IMAGE INFO

- Viewpoint is looking north-north-east from an elevated position on the Grand Pacific Hotel (cnr Carr Street & Beach Street South) along the main Beach Street pedestrian promenade & Coogee Beach.

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SOURCE INFO

- Photographer is Arthur Ernest Foster.

- The original was digitized by the State Library of New South Wales from .

- The digitized original is available from the SLNSW online collection "Box 55 - Sydney Suburbs" here:

digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps...

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CREDITS

- Arthur Ernest Foster (photographer)

- State Library of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.

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COPYRIGHT STATUS

- Per SLNSW advice:

Out of copyright: created before 1955

- Regarding my own work in creating this unique cropped, restored & sepia duo-tone version from a downloaded copy of the digitized original, I have applied a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivative" Copyright.

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PROCESS INFO

- I downloaded a copy of the digitized original (small file size & very faded, with areas of uneven exposure).

- Using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows, I cropped out the badly faded edges, enlarged the cropped image ~50%, then restored contrast, sharpness, adjusted uneven exposure areas & applied a sepia duo-tone curve for significantly better overall dynamic range.

I was rather disappointed in the lights; they seemed to lack impact and were quite difficult to see let alone photograph although the design was very elegant. With a 6 second exposure and a lot of traffic, results were a bit haphazard but this one seemed to have come out quite well.

My first use in anger of the Super Takumar 150mm f4.0, a really nice all metal but light lens.

Best if you press L to view in Flick's Lightbox and F11 to remove the toolbars.

Taken in June 2008. The walk up the valley was very pleasant with the light and backdrop of cloud, a rare event this summer. The buildings have been brightened up a bit following a comment - it does help the picture so thank you, Nellie, for pointing it out.

Looks best if you View On Black and you may need to press F11 to lose the toolbar so you can see it all.

Another view can be seen here - www.flickr.com/photos/7361952@N03/2762560384/

Taken in September 2015. Glass fibre has been around long enough for some of the abandoned boats on Dungeness beach to be constructed from it. It doesn't weather with quite the elegance of wood but it has its moments. There has been some work done on what was visible through the hole (possibly there to allow through a mooring rope or to drain the scuppers) but otherwise very much as seen.

Taken with the 100mm f2.0 Zeiss Makro Planar lens converted to a Sony A mount with a Leitax bayonet.

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IMAGE INFO

- The photographer's viewpoint is centred looking north-east from the slopes of the hill west of Como Station (near where the end of Como Parade in Como West is today).

- By this time, Christmas holiday outings by rail from Sydney to Como by day trippers & picnickers was proving very popular, with fishing, boating & other leisure activities becoming well-catered for.

- By the time this photo was taken (c.1900), the "old" Como Station with single short platform on the eastern side of a single track (which opened 26 Dec 1885) had been completely demolished & re-built during 1889-90, with an additional track dedicated to southbound train movements being added on the eastern side of the existing single track, south from the rail bridge abutment & a larger station building constructed on the new extended western platform. The original single track became a northbound line only. A second "Gauntlet" track was laid next to the existing track across the single width bridge so as to alleviate the need to use levered points at either end.

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SOURCE INFO

- This version is a copy of an original Albumen photo print c.1900 (commonly used for commercial sale as real photo cards or post cards) which has been digitized & is held in the New South Wales State Library online image collection digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps...

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ATTRIBUTION INFO

- Star Photo Co. (1894-1928), the creator of the original image,

- Mitchell & State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work of scanning & digitizing these rare historic images.

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COPYRIGHT INFO

- The original image is no longer restricted by any form of Copyright, per State Library of New South Wales copyright advice -

"Out of Copyright

Reason for copyright status: Created/Published Date is Before 1955

Material type: Photograph

COPYRIGHT & PERMISSIONS:

This image may be used freely for research and study purposes. Further use may require permission. Please acknowledge that the image is from the collections of the State Library of New South Wales".

- As for my own work in creating this restored duo-tone version, I have applied a Creative Commons "Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike" copyright .

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PROCESS INFO

- A copy of the archived digital image was downloaded from NSWSL.

