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The gorgeous Rukhsana caused quite a sensation when she appeared at the Max Power car show a few years back in the NEC Birmingham. The beautiful model attracted a massive crowd when she appeared and I was fortunate enough to capture her wearing a stunning red one-piece and this equally breath-taking yellow outfit. Shot with Nikon D-200, zoom Nikkor 28-200mm and Speedlight.
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This image is not public domain and is protected by Irish and International copyright law. © John O'Brien/MSI (Motorsport Images Ireland) 2020. All rights reserved. Please note if you are a model and the subject of this image and would like to get a copy of this for your own private use, please get in touch via email msiireland@yahoo.com. I am also on PurplePort and more of my model and studio work can be viewed there. Please note these galleries may contain nudity
The gorgeous Rukhsana caused quite a sensation when she appeared at the Max Power car show a few years back in the NEC Birmingham. The beautiful model attracted a massive crowd when she appeared and I was fortunate enough to capture her wearing this stunning red one-piece and an equally breath-taking yellow outfit. Shot with Nikon D-200, zoom Nikkor 28-200mm and Speedlight.
Please note:
This image is not public domain and is protected by Irish and International copyright law. © John O'Brien/MSI (Motorsport Images Ireland) 2020. All rights reserved. Please note if you are a model and the subject of this image and would like to get a copy of this for your own private use, please get in touch via email msiireland@yahoo.com. I am also on PurplePort and more of my model and studio work can be viewed there. Please note these galleries may contain nudity:
The gorgeous Rukhsana caused quite a sensation when she appeared at the Max Power car show a few years back in the NEC Birmingham. The beautiful model attracted a massive crowd when she appeared and I was fortunate enough to capture her wearing this stunning red one-piece and an equally breath-taking yellow outfit. Shot with Nikon D-200, zoom Nikkor 28-200mm and Speedlight.
Please note:
This image is not public domain and is protected by Irish and International copyright law. © John O'Brien/MSI (Motorsport Images Ireland) 2020. All rights reserved. Please note if you are a model and the subject of this image and would like to get a copy of this for your own private use, please get in touch via email msiireland@yahoo.com. I am also on PurplePort and more of my model and studio work can be viewed there. Please note these galleries may contain nudity:
At first glance I thought this might be worth trying to save given how few Novas survived the infamous Maxpower era, however a quick look at it's MOT history makes it pretty clear why this was taken off the road back in 2017, undoubtedly in even worse condition today. Nonetheless, it's cool to see something like this being kept around for one reason or another, it would likely turn to dust with any attempt to move it.
Saturn on a nice but not spectacular night from Dallas. This is 1400 of 2100 frames from 3 separate AVIs made with the SV152 apo, an FL-D filter, and stacked barlows: A 2.5X Televue Powermate and a Scopetronix MaxPower 2 nosepiece barlow. Camera is the ToUCam III (SP900NC). Focal length was 1200mmx2x2.5 = 6,000mm.
My third photo to reach 1,000 views. Thanks!
Scope and mount supplied by 3RF (see www.3rf.org).
This is my side of our home office (best viewed - large).... Almost exactly five years ago I took another photo of what my desk looked like and what kinds of technology I was using at home. Well it's been five years and I just retired most of what I was using... now I'm an Apple convert and my home setup is much simpler (it's amazing the cabling that was pulled out, and how quiet things are... will be interesting to see if the power bill drops).
Click Here to see a close up version of what's on my desk.
Basically I have two computers, a desktop, laptop and a third machine functioning as a storage server. They are networked together by an HP ProCurve 8 port gigabit ethernet switch, with a Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato and functioning as a dedicated firewall and router and an Airport Extreme serving up wireless internet access.
This is just a fantastic setup for doing just about any photographic related computer task one could think of... It's wonderful to edit with this hardware and setup. Aside from the Mac Pro which is lighting fast, the real treat is seeing images on the amazingly accurate and sharp 30" NEC display, this monitor is quite a bit above and beyond the Apple Cinema Display (as well as the Dell and HP offerings).
On Switching to Mac: I've been a Microsoft user since MS-DOS 3.3 and have worked professionally as a server engineer and systems designer for Microsoft Servers for approx. 15 years, and Microsoft has come a long way... some of their newest offerings are darn impressive. But the reality is for me, at home... I want something that is simple, powerful and is best geared for photography. Additionally I wanted something that was simpler and doesn't result in me having to rebuild the system once a year or so because of something silly happening.
I've been half switched for a bit more than three months and so far it's been fantastic... there is a bit of a learning curve and somethings are kind of annoying, but overall it's been wonderful and the most enjoyable computing experience of my life. Besides, if I really need to run Windows I have Windows 7 Ultimate running in side a VMWare virtual machine.
Desktop:
Mac Pro Hex Core Xeon 3.33Ghz. CPU
12GB RAM (OWC Upgrade)
2x50GB OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE Solid State Drives (SSD)
4x 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives
NEC 30" LCD3090WQXi-BK LCD Monitor & SpectraView Calibration Software
NewerTech MAXPower 6G PCIe eSATA RAID Card
Vantec NexStar3 External Hard Drive Enclosure.
