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Arles, France: a window inside the church of St. Trophime.
This is the backcover of my new book "Just Windows" (here the preview)
A square on the wall. The BackCover of my last book Just Walls (preview)
My Best on black - My Recent on black
My Books:
My book "Just Doors" (preview)
My book "Just Windows" (preview)
My book "Paris, Mon Amour" (preview)
My book Castelli della Loira (preview)
This is the backcover art for the "plantation" record by arrange which is now officially available in very limited quantities at arrange.bandcamp.com/album/plantation
1952; Bedrooms have Windows by A.A. Fair. Cover art by Mike Ludlow. On the backcover the pseudonym A.A. Fair reveals the real name of Erle Stanley Gardner. Above the pocket you see the second print with a yellow ribbon on top and the title in yellow in statt of blue.
It's been a long time since I posted any reflecting spoon images! But they are altogether too much fun! I haven't abandoned the idea yet! Yesterday morning I tried spoons on various three dimensional props, including books. This spoon is on the back cover of one of Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet, An Acceptable Time. Thanks so much for your enthusiasm and patience with me, my friends!
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The house is in a bit of disarray since the husband moved out, but because of this I've come across a few long-forgotten treasures. Okay, it looks like I first picked this book up in 2004 so I don't know that it counts as long forgotten, but I haven't seen it in a while. And I was glad to be reunited with it. It is heartbreakingly beautiful.
Singer/songwriter Emma Tricca in Tompkins Square Park, NYC
Petri Color 35 old camera
Photo is on the back cover of Emma's new album ST PETER 2018
Featured at Mobile & Imagery Showcase, by TheAppWhisperer.
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Selected by UK's Building mag for its backcover.
ito na ung back cover ng magazine na ginagawa ko. ei groupmates, di pa tapos ung loob, hehe, ung front, surprise na lang
Manufactured by Voigtländer & Sohn AG, Braunschweig, West Germany
Model: 1959, (Produced between 1958-60)
35 mm film Rangefinder camera
Engravings on the top plate: Voigtlander Prominent II
Lens: Voigtlander Ultron 50mm f/2 , interchangeable w/ 35-50-100-150mm lenses, Prominent bayonet mount , serial no.4704441
Aperture: f/2 - f/16, setting ring and scale on the lens
Focus range: 3.5 - 60 feet (1-18m), +inf
Lens release: a latch on the lower front side of the lens, push and turn simultaneously to anti-clockwise, mounting: push the latch and simultaneously mount and turn the lens
Focusing: matching yellow rangefinder images in the viewfinder, by turning the knob on left of the top plate, the distance and DOF scale on the knob
Shutter: Synchro-Compur leaf shutter, speeds 1-1/500 +B,
setting ring and scale on the shutter, just behind the lens
Shutter release: on the top plate
Cable release socket: on the top plate, just back of the shutter release button
Viewfinder: coupled rangefinder, bright frame lines for parallax correction of 35,50,100 and 150mm lenses, (the second largest frame is for 50mm),
very bright sight, a special feature of the Voigtlander view- and rangefinder cameras
Cocking lever: also winds the film, long stroke lever on right of the top plate,
must stroke two times for cocking the shutter and winding one frame
Frame counter: coupled with winding lever, beneath it, advance type, manual setting
Film release button: only for re-loading of the partly exposed films, on the back of the top-plate, covered with the winding lever
Re-wind release button: just beside the winding knob and turns when winding
Re-winding: by a pop-up semi-circle shaped lever located on the focusing button
Re-winding indicator: small chrome part with red screw like middle, turns when re-winding, on the bottom plate
PC sync socket: on the right uppper side of the shutter
X & M sync: setting by a green lever on the shutter, all speeds
Self-timer: a lever on the shutter
Cold - shoe
Strap lugs
Film memory indicator: on the bottom plate
Backcover: hinged, opens by a latch on the left side of the camera
Tripod socket modern 1/4'', w/ an adaptor screw for old types 3/8''
Body: metal; weight: 970g
serial no. C 78010
Prominent II is one of the best mechanically and optically design Rangefinder with interchangable lens system camera, the first of this type and has a unique appearance.
