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Premade BG 38
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Please do not redistribute or make small changes and claim it as your own.

Please provide credit via a link under your work back to this image or to my account where possible.

I would love to see how you use my image, so please leave me a link or a small copy in my comment box below.

Thank you,
Brenda.

I belong to this set - ~Pre-made~

If you are looking for more stock images or texture please check out my group pool at
"Brenda's Stock Resources".


Premade BG 83
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Image by ~Brenda-Starr~
This image is free to use in your creative works.

Please do not redistribute or make small changes and claim it as your own.

Please provide credit via a link under your work back to this image or to my account where possible.

I would love to see how you use my image, so please leave me a link or a small copy in my comment box below.

Thank you,
Brenda.

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If you are looking for more stock images and textures, please check out my group
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The BEAT CARES holiday food and toy drive at Brentwood Town Centre photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery (323)

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The BEAT CARES holiday food and toy drive at Brentwood Town Centre photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery (323)
image galleries
Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
The BEAT CARES holiday toy & food drive @ Brentwood Town Centre

With your generous help and donations we were able to raise over 0,000 in cash, over 5,000 toys and over 8,000 pounds of food!
www.TheBeat.com
www.BrentwoodMall.com

Proudly supportng the Greater Vancouver Foodbank, Salvation Army and the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau.
www.LMCA.ca
www.FoodBank.BC.ca
www.SalvationArmy.ca

Photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBluePrinting.com
www.PacBluePrinting.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

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The BEAT CARES holiday food and toy drive at Brentwood Town Centre photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery (410)
image galleries
Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
The BEAT CARES holiday toy & food drive @ Brentwood Town Centre

With your generous help and donations we were able to raise over 0,000 in cash, over 5,000 toys and over 8,000 pounds of food!
www.TheBeat.com
www.BrentwoodMall.com

Proudly supportng the Greater Vancouver Foodbank, Salvation Army and the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau.
www.LMCA.ca
www.FoodBank.BC.ca
www.SalvationArmy.ca

Photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBluePrinting.com
www.PacBluePrinting.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

DOWNLOAD the Beat Cares Photos
rcpt.yousendit.com/1007477409/92ec5f297ea39dc933013c0d31c...

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The BEAT CARES holiday food and toy drive at Brentwood Town Centre photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery (326)
image galleries
Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
The BEAT CARES holiday toy & food drive @ Brentwood Town Centre

With your generous help and donations we were able to raise over 0,000 in cash, over 5,000 toys and over 8,000 pounds of food!
www.TheBeat.com
www.BrentwoodMall.com

Proudly supportng the Greater Vancouver Foodbank, Salvation Army and the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau.
www.LMCA.ca
www.FoodBank.BC.ca
www.SalvationArmy.ca

Photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBluePrinting.com
www.PacBluePrinting.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

DOWNLOAD the Beat Cares Photos
rcpt.yousendit.com/1007477409/92ec5f297ea39dc933013c0d31c...

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Cool Photo On Canvas images

Some cool photo on canvas images:



seven
photo on canvas
Image by snippets of whimsy
new flickr account.
www.flickr.com/photos/snippets101/

acrylic on canvas.
work in progress.
about 24" x 36"


drips
photo on canvas
Image by snippets of whimsy
new flickr account.
www.flickr.com/photos/snippets101/

just posting some older stuff.
acrylic on canvas.
two panels each about 30" x 48"

Devilish exit to light

A few nice photo lighting images I found:


Devilish exit to light
photo lighting
Image by angelocesare
The colours of protest, love and fantasy.


Winter's Light
photo lighting
Image by steviep187
Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi
Exposure: 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 500
Exposure Bias: 0 EV


Black and Light
photo lighting
Image by zeze57
P2191183

762 - Dark Scratched Teal - Pattern

Some cool image editor online images:


762 - Dark Scratched Teal - Pattern
image editor online
Image by Patrick Hoesly
Very dark texture with hints of teal scratches throughout. This non-distracting pattern makes for a great computer wallpaper. If you would like this in a different color, then I would recommend the online editor, Pixlr to adjust the image.

This seamless texture was illustrated by Patrick Hoesly a Kansas city based illustrator specializing in architectural illustrations and graphic design.

What is a Seamless Texture / Pattern?
A seamless texture is an special image, where one side of a image exactly matches the opposite side, so that the edges blend into each other when repeated. Seamless textures are used for desktop wallpaper, webpage backgrounds, video games, Photoshop fills and in 3D rendering programs.

How did you make it?
This texture was made using software specially designed to aid in seamless texture creation. Some of the programs I’ve use are Photoshop, Illustrator, Filter Forge, Genetica, Image Synth, Alien Skin, Topaz Labs, Imagelys, and even a pen and paper.



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*Another vigil by candlelight for climate change*

*2009/12/11 *
*Guy Rogers ENVIRONMENT & TOURISM EDITOR*

A SECOND candlelight vigil in support of a meaningful deal at the Copenhagen
climate change summit has been scheduled for Victoria Park in Port Elizabeth
tomorrow evening.