- Latest version re-coloured using MyHeritage app.

- Image enhanced using Topaz Gigapixel AI, Skylum Luminar Neo AI & Adobe Photoshop CS2.

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ADDITIONAL HISTORIC INFO

- STAR PHOTO CO. was operated by the proprietor William Livermore (chief photographer). I found an early notice in the Daily Commercial News & Shipping List (Sydney) which shows the Star Photo Co. had imported 1 case of "pictures" (probably photographic glass plates) from Victoria, passing Customs on 3 Apr 1894.

- I would suggest most entries found on other websites that claim Star Photo Co. was only operational from as late as 1898 would appear to be incorrect, since the newspaper evidence shows that Star Photo Co. was already actively engaged in the commercial photographic business, from at least as early as April of 1894!

Sydney looking west, during construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1929-1932, Milton Kent, State Library of New South Wales, ON 447/Box 086, digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...

Taken in September 2015. Offered in two versions with different crops. I suppose version 1 may be felt to have too much sky but it seemed too good to waste and I quite like the effect of a landscape dwarfed by the sky. Version 2 reverses the ratio of sky to land and gave me the chance to bump up the contrast as the brightest part of version 1 had been cropped.

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IMAGE INFO

- This large panorama is centered looking east across Scylla Bay & Green Point (located in what would become the suburb of Oyster Bay) from the northern end of Como Parade.

- The Georges River height is at about mid-tide.

- A link to an associated image taken at the same time by large format glass plate photographer Rex Hazlewood is attached in the comments area.

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SOURCE INFO

- The original image used for my version is a panorama of Como (multiple large format 16.5 x 21.5 cm glass plate negatives combined - see link to SLNSW pano viewer here:

dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au/pano-scope/view.php?p=3&fr=9999). It is found in "Series 03 - Panoramic negatives of Sydney and surrounding suburbs, 1921-1925, Rex Hazlewood Collection", freely available online from the Mitchell & SLNSW, which shows significant areas of poor exposure & is very badly faded for the most part.

- The primary source of information for the original panorama (but only showing a low quality placemark image) - is held in the New South Wales State Library online image collection here -

digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps...

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CREDITS

- Credits go to -

(a) Rex Hazlewood (1886-1968), the creator of the original glass plate image, &

(b) The State Library of New South Wales, for their valuable historic photograph digitization & archiving program(s).

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COPYRIGHT STATUS

- The original image is no longer restricted by any form of Copyright, per State Library of New South Wales copyright advice -

"Out of Copyright

Reason for copyright status: Created/Published Date is Before 1955

Material type: Photograph

COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS:

This image may be used freely for research and review purposes. Further use may require permission. Please acknowledge that the image is from the collections of the State Library of New South Wales".

- As for my own work in creating, enlarging & substantially restoring this unique version of the original image, the only Copyright form I have applied is "Attribution-Non Commercial Use-No Derivatives".

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PROCESS INFO

- Five (5) screen captures were taken from the SLNSW panorama viewer.

- Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) was used to stitch the 5 images back into pano format.

- The resulting pano image was re-cropped & restored to a duo-tone version, using Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 8.0 & uploaded to Flickr for public education & review.

And then the rebels came along and ruined everything :P

Has Yahoo got any feet left to shoot itself in? C'mon Yahoo, stop being dicks.

IMAGE INFO

- The viewpoint is looking east-north-east from the eastern platform at Como Station.

- The Georges River height is at about mid-tide.

- At right rear can be seen Murphy's private Pleasure Grounds with rotunda & flag mast at the lookout.

- At right foreground are two schoolboys (messing around?)

- The Murphy brothers' Tea Rooms & Refreshments (aka "Como Cafe") building is in the centre, with their assorted boatsheds situated behind it (the boatshed(s) / hall at left are ex - W.C. Press & Sons' floating shed & function hall).

- Three little girls are sitting in the shadows on the grass area between the two pathways from the station.

