(If I've faved one or more of your images, please see Photos i wish I'd had taken

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**THE FOLLOWING APPLIES TO ALL PHOTOS AND ALL PEOPLE:**

 

All rights reserved. Not for reproduction, sale, download or any other use without my prior written permission. Thank you.

 

If you are interested in purchasing prints, using images for publication, or for inclusion in your website/blog, please contact me through Flickr mail and I will be happy to get back to you.

 

Due to the amount of people who use flickr for the unsanctioned download of images:

 

1) Full/original size viewing of my photos is made available (at this time) only to those who I've made a contact.

 

2) Any contact requests from those who either do not have any photos on their photostream or have nothing but pornographic images/groups will result in the requester being automatically blocked.

 

  

 

Other Bridge Photos and Photo Sets Here. Appreciate them more, large on black, via slideshow

 

 

Equipment:

Tags will usually specify what was used for a given image. Most pictures taken prior to mid 08 were taken with a Nikon D40x. From then until May 2010, I used whatever I had on hand, either P&S or camera phone. Currently using a Nikon D5000.

  

 

Software:

Nikon's Capture NX. Nikon cameras have an incredible capacity to capture color in such a perfect way, and because of this very little post-processing is usually necessary.

  

Note on Exif Data:

The current settings for the availability of exif data for photos on flickr is off due to the fact that the comments field in my exif data contains personal information in the event that the camera was lost or stolen. Should flickr decide in the future to permit users to selectively block some of these fields, or better yet, allow us to show exif data on an individual photo basis, this will no longer be a issue. But as it stands, I cannot edit this field for over 200+ photos and then re-upload in order to make it available. If you are interested in the setting info for any photo, don't hesitate to inquire.

  

 

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting. ~ e. e. cummings

 

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ~ Denis Diderot

 

The question is not what you look at... but what you see. ~ Henry David Thoreau

 

  

I would like to express my gratitude for those with sites & blogs that have chosen to feature some of my images:

 

architecture-buildingconstruction.blogspot.com/2008/12/br...

 

(both images): charliebrown8989.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/mood-of-the-hour/

 

green-sustainability.blogspot.com/2008/10/beneath-shelter...

 

The Constant Gatherer - Weekend in Charleston

 

Hotel Chatter Reviews - Marriott Wardman Park

 

Scmap!! Washington, DC Guide

  

The following site has used my image without permission, and while I appreciate the fact that they have attributed credit below the article, the image itself needs to link back to flickr and does not: www.hotel-rimini.com/notizie/distrutte-barche-a-vela - If you can read italian enough to find a contact address on the site, please let me know so I can contact them - Thank you!

  

 

 

SOME TOOLS I HAVE COME ACROSS WHICH COME IN HANDY:

 

A couple of very useful standalone scripts from DrewMeyers.. (Firefox/greasemonkey not required, but you have to be logged in to your flickr account to use these)

 

Find Your Contact's Recent Faves (This script is usually how I find images that are my favorites. Sometimes I stumble into the stream of someone who produces great photography that I may have never known existed otherwise. Warning, potentially addictive)

 

Find Your Contacts in Explore: Great way to keep up with your contacts images that have made it to Explore.

  

 

A script I discovered, created by GustavoG and hosted by jbum..

Contact Crossing: Helps you see which contacts are nonreciprocal and which are mutual.. and helps you decide from there those you might want to eliminate when you find you are acquiring too many to do them justice.

 

Also, I recently came across the following, suggested by another flickr member, Thomas Hawk (many thanks for sharing this with us all, btw!).. App was created by another flickr member, Alto Maltés. Have yet to fully explore... (but may be the ultimate answer to this issue, we shall see)

 

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Miscellaneous Others:

First, the firefox add-on, which makes (almost) all things possible - Greasemonkey.

 

Accompanying scripts which I've used over the years, some still, (can be found here): Flickr Refer Comment, Rich Edit Tool, Flickr Photo Rank, Flickr Buddy Interesting, Flickr On Black. Those for group administration: SIC (Super Invite Comment), Flickr Group Pool Admin Warn + Delete, Flickr Groups Organizer, Flickr show all images by this user in this pool and pool sweeper, which doesn't require greasemonkey.

 

  

 

I actually like viewing them more on slideshow.

  

A relative of mine, whose work totally amazes me:

Here.. and Here.

  

  

  

Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISFP)

 

 

Your personality type is caring, peaceful, artistic, and calm.

 

Only about 7% of all people have your personality, including 8% of all women and 6% of all men

You are Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving.

 

How Rare Is Your Personality?

 

 

visited 14 states (28%)

Create your own visited map of The United States or try another Douwe Osinga project

 

Places visited outside the US:

Grand Cayman, St. Maarten

 

Places Outside the US I plan to visit someday:

Ireland, Scotland, Italy, France, New Zealand, Africa, India

 

 

(To answer another question: Yes.. My ID is Italian.. but my name is Irish. There is a reason for this.. I am 3/4 Irish.. 1/4 Sicilian.)

 

This page is (and probably always will be) a work in progress.. I revise/update it frequently, so feel free to check back once in a while.