Like the event organised for Schoenmakerskop, anyone interested in the
issues should bring themselves, family and friends as well as a torch or
candle each. The rendezvous time is 5.30pm.

Dusty Brennan, of the international activist group Avaaz, who is co-
ordinating the event in Victoria Park (near the VP schools) said the two
Port Elizabeth vigils would be part of a network of similar events staged
simultaneously in 130 countries.

“Millions of citizens and hundreds of organisations are calling for a
three-point ‘real deal’ to be reached in Copenhagen. The three-point deal
has been endorsed by every major global environmental group including 350
(which is behind the Schoenies event), Avaaz, Oxfam, Greenpeace and WWF as
well as hundreds of other civil society, religious and eco-groups.”

The three points referred to a “fair” deal with R14-billion funding for
poorer countries to help them deal with climate change, an “ambitious” deal
with a 2015 carbon emissions peak and a safe carbon level of 350 parts per
million, plus a “binding” deal that was legally enforceable, Brennan
explained.

The lead event in Copenhagen will be hosted by South African Nobel laureate
Bishop Desmond Tutu and former UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson
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Nice Share Photos photos

A few nice share photos images I found:


Castlefest 2011, Steampunk Mayhem
share photos
Image by Qsimple
Castlefest is a festival to honour the sun, which at the Celts was worshipped as the god Lugh. This god brought mankind a lot of good things; he taught us how to grow grain and he warms the earth, so that the grain can grow and we can eat. The old Celtic harvest feast Lughnasadh is held in honour of this god. To this day heathens and Celtics alike celebrate this feast yearly around the first of August, also on Castlefest!

Castlefest is een festival ter ere van de zon, die bij de Kelten werd vereerd als de god Lugh. Deze god bracht de mensen veel goede dingen. Zo leerde hij ons om graan te verbouwen en hij verwarmt de aarde, zodat het graan kan rijpen en wij te eten hebben. Het oude Keltische oogstfeest Lughnasadh is aan deze god gewijd. Tot op de dag van vandaag vieren heidenen en kelten dit feest ieder jaar rond begin Augustus, ook op Castlefest!

Read More here




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Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
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Castlefest 2011, Steampunk, Yessica
share photos
Image by Qsimple
Castlefest is a festival to honour the sun, which at the Celts was worshipped as the god Lugh. This god brought mankind a lot of good things; he taught us how to grow grain and he warms the earth, so that the grain can grow and we can eat. The old Celtic harvest feast Lughnasadh is held in honour of this god. To this day heathens and Celtics alike celebrate this feast yearly around the first of August, also on Castlefest!

Castlefest is een festival ter ere van de zon, die bij de Kelten werd vereerd als de god Lugh. Deze god bracht de mensen veel goede dingen. Zo leerde hij ons om graan te verbouwen en hij verwarmt de aarde, zodat het graan kan rijpen en wij te eten hebben. Het oude Keltische oogstfeest Lughnasadh is aan deze god gewijd. Tot op de dag van vandaag vieren heidenen en kelten dit feest ieder jaar rond begin Augustus, ook op Castlefest!

Read More here




This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work

But Under the following conditions:

Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
Share Alike — If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.


Castlefest 2011, Steampunk Mayhem
share photos
Image by Qsimple
Castlefest is a festival to honour the sun, which at the Celts was worshipped as the god Lugh. This god brought mankind a lot of good things; he taught us how to grow grain and he warms the earth, so that the grain can grow and we can eat. The old Celtic harvest feast Lughnasadh is held in honour of this god. To this day heathens and Celtics alike celebrate this feast yearly around the first of August, also on Castlefest!

Castlefest is een festival ter ere van de zon, die bij de Kelten werd vereerd als de god Lugh. Deze god bracht de mensen veel goede dingen. Zo leerde hij ons om graan te verbouwen en hij verwarmt de aarde, zodat het graan kan rijpen en wij te eten hebben. Het oude Keltische oogstfeest Lughnasadh is aan deze god gewijd. Tot op de dag van vandaag vieren heidenen en kelten dit feest ieder jaar rond begin Augustus, ook op Castlefest!

Read More here




This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

You are free:
to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
to Remix — to adapt the work

But Under the following conditions:

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Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. There were almost fifty trucks in the line. Some had been waiting for twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed (LOC)

A few nice image url images I found:


Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. There were almost fifty trucks in the line. Some had been waiting for twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Trucks outside of a starch factory, Caribou, Aroostook County, Me. There were almost fifty trucks in the line. Some had been waiting for twenty-four hours for the potatoes to be graded and weighed

1940 Oct.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Starch industry
Shipping
Trucks
United States--Maine--Caribou
United States--Maine--Aroostook County

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 11671-4 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33845
hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3j00087

Call Number: LC-USF35-64


Brilliant Luna Park at night Coney Island, New York's great pleasure resort (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Underwood & Underwood.

Brilliant Luna Park at night Coney Island, New York's great pleasure resort

New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1904.

1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.

Subjects:
Amusement parks--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910.
Night--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910.
Lighting--New York (State)--New York--1900-1910.
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)--1900-1910.