- Legible signs include "Como Pleasure Grounds"; two "This Way To Murphy's Shed - BOATS for HIRE - Weekdays (?), Sundays (?), Dinghies (?), Holidays Double Rates" signs; "Grand Social Concert - In Aid of Como Cot Fund"; "COMO GENERAL STORE - REFRESHMENTS, DINING and TEA ROOMS"; "Warrington's Photographic"; "Under New Management - W.S. BIRKS - Great Reduction In Prices"; two "BOATS FOR HIRE" signs on the boatsheds.

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SOURCE INFO

- The original image used for my version is a digitized scan of a large format 16.5 x 21.5 cm glass plate negative, which shows significant areas of glass plate damage & was very faded.

- This image is held in the New South Wales State Library online image collection here -

digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps...

- A copy was downloaded, cropped & restored by myself for public education & review via Flickr.

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CREDITS

- Credits go to -

(a) Rex Hazlewood (1886-1968), the creator of the original glass plate image, &

(b) The State Library of New South Wales, for their valuable historic photograph digitization & archiving program(s).

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COPYRIGHT STATUS

- The original image is no longer restricted by any form of Copyright, per State Library of New South Wales copyright advice -

"Out of Copyright

Reason for copyright status: Created/Published Date is Before 1955

Material type: Photograph

COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS:

This image may be used freely for research and review purposes. Further use may require permission. Please acknowledge that the image is from the collections of the State Library of New South Wales".

- As for my own work in creating, enlarging & substantially restoring this unique version of the original image, the only Copyright form I have applied is "Attribution-Non Commercial Use-No Derivatives".

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PROCESS INFO

- Initial copy restored from the original image's badly faded & damaged condition using Adobe Photoshop Creative Suite 8.0 (duotone version).

- Latest version re-processed using AI software for much better image enhancement.

IMAGE INFO

- This rare, historic image was taken after a day of extreme heat in Sydney, when officials opened the entrances at the Coogee Beach shark-proof enclosure south of the "Coogee Ocean Pier" for night bathing under floodlights (the night lighting had been in operation since 16th November, when the shark-proof enclosure was first officially opened).

- Note the "shark-proof" net supporting cables in the foreground.

- The cost of entry to the safe night bathing area was only 1d per person (whereas the adjacent "Coogee Oceanic Pier" cost 3d per Adult + 3d per Child). With safe night bathing under floodlights (until 2am!) being unique to Coogee Beach at the time, it is no wonder huge crowds from surrounding beach suburbs flocked here in such numbers on hot nights!

- The photographer's viewpoint is looking south-south-west from an elevated position atop the roof of one of the Coogee Pier's structures.

- The Labor Daily newspaper that this exact image appears in is dated Tuesday 10 December 1929 (page 1) & reports luridly that "NIGHT BATHING - Thousands of people stormed the entrance to Coogee shark-net enclosure last night. Approximately 20,000 people were on the beach, while something like 50,000 were in and about the sands, promenades, pier & so forth. As early as 9 o'clock carloads of people, their costumes still dry, left the place" and "Such a crowd was not anticipated, and trouble was not long in coming. Eastern Suburbs Ambulance had three waggons working all night ... there were collapses due to people being overcome in the crush; collisions in the congested waters, and people hit by cars in the jumbled traffic". Officially, it seems the number of actual entrants to the enclosed area of Coogee Beach was "11,225" (a record figure), or "nearly 12,000" - those figures being reported in numerous other newspapers of 10th December. The Evening News went so far as to report "...the crowd in the vicinity [of Coogee Beach] was estimated at 100,000. About 3,000 cars were parked near the beach"....Yikes, that's insane!! :oO Similar numbers became a regular occurrence on hot nights, so it is no wonder petitions started to flood in to Council from many angry local residents concerned at the mayhem all these "blow-ins" from other suburbs were causing!

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SOURCE INFO

- 1 x glass photo-negative from the Hood Collection.

- Photographer Sam Hood (1872-1953)

- The original was digitized by the State Library of New South Wales

- The digitized original is available from the SLNSW online collection "Hood Collection" here:

digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps...

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CREDITS

- Sam Hood (photographer)

- State Library of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.

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COPYRIGHT STATUS

- Per SLNSW advice:

Out of copyright: created before 1955

- Regarding my own work in creating this unique cropped, restored & duo-toned version from the digitized original, I have applied "Attribution-Share Alike".

