What many thought would be over within a matter of months, dragged on for four long years. Now, One hundred years on, the World remembers the sacrifice of those who gave everything, and without whom a dark veil of evil might have cloaked this beautiful planet. The great war, WW1 began on 28th July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million Combatants and 7 million Civilians died as a result of the war.

Photograph taken at an altitude of Eighty eight metres, in the beauty of Twilight, prior to the magic of the Golden Hour around sunrise (Sunrise was at precisely 04:38am), at 03:09am on Thursday 12th June 2014 off Lullingstone Lane and Eagle Heights overlooking the field adjacent to the Viaduct in the village of Eynsford, Kent, England.

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Nikon D800 70mm 1/2.5s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14 bit) Nikon RC-DC2 remote shutter release. Manual focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.

Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF VRII. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.

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LATITUDE: N 51d 22m 7.99s

LONGITUDE: E 0d 11m 46.12s

ALTITUDE: 88.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 103.00MB

PROCESSED FILE: 22.74MB

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Processing power:

HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.0 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit

PlayStation 5

(Oberon/Flute Zen2/RDNA APU)

This chip is too big for me to do a whole die-shot under the microscope.

An AMD Ryzen 3600 CPU

XBox One X

(Jaguar/Polaris APU)

An Advanced Micro Devices FX-8350 CPU chip, seen before installation into a computer in Albany, CA. (where it only lasted 1 month before the m/b fried, probably due to heat...) Taken by a Nikon D610 at ISO 800 with a Micro-Nikkor 55mm ƒ 3.5 AI lens. A Nikon SB-300 flash was used, coming from camera left.

Image is 1/2 life-size on the image sensor...

My first AMD cpu, a 486 DX4/100 from the 90s on the left, and my latest, a Ryzen 9 3900X thats at the core of my newest comp :D

AMD Work Package 2 - Nutrition Sensitive Deltaic Agri-food Systems Planning Workshop, October 17-19.

Photo by Sam, WorldFish

This Ten second long exposure was taken at an altitude of Fifty four metres, in the magic of Twilight, prior to Sunrise which was at precisely 04:47am, at 02:28am on Thursday 3rd July 2014 off Lullingstone Lane next to the Lullingstone Roman Villa and overlooking the field adjacent to Eynsford Viaduct in the village of Eynsford, Kent, England.

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Nikon D800 92mm 10 Second exposure f/2.8 iso160 RAW (14 bit) Nikon RC-DC2 remote shutter release. AF-S Single point focus. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.

Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL batteries. Nikon DK-17M Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14.Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap.Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon MC-DC2 remote shutter release. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.

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LATITUDE: N 51d 21m 52.08s

LONGITUDE: E 0d 11m 48.55s

ALTITUDE: 54.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 103.00MB

PROCESSED FILE: 13.05MB

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Processing power:

HP Pavillion Desktop with AMD A10-5700 APU processor. HD graphics. 2TB with 8GB RAM. 64-bit Windows 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.90 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit

(K6-2 "Chomper" Model 8 | 1998)

(6080AW --> 6080AT)

(top metal layer | close up | @25x)

amd

Class of 2022 Commencement High Res--May

Ryan, Lenaya, and Alex by the Washington Monument. Washington, DC.

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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).

With visits now in excess of 17.172 Million to my FLICKR site, used primarily these days as a fun platform to reach friends and family as I have now sold my professional gear and now take a more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to FLICKR, GETTY IMAGES and everyone who drops by.

***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on September 26th 2016

CREATIVE RF gty.im/620567810 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**

This photograph became my 2,249th 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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Photograph taken at an altitude of Sixty one metres at 14:45pm on Friday 22nd May 2015 along the Glen Nevis Road South East from Fort William heading towards Ben Nevis, at the beautiful waterfalls near Achriabhach where the River Nevis flows down into the Water of Nevis, Scotland.

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Nikon D800 24mm 1/4s f/22.0 iso100 RAW (14-bit) AF-S single point focus. manual exposure. matrix metering. Auto white balance.

Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries. Manfrotto MT057C3 057 Carbon Fiber Tripod 3 Sections (Payload 18kgs). Manfrotto MH057M0-RC4 057 Magnesium Ball Head with RC4 Quick Release (Payload 15kgs). Manfrotto quick release plate 410PL-14. Jessops Tripod bag. Optech Tripod Strap. Digi-Chip Speed Pro 64GB Class 10 SDXC card. Nikon DK-17a magnifying eyepiece. Hoodman HGEC soft eyepiece cup. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.

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LATITUDE: N 56d 46m 13.50s

LONGITUDE: W 5d 2m 12.50s

ALTITUDE: 61.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE SIZE: 103.00MB

PROCESSED (JPeg) SIZE: 37.29MB

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PROCESSING POWER:

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 8.1. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon VIEWNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit

Ryan, Alex, and Lenaya in Georgetown Waterfront Park, watching a family feed the ducks (and geese and seagulls and sparrows). Washington, DC.