Format: Stereographs--1900-1910.
Photographic prints--1900-1910.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

More information about the Stereograph Cards is available at www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/stereo/

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c02883

Call Number: STEREO U.S. GEOG FILE - New York--New York City--Coney Island--Luna Park [item]

A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now ready to go into service (LOC)

Check out these image url images:


A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now ready to go into service (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

A completely overhauled engine on the transfer table at the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad locomotive shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is now ready to go into service

1943 March

1 transparency : color.

Notes:
Image similar to USW36-682.
Title from FSA or OWI agency caption.
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
World War, 1939-1945
Railroad shops & yards
United States--New Mexico--Albuquerque

Format: Transparencies--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection 12002-7 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a34735

Call Number: LC-USW36-688


W.H. Taft (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

W.H. Taft

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Negative is broken.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.12970

Call Number: LC-B2- 2688-2

Cool Photo Sizes images

Check out these photo sizes images:


Miranda.
photo sizes
Image by julien ( l'ours )
Ce vieux chateau, qui à la base était une ferme fut construit en Belgique durant la révolution française appartenant à la famille Count. Par la suite il est devenu un centre de vacances for les enfants des ouvriers de la SNCB et pris le nom de "Home Noisy". Maintenant abandonné depuis 1991, il est devenu dangereux mais reste impréssionnant....

This well-known old castle was at the beginning a farm. It was during the french revolution that the Count family started the construction. Later it became "Home Nosy" a summer camp for the child of the SNCB workers. Since 1991, the place is abandonnend and impressive but very dangerous...

Exploration faite en collaboration avec (in collaboration with):maxime wojtczak - aline - guillaume - xavier

View on black


Palm Fanfare, Green
photo sizes
Image by cobalt123
A quick shot of a very large palm frond in shade at my home in Phoenix during the Golden Hour in the late afternoon when all colors become vivid and rich. I was likely about 4 feet away from this palm growing beneath the trunks of 3 tall trees by my large out-building. The light primarily is coming from the West as backlight through the plant.

The focus on an 85mm L F/1.2 lens is tricky for the shallow DoF at such a close range. There is a way to set this particular lens to a micro-adjustment for focus on a Canon 5D Mark II but I did not take the time to work this out since I was a rented lens for a short time. The interesting areas of sharp focus here result from the standard focus of the lens and is "uneven" but interesting in a large or largest size view.


Pink Violet (African That Is)
photo sizes
Image by Property#1
My wife has numerous African Violets around the house all sitting in various places where they either get morning sun or afternoon sun and they are all starting to bloom.
A wonderful Flickr Friend posted a beautiful African Violet yesterday and I had told her there would be one posted on my stream today so here it is Lynn. Now, seeming I am unable to get out these days the African Violets are going to be my subject for the next few days. Those who don't like African Violets please turn your heads now ! Please take a moment to visit Lynn's wonderful photos HERE

View On Black

Jelly, March 1 2007

Check out these photo editing online images:


Jelly, March 1 2007
photo editing online
Image by sahadeva
Jelly this week was really great, despite the unexpected lack of internet connectivity in the early afternoon.

Left, in search of WiFi at the NYPL. Right, hanging out and chatting sans internet connection. Photo edited in the amazing Picnik, which Photojojo describes as "nicer than lying on a blanket in a grassy field on a sunny day."

Thanks for the croissants and the bagels guys! You rock!

And Alicia, those jelly cookies were delicious! Everybody loved em!


Norm, John, Roz, Mike, Brian.
photo editing online
Image by jovike
Sf authors at the British Library: Norman Spinrad, John Clute, Roz Kaveney, Michael Moorcock, Brian W. Aldiss. This event is part of the Out of this World exhibition.

It was a mind-expanding mix of memories and opinions that culminated in a call for more women in sf and more optimism — as Spinrad said, the future may be worse than we think.

Kaveney tried to bring the conversation back to the 60s many times, prompting Moorcock to remember that New Worlds magazine featured a lot of arguing rather that being a salon/forum. J. G. Ballard punching someone. The magazine was a tatty thing when he took it over from Carnell. Kyril Bonfiglioli had wanted to edit it but ended up with the sister magazine Science Fantasy.

John Brunner was remembered as a self-publicist and not the easiest of characters to get on with. At a hotel breakfast he was against complaining about some cold eggs: "They are nearly up to room temperature now!"

Much railing at genre: sci-fi/speculative fiction. Moorcock said Mother London had just been published as sf (which it isn't) in France. Aldiss's Hothouse novel was renamed in the USA in case it was shelved in the garden section.

Aldiss also told of the time writing Greybeard, after splitting with his wife. She took the children. Aldiss wrote of a future with no children where the people are getting older. He thought it was bloody miserable and no-one would want to read it, but the book has seen numerous reprints and translations.

Spinrad hoped for change with new media, from simple text colour, or music with text as Moorcock suggested: he tried to do this with a book once but failed because of tax issues that meant books and tapes could not be sold together. Aldiss and Spinrad have made a deal for getting their old titles published as ebooks.