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PROCESS INFO

- I downloaded a copy of the digitized original (very faded & overexposed).

- Latest version colourized, enlarged & enhanced using AI software.

Taken in September 2015. A wondrous day and something of a contrast to the miserable weather around Christmas 2015 when this picture was processed and uploaded. One must also give a thought to those in the north of the country who suffered floods rather than just gloom.

Offered in colour and black and white. The latter has the edge, I suppose but it seemed worth the effort on doing the colour one. Best if you press L to view in Flickr's Lightbox and F11 to remove the toolbars.

IMAGE INFO

- Photographer's viewpoint is actually looking south-east from next to the Hotel Cecil.

- Note that the foreshore promenade only fronts Cronulla Park at this time. It had not yet been constructed to the north & south of the beach proper.

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SOURCE INFO

- One copy of a nitrate photonegative, 9 x 15 cm real photo postcard from the "Samuel Wood - postcard photonegatives of Cronulla, ca. 1928-1932 Collection".

- The original was digitized by the State Library of New South Wales

- The digitized original was originally available from the SLNSW online collection here:

digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps...

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CREDITS

- Samuel Wood (1876-1957) for the original B&W real photo postcard.

- Mitchell & State Libraries of New South Wales for their valuable work in digitizing, archiving & making available online this rare historical content.

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COPYRIGHT STATUS

- Per SLNSW advice:

Out of copyright: created before 1955

- Regarding my own work in creating this unique cropped, restored & duo-toned version from the digitized original, I have applied "Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike".

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PROCESS INFO

- I downloaded a copy of the digitized original (very badly faded with uneven exposure).

- Using Adobe Photoshop CS Windows, I enlarged by ~78% , adjusted areas of uneven exposure, restored contrast & sharpness & used a dark sepia duo-tone curve for better tonal range.

Photo of a Milbert's Tortoiseshell butterfly made with an extra black and white effect added before being converted to sepia using the Ribbet website

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Call number: ON 588/ Box 20/ 22

Digital ID: c071850022

Format: glass photonegative

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Wallpaper: imgur.com/nkgEeqQ

Rocketdock, with 'Plex' icon pack.

Rainmeter Skins-

Clock and Date : Encoded

Visualizer : Monstercat

The taskbar was modded with 7+ Taskbar Tweaker, and the transparency was increased with Classic Shell, so as to enable better visibility for the visualizer.

Netspeed monitor toolbar for network usage speeds.

A blank toolbar was also used in the taskbar to change the alignment of the application icons.

Taken in September 2015. As there is no harbour, boats are winched out of the water when not being used where they look rather forlorn and out of place. However, this modern twin hull seems much more at home and looks ready to chug off across the shingle. Taken with the Zeiss 100mm f2.0 Makro Planar converted to the Sony A mount with a Leitax bayonet.

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Taken in September 2015. A few old glass fibre boats now adorn Dungeness beach. The peeling paint is quite interesting and on some boats, the resin has started to break down, leaving the fibre exposed. Interesting to think what sort of subjects they will make in the future as the supply of wooden boats must have long since ended.

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WEEK 18 – Closing the Gap (V)

Another look at the rear center “cubbyhole” and all of the fixtures resting in its square footage awaiting purchase. Looks like, had I ventured a bit closer, I would’ve seen that roll of orange fixture sale stickers, too. Pretty neat!

Completely unrelated side note, half because I’m annoyed and half because I’m running out of ways to fill these billions of Gap descriptions – anyone else have a Lenovo laptop? I don’t know about yours, but the built-in photo viewer on mine got some sort of update this week. Now the photos change in size based on whether the toolbar is toggled on or not. Plus there’s a border around the photos at all times, instead of them completely filling the window as they used to. I hope this is fixed soon. It’s becoming quite bothersome.

(c) 2018 Retail Retell

These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)

EXPLORE #11 Really appreciate the visits, comments, invites, fav's and all the great notes.

