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Sunday, October 6, 2013

Interesting photographs

Subject: Interesting Photographs Taken Throughout History

An eclectic collection, to say the least.

An eclectic collection, to say the least. And you must realize the professional photographers were carrying a 4x5 speed graphic camera and probably 25 - 4x5 plate holders that held only 2 - 4x5 sheets of film. Here is a photograph that young photographers have only seen in a photographic museum like the Eastman House in Rochester, NY. Yes we old timers photographed a wedding carrying this 8 pound behemough of a camera and used 4x5 graphomatic packs that held 6 sheets of 4x5 film. A big wedding was photographed with 18 graphomatics holding 100 sheets of film. Yes you needed an assistant just to carry your film. And just maybe he would have to unload and reload a # of packs with fresh film in a black changing bag so you could finish your wedding. Now, you tell me, is that Nikon that heavy?

Testing football helmets in 1912

WOW, this is sure an elaborate scientific evaluation for testing this players brain waves for concussions.

The Titanic in dry dock 1912

Carl Akeley posed with the leopard he killed with his bare hands after it attacked him, 1896

The smallest shop in London – a shoe salesman with a 1.2 square meter shoe store, 1900

A beggar running alongside King George V’s coach. England, c. 1920

Allied soldiers mock Hitler atop his balcony at the Reich Chancellery, by Fred Ramage, 1945

13 June 1944: An English brewery donates a sizable amount of fresh beer
for the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method is created,
strapping kegs to the underwings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields.
Flying at 12 000 feet chills the brew to perfection

An aerial view of the WWI Loos-Hulluch trench system in France.
British trenches are situated on the left of the photo, and German trenches
on the right – in the middle of the two is no man’s land. July 22, 1917

A man trying to sell his car after losing all in the Great Crash of 1929

Wedding rings from WW II concentration camps.
Each pair of rings represents a family, a marriage, a couple. 1945

Leonard Siffleet, captured Australian commando who fought in WWII,
moments prior to being beheaded by a member of the Imperial Japanese Navy. 1943

Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic revolution by Ayatollah Khomeini. Iran, 1960

A shot from atop Pittsburgh’s Cathedral of Learning during game 7 of the 1960 World Series.
The Pirates defeated the Yankees with a walk off home run by Bill Mazeroski.
Photo was taken moments after the home run

The Muffin man in 1910 London

Animal Tamer Captain Jack Bonavita sitting down with some of his cats, ~1870s

1865: Hanging hooded bodies of the four Lincoln assassination conspirators

The morning after a long night awaiting a Viet Cong ambush that never came
40 miles East of Saigon, Vietnam, 1965

A man having his nose measured during Aryan race determination tests, 1940

Loggers in California with the felled giant ‘Mark Twain redwood’, 1892

The last Jew in Vinnitsa, 1941

US Government mockups of how Hitler could have disguised himself

NASA before Powerpoint

The end of WWII is celebrated in Moscow’s Red Square. May 9, 1945

Sunday, September 29, 2013

A new Photographic Exercise

What am I looking at? Just something that each of us should have had in our arsenal of experence for years. You have photographed these for years, but who would have known this process would look like this. AMAZING, AMAZING, AMAZING!!!

David Johnson is an amateur photographer from Ottawa, Canada. Earlier this month, Johnson attended the Sound of Light Fireworks show at Gatineau’s Leamy Lake and took a series of incredibly unique fireworks photos that look like nothing you’ve seen before.

Johnson described the technique he used after posting his series to Reddit:

“When I saw a firework shooting in the air, I’d press the shutter button and hold in Bulb mode so that the exposure was precisely as long as it needed to be. When the explosion started, I would quickly refocus back to the fireworks (from 2ft in front of me). The exposure would start out of focus and slowly sharpen into focused points, which explains the strange shapes.” [Source]

Johnson used a tripod and the following settings for these wonderful shots: 50mm 1.4 on 5D MKII; Aperture 2.8 with a 0.9 natural density filter; ISO 100.

Johnson has posted the entire gallery to Imgur. You can also check out his portfolio on his personal website: http://www.daveyjphoto.com/ where you can see a great range of photography. Keep up the awesome work David!

Photograph by David Johnson @ DaveyJphoto.com

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Photograph by David Johnson @ DaveyJphoto.com

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Photograph by David Johnson @ DaveyJphoto.com

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Photograph by David Johnson @ DaveyJphoto.com

Now I ask you, have you ever tried changing your focus during the exposure? What do you think, WAY COOL OR WHAT?

