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Cool Make A Picture images

A few nice make a picture images I found:


Lesbian lovers, making lesbian photos... :-)
make a picture
Image by Fran Simó
justpictures.es/photo/1800/lesbian-lovers-making-lesbian-...


How To Make Good Pictures
make a picture
Image by It'sGreg
"The beginner is very apt to be misled into estimating his exposure according to the visual rather than the actinic power of the light."

I knew there had to be a trick to it. Fucking actinic power of the light tricks me every time. But once I finish this book, I'm on my way. No more bad pictures for me, baby.

Nice Photo Art photos

Some cool photo art images:


Army Photography Contest - 2007 - FMWRC - Arts and Crafts - Ready to Rock
photo art
Image by familymwr
Army Photography Contest - 2007 - FMWRC - Arts and Crafts - Ready to Rock

Photo By: MSGT Dale Atkins

To learn more about the annual U.S. Army Photography Competition, visit us online at www.armymwr.com

U.S. Army Arts and Crafts History

After World War I the reductions to the Army left the United States with a small force. The War Department faced monumental challenges in preparing for World War II. One of those challenges was soldier morale. Recreational activities for off duty time would be important. The arts and crafts program informally evolved to augment the needs of the War Department.
On January 9, 1941, the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, appointed Frederick H. Osborn, a prominent U.S. businessman and philanthropist, Chairman of the War Department Committee on Education, Recreation and Community Service.
In 1940 and 1941, the United States involvement in World War II was more of sympathy and anticipation than of action. However, many different types of institutions were looking for ways to help the war effort. The Museum of Modern Art in New York was one of these institutions. In April, 1941, the Museum announced a poster competition, “Posters for National Defense.” The directors stated “The Museum feels that in a time of national emergency the artists of a country are as important an asset as men skilled in other fields, and that the nation’s first-rate talent should be utilized by the government for its official design work... Discussions have been held with officials of the Army and the Treasury who have expressed remarkable enthusiasm...”
In May 1941, the Museum exhibited “Britain at War”, a show selected by Sir Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery in London. The “Prize-Winning Defense Posters” were exhibited in July through September concurrently with “Britain at War.” The enormous overnight growth of the military force meant mobilization type construction at every camp. Construction was fast; facilities were not fancy; rather drab and depressing.
In 1941, the Fort Custer Army Illustrators, while on strenuous war games maneuvers in Tennessee, documented the exercise The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Feb. 1942), described their work. “Results were astonishingly good; they showed serious devotion ...to the purpose of depicting the Army scene with unvarnished realism and a remarkable ability to capture this scene from the soldier’s viewpoint. Civilian amateur and professional artists had been transformed into soldier-artists. Reality and straightforward documentation had supplanted (replaced) the old romantic glorification and false dramatization of war and the slick suavity (charm) of commercial drawing.”

