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"content": "\u003cp>On a hot and humid Tuesday morning in April 2023, at the ringside of a wrestling match in Chittagong, Bangladesh, software engineer Sanchayan Chowdhury was looking for a good vantage point to launch his drone. Currently living in Finland, Chowdhury had traveled to Bangladesh to capture shots of the famed Abdul Jabbar’s Boli Khela — a wrestling tournament that dates as far back as 1909 and is named after the man who started it. Boli Khela means “the game of powerful people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image highlights the dedication, skill and physical prowess of the wrestlers, he says. “I decided to shoot this picture because I wanted to capture the raw energy and passion of the wrestlers as well as the vibrant atmosphere of the event. It’s a way to honor my heritage and share this unique cultural practice with a broader audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His photo is a finalist at this years’ Siena Drone Photo Awards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13956615']Drone photography has really evolved over the years, says Emanuela Ascoli, one of the judges for this year’s contest. And that’s thanks to the advancement in technology. Drones can now fly faster, secure better quality images and as a result of their GPS (global positioning system) can move precisely and maintain stable positions. “This has made it easier for photographers to capture detailed and stunning aerial shots from perspectives that were previously impossible to achieve,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, judges look for photographs that stand out for their technical skill, creativity, composition and visual impact, Ascoli says. “Above all, I consider the photograph’s emotional and aesthetic impact, including how well it captures a moment — the perfect moment,” adding that “a great picture stops the time and raises awareness of the wonders and worries of our world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a selection of contest nominees, focusing on the Global South countries that NPR’s Goats & Soda covers. The prize winners will be announced on September 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A pack of pelicans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 852px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM.png\" alt=\"A gathering of scores of pelicans, all huddled together against a black background\" width=\"852\" height=\"1138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM.png 852w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM-800x1069.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM-160x214.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM-768x1026.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelicans gather in the wetland Estero el Soldado in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. The white pelicans stand out against waters darkened by sediment. \u003ccite>(Guillermo Soberón)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guillemo Soberon chanced upon this scene when he set out to document the beauty of the wetlands called Estero el soldado for the media site Mongabay. “It is a natural protected area that hosts a great biodiversity, over 400 species in 350 hectares of land, and it’s a beautiful space in my hometown, Guaymas, Sonora, México,” he says. As he was shooting wildlife with his camera, he launched his drone to capture shots of the ecosystem from above. He meant to create a “virtual tour” to showcase the beauty and importance of the wetlands and that’s when he spotted a flock of gleaming white pelicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such an amazing scene, I couldn’t believe my luck,” he says. While brown pelicans are common in these parts, white pelicans are not easy to find. “I believe that the appreciation of nature is a pathway to its conservation,” Soberon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Crossing the Darien Gap\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1928px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960791\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial shot of a long line of people walking on a path carved out between dense forest on either side.\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM.png 1928w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-768x511.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-1536x1021.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-1920x1277.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1928px) 100vw, 1928px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants trekking through the jungle during clandestine journeys through the Darien Gap typically endure five or six days, exposed to all kinds of harsh weather conditions. \u003ccite>(Luis Acosta/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A photographer at Agence France Press, Luis Acosta has on several occasions visited Darien Gap, the region that stretches from the Darien Province of Panama to Columbia. In 2023, over 500,000 people moved through the Darien Gap to migrate to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September last year, Acosta deployed a drone to capture the image. “I realized that the only way to show the magnitude of the migration through the jungle was with a drone,” he says. “The message I want to send with this image is how people’s desperation to find a better life forces them to make such dangerous journeys, sometimes risking the lives of their loved ones,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Crowds at the bullfight\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial image of a vast crowd seated in concentric circles around a central ring.\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM.png 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-800x593.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-1020x756.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-768x569.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-1536x1139.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 42,000 people witness the final minutes of a bullfight in Mexico City’s Plaza México arena. \u003ccite>(Roberto Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drone shots of crowds create interesting visual patterns, says Roberto Hernández Guerrero, a graphic designer turned photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2024, a court ruling allowed bull fights to finally return to Mexico City after a gap of two years. After the two-year ban, crowds swelled. Over 40,000 people gathered at La Monumental Plaza de Toros Mexico to watch the bulls return to the arena. And he decided to aim for a drone photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a week of planning and two days of drone flying to get the perfect shot. He rented the roof of the biggest building near the Plaza de Toros and from this vantage point launched his drone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13960083']Guerrero purchased his first drone camera a decade ago. “It started as a hobby,” he says. “I’ve flown a lot of different models, each with better technology and camera than the last. And while I enjoy the result, to be honest, I don’t enjoy flying drones, because it’s stressful,” he says. And that’s because he knows that whatever goes up can come crashing down too. “Some of my best photos involve flying drones over the heads of many people but that thought isn’t relaxing,” he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The title of this photo, \u003cem>Last Minute\u003c/em>, refers literally to the last minutes of a bull’s life. “I don’t support bullfights,” Guerrero says. “When the bull died, I almost cried, taking that last shot. But as with many aspects of my life, I respect people who think differently.” The photo, he says reflects both the pain and plight of the bulls in the arena and how they suffer, contrasting it with thousands of people who embrace the tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where the Banni buffalo roam\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1166px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial shot of a small herd of buffalo walking across red and white earth.