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Perfectly timed animal pictues

good morning, terryjdeglaucomcom.blog

I was just thinking, and that usually brings me trouble, do you know anything that was invented with patent and made the inventor no extra land fall of money. I do. Dave Strickler invented the banana split in 1904 in Latrobe, PA. He sold many through his drug store soda fountain for at least 75 years. It even quickly became a pleasant staple for St. Vincent students. Dave built a 2 story building to house his thriving drug store and soda fountain business, he even rented his second floor to a young Doctor for many years, he raised a family well for a small town pharmacist, but he never endowed a chair at a college, he did not build a wing on his church, his elonged glass dish is not sold as a collectable in novelty shops bearing his name. There is a national Banana Split day on August 25, check Mr. Google if questioning my facts. http://foodimentary.com/2013/08/25/national-banana-split-day/ BUT answer this question, did you know about it or celebrate it with flags, banners, and a parade? I don't think so. It has been known nationally for years, even Dairy Queen has it on their menu. BUT guess what? he did not make an extra dollar in bringing such A great pleasure to many ice cream hungry Americans.

Promise me you will, the next time you are enjoying a banana split, you will raise a spoon ladened with a straw berry, slice of banana, a dollop of vanilla ice cream smothered with chocolate syrup, and say thank you Dave, THANK YOU.

terry

Perfectly Timed Animal Photographs

I have been sent a collection of 36 images of animals that show their personalities at their best. Exciting, pretty, funny and all captured at the most perfect time. I have edited these 36 to 18 images that have substance worth viewing. I saw enough cats to dull my imagination on kats for a whole month. And I have to admit a collection of 36 images require a terrific soul pounding CD to maintain my enthusiasm at the 36th image with the intensity I had with the first. So I took my editorial license and eliminated 18 dull, yes very dull images because actually and factually--- it is my blog.

One publication published for the first time in 1888, has anually produced spell binding images that tear at your heart strings for the past 135 years. And that is the National Geographic. After you view this collection of severely edited pitchers I have added a few of NG professional animal images in special collections. You can immediately recognize a professional image produced by a world class photographer who is not limited with time restraints, weather or travel restrictions.

love the beautiful total green photograph. nice that the praying mantis is surrounded with black.

.Image Credit: Igor Siwanowicz

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We all love a great laugh.

Is his head realy twisting completely around?

wow, right place at the right time.

Image Credit: Imgur

is that a refrigerated herring?

Now I ask you, who added those contrails.?

hey, holding hands can have dire consequences.

Schmidli

a high five deserves a good laugh.

Image Credit: Anneke Rangelrooij

the third cat makes the picture.

a great bycycle picture.

Image Credit: Roeselien Raimond

did that elephant get in a bale of cotton?

Image Credit: Ian Rentoul

a little push goes a long way.

Image Credit:Unknown

imagination score one

Image Credit: A_Ninjamonkey on Flickr

one good laugh, deserves another!

Image Credit: Marac Kolodzinski

Image Credit: Ben Terode

Image Credit: Elena davidova

Image Credit: Brian Skerry

Image Credit: Unknown

Now a look at some National Geographic's collections made by nationally known photographers. Sorry the article only uses the National Geographic's copy right, no credit for their photographers. STRANGE.

The Art of Deception

Sometimes survival means lying, stealing, or vanishing in place

Three leaf-litter toads collected within yards of each other almost disappear on a forest floor in Panama. Staying alive in the tropics, where nearly everything is food for something else, often calls for such trickery to fool a predator's eye.

Rhinella margaritifera

Create a Diversion

A bird zeroing in on a flag-footed bug perched on a passionflower might see the flutter of red "flags"—the insect's attempt to divert the hunter's bite to nonessential limbs, away from its vital core.

Anisocelis flavolineata (insect); Passiflora sp. (flower)

A finger-length katydid disguised as lichen-coated bark barely registers in the dim understory of a Panama forest. But camouflage is more than just looks—the wearer must also act the part. This nocturnal insect holds stock-still during daylight hours to help conceal its contours.

Acanthodis curvidens

The headline for this next collection calls out "These are some of the most beautiful pictures ever taken by
National Geographic"

You can quickly see that the cropping, composition, lighting, selective focus, expose at the just right moment, rule of thirds, the awe factor, and I again repeat myself 'I wish I had made this image.'