“In August of last year, Fort Custer Army Illustrators held an exhibition, the first of its kind in the new Army, at the Camp Service Club. Soldiers who saw the exhibition, many of whom had never been inside an art gallery, enjoyed it thoroughly. Civilian visitors, too, came and admired. The work of the group showed them a new aspect of the Army; there were many phases of Army life they had never seen or heard of before. Newspapers made much of it and, most important, the Army approved. Army officials saw that it was not only authentic material, but that here was a source of enlivenment (vitalization) to the Army and a vivid medium for conveying the Army’s purposes and processes to civilians and soldiers.”
Brigadier General Frederick H. Osborn and War Department leaders were concerned because few soldiers were using the off duty recreation areas that were available. Army commanders recognized that efficiency is directly correlated with morale, and that morale is largely determined from the manner in which an individual spends his own free time. Army morale enhancement through positive off duty recreation programs is critical in combat staging areas.
To encourage soldier use of programs, the facilities drab and uninviting environment had to be improved. A program utilizing talented artists and craftsmen to decorate day rooms, mess halls, recreation halls and other places of general assembly was established by the Facilities Section of Special Services. The purpose was to provide an environment that would reflect the military tradition, accomplishments and the high standard of army life. The fact that this work was to be done by the men themselves had the added benefit of contributing to the esprit de corps (teamwork, or group spirit) of the unit.
The plan was first tested in October of 1941, at Camp Davis, North Carolina. A studio workshop was set up and a group of soldier artists were placed on special duty to design and decorate the facilities. Additionally, evening recreation art classes were scheduled three times a week. A second test was established at Fort Belvoir, Virginia a month later. The success of these programs lead to more installations requesting the program.
After Pearl Harbor was bombed, the Museum of Modern Art appointed Mr. James Soby, to the position of Director of the Armed Service Program on January 15, 1942. The subsequent program became a combination of occupational therapy, exhibitions and morale-sustaining activities.
Through the efforts of Mr. Soby, the museum program included; a display of Fort Custer Army Illustrators work from February through April 5, 1942. The museum also included the work of soldier-photographers in this exhibit. On May 6, 1942, Mr. Soby opened an art sale of works donated by museum members. The sale was to raise funds for the Soldier Art Program of Special Services Division. The bulk of these proceeds were to be used to provide facilities and materials for soldier artists in Army camps throughout the country.
Members of the Museum had responded with paintings, sculptures, watercolors, gouaches, drawings, etchings and lithographs. Hundreds of works were received, including oils by Winslow Homer, Orozco, John Kane, Speicher, Eilshemius, de Chirico; watercolors by Burchfield and Dufy; drawings by Augustus John, Forain and Berman, and prints by Cezanne, Lautrec, Matisse and Bellows. The War Department plan using soldier-artists to decorate and improve buildings and grounds worked. Many artists who had been drafted into the Army volunteered to paint murals in waiting rooms and clubs, to decorate dayrooms, and to landscape grounds. For each artist at work there were a thousand troops who watched. These bystanders clamored to participate, and classes in drawing, painting, sculpture and photography were offered. Larger working space and more instructors were required to meet the growing demand. Civilian art instructors and local communities helped to meet this cultural need, by providing volunteer instruction and facilities.
Some proceeds from the Modern Museum of Art sale were used to print 25,000 booklets called “Interior Design and Soldier Art.” The booklet showed examples of soldier-artist murals that decorated places of general assembly. It was a guide to organizing, planning and executing the soldier-artist program. The balance of the art sale proceeds were used to purchase the initial arts and crafts furnishings for 350 Army installations in the USA.
In November, 1942, General Somervell directed that a group of artists be selected and dispatched to active theaters to paint war scenes with the stipulation that soldier artists would not paint in lieu of military duties.
Aileen Osborn Webb, sister of Brigadier General Frederick H. Osborn, launched the American Crafts Council in 1943. She was an early champion of the Army program.
While soldiers were participating in fixed facilities in the USA, many troops were being shipped overseas to Europe and the Pacific (1942-1945). They had long periods of idleness and waiting in staging areas. At that time the wounded were lying in hospitals, both on land and in ships at sea. The War Department and Red Cross responded by purchasing kits of arts and crafts tools and supplies to distribute to “these restless personnel.” A variety of small “Handicraft Kits” were distributed free of charge. Leathercraft, celluloid etching, knotting and braiding, metal tooling, drawing and clay modeling are examples of the types of kits sent.
In January, 1944, the Interior Design Soldier Artist program was more appropriately named the “Arts and Crafts Section” of Special Services. The mission was “to fulfill the natural human desire to create, provide opportunities for self-expression, serve old skills and develop new ones, and assist the entire recreation program through construction work, publicity, and decoration.”
