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I took the day off and had a fantastic time putting the season ski pass to use at Sundance Ski Resort. The resort was packed powder with beautifully groomed runs. Four of the four lifts were running (it's a small resort!) with awesome weather - perhaps 35-40 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Exposure Program: Aperture Priority
Exposure: 1/320
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 100 (L1.0)
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Swap was to make inchies for different celebrations in the month of July: National Hot Dog Month; Build a Scarecrow Day; Hug a Cow Day; National Blueberry Month; National Junk Food Day; Cousins Day; Independence day and National Ice Cream Month
Swatch Pro in Trestles with pro surfers Stephanie Gilmore, Anastasia Ashley, Alana Blanchard, Lakey Peterson, Laura Enever, Sally Fitzgibbons, Coco Ho, Stephanie Gilmore, newcomers Nikki Van Dijk Djik and Tatiana Weston-Web, and more!
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography! New Instagram!
Goddess videos! vimeo.com/45surf
Nikon D810 Photos Pro Women's Surfing Van's US Open Sports Photography Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD !
I shot in DX mode which crops away the extra pixels and takes me 1.5X closer while allowing for up to 7 FPS with the Nikon D810's Nikon MB-D12 Battery Grip using the 8 AA battery option! 8 Duracles took me through around 3,000 shots no problem--maybe more! I was shooting at the equivalent of 900mm with the 1.5x crop factor! Pretty close! Had I gone with the Nikon D4s, I would have gotten 12 fps, but no DX crop factor, as the sensor has only around 14mp, compared to the d810's 36 megapixels! Sure the larger pixel size on the Nikon D4s full frame sensor comes in handy indoors or at night, but in the brigth sun, there's more than enough light for the smaller pixels in crop mode! Sure we lose some pixels from the outer edges when shooting in DX crop mode, but most of those pixels would be cropped away in lightroom anyway. And the smaller files make the memory cards last longer, while also upping the FPS to 7 shots per second! Not quite 12 FPS< but still awesome and enough I felt!
What a beautiful way to test the Nikon D810 and Tamron 150-600mm zoom lens for sports photography!
Athletic graceful girl goddesses! Tall, thin, fit and in shape! Pro women's surfers form the van's us open wearing both long wetsuits and bikini bottoms with shorty wetsuit tops/summer wetsuits. Sexy, beautiful beach babes and water goddesses all! Many are professional swimsuit bikini / surf lifestyle models too!
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Autofocus lens for Nikon AF-D Cameras.
The new Nikon D810 rocks for sports photography New Instagram!
Alana Blanchard is a sea goddess!
Alana Blanchard & Stephanie Gilmore Swatch Pro Trestles Pro Women's Surfing Van's US Open Sports Photography Wiht New Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD Lens for Nikon
45SURF Hero's Odyssey Mythology Photography
Homer's Odyssey: Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide. . . Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; --Homer's Odyssey translated by Samuel Butler
John Daniel Hinton, (Jack) VC, was born in Southland on 17 September 1909. Hinton is remembered primarily for his bravery in Greece during WWII, which earned him a Victoria Cross.
Hinton served New Zealand as a soldier in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF) during the Second World War and was awarded the Victoria Cross for leading an assault in Greece in 1941. The Victoria cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
At the outbreak of war, Hinton enlisted in Colonel Kippenberger's 20th Battalion 2nd NZEF (the Canterbury Regiment), and rapidly rose to the rank of sergeant. In Greece, during the Division’s first action, Hinton was attached to a group of soldiers who were to stay in reserve and provide reinforcements for the Division if needed. This group was sent to the Greek port of Kalamata when the Allied troops were ordered to evacuate Greece. On the night of 28 April 1941, Hinton fought his way down a narrow street, destroying several machine gun posts and attacking an armoured self propelled gun, before being severely wounded in the stomach. Attempts to evacuate Kalamata were abandoned, and the remaining Allied troops, including Hinton, were captured. Hinton spent the rest of the war in prisoner of war camps in Greece and Germany.
Medals are not normally conferred on soldiers while they are prisoners, therefore it was a major break with precedent when the announcement of the award of the Victoria Cross to Sergeant Hinton was made on 17 October 1941. Hinton was presented with the ribbon of his medal by a German general at a parade in a prisoner of war camp. Hinton at the time was being held in solitary confinement after one of several unsuccessful escape attempts.
