Afghanistan Photographic Images Now Available to Collectors and Government, NGO, and Commercial Organizations.Photo Gallery of Current Scenes from the Deserts, Towns and Cities Include Portraits, Shrines, Landscapes, Stores, Houses, and Commerce from Ancient Herat and Kabul FRONT ROYAL, Va. -- Jay Buckner, principal of Buckner Creative, a consulting business providing strategic and creative marketing services to government organizations and technology companies, is making available a library of current photographic images depicting the life, land, and people of Afghanistan. The collection is available on the Web at: www.bucknercreative.com. From August through November 2007, Buckner captured images of the life and landscape surrounding him, from treeless, war-torn Kabul to beautiful Heart, which is now in the process of rebuilding after decades of occupation by Russian and Taliban forces. The warmth, traditional hospitality, and unique resilience resilience (r  ·zilˑ·yens),n of the vibrant Afghan people are portrayed in images from the streets, shops, shrines and incredibly beautiful, stark land, where almost all of the water is hidden in the ground waiting to be tapped and brought to the surface. The collection includes digital photos of shops, children, glassblowers, mosaic facades, and minarets, citadels and monuments as well as desert, village, and city scenes. The digital thumbnail A miniature representation of a page or image that is used to identify a file by its contents. Clicking the thumbnail opens the file. Thumbnails are an option in file managers, such as Windows Explorer, and they are found in photo editing and graphics program to quickly browse multiple images are available in high resolution, suitable to be enlarged for framing, and for use by private individuals as well as for pictorial accompaniments appropriate for insertion into articles, reports, literature, brochures, and advertising. The archive is targeted towards government agencies and commercial business working on projects in Afghanistan, in addition to subcontractor One who takes a portion of a contract from the principal contractor or from another subcontractor. When an individual or a company is involved in a large-scale project, a contractor is often hired to see that the work is done. organizations, NGOs, private collectors, etc. Until 2003, Jay Buckner held senior marketing positions for a number of the major technology companies in Silicon Valley, including Acer Acer trees of the family Aceraceae. Acer rubrum ingestion of wilted or dries leaves of this tree causes acute hemolytic anemia characterized by red urine, jaundice, anemia and methemoglobinemia in horses. and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. . He relocated to the east to be closer to family and to take advantage of the quality of life found in the Blue Ridge Mountains Blue Ridge also Blue Ridge Mountains A range of the Appalachian Mountains extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia. It rises to 2,038.6 m (6,684 ft) at Mount Mitchell in the Black Mountains of western North Carolina. of Virginia. Buckner is a Ranger in Shenandoah National Park Shenandoah National Park, 198,081 acres (80,195 hectares), N Va., extending 80 mi (129 km) along the crest of the Blue Ridge. Authorized in 1926, it was fully established as a national park in 1935. for six months of the year. The other six months he takes on select marketing assignments for technology firms in the D.C. area. For more information on the Afghanistan Photo Gallery, contact Jay Buckner at info@bucknercreative.com. |
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