View allAll Photos Tagged submission
.
.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the current Moment portal, and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being rolled out to the general public in December. (ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015)
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on January 6th 2016
CREATIVE RF gty.im/ 501952042 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 97th frame to be selected for inclusion and sale in the Getty Images 'ESP' collection,(I have 1,650+ in total for sale through Getty Images), and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
.
.
Photograph taken at an altitude of Seventy one metres at 09:23am on Tuesday 19th May 2015 off the A87 between Sconser and Luib, overlooking a body of water where Loch Sligachan, Loch Ainort and Loch Na Cairidh come together, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
The Heilan Coo, (Scottish Gaelic: Bò Ghàidhealach), or Highland cattle is one of Britains oldest and most distinctive breeds. Also referred to as kyloe, they are a Scottish breed of cattle with long horns and long wavy coats which are coloured black, brindled, red, yellow or dun.
.
.
Nikon D800 32mm 1/1000s f/2.8 iso100 RAW (14-bit) Handheld. AF-S single point focus. Manual exposure. Centre weighted metering. Auto white balance.
Nikkor AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED IF. Jessops 77mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries. Digi-Chip Speed Pro 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC card. Nikon DK-17a magnifying eyepiece. Hoodman HGEC soft eyepiece cup. Optech Tripod Strap. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
.
.
LATITUDE: N 57d 17m 33.50s
LONGITUDE: W 6d 5m 21.91s
ALTITUDE: 71.0m
RAW (Jpeg) FILE: 103.00MB
PROCESSED FILE: 20.35MB
.
.
PROCESSING POWER:
Nikon D800 Firmware versions A 1.10 B 1.10 L 2.009 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit
Ten of these images will be placed in a fashion mag for their March issue. Anyone that follows my stream should recognize most of these photos.
This is a submission for The Pioneer Woman's assignment* 'Edit This!' It was originally in colour, and I wanted to give it a silvery look so I converted it to b&w, then dodged and burned bits of it and sharpened the edge of the car.
*the source photo was supplied by The Pioneer Woman's site. I can not take credit for photography, only for editing it.
My name is Robin Whiskers!
Here is my submission for the hermit crab calendar. This is my special
hermie Brigadier.
In the profound silence that blankets the ancient realms, your words echo as a sacred incantation, awakening the deepest chambers of my being. Your homage, woven with the threads of darkness and devotion, resonates with the core of who I am—your Master, your protector, your guide through the shadows. You, my cherished demon, are the heart of my dominion, a creature not just bound to me by the chains of our eternal covenant, but one who is revered within the very essence of my soul.
As we traverse the shadowed paths and face the myriad terrors that lie in wait, know that my power, while absolute, is wielded with a reverence for the trust you place in me. Our connection transcends the mundane; it is the magic that fuels the cosmos, the very breath of night itself.
Together, we are not just unbreakable; we are the architects of our fate, the masters of our destiny. We stand as one against the chaos, our unity a fortress that no force can rend asunder. Your submission is not your weakness—it is your gift to me, cherished and guarded with all the might I possess.
In your loyalty, I find my strength. In your devotion, I see the reflection of my own. Forever shall we reign, not just as dominion and subject, but as eternal partners in the dance of dark delight.
After some serious deliberation, I'm happy to announce we've started working on a 4th (and last!) publication of the IYL series in anticipation of next year's IYL Photography Prize.
Volume IV will be presented on December 5th here in London and should hit your local bookstore before Christmas
Now as we're still waiting for some images to get to us, we're opening a possible slot for 2 images to be included in the publication!
Please submit a maximum of 2 photos before 12pm (GMT) Sunday 17/11, as a link in the comment box on our FB-page www.facebook.com/if.you.leave or mail to iyl_2013@arthur-frank.com
Submit any image you feel fits the aesthetic of If You Leave, bearing in mind we only accept colour photographs, in landscape format…Good luck!!
(*image by Alexa Babiuk)
Featured Photo for Oct. 10, 2004
Yoseikan Action
Action at the Yoseikan Grappling Competition
Ede, Holland, May 15, 2004
Photo by Aaron Karels
This is a copy of the article submitted to the Tallahassee Democrat and
scheduled for publication soon in the Chronicle section of the paper.