On the internet killing books: Spinrad reminded us that photography did not kill painting. Photos became the new way to record history, a memetic medium and painting became something else (man). Moorcock wants the revived New Worlds magazine to break new ground online.

Aldiss — who was amusing throughout — remembered being in T. S. Eliot's office at the TLS, with a print of Ezra Pound on one wall and Eliot on the other. This was strictly business and they discussed paperclips rather than poetry.

I shall wonder for ever what John Clute's plan for saving fiction (?) was as he said it would take half an hour to explain, so there wasn't time. Roz praised John's vocabulary and Aldiss recalled where he had first seen the word ecology.

Moorcock recalled publishing Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron in New Worlds after many publishers had turned it down: Macdonald then realized it was publishable after seeing it in print and put out a hardback in 1969. New Worlds was hit by the scandal: MPs asked questions in the house, Spinrad was called a nameless degenerate (Aldiss: "we were all so jealous!") and W. H. Smiths banned the magazine. Moorcock said the circulation fell from 20,000 to 10,000.

The panel picked the best of their own books and books they thought everyone should read: Moorcock and Spinrad both chose Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius books. Aldiss chose his Helliconia books. Two panelist's chose Disch's Camp Concentration. Moorcock chose Aldiss's Report on Probability A.

Spinrad picked Sladek's The Müller-Fokker Effect and mentioned that for a fine writer, Sladek's career had been almost invisible. Of his own books, Spinrad mentioned a few but feared he would be remembered for the Nazi alternate history novel The Iron Dream.

That's all I can remember at the moment. For more, check #outofthisworld on Twitter and brianaldiss.com: brianaldiss.co.uk/2011/06/22/an-evening-with-aldiss-morco...


Unfinished church (5/5)
photo editing online
Image by Darkroom Daze
Abandoned, unfinished church on Government Hill Road at St. George, parish of St. George's, Bermuda.

(I just fancied editing this one into B+W on an impulse.)
(Better, obviously, on black - click on the picture.)


This is quite a well known Bermuda landmark, seen here from the NW. It was originally intended to replace the old and historically important parish church of St. Peter in the town of St. George, when St. Peter's had suffered hurricane damage and thought to have been beyond repair. The unfinished church dates from the 1870s and is in Gothic revival style, and to my eye has similarities to Bermuda Cathedral, though that is much larger and a little later. There were delays in its construction (reasons for which are summarised at www.bermuda-attractions.com/bermuda2_000027.htm ). St.Peter's was eventually repaired and there was no further need to replace it. The unfinished building is now in a poor state and has been shut off from general access.

The exterior construction is in local Bermuda stone (Pleistocene aeolianite limestone).

More information at:
www.bermuda-online.org/seetown2.htm [scroll down to 'Unfinished church'].

Photo
Darkroom Daze © Creative Commons.
If you would like to use or refer to this image, please attribute.
ID: DSC_6231 - Version 2

Nice Image Galleries photos

A few nice image galleries images I found:



The BEAT CARES holiday food and toy drive at Brentwood Town Centre photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery (245)
image galleries
Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
The BEAT CARES holiday toy & food drive @ Brentwood Town Centre

With your generous help and donations we were able to raise over 0,000 in cash, over 5,000 toys and over 8,000 pounds of food!
www.TheBeat.com
www.BrentwoodMall.com

Proudly supportng the Greater Vancouver Foodbank, Salvation Army and the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau.
www.LMCA.ca
www.FoodBank.BC.ca
www.SalvationArmy.ca

Photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBluePrinting.com
www.PacBluePrinting.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

DOWNLOAD the Beat Cares Photos
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The BEAT CARES holiday food and toy drive at Brentwood Town Centre photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery (337)
image galleries
Image by SOMBILON ART, MEDIA and PHOTOGRAPHY
The BEAT CARES holiday toy & food drive @ Brentwood Town Centre

With your generous help and donations we were able to raise over 0,000 in cash, over 5,000 toys and over 8,000 pounds of food!
www.TheBeat.com
www.BrentwoodMall.com

Proudly supportng the Greater Vancouver Foodbank, Salvation Army and the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau.
www.LMCA.ca
www.FoodBank.BC.ca
www.SalvationArmy.ca

Photos by Ron Sombilon Gallery & PacBluePrinting.com
www.PacBluePrinting.com
www.RonSombilonGallery.com

DOWNLOAD the Beat Cares Photos
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Dragon Runner Bomb Disposal Robot

Some cool dragon image images:


Dragon Runner Bomb Disposal Robot
dragon image
Image by Defence Images
A Dragon Runner Bomb Disposal Robot at a Counter IED (CIED) facility demonstration at RAF Wittering.

As part of the C-IED Task Force, members of 5131 (BD) Squadron demonstrated their skills in dealing with IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices), the likes of which they expect to see in future deployments to Afghanistan. One of the many tools that they will use is the Dragon Runner Bomb Disposal Robot.

