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Week 5 theme: coins and notes. These are pressed pennies, mostly from Disney. I couldn't afford to get the kids something from the gift shop every time we went to Disney, but I made sure I had a roll of quarters and pennies to let them chose which design they wanted for a pressed penny.
came across this during a walk a the National trusts Colby woods near Amroth Pembrokeshire South Wales. Coins had been hammered into an old tree stump by visitors. the whole stump was covered
Originally used for a photography class to make a cover for a imaginary magazine, this photo shows an assortment of decades old coins spilling from a money bag.
When you have to take a hard decision flip a coin. Why? Because when that coin is in the air.. you suddenly know what you're hoping for.
-Anonymous
Saturday Self Challenge
This week let's do something a little different:
"Coins”
Photograph any old and/or unusual coins that you have.
Process however you like.
I enjoyed this challenge because I have coins of most of the Emperors of Rome, and some earlier from the Roman Republic, but I’ve selected five of the more well known ones for this challenge. Working from left to right:-
1. Augustus (23rd September 63 BC – 19th August AD 14) was a Roman statesman and military leader who was the first emperor of the Roman Empire, he reigned from 27 BC until his death in AD 14. Augustus was born Gaius Octavius Thurinus and was the maternal great nephew of Julius Caesar.
2. Caligula (31st August 12 - 24th January 41 AD) was emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD. He was the son of the popular Roman general Germanicus. Although he was born Gaius Caesar, after Julius Caesar, he was given the nickname "Caligula"meaning "little soldier's boot" by his father's soldiers during their campaign in Germania.
3. Nero (15th December 37 - 9th June 68 AD) was emperor from 54 to 68 AD. He was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. He was the only son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger. His mother was implicated in the death of the previous emperor Claudius in order to get her young son into power, and rule the empire herself through him. She bumped off several political rivals before Nero had her murdered. Nero's rule is usually associated with tyranny and extravagance.
4. Hadrian (24th January 76 - 10th July 138 AD) was emperor from 117 to 138 AD. He was born Publius Aelius Hadrian’s in Italica near Santiponce in Spain, to a Hispano-Roman family. Hadrian was to spend more than half his reign outside Italy, becoming famous in the UK for building his wall. Work began in 122 AD it was thought initially “to separate Romans from barbarians”, but a desire to cease the Empire's extension may have been the real motive.
5. Commodus (31st August 161 – 31st December 192), was emperor from 177 - 192 AD. He was born Lucius Aurelius Commodus. Son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He had an elder twin brother, Titus Aurelius Fulvus Antoninus, who died in 165 AD. He initially ruled jointly with his father Marcus Aurelius, who died on 17th March 180, this left the 18 year old Commodus sole emperor. It appears in real life he turned out to be much worse than he was portrayed in the film Gladiator. On 31st December 192 AD he was strangled to death by his wrestling partner Narcissus, after an attempt to poison him failed.
The coins of Augustus, Caligula and Nero are bronze. The coins of Hadrian and Commodus are silver Denarii.
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MacroMondays 09/02/24 theme COLLECTION
Part of my coins collection. I love History and things that are kind of obsolete now.
Canon EOS 6D - f/10 - 1/2 sec - 100 mm - ISO 200
- coins, from upper left to lower right:
* Denmark: 10 ore, 1954
* Switzerland: 5 centimes, 1919
* Ireland: three pence, 1953
* USA: 5 cents, 1959
* Switzerland: 1/2 franc (50 centimes), 1958
* India: 1 Anna, 1934
* France: 1 Franc, 1947
* United Kingdom: three pence, 1957
* Spain: 5 pesetas, 1957
- Knolling is the process of arranging different objects so that they are at 90 degree angles from each other, then photographing them from above. Knolling creates a look that is very symmetrical and pleasing to the eye, and it also allows people to see many objects at once in a single photograph.
Most photographs that feature knolling set the objects against a solid background. This makes it easy to see each individual object and allows them to be the most dynamic part of the image.
The first person to knoll was Andrew Kromelow, a janitor at Frank Gehry's furniture store. At the time, Gehry was designing for a popular furniture brand called Knoll, a company that was legendary for creating very angular furniture. At the end of his work days, Kromelow would go through the store and find any tools that had been left out. He would then rearrange the tools on a flat surface so they were at right angles to one another. He called this knolling, because it reminded him of the angles in Florence Knoll's furniture pieces.
Knolling eventually became popular through the work of Tom Sachs, an artist and sculptor who also worked with Gehry. Sachs saw the photographs that Kromelow was taking, and decided to create a piece about knolling. Sachs adopted the phrase "Always be knolling" (or ABK for short) as a motto for his work. By 1987, knolling had officially become a trend.
This giant coin sorter has been abandoned in Death Valley National Park for almost 100 years. Little is known about it's operation or who built it. One can surmise, though, that these miners were rolling in money if they needed such a contraption.
Picture for the MacroMondays group theme on February 18th, 2013: Chocolate .
This is the first working day after Chinese New Year. Hope everyone is having a great beginning of the new year~
Happy MacroMonday!
開工日，希望大家大吉大利，萬事順利！
~ 世界山莊, 文山區, 台北市
Vision City Community, Taipei, Taiwan
- ISO 100, F2.8, 1/100 sec, 100mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 100mm f/2.8 lens
- Shot @ 9.56am
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This is close look to Bulgarian coins (the currency is Lev) .
I made this image with reversed 50mm prime lens
The 1964 US tri-service (Navy-Air Force-Army) Light Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft, or LARA, competition came about as a response to a Marine Corps requirement for an aircraft specifically designed for counterinsurgency, or COIN, operations. Nine competitors responded to the request for proposal. The Lockheed CL-760 design, shown here as a full-scale mockup, featured a crew of two in tandem and could carry eight fully-armed infantry soldiers in the fuselage. The main landing gear would have retracted into fuselage blisters, which also held four 7.62 mm guns. A variety of weapons and pods could have been carried on underwing weapons racks. The Navy, as lead procurement agency, chose the North American Rockwell design, which entered production as the OV-10 Bronco. lockheedmartin/codeone
Not an actual Roman coin pendant, but a replica of one. To my permanent amusement, it has "COPY" stamped along the perimeter. As if I would have thought this trinket purchased for a couple of bucks was an actual Roman coin.
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street candid and social documentary shot taken in Glasgow, Scotland.
This was the first shot I took on my return to street shooting since my ankle surgery and is evidence of a style of photography that comes naturally to me that I never had a word for until now, Miksang. I saw the old man counting coins and that was my only conscious decision for the shot, I framed and took the shot instinctively, just a gut reaction, which is the essence of Miksang and I often find that I have done this in my shots. Not until I review them at home do I realise that I simply instinctively captured the juxtaposition or framed the image in just the right way.
If it happened once or twice I would call it luck but I see it time and again in my images so I feel very lucky be able to shoot instinctively :)
Rue Spontini 23/06/2024
A side street of the stately Avenue Foch in the 16ème arrondissement of Paris.
Rue Spontini
Rue Spontini is a street in the 16ème arrondissement of Paris in the quartier Porte-Dauphine. It is a street in an area in French referred as quartier résidentiel de très haut standing. The street has a length of 665 meters and a width of 12 meters. Rue Spontini starts at 73, avenue Foch and ends at 2, rue Benjamin-Godard.
The street owes its name to the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851)