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Here's my entry to round II of Getting Pushed, This round I was paired up with fragglerocks www.flickr.com/photos/16038422@N07/
Who set me a stonker of a challenge.
" In going through your stream I see that you are a fan of post processing work and are really good at it, and also that there is not a single selfie, (oh no!! I hear you cry), oh yes! I cry back :)
BUT...
any fool can take a selfie and make it look good in lightroom/potato shop whatever, so my selfie challenge to you has a twist in the tale...
your mission Sir, should you choose to accept it, is to take a selfie using the following criteria...
1) your self-portrayal must depict a historical character.
2) The historical character must have been a real person who is now deceased.
3) The character can be of either gender and from any country...from Marilyn Monroe to Henry 8th, Confuscious to Mata Hari. The choice is yours.
4) You may use props or other people in the scene to relate to that persons life (i.e Henry 8 had 6 wives so you could use 6 of yours too haha, Nelson had a ship, you know what I mean, something relevant).
5) The end photo MAY NOT be processed in any way, except you may crop it, or if the scene needs it you may convert to B&W."
Oh....
My Trytych depicts My third Cousin Howard Winstone who was the WBC world featherweight champion in 1968 despite having lost half the fingers on one of his hands,
A film has recently been made about his Life which is called "Risen" www.imdb.com/title/tt0850709/
I shot using the EOS remote shooting software so my camera was set on a tripod and I could see what the sensor could see on the pc screen which makes taking a self portrait one hell of a lot easier,
Only processing was done in the Raw conversion in adobe ACR but it was very minimal,
Hope I get an easier challenge next round this was a toughy,
Light The North charity fundraising art trail goes live on Monday 9th August 2021, this is a regular fundraising event that raises much needed cash for various good causes each year , this year it is Clan Cancer Support , the lighthouse sculptures have already started to be placed in their designated spots in time for the launch on the 9th August , I have tracked some of those down and hopefully will complete the trail over the coming weeks , posting all my shots of my progress in this album .
Fifty stunning lighthouse sculptures are being installed this week, ready for the launch of Clan’s spectacular Light The North art trail.
The 2.5 metre-tall pieces, painted by some of the UK’s most talented artists, will shine a light across Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Orkney and Shetland from Monday August 9, when the trail is officially launched.
Organised in partnership with Wild in Art, which helped deliver Oor Wullie’s Big Bucket Trail in 2019, Light The North will be a major fundraiser for cancer support charity Clan.
The trail also aims to provide a “light in the dark” for those battling cancer and their families.
A team of Clan’s Light The North volunteers and drivers have now started delivering the 50 lighthouses to their specific locations.
Locals and visitors alike will soon be able to find out where each lighthouse is thanks to an interactive map that will be shared by the P&J and Evening Express when the trail officially kicks off.
Little lighthouses created by local schools for Light The North trail
Each of the 50 lighthouses is unique and backed by a local business. Evening Express, the P&J and Original 106 are among some of the sponsors to have their own dedicated lighthouse.
In addition to the main sculpture trail, 76 little lighthouses created by school pupils will be displayed all over the north of Scotland, including in Aberdeen Science Centre and a number of local businesses. The Evening Express and P&J will share an interactive map of the little lighthouses too.
The lighthouse sculptures were gathered and stored at Shore Porters in Aberdeen ready to be delivered and installed across the north and north-east.
More than 70 schools got involved in Clan’s education initiative which was created to give young people across the north-east, Moray, Orkney and Shetland the opportunity to get creative and help their school or group design a little lighthouse to be featured on the trail.
Lighthouse sculptures to be auctioned off to raise funds for cancer charity
At the end of this year’s Light The North trail, which will be present in each of the areas where Clan Cancer Support operates, all the main 50 lighthouse sculptures will be auctioned off to raise funds for the charity so that it can continue supporting people affected by cancer.
Looking good, Darren Hill, communications and marketing manager with Clan, helping prepare the lighthouses.