\" width=\"1166\" height=\"1380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM.png 1166w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM-800x947.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM-1020x1207.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM-160x189.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM-768x909.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1166px) 100vw, 1166px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Banni buffalo can tolerate harsh climatic conditions, surviving on scant patches of grass and shrubs. They are commonly found in the salt marshes of India’s Thar desert. \u003ccite>(Raj Mohan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An engineer who lives in Bengaluru, India, Raj Mohan has a passion for photography and for drones that drew him to a salt marsh within the Thar desert in the western Indian state of Gujarat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drones transform the mundane view of what we see everyday. Everything looks different from above,” Mohan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, he meant to seek out patterns of white salt streaks on the brown mud. However, his drone shots also caught farmers taking their Banni buffaloes out to graze in the small patches of green left. Banni buffaloes are well-adapted to survive water scarcity, frequent droughts and high temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, the resilience of these buffaloes serves as a powerful example of how life can adapt and survive under challenging conditions,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A 6-mile bridge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1712px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial image of a highway cutting diagonally across a frozen body of water.\" width=\"1712\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM.png 1712w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-800x599.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-1020x764.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-768x575.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-1536x1150.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The river carves out large, tree-like ravines on the mudflat along the Jiashao Bridge that extends into the East China Sea. \u003ccite>(Sheng Jiang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This drone photo by middle school teacher Sheng Jiang depicts Jia Shao bridge (also called the Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge) — stretching across the mouth of the Qiantang River in the Zhejiang Province of China. It’s one of the longest pylon cable sea bridges in the world, extending 6 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13960392']“You can see the splendor of Chinese infrastructure,” says Jiang. She was especially fascinated by the branch-like patterns (that look like nerve endings. she says) that the river carves out in the mud flats around the bridge. In order to get the patterns in the picture which can only be seen from the air, she took the shot at midday and at low tide so the shadows of the bridge wouldn’t interfere with the image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By combining man-made structures with unique natural landscape along the Qiantang River, I hope to show a China where man and nature co-exist in harmony,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Snowed-in village\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1922px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial image of lines and squares and green patches on a white background far below.\" width=\"1922\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM.png 1922w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-1536x1026.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-1920x1283.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1922px) 100vw, 1922px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The village of Kargapazari in the Bingol province of Turkey is blanketed with a layer of white snow, resembling an absract painting from this drone perspective. \u003ccite>(Hüseyin Karahan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hüseyin Karahan served as an officer in the Turkish naval forces for 30 years before retiring in 2018 and indulging in his love for photography. Karahan says, “Famous Turkish photographer Ara Güler, who made me love the art of photography, has a well-known saying: ‘\u003cem>Photos taken at random turn out better, we are happier with people we meet by chance, falling asleep in a corner is the most enjoyable sleep, unplanned activities are more fun.’\u003c/em> In short, everything that happens spontaneously is the most beautiful. These words completely summarize the photo I took,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a February morning, Karahan visited the village of Kargapazari in the Bingol province of Turkey. He planned to photograph people leaving a mosque after prayers. However, their exit was delayed and so he raised his drone to the maximum height to see what it would see. At that moment, he says, the landscape looked like an abstract picture — and reminded him of how small we actually were in this big world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love taking photos with a drone, it allows us to see things that the human eye cannot see, perhaps with the eyes of a flying bird,” says Karahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City meets mountains\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1930px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960796\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM.png\" alt=\"The light of thousands of tiny windows in several large buildings illuminate the night sky.\" width=\"1930\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM.png 1930w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-800x522.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-1020x666.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-768x501.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-1536x1003.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-1920x1253.