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Belgium: German Occupied (1914-18) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Nikon Nikkor-P・C Auto 1:3.5 55mm Prime and Fotodiox Pro Nik-M43 Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Czechoslovakia (pre-1956) - Panasonic Lumix GF2 with Legacy Komine Vivitar 1:2.8 55mm Macro Prime (OM mount) with Fotodiox Pro OM-M43 adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Postage Stamps in Black & White - 5 (of 8) - Canon EOS M (2012) and Fotodiox EOS-EOS M adapter with Vivitar Series 1 (1980) Macro Focusing 1:3.5 70-210 mm VMC Auto Zoom (PK Mount) with Fotodiox PK-EOS Adapter - Photographer R ussell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Mud wagons and more elegant, decorated Concord coaches carried passengers and mail throughout the country during the 19th century. The ride in these hard wagons over rough roads and dusty deserts or in frigid snowy weather tested the endurance of even the most seasoned traveler.
Exhibit at the National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C.
Argentina - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Komine Vivitar 1:2.8 55mm Macro Prime (Fotodiox OM to M4/3 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Amelia Earhart wore this brown leather flight suit designed for female pilots. Fully lined with orange, red, and brown plaid flannel, it provided insulation from the elements while flying in an open cockpit or at high, chilly altitudes. The snap collar protected against drafts.
Exhibit at the National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C.
Postage Stamps in Black & White - 4 (of 8) - Canon EOS M (2012) and Fotodiox EOS-EOS M adapter with Vivitar Series 1 (1980) Macro Focusing 1:3.5 70-210 mm VMC Auto Zoom (PK Mount) with Fotodiox PK-EOS Adapter - Photographer Ru ssell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Australia - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Komine Vivitar 1:2.8 55mm Macro Prime (Fotodiox OM to M4/3 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Argentina - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Komine Vivitar 1:2.8 55mm Macro Prime (Fotodiox OM to M4/3 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Canada 1898 - The world's, first Christmas stamp. Used,
Showing the British Empire marked in red.
Background colour omitted (areas of sea & ocean are normally blue or lavender).
I’m the kind of super-nerd that takes a perfect picture of a set of animal stamps and blogs about it! Do you remember the glory of the all-mighty stamp! That weird tasting glue with its DNA trapping power always makes me want to puke. When did mailing a letter feel like a nostalgia trip? It’s like playing a video arcade machine or seeing a pay-phone. Yes kids, back in the day anybody could use the many payphones around the world. Now even the homeless have to have cell phones if they want to call their dealer.
I wonder in the days of 2014 with the NSA spying on everybody and our country growing closer and closer to a police state, is it now safer to mail letters than texting or emailing someone? Think about that for a minute…..When you mail something is it read by computers, x-rayed a million times and hand searched by plastic glove wearing post office employees?
Surely any letter I mailed using a cute adorable and innocent looking pet would not be searched? Right? Right? Maybe that’s why I never won that super-lotto ticket? Well, the animals sure are cute arnt’ they?
I think I had originally planned to critique the photo quality of the pet pictures but I don’t care to do that right now. Maybe it’s because the stamps are long gone, hopefully not like the pets pictured. And hopefully nobody has made a clone of me from one of my used stamp. Think of that for a movie idea! The tag line at the bottom of the stamp states “Featuring animals adopted from shelters” does this mean these specific animals or are these stunt photo animals! I’m thinking the latter.
The lab and the other lab like dog with its tongue sticking out look too much alike. Where are all the other animals you can adopt like farm animals and stray mangy birds? Shelters are great, don’t get me wrong but have you ever seen a shelter animal look like the millionaire celebrity versions in these pictures? Where are the stamps of bloody and beaten animals dumped on the streets by their horrible owners? Now that would be a stamp collection worth keeping!
Australia - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Komine Vivitar 1:2.8 55mm Macro Prime (Fotodiox OM to M4/3 Adapter) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
In this video, I explain the story behind my stamp blog's huge July 2020 update.
Please visit my stamp blog- stamplibrary.info
This is a huge batch of scans, nearly 700 stamps. I queued the posts to auto publish every few days, so visit the blog (stamplibrary.info ) once in a while. There's posts queued all the way to 2023.
