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Active Assignment Weekly Jan 3-Jan 10: Wheel
WIT-Cheese wheel still in the foil, did not want to include the brand name, so I put them all upside down on my glass too stove, then switched the camera to Sepia ........that is it nothing exciting.
The Australian Imperial Force was very active in the Artois region and Fromelles is a poignant place for Australians. The Battle of Fromelles was fought there from 19th to 20th July 1916.
In a twenty seven hour period the Australian 5th Division suffered 5533 casualties, with 1917 killed, of whom 1299 were unidentified. Also approximately 400 were taken prisoner. To illustrate the extent of the losses the 60th Battalion Victoria Regiment started the battle with 887 men and when the fighting was over had 1 officer and 106 men left. It is also estimated that the British Army had 1,547 men killed or wounded and that the German Army lost 1,500 soldiers killed or wounded in the Battle of Fromelles.
The attack at Fromelles was planned as a diversionary attack to the north of the battle raging on the Somme. Fromelles had already seen action in 1915 when British efforts to take Aubers Ridge had been repulsed with heavy losses.
The Fromelles attack in 1916 saw the baptism of the Australian Imperial Force to fighting on the Western Front as the units sent down to the Somme had yet to be committed to action.
As on the Somme the provisional artillery bombardment did not cut the German barbed wire as hoped would be the case and the German machine guns, with a clear view of the attackers, were able to wreak havoc.
The battlefield saw many acts of heroism as the Australians found themselves cut off and had to fight their way back to their own lines. Many wounded were left in no-man’s land and needed rescue.
V.C.Corner Cemetery contains the remains of over 400 Australians who died at Fromelles whose bodies were found on the battlefield but could not be identified and rather than marking individual graves a wall records the names of all those who died. The memorial there commemorates the 410 Australians buried in a communal grave and the total of 1,299 Australian casualties whose bodies could not be identified. There are no headstones but 410 red rose bushes grow above the unidentified remains. The plaque at V.C.Corner states:-
“IN HONOUR OF 410 UNKNOWN AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS HERE BURIED WHO WERE AMONG THE FOLLOWING 1,299 OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCES KILLED IN THE ATTACK AT FROMELLES JULY 19TH/20TH 1916.”
Just along the road from VC Corner is the striking “Cobbers” Memorial. A tall bronze figure of an Australian bringing in a wounded comrade is a tribute to the many who went into no-man’s land to bring in their wounded mates. It stands on the spot where the 14th Brigade was held overnight. It depicts a 40 year old ex-farmer from Victoria, Sergeant Simon Fraser of the 57th Battalion. Whilst out on the battlefield bringing back the wounded, Fraser heard a man shout “Don’t forget me, cobber.” Fraser brought the man back on his next venture into no-man’s land. The statue was carved by Peter Corlett of Melbourne and was inaugurated on 5th July 1998. It is a splendid piece.
Fraser was later promoted to Second Lieutenant in the 58th Battalion and was killed at the second Battle of Bullecourt in 1917. His body was never recovered and is one of those commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneaux Memorial
Maker: Michel Berthaud (1845-1912)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: cdv back
Size: 2.25" x 4"
Location: France
Object No. 2018.331b
Shelf: E-17-B
Publication:
Other Collections:
Provenance:
Notes: Berthaud was an associate of Berne-Bellecour from 1867 to 1870, he succeeded him until the end of the 90s - Workshops in Paris: 9 Rue Cadet (at the sign Helios) then 31 Bellefond street. - Numerous provincial branches including Amiens, Evreux. - Member of the French Society of Photography in 1873
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Active Assignment Weekly: Long exposure. I confess, I intended to do some long exposure at the Latin American street festival yesterday, but I plain forgot.
Here is a tram (streetcar) going past our building. Taken from our balcony on the 36th floor with the camera way over the railing.
What it took: Saturation maxed, contrast maxed, Flickr filter Lorno. Cropped a few mm to get rid of a shadow of a car in the top right corner.
It's very sunny and bright right now, well, it has been for the last few weeks. It's difficult to do long exposures during the day with a max of f/8. I think this came out ok, though, in the end.
Active Assignment Weekly - Nature As Abstract
AAW - Oct. 24-31, 2022.
Cropped image, increased contrast, and decreased exposure.
Link to assignment:
www.flickr.com/groups/activeassignment/discuss/7215772191...