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1930px) 100vw, 1930px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guiyang City, located in Guizhou Province, China, boasts numerous towering buildings and elevated bridges that seamlessly integrate with the surrounding mountainous terrain. \u003ccite>(Xu Zhang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beijing-based Xu Zhan, who’s 64, has been in love with photography since his middle school years and is a member of the China Photographer’s Association. He started using drones for filming in 2018, captivated by the perspective it could provide to ordinary landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13960599']Visiting Guiyang City in the Guizhou Province of China, he shot this photo of Qianchun Interchange bridge in July 2023. He sought to capture how the urban landscape integrates with surrounding mountainous terrain. With 11 ramps, 8 entrances and exits, and two main lines, the overpass was put into use in 2016 and is spectacular, he says. “I only took a small part of the huge overpass in this picture. The exit of the overpass between the hills draws people’s attention to the bustling city and to the dazzling lights of every household.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nighttime photography using a drone can be a challenge, he says, because of poor visibility. His top tip: “Find a good [spot] and take enough photos until you’re satisfied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kamala Thiagarajan is a freelance journalist based in Madurai, South India. She reports on global health, science and development and has been published in ‘The New York Times,’ ‘The British Medical Journal,’ the BBC, ‘The Guardian’ and other outlets. You can find her on X: \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/kamal_t?lang=en\">@Kamal_t\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a selection of contest nominees, focusing on the Global South countries that NPR’s Goats & Soda covers. The prize winners will be announced on September 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A pack of pelicans\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 852px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM.png\" alt=\"A gathering of scores of pelicans, all huddled together against a black background\" width=\"852\" height=\"1138\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM.png 852w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM-800x1069.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM-160x214.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.10.54-AM-768x1026.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 852px) 100vw, 852px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pelicans gather in the wetland Estero el Soldado in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. The white pelicans stand out against waters darkened by sediment. \u003ccite>(Guillermo Soberón)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Guillemo Soberon chanced upon this scene when he set out to document the beauty of the wetlands called Estero el soldado for the media site Mongabay. “It is a natural protected area that hosts a great biodiversity, over 400 species in 350 hectares of land, and it’s a beautiful space in my hometown, Guaymas, Sonora, México,” he says. As he was shooting wildlife with his camera, he launched his drone to capture shots of the ecosystem from above. He meant to create a “virtual tour” to showcase the beauty and importance of the wetlands and that’s when he spotted a flock of gleaming white pelicans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such an amazing scene, I couldn’t believe my luck,” he says. While brown pelicans are common in these parts, white pelicans are not easy to find. “I believe that the appreciation of nature is a pathway to its conservation,” Soberon says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Crossing the Darien Gap\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1928px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960791\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial shot of a long line of people walking on a path carved out between dense forest on either side.\" width=\"1928\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM.png 1928w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-768x511.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-1536x1021.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.16.35-AM-1920x1277.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1928px) 100vw, 1928px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants trekking through the jungle during clandestine journeys through the Darien Gap typically endure five or six days, exposed to all kinds of harsh weather conditions. \u003ccite>(Luis Acosta/AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A photographer at Agence France Press, Luis Acosta has on several occasions visited Darien Gap, the region that stretches from the Darien Province of Panama to Columbia. In 2023, over 500,000 people moved through the Darien Gap to migrate to the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September last year, Acosta deployed a drone to capture the image. “I realized that the only way to show the magnitude of the migration through the jungle was with a drone,” he says. “The message I want to send with this image is how people’s desperation to find a better life forces them to make such dangerous journeys, sometimes risking the lives of their loved ones,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Crowds at the bullfight\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial image of a vast crowd seated in concentric circles around a central ring.\" width=\"1710\" height=\"1268\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM.png 1710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-800x593.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-1020x756.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-160x119.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-768x569.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.20.12-AM-1536x1139.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1710px) 100vw, 1710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 42,000 people witness the final minutes of a bullfight in Mexico City’s Plaza México arena. \u003ccite>(Roberto Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drone shots of crowds create interesting visual patterns, says Roberto Hernández Guerrero, a graphic designer turned photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2024, a court ruling allowed bull fights to finally return to Mexico City after a gap of two years. After the two-year ban, crowds swelled. Over 40,000 people gathered at La Monumental Plaza de Toros Mexico to watch the bulls return to the arena. And he decided to aim for a drone photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took a week of planning and two days of drone flying to get the perfect shot. He rented the roof of the biggest building near the Plaza de Toros and from this vantage point launched his drone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Guerrero purchased his first drone camera a decade ago. “It started as a hobby,” he says. “I’ve flown a lot of different models, each with better technology and camera than the last. And while I enjoy the result, to be honest, I don’t enjoy flying drones, because it’s stressful,” he says. And that’s because he knows that whatever goes up can come crashing down too. “Some of my best photos involve flying drones over the heads of many people but that thought isn’t relaxing,” he laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The title of this photo, \u003cem>Last Minute\u003c/em>, refers literally to the last minutes of a bull’s life. “I don’t support bullfights,” Guerrero says. “When the bull died, I almost cried, taking that last shot. But as with many aspects of my life, I respect people who think differently.” The photo, he says reflects both the pain and plight of the bulls in the arena and how they suffer, contrasting it with thousands of people who embrace the tradition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where the Banni buffalo roam\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1166px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial shot of a small herd of buffalo walking across red and white earth.