Check out my photographic Games of Memory, Jigsaw Puzzles and Scrambles - 17 Photographic Jigsaw Puzzles; 15 Photo Scrambles; 4 Photo Games of Memory / Concentration. The number of layouts are really infinite because every time you refresh or go to them again the layout changes.

Download my TOOLBAR to access: 1) all of your programs such as word, excel etc, 2) your email, 3) Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, 4) play online games, 5) listen to radio, 6) watch TV news, 7) check local weather, 8) block popups, 9) microsoft paint, 10) notebook, 11) Google search .... and, you can customize the toobar by adding other components and sites as you wish -- all from ONE LOCATION.

View larger photos on black at Andrea Kollo's Flickriver. Do NOT use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © Andrea Kollo - All rights reserved | *** PLEASE - no glitter graphics or multi invites / DO NOT add your photos in comments ***

View Favourites According to Flickr | Hosta Underworld - larger view

As seen at Boardman Pl, South of Market, San Francisco, CA, United States

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Call number: ON 388/Box 030/Item 164

Digital ID: FL9648008

Format: photonegative

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Ive written a GreaseMonkey script compatible with FireFox and Google Chrome called "Flickr PM"

It adds a little envelope icon next to usernames in flickr forums and

individual photo pages, clicking the icon pops up a window that sends lets you compose and send a flickr mail to that user without leaving your current page. It also adds a linked icon for the users favourites, profile, photo archive, list of interesting photos, a link to Flickr Scout and Flickr Inspector and also to InterestingBy, which lists that users photos in order of Interestingness.

I've added FlickrPM functionality to search pages, contact list pages, recent activity and comments you've made pages. Ive also added a link "SC" that takes you to Flickr Scout, which shows which of that users images are featured in the Explore pages and a link "FI" to Flickr Inspector which gives you detailed info and stats on that user.

LATEST UPDATES

15th Sep 2009 added FlickrPM functionality to Gallery pages.

16th Oct 2009 added "RE" - change relationship link , renamed text links.

18th Jun 2010 script is now also compatible with Safari, Opera and Google Chrome!

4th Aug 2010 fixed script to work on new photo pages (still needs a few tweaks)

5th Aug 2010 fixed mail sending on photo pages

30th Jul 2013 fixed script for latest flickr changes.

Get script:: Flickr PM

PS You can get my other useful Flickr scripts from steeev.freehostia.com/flickr/

Donate: If you appreciate my scripts and would like to thank me for them, paypal donations are welcome, see my website for the paypal link.

Press the 'Go' and then type 'L' to enlarge. It loops. Press the 'Escape' key to return. The "L" stands for 'lightbox" for anyone who has one in a back room. If you want to remove the toolbar then press f11. Escape gets you back, but you still need to press f11 another time to get your menu back - otherwise a fuddle can start. These are the same shortcuts for viewing any photo on Flickr, but the added loop function from "L" is cool for short clips.

A lens test for an SMC Takumar 35mm 1:2 (second model 49mm filter size) shooting at a constant f8 for bokeh and ISO variants. F8 is down for night shots, but has a good DOF and it's interesting to see the poetic dynamics and ISO loss that can be found aside this sweet central aperture. The clip is 720 and the higher HD formats on the Pentax tend to be unreliable in difficult light conditions - I get banding problems - there is a chance that the problem is me and that the settings can be further adjusted, but as the test is more for stills photography the 720 passes.

An instrumental version of a track that starts with these lyrics:

"Buttercup daisies

And most anything

They wither and fade

After blossom in Spring

Time conquers innocence

Pride takes a fall

In knowledge lies wisdom

That's all"

The song 'Just like you' first featured on the 1973 LP "Stranded" with the great multi instrumentalist Andy Mackay on saxophone. Bryan Ferry's recent solo tours have featured the equally extraordinary Jorja Chalmers on saxophone. The version of the track featured in this lens test is by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra, and has three saxophonists: Richard White - alto & bass saxophones, Robert Fowler, tenor Saxophone and Alan Barnes on the baritone saxophone. Many are vintage instruments.

