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Beauty and Bicycles ... (backdoor upload)
upload photo
Image by *Lie ... on / off ... !
backdoor upload

photo added in a comment here :


www.flickr.com/photos/8458761@N08/5805293404/in/photostream

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Cool Photo Edit images

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H E R O
photo edit
Image by DeeAshley
One of the great many firefighter photos I have, unedited on Flickr. I like to pull and edit them occasionally... :)

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The Bhoys
image uploader
Image by 1888
EPSON scanner image

Cool Photo Websites images

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Smoke Bush (1 of 1). By Thomas Tolkien
photo websites
Image by Thomas Tolkien
Royal Purple Cotinus
Website | Facebook Fan Page | Twitter

Explored Apr 30, 2011 #134


Woodland Dream - Symonds Yat, Wye Walley. By Thomas Tolkien
photo websites
Image by Thomas Tolkien
Like something out of Middle Earth.
Website | Facebook Fan Page | Twitter

Quebec Curving Smoke

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Quebec Curving Smoke
edit image
Image by sjrankin
Edited ISS036 image of wildfires and smoke plumes in Quebec. I like how the plumes curve with the prevailing winds over Canada.


Niojick versus logic
edit image
Image by onesecbeforethedub


Niojick versus logic in red tones
edit image
Image by onesecbeforethedub

Cool Print Photo images

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The Last Drive / screen printed poster / 006
print photo
Image by tind
details

screen printed poster for the Last Drive www.facebook.com/pages/The-Last-Drive/170018633037217

designed by Indyvisuals www.indyvisuals.net/
for Inner Ear www.inner-ear.gr/
printed by tind www.tind.gr

more photos from process www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150183346252700.32292...


The Last Drive / screen printed poster / 003
print photo
Image by tind
details

screen printed poster for the Last Drive www.facebook.com/pages/The-Last-Drive/170018633037217

designed by Indyvisuals www.indyvisuals.net/
for Inner Ear www.inner-ear.gr/
printed by tind www.tind.gr

more photos from process www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150183346252700.32292...


The Last Drive / screen printed poster / 005
print photo
Image by tind
details

screen printed poster for the Last Drive www.facebook.com/pages/The-Last-Drive/170018633037217

designed by Indyvisuals www.indyvisuals.net/
for Inner Ear www.inner-ear.gr/
printed by tind www.tind.gr

more photos from process www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150183346252700.32292...

FYI .. Elementary school teacher, 39, jailed for FORTY years for her affair with boy of 14 -- Coweta County, Georgia (17th February 2012) ...

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FYI .. Elementary school teacher, 39, jailed for FORTY years for her affair with boy of 14 -- Coweta County, Georgia (17th February 2012) ...
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Image by marsmet526
'We believe that children deserve to be protected. This woman groomed and enticed a young boy she knew from birth to engage in these sexual acts. I crafted the sentence to take these things into account'

Assistant DA Kevin McMurry

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...Affair revealed when victim's parents discovered explicit messages on his computer
...Assistant DA said they wanted to send a message out that this will not be tolerated

By PAUL THOMPSON and RACHEL QUIGLEY
Last updated at 5:25 PM on 17th February 2012

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102620/Elementary-schoo...

An elementary school teacher has been jailed for 40 years for having sex with a 14-year-old student.

Shannon Alicia Schmieder, 39, was told she will have to serve 20 years - by far the toughest sentence ever handed out by a U.S. court to an educator accused of underage sex.
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Shannon Alicia Schmieder was 38 when she was arrested for having an affair with a boy of 14. She has been sentenced to 40 years

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Legal experts said the jail term was the same for manslaughter and other serious crimes.

The 39-year-old knew the boy since he was born and was at one stage like a mother-figure to him, according to his family.

His mother said: 'She was a close family friend. We had gone to the same church together for 10 years.
Our children were friends. Our families were friends. We did everything together. It's impossible to describe how we felt to find out this was going on.'

The victim's parents noticed a change in the relationship between their then 13-year-old son and Schmieder, saying she was acting more like a friend than a parental figure.

It was when they opened the boys Facebook page they realized something was wrong.

The mother said: 'Never in a million years did I think I would find what I thought was evidence of inappropriate behavior between them. But there it was.'

