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Piller Ouest La Tour Eiffel, Paris - (Selected by GETTY IMAGES) & (Selected for FLICKR EXPLORE)

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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.

 

 

 

 

On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.

 

 

These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, a Nikon D850 FX Pro body as my trusted companion, I travel light with less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 32.504+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.

 

 

***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on August 31st 2018

 

 

CREATIVE RF gty.im/1027674184 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**

 

 

This photograph became my 3,671st frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.

 

 

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**** This frame was chosen on August 4th 2019 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #319. This is my 138th photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.

 

Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 32.522+ Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****

 

 

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Thirty five metres at 08:36am on Thursday 23rd August 2018, off Avenue de Suffren and Quai Branly of part of Piller Ouest of La Tour Eiffel located at Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 in Paris, France.

 

 

The Eiffel Tower was originally designed by Gustave Eiffel and constructed between 1887-1889 as the entrance to the worlds fair in that year. It is now the worlds most visited paid monument, standing 324 metres tall (1,063ft) with three floors and eight lifts and was the tallest building in the world from 1889 to 1930.

 

 

 

 

 

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Nikon D850 85mm. Hand held with Nikkor VR Vibration reduction enabled in Normal mode). 1/500s f/4.0 iso64 RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L 8256 x 5504 FX). Colour space. Adobe RGB. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto 0 white balance (8030K). Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control Normal.

 

 

Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL15a battery. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.

 

 

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LATITUDE: N 48d 51m 27.30s

LONGITUDE: E 2d 17m 34.30s

ALTITUDE: 35.0m

 

 

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 93.6MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 21.20MB

 

 

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PROCESSING POWER:

 

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.01 (16/01/2018) LD Distortion Data 2.017 (20/3/18)

 

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB DATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.2.11 15/03/2018). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

 

 

 

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Uploaded on August 4, 2019
Taken on August 23, 2018