This image is available for non-commercial, high resolution download at www.defenceimages.mod.uk subject to terms and conditions. Search for image number 45151223.jpg
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Photographer: Andy Cargill ABIPP
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Knight at Dragon*con 2009
dragon image
Image by vladeb
Image from Dragon*con 2009. The Legion of Lethargic Super-Geeks podcast will be doing an overview of Dragon*con 2009 soon www.tlolsg.com


Spiderman at Dragon*con 2009
dragon image
Image by vladeb
Images from Dragon*con 2009. The Legion of Lethargic Super-Geeks podcast will be doing an overview of Dragon*con 2009 soon www.tlolsg.com

Cool Photo Equipment images

Some cool photo equipment images:


Cris and Chris
photo equipment
Image by tychay
LaughingSquid Last Minute Un-Holiday Party at Citizen Spaces

Our host was talking about something involving Skitch or Photophlow before I interrupted them to take this photo.


Jackson West
photo equipment
Image by tychay
“Jackson says he’s coming by, but it will be a while.”

“Why?”

“Well he told me he had to get out of the bathtub first.”

“That’s SO Jackson.”

“Yeah, that’s when I noticed there was a slight echo.”

Saturday Hangover Brunch and around town

Cool Photo Library images

Some cool photo library images:


Grand Duke of Meck. Schwerin (LOC)
photo library
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Grand Duke of Meck. Schwerin

1906.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
On negative: Verlag [published] Otto Gutkind, Schwerin, 1906. Originalaunahme Hofphotograph Heuschkel [Original portrait by palace photographer Heuschkel], Schwerin. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Photograph shows Frederick Francis IV (1882-1945), the last Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.17452

Call Number: LC-B2- 3254-10


Suffrage hikers collecting (LOC)
photo library
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Suffrage hikers collecting

1913 Feb. 10 (date created or published later by Bain)

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photo shows suffrage hikers who took part in the suffrage hike from New York City to Washington, D.C. which joined the March 3, 1913 National American Woman Suffrage Association parade. (Source: Flickr Commons Project, 2009)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.12490

Call Number: LC-B2- 2632-7


Water pageants form a picturesque feature of summer life in many lands. (LOC)
photo library
Image by The Library of Congress
New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924

September 8, 1907, Image 15

Notes: Cover, illustrated supplement.

Format: Newspaper page, from microfilm

Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction.

Repository: Library of Congress, Serial and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.

Part Of: Chronicling America (Library of Congress) (DLC) - lccn.loc.gov/2007618519

Persistent URL: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1907-09-08/ed-...

More information about the Chronicling America Web site is available at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

Stephanie Posavec & Greg McInerny's '(En)tangled Word Bank' in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge

A few nice bing image images I found:


Stephanie Posavec & Greg McInerny's '(En)tangled Word Bank' in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge
bing image
Image by dumbledad
Like me, anyone working on the abstract visualization of book texts will have been inspired by Stephanie Posavec's "Writing Without Words" (2006), a project she did on the Central Saint Martins MA in Communication Design. A friend from work took that inspiration several stages further. Since reading and rereading Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species" during his doctorate Greg McInerny has been obsessed by the text: the ideas contained in Darwin's book, and the history of the text itself. Being an ecologist/biologist Greg is also obsessed by those old botanical collection book plates by the like of John Stevens Henslow and Ernst Haeckel. So Greg pored over the text using R to analyse and build Posavec-style diagrams of the developments and changes Darwin made between editions of his book. But the links are tighter. Stephanie is Greg's sister-in-law and so they teamed up to take Greg's analysis and render them with the exquisite beauty we're use to in Stephanie's work, both spending time on the design details needed to present the visualisations as if they were part of those old botanical collections. The whole venture was spurred on by the realisation that they were not the only ones working on this. Like Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, Ben Fry came to a workshop Greg organised for doctoral level ecologists and after Ben's talk they realised that they were both working on visualizing changes between the editions of Darwin's work. Ben's just put his visualization up online: http://benfry.com/traces/. Stephanie and Greg's work is also online (http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/on-going/about/ & http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/TextVis/) but to see it at its best you have to see the huge prints they made for the Darwin 2009 exhibition at the Cambridge University Centre. The exhibition ran from the 3rd of July 2009 to the 20th, but luckily for me Stephanie and Greg have been tardy in removing their work so you can still see them hanging in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre on Granta Place, Cambridge.

N.B. I also took some photos of the work Stephanie and Greg did for the RA Summer Exhibition (though it was rejected) using what Greg and I call Posavec Diagrams, what Stephanie calls Sentence Diagrams: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumbledad/sets/72157619825788142/. And Stephanie's husband / Greg's brother Steve took some great shots of this '(En)tangled Word Bank'exhibition at the openning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharp-sharp/sets/72157621146041024/.