The National Army Art Contest was planned for the late fall of 1944. In June of 1945, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., for the first time in its history opened its facilities for the exhibition of the soldier art and photography submitted to this contest. The “Infantry Journal, Inc.” printed a small paperback booklet containing 215 photographs of pictures exhibited in the National Gallery of Art.
In August of 1944, the Museum of Modern Art, Armed Forces Program, organized an art center for veterans. Abby Rockefeller, in particular, had a strong interest in this project. Soldiers were invited to sketch, paint, or model under the guidance of skilled artists and craftsmen. Victor d’Amico, who was in charge of the Museum’s Education Department, was quoted in Russell Lynes book, Good Old Modern: An Intimate Portrait of the Museum of Modern Art. “I asked one fellow why he had taken up art and he said, Well, I just came back from destroying everything. I made up my mind that if I ever got out of the Army and out of the war I was never going to destroy another thing in my life, and I decided that art was the thing that I would do.” Another man said to d’Amico, “Art is like a good night’s sleep. You come away refreshed and at peace.”
In late October, 1944, an Arts and Crafts Branch of Special Services Division, Headquarters, European Theater of Operations was established. A versatile program of handcrafts flourished among the Army occupation troops.
The increased interest in crafts, rather than fine arts, at this time lead to a new name for the program: The “Handicrafts Branch.”
In 1945, the War Department published a new manual, “Soldier Handicrafts”, to help implement this new emphasis. The manual contained instructions for setting up crafts facilities, selecting as well as improvising tools and equipment, and basic information on a variety of arts and crafts.
As the Army moved from a combat to a peacetime role, the majority of crafts shops in the United States were equipped with woodworking power machinery for construction of furnishings and objects for personal living. Based on this new trend, in 1946 the program was again renamed, this time as “Manual Arts.”
At the same time, overseas programs were now employing local artists and craftsmen to operate the crafts facilities and instruct in a variety of arts and crafts. These highly skilled, indigenous instructors helped to stimulate the soldiers’ interest in the respective native cultures and artifacts. Thousands of troops overseas were encouraged to record their experiences on film. These photographs provided an invaluable means of communication between troops and their families back home.
When the war ended, the Navy had a firm of architects and draftsmen on contract to design ships. Since there was no longer a need for more ships, they were given a new assignment: To develop a series of instructional guides for arts and crafts. These were called “Hobby Manuals.” The Army was impressed with the quality of the Navy manuals and had them reprinted and adopted for use by Army troops. By 1948, the arts and crafts practiced throughout the Army were so varied and diverse that the program was renamed “Hobby Shops.” The first “Interservice Photography Contest” was held in 1948. Each service is eligible to send two years of their winning entries forward for the bi-annual interservice contest. In 1949, the first All Army Crafts Contest was also held. Once again, it was clear that the program title, “Hobby Shops” was misleading and overlapped into other forms of recreation.
In January, 1951, the program was designated as “The Army Crafts Program.” The program was recognized as an essential Army recreation activity along with sports, libraries, service clubs, soldier shows and soldier music. In the official statement of mission, professional leadership was emphasized to insure a balanced, progressive schedule of arts and crafts would be conducted in well-equipped, attractive facilities on all Army installations.
The program was now defined in terms of a “Basic Seven Program” which included: drawing and painting; ceramics and sculpture; metal work; leathercrafts; model building; photography and woodworking. These programs were to be conducted regularly in facilities known as the “multiple-type crafts shop.” For functional reasons, these facilities were divided into three separate technical areas for woodworking, photography and the arts and crafts.
During the Korean Conflict, the Army Crafts program utilized the personnel and shops in Japan to train soldiers to instruct crafts in Korea.
The mid-1950s saw more soldiers with cars and the need to repair their vehicles was recognized at Fort Carson, Colorado, by the craft director. Soldiers familiar with crafts shops knew that they had tools and so automotive crafts were established. By 1958, the Engineers published an Official Design Guide on Crafts Shops and Auto Crafts Shops. In 1959, the first All Army Art Contest was held. Once more, the Army Crafts Program responded to the needs of soldiers.
In the 1960’s, the war in Vietnam was a new challenge for the Army Crafts Program. The program had three levels of support; fixed facilities, mobile trailers designed as portable photo labs, and once again a “Kit Program.” The kit program originated at Headquarters, Department of Army, and it proved to be very popular with soldiers.
Tom Turner, today a well-known studio potter, was a soldier at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina in the 1960s. In the December 1990 / January 1991 “American Crafts” magazine, Turner, who had been a graduate student in art school when he was drafted, said the program was “a godsend.”
The Army Artist Program was re-initiated in cooperation with the Office of Military History to document the war in Vietnam. Soldier-artists were identified and teams were formed to draw and paint the events of this combat. Exhibitions of these soldier-artist works were produced and toured throughout the USA.
In 1970, the original name of the program, “Arts and Crafts”, was restored. In 1971, the “Arts and Crafts/Skills Development Program” was established for budget presentations and construction projects.