\" width=\"1166\" height=\"1380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM.png 1166w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM-800x947.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM-1020x1207.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM-160x189.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.24.00-AM-768x909.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1166px) 100vw, 1166px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Banni buffalo can tolerate harsh climatic conditions, surviving on scant patches of grass and shrubs. They are commonly found in the salt marshes of India’s Thar desert. \u003ccite>(Raj Mohan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An engineer who lives in Bengaluru, India, Raj Mohan has a passion for photography and for drones that drew him to a salt marsh within the Thar desert in the western Indian state of Gujarat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Drones transform the mundane view of what we see everyday. Everything looks different from above,” Mohan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, he meant to seek out patterns of white salt streaks on the brown mud. However, his drone shots also caught farmers taking their Banni buffaloes out to graze in the small patches of green left. Banni buffaloes are well-adapted to survive water scarcity, frequent droughts and high temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, the resilience of these buffaloes serves as a powerful example of how life can adapt and survive under challenging conditions,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A 6-mile bridge\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1712px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960794\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial image of a highway cutting diagonally across a frozen body of water.\" width=\"1712\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM.png 1712w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-800x599.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-1020x764.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-160x120.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-768x575.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.26.32-AM-1536x1150.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1712px) 100vw, 1712px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The river carves out large, tree-like ravines on the mudflat along the Jiashao Bridge that extends into the East China Sea. \u003ccite>(Sheng Jiang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This drone photo by middle school teacher Sheng Jiang depicts Jia Shao bridge (also called the Jiaxing-Shaoxing Sea Bridge) — stretching across the mouth of the Qiantang River in the Zhejiang Province of China. It’s one of the longest pylon cable sea bridges in the world, extending 6 miles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“You can see the splendor of Chinese infrastructure,” says Jiang. She was especially fascinated by the branch-like patterns (that look like nerve endings. she says) that the river carves out in the mud flats around the bridge. In order to get the patterns in the picture which can only be seen from the air, she took the shot at midday and at low tide so the shadows of the bridge wouldn’t interfere with the image.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By combining man-made structures with unique natural landscape along the Qiantang River, I hope to show a China where man and nature co-exist in harmony,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Snowed-in village\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1922px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM.png\" alt=\"An aerial image of lines and squares and green patches on a white background far below.\" width=\"1922\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM.png 1922w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-800x534.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-1020x681.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-160x107.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-768x513.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-1536x1026.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.29.23-AM-1920x1283.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1922px) 100vw, 1922px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The village of Kargapazari in the Bingol province of Turkey is blanketed with a layer of white snow, resembling an absract painting from this drone perspective. \u003ccite>(Hüseyin Karahan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hüseyin Karahan served as an officer in the Turkish naval forces for 30 years before retiring in 2018 and indulging in his love for photography. Karahan says, “Famous Turkish photographer Ara Güler, who made me love the art of photography, has a well-known saying: ‘\u003cem>Photos taken at random turn out better, we are happier with people we meet by chance, falling asleep in a corner is the most enjoyable sleep, unplanned activities are more fun.’\u003c/em> In short, everything that happens spontaneously is the most beautiful. These words completely summarize the photo I took,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a February morning, Karahan visited the village of Kargapazari in the Bingol province of Turkey. He planned to photograph people leaving a mosque after prayers. However, their exit was delayed and so he raised his drone to the maximum height to see what it would see. At that moment, he says, the landscape looked like an abstract picture — and reminded him of how small we actually were in this big world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love taking photos with a drone, it allows us to see things that the human eye cannot see, perhaps with the eyes of a flying bird,” says Karahan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City meets mountains\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13960796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1930px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13960796\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM.png\" alt=\"The light of thousands of tiny windows in several large buildings illuminate the night sky.\" width=\"1930\" height=\"1260\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM.png 1930w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-800x522.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-1020x666.