Stephanie Posavec & Greg McInerny's '(En)tangled Word Bank' in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge
bing image
Image by dumbledad
Like me, anyone working on the abstract visualization of book texts will have been inspired by Stephanie Posavec's "Writing Without Words" (2006), a project she did on the Central Saint Martins MA in Communication Design. A friend from work took that inspiration several stages further. Since reading and rereading Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species" during his doctorate Greg McInerny has been obsessed by the text: the ideas contained in Darwin's book, and the history of the text itself. Being an ecologist/biologist Greg is also obsessed by those old botanical collection book plates by the like of John Stevens Henslow and Ernst Haeckel. So Greg pored over the text using R to analyse and build Posavec-style diagrams of the developments and changes Darwin made between editions of his book. But the links are tighter. Stephanie is Greg's sister-in-law and so they teamed up to take Greg's analysis and render them with the exquisite beauty we're use to in Stephanie's work, both spending time on the design details needed to present the visualisations as if they were part of those old botanical collections. The whole venture was spurred on by the realisation that they were not the only ones working on this. Like Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, Ben Fry came to a workshop Greg organised for doctoral level ecologists and after Ben's talk they realised that they were both working on visualizing changes between the editions of Darwin's work. Ben's just put his visualization up online: http://benfry.com/traces/. Stephanie and Greg's work is also online (http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/on-going/about/ & http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/TextVis/) but to see it at its best you have to see the huge prints they made for the Darwin 2009 exhibition at the Cambridge University Centre. The exhibition ran from the 3rd of July 2009 to the 20th, but luckily for me Stephanie and Greg have been tardy in removing their work so you can still see them hanging in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre on Granta Place, Cambridge.

N.B. I also took some photos of the work Stephanie and Greg did for the RA Summer Exhibition (though it was rejected) using what Greg and I call Posavec Diagrams, what Stephanie calls Sentence Diagrams: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumbledad/sets/72157619825788142/. And Stephanie's husband / Greg's brother Steve took some great shots of this '(En)tangled Word Bank'exhibition at the openning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharp-sharp/sets/72157621146041024/.


337 of 365: Me looking at Stephanie Posavec & Greg McInerny's '(En)tangled Word Bank' in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre, Granta Place, Cambridge
bing image
Image by dumbledad
Like me, anyone working on the abstract visualization of book texts will have been inspired by Stephanie Posavec's "Writing Without Words" (2006), a project she did on the Central Saint Martins MA in Communication Design. A friend from work took that inspiration several stages further. Since reading and rereading Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species" during his doctorate Greg McInerny has been obsessed by the text: the ideas contained in Darwin's book, and the history of the text itself. Being an ecologist/biologist Greg is also obsessed by those old botanical collection book plates by the like of John Stevens Henslow and Ernst Haeckel. So Greg pored over the text using R to analyse and build Posavec-style diagrams of the developments and changes Darwin made between editions of his book. But the links are tighter. Stephanie is Greg's sister-in-law and so they teamed up to take Greg's analysis and render them with the exquisite beauty we're use to in Stephanie's work, both spending time on the design details needed to present the visualisations as if they were part of those old botanical collections. The whole venture was spurred on by the realisation that they were not the only ones working on this. Like Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, Ben Fry came to a workshop Greg organised for doctoral level ecologists and after Ben's talk they realised that they were both working on visualizing changes between the editions of Darwin's work. Ben's just put his visualization up online: http://benfry.com/traces/. Stephanie and Greg's work is also online (http://www.itsbeenreal.co.uk/index.php?/on-going/about/ & http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/TextVis/) but to see it at its best you have to see the huge prints they made for the Darwin 2009 exhibition at the Cambridge University Centre. The exhibition ran from the 3rd of July 2009 to the 20th, but luckily for me Stephanie and Greg have been tardy in removing their work so you can still see them hanging in the Main Dining Hall, Cambridge University Centre on Granta Place, Cambridge.

N.B. I also took some photos of the work Stephanie and Greg did for the RA Summer Exhibition (though it was rejected) using what Greg and I call Posavec Diagrams, what Stephanie calls Sentence Diagrams: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dumbledad/sets/72157619825788142/. And Stephanie's husband / Greg's brother Steve took some great shots of this '(En)tangled Word Bank'exhibition at the openning: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharp-sharp/sets/72157621146041024/.

Star Sign no.99

Some cool photo collage images:


Star Sign no.99
photo collage
Image by dek dav
Star Sign no.99, by Teenage Fanclub from the album Bandwagonesque

Hey there's a horseshoe on my door; big deal.
And say there's a black cat on the floor, big deal.

If these things make your day
Well if these things change your day

Well do you know where you belong?
And is your star sign ever wrong?

If these things change your day,
Well if these things make your day
Seen it all before, seen it all before
In a time these things will change

Hey there's a side of me unknown, big deal.
And say, should this unknown force be shown, big deal.

Cat image by Alan Turkus www.flickr.com/photos/aturkus/294769691/in/photolist-s3LL...
Click here youtu.be/xw49UgKoZnQ to hear track
Click here www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858563631/ for full lyrics & meanings
Click here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Fanclub to know all about the band

My 365 art project, where I create a year’s worth [yep, 365] of digital collages, with indie songs as my subject.