The sentence was handed out after the mother of his young victim spoke of her 'heartache and betrayal' after discovering her son was involved with Schmieder.

In an emotional impact statement to the court, the mother spoke of the loss of innocence of her son and how she is struggling to come to terms with what happened to him.

The mother said: 'As a mother of five boys, there are some things I've thought I would never have to worry about. April of last year our world was turned upside down.

'We were told by investigators that our 14-year-old was a victim of child molestation. This was horrifying and unbelievable. I prayed that this was not true.

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...Teacher's 'four-month affair with her student, 17, revealed when they were caught having sex in a school bathroom'
...Girl, 15, finds out parents are swingers when she turns on TV and sees mother in cage and father as Batman in sex show

'The more evidence that came out the truth became real, and I began to deal with grief, denial, guilt and so many other emotions.

'During this time I still was trying to maintain being a wife and mother. How could I have missed this... what mother can't protect her child? I trusted so much and believed that this friend was a gift from God.

'Words can't begin to explain the heartache we've experienced this past year and the betrayal we've endured. Messages that were recovered showed me more and more evidence and it became a living nightmare. I couldn't bear the thought of my boy trusting someone that had clearly manipulated him.'

'We believe that children deserve to be protected. This woman groomed and enticed a young boy she knew from birth to engage in these sexual acts. I crafted the sentence to take these things into account'
Assistant DA Kevin McMurry

Coweta Superior Court Judge Jack Kirby imposed the sentence on the recommendation of the DA's office.

Coweta Judicial Circuit Senior Assistant District Kevin McMurry said of the harsh penalty: 'The state of Georgia has very strict sentences against child molestation. When I was negotiating this sentence, I treated her like I would a male perpetrator.

'We believe that children deserve to be protected. This woman groomed and enticed a young boy she knew from birth to engage in these sexual acts. I crafted the sentence to take these things into account.

'We want to send a message that this will not be tolerated. I actually reduced the charge from aggravated child molestation - which carries a maximum sentence of 25 years - to child molestation - with a maximum of 20 years - but wanted to ensure she would still receive a harsh sentence which recognized the life-long impact and damage done to this child.

'Children are important and they deserve to be protected. She abused her position and the trust bestowed on her from the family and she had to be punished for this.'
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Sexual predator: Schmieder knew the boy most of his life and was like a mother figure to him, according to the victim's mother, before the teaching assistant started preying on him

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Sexual predator: Schmieder knew the boy most of his life and was like a mother figure to him, according to the victim's mother, before the teaching assistant started preying on him

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The victim's mother said her son had trust issues as a result of the affair.

She said: 'We've all been in counseling for several months and we've been made aware of so many others that are victims of child molestation and sexual abuse.

'We were forced to realize that role models of our community like preachers, teachers, scout leaders, coaches, and even mothers that you love and trust, and have known for years, and you would believe would never hurt your child could be a sex offender. This is physically and emotionally hard to accept.'

In a final address to the judge Jack Kirby before he imposed the sentence, she added: 'We are continuing to hurt. We will struggle in fully trusting again and we will never understand the betrayal... and still today the dishonesty.'

Schmieder worked as a teacher's assistant at Jefferson Parkway Elementary school in Coweta County, Georgia.

'We are continuing to hurt. We will struggle in fully trusting again and we will never understand the betrayal... and still today the dishonesty'

Victim's mother

She pleaded guilty to two charges of child molestation following her arrest last April.

The parents of her victim, who was not a pupil at her school, found out about the affair when the discovered a series of explicit messages on his computer.

After alerting police a forensic examination of the boy's home computer revealed Schmieder was involved in a sexual relationship.

She was arrested and charged following an interview with detectives.

Schmieder's case - though unique because of its harsh sentence - is by no means a rare incident.

There have been countless reports of female teachers in schools across America abusing their relationship with male students and engaging in sexual relations with them.

Leading child psychologist, Dr Michael Oberschneider, who sees both teenagers who have been sexually abused and the adults who sexually abuse, said having sex with older women, especially women in a position of power is a badge of honour for some boys and their peers.

'There is a certain mystique around the older woman in our society,' he added. 'If it was a man (who is abusing) in our society we are harsher, but when it's a woman we kind of wonder about it.

