tower only one construction-related death was reported. However workplace injury and fatality in the UAE are "poorly documented".
On 21 March 2006, about 2,500 workers, who were upset over buses that were delayed for the end of their shifts, protested, damaging cars, offices, computers, and construction equipment. A Dubai Interior Ministry official said the rioters caused almost UK£500,000 in damage. Most of the workers involved in the riot returned the following day but refused to work.

I'm guessing not too many of these workers were invited to the fireworks show.

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Sad to hear, even so this sure is not the first case were megastructures are build at a cost other then economics,
it dates back to the Empires of Kings, and Emperors all over the world, you just wished it wasn't happening in modern age, but I guess
we don't always know what is really going on do we?

Nonetheless the Burj Khalifa remains a Magestic structure of a tower, a true achievement of modern age Human capacity, and also not to forget
that the people that build it, were earning less money were they came form, not all world is equal, I know trust me I have traveled in off in this world
to have seen things that few have, and some countries have people leaving with a $1.00 US dollar per day, on 10 ours work day, yet they have a life,.
were sometimes countries were people earn 100 times as much and can't have a life, hummm money truly is not all always.

Lets hope that our Modern culture treats people with do respect no matter of their cultures and or believes, and that all work its properly compensated,
but we know this is a long Shot hope, the world is not a small place and some countries really are very different from others, and so are their cultures.
 
Mark Pugh said:
Wasn't so majestic for the guys that were shipped in to build this thing:

Burj Khalifa was built primarily by workers from South Asia. On 17 June 2008, there were 7,500 skilled workers employed at the construction site. Press reports indicated in 2006 that skilled carpenters at the site earned UK£4.34 a day, and labourers earned UK£2.84. According to a BBC investigation and a Human Rights Watch report, the workers were housed in abysmal conditions, their pay was often withheld, their passports were confiscated by their employers, and they were working in hazardous conditions that resulted in an apparently high number of deaths and injuries on site. During the building of the Burj Khalifa tower only one construction-related death was reported. However workplace injury and fatality in the UAE are "poorly documented".
On 21 March 2006, about 2,500 workers, who were upset over buses that were delayed for the end of their shifts, protested, damaging cars, offices, computers, and construction equipment. A Dubai Interior Ministry official said the rioters caused almost UK£500,000 in damage. Most of the workers involved in the riot returned the following day but refused to work.

I'm guessing not too many of these workers were invited to the fireworks show.

(source: Wikipedia)
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I am feeling sorry and unfortunate to say this but, we cannot live (I mean it) in any society of the world if we think this way.

Remember the quote from balzac "behind every great fortune lies a great crime".

We either should accept and live with it or turn into a christopher McCandless and should goto wild.

P.S: I personally know few poor farmer families (from south india, where I live) turned construction labor at middle east. Most of them left with the debts(they took for visa/flying and inital settlement) after working for years. The world is so unequal, cant help it.

I think I went way off the topic. Ketch! your picture is awesome as always and stitching is awesome:-)

Raj
 
Hey Ketch,

We will miss you here in Firenze...

Here's a few shots from down the street from my house here in Firenze.... :)


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Mark

They are very close but for many centuries they were different countries. It's amazing how that stuff carries over.

Im so happy that ketch has found the perfect spot in Rome and that ketch is finally in pre production on his film. Wish it could have been Florence, but hey Rome is Rome.

David
 
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