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Taken this morning as the moon was setting and the sun was rising.
Took quite a few shots most of which were either over exposing the moon, or underexposing the trees. This one seemed to be about the best of the set.
As usual the lighting didn't last very long. Less than 5 minutes before the sky became too bright and the color faded.
sooc (small crop)
Another shot in the class studio.
I love that it gives me an excuse to take photos of people not posing.
They were setting up for a high key shot.
This was our first Backpacking night in the woods. We waked about 7 miles before we set up camp. Took a break in the middle and had lunch.
Another wonderful magazine, Hair Setting Patterns had a description and instructions for each style inside. Like Set 'n Style, every style was done with a roller set, now matter how simple. What is really lost these days but was obviously known then was how a roller set can add body and texture to hair, and make hair more manageable even for straight styles.
The sunspots are still quite visible as the sun was setting, in the first image on the left there is even the smidge of a green flash. The sun went down of the Allt Dearg wind farm on Kintyre as can be seen on the rightmost frame. For reference, the wind farm is 82km or 51 miles away.
We head towards the setting sun while the weather does not show any sign of getting better...
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Some of you may have noticed that, unfortunately, owing to the fact that a certain person based in Kent 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.
Jules and Moses Diggs (Barbie Basics lara head on Teen Skipper body, Prince of Egypt Moses Ken doll) make sure everything is perfectly set up before they hit the waves.
Setting destinations used to be a hazardous job - on the old buses one (usually the conductor) had to risk limb by turning heavy handles to find the right screen, nowadays its yet another 'automated' task that can on occasions cause problems!
Here in Edinburgh's Princes Street Lothian Country Gemini 20947 waits while its destination is set - those around the bus will find out '113 Pencaitland' will be the result rather than a '10 to Brunstane' even though the bus will pass that suburb! The bus is in a very smart green and cream livery which I believe suits it better than that of the East Coast version. The bus waits at a very useful bus stop directly opposite the steps and escalator to Waverley Station.
With the last rays of sun setting at Banbury, 50043 waits for mail to be loaded with 1V18 1343 Glasgow - Paddington on 24th September 1982.
This was a move I did on a few occasions in the autumn of 1982, taking 1V82 to Banbury for a short wait for 2V60 1947 Banbury to Oxford. The diagram was then for loco and stock to work 2A81 2040 Oxford - Didcot and then 5A81 into Paddington.
The smart move was to remain in the toilets after the train had terminated at Didcot for an illicit express journey into Paddington (one of the few times I would have been non-stop on a 50 through Reading) for the Down Midnight - which was 50030 on this occasion.