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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, and having moved from professional Nikon equipment to consumer bodies and lenses, I travel light less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 22.893+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on March 7th 2018
CREATIVE RF gty.im/925773952 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 3,019th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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**** This frame was chosen on August 7th 2018 to appear on FLICKR EXPLORE (Highest Ranking: #80. This is my 103rd photograph to be selected, which for me is both amazing and exciting, as I never view my images as worthy compared to some of the awesome photography out there. EXPLORE is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period.
Flickr receives about 6,000 uploads every minute -- That's about 8.6 million photos a day! From this huge group of images, the Flickr Interestingness algorithm chooses only 500 images to showcase for each 24-hour period. That's only one image in every 17,000!..... so I am really thrilled to have a frame picked and most grateful to every one of the 17.950 Million people who have visited, favourite and commented on this and all of my other photographs here on my FLICKR site. *****
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty seven metres at 10:29am on Wednesday February 28th 2018 off Woolwich Road and Treetops Close in the grounds of Abbey Wood open space in Bexleyheath, Kent, England.
'The beast from the East', a Siberian cold front and weather phenomenon, has swept across the United Kingdom duringh the past few days, and last night was Kent's turn to brace herself for the deluge of snow.
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Nikon D7200 10mm 1/40s f/11.0 iso100 Exposure Compensation +1.3EV RAW (14 bit Lossless compressed) Image size 6000 x 4000). Colour space RGB. Handheld. AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance. Auto Active D-lighting. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control on.
Nikkor AF-S DX 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5G ED DX. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL battery. Hoodman H-EYEN22S soft rubber eyecup. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 32GB Class 10 SDHC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS module.
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LATITUDE: N 51d 29m 9.90s
LONGITUDE: E 0d 8m 14.60s
ALTITUDE: 57.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 69.10MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 38.40MB
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PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D7200 Firmware versions A 1.10 C 2.015 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4, "Carl Haviland 1954-2012" - on hire to Colas Rail Freight due to a shortage of their own 37s - leads an Ultrasonic Test Unit (UTU) through Goostrey running as 3Q81 23:48 Crewe Carriage Sidings L&NWR Site to Derby RTC.
EMDX SD70ACe tier3 demos power CSX Stilesboro, Plant Bowen coal train N290 by the Golf Course on August 23, 2013 at Cartersville, Georgia.
First test lighting the car with the new Alien Bees.
Strobist information: 2 Alien bee AB800's front light using Pual C Buff Octabox and rear lit bare.
Triggered with Cybersyncs.
Assisted by my 15 year old son Trevor.
Horizon Kompakt
Fuji Acros 100 BW negative film
HC-110 dilution B
Epson Perfection V800
Silverfast AI Studio
A set of 8 Testors Enamels and 1 Paint Thinner used for model airplanes and ships. Purchased for $4.49 (USD) back in the '70's. Included a brush. Cement purchased separately.
Now on Amazon for only $20!
For Crazy Tuesday
Theme: Container & Its Contents
43303 hauling the second test run on the day through The Langtons
(1Q02 10.17 Leicester L.I.P. to Leicester L.I.P.)
Testing and loving looks synonymous now, at least to me.
A Thai-looking structure in the park of Ueno, Tokyo, Japan.
Built by the Thai government as a gift for the Japanese.
A recent addition to the Colas fleet, ex DRS tractor 37612, together with 37421 form the motive power for the 10.49 Burton - Carlisle test train, heading north past the Lancaster Canal at Catterall on Tues 31st July 2018.
As seen through my new macro lens, this is the test (calcium carbonate structural shell) of a small sea urchin that was unknown to science until one was purchased on eBay in 2006 and subesqently described by Natural History Museum scientists Simon Coppard and Heinke Schultz. I bought this test on eBay right around that time, unaware of this fact.
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Sea urchins are members of the phylum Echinodermata, which also includes sea stars, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, and crinoids. Like other echinoderms they have fivefold symmetry (called pentamerism) and a mouth locatted ventrally. This species is from New Caledonia, and this particular test is about 1.6cm wide.
Ok here's what happened. I simply asked Kim to hold the light while I was making to focus. And well... this happened ;)
Under the watchful eyes of the Marquis of Anglesey ,Network Rail's High speed test train approaches the Britannia Bridge. The grey palisade fence is an addition since the last visit!
47627 City of Oxford heading south through Bensham on 6th July 1989 with a short test train composed of four Mk4 coaches and Test Coach 10.
Scan from a 645 Kodachrome 64 transparency.
Trying out a Sigma 150-600 in the photographic shop... this was in the window over the way. Impressive lens, but boy is it heavy.
First you must plant the seed, then you must wait for it to grow into something beautiful.
After testing at the National Research Council Canada facilities in Ottawa for over two months, part of VIA Rail's new Siemens Charger set is heading back towards the Montreal Maintenance Centre. It is blasting through Dorval with a Siemens Charger locomotive bringing up the rear and is running as VIA 628.