In many ways the saxophone is about the invention of a name and formula with the bass clarinet and a range of idiosyncratic expressions pre existing Adolphe Sax's 'saxophone' presciption - a 'uniform' that was created to sell musical products for the marching bands of the French army. Military saxofone solos are now a thing of the past, as are the memories of the pre 1846 diversity of flamboyant expression around the single-reed.

AJ

Once again, Flickr have selfishly changed things without thinking about what its members think. I have become used to the last change, and am not happy to protect until I know what I'm protesting about, but agree with my Flickr friends and this time I am happy to support them.

If you have not tried out the beta (or are one of the fortunate ones that did not have it forced upon you) then consider yourselves lucky. Here are just a few of the things one can find in the new Flickr that will be coming our way...

This is just a small sampling of the issues with the new photopage...let your voices be heard!

Christmas panning attempt of my Christmas tree in a two-photo collage using the Ribbet website and mirror-framed using the iPiccy website

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ipiccy.com/editor

Be sure to join this group I started:

All Christmas

Taken in March 2016. Same lens as the previous picture but fitted the right way round, not back to front. Go back one picture if you wish to something taken with the lens back to front. Go forward one picture to read a hopefully understandable description of how it was done.

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Taken in December 2015. A view I was reminded of on a recent walk and the weather was sufficiently helpful a few days later to try it with the camera. Sundridge church is close by to the right and there might be potential for a combined view if the sky was sufficiently interesting.

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Call number: ON 588/ Box 20/ 32

Digital ID: c071850032

Format: glass photonegative

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Taken in September 2016. Experimenting with an image of one of the abandoned boats on Dungeness beach.

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Call number: ON 388/Box 033/Item 107

Digital ID: FL9720395

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Call number: ON 588/ Box 17/ 6

Digital ID: c071770006

Format: glass photonegative

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Yahoo toolbar, Get out of my way!

Carnaby Street, that icon of the Swinging 60's, is now little more than a standard pedestrianised shopping street complete with national chains. The lights were certainly bright but I thought that they should made to hark back more to the era of psychedelia and flower power.

More 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' if you press L to view in Flickr's Lightbox and F11 to remove the toolbars.

Taken in October 2015. A much photographed location but my first visit for many years and the first with a camera, unfortunately on a rather dull day but at least not a plain sky. The church stands alone in the fields of Romney Marsh as the original settlement is long gone. The wooden structure was restored and encased in brick to preserve it in the early 20th Century. Offered in black and white and in the style of an old colour print.

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See below for the original. YOU NOW NEED TO EXPAND THE FIRST COMMENTS TO SEE.

If you want to select only some parts of an image in Photoshop, and they are a regular shape ( in this case - oval ) you can use the Marquee Tool. By default, Marquee is a square/rectangular shape, but the choice can be adjusted prior to using it. Depending on your version of PS, you can cycle though the choices that are available by holding ALT (on a Mac) and selecting the tool.

All selection tools share other functions, and there are 4 icons on the top left of the screen which represent (from left to right) NEW, ADD TO, SUBTRACT FROM and INTERSECT WITH. For this image I used ADD TO, so after creating an oval around the first eye, I can select another eye without losing the previous one, so then I can highlight all the eyes making the ovals just large enough to contain a bit of black around the eye so that they had some definition on the white page.

When all the eyes are selected, there are a couple or ways to create the image. The easiest way is to go to Layers, Layer New, Layer By Copy, and it will add a new layer with just the eyes on it. Highlight the background layer again in the Layers window, and add a new Solid Colour (White) Layer between the background and the eyes layer.

Turn off the Background Layer by selecting the eye icon on the Layers Tool, and that leaves the eye layer above the white layer only. (Sorry I am selecting eyes and PS uses an eye for the toolbar)

An alternative method would be to create a new image before selecting the eyes. If the whole Background was selected (CMD A/CMD C on Mac) then select File New, the software will create a new image the exact same size as the content of the clipboard. Select White on the new image, BUT don't paste the original image in as you just want to create the new image the same size but in White.

Then on the original image, after selecting all the eyes, copy paste the selections to the new White image and the pasted eyes will be on top of the white background.

Creating this sort of tom-foolery image in Flickr allows the subject to blend away into the Flickr white background (history now in 2014). I have used it a number of times for special effect, and this is a silly exercise just to show it.

