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Tim Davis (Significant Contribution by a Student Member), Bob Barr (Significant Contribution by a Member in Public Practice), Gayla Samuels (Significant Contribution by a Member in Industry)
by orangeya
this is a part of another shot...
www.flickr.com/photos/jo0olz/2352310902/
orangeya asked me to post it alone.. so i did
Gourmet Reception at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room to celebrate Flavors of Monaco: A Week of Monegasque Cuisine featuring executive chefs from the Principality. Chef Christian Garcia, Executive Chef to HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco' and Chef Philippe Joannes, Executive Chef of the Fairmont Monte Carlo, awarded "Meilleur Ouvrier de France"
This weekend was full of my first paying photography gigs...this is definitely not my usual subject matter, and it felt really good to step outside the box.
I took these photos for a special effects student at the Tom Savini school...she was sooo talented!
She needed to use food in a project...and voila, sweet potato fetuses.
The CSX OCS exercises its trackage rights over the old GTW as it splits the signals at mp29 on the Elsdon Sub in Lansing.
Beyond Borders, A Collaborative discourse on the future of Nuclear Security, a special event at the International Conference on Nuclear Security: Shaping the Future, held at the Liechtenstein Garden Palace, Vienna, Austria. 20 May 2024
Panellists:
Mr. Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General
Ms. Tulia Ackson, President of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and Speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania
Ms. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security Affairs, United States of America
Mr. Jürgen Stock, INTERPOL Secretary General
Moderator:
Ms. Hannah Vaughan Jones
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Two ever-ready leather bags for my Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa and my KW Praktina's camera's arrived recently.
The bag for the Exakta is a special bag with a large nose that can accomodate the Carl Zeiss Biotar lens 1:1.5 f=75mm. It is made of 3 detachable parts. The interior is covered with a blue velvet.
I found also a lot of two waist-level finders, a model version 2 (years 1950's) with a big optical bloc giving a splendid magnification and a later version 5 with a modern focusing screen incorporating a Fresnel lens and a central micro prism zone (year 1960's). Both have their Exakta leather cases in good condition that could also fits the pentaprism finder.
The KW Praktina leather bag is more classical in two pieces with detachable shell.
About the Exakta Varex IIa and the Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar lens :
The camera arrived from Berlin, Zehlendorf to Lyon, France, on February 7, 2024, It indeed a "wunderbar" Ihagee Exakta Varex IIa, year 1957, with its normal lens Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 1:2 f=58mm "Q1" (First Quality).
The camera was offered by the vendor to his father who was a former development engineer at Ihagee company, Dresden, Germany. During all his career he could even not imagine in DDR to buy such wonderful and expensive camera almost all exported abroad. He carefully restored and maintained the camera to he factory standards.
The Exakta Varex was, for a time in the fifties, before the Nikon F, a trusted system 35m SLR camera that was successfully used in professional, technical and scientific appliances. The Varex followed the Kine Exakta started before WWII in the 30's. The Varex IIa (1956-1959) is tough to be the series of best quality. Exakta stopped the production in 1970 with the ultimate VX1000 but several further camera's were after sold out under the name of Exakta as the Exakta RTL1000 for instance.
About the KW Praktina camera :
This specimen is the version 2 (code 110) produced at about 25.000 exemplars from June 1958 to Mai 1960. Praktina camera's were very high grade precision and quality machines much more sophisticated than the Praktica and the Praktiflex also produced by KW. Praktina was a "system" SLR 35 mm camera with a an impressive range of possible accessories and lenses including large capacity 17m film back and several motors.
My camera came with the mechanical 12-view motor and two Carl Zeiss normal lenses : a Tessar 1:2.8 f=50mm and a Flexon 1:2 f=50mm. This later Flexon lens was designed for the Praktina by Carl Zeiss Jena to modernize the old Biotar 1:2 f=58mm and to fulfill a more closer definition of a "normal lens" to the focal of 50mm. The lens is also much more compact. It was soon renamed "Pancolar" by Zeiss later on.
The Praktina has its own bayonet mount that ressemble a bit to the Canon FD mount with a locking ring on the camera body. The mount has a very large diameter. The IIa model has a new fully automatic diaphragm stop down system. With the Zeiss Flexon, the iris preset is indeed like with a modern camera.
Praktina is a completely different camera compared to the Praktica IV. The body is very well equilibrated and more compact not very far for the Olympus OM-1. The design looks particularly modern and the camera is particularly pleasant to manipulate.
The productiotn suddenlty stopped in May 1960 after the governmental decision to drop down the imposed prices of all camera's DDR by 30%! Praktina was then likely too expensive to be produced normally. As consequence, the less expensive and less performant Praktica's continued when KW became part of the VEB Pentacon.
April 13, 2024
69004 Lyon
France
Special Olympic athletes, club teams and first-timers joined at Campo di Bocce in Los Gatos for the 2015 Bocce Fundraiser.
On October 22, 2022, the fall sports season concluded with the 2022 Special Olympics New Jersey Fall Games! Athletes across the state trained hard and competed in Cycling, Equestrian, Flag Football, Golf, and Soccer!
Photo by Marco Catini
Ceremony to receive a Special Commendation on WestPac cruise, June 1974. Left to right: Barman, Bob Castro, Ed Jones, Cheely.
Prescott Speed Hill Climb Car #201, Vauxhall Quartermaine Special (1924), 4224cc. Driver: Miss Nicola Quartermaine
St Mary's RC Church, Dodge Hill, Heaton Norris, Stockport.
Picture taken from 'Roman Rd'.
[The Buxton-Manchester Roman Rd would have forded the Mersey river near here.]
The photograph was taken in Inis Moor on the Arann Islands. The view from the window shows the harbour on Inis .Moor
Paddington Bear doffs his hat in London's Covent Garden Market, one of many interpretations of Michael Bond's creation ahead of the movie release for this Peruvian bear