Link to assignment photos: (Oct. 24-31, 2022)
www.flickr.com/groups/activeassignment/pool/with/52540385653
Active Assignment Weekly: Haunted/Haunting
The assignment - It’s a bit early, but show something haunting in your image. Stretch the definition of haunting and show us something “hauntingly beautiful,” “hauntingly familiar,” or just plain haunted.
Restriction: None
Dare: Try to represent two different time periods in your image.
WIT: The shot of the building was taken during a Haunted Chicago tour. This is the Oriental Theater, which is built on the same location and footprint of the doomed Iroquois Theater. On December 30, 1903, more than 600 people were killed during the deadliest single-building fire in the United States. The Oriental, as a result, is said to be haunted and many ghostly shadows and noises are heard throughout. Alas, I did not see a ghost, but my ghostly pale beautiful daughter volunteered to pose in a window of our house taken at the same angle. I then removed her head from that and copied into a decreased opacity layer of the shot I took of the theater. I adjusted saturation and added a cooling filter in PSE.
NAEMI
(National Art Exhibitions by the Mentally ill)
Radio-Active Records
Fort Lauderdale, FL
March 15, 2008
www.myspace.com/radio_active_records
ART BY:
Mario Mesa
Ramon Losa
Echo
Roger Sadler
Lisa Chuan-Lee Cheng
Eric Holmes
PERFORMANCES BY:
Mike Vullo
Mr. Entertainment
Tongues of the Heartworm
Richard Vergez
Brandon Samdahl
Livid Kittens
Mark Zolezzi
Dan Hosker
PLAYING THE MUSIC OF::
Daniel Johnston
Roky Erickson
Syd Barrett
Skip Spence
Brian Wilson
Wild Man Fischer
Photo by: Mindy Hertzon
McDonnell-Douglas NF-15B Eagle NASA 837 The McDonnell Douglas F-15 S/MTD (Short Takeoff and Landing/Maneuver Technology Demonstrator) is a modified F-15 Eagle. Developed as a technology demonstrator, the F-15 S/MTD carried out research for studying the effects of vectored thrust and enhanced maneuverability. The aircraft used for the project was pre-production TF-15A (F-15B) #1 (USAF S/N 71-0290), the first delivered F-15 airframe, which is on loan to NASA from the United States Air Force
“Hyper-networking” teens (those who spend more than three hours per school day on online social networks) are 110% more likely to be a victim of cyberbullying, compared to those who don’t spend as much time on social networks.
Statistic taken from:http://www.covenanteyes.com/2012/01/17/bullying-statistics-fast-facts-about-cyberbullying/
Photo taken from:http://www.united-academics.org/magazine/8344/it-guys-are-ignorant/
This is a place marker for the Active Assignment Weekly group, as suggested in this thread.
If you were confused by the time zone adjustments, and just missed the cut for this week's assignment, please send Thingo a flickr message, and we may be able to include your photograph. You can see the time remaining on the current Assignment, and also the time for voting, here.
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Philadelphia Phenom's at a very young age.
Cameron Ayers, Byron Whiting, Chris North, Woody Redding, Travis Robinson, Tony Chennault, Dylan Moody, HJ Gaskins, Derek Carter, Warren Gillis, Joey Gripper, Malik Garner and Paris Higgs back in 2005
Taken for "Active Assignment Weekly" YinYang
ASSIGNMENT: Yin and yang are generalizations of the antithesis or mutual correlation between certain objects or phenomena in the natural world, combining to create a unity of opposites.
WIT: I opened my I Ching to the hexagram of T'ai (Peace). It is made up of two trigrams: the Yin (female/dark/yielding) trigram over the Yang (male/light/creative) trigram. The method of consulting the oracle is tossing 3 coins; that's why the coins are included. The shell looks to me like the stylized YinYang symbol. The image of the two weathered hands, slightly touching and resting peacfully, is from a card I happened to have. It seems to epitomize the YinYang principle in relationships. I put a bamboo mat over a small bureau under a window and closed one of the curtains to give a dark/light effect to reinforce the YinYang theme.
Thank you North60 for the cropping suggestion - as you can see, I used it.