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-160x104.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-768x501.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-1536x1003.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-09-at-11.32.51-AM-1920x1253.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1930px) 100vw, 1930px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guiyang City, located in Guizhou Province, China, boasts numerous towering buildings and elevated bridges that seamlessly integrate with the surrounding mountainous terrain. \u003ccite>(Xu Zhang)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beijing-based Xu Zhan, who’s 64, has been in love with photography since his middle school years and is a member of the China Photographer’s Association. He started using drones for filming in 2018, captivated by the perspective it could provide to ordinary landscapes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Farallon Islands have always had proverbial dark clouds hanging over them. The rocky outcrops 28 miles west of San Francisco have long held ominous nicknames, including “Islands of the Dead” and “the Devil’s Teeth.” Take even a passing glimpse at the islands’ history and both of those titles feel perfectly justified — and not just because of the more than \u003ca href=\"https://farallones.noaa.gov/heritage/shipwrecks.html\">400 shipwrecks\u003c/a> they’ve caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Farallons are only accessible to birds, animals and biologists. This is undoubtedly a good thing — any time humans get close to the islands, terrible things seem to occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some examples of note:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A large rabbit with thin legs and very large ears faces forward. It has very wide eyes.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1672\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-768x502.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-1536x1003.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-2048x1338.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-1920x1254.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russians brought rabbits to the Farallon Islands in the early 1800s. \u003ccite>(Getty Images Plus/ Darren415)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Furious rabbits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A party of Russian seal hunters landed on South Farallon in the early 1800s, bringing with them a handful of rabbits. Nothing good came of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occupying stone houses they built along Fort Ross, the hunters went about systematically annihilating the local populations of fur seals, sea lions and sea otters for their pelts. Elephant seals were killed for their blubber. As the hunters were busy focusing on murdering the sea-life, their rabbits multiplied unimpeded and took shelter in a large, 20-foot-high cave on the southeast slope of Lighthouse Hill. The ragtag army of bunnies eventually overran the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The rabbits of South Farallon] devoured what meager vegetation there once was,” one 1960 \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> article reported. “[They] ate dead fish, seaweed and each other … According to reports, they were the meanest, ugliest rabbits in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the settlers had destroyed the local animal communities to the point that hunting was no longer profitable, they abandoned the Farallons in 1840. The rabbits, however, stuck around. Several attempts were made to thin their numbers over the years, but the efforts came to naught. That is, until 1972, when biologists from Point Reyes Bird Observatory arrived to assess avian numbers and concluded that the rabbits, as an invasive species, were negatively impacting the bird population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists subsequently spent years killing off the rabbits. The population was eventually wiped out in 1975. Today, a similar mass slaughter is being considered for house mice thriving on the islands. Apparently, everyone who sets foot on the Farallons wants to immediately kill anything with fur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13959240 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/opensfhistory_wnp4_wnp4.1097.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image showing men walking along a rocky island, each holding a large basket.\" width=\"750\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/opensfhistory_wnp4_wnp4.1097.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/opensfhistory_wnp4_wnp4.1097-160x135.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egg gatherers in the 1870s, spread out and keen to steal the offspring of every murre bird on the island. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory/ wnp4/wnp4.1097)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Egg wars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Turns out animals with feathers haven’t always fared well on the islands either. In the late 1840s and throughout the 1850s, the influx of gold-seekers to San Francisco caused a population boom that put a massive strain on local agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1949, the food scarcity inspired a pharmacist named Doc Robinson to sail to the Farallons with his brother-in-law and raid the eggs of the murre birds that nested on the islands. After their first egg haul netted them $3,000 (about $122,000 in 2024 money), crews of other egg hunters quickly followed suit. In the four decades that followed, approximately 14 million murre eggs were stolen and sent to San Francisco, and rival crews of poachers went to war with each other. Guns and even canons were fired as the egg thieves fought. Several were shot and killed. Tensions were so high that even the local lighthouse keepers were assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The egg wars continued until the end of the 19th century, and were ultimately brought to an end not by the authorities, but by the establishment of Petaluma as an egg farming hub. By then, the murre population had been decimated. Despite the Farallons’ current status as a bird sanctuary, murre numbers have never recovered. Their population remains only a quarter of its pre-Gold Rush size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615317046-scaled-e1717554138747.jpg\" alt=\"A war ship in unrecognizable, blackened ruins.