After the Vietnam demobilization, a new emphasis was placed on service to families and children of soldiers. To meet this new challenge in an environment of funding constraints the arts and crafts program began charging fees for classes. More part-time personnel were used to teach formal classes. Additionally, a need for more technical-vocational skills training for military personnel was met by close coordination with Army Education Programs. Army arts and crafts directors worked with soldiers during “Project Transition” to develop soldier skills for new careers in the public sector.
The main challenge in the 1980s and 90s was, and is, to become “self-sustaining.” Directors have been forced to find more ways to generate increased revenue to help defray the loss of appropriated funds and to cover the non-appropriated funds expenses of the program. Programs have added and increased emphasis on services such as, picture framing, gallery sales, engraving and trophy sales, etc... New programs such as multi-media computer graphics appeal to customers of the 1990’s.
The Gulf War presented the Army with some familiar challenges such as personnel off duty time in staging areas. Department of Army volunteer civilian recreation specialists were sent to Saudi Arabia in January, 1991, to organize recreation programs. Arts and crafts supplies were sent to the theater. An Army Humor Cartoon Contest was conducted for the soldiers in the Gulf, and arts and crafts programs were set up to meet soldier interests.
The increased operations tempo of the ‘90’s Army has once again placed emphasis on meeting the “recreation needs of deployed soldiers.” Arts and crafts activities and a variety of programs are assets commanders must have to meet the deployment challenges of these very different scenarios.
The Army arts and crafts program, no matter what it has been titled, has made some unique contributions for the military and our society in general. Army arts and crafts does not fit the narrow definition of drawing and painting or making ceramics, but the much larger sense of arts and crafts. It is painting and drawing. It also encompasses:
* all forms of design. (fabric, clothes, household appliances, dishes, vases, houses, automobiles, landscapes, computers, copy machines, desks, industrial machines, weapon systems, air crafts, roads, etc...)
* applied technology (photography, graphics, woodworking, sculpture, metal smithing, weaving and textiles, sewing, advertising, enameling, stained glass, pottery, charts, graphs, visual aides and even formats for correspondence...)
* a way of making learning fun, practical and meaningful (through the process of designing and making an object the creator must decide which materials and techniques to use, thereby engaging in creative problem solving and discovery) skills taught have military applications.
* a way to acquire quality items and save money by doing-it-yourself (making furniture, gifts, repairing things ...).
* a way to pursue college credit, through on post classes.
* a universal and non-verbal language (a picture is worth a thousand words).
* food for the human psyche, an element of morale that allows for individual expression (freedom).
* the celebration of human spirit and excellence (our highest form of public recognition is through a dedicated monument).
* physical and mental therapy (motor skill development, stress reduction, etc...).
* an activity that promotes self-reliance and self-esteem.
* the record of mankind, and in this case, of the Army.
What would the world be like today if this generally unknown program had not existed? To quantitatively state the overall impact of this program on the world is impossible. Millions of soldier citizens have been directly and indirectly exposed to arts and crafts because this program existed. One activity, photography can provide a clue to its impact. Soldiers encouraged to take pictures, beginning with WW II, have shared those images with family and friends. Classes in “How to Use a Camera” to “How to Develop Film and Print Pictures” were instrumental in soldiers seeing the results of using quality equipment. A good camera and lens could make a big difference in the quality of the print. They bought the top of the line equipment. When they were discharged from the Army or home on leave this new equipment was showed to the family and friends. Without this encouragement and exposure to photography many would not have recorded their personal experiences or known the difference quality equipment could make. Families and friends would not have had the opportunity to “see” the environment their soldier was living in without these photos. Germany, Italy, Korea, Japan, Panama, etc... were far away places that most had not visited.
As the twenty first century approaches, the predictions for an arts renaissance by Megatrends 2000 seem realistic based on the Army Arts and Crafts Program practical experience. In the April ‘95 issue of “American Demographics” magazine, an article titled “Generation X” fully supports that this is indeed the case today. Television and computers have greatly contributed to “Generation X” being more interested in the visual arts and crafts.
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Denver Art Museum
photo art
Image by Jim Nix / Nomadic Pursuits
While on my photowalk in Denver one morning, I came across the Denver Art Museum. I like art museums and they are usually fairly interesting. This one was awesome - well, at least the outside. It wasn't open at 6am and I was hunting for photo opps anyways. It has this great design and is very modern, which I like quite a bit. Sometime if I make it back up there I'll have to check out the exhibits. By the way, the blue hour up in Denver seemed to last forever. At home in Austin, I get 15 minutes or so but in Denver it really felt like about an hour. I find that curious - any ideas why?

