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Sylva, NC
Jackson County
Most of the time photographers are in the street below shooting back up toward the Historic Jackson County Courthouse. It is said to be the most photographed courthouse in NC. Here, I am standing on the steps of the courthouse to show you a view of our little town. The population of Sylva as of the 2010 census was 2,588.
This photograph was selected to be used on the cover of The Yellowbook 2014 - 2015 for Jackson County.
Publish by the amazing Kabult Magazine.
Model: Fran Garcia
Make up: Mary Torres
Special thanks to Cristiano Benassi for let me shoot in his house. You can see the complete publicaction in : www.kaltblut-magazine.com/homie-by-tim-asato/
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My book is finally available: app.thebookpatch.com/BookStore/natural-origami/b23d0866-0...
It includes 15 animal-based models using a new crease pattern diagramming method for experienced folders.
Courageous Creativity - Flying Chicadee
PRETTY EXCITING!! I was just published as the featured photographer in this ezine.
issuu.com/flyingchickadee/docs/march_2015_print Every full-page photograph is one of mine, including the front and back covers.
I was published in a major photography magazine in Greece, which featured an article on macrophotography.
Magazine "ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΟΣ", pages 46-47 (spread), Issue No.218, May-June 2012
Itch Magazine features visuals and texts in an online and a print version. Each issue has an original and often quite obscure theme, the latest being "i". My photo "An I and A Man" is featured in this issue (issue 6).
Note: this photo was published in a Jan 11, 2015 blog titled "Choosing Haena Vacation Rentals."
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In 1996 and 1997, I spent two full summers in the tiny little town of Polson, on the southern shore of Flathead Lake (the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River), and grew quite attached to the town and its surrounding mountains, rivers, and lake -- photos of which you can see here and here. You might also be interested in some of my observations about life in Polson and Montana, which I wrote about in blogs titled The Polson Parade, and Leaving Montana. But then life changed, other things intervened, and I drifted away from Montana altogether.
In the summer of 2010, I had a chance to re-visit Polson, and spend three short days driving around to re-acquaint myself with the area. It had been over a dozen years since I was last there (not counting a brief drive-through with my younger son in 2006), so I was expecting some changes ... but in general, the town of about 5,000 people was pretty much the same. My favorite restaurant had closed down, a Mailboxes Etc outlet had been replaced by a video-rental outlet, and the local McDonald's outlet was no longer posting all of the bounced checks from desperate customers on its wall. It looked like some of the local ranchers and farmers had sold off some of their acreage, for there were a few new "vacation communities" filling up what had been open meadows and pasture just outside of town.
But the lake had not changed at all, and the Mission Mountains along the eastern shore of the lake were as pretty as ever. Just for the heck of it, I got up at 5 AM one morning, and photographed the pre-dawn stillness on the lake, and then the changing colors of clouds above the lake as the sun slowly rose up to peek over the top of the mountains. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to drive down to the Kerr Dam, and I didn't drive all the way around the north end of the lake: I only made it up to Big Fork on the eastern side, and LakeSide on the western side of the lake. I was going to take the half-day white-water rafting trip down the Flathead River, south of the dam, but there wasn't time for that, either ... Nor was there any time for fishing, or even to rent a jet-ski and zoom around on the broad expanse of water in Polson Bay, at the south end of the lake.
I took a bunch of photos throughout the visit, and you can view them here) on Flickr. And after my return from that 2010 trip, I happened to chat with a business colleague about Polson and heard some great things from him about a “dude ranch” located just outside Big Fork, right on the shore of the lake. It was the Flathead Lake Lodge, and after a few more years of distractions and delays, I managed to get most (but not all) of my family together for a weeklong vacation at the lodge. The weather was great, the food was delicious, the horses were cooperative, the lake was beautiful … and that’s pretty much what you’ll see in the photos that I’ve put into this album.
Enjoy … and, if you get the chance, gather your own family together and take them out to the Flathead Lake Lodge for a week. You won’t regret it!
Self-published hand-made book Did we ever meet? Winner of Rock your dummy Award 2013. Full info and order at www.offonroad.com/books/did-we-ever-meet
This photograph was published online on August 25th 2025 in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER POLAND for an article with the title:
'' To polska „papuga” naszych ogrodów 🐦 '' - This is the Polish "parrot" of our gardens 🐦 ''
It had previously been selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on Friday 7th March 2025
CREATIVE RF gty.im/2203176385 MOMENT ROYALTY FREE COLLECTION and became my 7,209th frame represented worldwide by Getty Images. I now have in excess of 7,500+ with them
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Photograph taken at 14:09pm on Monday 3rd March 2025 at an altitude of Sixty metres in the Grounds of Warnham Nature Reserve in Horsham, West Sussex. The Millpond dates back to the 16th Century and parts of the woodland dates back even further to the 13th Century. A beautiful location for a walk, or to sit amongst nature and so see birds and butterflies in their natural habitat.
The Eurasian chaffinch, common chaffinch, or simply the chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs), is a common and widespread small passerine bird in the finch family. The male is brightly coloured with a blue-grey cap and rust-red underparts.