Fiona Fernie, Clan’s head of income generation and business development, said: “Clan helps people live with and beyond a cancer diagnosis, but we need your help to continue to be there for them. We’ve seen high demand for our services while facing a significant drop in our income.
“Cancer is not going away, and our services are more indispensable than ever, so we want to encourage everyone to get out and support Clan through Light The North.”
Clan’s Light The North Farewell Weekend will take place from Friday October 29 to Sunday October 31 and the auction is planned for Monday November 1.
I believe it is a Honda Fit. Shot as I was getting into my Prius. I wanted to see how the Canon sd750 did with motion blur.
Day 149 [5-28-2016]
Blistering hot! Today has been the hottest day since I have been back. It reached up into the 90s which has been killing me. I am a person of the cold, heat is my enemy. I spent most of the day going around getting my car fixed up and running small errands for myself before Scott and George got off of work and came out with me for some photo adventures. We hit up Nantasket and walked along the waterfront, drove down to Hull to watch the sunset, and then went to the local golf course to take more light up golf ball long exposures. A pretty good day for pictures I would say! Lets just hope tomorrow runs colder.
Can't wait to see what the next day brings!
Get more Flickr views from Twitter
Here's a tiny tip that's proved really powerful to me to get more views and mentions on Twitter. I went from having about one mention a month on Twitter, to daily referrals to my pictures.
Its so simple, but I'm amazed so few people have adopted it.
All you need to do is add the '@' symbol to your Flickr name. So, for example, I'm @doug88888.
With that one simple change, I hugely accelerated my number of views on mentions via Twitter.
Try it, and let me know how you get on.
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You can see more of my ideas on how to increase your Flickr views here and ten more here.
Get Jet! An army runs on its stomach. Checkers supermarket, Glenfair Mall, Lynnwood Manor, Pretoria, Gauteng, People's Republic of Azania. Monday, October 26, 2015.
A close-up snap of a Scania/Wright Solar as it waits in the city centre before undertaking a 28A journey off to Thornhill & Llanishen.
This bus has since been repainted into the new orange livery.
Operator: Cardiff Bus
Vehicle: Scania K230UB / Wright Solar
Reg: CN58 FFX
Fleet No: 763
Location: Hayes Bridge Road, Cardiff
Route: 28A: City Centre - Thornhill
Date: January 14, 2022
This First Potteries Omnicity Scania 65041 used on the Hanley to Stafford 101 Service has appeared in a brash new livery featuring the Staffordshire Knot. It looks a bit too colourful for my tastes even a bit like a sickly chocolate wrapper. However what the bold new branding doesn't tell you is First now offer a poorer service as the basic frequency has now fallen to every thirty-minutes instead of every twenty and no doubt a lot of 101 regulars will be less than impressed.
Jungle Syndicate, Stazma the Junglechrist.
This photograph was taken in one shot. Shutter speed set to BULB. Flash Detached from Camera but set to 1/8 power and my finger on the 'test flash' button. I fired 2 flashes from my flash unit directly at the dj with the shutter on my camera open to get the double image effect. I believe the technique is called Strobocopic. there is also a level of timing involved and a slight move of the camera so no to get the double image over the top of each other.
W&LE SD40-2 No. 3068 is about to enter CSX rails in Berea. The train will get back on its own track in Wellington, Ohio. (Scanned from a slide)
These days getting lost out here would be hard to do with so many road crisscrossing the landscape..have no idea how they survived on a horse back in the day.
Here's a shot from a recent wedding of the bride getting ready, this image really does make it hit home that sometimes it's worth getting in the weirdest of places just to get the magical shot!
Shot with natural light with window to camera right.
Deacon's best friend Maggie got bit at the off leash yesterday and has a small wound that will keep her from the park until it heals over. Maggie or the dog who bit her are both playful super friendly dogs and no one saw what happened, just heard the yelps afterwards. Stuff happens...