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i so love my little canon 870 for macros!!
actually took this sitting down in my auxiliary studio (aka my car) in the parking lot, with the bill in my lap in the sun, on the way from one bank to another to make a deposit.
ODC sitting down
ANSH scavenger16 "looks like a painting"
(ok, maybe a sketch ~grin~)
** communication SC3/16 (macro one)
(would you buy "money talks"? or ben franklin had a lot of pithy things to say on many subjects ?)
Anne-Rosalie Bocquet Filleul, 1779, Philadelphia Museum Of Art, Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, painting
The infamous Cell Block 14...featured on Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and Paranormal State.
Captured at Eastern State Penitentiary, mostly in the non-public areas — with NJ Photo Crew
So, while deep deep down a rabbit hole, pursuing something totally unrelated, I came across a reference to North American Rockwell (NAR) artist Bert Winthrop. In it, he was cited as being recognized for his July/Aug. 1975 Saturday Evening Post ‘shuttle cover’. The wrong year was referenced, so the pursuit down yet another rabbit hole was on!
This perspective of orbiter/external tank separation is – in my world – rather iconic & oft-reproduced. In my blissless ignorance, not having much of a pool of NAR artist’s names to choose from, I’d identified ‘M. Alvarez/Manuel E. Alvarez’ as the likely artist of the multiple variations of this scene. WRONG answer. For it to be conclusively associated with Mr. Winthrop is a surprising WIN.
Note also the other spacecraft lurking behind the title. The only one I’m able to positively identify is the Skylab OWS/CSM complex.
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Benjamin Franklin
sculptor: Richard Saltonstall Greenough, 1856 (statue and 2 bas-reliefs)
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Old City Hall
architects: Gridley James Fox Bryant and Arthur D. Gilman, 1862–65
architectural style: Second Empire
45 School Street (Freedom Trail)
Boston, Massachusetts
Droste effect via Mathmap. The downward (or upward?) spiral of the market. The ticker was entirely shopped, the bills were scanned. Original is more than 8000x8000 pixels, but the max resolution uploaded here is 2000x2000. Still, it's fun to see the detail in the money even at this res.
©2009 David C. Pearson, M.D.
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"The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. While the university dates its founding to 1740, it was created by Benjamin Franklin and leading Philadelphia citizens in 1749. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universities by numerous organizations and scholars.
The University has four undergraduate schools as well as twelve graduate and professional schools. Schools enrolling undergraduates include the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Wharton School, and the School of Nursing. Among its highly ranked graduate schools are its law school, whose first professor wrote the first draft of the United States Constitution, its medical school, the first in North America, and Wharton, the first collegiate business school. Penn's endowment is US$20.7 billion, putting it amongst the wealthiest academic institutions in the world, and its 2019 research budget was $1.02 billion.
Penn was one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in academia, commerce, and public service. The campus, in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, is centered around College Hall, and notable landmarks are Houston Hall, the first modern "student union", and Franklin Field, the first double-decker college football stadium. Penn also is the home of the Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is located 15 miles northwest of the campus, in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia. The university's athletics program, the Quakers, fields varsity teams in 33 sports as a member of the NCAA Division I Ivy League conference.
Throughout its existence, Penn alumni, trustees, and/or faculty have included 8 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 7 signers of the U.S. Constitution, 2 Presidents of the United States, 3 Supreme Court justices, 32 U.S. senators, 163 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, 12 U.S. Cabinet Secretaries, 46 governors, and 9 foreign heads of state. Alumni and or faculty include 36 Nobel laureates and 33 Rhodes Scholars. Penn alumni (a) have won 28 Tony Awards, 16 Grammy Awards, 11 Emmy Awards, and 4 Academy Awards and (b) include one of only 17 people who have earned all 4 awards (an EGOT). In addition, Penn has the greatest number of alumni on the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans out of all colleges and has the greatest number of undergraduate billionaire alumni of all colleges, with 64 living billionaires, 28 of whom are alumni of Penn's undergraduate schools. Penn alumni have won 81 Olympic medals (26 of them gold). Two Penn alumni have been NASA astronauts and 5 have been awarded the United States Armed Forces' highest award for gallantry, the Medal of Honor.
