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For our photocourse we have to make pictures of repeating structures. Thinking about it the same thing came to my mind all the time….. a block of chocolate!! Well, what can I say, I really am addicted.
I've been reshooting in some locations I'd previously visited with the Ixus; not all are really worth sharing but I liked this.
bootpainter please note - the small print just says "City of Westminster".
So I finally found a cool use for the built in repeating flash function of the SB-800. I shot this with it set to do three bursts at 100hz. You can see the three distinct parts of the crash as the first drop comes back up to meet the second. I really like the way this one came out. I used a trimmed piece of Epson luster paper for the background and used a similar setup to the previous shots, except this time I had the camera on flash, since I am don't think I can trigger it with the on camera flash when it is in repeating mode. I need to pickup an off camera flash cable...
Hope everyone likes this.
Repeating kingfisher tile.
Animals in their natural environment
Image © Daniel Mackie
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Anežka celebrates the third birthday
Nikon D80, Nikkor 50/1.8, ISO 200, f/2, 1/6200, 50mm
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Although I did a minor bit of film photography in my twenties, I didn't take up photography again until five years ago when I turned 60. And I can't say that I'm much of a student of photography even now. I have a passing knowledge of some of the great photographers, but that's about it. When it comes to theory, I mostly have my own limited experience to rely on.
One "theoretical" thing that I noticed early on with my return to photography was the impact of repetition in an image. I think that this is one of the features that makes, say, open-air market scenes so attractive. Of course vivid colors are often in play, but a large part of what draws us into these pictures is the way fruits or vegetables are arrayed in a kind of mesmerizing repetition. You don't have to travel to exotic locales to experience this effect; it's readily available if you step back and take in the shelves of any grocery store aisle.
Here is an example of repetition in an image using a rather undistinguished primary object, the stackable patio chair. The repetition occurs across several dimensions. Most obviously, the chairs themselves are stacked three deep. These stacks are then arrayed horizontally in a group of four or so. In addition, there's the repetition of the strings of light bulbs at the top of the frame. And, focussing on the background, you see the repetition of the windows of Neighbor's Pub in Virginia-Highland looking out on its COVID-19 empty patio. The frame of the rail in the foreground repeats the rectangular pattern of the windows. Oh, yes, the repetition of the bricks at the bottom of the image underscores the effect.
The power of repetition in a photograph was an important realization for me. It drove home the point that it doesn't require "pretty" subject matter to make a photograph work. Sometimes it's mostly about relationships.
Carte de visite by J.H. Van Stavoren of Nashville, Tenn. During the early part of the fighting in the Atlanta Campaign, captured Confederates marveled at the strange rifles used against them. “Some of the rebel prisoners with an air of curiosity worthy of a Yank inquire where our boys get these guns which they load on a Sunday and fire all the week,” noted a Chicago Tribune correspondent who traveled with Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman’s army in a report on June 6, 1864, from Acworth, Ga.
The bewildered Confederates referred to the Henry Repeating Rifle, an innovative .44-caliber rimfire breech-loading, lever-action weapon featuring a 15-round magazine patented by gunsmith Benjamin Tyler Henry (life dates 1821-1898) in 1860 on the eve of the Civil War. The vast majority of these 16-shot rifles were privately purchased by Union soldiers, and they were expensive. Those who could afford them enjoyed a distinctive advantage. According to 1864 newspaper reports and advertisements, a soldier armed with a Henry could squeeze off 30 shots per minute, equal to ten troopers with standard muskets.
The Henry received a glowing review in a St. Louis newspaper in late 1861: “This new gun is now under inspection by the War Department, and is pronounced by officers high in position, and by experienced sharp shooters, to be the plus ultra in this department of invention—the best rifle in existence. Its magazine contains fifteen of the improved cartridges and its range is both effective and accurate at a distance of one thousand yards. The whole piece is an example of beauty, symmetry and strength combined.”
Before long, these beautiful, symmetric, strong arms became legendary. Numerous reports of their effectiveness appeared in newspapers, including this in the September 15, 1862, issue of the Louisville Courier-Journal, titled:
A BRILLIANT AFFAIR — SPLENDID TRIUMPH OF THE HENRY RIFLE.
Two or three days ago, as we learn by a gentleman from Owensboro, three loyal men near that place, armed with Henry rifles, had a conflict with forty well-armed guerillas and soon put them to a very hasty flight. The three gentlemen were at breakfast when the guerillas surrounded them and demanded their surrender, but the brave fellows refused, and, bringing their terrible weapons into quick and effective play, they at once cleared the field of their enemies.
This was a brilliant triumph alike of heroism and Henry rifles. The rebels will very soon learn to be as much afraid of these rifles as ever they have been of gunboats. We would gladly put a single company, armed with them, against the best regiment of rebels whether infantry or cavalry. Even an individual, with one of them upon his shoulder or by his side, can march with a sense of considerable security through places infested with rebels if he but guards against being shot from behind a covert.
Reports like this one made the Henry one of the most-sought after weapons by soldiers. Only a small number were made—less than 14,000 between 1860 and 1866, according to one report. If one were fortunate enough to get one, more power to them!