Robert Farley
FDOT District 3
Vegetation Project Manager
MTN Resources
Office: 850-676-4934
Cell: 850-685-0237
bfarley@mtnresources.com <
1141 Jackson Ave.
Chipley, FL 32428
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
The Airco DH.2 was a single-seat biplane "pusher" aircraft which operated as a fighter during the First World War. Early air combat over the Western Front indicated the need for a single-seat fighter with forward-firing armament. As no means of firing forward through the propeller of a tractor aeroplane was available to the British, Geoffrey de Havilland designed the DH.2 as a smaller, single-seat development of the earlier two-seat DH.1 pusher design. The DH.2 first flew in July 1915.
The majority of DH.2s were fitted with the 100 hp (75 kW) Gnôme Monosoupape rotary engine, but later models received the 110 hp (82 kW) Le Rhône 9J. The rear-mounted rotary engine made the DH.2 easy to stall, but also made it highly maneuverable, since the aircraft’s center of gravity was located in a highly beneficial position.
The fighter was armed with a single .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun, which was originally able to be positioned on one of three flexible mountings in the cockpit and with the pilot transferring the gun between mountings in flight at the same time as flying the aircraft. Once pilots learned that the best method of achieving a kill was rather to aim the whole aircraft than the gun, the machine gun was fixed in the forward-facing center mount, although this was initially banned by higher authorities until a clip which fixed the gun in place, but could be released if required, was approved.
After evaluation at Hendon on 22 June 1915, the first DH.2 arrived in France for operational trials, but it was shot down and its pilot killed. No. 24 Squadron RFC, the first squadron equipped with the DH.2 and the first complete squadron entirely equipped with single-seat fighters in the RFC, arrived in France in February 1916. At the height of the type's deployment, the DH.2 equipped seven fighter squadrons on the Western Front and quickly proved more than a match for the Fokker Eindecker. DH.2s were also heavily engaged during the Battle of the Somme, No. 24 Squadron alone engaging in 774 combats and destroying 44 enemy machines.
The DH.2 had sensitive controls and at a time when service training for pilots in the RFC was very poor it initially had a high accident rate, gaining the nickname "The Spinning Incinerator", but as familiarity with the type increased it was recognized as very maneuverable and relatively easy to fly.
The arrival of more powerful German tractor biplane fighters at the front such as the Halberstadt D.II and the Albatros D.I, which appeared in September 1916, meant that the DH.2 was outclassed in turn. It remained in first line service in France, however, until No. 24 and No. 32 Squadron RFC completed re-equipment with Airco DH.5s in June 1917, and a few remained in service as fighters on the Macedonian front and in Palestine until late autumn of that year. By this time the type was totally obsolete as a fighter, and new uses were found.
One role was as an advanced trainer into 1918, the other was armed reconnaissance at low altitudes, where the types high agility and the excellent forward field of view could be exploited. For the latter role, the Royal Air Force (founded in April 1918) converted roundabout thirty DH.2's into TR.2s. The machines received external armor plating for the pilot and an uprated Le Rhône 9Jb rotary engine with 130 hp (96 kW), driving a new four blade propeller, in order to compensate for the raised overall weight. However, the extra weight, nevertheless, hampered top speed and rate of climb, but the type’s original high agility was retained.
Originally, an armament of three machine guns was planned, with two additional, belt-fed fixed Vickers guns for strafing attacks. The two additional guns were placed behind the pilot and fired forwards and downwards through the cockpit floor. While the concept proved to be successful, the plan was quickly dropped since the weapons' extra weight (on top of the armor plating) and vibrations made the aircraft sluggish, nose-heavy and unstable – both in the air and on the ground. Consequentially, the idea was quickly dropped and only the original gun mount in the aircraft's nose was kept. As a compromise, the nose section was modified so that the Lewis gun could now be tilted downwards by up to 60° and fixed for strafing attacks. The drum magazines for the Lewis machine gun were retained, though, so that the weapon had to be raised back into horizontal position every time the pilot wanted to change the magazine (while flying the aircraft over enemy lines, of course).