West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of the city of Philadelphia. Alhough there is no official definition of its boundaries, it is generally considered to reach from the western shore of the Schuylkill River, to City Avenue to the northwest, Cobbs Creek to the southwest, and the SEPTA Media/Wawa Line to the south. An alternate definition includes all city land west of the Schuylkill; this would also include Southwest Philadelphia and its neighborhoods. The eastern side of West Philadelphia is also known as University City.
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City, and the 68th-largest city in the world. Since 1854, the city has been coextensive with Philadelphia County, the most populous county in Pennsylvania and the urban core of the Delaware Valley, the nation's seventh-largest and world's 68th-largest metropolitan region, with 6.245 million residents as of 2020. The city's population as of the 2020 census was 1,603,797, and over 56 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia was founded in 1682 by William Penn, an English Quaker. The city served as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony during the British colonial era and went on to play a historic and vital role as the central meeting place for the nation's founding fathers whose plans and actions in Philadelphia ultimately inspired the American Revolution and the nation's independence. Philadelphia hosted the First Continental Congress in 1774 following the Boston Tea Party, preserved the Liberty Bell, and hosted the Second Continental Congress during which the founders signed the Declaration of Independence, which historian Joseph Ellis has described as "the most potent and consequential words in American history". Once the Revolutionary War commenced, both the Battle of Germantown and the Siege of Fort Mifflin were fought within Philadelphia's city limits. The U.S. Constitution was later ratified in Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Philadelphia remained the nation's largest city until 1790, when it was surpassed by New York City, and served as the nation's first capital from May 10, 1775, until December 12, 1776, and on four subsequent occasions during and following the American Revolution, including from 1790 to 1800 while the new national capital of Washington, D.C. was under construction.
During the 19th and 20th centuries, Philadelphia emerged as a major national industrial center and railroad hub. The city’s blossoming industrial sector attracted European immigrants, predominantly from Germany and Ireland, the two largest reported ancestry groups in the city as of 2015. In the 20th century, immigrant waves from Italy and elsewhere in Southern Europe arrived. Following the end of the Civil War in 1865, Philadelphia became a leading destination for African Americans in the Great Migration. In the 20th century, Puerto Rican Americans moved to the city in large numbers. Between 1890 and 1950, Philadelphia's population doubled to 2.07 million. Philadelphia has since attracted immigrants from East and South Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America.
With 18 four-year universities and colleges, Philadelphia is one of the nation's leading centers for higher education and academic research. As of 2021, the Philadelphia metropolitan area was the nation's ninth-largest metropolitan economy with a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of US$479 billion. Philadelphia is the largest center of economic activity in Pennsylvania and the broader multi-state Delaware Valley region; the city is home to five Fortune 500 corporate headquarters as of 2022. The Philadelphia skyline, which includes several globally renowned commercial skyscrapers, is expanding, primarily with new residential high-rise condominiums. The city and the Delaware Valley are a biotechnology and venture capital hub; and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, owned by NASDAQ, is the nation's oldest stock exchange and a global leader in options trading. 30th Street Station, the city's primary rail station, is the third-busiest Amtrak hub in the nation, and the city's multimodal transport and logistics infrastructure, including Philadelphia International Airport, the PhilaPort seaport, freight rail infrastructure, roadway traffic capacity, and warehouse storage space, are all expanding.
Philadelphia is a national cultural hub, hosting more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the same watershed, is 2,052 acres (830 ha), representing one of the nation's largest contiguous urban parks and the 45th largest urban park in the world. The city is known for its arts, culture, cuisine, and colonial and Revolution-era history; in 2016, it attracted 42 million domestic tourists who spent $6.8 billion, representing $11 billion in total economic impact to the city and surrounding Pennsylvania counties.