'It's still a horrible thing, but I think there is also a little bit of unconscious permission in society. It seems to be not quite as bad when an older woman does something with a younger boy.'

Dr Oberschneider is not connected with the Schmieder case.
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SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED
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---Elizabeth Colleen Wallis, 34, was sentenced in March to four months in the Yuba County Jail for having sex with a former underage special needs student now 17.

Wallis a teacher’s assistant at Yuba Gardens Intermediate School in Olivehurst, California, came to the attention of police when they were notified of the alleged inappropriate relationship by a concerned family member of Wallis.

The boy’s mother had indicated that her son was in love with Wallis.
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---Kimme Woolf, was a 29-year-old math teacher at Perrin High School in Perrin, Texas, when she was arrested for allegedly committing sexual assault on a male student, 16, and having an improper relationship with another, 18, last November.

Woolf is alleged to have slept with both boys after they repeatedly asked for sex. She is also thought to have performed oral sex on both.
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---Felecia Killings, 27, an English teacher at Rodriguez High School in Fairfield, California was arrested in November on allegations of having sex with a 16-year-old student.

Police believe the alleged relations took place at Killings' home.
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---Sara Leann Dwiggins, 24, a math teacher at South Creek Middle School in Williamston, North Carolina, was arrested on allegations of having sex with a 14-year-old former student. She has been charged with two counts of statutory rape and two counts of sex offence with a student.
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---Gina Watring, 40, was jailed for five years last September after admitting having sex with a boy, 10, at the primary school in Durham, North Carolina. The mother-of-two had faced up to 70 years after being charged with dozens of offences.
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SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED
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---Marcie Lynn Rousseau, 34, had sex with a 16-year-old student at least 100 times.

The Michigan English teacher was sent to prison last December to serve a minimum of four years having pleaded guilty to all the charges.

But her defence lawyer said of the student: 'He took part in this also ... He courted her, bought her lunch, brought her flowers.'
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---Jennifer Riojas, 27, a science teacher in Fort Worth, Texas, was pregnant when arrested for sexual assault in November after allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old student.

The pupil told police they met in motels and even had sex when he was in a hospital bed recovering from a football injury.
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---Megan Baumann, 28, is currently serving three years in prison after pleading guilty to various sex charges involving three male students.

The social sciences teacher had sex with one and sent him naked pictures of herself by text. The former

Tennessee teacher sent texts of her breasts and pubic region to another while she fondled the third while he was clothed.
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---Carlie Rose Attebury, 31, a former California marching band teacher, denied having sex with a 15-year-old student but admits having sex with two former students when they were 18. Attebury said that she hugged the 15-year-old boy as she did any 'band kid'. She was sentenced to 16 months in prison in March.
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SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED
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---Nicole Chapman, 28, was this month jailed for 10 to 12 months earlier this month for having sex with a 19-year-old special needs student in North Carolina.

Bizarrely the teenager's mother approved of the relationship between her son and the ex North Shelby teacher and told local TV: 'I ain't no victim. If it is love, man, it's love. Nobody can stop this.'
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---Marie L Fisher, 21, was last month charged with having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy after sending him explicit text messages.

Fisher, who worked in the Special Education Department at Reeds High School in Sparks, Nevada, is alleged to have sent him a photo of her 'half naked breast' and later slept with him.
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---Bethyl Shepherd, 34, who worked in the same department as Fisher, was arrested last month after officials found out about an alleged threesome with two 17-year-old students.

Shepherd, who had taught at the school for 10 years, claimed one of the teens forced her to have sex while the other watched.
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---Barbara Anderson, 37, a teacher at a Washington State school, was arrested in March after allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old student.

The pupil in question told his uncle he was 'getting laid by a teacher,' according to court documents. She sent almost 800 text messages to the boy between January 15 and February 21, including more than 100 texts in one 24-hour period.
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SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED
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---Jamie Waite, 35, a swimming instructor at a school in Utah, was arrested in March for allegedly having sexual relations with a 17-year-old student.

Police in Utah arrested the teacher after a tip off from friends of the student who claimed the pair were having a relationship.
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---Deborah J Cox, 58, of Naperville became involved with the boy while he was at Neuqua Valley High School, police said.

The teacher's aide, had been the boy's personal academic tutor for several years, before she was arrested in March for having an alleged sexual relationship with him.
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---Carrie Shafer, 38, a biology teacher, was caught in March by police partially naked in a car with one of her students.