It was made by Voigtlander for the competition with Leicas and Contaxes.
It had a very special and unique reflex-housing part and turnit finder as accessories,
Voigtländer is one of the the world's oldest companies for optical instruments. Founded by Johann Christoph Voigtländer in the year 1756 in Vienna (Austria), it was the first factory for optical instruments and precision mechanics there.
1931 Voigtländer entered the mass market with the BESSA camera for 6x9 format.
1939 the VITO, their first camera for 35mm film, was well received by the customers.
1970 Voigtländer was merged with Zeiss-Ikon.
1974 Voigtländer became part of Rollei .
Since 1987 Ricoh and Chinon make cameras for Voigtländer.
In 1994 the last part of the original Voigtländer company in Braunschweig was closed.
In 1995 Ringfoto bought Plusfoto and the Voigtländer brand.
In 1999 the popular 35mm viewfinder camera body Bessa L was introduced, developed and produced by Cosina
During the 20th century the Skopar and Color Skopar lenses became the standard lenses for Voigtländer's own cameras.
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From the back cover of a 1929 Maltese translation of the Book of Daniel. It says "This Book of Daniel sells for six pence". In today's Maltese, it would be written as "Dal-Ktieb ta' Danjel jinbiegħ sitt soldi." The text is 3.5cm across.
Backcover
A twelve month calendar with photographs taken by Daniel E. Weeks at Squaw Valley Woodlands, Allegheny Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania.
Backcover - Underground Skate & art magazine
anuncio para la revista Underground Skate, Music & art magazine.
www.myspace.com/undergroundsma
Strobist info:
Flash Studio Multiblitz 200Ws. 1/4 potencia ariiba con paraguas blanco traslucido.
580ex 1/1 con filtro rosco rojo en el suelo detrás de la bañera.
Flash Studio Multiblitz 200Ws. 1/4 pow.
580ex 1/1 pow with red filter in the floor behind bath.
37884 with ex Thameslink Class 319, No 319421 on 5V94 10.00hrs Allerton - Long Marston ECS. The EMU is going into cold storage although it did do one round trip between Allerton and Lime Street Station. Halewood, 25th October 2017.
(This image is on the backcover of my first book 'Merseyside Traction' - see: - www.amberley-books.com/merseyside-traction.html) and also www.flickr.com/photos/8arail/26602852277/in/dateposted-pu...
Copyright: 8A Rail. www.8arail.uk
I had this shot in my mind even before I thought to take it. I was inspired by Athropologie catalogues and made sure to leave enough room on the top for the address and postage.
The location can be seen in another photograph I've taken. This is taken behind Domino's in the parking lot for Recess, Boombabies and other Westcott shops in Syracuse, NY.
hey guys! here a backcover i made for Mike Allred for his current MADMAN series on IMAGE comics! yep! opportunity came 2 weeks ago, since then i´m doing all stuff dreamed of - comics! that will publish! ... but no money...ewww! :D thats life!
My Gift To Beloved Granddaughter-2 - Rashi's Daughters Book I: Joheved
To all my Flickr friends: Have A Good, Safe, Sweet, Fulfilling New Year!!
Shana Tova U'Metuka!!
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back cover art for tim chaplin's "boy to make me worry" double lp, now available from bleeding gold records bleedinggoldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/bg101-boy-to-make-...