Active Assignment Weekly for December 28-January 3: Metal/Metallic
This week's assignment is to explore the challenge of photographing shiny metallic objects. The subject doesn't necessarily need to be made of metal, but it must convey the essence of being metallic (such as having the iridescent and reflective properties of metal). Heavily rusted metal does't count. Look for items like chrome, polished steel, freshly cut metal surfaces, spoons, foil. Buff it up and show me the shine.
Dare: Photograph a spherical object and/or incorporate lots of color
Restriction: None
This was yet another idea derived while sitting on the john. This is a toilet paper holder for spare rolls and I thought it would fit the assignment rather nicely.
So, I originally shot this with a black background but then I noticed the dare while I was adding my WIT and I thought I should reshoot it with some color :-) I am glad I did because I got this cool shadow with the lighter background.
WIT: Used my SB600 strobe on the floor pointing at the paper holder with the paper holder in between the camera and the flash. Tried different angles until I got a result I liked. In Lightroom cropped and upped contrast.
Students shared opportunities to get involved and take on leadership roles at the Student Activities Fair September 2 at William Woods in Fulton.
This is a close up, false coloured, Hydrogen Alpha image of Sunspot AR2741, which is currently visible on the Sun.
This was captured on 12th May at approx. 11:30 BST 2019 from my backyard in the UK.
Equipment used :
Sky-watcher 120mm Evostar Achro
Daystar Quark Chromosphere Ha Eyepiece
Point Grey Blackfly mono CMOS
Making an active effort over the years during the Great American Smokeout, held annually on the third Thursday of November has been an energetic exercise to support those in need to commit to quit - just for the day - using any type of tobacco product. From advocating pedal power instead of dip or chew, elliptical workouts in lieu of vaping, and this year's Turkey Trot 5K in place of smoking, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton can provide a number of resources to help anyone stop their nicotine habit. For more insight on tobacco cessation, call 360-475-4818. (Official Navy photo montage)
www.dvidshub.net/news/409731/commit-quit-with-help-naval-...
Maker: Roger Fenton (1819-1869)
Born: UK
Active: UK
Medium: salted paper print
Size: 5 5/8 in x 3 in
Location:
Object No. 2026.392u
Shelf:
Publication: Lovell Reeve, 5, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London
Other Collections:
Provenance: Madoc Books
Rank:
Notes: The Conway in the Stereoscope is a landmark 1860 Victorian travel book featuring North Wales. It combines descriptive text by lawyer James Bridge Davidson with 20 original albumen stereograph photographs by pioneering photographer Roger Fenton. The work allowed mid-19th-century armchair tourists to view the River Conway and its surrounding scenery in three-dimensional depth.Fenton’s images highlight the dramatic landscapes, historic landmarks, and towns (such as Betws-y-Coed and Conway) along the river. By mounting two slightly offset photos next to each other, the book provided an immersive 3D experience when viewed through a specialized stereoscope. It stands as both a beautiful relic of Victorian "armchair tourism" and a masterclass in early stereoscopic photography.
Roger Fenton (20 March 1819 - 8 August 1869) was a pioneering British photographer and one of the first war photographers. Fenton, trained as a lawyer, visited the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park in London in 1851 and was impressed by the photography on display there. He then visited Paris to learn the waxed paper calotype process, most likely from Gustave Le Gray, its inventor. By 1852 he had photographs exhibited in England, and travelled to Kiev, Moscow and St. Petersburg making calotypes there, and photographed views and architecture around Britain. He published a call for the setting up of a photographic society.
In 1855 Fenton went to the Crimean War on assignment for the publisher Thomas Agnew to photograph the troops, with a photographic assistant Marcus Sparling and a servant and a large van of equipment. Despite high temperatures, breaking several ribs, and suffering from cholera, he managed to make over 350 usable large format negatives. An exhibition of 312 prints was soon on show in London. Sales were not as good as expected, possibly because the war had ended.
Fenton also produced a number of Stereoscopes of architecture, landscapes and still life subjects. He then produced a series of photographs of cathedrals. For reasons that are not clear, he gave up taking photographs in 1861 and returned to the law; it has been suggested that this was because of his dislike for the increasing commercialization of photography
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Handbag Organizer Active di desain khusus untuk wanita yang sangat aktif. Tau dong, berapa banyak barang yang harus dibawa oleh wanita modern dan aktif.. dari netbook, HP yang lebih dari satu, kamera digital beserta kabel-kabel chargernya, calculator, key e-banking/token, dompet kartu nama, flash disk, buku tabungan/cek/giro, kosmetik, tisue, obat, permen, minuman, dan etc yang sangat banyak untuk dibawa karena banyak kesibukannya dalam sehari-hari..