An arrest report revealed the married mother-of-two, from Kentucky, was in a compromising position with a 17-year-old student from her school in Louisville. Police said the windows of the car were 'steamed up' and both occupants were partially clothed.
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---Gail Gagne, 29, a weight room supervisor at Cretin-Derham Hall High School, Minnesota, was sentenced to two years probation in February after having sex with a then 16-year-old student - both at her home in Bloomington and at a nearby hotel.
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SEX WITH MY STUDENTS: THE TEACHERS WHO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, CHARGED OR JAILED
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---Chanda Frank, 34, a physical education coach at Haywood High in Brownsville, was charged with sexual battery in February, after allegedly fondling a 14-year-old female student on her softball team.

It happened at least twice between the dates of August 2010 and February 2011, according to court documents.
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---Stacy Schuler, 32, of Mason, Ohio, was charged with committing sex acts with students from her high school football team in February.

She faces 19 felony counts of sexual battery involving five male students, three misdemeanor charges of serving alcohol to underage youths and more than 96 years in prison if convicted.
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---Ashley Blumenshine, 27, a PE and dance teacher was arrested in January behind a department store in Plainfield, Illinois, after police caught her in a car with a 16-year-old boy student.

Police believe they had had sex shortly before the officers arrived and say the relationship may have gone on for more than a month.
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---Courtney Bowles, 31, a teacher who advised colleagues on how to avoid affairs with students, was caught having sex with a teenager in her car.

Bowles was found by a police officer lying naked on top of the boy, who was also naked, from her school in Colorado. A partly consumed bottle of vodka was also found in the car with the couple.
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Nice Photo Lights photos

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LIGHTS @ CNE
photo lights
Image by TonyFelgueiras
LIGHTS
music.iamlights.com/
www.iamlights.com

LIGHTS performs for a packed crowd at the CNE Bandshell in Toronto
August 25, 2011

Follow LIGHTS on twitter @lights
Follow ME on twitter @tonyfelgueiras / Facebook www.facebook.com/#!/tonyfelgueiras

This image is copyright © 2011 Tony Felgueiras. All rights reserved.
This photo may not be used under ANY circumstances without written consent. Please contact tonyfelgueiras@yahoo.ca for usage rights.
www.mindcraftproductions.ca

Cool Image Gallery images

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image gallery
Image by -will wilson-
Best Large on Black

Rue de Seine
Paris

ezimba-web- Colors Sepia Light

Some cool photo editor free images:


ezimba-web- Colors Sepia Light
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.

03-estonian-book-cover005-1968-cover-Juri-Arrak (click link below image for post on 50 Watts)

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03-estonian-book-cover005-1968-cover-Juri-Arrak (click link below image for post on 50 Watts)
image post
Image by 50 Watts
See the post on 50 Watts: Mõista, Mõista: Vintage Estonian Book Covers

Around the web:
twitter.com/50wattsdotcom
50 Watts tumblr
Writers No One Reads tumblr


07-estonian-book-cover-1984-illus-Jaan-Tammsaar (click link below image for post on 50 Watts)
image post
Image by 50 Watts
See the post on 50 Watts: Mõista, Mõista: Vintage Estonian Book Covers

Around the web:
twitter.com/50wattsdotcom
50 Watts tumblr
Writers No One Reads tumblr

Waterfall Near My Classroom

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Waterfall Near My Classroom
digital photos
Image by mbtphoto (away a lot)
Nikon D-50 digital image.

Cool Stock Photo images

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Advil related (Free stock photo)
stock photo
Image by trophygeek


Spice Related (Free stock photo)
stock photo
Image by trophygeek

Nice Print Photo photos

A few nice print photo images I found:


Print is here to stay.
print photo
Image by Stitch
My battle cry: Communicate your ideas in print. Print forever.

lomomanila double expose with zoe. I shot with a kiev, zoe used her lca.


**HOLIDAY PRINT GIVEAWAY!** -CLOSED-
print photo
Image by martinak15
Yay! It's time for another print giveaway! I figured I'd do this now since the holidays are coming up! Not only that, but this giveaway is also to thank you guys for all the support because in a few days I will reach 500,000 views!!! That's half of a million!!! :O
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**Information and requirements!**

-This print giveaway is to thank my flickr contacts! So, if you added me as a contact prior to today, you are eligible to enter!