From the blog at: www.nomadicpursuits.com/blog/

Follow me: twitter.com/jimnixaustin

My House is for Sale

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My House is for Sale
photo for sale
Image by nate steiner
My 3 bedroom 2 bath home at 3878 Samaria Court, Tucker GA is up for sale now.

Please contact me or my realtor if you're interested, or know someone who might be. This home is in the Atlanta Georgia area with convenient access to 85, 285, and 78. Ten minutes from downtown Decatur.

See the complete set of photos here, and a larger slideshow version on a little website I put together here: http://3878samaria.com.

2011 NEC Classic Car Show DSC_2174

Check out these photo show images:


2011 NEC Classic Car Show DSC_2174
photo show
Image by tonylanciabeta
2011 NEC Classic Car Show


2011 NEC Classic Car Show DSC_2098
photo show
Image by tonylanciabeta
2011 NEC Classic Car Show

framed picture

Some cool picture frames images:


framed picture
picture frames
Image by Keith M Avery
This is a hand painted photograph (the faces are painted a pale pink, the rest is left alone) set in a rococo inner frame, in a shadowbox, with a velvet lined outer frame, all made by Lazarus Department store (except the photo) more than 60 years ago.


Framed picture of a picture frame.
picture frames
Image by Jim B L
Testing out the Vignette app on the Droid Incredible. I love the app, but the Demo version cripples the app to only take 0.3 megapixel photos.

DRAGON_20130528-15

A few nice dragon image images I found:


DRAGON_20130528-15
dragon image
Image by Apojove
Here are just a few of the many pages of engineering paper that I used to work out various concepts for the construction of the Dragon Spacecraft model. There was also a lot of trial and error. Some of these designs were used for the final model and many more were not.

See the entire Dragon image set here.

Learn more about the Dragon Spacecraft at the SpaceX website.

Nice Free Photo Software photos

Some cool free photo software images:


DEMOfocus on Cloud Technologies, Fall 2011
free photo software
Image by The DEMO Conference
The Launchpad for Emerging Technology.

DEMO Fall 2011 is taking place at the Hyatt in Silicon Valley, CA. Companies both large and small come to DEMO to launch their products to the Technology world. DEMO offers the access, interaction, and validation of the new emerging technologies.

For more information:
DEMO Fall 2010 Website

Follow DEMO on twitter @demo

Social Media presented by New Media Synergy

Photos by Stephen Brashear

Cool Photo Editor Free images

A few nice photo editor free images I found:



ezimba-web- Blends RIP
photo editor free
Image by krossbow
ezimba is a web site that can apply different imaging effects.
www.ezimba.com/index.html

I used one picture for all the effects just for consistency for comparison. The title for each photo consists of the category of the effect and the name of the effect. Some effects would be better used on a different image. There are some effects also that appear to do the same thing in different effect categories.

Ezimba also has a Facebook app, Google Android app, and a free iPhone app. Please note that the free iPhone app puts a small logo on the edited image. You can buy the paid ezimba app and not have the logo.



This picture has been used on the following blog(s):
www.html5sample.com/things-to-keep-in-mind-when-choosing-...

Nice Image Galleries photos

Some cool image galleries images:


Chamber of Commerce setup shoot. Epic Photo Gallery Attendees Epic Photo Gallery Exhibit and Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting for Light Photographic Workshops in Los Osos, CA 30 March 2011
image galleries
Image by mikebaird
Chamber of Commerce setup shoot . Epic Photo Gallery Attendees
Epic Photo Gallery Exhibit and Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting for Light Photographic Workshops in Los Osos, CA 30 March 2011. The call said
“Epic Light Gallery Opening Reception and Ribbon Cutting!. Come join us to celebrate the opening of the Epic Light Gallery at Light Workshops! We've just finished creating a store front gallery that will feature the work of local photographers and the crew at Light. We are very happy to welcome Bob Canepa from San Luis Obispo and Mike Baird from Morro Bay as our guest artists. [Also exhibiting were Light’s Hal and Victoria Schmitt and Becky Sloat].
There will be plenty of snacks, good local wine and great photography! We hope you all can make it out to support local photography and celebrate our gallery opening with us!”
When: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 5:00 PM
Where: Light Workshops - 1060 Los Osos Valley Rd Los Osos CA
Photo © 2011 “Mike” Michael L. Baird, mike {at] mikebaird d o t com, flickr.bairdphotos.com. Shooting a tiny Canon Canon S90 handheld camera, shooting in RAW, flash.
To use this photo, see access, attribution, and commenting recommendations at www.flickr.com/people/mikebaird/#credit - Please add comments/notes/tags to add to or correct information, identification, tag people, etc. Please, no comments or invites with gaudy badges, unrelated images, flashing icons, multiple invites, or invites with award levels and/or award/post rules. Critique is always welcomed.

