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Divers 2021 - July
Photos of July 2021
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( Diverses photos prisent en 2021 sans sujet reel.
Various pictures taken in 2021 without real subject. )
submission for Shutter Sisters One Word Project group. (The scarf is actually available for sale on my Etsy shop, see my profile for the link). The texture used here is free texture from the creative SkeletalMess.
explored - thank you!
Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (born, August 15, 1896; died October 17, 1958) was an American photographer prominent for his early use and experiments in color photography. Outerbridge was a fashion and commercial photographer, an early pioneer and teacher of color photography, and an artist who created erotic nudes photographs that could not be exhibited in his lifetime.
Paul Outerbridge, while still in his teens, worked as an illustrator and theatrical designer creating stage settings and lighting schemes. After an accident caused his discharge from the Royal Canadian Naval Air Service, in 1917, he enlisted in the U.S. Army where he produced his first photographic work. In 1921, Outerbridge enrolled in the Clarence H. White school of photography at Columbia University. Within a year his work began being published in Vanity Fair and Vogue magazine.
In London, in 1925, the Royal Photographic Society invited Outerbridge to exhibit in a one-man show. Outerbridge then traveled to Paris and became friends with the artists and photographers Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Berenice Abbott. In Paris he produced a layout for the French Vogue magazine, met and worked with Edward Steichen, and built the largest, most completely equipped advertising photography studio of the times. In 1929, 12 of Outerbridge's photographs were included in the prestigious, German Film und Foto exhibition.
Returning to New York in 1929, Outerbridge opened a studio producing commercial and artistic work, and began writing a monthly column on color photography for the U.S. Camera Magazine. Outerbridge became known for the high quality of his color illustrations, which were done in those years by means of an extremely complex tri-color carbro process.[1]
In 1937, Outerbridge's photographs were included in an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art and, in 1940, Outerbridge published his seminal book, Photographing in Color, using high quality illustrations to explain his techniques.
Outerbridge's vivid color nude studies included early fetish photos and were too indecent under contemporary standards to find general public acceptance.[2] A scandal over his erotic photography led to Outerbridge retiring as a commercial photographer and moving to Hollywood in 1943.[3] Despite the controversy, Outerbridge continued to contribute photo stories to magazines and write his monthly column. In 1945, he married fashion designer Lois Weir and worked in their joint fashion company, Lois-Paul Originals.[4] He died of lung cancer in 1958.
One year after his death, the Smithsonian Institution staged a one-man show of Outerbridge's photographs. Although his reputation has faded, revivals of Outerbridge's photography in the 1970s and 1990s has periodically brought him into the public's awareness.
The Dragon is probably my favourite, at first it was the Sea Monster but I don't seem to be able to photograph her well, so Miss Dragon stole the top spot. Love this wig once it's straightened, doesn't look too high on her head now. :)
I've decided to call her Aden Ddraig, Aden is Welsh for "Wing" and Ddraig is welsh for "Dragon", and since there's a Dragon on the Welsh flag, I think it fits. n_~
You really have to hand it to these PhotoPass cast members, they are out in the hot sun day by day trying to make memories for their guests. Sometimes, you get a cast member that goes above and beyond the call of duty to make sure your guest experience is truly magical. So, to all the cast members out there, we thank you. Have a magical day!
Created by Jenny Leonard
Morphs will be auctioned off to raise vital funds and awareness for Whizz-Kidz to help transform the lives of young wheelchair users across the UK.
Morph's Epic Art Adventure Trail - London
Got a chance to fly over the sea for a little while...and it welcomed me with the perfect Ariel shot.
3D red/cyan anaglyph created from glass plate stereograph at Library of Congress - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog: www.loc.gov/pictures/
LOC Title: Manassas, Virginia. Fortifications
Date: March 1862
Photographer: The LOC gives credit to George N. Barnard – a second card version from “Brady’s Album Gallery” of this same image indicates “Barnard & Gibson” (James Gibson).
Link to glass plate: www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/civwar/item/2018671825/
Notes: Seldom seen in 3D, a stereograph of Union soldiers inside the Confederate fortifications at Manassas, after the surprise evacuation of the Confederate Army in March 1862.
Apparently the March evacuation surprised the North, as well as President Jefferson Davis in the South, who later claimed he wasn't informed of it, expecting his army to hold its ground instead of retreating back towards Richmond. Davis and Gen. Joe Johnston argued about this movement for years after the war ended. Union Gen. McClellan was criticized for not advancing on Manassas sooner, and took heat from Congress after it became known that many of the Confederate works held only "Quaker guns," - tree trunks made to look like cannons.
Below is some additional background information on the fortifications and evacuation, and a couple extracts of the sensational type articles, appearing in the press, on the awful treatment (by both sides) of the dead at Manassas.