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1496\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The USS Independence (CVL 22) on July 2, 1946 after it was hit with an atomic explosion, and before its radioactive scrap was buried in the Bay near the Farallons. \u003ccite>(CORBIS/ Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Nuclear waste\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1951, the Farallons were chosen as the final resting place for an aircraft carrier called USS Independence (CVL-22). At the time it was sunk with torpedos, the vessel was extremely radioactive, having been used in the now-infamous \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll\">1946 nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters even more toxic, between 1946 and 1970, at least 47,500 barrels of radioactive waste were ditched in a 540-square-mile area, starting just south of the Farallons. Those barrels were notoriously unstable and by 1990, investigators reported that many of them had broken open. A multitude more could not even be located. By then, the problem was well-established. In 1982, Governor Jerry Brown made a statement to the House Subcommittee on Oceanography to point out the dangers of dumping nuclear waste in the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California,” he wrote, “we have learned from our experience with the Farallon Islands nuclear dumpsite that remedial action is virtually impossible when unforeseen problems arise. The specter of leaking barrels of plutonium now lurks on the ocean bottom less than 50 miles from the Golden Gate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-800x792.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-1020x1009.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-768x760.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-1536x1520.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-2048x2027.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-1920x1900.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 21-year-old man from Burlingame named John Rochette is wheeled away from a coast guard rescue helicopter after being attacked by “a huge shark” while diving near the Farallon Islands in 1963. Both his legs sustained very serious injuries. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Shark attacks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1990, a headline in the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> declared: “Bay Area Becoming Shark Attack Capital.” The story followed a series of attacks in which humans had near misses with gigantic sharks — some reportedly 18 feet long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attacks near the Farallons during that period were plentiful: Concord scuba diver LeRoy French was saved from serious injury when the attacking shark was scared off by his oxygen tank. Mark Tiserand from San Francisco wound up with teeth embedded in his leg that had to be removed by doctors. A paddle boarder named Rodney Orr was flipped off his board and immediately found his head in the mouth of a shark. He escaped with “bite gashes around his left eye and neck” after clubbing the animal with a spear gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Steinhart Aquarium scientist John McCosker said that attacks were most likely to happen in what he called “The Red Triangle” — a patch of water 25 miles west of the islands where sharks\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpuTQzjfpB0\"> hunt sea lions and harbor seals\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1196px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13959244 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims.png\" alt=\"A man in 1960s-era swimming cap and goggles swims aggressively in the ocean.\" width=\"1196\" height=\"1070\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims.png 1196w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims-800x716.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims-1020x913.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims-160x143.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims-768x687.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It took Ted Erikson three attempts to swim from the Farallones to Marin. He finally succeeded in 1967. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Examiner/ Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The worst swimming on Earth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Ted Erikson took it upon himself to swim the English channel between France and the U.K., and then turn around and go right back again. The roundtrip took him 30 hours and three minutes and set a record. And yet, when it came to swimming the span from the Farallon Islands to Marin, he struggled, succeeding only on his third attempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first jaunt from the Farallons was an outright failure. His second in 1966 ended 17 hours in, with him being pulled from the water in the middle of the night, almost unconscious and “swimming in all directions.” A multitude of swimmers before him — including a 15-year-old girl named Myra Thompson — had suffered similar endings on their masochistic swim journeys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bizarrely, before his third swim, Erikson had contacted “various marine life keepers” and asked them to donate a dolphin to swim alongside him. According to the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em>, he believed this would “discourage the sharks.” In the end, he was forced to make the journey sans dolphin. Sharks were discouraged the good old-fashioned way — gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erikson, a 38-year-old research chemist from Chicago, finally completed his journey on Sept. 17, 1967, boosted by mild weather and “relatively warm water.” After successfully finishing his 14-hour, 38-minute swim, Erikson — like an absolute maniac — referred to his victory as “a lark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a half-century later, it’s clear very little about the Farallons should be described in such a way.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Farallon Islands have always had proverbial dark clouds hanging over them. The rocky outcrops 28 miles west of San Francisco have long held ominous nicknames, including “Islands of the Dead” and “the Devil’s Teeth.” Take even a passing glimpse at the islands’ history and both of those titles feel perfectly justified — and not just because of the more than \u003ca href=\"https://farallones.noaa.gov/heritage/shipwrecks.html\">400 shipwrecks\u003c/a> they’ve caused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the Farallons are only accessible to birds, animals and biologists. This is undoubtedly a good thing — any time humans get close to the islands, terrible things seem to occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some examples of note:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959242\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959242\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A large rabbit with thin legs and very large ears faces forward. It has very wide eyes.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1672\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-1020x666.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-768x502.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-1536x1003.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-2048x1338.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-1303665858-1920x1254.