Image 04928.

A few nice best image images I found:


Image 04928.
best image
Image by Vlad & Marina Butsky
Place: USA/California/Deserts/Death Valley/The Racetrack
Image 04928. lizard


Image 04933.
best image
Image by Vlad & Marina Butsky
Place: USA/California/Deserts/Death Valley/The Racetrack
Image 04933.

Cool Image images

Some cool image images:


Stolen images 4
image
Image by Mister Kha

DSP 205: Photo Booth Fun 2007-12-08

Some cool photo booth images:


DSP 205: Photo Booth Fun 2007-12-08
photo booth
Image by vernhart
Look, I have a heart shaped third nostril.

I really love the mirror effect in Photo Booth. I have probably spent hours playing with it.

Nice Image Stock photos

A few nice image stock images I found:



Griffith Observatory
image stock
Image by Matthew Field
shot from the mountain to the North

a stitched image

4 shots handheld @ 300mm with 20D

Cool Photo Gallery images

A few nice photo gallery images I found:



YMCA -RonSombilonGallery IMG_1759
photo gallery
Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
Ron Sombilon Gallery & the YMCA will be providing complimentary family portrait photography at this years YMCA Healthy Kids Day!

When: Satuday May 29th, 10am to 3pm
Where: Langara- West 49th Ave604 324 9622

All food and activities FREE for everyone.
Highlights include:
Pony Rides
YMCA's Got Talent Competition
2Ball Challenge
Giant Inflatables
Kids Triathalon and Prizes.

View 2009 Family Portraits here
www.flickr.com/photos/23889619@N04/sets/72157620335840321/

www.RonSombilonGallery.com
www.VanYMCA.org

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About the YMCA

Last year, the YMCA of Greater Vancouver programs and services helped over 64,000 children, youth, men, women, families and older adults, from all faith traditions, cultural backgrounds and economic circumstances find opportunities for better health and brighter futures.

Gift Holder from Recycled Cardboard Tube ~ 2 of 3 photos

A few nice photo gifts images I found:


Gift Holder from Recycled Cardboard Tube ~ 2 of 3 photos
photo gifts
Image by Urban Woodswalker
Continued from last photo...

By carefully wrapping applying wrapping paper, folding the cardboard tubes, and experimenting with different closures, these little baskets/ hanging ornaments, tiny presents...will soon become future Holiday heirlooms. A perfect way to wrap jewelry, candy, small toys, etc. without having to purchase gift boxes.

See next photo:

Cool Photo Stock images

A few nice photo stock images I found:


Stock photo
photo stock
Image by Scott*


Stock Photo-Street light
photo stock
Image by jake92m

Cool Free Photo Software images

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pycon 2013
free photo software
Image by eschipul
PyCon 2013, Santa Clara Ca

Nice Picture photos

Some cool picture images:


DSC03042_2 - Scenic Pictures of Wyoming
picture
Image by bterrycompton
- Scenic Pictures of Wyoming


DSC03034_1 - Scenic Pictures of Wyoming
picture
Image by bterrycompton
- Scenic Pictures of Wyoming


DSC03062_1 - Scenic Pictures of Wyoming
picture
Image by bterrycompton
- Scenic Pictures of Wyoming

Cool Photo Background images

A few nice photo background images I found:


flamingo - desktop background wallpaper
photo background
Image by (matt)
hope you enjoy this series of desktop background wallpapers. these images are created for a 1.6:1 aspect ratio. the image resolution is 2560x1600, use a setting such as center or fit if you are using a different resolution.

Cool Hp Photo images

A few nice hp photo images I found:


HP Remote Client Solutions 2009 Launch Event Photos
hp photo
Image by HP PSG APJ

Light versus Dark

A few nice photo lighting images I found:


Light versus Dark
photo lighting
Image by Arif Akhtar (AAPhoto)
Model: Kelly Ann Horn
Photographer: Me




This was taken in an old Victorian building using only natural light. The sun was streaming into the room through the window - due to the way the window was recessed it created a sharp rectangular area of light with shadow at the sides and on the floor. Kelly was wearing a 1930s vintage dress and I loved the contrasts created by having her stand in front of the window.