HBO Active D’renbellony mampu menampung dan mengorganizer semuanya..
Ukuran lebih besar sehingga dapat menampung netbook 10” atau Ipad yang lagi trend di jaman i-net saat ini.
Kantong lebih banyak untuk mengorganizer barang-barang bawaan yang sangat banyak.
Dilengkapi dengan :
* Dompet kecil untuk uang koin, sehingga tidak repot saat mengambilnya
* Dompet besar untuk tempat semua kabel-kabel yang perlu dibawa
* Kantong bagian dalam diberi zipper untuk menyimpan buku bank/cek/giro, dan yang penting lainnya
* Zipper / resleting, bisa dipake klo takut brgnya keluar. tapi klo ga mao ribet, zippernya kalo ga dipake bs tegak berdiri sehingga ga mengganggu
* Tali yg bs digunakan buat nenteng HBO Active. Tapi kalo sudah didalam tas talinya bs dilepas en bs berfungsi menjadi cantolan kunci dan dompet koin. Dilepas biar tali yang tinggi gak bikin ribet saat tangan kita masuk ke dalam tas untuk mencari sesuatu.
Bahan BERBEDA, LEBIH SOFT, LEBIH ELEGANT..
Ukuran : 27 cm x 13 cm x 21 cm
Harga: IDR 125.000,-
Tersedia dalam 8 pilihan warna:
Black
Brown
Khaki
Khaki Offwhite
Offwhite
Pink
Red
Turquoise Blue
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I think this picture captures the feel of the BC coast in January. Taken while riding a ferry (The Queen of Cumberland) through Active Pass in the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia.
Maker: André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819-1889)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print
Size: 7 7/8 x 9 1/8 in
Location:
Object No. 2024.205
Shelf: B-2
Publication:
Other Collections:
Provenance: Maurice Levert collection, Disderi Archive, Pescheteau-Badin, Godeau & Leroy, Paris
Notes: numbered '40543' in ink (recto). Prince Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte (9 September 1822 – 17 March 1891), usually called Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte or Jérôme Bonaparte, was the second son of Jérôme, King of Westphalia, youngest brother of Napoleon I, and his second wife Catharina of Württemberg. Following the death of his nephew Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial in 1879, he claimed headship of the House of Bonaparte until his death in 1891. An outspoken liberal however, he was passed over as heir in his cousin's final will, instead choosing his elder son Victor, who was favored by most Bonapartists. From the 1880s he was one of the stronger supporters of General Georges Boulanger, together with other monarchist forces. As well as bearing the title of Prince Napoléon, given to him by his cousin Emperor Napoleon III in 1852, he was also 2nd Prince of Montfort, 1st Count of Meudon and Count of Moncalieri, following his marriage with Maria Clotilde of Savoy in 1859. His popular nickname, Plon-Plon, stemmed from his difficulty in pronouncing his own name while still a child, although other notable historians and contemporary letters by his nephew Colonel Jérôme Bonaparte claim it was because he ran in cowardice during battle when the bombs fell. Another nickname, "Craint-Plomb" ("Afraid-of-Lead",) was given to him by the army due to his absence from the Battle of Solferino.
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819 - 1889) a self-taught daguerreotypist, researched and improved upon the existing collodion-on-glass negative process, which he outlined in his first publication, Manuel Opératoire de Photographie sur Collodion Instantané, 1853. That same year, he returned to Paris and opened the largest studio in Paris, which spread across two floors. It was there that he introduced his carte-de-visite portraits which were a great financial success. For the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle, he formed the Société du Palais de l'Industrie and obtained the rights to photograph all the products and works of art exhibited at the Exposition. Eder writes "Disdéri was considered the outstanding portrait photographer of his time in Paris. Napoleon III appointed him court photographer. In 1861, he instructed French officers in photography under orders from the minister of war. Disdéri's popularity is best shown by the fact that his character was introduced in 1861 as a star attraction on the stage of a small vaudeville theater in Paris by a realistic representation featuring his bald head and tremendous beard."
(Source: Andrew. Cahan)
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