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Jim Clark, probably one of the greatest ever racing drivers is always associated with the Scottish borders, but was in fact born and spent his early years in the north Fife hamlet of Kilmany where this statue is located, just a hundred yards off the A92. I was fortunate to be at the unveiling in 1997 by that other great Scottish driver Jackie Stewart. Winning two F1 world titles, he also competed in the Indianapolis 500 which he won, Touring Cars and Rallying all while he raced in F1, something you don't see nowadays. He was killed while racing in a F2 event at Hockenheim in an accident believed to have been caused by a deflating tyre.
Acrylic on canvas 35.75" x 28.75" October 7, 2020 www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Garmr/292357/7981915/view
Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person who sells truck photos on eBay commercially has been lifting my images from this album and selling them I have had to remove 2300 photos that didn't have a watermark. I have now run around 1700 through Lightroom and added a watermark with the intention of bulk uploading them again. Rather than watermark the existing (hidden) files in Flickr one at a time it will be easier to do it this way. I definitely won’t be adding individual tags with the make and model of each vehicle I will just add generic transport tags. Each photo is named after the vehicle and reg in any case. For anyone new to these images there is a chapter and verse explanation below. It is staggering how many times I get asked questions that a quick scan would answer or just as likely I can’t possibly answer – I didn’t take them, but, just to clarify-I do own the copyright- and I do pursue copyright theft.
This is a collection of scanned prints from a collection of photographs taken by the late Jim Taylor A number of years ago I was offered a large number of photographs taken by Jim Taylor, a transport photographer based in Huddersfield. The collection, 30,000 prints, 20,000 negatives – and copyright! – had been offered to me and one of the national transport magazines previously by a friend of Jim's, on behalf of Jim's wife. I initially turned them down, already having over 30,000 of my own prints filed away and taking space up. Several months later the prints were still for sale – at what was, apparently, the going rate. It was a lot of money and I deliberated for quite a while before deciding to buy them. I did however buy them directly from Jim’s wife and she delivered them personally – just to quash the occasional rumour from people who can’t mind their own business. Although some prints were sold elsewhere, particularly the popular big fleet stuff, I should have the negatives, unfortunately they came to me in a random mix, 1200 to a box, without any sort of indexing and as such it would be impossible to match negatives to prints, or, to even find a print of any particular vehicle. I have only ever looked at a handful myself unless I am scanning them. The prints are generally in excellent condition and I initially stored them in a bedroom without ever looking at any of them. In 2006 I built an extension and they had to be well protected from dust and moved a few times. Ultimately my former 6x7 box room office has become their (and my own work’s) permanent home.
I hope to avoid posting images that Jim had not taken his self, however should I inadvertently infringe another photographers copyright, please inform me by email and I will resolve the issue immediately. There are copyright issues with some of the photographs that were sold to me. A Flickr member from Scotland drew my attention to some of his own work amongst the first uploads of Jim’s work. I had a quick look through some of the 30 boxes of prints and decided that for the time being the safest thing for me to do was withdraw the majority of the earlier uploaded scans and deal with the problem – which I did. whilst the vast majority of the prints are Jims, there is a problem defining copyright of some of them, this is something that the seller did not make clear at the time. I am reasonably confident that I have since been successful in identifying Jims own work. His early work consists of many thousands of lustre 6x4 prints which are difficult to scan well, later work is almost entirely 7x5 glossy, much easier to scan. Not all of the prints are pin sharp but I can generally print successfully to A4 from a scan.
You may notice photographs being duplicated in this Album, unfortunately there are multiple copies of many prints (for swapping) and as I have to have a system of archiving and backing up I can only guess - using memory - if I have scanned a print before. The bigger fleets have so many similar vehicles and registration numbers that it is impossible to get it right all of the time. It is easier to scan and process a print than check my files - on three different PC’s - for duplicates. There has not been, nor will there ever be, any intention to knowingly breach anyone else's copyright. I have presented the Jim Taylor collection as exactly that-The Jim Taylor Collection- his work not mine, my own work is quite obviously mine.
Unfortunately, many truck spotters have swapped and traded their work without copyright marking it as theirs. These people never anticipated the ease with which images would be shared online in the future. I would guess that having swapped and traded photos for many years that it is almost impossible to control their future use. Anyone wanting to control the future use of their work would have been well advised to copyright mark their work (as many did) and would be well advised not to post them on photo sharing sites without a watermark as the whole point of these sites is to share the image, it is very easy for those that wish, to lift any image, despite security settings, indeed, Flickr itself, warns you that this is the case. It was this abuse and theft of my material that led me to watermark all of my later uploads. I may yet withdraw non-watermarked photos, I haven’t decided yet. (I did in the end)
To anyone reading the above it will be quite obvious that I can’t provide information regarding specific photos or potential future uploads – I didn’t take them! There are many vehicles that were well known to me as Jim only lived down the road from me (although I didn’t know him), however scanning, titling, tagging and uploading is laborious and time consuming enough, I do however provide a fair amount of information with my own transport (and other) photos. I am aware that there are requests from other Flickr users that are unanswered, I stumble across them months or years after they were posted, this isn’t deliberate. Some weekends one or two “enthusiasts” can add many hundreds of photos as favourites, this pushes requests that are in the comments section ten or twenty pages out of sight and I miss them. I also have notifications switched off, I receive around 50 emails a day through work and I don’t want even more from Flickr. Other requests, like many other things, I just plain forget – no excuses! Uploads of Jim’s photos will be infrequent as it is a boring pastime and I would much rather work on my own output.
Jim Gray pictured in The Fourth Paradigm
A Few Words About Jim...