Image info: Nikon D800, Sigma 24-70mm/2.8 lens, Natural Backlighting. Edited in Adobe Photoshop CS6 and Nik Silver Effex Pro 2.


A Shadow Of A Light...
photo lighting
Image by Glyn Lowe Photoworks
Light Fitting on the Mayflower Hotel, Washington DC.

It is the largest luxury hotel in the U.S. capital and the longest continuously operating hotel in the Washington D.C. area, and a rival of the nearby Willard InterContinental and Hay-Adams Hotels. The Mayflower is known as Washington, D.C.’s “Second Best Address” (second to the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.), a reference attributed to President Harry Truman during his stay at the hotel during White House renovations.

More At:
www.glynlowe.com/

Nice Image Galleries photos

A few nice image galleries images I found:



Gallery ~ Hip! Hip! Hooray!
image galleries
Image by e r j k p r u n c z y k
Original photo artist unknown. This image is in the public domain.


Gallery ~ Nathan Stromberg
image galleries
Image by e r j k p r u n c z y k
"1951 Buick Roadmaster" by contemporary American artist Nathan Stromberg. Using vintage newspapers, this accomplished St. Paul, Minnesota artist creates collages by hand. I think his depictions are fascinating. This image has been posted here with permission from the artist. Thanks, Nate! Contact information for Nathan Stromberg is available online. Visit blogspot "Nate Stromberg's Blob" or nathanstromberg.com.

Cool Photo Software images

A few nice photo software images I found:


Joel Shaw at SDC Meeting
photo software
Image by Michael Kappel
Microsoft Store Software Development Community Meeting


www.meetup.com/softdev/


store.microsoft.com/StoreLocations/Home.aspx/Index/Oak-Br...


Picture available on my photo website
Pictures.MichaelKappel.com


Joel Shaw
photo software
Image by Michael Kappel
Microsoft Store Software Development Community Meeting



www.meetup.com/softdev/

store.microsoft.com/StoreLocations/Home.aspx/Index/Oak-Br...


Picture available on my photo website
Pictures.MichaelKappel.com


Joel Shaw at Microsoft Store
photo software
Image by Michael Kappel
Microsoft Store Software Development Community Meeting


www.meetup.com/softdev/


store.microsoft.com/StoreLocations/Home.aspx/Index/Oak-Br...


Picture available on my photo website
Pictures.MichaelKappel.com

Cool York Photo images

Some cool york photo images:


New York City NY ~ Wanamaker Deparment Store ~ Vintage
york photo
Image by Onasill
Wanamaker's department store was the first department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the first department stores in the United States. At its zenith in the early 20th century, there were two major Wanamaker department stores, one in Philadelphia and one in New York City at Broadway and Tenth Street. Both employed extremely large staff
District NRHP


New York Christmas 2009
york photo
Image by Loco Steve
Radio City New York Christmas 2009

Nice Photo Magazine photos

Check out these photo magazine images:


Individualism and Collectivism in Magazine Photos
photo magazine
Image by timtak
Don't get me wrong. I don't think that "collectivism" does not exist as an "ism" in Japan or that individualism is not prevalent as an "ism" in the USA. Nothing could be further from the truth. The name of Japan is sometimes "Wa" or "harmony," the Japanese call themselves "The Harmonious." And Westerners are always calling themselves individualists. Jeremy Paxman, possibly the most famous British television jouralist described the London Olympics opening ceremony in the following way:

"Whatever nit-picking worries anyone has about the Opening Ceremony (for me, it was the almost total absence of the golden thread of British history, the fight for personal liberty), it set a tone that was amplified throughout the games. Could a nation of cussed individualists ever bring off an opening show to rival the spectacular we saw in Beijing?" (Paxman, 2012)

There can be no doubt that at the level of linguistic philosophy, the Japanese espouse harmony and cooperation, whereas Westerners espouse personal liberty and individualism.

How about in the real world? I find the Japanese to as individual as the English. However, the excellent review paper by Beth Morling (Morling & Lamoreaux, 2008), "Culture outside the head," reaches the opposite conclusion. The first paper reviewed paper I could download, claimed that since Japnaese adverts used more imagery and were less likely to mention the product directly, they were therefore colectivistic; trying to build up a relationship with the purchaser (Javalgi, Cutler, & Malhotra, 1995). I thought that this analysis was unfair. Readers of this blog (?!) would know that it is my opinion that Japanese use imagery because they identify with images and have a God (or generalised other) that looks rather than listens.