Yes Another Madonna Collage
photo collage
Image by Cherry Crimson

Big Sky Country Sunset 05.03.2010

Check out these photo stock images images:


Big Sky Country Sunset 05.03.2010
photo stock images
Image by Striking Photography by Bo Insogna
Big clouds sunset out in the country looking east. Boulder County, Colorado


The Maroon Bells Aspen Colorado
photo stock images
Image by Striking Photography by Bo Insogna
Snow dusted Maroon Bells with the autumn colors. The Maroon Bells is a mountain in the Elk Mountains that consists of two peaks, South Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak, separated by about a third of a mile. The mountain is on the border between Pitkin County and Gunnison County, Colorado, United States, about 12 miles southwest of Aspen. Both peaks are counted as fourteeners. Maroon Peak, at 14,156 feet, is the 27th highest peak in Colorado; North Maroon Peak, at 14,014 feet, is the 50th highest. The view of the Maroon Bells to the southwest from the Maroon Creek valley is one of the most famous scenes in Colorado, and is reputed to be the "most-photographed spot in Colorado; and one of Colorado's premier scenic overlooks. Original shot on film. www.BoInsogna.com

Plash

Check out these photo ideas images:


Plash
photo ideas
Image by Andrea Costa Creative
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SCOUT EXPLORE: Jul 4, 2009 #35

Info photo: Fobello

Retouching and paint: NO
Postprocessing RAW: levels and saturation
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"Campo scout a casa Tabor"

Fobello (in piemontese Fobél o Fobeli) è un comune di 246 abitanti della provincia di Vercelli. Si trova in Valsesia, collocato all'estremità di uno dei due rami della Val Mastallone.
Il nome significa faggio bello, a segnalare la presenza di ricchi boschi che circondano l'abitato.
A Fobello nacque Vincenzo Lancia, fondatore dell'omonima casa automobilistica. Si trasferisce poi a Varallo per affrontare gli studi e qui inizia a lavorare come meccanico, acquisendo quelle prime competenze e la passione che lo spingeranno a costruire una casa automobilistica.
Il vallone di Roj, nel territorio comunale di Fobello, fa parte del Parco naturale Alta Valsesia.

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Fobello is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 70 km northwest of Vercelli. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 246 and an area of 29.3 km².[1]
Fobello borders the following municipalities: Bannio Anzino, Carcoforo, Cervatto, Cravagliana, Rimasco, Rimella, and Rossa.
The famous automotive engineers Vincenzo Lancia (1881-1937) and his son Gianni Lancia (1924-) were from Fobello.

Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved


Racing With a Broken Arm
photo ideas
Image by ex_magician
This guy is totally BUSTED when his orthopedist checks into my flickr page. What was he thinking? Racing one handed in a cast? What a maverick!

Although I should admit that I had open heart surgery fifteen years ago (to repair a faulty mitral valve - and eleven marathons later it has been a good repair) - and I was busted by one of the employees of the Klamath Heart Clinic who saw me riding my mountain bike right after the surgery and snitched on me to my cardiologist!

(2008)


Ruins
photo ideas
Image by Andrea Costa Creative
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EXPLORE: Apr 18, 2009 #85

Info photo:
Retouching and paint: YES texuture overlay, brushes and blur
Postprocessing RAW: Constrast and tint
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Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved


My favourite Shoot by ac_theart on Flickriver

La frazione di Cascina Visconta appartiene al comune di Cislago, in provincia di Varese, nella regione Lombardia.

La frazione di Cascina Visconta dista 1,39 chilometri dal medesimo comune di Cislago cui essa appartiene.

Nice Digital Picture Frame photos

A few nice digital picture frame images I found:


Frames.
digital picture frame
Image by JoãoMoura
Exposition in Fundação de Serralves - an exposition centre and foundation of contemporary art in Porto. Unfortunately, I cannot remember the name of the author. The exposition was named "80's".

Nice Image Editing Online photos

A few nice image editing online images I found:



Photographers expand horizons in 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest 110311
image editing online
Image by familymwr
PHOTO CAPTION: Awarded Honorable Mention Irish seal going back into the sea by DOD EMP GEMMA MCGOWAN - Division 2 Other Eligible Patron

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Photographers expand horizons in 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest 110311

By Tim Hipps
FMWRC Public Affairs

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Brenda Walker strolled upon “one of those right places at the right time” alongside East Fork Indian Creek River when she photographed “Morning Serenity” on Fort Campbell, Ky…

Retired Col. Richard Pugh shot three photographs of “Point Lobos,” just south of Monterey, Calif., and combined them into one image by working 15 minutes with Photoshop…

Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra won a footrace with his wife to the bottom of a stairwell at Heidelberg Castle in Germany just before he looked up and photographed “9”…

…all three were winners in the 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest sponsored by the Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command.

There were 3,691 entries from around the world – 1,348 in Division I for active duty military personnel and 2,343 in Division II for other eligible MWR patrons. After Army garrisons selected their best entries, 664 Division I and 1,031 Division II photographs were forwarded for Department of the Army judging.

“There were many really excellent photos, which made the judges’ decisions a difficult task,” said Linda Ezernieks, who monitors the annual contest at Army MWR Headquarters in Alexandria. “Originality, creativity and technical quality were the main criteria in making final selections.”