Turing award winner and american computer scientist Dr. James
Nicholas “Jim” Gray (born 1944, missing at sea on January 28, 2007)
was esteemed for his groundbreaking work as a programmer, database
expert, engineer, and researcher. He earned his Ph.D. from the Univer-
sity of California, Berkeley, in 1969—becoming the first person to earn a doctorate
in computer science at that institution. He worked at several major high-tech companies, including Bell Labs, IBM Research, Tandem, Digital Equipment Corporation, and finally Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley.
Jim joined Microsoft in 1995 as a Senior Researcher, ultimately becoming a
Technical Fellow and managing the Bay Area Research Center (BARC). His primary research interests were large databases and transaction processing systems.
He had a longstanding interest in scalable computing—building super-servers and
work group systems from commodity software and hardware. His work after 2002
focused on eScience: applying computers to solve data-intensive scientific problems.
This culminated in his vision (with Alex Szalay) of a “fourth paradigm” of science,
a logical progression of earlier, historical phases dominated by experimentation,
theory, and simulation.
Jim pioneered database technology and was among the first to develop the technology used in computerized transactions. His work helped develop e-commerce,
online ticketing, automated teller machines, and deep databases that enable the
success of today’s high-quality modern Internet search engines.
In 1998, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious honor in
computer science, for “seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation.” He was appointed
an IEEE Fellow in 1982 and also received the IEEE Charles Babbage Award.
His later work in database technology has been used by oceanographers,
geologists, and astronomers. Among his accomplishments at Microsoft were the
TerraServer Web site in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey, which paved
the way for modern Internet mapping services, and his work on the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey in conjunction with the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) and
others. Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope software, based on the latter, is dedicated
to Jim.
“Jim always reached out in two ways—technically and personally,” says David
Vaskevitch, Microsoft’s senior corporate vice president and chief technical officer
in the Platform Technology & Strategy division. “Technically, he was always there
first, pointing out how different the future would be than the present.”
“Many people in our industry, including me, are deeply indebted to Jim for his
intellect, his vision, and his unselfish willingness to be a teacher and a mentor,”
says Mike Olson, vice president of Embedded Technologies at Oracle Corporation.
Adds Shankar Sastry, dean of the College of Engineering at UC Berkeley, “Jim was
a true visionary and leader in this field.”
“Jim’s impact is measured not just in his technical accomplishments, but also in
the numbers of people around the world whose work he inspired,” says Rick Rashid,
senior corporate vice president at Microsoft Research.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sums up Jim’s legacy in this way: “The impact of
his thinking is continuing to get people to think in a new way about how data and
software are redefining what it means to do science.”
Such sentiments are frequently heard from the myriad researchers, friends, and
colleagues who interacted with Jim over the years, irrespective of their own prominence and reputation. Known, loved, and respected by so many, Jim Gray needs no
introduction, so instead we dedicate this book to him and the amazing work that
continues in his absence.
—The Editors
For Strobist Sundays: Best Friend.
Taken with my old Nikon 880.ISO 100 f/2.8 .04 exp. 34 watt CFL.
Taken in Venice CA. Jim is my best friend of 15 years.
Jim Jones displaying picture book to guest, presumably a Guyanese official visiting Jonestown. Probably at the time of the arrival of Russian diplomat Feodor Timofeyev on October 1 or 2, 1978.
Photo taken by unknown Jonestown resident, and recovered by the FBI after November 18, 1978. It was released under the Freedom of Information Act and is in the public domain. Please credit The Jonestown Institute.
meet jim, the owner of that awesome chevy! jim is a really great guy, with a great mustache to boot :-)
Publicity photo of Jim Jones standing in corn growing in Jonestown. Please credit: Doxsee Phares Collection/The Jonestown Institute.
Jim Black – Elias Stemeseder “Bunky Swirl” (JazzMadrid18. 2018-11-07)
CentroCentro. Auditorio Caja de Música. Madrid
Mayor of Scottsdale Jim Lane speaking with attendees at an Arizona Policy Circle meeting hosted by Arizona Talks at Sip Coffee House in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Jim Thorpe is an old world charm located in the foothills of Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. Once considered to be the most richest town in the country, it's history speaks volumes.
Very close to numerous state parks and abundant beauty, the town in itself can provide muhc needed relief to many people who need it!
The best part - It is only 2 hours away from NYC or Philadelhia. Go there in any season and you will be pleasently surprised.
Jim Jones and Russian Embassy official Feodor Timofeyev in Jonestown during visit, early October 1978.
Photo recovered after 18 November 1978 by FBI agents in Jonestown. Released under the Freedom of Information Act and available through the public domain. Please credit The Jonestown Institute.
James Daniel Jordan, aka Jim Jordan, aka Gym Jordan has served as the US representative for Ohio's 4th congressional district since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, Jordan is a former collegiate wrestler and college wrestling coach.
This caricature of Jim Jordan was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia.
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Jim Caviezel talks about Michael W. Smith in Nashville, TN at Smith's Music City Walk Of Fame induction on 4.22.07
...I want to be the only one who catches all your tears...
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Model: Jim Sturgess.
Photoshoot: Jesse Frohman.
Edited: S.L.B.
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U.S. Senator Jim Banks speaking at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Jim Jones is meeting with official from Russian Embassy Feodor Timofeyev, during Timofeyev's visit to Jonestown, October 1 or 2, 1978.
Photo taken by unidentified Jonestown resident and recovered by the FBI after November 18, 1978. It was released under the Freedom of Information Act. Please credit the Jonestown Institute.
Jim Williams's lab bench from Linear Technology is on display at The Computer History Museum until April 2012. A large picture of Jim Williams looms over the bench. See readingjimwilliams.blogspot.com/2011/10/scope-sunday-13.html