This brings us to the officer picture here—one of the lucky owners who purchased his own Henry. He is Capt. Allen Lewis Fahnestock (1828–1920), a peacetime grocer in Glasford, Ill. In the summer of 1862, at age 34, he helped organized Company I of the of the 86th Illinois Infantry from Glasford and vicinity. Over the next three years, the regiment participated in the Georgia and Carolina Campaigns. A prolific diarist, his journal can be found in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, and other recollections published in newspapers have been often quoted over the las century.
The writings Fahnestock left behind fill enable students of the Civil War to piece together details about how he came to pose with the Henry in this portrait.
Fahnestock recalled he purchased the rifle in Nashville, noting it was one of the first two for sale in the city, where the 86th spent time between November 1862 and August 1863. The purchaser of the first rifle was Maj. Dan McCook Sr., one of two brothers who, with 13 of their sons, became known as the “Fighting McCooks.” A portrait of McCook published on Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_McCook) pictures him with a Henry—very possibly the first Henry in Nashville. The elder McCook suffered a mortal wound during the Battle of Buffington Island, Ohio, where Union forces ended the raid of Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan.
Fahnestock reported that the elder McCook tipped him off about the existence of the second rifle, which he then purchased. This is likely the Henry that Fahnestock posed with in this portrait taken in the Nashville photograph gallery of Joseph H. Van Stavoren. The presence of the Henry speaks to the prestige of these rifles and Fahnestock's ability to acquire one of them. There can be no question that Fahnestock wants us to see his Henry, and the presence of a very large Stars and Stripes covering a table or half-column tells us he used it in defense of the United States and the Constitution.
To this end, Fahnestock mentions using his Henry during the Battle of Chickamauga. The month leading up to the fight had tested the endurance of the 86th. Exhausted in body and mind from long marches and encounters with guerrilla bands, the regiment had little time to rest when heavy skirmishing began on Sept. 17, 1863. Two days later, on the skirmish line, Capt. Fahnestock encountered two rebels who shouted, “Surrender, you Yankee son of a bitch.” Fahnestock recorded what happened next in his journal: “I did not appreciate such language. I leveled my Henry Rifle 16-shooter and shot both of them.”
Less than a year later, during the Atlanta Campaign’s Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Fahnestock—now the lieutenant colonel of the 86th—lent his Henry to Alason Pitts Webber, the regiment’s principal musician, or fife major. Fahnestock recalled that Webber “fired 100 rounds at twenty-seven paces where he could see the enemy by the hundreds and saved many of the brave boys who lay wounded under the rebel works, giving them a chance to crawl back to our lines.” Webber later received the Medal of Honor for his gallantry.
Fahnestock purchased a second Henry and gave it to Webber, possibly in part to get his rifle back. Webber’s new Henry includes a plate inscribed: “Presented to A. P. Webber, Fife Major 86th Ill. Inf. by Lt. Col. A. L. Fahnestock for ‘Bravery in many Battles’ June 1864.”
The two Henrys survive today and are documented with other artifacts, thanks to efforts by Baxter B. Fite III on Fahnestock’s Find a Grave page: www.findagrave.com/memorial/48046797/allen_lewis-fahnesto...
Henrys continued to be in use after the war, notably by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, which annihilated five of seven companies of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, including its commander, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.
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Taken in 2016.
Josiah McElheny's mirrored Endlessly Repeating Twentieth-Century Modernism at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The word is about, there's something evolving,
whatever may come, the world keeps revolving
They say the next big thing is here,
that the revolution's near,
but to me it seems quite clear
that it's all just a little bit of history repeating
The newspapers shout a new style is growing,
but it don't know if it's coming or going,
there is fashion, there is fad
some is good, some is bad
and the joke is rather sad,
that its all just a little bit of history repeating
.. and I've seen it before
.. and I'll see it again
.. yes I've seen it before
.. just little bits of history repeating
Some people don't dance, if they don't know who's singing,
why ask your head, it's your hips that are swinging
life's for us to enjoy
woman, man, girl and boy,
feel the pain, feel the joy
aside set the little bits of history repeating
.. just little bits of history repeating
.. and I've seen it before
.. and I'll see it again
.. yes I've seen it before
.. just little bits of history repeating
[Propellerheads & Mrs Shirley Bassey]
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** Added to some additional groups about color GREEN about a decade later, but not repeating any that it was already in.
December 2023
This fortnight the theme was transport.
I loved the repeating shapes, colours, and composition of this shot hence I put or forward!
This sort of minimal abstract is a very specialist subject though so I don't expect a massive amount of reaction from the general public that get to choose the winning image :).
Strobist:
285HV overhead through umbrella. 1/4
285HV camera left bare 10 feet away. 1/16
reflector in front of me camera left.
Taken from Monas at the event of the celebration of Indonesia Army. Some people rather to dress up and the history repeating again.
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"Let me out so I can come back in again!" Over and over and over, until she accepts that the snow is here to stay.
ODC-Repeating Numbers
I was rummaging through one of the dressers upstairs and came across this. This fake million dollar bill was printed in 2000...another repetition of zeros! This is John Sparrow Thompson the 5th Canadian Prime Minister. I wonder what Thompson would think about his name being on FAKE money! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Canadian_Ministry
"Endlessly Repeating 20th Century Modern" created 2007
by glass artist Josiah McElheny
Seen in the lobby of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. One of four sides of the piece. More of these images to come as I have time to process them. Every person in the museum with a camera was fixated on this artwork. With good cause.