My 2018 video about my first major batch of scanned stamps in 2015: youtu.be/aDu-MunNiuI
I also uploaded the entire June/ July 2020 batch on Flickr if you prefer to view it in one sitting: www.flickr.com/photos/hey-gem/collections/72157714938834906/
Timestamps:
00:00 intro
00:18 2015 to 2017 era of my stamp blog
01:16 more sporadic posts from 2018 to mid 2020
02:06 story behind scanning this huge batch of new stamps in late June 2020
07:00 End and behind the scenes
#philately #stamps #stampcollection
Belgium (pre-1955) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Nikon Nikkor-P・C Auto 1:3.5 55mm Prime and Fotodiox Pro Nik-M43 Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Cuba (pre-1956) - Panasonic Lumix GF2 with Legacy Komine Vivitar 1:2.8 55mm Macro Prime (OM mount) with Fotodiox Pro OM-M43 adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Canada (1949) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Yi 42.5mm 1:1.8 Prime (M43 Mount) - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Postage Stamps in Black & White - 7 (of 8) - Canon EOS M (2012) and Fotodiox EOS-EOS M adapter with Vivitar Series 1 (1980) Macro Focusing 1:3.5 70-210 mm VMC Auto Zoom (PK Mount) with Fotodiox PK-EOS Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Belgian Congo (1953) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Nikon Nikkor-P・C Auto 1:3.5 55mm Prime and Fotodiox Pro Nik-M43 Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Postage Stamps in Black & White - 6 (of 8) - Canon EOS M (2012) and Fotodiox EOS-EOS M adapter with Vivitar Series 1 (1980) Macro Focusing 1:3.5 70-210 mm VMC Auto Zoom (PK Mount) with Fotodiox PK-EOS Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Alice Prichard, a 33-year-old stewardess working in Titanic's first class, wrote this letter home during the voyage from Cherbourg to Queenstown. She advises "Olive" to "be good at figures as there are lots of jobs [for] lady cashiers here in the restaurant and two lady attendants for the Turkish baths." The envelope, which is from another letter, shows that Prichard survived the Titanic disaster and later worked as a stewardess aboard Oceanic.
Exhibit at the National Postal Museum, Washington, D.C.
Czechoslovakia (1953) - Panasonic Lumix GF2 with Legacy Komine Vivitar 1:2.8 55mm Macro Prime (OM mount) with Fotodiox Pro OM-M43 adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Don't Cry for Me Argentina... 1952 Argentina stamps featuring Evita, María Eva Duarte de Perón, the First Lady of Argentina during 1946-1952.
Cuba (pre-1956) - Panasonic Lumix GF2 with Legacy Komine Vivitar 1:2.8 55mm Macro Prime (OM mount) with Fotodiox Pro OM-M43 adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Belgium (1956): Become a Blood Donor - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Nikon Nikkor-P・C Auto 1:3.5 55mm Prime and Fotodiox Pro Nik-M43 Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Postage Stamps in Black & White - 8 (of 8) - Canon EOS M (2012) and Fotodiox EOS-EOS M adapter with Vivitar Series 1 (1980) Macro Focusing 1:3.5 70-210 mm VMC Auto Zoom (PK Mount) with Fotodiox PK-EOS Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Belgium (pre-1955) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Nikon Nikkor-P・C Auto 1:3.5 55mm Prime and Fotodiox Pro Nik-M43 Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Belgian Congo (1953) - Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II with Legacy Nikon Nikkor-P・C Auto 1:3.5 55mm Prime and Fotodiox Pro Nik-M43 Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
Austria - Panasonic Lumix GF2 with Legacy Nikon Nikkor-P・C Auto 1:3.5 55mm Prime and Fotodiox Pro Nik-M43 Adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.
The Smithsonian's National Postal Museum is located in the historic City Post Office Building, which served as the Washington, D.C., post office from 1914 through 1986. The Museum opened to the public in 1993 and its five galleries explore America's postal history. Its diverse collection of postage stamps include: international federally issued stamps (such as air mail, semi-postal, and official), color proofs, and essays. Postmaster provisional stamps, international reply coupons, private stamps, and stamp forgeries are also in the collection.
The processes behind the production of postal issues are illustrated by printing presses; printing and embossing dies and plates; pre-cancel plates and rollers; engraving and etching tools; and more. Adornments worn by postal employees include uniforms, service badges, flight suits, and whistles. Other items include door knockers, hand stamps, mailboxes, mailbags, metering machines, parcel post containers, patent models, posters, scales, signs, and vehicles used in delivering the mail. The gifts offered in the museum store is reflective of he documents and objects in the collection of the National Postal Museum.
Chile (pre-1936) - Panasonic Lumix GF2 with Nikon Micro-Nikkor-P.C Auto 1:3.5 55mm (F mount) with Fotodiox Pro Nic-M43 adapter - Photographer Russell McNeil PhD (Physics) lives on Vancouver Island, where he works as a writer.