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russians brought rabbits to the Farallon Islands in the early 1800s. \u003ccite>(Getty Images Plus/ Darren415)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Furious rabbits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A party of Russian seal hunters landed on South Farallon in the early 1800s, bringing with them a handful of rabbits. Nothing good came of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occupying stone houses they built along Fort Ross, the hunters went about systematically annihilating the local populations of fur seals, sea lions and sea otters for their pelts. Elephant seals were killed for their blubber. As the hunters were busy focusing on murdering the sea-life, their rabbits multiplied unimpeded and took shelter in a large, 20-foot-high cave on the southeast slope of Lighthouse Hill. The ragtag army of bunnies eventually overran the island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The rabbits of South Farallon] devoured what meager vegetation there once was,” one 1960 \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> article reported. “[They] ate dead fish, seaweed and each other … According to reports, they were the meanest, ugliest rabbits in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the settlers had destroyed the local animal communities to the point that hunting was no longer profitable, they abandoned the Farallons in 1840. The rabbits, however, stuck around. Several attempts were made to thin their numbers over the years, but the efforts came to naught. That is, until 1972, when biologists from Point Reyes Bird Observatory arrived to assess avian numbers and concluded that the rabbits, as an invasive species, were negatively impacting the bird population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists subsequently spent years killing off the rabbits. The population was eventually wiped out in 1975. Today, a similar mass slaughter is being considered for house mice thriving on the islands. Apparently, everyone who sets foot on the Farallons wants to immediately kill anything with fur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959240\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13959240 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/opensfhistory_wnp4_wnp4.1097.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white image showing men walking along a rocky island, each holding a large basket.\" width=\"750\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/opensfhistory_wnp4_wnp4.1097.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/opensfhistory_wnp4_wnp4.1097-160x135.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egg gatherers in the 1870s, spread out and keen to steal the offspring of every murre bird on the island. \u003ccite>(OpenSFHistory/ wnp4/wnp4.1097)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Egg wars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Turns out animals with feathers haven’t always fared well on the islands either. In the late 1840s and throughout the 1850s, the influx of gold-seekers to San Francisco caused a population boom that put a massive strain on local agriculture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1949, the food scarcity inspired a pharmacist named Doc Robinson to sail to the Farallons with his brother-in-law and raid the eggs of the murre birds that nested on the islands. After their first egg haul netted them $3,000 (about $122,000 in 2024 money), crews of other egg hunters quickly followed suit. In the four decades that followed, approximately 14 million murre eggs were stolen and sent to San Francisco, and rival crews of poachers went to war with each other. Guns and even canons were fired as the egg thieves fought. Several were shot and killed. Tensions were so high that even the local lighthouse keepers were assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The egg wars continued until the end of the 19th century, and were ultimately brought to an end not by the authorities, but by the establishment of Petaluma as an egg farming hub. By then, the murre population had been decimated. Despite the Farallons’ current status as a bird sanctuary, murre numbers have never recovered. Their population remains only a quarter of its pre-Gold Rush size.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959243\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959243\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-615317046-scaled-e1717554138747.jpg\" alt=\"A war ship in unrecognizable, blackened ruins.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1496\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The USS Independence (CVL 22) on July 2, 1946 after it was hit with an atomic explosion, and before its radioactive scrap was buried in the Bay near the Farallons. \u003ccite>(CORBIS/ Corbis via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Nuclear waste\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1951, the Farallons were chosen as the final resting place for an aircraft carrier called USS Independence (CVL-22). At the time it was sunk with torpedos, the vessel was extremely radioactive, having been used in the now-infamous \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll\">1946 nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make matters even more toxic, between 1946 and 1970, at least 47,500 barrels of radioactive waste were ditched in a 540-square-mile area, starting just south of the Farallons. Those barrels were notoriously unstable and by 1990, investigators reported that many of them had broken open. A multitude more could not even be located. By then, the problem was well-established. In 1982, Governor Jerry Brown made a statement to the House Subcommittee on Oceanography to point out the dangers of dumping nuclear waste in the ocean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California,” he wrote, “we have learned from our experience with the Farallon Islands nuclear dumpsite that remedial action is virtually impossible when unforeseen problems arise. The specter of leaking barrels of plutonium now lurks on the ocean bottom less than 50 miles from the Golden Gate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13959338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-800x792.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-1020x1009.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-768x760.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-1536x1520.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-2048x2027.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/GettyImages-515553802-1-1920x1900.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 21-year-old man from Burlingame named John Rochette is wheeled away from a coast guard rescue helicopter after being attacked by “a huge shark” while diving near the Farallon Islands in 1963. Both his legs sustained very serious injuries. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/ Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Shark attacks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1990, a headline in the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em> declared: “Bay Area Becoming Shark Attack Capital.” The story followed a series of attacks in which humans had near misses with gigantic sharks — some reportedly 18 feet long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The attacks near the Farallons during that period were plentiful: Concord scuba diver LeRoy French was saved from serious injury when the attacking shark was scared off by his oxygen tank. Mark Tiserand from San Francisco wound up with teeth embedded in his leg that had to be removed by doctors. A paddle boarder named Rodney Orr was flipped off his board and immediately found his head in the mouth of a shark. He escaped with “bite gashes around his left eye and neck” after clubbing the animal with a spear gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, Steinhart Aquarium scientist John McCosker said that attacks were most likely to happen in what he called “The Red Triangle” — a patch of water 25 miles west of the islands where sharks\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpuTQzjfpB0\"> hunt sea lions and harbor seals\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13959244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1196px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13959244 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims.png\" alt=\"A man in 1960s-era swimming cap and goggles swims aggressively in the ocean.