-This giveaway is international! So no matter where you live, you can enter! :D

-The giveaway will close December 24th, and the winners will posted on December 25th!

-There will be 3 winners!



**How to enter!**

1. Make a comment on this photo telling me your name, country, and your favorite thing about winter.

2. Along with that information, choose 3 photos and post their links between [ and ].
Please try to pick photos that are of a normal size! (No square crops, etc.)

3. That's it! You've now been entered into the giveaway! Good luck!!!


fragility
print photo
Image by bunchadogs & susan
life

my daughter tested clear for the melanoma on her last path report.
the dr. said he considers her cured.

thanks for all the kinds thoughts and prayers and burning candles.

tra ra ra boom de ay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-3N5SDnujQ

Nice Fun With Photos photos

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(L-R) Steve Corey, Unknown father with child in chest carrier, photographers. Morro Rock in the background. (from a set of 142 images, representing the "2nd-best batch" of 4-star images; out of the whole 163 surfing images taken on 3/7/09). Viewers, pl
fun with photos
Image by mikebaird
(L-R) Steve Corey, Unknown father with child in chest carrier, photographers. Morro Rock in the background. (from a set of 142 images, representing the "2nd-best batch" of 4-star images; out of the whole 163 surfing images taken on 3/7/09). Viewers, please add comments/notes/tags to identify the participants if you know who is in this photo! Women, Girls, Surfers and Surfing, at the 2nd Annual All Girls Cayucos Pier Classic surf contest, Cayucos, CA, 07 March 2009. Photos by Michael "Mike" L. Baird, mike at mikebaird d o t com, bairdphotos.com, Canon 1D Mark III, and either the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM IS w/ circular polarizer handheld; or the 600mm f/4 IS with circular polarizer on sturdy tripod. This set contains over 100 images due to a request to try to preserve as many photos as possible of the many contestants. Good Clean Fun Surf Shop, Surfrider Foundation and Cayucos Brewing Company announce the 2nd Annual All Girl Cayucos Pier Classic, Saturday, March 7th 2009 at the Pier in Cayucos, CA. Divisions will include long-board, short-board, women's and girl's as well as a special “mother- daughter” division. Women from up and down the California coast will come for good vibes clean waves and fun competition. The Cayucos Pier/Beach provides one of the most beautiful and photographer friendly environments for a surfing event. For more information contact Good Clean Fun 805-995-1993, Chelsea@gcfsurf.com.

I Attended Boston Media Makers Today

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I Attended Boston Media Makers Today
photo maker
Image by BenSpark
Photo-A-Day #2039

Boston Media Makers, founded by Steve Garfield, is a fantastic event where blogger,s photographers, artists and podcasters and more, get together and share ideas and the projects that they are working on. More at www.benspark.com/boston-media-makers.html

Cool Picture Collages images

Some cool picture collages images:



Maree's Collage
picture collages
Image by i be GINZ
For Christmas this year I decided to make all my friends a keepsake collage of pictures from their birthday this year.

Cool Photo Fun images

Some cool photo fun images:


Curly Cutie
photo fun
Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!


Hand Holdng Fire Toasted Marshmallow
photo fun
Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!

Nice Free Photo Downloads photos

Check out these free photo downloads images:


Rusty Texture
free photo downloads
Image by shaire productions
Photo by Sherrie Thai of Shaireproductions.com
Feel free to download and use these as a background for commercial or noncommercial projects. If you decide to use them, please let me know how it goes by sending a link or an image. Enjoy!


Urban Texture
free photo downloads
Image by shaire productions
Photo by Sherrie Thai of Shaireproductions.com
Feel free to download and use these as a background for commercial or noncommercial projects. If you decide to use them, please let me know how it goes by sending a link or an image. Enjoy!

Nice Fun Photos photos

Some cool fun photos images:



Big Wave Surfing Teahupoo Tahiti
fun photos
Image by Duncan Rawlinson. Duncan.co
Surfing this wave is super dangerous and extremely difficult. This gentleman makes it look easy. I just wish my camera wasn't broken.

