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About
Visited
Planet is an online travel image database with photos of general travel
locations and culture but
also natural disasters, developmental projects and documentary
images of the third world. Visited Planet has been designed with an intention to aid impoverished people around the
world. A percentage of image sales is donated to them. Read more...
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Current News
* New gallery of images from
Indonesia: Mt Merapi
aftermath |
North Jakarta slum project |
Maluku Islands (more will be added in coming weeks)
* Griffith University's School of Human Services and Social Work has a
permanent exhibition
of Visited Planet prints.
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Images in Focus
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Indonesia contains the most volcanoes of any country in the
world. Despite the wealth these bring in terms of fertile soil for
agriculture their activity brings much destruction as well. Mt Merapi is
the most active of the volcanoes and last year it erupted in October
killing more than 300 people and displacing 320,000. |
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The smoking culprit - Mt Merapi. Smoke is seen from the volcano
300 days a year. It erupts frequently the most recent being 1996, 2004 and
2010.
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Homes still buried in the volcanic rubble in May 2011.
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Many of the people displaced by the volcano included children.
These kids, now attending a mosque school, had been able to return to their
village a few months after the disaster once water sources were restored. |
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Photo Tips
1. Learn your camera functions and modes - the camera is designed to help you
so try to discover what it can actually do for you!
2. Take care with your gear. Things easily get chipped, damaged and broken
by throwing down your bag or not being as careful as you can with it.
3. Always position yourself as close as possible to the action - don't be
afraid to get close.
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* Indonesia (Mt Merapi | Maluku Islands)
* Orphanage, Myanmar
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Recent blog posts
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North Jakarta slums
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Mother's Day in pictures
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How to help Burma's displaced people
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The street dentists of Jaipur
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A mad melon weekend in Chinchilla
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The Brisbane flood - a photographic glimpse in 40 shots
Read more here...
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All
photographs on this site come from the growing personal collection of photographs taken by
Joanne Lane of Brisbane, Australia. The
database
currently holds approximately 7500 images covering locations in Africa, Europe,
Asia and the South Pacific.
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Enjoy your wanderings through the site and our Visited Planet.
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