Nikon D850 Single-lens reflex digital camera F Mount with FX CMOS 35.9mm x 23.9mm Image sensor 46.89 Million total pixels Focal length: 600mm Shutter speed: 1/1000s (Mechanical shutter) Aperture f/6.3 Iso320 Image area Full Frame FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L 45.4Million pixels (8256 x 5504) 14 Bit uncompressed Hand held with Tamron VC control enabled AF-C Priority Selection: Release Nikon Back button focusing enabled 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1, A1.00, M0.25 (4900K) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: (SD) Standard (Sharpening +3.00/Clarity A+1.00) Active D-Lighting: Low
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup. Black Rapid Curve Breathe strap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag. Nikon EN-EL15a battery.
LATITUDE: N 51d 4m 48.4s
LONGITUDE: W 0d 19m 57.00s
ALTITUDE: 47.0m
RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB NEF: 91.9MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 40.30MB
PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.21 (8/12/2022) LD Distortion Data 2.018 (16/01/20) LF 1.00 Nikon Codec Full version 1.31.2 (09/11/2021)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with Windows 10 Home edition AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. My Passport USB 3.0 2TB portable desktop hard drive. Nikon NX STUDIO 64bit Version 1.2.2 (08/12/2022). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.16.0 (08/12/2022). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
I got contacted by Romany WG a while ago if I was interested in being featured in a book alongside 49 other photographers from all around the globe. I'm featured next to some other amazing artist I admire like Vik, Danielle T, Matijn, Midnight, Miss Aniela and many more
The book finally got finished and he already has a first print to show everyine. I'm hoping to get mine as soon as possible.
you can even own one yourself, so get it now and get it here
Altered Images: New Visionaries in 21st Century Photography
They used to say that 'the camera never lies'. The next generation may find that difficult to believe. Photography has come full circle, from the 19th century obsession with realism, to the 21st century addiction to hyper-reality. Opportunities for artists have multiplied just as the problems have proliferated.
As ever, theory runs to catch up with practice. The images collected here put strain on the old definitions and demand new ones.
What are they? Well, they are not, strictly speaking photographs anymore.
New territory needs new maps.
50 contributing photographers from 18 different countries.
Book Released: Late October.
To coin a phrase, mission accomplished!
I've been trying on and off for a good long while now to get a picture published in print. Several rejection e-mails and worse still, many no reply at all's.
Today is the day that I can stop bouncing my head off a brick wall, not only have I got a good sized pic into a magazine, I also was lucky enough for the shot to be featured in the banner headline on the cover!!!
10 trillion thanks to the editor of Rail Express, Paul Bickerdyke, for giving me a shot, it really is appreciated.
Now to go get that next one...
If you'd like to see the original, you'll find it here
www.flickr.com/photos/darkprince66/14152906472/in/album-7...
20 August 2015
Now go buy a copy goddamit... :)
American postcard by Disney Enterprises / Pixar Animation Studios, 2005. Image: Pixar Animation Studios. Art by Paul Topolos for The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004). From 'The Art of Pixar: 100 Collectible Postcards, published by Chronicle Books.
The Incredibles (Brad Bird, 2004) is an American computer-animated superhero film, and the sixth feature-length animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Set in a fictitious version of the 1960s, the film follows Bob and Helen Parr, a couple of superheroes, known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, who hide their powers in accordance with a government mandate and attempt to live a quiet suburban life with their three children. Bob's desire to help people draws the entire family into a confrontation with a vengeful fan-turned-foe. Although the film was not as successful as its predecessor Finding Nemo, it still received 27 awards and the film's DVD was the best-selling DVD of 2005, selling 17.4 million copies.
The story of The Incredibles begins with a still young Mr. Incredible a.k.a. Bob Parr who, like any superhero, performs his daily heroic deeds. He is unexpectedly visited by Buddy, a young fan eager to become his helper. Buddy turns out to be more of a nuisance than a help, despite his self-invented gadgets, and Mr. Incredible sends him away. Later that day, he marries the superheroine Elastigirl (Helen). Then, suddenly, things go wrong. After Mr. Incredible saves a man who was about to commit suicide, the man sues him. This leads to a chain reaction of lawsuits against superheroes. The government decides to help the superheroes by setting up a special programme that will pay for all their lawsuits and provide them with new identities, on the condition that they never do heroic work again. 15 years later, Bob and Helen have settled into a quiet little town. They now have three children: teenage Violet, 10-year-old Dashiell ("Dash"), and baby Jack-Jack. Violet and Dash each have superpowers, but Jack-Jack is apparently normal. Bob, who now works at an insurance company, is frustrated that he can't help anyone anymore. He still tries to be a "hero" by pointing out loopholes in the law to his clients so they can get their benefits. He also regularly goes out at night with his old friend Lucius (also an ex-superhero called Frozone) to help people. He is unknowingly shadowed by Mirage, a mysterious woman. After Bob loses his job, Mirage contacts him. She offers him a large sum of money if Bob will take out a runaway robot, the Omnidroid 9000, on an island. Bob accepts the job and defeats the Omnidroid. After this, Bob gets more and more assignments. He starts training again to get in shape and has the fashion designer Edna Mode make him a new suit. Two months later, Mirage calls Bob again. When Bob arrives on the same island again, he is attacked by an enhanced version of the Omnidroid. He is captured by the mastermind behind the Omnidroid, a man called Syndrome. This Syndrome is none other than his old fan Buddy. He has made a fortune over the past 15 years inventing and selling weapons. He has kept the best weapons in order to become a hero, despite his lack of superpowers. Later, when Mr. Incredible escapes and looks into Syndrome's computer, he is horrified to discover that Syndrome has already killed dozens of superheroes to prepare his Omnidroid for battle with Mr. Incredible. At home, Helen discovers Bob's absence. When she sees that his old superhero suit has been repaired, she immediately goes to Edna. Edna shows the superhero costumes that she has made for all the members of the family. From Edna, she hears that Bob was fired months ago and has started working as a superhero again. Thanks to a transmitter Edna fitted into Bob's suit, Helen discovers Bob's location and immediately jets off to the island. Dash and Violet come along as stowaways. Unfortunately for Mr. Incredible, the transmitter also gives his location away to Syndrome and he is captured again.