Stairwell

Some cool photo library images:


Stairwell
photo library
Image by mondogonzo
Stairwell from the main public library of Turku. Might post a few more shots of the library, love the architecture there. The stairwell was actually completely brownish red, but I felt that the color only made it irritating and confusing to look at.

Shot on Leica M8 + Elmarit-M 1:2.8/21mm ASPH.

Click here for larger view in lightbox.


From the 2nd floor
photo library
Image by Kees van Mansom
In the public library of Almere, the Netherlands.

Yashica Mat-124G, Yashinon 80mm f3.5 on Rollei RPX400 (120). Developed in Rodinal.
Development details on FilmDev

Scanner: Epson Perfection V500 Photo


www.keesvanmansom.nl

Cool I Stock Photo images

A few nice i stock photo images I found:




River Stock
i stock photo
Image by rubyblossom.
***Please, feel free to use my Textures, Backgrounds, Stock, etc., in your Artwork.
If you do use them, I would love it if you would please post your work in my group, Ruby's Treasures.

...Please DO NOT redistribute as your own...

To see my full Photo Stock Set please visit Here

***If you are interested in purchasing my new and unseen Premade Backgrounds & PNG's , please visit my new Blog here~
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NYC: Bryant Park and American Standard Building

Some cool american photo images:


NYC: Bryant Park and American Standard Building
american photo
Image by wallyg
For more information on the American Standard Building, see this picture.

At the western gateway to the Bryant Park is the pink granite Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain, designed by Charles Adams Platt and dedicated in 1912. This was the city's first public memorial dedicated to a woman. Lowell was a social worker and founder of the Charity Organization Society. Charles Adams Platt designed the fountain.

At the western gateway to the Bryant Park is the pink granite Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain, designed by Charles Adams Platt and dedicated in 1912. This was the city's first public memorial dedicated to a woman. Lowell was a social worker and founder of the Charity Organization Society. Charles Adams Platt designed the fountain.

Bryant Park is 9.603 acres of public park bounded by Fifth Avenue, Sixth Avenue, 40th and 42nd Streets. The central building of the New York Public Library sits on the eastern end of the park.

While it was still a wilderness, New York's colonial governor Thomas Dongan designated this land as a public space in 1686. George Washington's troops crossed the area while retreating from the Battle of Long Island in 1776. Bryant Park was a potter's field from 1823 to 1840, when thousands of bodies were moved to Ward's Island.

The first park at this site opened in 1847 as Reservoir Square, named after its neighbor, the Croton Distributing Reservoir. In 1853, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations with the New York Crystal Palace, with thousands of exhibitors, took place in the park. The square was used for military drills during the American Civil War, and was the site of some of the New York Draft Riots of July 1863, when the Colored Orphan Asylum at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street was burned down.

In 1884 Reservoir Square was renamed Bryant Park, to honor the New York Evening Post editor and abolitionist William Cullen Bryant and in 1899 construction of the New York Public Library building began. The construction of the Sixth Avenue Elevated railway in 1878 had cast a literal and metaphorical shadow over the park, and by the 1930s the park had fallen into disrepair. The park was re-designed in 1933-1934 as a Great Depression public works project under Robert Moses, featuring a great lawn, hedges and later an iron fence.

By the 1970s Bryant Park had been taken over by drug dealers, prostitutes and the homeless, earning the colloquial nickname "Needle Park." From 1979 to 1983, the parks advocacy group, The Parks Council, coordinated a large-scale improvement initiative. Their efforts were ultimately succeeded by the Bryant Park Corporation, founded in 1980, with a privately funded redesign and restoration in 1988 under the leadership of Daniel A. Biederman. The new Park opened in 1992 with a Parisian feel, an English style perennial border garden, and seating for up to 3,000. Several dining spots including Bryant Park Grill, Bryant Park Cafe and 'wichcraft opened to accomodate swelling lunchtime crowds. In the summer of 2002, the Bryant Park Wireless network was launched, allowing free WiFi access. In 2002, the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation founded Fetes de Noel, a European-style holiday market, and added The Pond at Bryant Park, a temporary ice skating rink, in 2005. Today the park hosts the biannual New York Fashion Week, HBO's Bryant Park Summer Film Festival and ABC's Good Morning America Concert Series, and the New York Yankees "Pinstripes in the Park" among many other events.