\" width=\"1196\" height=\"1070\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims.png 1196w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims-800x716.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims-1020x913.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims-160x143.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/Ted-swims-768x687.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">It took Ted Erikson three attempts to swim from the Farallones to Marin. He finally succeeded in 1967. \u003ccite>(San Francisco Examiner/ Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The worst swimming on Earth\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1965, Ted Erikson took it upon himself to swim the English channel between France and the U.K., and then turn around and go right back again. The roundtrip took him 30 hours and three minutes and set a record. And yet, when it came to swimming the span from the Farallon Islands to Marin, he struggled, succeeding only on his third attempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first jaunt from the Farallons was an outright failure. His second in 1966 ended 17 hours in, with him being pulled from the water in the middle of the night, almost unconscious and “swimming in all directions.” A multitude of swimmers before him — including a 15-year-old girl named Myra Thompson — had suffered similar endings on their masochistic swim journeys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bizarrely, before his third swim, Erikson had contacted “various marine life keepers” and asked them to donate a dolphin to swim alongside him. According to the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em>, he believed this would “discourage the sharks.” In the end, he was forced to make the journey sans dolphin. Sharks were discouraged the good old-fashioned way — gunshots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erikson, a 38-year-old research chemist from Chicago, finally completed his journey on Sept. 17, 1967, boosted by mild weather and “relatively warm water.” After successfully finishing his 14-hour, 38-minute swim, Erikson — like an absolute maniac — referred to his victory as “a lark.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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A monkey sits on a wall and admires the view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to \u003ca href=\"https://9-eyes.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">9-Eyes\u003c/a>, a blog by artist \u003ca href=\"https://jonrafman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jon Rafman\u003c/a> that collects screenshots from Google Street View and presents them without context or analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881006 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881008 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881005 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because these shots are captured by equipment that doesn’t look like a traditional camera or camcorder (the multi-lens devices are most often mounted to the roofs of cars), the people caught on the other side of the lens remain, for the most part, entirely unselfconscious and uninterrupted. The resulting images provide an unfiltered view of humanity that is as perplexing and disturbing as it is captivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881088 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881089 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881087 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this collection can’t help but appeal to the inner voyeur in all of us, 9-Eyes also shines a starker light on the privacy issues associated with Google Maps’ Street View feature. Men are caught urinating, sex workers are immortalized in various states of undress and young children are often completely alone, or getting up to no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Google does blur out faces and license plates (and even does additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/streetview/policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blurring by request\u003c/a>), you can’t help but wonder how many people know their likeness has been captured in this way. 9-Eyes effectively demonstrates the enormous gulf in behavior between those unaware of the cameras, and those who recognize the strange contraption filming them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881094 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881095 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13881093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://jonrafman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafman\u003c/a>’s other work, the artist explores spatial realities in the post-internet world. 9-Eyes began as a Tumblr back in 2008—the year after Google Maps launched Street View. In 2016, New Documents published \u003ca href=\"https://new-documents.org/books/jon-rafman-nine-eyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a collection\u003c/a> of the site’s images, contextualizing them within the history of photography and surveillance. These days, Rafman’s site undergoes only sporadic updates, the most recent of which started in March and stopped a couple of weeks ago. But for those unfamiliar with the archive, 9-Eyes’ back catalog can provide hours of vicarious, enthralling experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafman frequently uses digital technology to illustrate how modern tools alienate humanity from itself. Fittingly, the rare moments of calm and beauty on 9-Eyes are almost always devoid of people. Rural locations act as a relief from the concrete chaos that dominates much of the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once human beings are removed from the picture, a sense of peace emerges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881092 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881098 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13881099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://impakt.nl/events/screening/co-opting-entities/disasters-under-the-sun/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafman said\u003c/a> of his work: “What concerns me is the general sense of entrapment and isolation felt by many as social and political life becomes increasingly abstracted and experience dematerialized.” In the age of COVID-19, as people around the world have become more isolated and more reliant on technology, Rafman’s concepts have taken on additional depth and power.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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