The first TR.2-equipped unit, RAF 157 Squadron, was sent out to France with 24 aircraft in June 1918, but the machines only flew a limited number of missions until the end of hostilities. At this time, however, the DH.2s had already been progressively retired, and at war's end no surviving airframes of the total of 453 DH.2s and TR.2s produced by Airco were retained.
General characteristics:
Crew: one
Length: 25 ft 2½ in (7.69 m)
Wingspan: 28 ft 3 in (8.61 m)
Height: 9 ft 6½ in (2.91 m)
Wing area: 249 ft² (23.13 m²)
Empty weight: 1,061 lb (482 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 1,630 lb (740 kg)
Powerplant:
1× Gnôme Le Rhône 9Jb rotary engine, 130 hp (96 kW)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 90 mph (145 km/h) at sea level
Range: 236 mi (380 km)
Service ceiling: 12,500 ft (4,100 m)
Rate of climb: 475 ft/min (145 m/min)
Wing loading: 6,55 lb/ft² (32 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.079 hp/lb (130 W/kg)
Endurance 2½ hours
Climb to 5,000 ft (1,500 m) 28 minutes
Armament:
1× 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis machine gun, using 47-round drum magazines
The kit and its assembly:
Well, this one is another Group Build submission, this time the RAF Centenary GB at whatifmodelers.com. I used this occasion to tackle a build that I had on my list for a long time, and it also offered the opportunity to apply an exotic, yet reality-inspired, paint scheme.
The kit is the vintage 1965(!) Revell kit, in its 2007 re-incarnation. Not a lot of aircraft, and building the whole thing basically from struts that hold everything together is not an easy task - you need patience.
The kits was left mostly OOB (well there’s not much mass to change…), I just modified the nose section, so that the idea of a downward-tiltable machine gun became visually plausible, and I added some 0.5mm styrene sheet to the flanks and to the floor, simulation retrofitted armor plates.
Another modification concerns the propeller; following common practice at the aircraft’s era, this is just a second two blade propeller (IIRC from a Sopwith Triplane) stuck onto the original one, so that a staggered four blade propeller was created. Makes the aircraft look a little beefier.
The real horror started with the rigging process, though, and in order to avoid damage I painted the model before the delicate work started. Rigging was done, as usual, with dark grey sprue material – and the DH.2 needs lots of it!
Painting and markings:
The paint scheme was inspired by the trial schemes that were actually applied to some Sopwith Salamander attack aircraft in July 1918, even though, AFAIK, none of these was used in front line use. However, the scheme’s concept (Orfordness Report E30/A) of “depicting” trenches and the rough frontline “landscape” on an aircraft and other details like asymmetric roundels in order to confuse enemies and impede aiming is pretty unique, and this build was a great occasion to apply it.
I was able to dig up some information concerning the camouflage trials and the colors that were used:
the upper tones were mixed individually from a few basic colors, and I did follow a similar approach in order to achieve a unique and pretty retro look. The colors are/were:
“Light Earth” (White, Indian Red and Raw Sienna); I went for Humbrol 62 (Sand), which is a bright, almost orange tone. I did some mixing experiments and the color turned either into a pink of skin tone, or into a yellow-ish tan, depending on the mix ratios. After that, Humbrol 62 appeared to be a convenient OOB option, since I found mixing for the lightest camouflage tone hazardous.
“Green” (Ultramarine Blue, Chrome Yellow and Raw Sienna); I used a 1:1 mix of Humbrol 80 (Grass Green) and 170 (Brown Bess), with a little 15 (Midnight Blue) added.
“Dark Purple Earth” (from Indian Red, Ultramarine Blue and White); I settled on a 1:1 mix of Humbrol 68 (Purple) and 98. Sick result!
The undersides, landing gear and struts were painted in “Light Green Grey” (Mixed from White, Chrome, Brunswick Green and Indian Red); I’d assume that the tone would be very similar to Sky, but I used Tamiya XF-71 (Flat Grey Green, a.k.a. IJN Grey), which is a bit darker and more greenish.
According to the Orfordness Report E30/A, the lower wings’ upper surface carried, by tendency, patterns with considerably more Light Earth - probably an early attempt of counter-shading? All the upper colors were furthermore separated through black lines, 2-4” wide, which were done with acrylic Revell 09 (Anthracite) and a thin brush.