The image above shows a group of Victoria Cross medal winners, including Jack Hinton, at a luncheon celebrating their awards. Hinton's signature can be seen second from the left. The photograph is part of the papers of Sir Walter Nash, who was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1957 to 1960. After defeat in the 1960 election Nash remained MP for Hutt until his death in 1968. Other images from the Nash papers have been digitised and are available to view in an online exhibition archives.govt.nz/events/walters-world-nash-collection
Archives Reference: AEFZ 22625 W5727 2596/3102/0021-022
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A new outdoor exhibit at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center, titled the "Astrobiology Walk," displays Goddard's role in probing the origins of life on our world, in our solar system, and in the deep reaches of space.
Goddard's Astrobiology Walk consists of ten stations. Each station sits atop a stainless steel pillar and features two informational panels. One, which visitors read as they overlook the Goddard campus, describes basic science concepts in astrobiology. The other, read as visitors face the Rocket Garden's massive Delta rocket, explains Goddard's contribution to that science. Quick-response (QR) codes at each station link visitors' mobile devices directly to related web content.
Each station is also crowned with a three-dimensional icon – a visual representation of the science concepts being presented, whether an amino acid, a stromatolite rock from Australia, or a detailed model of an early barren Earth. Two icons, depicting the topography of Mars and the nucleus of comet Hartley 2, are based on satellite images and laser altimetry measurements. Exhibitology fabricated these two models using 3-D-laser printing, with later refinements by graphic artists. Visitors are allowed – and even encouraged – to touch everything.
The Astrobiology Walk was formally unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 2, 2013 at 2 p.m. EDT at the Visitor's Center.
For more information about the NASA Goddard Visitor's Center, visit:
www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/home/index.html
Credti: NASA/Goddard
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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A new outdoor exhibit at the NASA Goddard Visitor Center, titled the "Astrobiology Walk," displays Goddard's role in probing the origins of life on our world, in our solar system, and in the deep reaches of space.
Goddard's Astrobiology Walk consists of ten stations. Each station sits atop a stainless steel pillar and features two informational panels. One, which visitors read as they overlook the Goddard campus, describes basic science concepts in astrobiology. The other, read as visitors face the Rocket Garden's massive Delta rocket, explains Goddard's contribution to that science. Quick-response (QR) codes at each station link visitors' mobile devices directly to related web content.
Each station is also crowned with a three-dimensional icon – a visual representation of the science concepts being presented, whether an amino acid, a stromatolite rock from Australia, or a detailed model of an early barren Earth. Two icons, depicting the topography of Mars and the nucleus of comet Hartley 2, are based on satellite images and laser altimetry measurements. Exhibitology fabricated these two models using 3-D-laser printing, with later refinements by graphic artists. Visitors are allowed – and even encouraged – to touch everything.
The Astrobiology Walk was formally unveiled at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on October 2, 2013 at 2 p.m. EDT at the Visitor's Center.
For more information about the NASA Goddard Visitor's Center, visit:
www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/visitor/home/index.html
Credti: NASA/Goddard
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett VC, was born 3 January 1892 in Mt Eden Auckland and died 9 January 1983 in Stanley Bay, Auckland. He was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was the first New Zealander to be awarded the VC in the First World War.
The citation for Bassett’s Victoria Cross:
No. 4/515 Corporal Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett, New Zealand Divisional Signal Company. For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on the Chunuk Bair ridge in the Gallipoli Peninsula on 7th August, 1915. After the New Zealand Infantry Brigade had attacked and established itself on the ridge, Corporal Bassett, in full daylight and under a continuous and heavy fire, succeeded in laying a telephone line from the old position to the new one on Chunuk Bair. He has subsequently been brought to notice for further excellent and most gallant work connected with the repair of telephone lines by day and night under heavy fire.
—The London Gazette, No. 29238, 15 October 1915
Description attached to his Great War Medal winner photograph:
Sergeant (later Captain) Bassett was the first New Zealander to win the Victoria Cross in the present war. The award was for splendid bravery and devotion to duty during the famous attack on Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli. Bassett's duty was to establish and maintain communications at all costs. This he did, repeatedly exposing himself upon the shell-swept slopes in full daylight, and working amid a hail of bullets. Captain Wallingford reported of him "It was only possible to give Bassett one Victoria Cross, but he won it a dozen times over.
Archives New Zealand Reference: AALZ 25044 F721 (R24184878) (Great War Medal Winner Photograph)
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