While clicking around on analysises of print media, however, I cam up with a result that made me pleased. Wang (2006) noted that Taiwanese magazines are Westernised and that collectivist messages (table page 73) and Individualist messages (table page 68) are aboult equal at the linguistic level in adverts in Taiwanese and American magazines. Morling's research (Morling & Lamoreaux, 2008), and my observations above, make it clear that this is an unusual result.

However, Wang also noted that when it comes to photographs, Taiwanese magazines are more likely to show individuals (Taiwan 73.1%, US 59%) and correspondingly far less likely to show groups (Taiwa 26.9%, US 41%). This is not unusual. This result mirrors that found in my research on autophotography. Japanese autophotography displays not only more positivity, but more pictures of self, whereas American photos show more pictures of other people. Having a look at some Japanese and American fashion magazines, it seems that the same pattern is repeated. American women want to be kissed and appear with men in US Cosmopolitan. Japanese women are more self-reliant and rarely show men in their magazines (or collages) because men are rather annoying (uzai).

Westerners are linguistically individualist since they consider themselves to be linguistic entities (narratives) and try to differentiate their narratives from those of others (largely unsuccessfully). Japanese see themselves as their self-images, first and foremost their face (Watsui), and as seperate embodied existances they yearn for communitas and harmony which they express in their "let's make friends" philosophy of harmony (Yamagishi, 2002).

In any event, I do feel that at a personal level the Japanese are extremely self~possessed, self-reliant and difficult to push around. Anyone married to a Japanese woman should know that, but despite the fact that some famous cultural psychologists are. I guess that they presume that they have married an unusual Japanese. (You know who I am thinking of! Fat chance that he reads my blog).

Bibliography
Javalgi, R. G., Cutler, B. D., & Malhotra, N. K. (1995). Print advertising at the component level: A cross-cultural comparison of the United States and Japan. Journal of Business Research, 34(2), 117–124. Retrieved from www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/014829639400116V
Morling, B., & Lamoreaux, M. (2008). Measuring culture outside the head: A meta-analysis of individualism—collectivism in cultural products. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 12(3), 199–221.
Paxman, J. (2012, August 12). London 2012 Olympics: Who thinks Britain is rubbish now? Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved from www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/9469017/London-2012-Ol...
Wang, I. C. (2006). I‘ or’ WE"? A comparative analysis of individualism in Taiwanese and US print advertisements. Retrieved from etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0...
山岸俊男. (2002). 心でっかちな日本人―集団主義文化という幻想. 日本経済新聞社.


Jack Kerouac Manuscript Photo in San Francisco Magazine
photo magazine
Image by Thomas Hawk
San Francisco Magazine published my forbidden photograph of the Jack Kerouac "On the Road" manuscript. This is a scan of the March issue which shows my photo running across two pages with a byline on the far left. I was paid 0 for the photograph which was a taken largely in protest of
the San Francisco Public Library's no photography policy for the manuscript's exhibit.

The editor of the magazine found the photo when going through my Flickr stream.

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Nice Free Photo Downloads photos

A few nice free photo downloads images I found:



AUTOPARK - AUTOPAKAO COVER
free photo downloads
Image by Exit Festival
FREE DOWNLOAD:
www.exitmusic.rs/sr/label/autopark?a=autopakao

Album sastava Autopark, „Autopakao", izdat u februaru ove godine za kuću „Odličan hrčak", kao i za britanski „Parobrod", biće sutra izdat i na EXIT etiketi i dostupan za besplatno preuzimanje na ovom linku www.exitmusic.rs/sr/label/autopark?a=autopakao. Ovo je četvrti po redu album beogradskog benda koji svoj zvuk definiše kao spoj gitarske buke i pop melodije, otrovan uticajima američkih i engleskih bendova sa kraja osamdesetih i početka devedesetih godina prošlog veka.

Photo by Nemanja Djordjevic (balkanrock.com)

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A few nice digital picture frames images I found:


IMG_6973_m.jpg
digital picture frames
Image by Malabooboo

Nice Photo Share photos

Some cool photo share images:



Samir Allioui (Pirate Party) @DOB
photo share
Image by SHAREconference
www.shareconference.net


Minitel Rose Live @Plastic
photo share
Image by SHAREconference
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