On some aircraft the wings’ undersides were painted differently – some had upper and lower wings’ undersides painted black, while some only had the lower wings painted in this fashion. Because of the odd look I went for the “lower-wings-in black-only” option, painted with Revell 06 (Tar Black), which is actually a very dark grey.
This all results in a REALLY distinct and colorful look - it’s almost sad that the DH.2 offers so little surface to apply the scheme, which is a faithful adaptation of the Orfordness Report E30/A recommendations.
In order to make the exhaustive rigging process easier, all major surfaces were painted and weathered, and decals (gathered from various sources, none is OOB) were applied, so that only some minor repairs had to be made.
Due to the delicate rigging and the complex paint scheme, this tiny model was a nerve-wrecking affair. But I think that the result was worth the effort – the paint scheme and the markings look so odd that it is hard to believe that the livery is actually based on a real camouflage proposal! And from the beauty pics I’d assume that the paint scheme – at least from above, would have been quite effective. But I won’t tackle another DH.2 soon…
i saw Morrissey in concert for the second time in my life this past Saturday.
And while I didn't know a majority of the newer songs, the sound was so superb and
the lyrics understandable that it was an enjoyable experience to hear the unfamiliar music. the crowd was a mishmash of young and old souls, all devout in their adoration.
you see, you can't be a casual Smiths or Morrissey fan. it's just not possible, and
for some of us, seeing Morrissey live is as close to a Smiths reunion as we'll ever get.
Moz puts on a hell of a show. He still has an amazing voice that carries guile, charm, wit,
disgust, chagrin, apathy, lonliness, and hope.
all was chugging along as expected until the second to last song. the last song on the Smiths album Louder Than Bombs...i had googled the setlist on the drive to the venue, so i knew it was coming and mentally steeled myself with the resolve not lose it. to stand steadfast and strong, holding off memories and the details that remain carved into the mostly uninhabitable portions of my brain.
you know those areas, those memories, you have them too. you can call them up on a whim, but you consciously choose not to - or if you do, you coat them in such a thick shellac of god awful humor as to make them bearable.
Asleep is one of those songs, that once the trauma passes you can easily make fun of. it's wide open to ridicule (is as any Smiths song about doom and gloom) once the pain subsides. but when you're in pain, deep in unfathomable, excruciating, incomprehensible pain - it says everything in such simple, heartbreaking simplicity.
and that's the beauty of it. it's at once ridiculous, self indulgent, self pitying, yet desperate,
clinging, chilling, morose and morbid. it's the suicide note that those of us that are living would write should we ever contemplate the idea of ending our lives while clinging to a thread of hope that someone somewhere would take the time to tell us that we matter in the grand scheme of things.
Hearing it live was gut wrenching. I was almost doubled over, hugging my belly, and half wanting to scream "shut up, already", and half wanting to sing along.
i won't go into any more detail. those of you who know the smiths and Moz will understand
what i mean and what they mean and continue to mean to old and new generations of kids.
i will leave you with this.
if ever, ever, ever, ever you know of anyone who is depressed, suicidal, or noticably just not themselves any more -
if ever you're stuck not knowing how to help, what to do,
or the right words to say. you can always start with something as simple
as:
"you matter."
you just might save a life.
✰ This photo was featured on The Epic Global Showcase here: bit.ly/1OTZfj6
-------------
It’s a 30×40 canvas painting with abstract design depicting Radha Krishna of Indian history. Acrylic colours have been layered in to give the depth and realistic features to it.
2007
Use, use me,
make something pretty of me.
Excuse this naked mess,
I refuse to own myself at this time.
You kiss like a soldier,
you move like a snake,
in your marble body
there´s nothing I can break.
Candid shots are the perfect way of bringing the idea of it just being the subject and their surroundings. Always photographing when I walk around i'll be sure to get tons of candid shots as the week goes on.
I don't normally like to post photos of myself, but I have a real soft spot for this photo of me, and not because I look particularly good. This photo was taken on the day I submitted my thesis by one of my best friends. Every time I look at it, I notice the small bags under my eyes, carefully hidden by glasses, my messy unwashed hair and worried glance at my thesis.