For those still interested, at the very bottom is a small sampling of the back and forth arguments carried on between Jefferson Davis and Gen. Johnston, a quarter century later, concerning the Manassas evacuation.
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Barnard & Gibson took several photographs of these same fortifications, one of which is included in Alexander Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book, as plate 11. Below is the description of the scene from the Sketchbook.
Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Vol.,1
Plate 11. Fortifications at Manassas.
"This sketch represents a portion of the Confederate fortifications at Manassas after their occupation by the Union Army. The works were laid out by General Beauregard, well known as an engineer of great ability; but their construction illustrates the inexperience in military matters of the men who rallied at this spot to resist the authority of the Government. The casks were filled with earth, and were intended to supply the lack of more suitable gabions, but would have offered very little resistance to artillery. The flooring was laid for the use of the guns, the four short posts marking the embrasure. The interior of the works was badly drained, and the trenches were almost constantly filled with stagnant water. The fortifications formed a semi-circle about four miles in length, but contiguous to this position were the ridges and earthworks of Centreville, extending the line to nearly fifteen miles. The armament consisted principally of six and twelve pounder field batteries, with a few old fashioned thirty-twos, brought from the Norfolk Navy Yard. Located, however, upon high tabled-land, bounded by ravines and the most impenetrable thickets bordering Bull Run, the works did not require very heavy ordinance. Had they been assaulted, the musket and bayonet would have proved far more serviceable in repelling the attack than artillery, although there is no doubt that the small number of heavy cannon was attributable to their scarcity in the South rather than to confidence in the natural strength of the position. The fortifications are now rapidly being leveled, and in a few years will have entirely disappeared. The soil composing them is of a light character, and washed away in every rain, filling up the ditches and reducing the sharply defined works to sloping mounds, over which the farmer’s plow is already turning the furrow."
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New York Herald
Wednesday, March 12, 1862
MANASSAS EVACUATED
The Retreat of the Rebels from Centreville, Occoquan, Fairfax Court House, Winchester and Manassas.
The Rebel Stronghold Occupied by Union Troops
The Latest Details.
“Washington, March 11, 1862. The whole rebel fortifications at Manassas were abandoned and everything possible burned. Our troops occupy the place.
Before dark last night, Colonel Averill, with a large body of cavalry, entered the far famed rebel works at Manassas Junction, and bivouacked for the night amidst the ruins of the rebel stronghold, with the Stars and Stripes glittering in the brilliant moonlight.
In their march from Centreville no signs of the rebels were discovered. The fields that were a few months ago ensangined with the blood of contending armies and resonant with the sound of booming cannon and rolling musketry, the shouts of marshalled hosts and the groans of the dying, was silent and deserted. The fortifications which so lately bristled with the artillery and gleaming bayonets of the rebel force, were bare and blackened. The retreating rebels had swept it with the besom of destruction that had everywhere marked their departure. They were all gone, horse, foot and dragoons. They had slit their tents with their swords, and set fire to all that was inflamable. Nothing was left except the bare and blackened walls and the smouldering ashes of the bonfires made of their tents, baggage, equipments and stores, for which they could find no transportation….
Everything at Manassas indicates precipitate flight on the part of the rebels. All the log huts are standing, and an immense number of canvass tents. Some caissons were found, but no guns. Piles of bullets and cartridges were left in the tents, and an immense quantity of quartermaster stores. In one place were discovered about thirty thousand bushels of corn, which had been set fire to and was still smouldering.
They brought back abundant rebel trophies, pack saddles, army orders, muskets, revolvers, bowie knives, letters, &c. Over one thousand pack saddles were found, all new, and marked “C.S.A.”
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The New York Herald
Saturday, March 15, 1862
“The desire to visit Manassas is becoming so prevalent that it is now styled the “Manassas mania.” Increasing crowds visit the place daily, taking Centreville and Bull run in the route. It is amusing to note the diversified trophies that are brought back. A surgeon showed me three skulls he succeeded in getting. He says he know they are skulls of secessionists, because, in the first place, they were dug upon ground occupied by the rebels during the Bull run fight; and, secondly, because of their thickness….
Captain McRelvy tells me that he counted over two hundred dead horses strewn along the roads. The story about their throats being cut is untrue. They all died of exhaustion and disease. He also learned that great mortality existed among the troops when the evacuation took place.
A number of contrabands came in to-day. They were sent to Washington.”
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Chicago Tribune
Tuesday, March 18, 1862
The Gibraltar of Virginia.
[From the New York Evening Post, 13th.]