2 x Western Digital Studio Edition 500GB External Hard Drive
Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse
Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000
Microsoft LaserMouse
Wacom intuos3 4x6" Tablet
Klipsch promedia 2.1 Speakers
Running: OS-X Snow Leopard, Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Extended, Adobe Lightroom 3, VmWare Fusion w/ Windows 7 Ultimate, Apple iWork, Firefox, FileZilla, TweetDeck, Google Earth, PhotoLinker, Skype, TechTool Deluxe, Canon Digital Photo Professional (and other misc. Canon software for EOS camera's as well as Printer software)
Notebook:
Apple 15" MacBook Pro
Core i5 2.4Ghz. CPU (not worth spending the $$ on the Core i7, especially when this won't be my primary editing machine and especially when $300 only buys me 10% more performance)
8GB of RAM (OWC Upgrade)
500GB 7200RPM Segate Momentus XT Hard Drive (this is a great drive that comes with a 4GB SSD cache)
High Res Screen (but not the Anti-Glare screen, clients love looking at images on the glossy screen)
G-Tech G Drive mini 500GB Hard Drive
OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 1TB External Hard Drive
Apple Magic Mouse
Running: OS-X Snow Leopard, Adobe Creative Suite CS5 Extended, Adobe Lightroom 3, VmWare Fusion w/ Windows 7 Ultimate, Apple iWork, Firefox, FileZilla, TweetDeck, Google Earth, PhotoLinker, Skype, TechTool Deluxe, Canon Digital Photo Professional (and other misc. Canon software for EOS camera's as well as Printer software)
Storage Server:
AMD Athlon 3800+ X2 Dual Core
ASUS A8N-E 939 NVIDIA nForce4 Motherboard
2GB Corsair Memory
Cooler Master CMStacker Case (this thing can hold a LOT of hard drives)
Cooler Master Real Power RS-450-ACLX 450W Power Supply
Sony Black 1.44MB 3.5" Internal Floppy Drive
NEC DVD Burner Black ND-3540A
2 x 500GB Hitachi Deskstar Hard Drives (RAID Mirror)
2 x 320GB Hitachi Deskstar Hard Drives (RAID Mirror)
3 x 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black Hard Drives (RAID5 Array)
Running FreeNAS
Networking:
HP ProCurve 10/100/1000Mbps Switch 1800-8G
Linksys WRT54GS running Tomato firmware (this is just functioning as a firewall and router)
Apple Airport Extreme Wireless Access Point
Misc:
Apple iPhone 3G
Blackberry Tour 9630
Calumet UDMA Firewire CF Reader
Canon MX7600 Mulit-Function Printer (out of frame)
Garmin eTrex Summit HC
NEC SpectraView - Color Calibrator (basically a customized X-Rite Eye One Display 2 colorimeter for the NEC monitor)
APC SmartUPS 1400 UPS Power Backup
HumanScale 4G Ergonomic Keyboard Tray (designed to fit the Microsoft Natural Keyboards)
Herman Miller Mirra Office Chair (out of frame)
What's Next:
Next year I plan to add a few more things to the mix... including
Data Expansion - Adding a OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 quad bay external drive array with four 3TB Hard Drives. Will be used for data backup.
Second Monitor - Will be adding either a 22" or 24" secondary NEC monitor, which will make layout and album design work a bit nicer.
Software: I want to point out that 100% of the software that is run on these systems has been paid for and is all legal like. This wasn't always the case but I do like knowing that it's all legit ... I think it's highly hypocritical for photographers or other content creators to complain about someone stealing their images or using images without their permission if they use pirated or not properly licensed software.
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“A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it”
“All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.”
“If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.”
“When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!”
“Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.”
“Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.”
“A bikini bottom is not much different from what we're wearing. A few inches of flesh isn't going to make a difference.”
“A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.”
"I am in the Bourne Ultimatum we shot several scenes in one I was featured alot with the boss btu theyve used a different take sadly where you can only se me in the background for a few seconds but never mind as I'm just glad they didn't cut me all together! It's exactly ten minutes in and it says american base or something, theres a dark chap says 'sir breach' to this old chap with glasses and I am in the background sifting through files, hair half tied back in a suit, lol I'm so chuffed I shouted ''its me its me'' in the cinema and some old guy behing told me to shut up haha funny xxx" Kerri
Model: Kerri Parker
1966 Rolleiflex 3.5f Planar, Type3 (k.4F)
Fuji provia 400x (RXP)
'Tricked up' Ford Capri, McDonald's car park, Penrith, Cumbria.
How good was the seeing this morning? This is a single pass through post-processing. I *never* get that lucky! A front blew through Dallas this morning about 15 minutes before I shot this 200-second AVI. The temperature dropped about 10 degrees in that time and frost formed on the outside of the scope, then within 5 minutes it had evaporated. Very weird. But it sure helped the air ... This was made with a 6" apochromat, using a Philips ToUCam III webcam, a Televue 2.5X Powermate, and a Scopetronix MaxPower 2 lens (nosepiece barlow), so the focal length is 6,000mm. If you were viewing this "live" with an eyepiece, you'd need about 600X to 700X to get this kind of detail.
Scope and mount supplied by 3RF (see www.3rf.org).
This image was named Stellarvue's Photo of the Week on March 6, 2007:
www.stellarvue.com/astrophotography.html
and Astronomy Magazine's March 13, 2007 Photo of the Day:
www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=ga&id=99&aid...
This image was used in NASA's May 2007 "What's Up?" podcast at:
www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/whatsup/whatsup20070504/
My eighth photo to hit 700 views (May 11, 2007). Thanks!
-Added to theCream of the Crop pool as my personal favorite.