Brad Bird originally conceived the screenplay for The Incredibles for a traditional, animated film for Warner Bros. According to his own account, he got the idea from a drawing he had made in 1993. He developed the film as an extension of the 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. After the film Looney Tunes: Back in Action became a flop, Warner Bros. closed its animated film division, and the project for The Incredibles was cancelled. When Bird later talked to his friend John Lasseter about the film, Lasseter convinced him to give Pixar a try. Bird and Lasseter knew each other from their college years at CalArts in the 1970s. Pixar accepted Bird's script but changed the animation to computer animation. This made it the first Pixar film to feature only human characters. At his request, Bird was allowed to put together his own crew. He approached people he had worked with on The Iron Giant (1999), among others. Bird's idea contained many scenes that were difficult for the computer animation to do. Among other things, new techniques were needed to realistically depict human anatomy, clothing, and skin. Among other things, Violet's long hair was technically difficult to draw. The film was largely treated as if it were a live-action production. John Barry was the first choice for the composer because of his music for the trailer of On Her Majesty's Secret Service. However, Barry did not want to recreate his old soundtracks for the film, so Michael Giacchino was approached. The music in the film is entirely instrumental. Critics' reactions were very positive. Critic Roger Ebert awarded the film 3.5 out of 4 stars and wrote: "The Pixar Studios, which cannot seem to take a wrong step, steps right again with "The Incredibles," a superhero spoof that alternates breakneck action with satire of suburban sitcom life. After the "Toy Story" movies, "A Bug's Life," "Monsters, Inc." and "Finding Nemo," here's another example of Pixar's mastery of popular animation." The film is generally regarded as one of the best Pixar films. One point that many critics noticed was that the film had a much more serious and mature undertone than previous Pixar films. However, this was also a point of negative criticism. The film clearly contained more and more realistic violence than previous Pixar films. The film won the Academy Award in 2005 for the best animated film (the second Pixar film to win this award) and the award for best sound effects. The film was also nominated for the award for best screenplay and best sound. The Incredibles made $70,467,623 in its opening week, more than any Pixar film has ever made in its opening week. The film even (just) beat Finding Nemo's revenue of $70,251,710. The film brought in a total of $261,441,092, making it the second most successful Pixar film ever, and the fifth most successful film of 2004. Worldwide revenue was $631,436,092. A sequel, Incredibles 2, was released in 2018.
Sources: Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert.com), Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.
December will be Pixar month at EFSP! In the coming weeks, Bob, Truus & Jan Too! will share our collection of Pixar postcards with you at Flickr.
This is a Kardorama postcard printed and published in Great Britain, the view is looking north from the south bank of the Thames showing the Tower of London and sailing dinghies. It is Saturday 21st July 1962 and the dinghies are taking part in a race from Putney to the Tower and back again as part of the City of London Festival which was first held in 1962. It was a biennial event until 1980 when it was subsequently held annually until 2015, in April 2016 the Corporation of the City of London ended the Festival citing financial problems due to the lack of sponsors. It was a three week arts Festival consisting of Classical music concerts, lectures and other events including, at least in 1962, a half ton Ox which was roasted at Old Change. The Ox produced 1,000 portions at 2/6 each. There were 332 boats in twelve class groups, each leaving Putney at five minute intervals, the group shown consist of the Enterprise class of dinghy which are discernible by their light blue sails. Other classes were International 14s, Merlin Rockets, 12ft Nationals, Fireflies and Solos. Each group were to beach their boats at the Tower and have lunch whilst the tide turned, it looks like they are on their way back. The beach at the Tower of London dates to 1934 when over a thousand barge loads of sand were dumped on the foreshore to make a beach for the children of London. The beach was opened by King George V and was very popular with local children, some of whom had never been to the seaside. The beach was closed to the public in 1971 over pollution and health concerns.