"….It is acknowledged by those who have examined the works of Manassas that an army encamped there, and which for so many months occupied our own army of 200,000 men, and with its “Quaker” guns and ingenious boldness of pickets so deceived our military authorities—that this great Manassas did not really number sixty thousand men; while the “Gibraltar of Virginia” is nothing but an immense humbug. It is not very surprising that Englishmen, who like Sir James Freguson and others, visited the Manassas lines, and afterwards saw, within our own, what a vast force the rebels were holding in check with their small army, went home despising the “Federals,” and full of admiration of the rebels and their faith in their success.”
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The Burlington Weekly Hawk-eye.
Saturday, May 03, 1862.
Rebel Outrages on the dead.
“WASHINGTON, April 30.—The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War made a lengthy report regarding the treatment by the rebels at Manassas of the remains of Federal officers and soldiers killed there. They say the facts disclosed are of painful, repulsive and shocking character—that the rebels have crowned this rebellion by the perpetration of deeds unknown even to savage warfare. Investigations have established this beyond controversy….The outrages on the dead will revive the recollections of the cruelties to which savage tribes subject their prisoners. They were buried, in many cases, with their faces downward—they were left to decay in the open air, their bones being carried off as trophies; sometimes, as the testimony proves, to be used as personal ornaments; one witness deliberately avows that the head of one of our most gallant officers was cut off by a Secessionist to be used as a drinking cup on the occasion of his marriage.”
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Below is a relatively brief extract of a lengthy 1885 article – a response from Gen. Johnston to Jefferson Davis’ criticisms of his generalship, in Davis’ 1881 book, “Rise and Fall of the Confederacy.” I‘ve transcribed the opening paragraph to help get your bearings, and then I skip 11 pages to the part where Johnston defends his handling of the Manassas evacuation, and where he quantifies the amount of Confederate materials lost in it; how it was not his fault – the fault belonged to the Government (i.e. Jefferson Davis).
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Volume 30, May 1885 to October 1885
Manassas to Seven Pines - by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
A REPLY TO JEFFERSON DAVIS…
“When the State of Virginia seceded, being a citizen of that State, I resigned my office in the United States Army. And as I had seen a good deal of military service, in the Seminole and Mexican wars and in the West, the President of the Confederacy offered me a commission in the highest grade in his army. I accepted the offer because the invasion of the South was inevitable. But I soon incurred Mr. Davis's displeasure by protesting against an illegal act of his by which I was greatly wronged. Still he retained me in important positions, although his official letters were harsh. In 1864, however, he degraded me to the utmost of his power by summarily removing me from a high command. Believing that he was prompted to this act by animosity , and not by dispassionate opinion , I undertake to prove this animosity by many extracts from his “Rise and Fall of the Confederacy ” ( D. Appleton & Co .: 1881 ) , and my comments thereon . [This was the opening paragraph of Johnston’s article. –PT]
[Skipping 11 pages to Johnston’s account of the Manassas Evacuation]
“By a singular freak of the President's memory, it transferred the substance of these passages from his letter to my three. Referring again to the conference at Fairfax Court House,
Mr. Davis says ( page 464):
“Soon thereafter, the army withdrew to Centreville, a better position for defense, but not for attack, and thereby suggestive of the abandonment of an intention to advance.”
…..On the 20th of February, after a discussion in Richmond, his cabinet being present, the President directed me to prepare to fall back from Manassas, and do so as soon as practicable. I returned to Manassas on February 21, and on the 22d ordered the proper officers to remove the public property, which was begun on the 23d…The Government had collected three million and a quarter pounds of provisions there, I insisted on a supply of but a million and a half. It also had two million pounds in a meat-curing establishment near at hand, and herds of live stock besides. On the 9th of March, when the ground had become firm enough for military operations, I ordered the army to march that night, thinking then, as I do now, that the fifteen days was time enough in which to subordinate an army to the Commissary Department. About one million pounds of this provision were abandoned, besides half as much more spoiled for want of shelter. This loss is represented (page 468) as so great as to embarrass us to the end of the war, although it was only six days’ supply for the troops then in Virginia. Ten times as much was in railroad stations of North Carolina at the end of the war.
Mr. Davis says (page 467):
“it was regretted that earlier and more effective means were not employed for the mobilization of the army,…or at least that the withdrawal was not so deliberate as to secure the removal of our ordnance, subsistence, and quartermaster’s stores.”
The quartermaster’s and ordnance stores were brought off; and as to subsistence, the Government, which collected immediately on the frontier five times the quantity of provisions wanted is responsible for the losses. The President suggested the time of withdrawal himself, in the interview in his office that has been mentioned. The means taken, was the only one available,--the Virginia Midland Railroad.”
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Red/Cyan (not red/blue) glasses of the proper density must be used to view 3D effect without ghosting. Anaglyph prepared using red cyan glasses from The Center For Civil War Photography / American Battlefield Trust. CCWP Link: www.civilwarphotography.org/