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This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight - Dinah Washington / Max Richter
Red Hands - Walk Off the Earth
Dust and Bones - Night Terrors of 1927
Meet On The Ledge - Counting Crows
Rise Above This - Seether
Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard
In the Sun - Michael Stipe & Chris Martin
Dead Hearts - The Five Ghosts
Silent Lucidity - Queensrÿche
Movement I - Mercy - Alanis Morissette, Salif Keita & The English Chamber Chorus
God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters - Moby
Amazing - One Eskimo
Cloudless - Peter Gabriel
“The most amazing, most deadly machine science could invent. The nation owning it would rule the world. [Forerunner of the Death Star]
“This machine, built in an orbit 10,000 miles above the earth, would be a second moon, obeying the same basic laws. Like the moon it would circle the earth on a steady path. Engineers have already worked out plans for building and operating such a devastator as this. It would by the world’s most powerful weapon. No nation could go to war with the threat of instant destruction of their cities by concentrated sunlight beams. It would eliminate war. But its uses would be beneficial in other ways. Weather could be controlled. Cities could be sunlit at night. Icebergs could be melted. Sun-power plants could be operated. It would be the perfect observatory. It would be a boon to space travel, as a landing station. It could communicate with ships and planets far away by light rays.” [Accompanying description]
Thankfully, a “Space Devastator” was never built. The closest we ever came to it was President Ronald Reagan’s proposed Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as “Star Wars.” It was a plan that read like science fiction: A system armed with an array of space-based X-ray lasers. The system would detect and deflect any nukes headed our way using concentrated laser beams. Over the course of 10 years (1983-1993), the government spent up to $30 billion on developing the concept, but the futuristic program remained just that – futuristic. It was formally scrapped by President Bill Clinton. [Source: History.com]
[Note: When the "Space Devastator" becomes feasible, you bet someone will want to build it.]
The ad coincides with the movie’s 1946 re-release. An American Western, “The Outlaw” stars Jack Buetel as Billy the Kid, Jane Russell as Rio McDonald, Thomas Mitchell as Pat Garrett, and Walter Huston as Doc Holliday. Howard Hughes, the business magnate, produced and directed the film, while Howard Hawks served as an uncredited co-director. The film is notable as Russell’s breakthrough role, and she soon became a sex symbol and Hollywood icon. Later advertising (as in this 1946 issue of Sensation) billed Russell as the sole star. [Source: Wikipedia]
Scenes from The Outlaw: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZKF9s3Ss3Y&t=18s
“The modern evolution of an ancient luxury – the perfect blend of the precious oils Cleopatra prized . . . “
Neysa Moran McMein (1888 - 1949) was an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P. Wilcox and Jane Bulley and made posters to support the war effort. She was made an honorary non-commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps for her contributions to the war effort.
McMein was a successful illustrator of magazine covers, advertisements, and magazine articles for national publications, like McClure's, McCall's, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's. McMein created the portrait of a fictional housewife "Betty Crocker" for General Mills. She was also a successful portrait painter who painted the portraits of presidents, actors, and writers. [Source: Wikipedia]
1963; The Courtship of Eddie's Father by Mark Toby. Movie Tie-in. unknown Artist.
This is a great family story about a young boy and his dad struggling to move on with their lives after his mother's death. Young Eddie is determined to help his father find the right woman, so there is plenty of humor to get past the sad part. If you liked The Bridge to Terabithia, you'll probably find value in this modern classic as well. It inspired the film starring Glenn Ford (The Blackboard Jungle, Superman), Ronny Howard (The Music Man, Andy Griffith), Shirley Jones (The Music Man, Oklahoma), and Stella Stevens (The Nutty Professor), as well as the TV series starring Bill Bixby (The Incredible Hulk), and a more recent TV pilot with Josh Hutcherson (Bridge to Terabithia, Little Manhattan). This early paperback edition has a picture from the film on the back cover, and a likeness of young Ronny Howard on the front.
A flat cap is typically associated with grandpa nowadays. This newsboy shows how to wear it so it looks neither old nor flat.
“New York to Paris in ten hours! This marvelous giant of the future will make such a trip with ease, flying in the stratosphere, high above all storms and danger, carrying hundreds of passengers in luxurious comfort.
“When we stop to consider the progress of aerial science during the years since the Wrights lifted their unwieldy craft aloft, we can’t help but make an attempt to picture the plane of the future. Already the day of the giant airliner has come, and the trend is definitely toward large size and toward higher flight levels. We will build larger ships as time goes by, and we will send them higher, until finally we utilize the stratosphere lanes where exist the ideal conditions to insure swift transportation to any part of the globe with the greatest possible safety factor. No storms, no uncertain conditions, no varying ceiling, but uniform and prevailing weather factors which can be permanently charted. That these giants of the heights will hurtle through the rarefied air at cruising speeds of 450 miles per hour, at the 50,000-foot level is not a vague dream but a scientific feasibility. In this graphic diagram we have attempted to depict the stratosphere airliner of 50 years from now, with a few of the scientific marvels of construction and engineering that will make it an actuality.”
