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Not in this land !
Not in this land !
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Challenge: Soft Focus II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Pentax Optio 550
Date: Aug 21, 2006
Date Uploaded: Aug 21, 2006

Another day, I was walking in the northern Tehran, the capital of Iran. I saw that small poster on a lamp post which was not belong to Iranian's territory or her history.

The image on the poster was belong to Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah - or Party of God - has re-positioned the Shia organization as a major player in Lebanese politics.

Hassan Nasrallah was born in 1960 in southern Beirut, one of nine children of a poor grocer. After Lebanon erupted into civil war in 1975, his family fled the city to its ancestral village in the south of the country.

As a teenager, he studied both politics and the Koran, spending three years at the Shia seminary in Najaf in Iraq, where he met Sayyad Abbas Musawi, his predecessor as leader of Hezbollah.

In 1978, Sheikh Nasrallah was expelled from Iraq and became heavily involved in Lebanese politics, first as a member of the Shia Amal militia, then as the Amal political representative for the Bekaa region.

But Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon transformed the situation. Nasrallah and many of his colleagues broke away from Amal, which was being pressured to join a National Salvation Front, which had established relations with Israel.

After Musawi was assassinated by the Israelis in 1992, Sheikh Nasrallah, aged just 32, was elected his successor.

Sheikh Nasrallah, his wife and their three children, are said to live simply in a poor area of south Beirut. His eldest son, Hadi, became a fighter with Hezbollah, and was killed in 1997 during a fire-fight with Israeli troops in southern Lebanon.

The above article was searched thru Yahoo, and Google search engine and found few other related links to that subject:

//www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/07/24/isrlpa13798.htm

//www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=11762

//www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/23/perry.tyre/index.html

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08/25/2006 07:12:46 PM
IMHO this image doesnt seem to have a 'soft focus', it looks pretty sharp all over to me
08/23/2006 07:03:24 PM
I don't see the soft focus. This seems more like a snapshot.
08/23/2006 05:44:55 PM
There is no soft focus here. Soft focus has a misty character with the edges softened and bright areas turned like fog. It results of light difusion before the lens.
08/23/2006 02:06:48 PM
this shot is too blurry...could be sharper...Just Kidding!!

Good coloring and depth. Not too sure what the actual subject is.
08/23/2006 08:36:41 AM
I don't know where this is, and I'm not sure exactly what the title means, but I really don't like the "Down with Isreal" sign.
08/23/2006 05:01:47 AM
where is the soft focus?


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