I decided to do my first animated image as shown below, and want to thanks the crew from Shaun the Sheep as well. I have been fascinated by the few animations I have seen and never knew how the were done. Well it took me hours, as I stumbled past a few impediments on the obstacle course of animation. I hope you enjoy my basic efforts.

Taken in October 2015 although the background is much older. A joint effort with the Zeiss 100mm f2.0 Makro Planar lens converted to the Sony A mount with a Leitax bayonet and the Samsung 35mm f1.4 lens.

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Main Lounge, TSS Awatea, Union Steam Ship Company, c. 1940, photo by Sam Hood, PXE 789 (v.22) digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...

Flickering Jack-O-Lantern photo made to look like lightning hitting the Jack-O-Lantern using the Ribbet website

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View On Black Click F11 to see better (and F11 to return your toolbar when finished).

Explore 2/18/09 #500 (Last Photo!!)

What do you look for when you look at water?-- the plants on the surface? the reflections?

This water lily was the only full bloom in the whole waterlily pond at Fairchild Tropical Gardens. The pond was very peaceful, seen during my 2/2 walk- after a later lunch.

Shot with my Canon's zoom feature. Picture taken as is- no cropping, no photoshop. I know it's not the greatest photo- but I like the sort of impressionist effect, given by the extreme zoom, and the late afternoon lighting. I'm not an "equipment person", more of a point and click, but am discovering I can still create some interesting pictures and nice views of the things that bring me joy.

2/2/09 #0919

Model: Sam

Makeup Artist: Nina Fay

I need to shoot something new. I haven't shot anything beyond snapshots in what feels like forever (but in reality is a little over a week I think).

My photoshop has been playing up the last few days. Basically I can do anything with it as long as what I need isn't on the toolbar. I can only use whats in the drop down menus. Makes masking a big no no as well as a lot of other things which I use to edit (clone and heal come to mind)!! So all of the editing on this was done from the drop down menus. There was another pic I was editing and wanted to crop but couldn't. Boohoo :(

X Factor visit talk (feel free to skip):

I went to watch the X Factor auditions earlier in the week. They're having them with a live audience this year and I just so happened to have been on the reserve list for tickets. After waiting for 3 hours in the queue to get in, we finally made it in. Seats were pretty decent - the fact we could actually sit (after 3 hrs of standing) was godly. In 4 hours of show recording, we got to see about 20 people! Rubbish! Although on the shows it seems like the judges are super harsh and unforgiving, in reality they let almost everyone perform more than 1 song and they actually had discussions with the auditionees. Some things were said clearly for how they would be in the editing process for telly but that's to be expected. Surprisingly, most people who auditioned got through. There were a few people who were extremely talented and 1 bimbo type girl who turned out to have one of the best voices of the night!! Anyway that was it and you read it :-P haha

p.s. (added Jan 2010) the bimbo girl turned out to be Stacey

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Taken in November 2015. Still some Autumn colour in the local park and this is probably the finest tree.

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In 1839 Samuel Thomas Gill arrived with his family in Adelaide after sailing from England. By the mid-1850s he had established himself as one of Australia's most popular artists with many of his sketches published as lithographs. The discovery of gold opened up the country for new towns and caused unprecedented growth in Melbourne and Sydney.

Gill's work covers this vibrant period in Australia's history with an immediacy and feeling for people and place which others missed. Although he spent most of his life in Victoria he visited Sydney for a year in 1855.

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Millers Point, showing Prince Street houses before construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1925-1927, Milton Kent, State Library of New South Wales, ON 447/Box 086, digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?emb...

Call number: ON 588/ Box 25/ 12

Digital ID: c071830012

Format: glass photonegative

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Taken in October 2015. Taking advantage of attending an event in nearby Blackheath to visit for the first time since childhood and get a few shots of this well known view from the nearby Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park. Sadly, the historic buildings at the foot of the hill are getting rather swamped by all the new building behind. St. Paul's Cathedral can just be seen as a little bump on the skyline to the right of The Shard, the very tall spire on the far right.

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