“When Ancient Egypt Was Young.”
Neysa Moran McMein (1888 - 1949) was an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P. Wilcox and Jane Bulley and made posters to support the war effort. She was made an honorary non-commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps for her contributions to the war effort.
McMein was a successful illustrator of magazine covers, advertisements, and magazine articles for national publications, like McClure's, McCall's, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's. McMein created the portrait of a fictional housewife "Betty Crocker" for General Mills. She was also a successful portrait painter who painted the portraits of presidents, actors, and writers. [Source: Wikipedia]
The first Davis machines were produced in about 1860 by Job E. Davis himself. The Davis Sewing Machine Company came into existence in about 1868. It was 1924 when the company finally went out of business and changed into the Huffman Manufacturing Company which produced bicycles and not sewing machines.
Leopold C. Schumacher (1849-1914) and Louis Ettlinger (1845-1927) were in business as Schumacher & Ettlinger from 1870 to 1895 and were famous for their cigar box labels and fine lithographic cards. In 1882 Ettlinger commissioned architect Edward E. Raht to erect a modern printing house at 32-36 Bleeker Street in New York City. In 1892 Schumacher & Ettlinger merged with other printers to form the “American Lithographic Company” with Schumacher and Ettlinger as principal officers. The building was enlarged to accommodate the new company and it has changed hands several times since its printing days. After a multimillion-dollar conversion at the dawn of the 21st century, the building now houses luxury condominiums.
1950; How sleeps the Beast by Don Tracy.. unknown Artist.
From the backcover: They filled Jim with a gallon of rotgut whiskey. And then there was Kitty - a prostitute - in front of him. What he did was shocking. But what they did to him will appall you the rest of your days.
Royal Romance
“A lively boudoir intrigue as exhilarating as imported champagne, this is the provocative story of a breezy American showgirl (Marilyn) who vamped a prince (Laurence Olivier) and changed a whole kingdom’s politics in an uproarious royal love affair.”
Laurence Olivier directed and produced “The Prince and the Showgirl,” which was shot at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England. Marilyn dances and sings in the movie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOkv4jV1-Bo
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An equally entertaining 2011 film “My Week with Marilyn” concerns the week during the shooting of “The Prince and the Showgirl” when Marilyn was escorted around London by Colin Clark, after her husband Arthur Miller had returned to the United States. Both Michelle Williams who plays Marilyn Monroe and Kenneth Branagh who plays Laurence Olivier received Academy Award nominations for their performances in this delightful film based on books by Colin Clark. Eddie Redmayne plays the young Clark who escorted Marilyn around London – and fell in love with her.
Movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJFzh9EDlVU
During World War II, the Coca-Cola Company operated a propellant ammunition loading plant in Talladega, Alabama, called the Brecon Loading Company. An average of 30 railroad cars of ammunition was produced daily for the U.S. military. The Coca-Cola Company also sent 64 portable bottling plants to Asia, Europe and North Africa. More than 5 billion bottles of Coke were distributed to the troops. [From “A Short History of the Coca-Cola Company”]
This book is a novelization by Alan Dean Foster of the bomb of a movie "Luana." The film is supposedly about a young girl who was raised by fierce cats in the untamed African jungle after her plane crashes. She grows up to be as savage as her jungle habitat. Mei Chen, who stars as Luana in the 1968 Italian film, looks and acts more like a pussy cat than a savage beast. She is nothing like Frazetta's concept of the fierce jungle goddess portrayed on the book cover.
“In 1972 Ballantine Books hired Alan Dean Foster to write a novelization of the film, which had just been acquired for U.S. distribution. However, at the time the only available copy of the script was in Italian, which Foster couldn’t read, so the publisher arranged for him to view the film; but the print that was screened was also only in Italian, with no English subtitles. So, Foster wrote a new novel from scratch, finding inspiration in the Frank Frazetta painting that the distributor had chosen for the U.S. poster.” – IMDb
Maybe someday the Foster/Frazetta version of “Luana” will be brought to the screen.