Showing posts with label duo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label duo. Show all posts
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Even when life is hard, friendship is always somewhere. Harmony in perfect duos never ends. It's precious. These are photos I recently took while I was walking in the streets of Sousse, in Tunisia.


A picture I took near Warsaw in Poland some weeks ago.
(The above photo has been shot with the Samsung NX10,
provided by Samsung Electronics. Co., Ltd)

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I took this photo in the Belgian countryside

© 2010 - Ben Heine
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I took this photo in the Belgian countryside

© 2010 - Ben Heine
You and I
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I took this photo 2 days ago in Braives, Belgium

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You and I

By Peter S. Quinn

You and I in spring first
Green rising high to new...
Flowing in gradation burst
Strength rechargeable thru
Each our while is beautiful
Bringing enjoyment to days
Gone are the moment’s dull
Those were in winter haze

You and I close to touch
Everything comes now easily
With the breeze inasmuch
As freshness comes breezily
Its ‘love me or love me not’
Till petals have been plucked
There is rarely aforethought
If feelings are misinstruct

You and I thru the breeze
Each day and in dusky black
So close beneath the trees
Cause spring is on the almanac
Bringing near to closer still
As life nurtures our foliages
Field flowers and on the hill
Air and rain acknowledges

© 2010 - Ben Heine
Barack Obama's
Toughest Opponent

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© 2009 - Ben Heine
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Watercolor on paper...
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Obama Works to Repair America's Image in the
World. Smiles and handshakes are a start, but
Obama's real challenge will be to show results


By Thomas Omestad

The few "Yankee Go Home" signs that greet him abroad seem almost an afterthought, and when he enters a room of world leaders, he is the most sought-after man for a photo op and a handshake. Such is the star power that has swirled around Barack Obama on his initial foreign travels as the U.S. president.

This comes as little surprise, yet it will present a challenge of sorts for the president. Obama's relative youth and vigor, his calls for reaching out to adversaries and friends overseas, his breaks from past policy, and his triumphant personal story as the nation's first African-American president all seem to make the 47-year-old leader the best single antidote to anti-Americanism in years, maybe decades. White House officials say Obama's appeal extends beyond just the leaders of the world. "What has happened is that anti-Americanism isn't cool anymore," says top Obama adviser David Axelrod.

But this initial repositioning of the American leadership brand onto more popular terrain internationally will be the easier part of Obama's task. For all the sense of fresh starts and of goodwill, the seeds of perhaps inevitable disappointments are present as well. Visiting the Czech Republic in April, Obama got a friendly warning from Vaclav Havel, the once dissident playwright and former president who led his country's Velvet Revolution. Havel cautioned that the accumulation of exaggerated expectations could turn against the new American leader. "People may end up thinking that he has betrayed them, that he has raised their hopes too far," Havel said. A smiling Obama is said to have replied that he is aware of the danger.

Still, Obama has deftly gone about trying to reset the global image of America. The guiding impulse seems to be to start reviving U.S. standing in the world quickly in the hope that policy gains will accrue later. He has ordered the future closure of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, barred torture of terrorist suspects, and made public the Bush administration's internal memos authorizing harsh interrogation methods.

Maggy Jacqmin and I
with a portrait of each other

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We made these during an art festival ("Mechel-Air") in the city of Putte (a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium). Thanks Maggy for the portrait!

Maggy Jacqmin is a Belgian professional caricaturist I met some months ago at a workshop by Jan Op De Beeck.
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