For more details on the American Standard Building, see this picture. The American Standard Building was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1974.

New York Public Library and Bryant Park National Register #66000547
American Standard Building National Register #70002663 (1980)


"Lily of the Mohawks" Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
american photo
Image by Puzzler4879
***PLEASE! NO MULTI-GROUP OR STRING INVITATIONS. ONLY ONE GROUP INVITATION PER COMMENTOR. THANK YOU!!***

Celebrating the Canonization today, October 21, 2012, of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Saint, by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.

This is a reworking of an image I took and uploaded back in June, 2010. I thought it appropriate to re-visit it for her Canonization. This statue stands outside of Our Lady of Loretto Roman Catholic Church in the beautiful Hudson River town of Cold Spring, New York. She ia seen here holding a wooden cross, a symbol commonly associated with her. She is a Patron Saint of the Environment and Ecology, as is St. Francis of Assisi. Her Feast Day is July 14th. As retired Park Ranger and Environmental Educator, I feel an affinity for this devout lady.

Here are some links about St. Kateri, Our Lady of Loretto Church and the town of Cold Spring.
www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=154
www.ourladyoflorettocs.com
www.coldspring.com

Cool Love Image images

Check out these love image images:


Love After Love
love image
Image by Mariela De Marchi Moyano
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

Derek Walcott, 1976.

(via round robin editrice)

>> [ Amore dopo Amore

Verrà il Tempo
in cui, con esultanza,
saluterai te stesso arrivato
alla tua stessa porta, nel tuo proprio specchio,
e ognun sorriderà al benvenuto dell'altro
e dirà: Siedi qui. Mangia.
Amerai di nuovo lo straniero che era il tuo Io.
Offri vino. Offri pane. Rendi il cuore
a se stesso, allo straniero che ti ha amato
per tutta la tua vita, che hai ignorato
per un altro e che ti sa a memoria.
Dallo scaffale tira giù le lettere d'amore,
le fotografie, le note disperate,
sbuccia via dallo specchio la tua immagine.
Siediti. E' festa: la tua vita è in tavola.

trad. it. Cecilia Piantanida ]

Nice Photo Sizes photos

Some cool photo sizes images:



Size comparison photo (compared to the first week she was with me)
photo sizes
Image by Ninithedreamer

streaming

A few nice image uploader images I found:


streaming
image uploader
Image by dou_ble_you
This is an overview of the few of my Flickr faves. I'd like to make it clear that I don't pretend to have any form of ownership of any of them, videos in particular. The image you see above comes from Sandra Torralba's video and was selected at random by the uploader. I'm about to hit the bed. I can't just go to sleep without committing yet another artistic crime.... It is really interesting to look at the choices we make when favouriting other people's work. It is quite Freudian methinks. Analyse this ;)

- oh, and feel free to check my faves for all the originals included in this little show; they are just the the current 'top of the list'. 90 second limit meant that no other works were included.


Texture
image uploader
Image by Dave77459
Any guesses at what this is before I tell you?

You may use this texture for your images, as long as you credit me; it is released under the Creative Commons license.

I would appreciate your posting your derivative images in a comment below.


20 years.JPG
image uploader
Image by danakin
Wow, I've been a Flockstar since before I was born!

Image edited with MSPaint (boo) and Flock image uploader cropping tool (yay)

Nice Image Stock photos

A few nice image stock images I found:


Pink Flower
image stock
Image by Walt Stoneburner
Close up of a pink flower


Cautious Care
image stock
Image by Nick Chill Photography
Black-Tailed doe

20080612-138


Tasty Mystery
image stock
Image by Nick Chill Photography
Black-Tailed buck, licking something off the road. I hope it isn't anti-freeze.

20080616-036

Nice Photo Buy photos

Some cool photo buy images:



Buy More Stuff, Black Friday 2010
photo buy
Image by Michael Holden
Buy More Stuff takes to the streets for it's 5th year on November 26th, 2010. These photos were shot on Black Friday in Westlake Park in Seattle. You can read about the Buy More Stuff movement and even buy some Buy More Stuff stuff at BuyMoreStuff.org -- Email justbuymorestuff@gmail.com with questions about what these folks are doing.
More pics on my site at www.michaelholden.com -- ping me at michael@superpod.com if you have any questions about the photos.

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