Winners in each category – animals, digital darkroom, design elements, military life, monochrome, nature & landscapes, people, and still life – were posted on a website where Army Knowledge Online account-holders voted for their favorite photo in each division.

Walker’s “Morning Serenity” took first place in the nature and landscapes category and was voted the most popular photograph in Division II.

The subject of the photo is a fisherman wading and casting in the middle of East Fork Indian Creek River while the sun shines through the lush, green trees and casts a rainbow-like appearance off the steam hovering above the stream.

“It’s back on Fort Campbell,” Walker said. “I take my dog running back there early morning. It was really hot and the steam was rising and the rays were going through the trees. It was absolutely beautiful back there.

“I take my camera everywhere I go now.”

Walker left her business card on the windshield of a truck parked nearby and later learned the fisherman was Sgt. Randy Shorter of Fort Campbell.

About five years ago, Walker took some of her photographs to the MWR Custom Framing Shop at Fort Campbell, where she found out about the Army Photography Contest. She has produced prize-winning photos for the past three contests.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity to get exposure, plus cash prizes,” said Walker, 48, a military family member. “I enjoy looking at everybody else’s work. It inspires me and motivates me to get out and get more interesting, different shots.”

What does Walker enjoy most about photography?

“Just being able to capture what I see through my eyes, my heart and my head,” she said. “A lot of it comes out through your emotion. It’s another form of art.”

Pugh, of Clarksville, Tenn., took first place in the Division II digital darkroom category with “The Owl,” second in design elements with “Blue Mosque,” and third in nature and landscapes with “Point Lobos.”

Pugh shot the high-tech looking photo of “The Owl” at Land Between The Lakes, a national recreation area located south of Paducah, Ky., and embellished it in Photoshop, as he did with “Blue Mosque,” a shot of the roof of a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.

“I like this contest,” said Pugh, 65, who photographed winning entries in each of the past three years after serving 30 years in the Army. “It gives people a chance to show off something they did, which is great.”

Piedro, 31, an Army recruiter in Douglasville, Ga., is a former combat photographer. His “9” earned first-place honors in the Division I design elements category. He took third place in digital darkroom with a self-portrait called “Beast within Me” that would make a dandy Halloween poster.

“I got the idea when I was in the gym working out with my partner and a couple people came up to us and said: ‘You guys are lifting like beasts.’ The idea just popped into my head, so I got home, took the shot, and just started editing,” Piedro said. “That’s where that photo came from.”

The subject of the photo looks like a cross between a werewolf, a vampire and an Avatar, complete with fangs, dagger-like fingernails and alien ears – seemingly howling at the moon that looms behind a naked tree.

“The fangs, the ears, the eyes and the hands are all Photoshopped,” Piedro said. “And the stomach that’s concaved a little bit, that was done in Photoshop. For the background, I took certain parts of images from other photos, adjusted them, and made everything into one image.”

So what’s real?

“The body, and the face,” Piedro replied. “That’s it.

“If you look closely, the eyes are actually black and the pupils are red, so that’s been Photoshopped.”

Piedro, however, does not think of himself as a Photoshop expert.

“I actually don’t do too much Photoshop,” he said. “I try to keep my images as pure as possible. But every now and then, I get my creative side and I do a little bit of Photoshop – just trial and error, playing around.”

Piedro won two categories and received an honorable mention in the 2007 Army Photography Contest but missed the competition the past two years.

“I think it’s a great, great program,” he said. “It’s a great way to get the creative process of people that do see the world and travel the world by being in the military, and not even just as Soldiers, but supporting staff, civilians, wives.

“It’s a great way to get recognition for something that we love to do.”

As is often the case with photography, Piedro did not know exactly what he shot that day in the stairwell to the gardens at Heidelberg Castle – until he downloaded the photo.

“When I got home and I looked at, I was like: ‘That’s 9, yeah.’ And that’s where the title came from.”

Piedro cherishes photography’s uncanny ability of giving him the opportunity of “freezing a moment in time that only I can see and sharing that with others.”

Several other military photographers earned multiple places in the 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest.

Holly Swegle of Fort Hood, Texas, took first place in Division II monochrome for “Dress Shop,” second in animals for “Painted Birds” and third in people for “American Woman.”

Lt. Col. Mark Bonica of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, took second in Division I still life with “Reflections in Soap,” third in monochrome with “… and We All Fall Down” and received an honorable mention in military life with “Free Gift When You Join Today.”

Staff Sgt. Brandon Quarterman of Fort Bliss, Texas, won the Division I popular vote contest for “Reaching Perfection,” which topped the still life category.

SIDEBAR:

Here are the results of the top three finishers in each category with photographer’s rank, name, installation and photo title:

2010 Army Digital Photo Contest
Division I

Animals – 1. Pfc. Amber Smith, Yongsan, Korea, What’s for Dinner; 2. Staff Sgt. Wilberto Sierra, Fort Bliss, Texas, Dragonfly; 3. Staff Sgt. Robert Curtis, Vicenza, Italy, Tough Love.

Digital darkroom – 1. Spc. Thomas Mort, Fort Knox, Ky., Over the Top; 2. Sgt. