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The James River Bridge was two lanes and completed in 1928, at that time it was the longest bridge in the world over water. The 5.2 million bridge was opened on November 17, 1928, by the press of a button in Washington D.C., where U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, sitting in the Oval Office of the White House, sent an electric signal to lower into place the upraised lift span over the James River.
The original two-lane bridge was replaced from 1975 to 1982 with a wider four-lane bridge that could handle increased traffic volumes.
James Dabill was the first to to attempt section four, many others opted for a ride by five. Here he clears the first rock wall, ex world champion, Martin Lampkin prepares to lend a hand.
Strobist: Quadra "A" head in the 39" Deep Octa, f/6.3 (exposure at f/5.6). Triggered by Skyport.
This image was shot outdoors, so significant ambient fill.
PP LR/PS CC 2015
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60067 "James Clark Maxwell" passes Newthorpe, near Micklefield with 6D04 Hull Dairycoates to Rylstone. 23/2/96.
James Smith and Sons umbrella, whip, and stick shop, London.
On our early-June visit to London we were lucky to be able to spend time with our oldest son, Brandon, who was there for a few days following a work visit to England. It is a wonderful thing to meet up with your grown “kids” in such a place — for all the usual reasons, but also because sometimes they have new and different ways of orienting themselves to the local environment. At his suggestion and in his company we visited a number of places that we would not have seen. The James Smith & Sons shop, which I might otherwise have walked past with little notice, was one of them.
I’ll start with the obvious — you don’t find many shops in the US that were established nearly two centuries ago! The fascinating signs on the exterior are not just some kind of marketing — that’s actually what they have looked like for a long time. Inside, this is a classic shopping experience. Beautiful umbrellas, waling sticks, canes, folding stools, and more, at prices from reasonable to astronomical, line the shop. Clerks talk to customers, going into great detail about the products. I came “this close” to buying something “just because,” and now I almost regret that I didn’t.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
1 James Blake-Baldwin Mazda MX-5 Mk3 2000
BRSCC Mazda MX-5 Super Cup
The Mountain
Cadwell Park
07 May 2017
James Brien Comey Jr., aka James Comey, was the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
This caricature of James Comey was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Wikimedia.
James Marsden and wife Lisa Linde enjoying Malibu with their children Mary and Jack. June 21, 2009 X17online.com exclusive
This car was used in the James Bond movie. Is it real? It was in the International spy museum in Washington DC.
Final studio project, dressing up like famous dead people!
Digital test shots for Hasselblad and 4x5 film exposures.
Special thanks to Jason Edwards for lighting assistance and manning the camera(s).
Lighting info:
Hard light shot through, but close to, a softening screen (that "soft/hard" look) to camera right, and a softbox low to camera left.
NASA Administrator James Webb shown in the Gemini Trainer, June 4, 1965, during a tour of formerly named Manned Space Center, Houston, TX, now the Johnson Space Center.
James E. Webb was the second administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, formally established on October 1, 1958 under the National Aeronautics and Space Act. Webb is widely known for his effective leadership during the beginning of the American space program, and particularly for his foresite in commanding the agency to keep scientific objectives as a primary concern. Under his direction NASA undertook one of the most impressive series of projects in human history with the goal of landing an American on the Moon through the execution of Project Apollo.
Webb was known to be highly supportive of science during his tenure as NASA Administrator. He worked to enhance the key role and importance of scientists by giving them greater control in the selection process of space science missions. He also created the NASA University Program, which established grants for space research, funded the construction of new laboratories at universities and provided fellowships for graduate students. The program also encouraged university presidents and vice presidents to actively participate in NASA's Space Science Program and to publicly support all of NASA's programs.
As part of an oral history project sponsored by the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas, Webb recalled his conversations with President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. He was quoted as saying in one transcript, "And so far as I'm concerned, I'm not going to run a program that's just a one-shot program. If you want me to be the administrator, it's going to be a balanced program that does the job for the country..."
By the time Webb retired just prior to the first moon landing in July 1969, NASA had launched over 75 science missions to study the stars and galaxies, our own Sun and home planet. Missions such as the Orbiting Solar Observatory and the Explorer series of astronomical satellites built the foundation for the most successful period of scientific discovery in history, which continues on today.
Influenced by the same exploratory spirit, the James Webb Space Telescope was named in his honor by the then acting administrator, Sean O’Keefe in 2002. The iconic new age observatory will become the masthead of the world’s combined efforts in astrophysics and cosmic exploration, much like the legacy of Mr. Webb. His steady oversight and unwavering support of NASA during its most critical period is why his name is attached to the next big thing in space.
James Webb inspired an optimism towards science, and enthusiasm for the future by ensuring NASA invested in goals of human and scientific exploration. Recognizing that in order to accomplish the goal of going to the moon NASA needed the best scientists and engineers, Webb fought hard to ensure they had a proper place in the agency.
“I think he’d be happy to have such a huge technological feat named after him. The fact that he was the power behind the Apollo Program - an enormously complex undertaking to get someone on the moon, and now here’s this ultimate state of the art observatory pushing the agency technologically in the way that Apollo did on the human spaceflight side,” said Eric P. Smith, NASA’s Program Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope Program. “The fact that we have scientists at all at NASA could be attributed to James Webb,” he added.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the world's premier space science observatory. Webb will solve mysteries of our solar system, look beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it. Webb is an international project led by NASA with its partners, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency.
Image credit: NASA
More on James E. Webb: www.jwst.nasa.gov/whois.html
James Major | Singer in the band I play guitar in called Savannah
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50mm 1.4
natural light
St James, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, and traditionally considered the first apostle to be martyred. He was a son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of John the Apostle. He is also called James the Greater or James the Great. James the Greater is the patron saint of Spain.
One of my best chums James has his first book being published in 2012, and asked me to take a couple of photos for some PR stuff coming up and I was happy to help.
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SB800 shot through umbrella camera left. I really need to get some sort of secondary light to properly light my background. These 'grey' backdrops are starting to look ugly!
After appearing in the 1974 James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun, Ko Tapu became widely referred to as James Bond Island, especially in tourist guides, and their original names are rarely used by locals.
Ko Tapu is a limestone rock about 20 metres (66 ft) tall with the diameter increasing from about 4 metres (13 ft) near the water level to about 8 metres (26 ft) at the top. It lies about 40 metres (130 ft) to the west from the northern part of Khao Phing Kan.
A local legend explains the formation of Ko Tapu island as follows. Once upon a time, there lived a fisherman who used to bring home much fish every time he went to the sea. However, one day he could not catch any fish despite tedious attempts and only picked up a nail with his net. He kept throwing the nail back to the sea and catching it again. Furious, he took his sword and cut the nail in halves, using all his power. Upon impact, one half of the nail jumped up and speared into the sea forming Ko Tapu.
A scientific version of the Ko Tapu formation says that in the Permian period, the area was a barrier reef. Then, upon tectonic movements, it ruptured, and its parts were dispersed over the area and flooded by the rising ocean. Wind, waves, water currents and tides gradually eroded the islands thus formed, sometimes producing peculiar shapes, such as Ko Tapu. Tide-related erosion is visible at the bottom of the rock.
Seen in Treharris November 2013 this was new to Shaw Coventry in 1995 as M36LHP it also worked for Cymru Coaches before joining the fleet of James Travel.
James Island
English colonists named the island for St. James in the 17th century. The island went from more than 1,300 acres in the mid-18th century to about 550 acres by the late 1990s. Indeed, Mountford concluded, there were times when erosion and migrating sands affected James Island so much that there were periods when it was firmly connected, then not, to Taylors Island.
The north end of James Island was once a mile wide. (It is nowhere near that now.) There was once a settlement, too, Mountford discovered, with a store, a small schoolhouse and what might have been an oyster-shucking house. This happened during the mid-19th century and again in the early 20th, archaeologists concluded. But, if there was a village, it's gone now.
"A map from 1903 shows a road running down the west shore with lanes leading to four likely dwellings along the shoreline in a configuration that suggests they might have been farms," Mountford wrote. "There's archaeological evidence for some of this settlement scattered in shallows on the bay's bottom, and at least one partial foundation with a doorstep stone still survives on the island's marshy west side."
For a while, a lumber company took timber off the island, and there was once a large herd of sika deer there. The deer, along with a winter goose population in the Little Choptank, drew hunters, Mountford learned. In fact, a gun club formed in the 1960s and bought the island from Louis L. Goldstein, the legendary Southern Maryland politician who served nearly 40 years as Maryland comptroller until his death in 1998.
Who knew Louie once owned an island?
The James Island Gun Club built a cabin 100 feet inland, according to Mountford, but by the late 1980s the cabin was 15 feet out in the bay, which gives you an idea about the rate at which the island is sinking.
There isn't much there now. In fact, James Island looks like three islands because large slices of it have sunk into the Chesapeake, in part because of sea-level rise. The vegetation on one of the pieces was apparently decimated by last winter's wind and ice.
James Island is one of several in the bay that has eroded with time. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says an estimated 10,500 acres have been lost over the last 150 years in the mid-Chesapeake.
Still, there's a plan to restore James Island. The Corps of Engineers has James Island in its project lineup for the bay. The project is similar to the high-profile restoration of Poplar Island to the north, using massive quantities of dredging spoil from the Chesapeake's shipping channels and the port of Baltimore to build up the sinking island and turn it into a bird sanctuary. James Island is a major part of the next phase of mid-Chesapeake restoration projects, according to Chris Gardner, a spokesman for the corps.
But it could be a decade before anything happens there, and that seems like a long time for an island that already has lost so much ground.
Source: www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks/bs-md-rod...
James Ensor - 1860-1949.
Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp, Belgium):
Ensor's States of Imagination.
Ensor's adventure with etching starts in 1886. He is 26 years old then, at the height of his career. During the following years, he is completely taken by the art of etching. He creates over 130 prints. Befriended artists and master-printers teach him the intricacies of the art.
Work of James Ensor.