With five professional sports teams and a hugely loyal fan base, the city is often ranked as the nation's best city for professional sports fans. The city has a culturally and philanthropically active LGBTQ+ community. Philadelphia also has played an immensely influential historic and ongoing role in the development and evolution of American music, especially R&B, soul, and rock.
Philadelphia is a city of many firsts, including the nation's first library (1731), hospital (1751), medical school (1765), national capital (1774), university (by some accounts) (1779), stock exchange (1790), zoo (1874), and business school (1881). Philadelphia contains 67 National Historic Landmarks, including Independence Hall. From the city's 17th century founding through the present, Philadelphia has been the birthplace or home to an extensive number of prominent and influential Americans. In 2021, Time magazine named Philadelphia one of the world's greatest 100 places." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
BICC Contest Entry PJ (Photojournalism Collage)
Top Left: "...two if by sea" (Paul Revere riding to Old North Church, 1775)
Top Middle: Old South Meeting Hall (Start of Boston Tea Party 1773)
Top Right: Robert Gould Shaw memorial (Shaw leading first "colored" regiment in the American Civil War)
Middle Center: Medallion on red brick path of Boston Freedom Trail, denoting historical site.
Middle Right: Granary Burying Ground, established 1660 (resting place for Paul Revere, John Hancock and Samuel Adams)
Bottom Left: Interior of Old State House (dating from 1713)
Bottom Center: Benjamin Franklin in front of Old City Hall
Bottom Right: U.S.S Constitution, launched 1797, the first warship in the U.S. Navy, currently the world's oldest commissioned warship.
The Granary Burying Ground
originally known as: South Burying Ground 1660-1737
architect: Isaiah Rogers, Egyptian revival gate and fence
Tremont Street (Freedom Trail)
Boston Massachusetts
I can't believe how many friends have had birthdays this month
. . . 6 of us on flickr alone! So to the birthday people,
I dedicate this piece!
When I rolled out of bed this morning, I immediately grabbed by camera to shoot some gorgeous frosty window shots, but off to my left was a favorite shelf of mine which has a small collection of nuns!
With GRATITUDE for all my special flickr friends!
You make my day/week/month/year! xox
“Gratitude is the memory of the heart.”
French Proverb
“To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude,
when it is not in our power to repay it.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all the others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.”
Gladys Browyn Stern
Middleboro, Massachusetts
The Oliver House is a staple in American History. The construction of the house was completed in 1769. The house was given as a wedding gift to Dr. Peter Oliver Jr and his bride Sally Hutchinson. It was ultimately confiscated by the Sons of Liberty.
I got to show this beauty more love. Never really thrilled how the first edits came out a while back. Time for a revisit....digitally for now :)
An amazing city shot at night from downtown Philadelphia. This image was a long exposure in order to get the car lights and capture the beautiful colors of the buildings surrounding the wonderful City Hall.
Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. Benjamin Franklin
My favorite daylilies are blooming :-)
Straight out of the camera with no post processing.
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Thank you very much for your views, invitations, faves, and comments!!!
"1778. Artist: Joseph Siffred Duplessis. Medium: Oil on canvas. When Franklin arrived in France in December 1776 to negotiate aid for the American Revolutionary War, he was already a celebrity known for his simple dress and refusal to wear a wig. He stayed in a house provided by Jacques Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont who commissioned a terracotta medallion with his profile as well as this portrait, which was exhibited at the Salon of 1779. It quickly emerged as the most iconic image of this legendary statesman. The original frame includes the attributes of Liberty, Peace, and Victory, with an inscription not of the sitter’s name, but “VIR” Latin for “man” or “hero.” Franklin’s identity was evidently understood to be obvious from his face alone." - info from the Met.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Fifth Avenue building opened on March 30, 1880. In 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the museum attracted 1,958,000 visitors, ranking fourth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. The city is within the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area – the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. New York is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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What you're looking at is the first Hospital in the U.S. The hospital was founded in 1751 by Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin. The hospital was also a center through the years for treating the war wounded. Patients were brought to the hospital for treatment in the Revolutionary War, the American Civil War and the Spanish American War, and units from the hospital were sent abroad to treat wounded in World War I and in World War II (to the Pacific theater). The hospital is located in center city Philadelphia.
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Pogopalooza World Finals Series
US Independence Day 2015
Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
—an excerpt of a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy right after the U.S. Constitution was ratified, 1789.
American colonialists had grown deeply dissatisfied with not just Britain's monarch but also with the parliamentary weaknesses of a constitutional monarchy in representing their interests. Instead of living by the dictates and whims of a dictator, king, chief executive, or even a deliberative body, the United States decided to go another route. Americans wrote down on a parchment the laws that established the framework of its government. Where in other countries a personality might represent nationality and governance, here in America a document did so. The American Republic was established through the first written constitution in the world of self governance through rule of law, a pact by its people as adopted by representatives elected by those people. That concept can be seen in the first words of the U.S. Constitution, which begins: "We the people..."
In designing its modern Republic, many of America's founding fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, had studied the Roman Republic and its fall. After having a series of abusive kings, Romans decided that kings, even though popular in the ancient world, were not for it. Instead, Rome evolved a complex Republic that lasted nearly 500 years.
That is until Gaius Julius Caesar.
After his term of governor of Gaul had finished, the conquering general Julius Caesar was recalled to Rome. Caesar feared that without the protections of the office of governorship, he as a civilian would be successfully prosecuted for earlier crimes of corruption. So he defied centuries of tradition and marched his army across the Rubicon river straight into the city of Rome. After leading a Civil War against the Senate, against their champion, General Pompey, and winning, Julius Caesar was declared by the Senate dictator for ten years in order to restore the Republic to its years of former greatness. He was later declared dictator for life.
Wildly popular by the people, Caesar, an elite land-owning patrician by birth who leaned Populares or that is to say towards publicly favoring plebeian commoners, managed to thwart Rome's amazing system of checks and balances on power. The veneer of the Senate and the Republic continued but in reality a series of emperors from then on dictated the laws and government of the Roman Empire. (It still wasn't politically feasible among Romans to use the title of REX, king, so emperor would have to do as well as wordsmithing Caesar's family name, which became its own regal title.)
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The photograph above is a large bronze statue of Mr. Franklin that sits in front of the Louisville Free Main Library, Kentucky.
How few there are who have courage enough to own their Faults, or resolution enough to mend them! - Benjamin Franklin
More Benjamin Franklin Quotes and Sayings
Picture Quotes on Humility
Popular attractions in Chiang Mai for your first visit
Original photo credit: Nika Akin
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Benjamin Franklin
sculptor: Richard Saltonstall Greenough, 1856 (statue and 2 bas-reliefs)
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Old City Hall
architects: Gridley James Fox Bryant and Arthur D. Gilman, 1862–65
architectural style: Second Empire
45 School Street (Freedom Trail)
Boston, Massachusetts
The Colonial style B. Free Franklin Post Office, in the Old City district of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, USA.
Although not originally used as a Post Office the building was altered in 1975 to commemorate Benjamin Franklin’s extensive contributions to the U.S. Postal Service, it is the only post office without a U.S. flag or a zip code. Employees dress in period costumes and use quill and ink rather than ballpoint pens. The three-story row house housing the post office was occupied by Benjamin Franklin from 1737 to 1753.
In Franklin’s time, the sender’s signature was on the outside of the letter. Benjamin Franklin, the first U.S. Postmaster General, signed his letters B. Free Franklin, to protest British rule. “B. Free Franklin” signature stamp is still used at this post office to cancel stamps.
Appointed postmaster of Philadelphia in 1737, Franklin later became co-Postmaster General (of the North American colonies) for the British. He served in that position from 1757-1774, increasing the efficiency of the post through improvements in bookkeeping, delivery routes, and more. From 1775-1776, Franklin served as Postmaster General under the authority of the Continental Congress.
Postmasters typically operated the business out of their homes or printing offices. This site did not serve as a post office in Franklin's day but today includes two small display cases with historical information about the postal service.
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Daily Photo - Beautiful and Classic Savannah
When I drove through Savannah, I met up with my good friend Scott Kublin who showed me some of the sights. This gem of a place was one of the first places we visited. I walked up and down the road a few times to find the most interesting place to take a photo. This one was taken with the 14-24 lens -- although the other interesting shot was the 200mm shot from much further away. I decided to go with this one because I really liked the position of the sun.
Why I don't use Watermarks
I get this question a lot, and it often comes up in interviews. I know my opinion is different than many other photographers, and that is okay.
As you know, my work is all Creative Commons Non-Commercial. That means people, as long as they give credit and link back here to www.StuckInCustoms.com can use my images on their blogs, wallpaper, personal use - anything - as long as it is not used commercially. Every day, I upload a HUGE max-resolution image to the Internet. I do not have any fear at all... Believe me, it's quite liberating living in a world without internet-stealth-fear.
People that want to license our images regularly contact licensing at stuckincustoms.com - we get many of these every day of the week.
So why don't I use watermarks? It’s a multi-part philosophy –
1) Legitimate companies do not steal images to use commercially. So I don’t have any logical fear there.
2) There are other services, like Tineye (and Google) that can help me easily find evil-doers.
3) If there are evil-doers, they will have already used my image wrongly, setting up a slam-dunk legal case.
4) We do register our images with the copyright office, so if someone uses an image commercially without a proper license, it is an easy law suit.
5) Watermarks look ugly. Whenever I look at a photo with a watermark, often times, ALL I can think about is that watermark! It is so distracting. Maybe this is just me.
6) I don't have to maintain two versions of each image - one with a watermark and one without.
7) NOT using watermarks and using creative commons helps more and more people to use your image freely for fun, which increases traffic and builds something I call "internet-trust".
8) As image search and image recognition get better and better, there will be no need to watermark things. For example, there is no need for me to "watermark" my text-article on "Being An Artist Sucks; Being an Artist is Awesome". I can easily do a Google text search and find everywhere on the internet that article exists! The same thing is happening for images.
What are your opinions on the matter?
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Benjamin Franklin
sculptor: Richard Saltonstall Greenough, 1856 (statue and 2 bas-reliefs)
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Old City Hall
architects: Gridley James Fox Bryant and Arthur D. Gilman, 1862–65
architectural style: Second Empire
45 School Street (Freedom Trail)
Boston, Massachusetts
“Gifts burst rocks” ~ Benjamin Franklin ~
Ah, the joy of fall . . . nature's gifts . . . journeys along paths . . . dreams fulfilled . . .
We've had "books" on our minds and in our hearts for the past few weeks, so please excuse my absence and poor correspondence . . . I'm missing my flickr days . . . but bear with me until we get this all under control (hmmm...is that possible?) . . .
AND HUGE THANKS to my precious flickr friends who have ordered our book! We're very deeply touched by your support!
"Diligence is the mother of Good Luck".... Benjamin Franklin
In Chinese culture, to be born in the year of pig is considered to be lucky. :)
Sculpted from Carrara marble and unveiled in 1889, the statue of United States’ Founding Father Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) stands outside the Old Post Office in Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. The present siting commemorates his role as the first US Postmaster General. The statue was sculpted by Jacques Jouvenal (1829-1905), who despite his French-sounding name was born in Germany, emigrating to the United States in 1853.
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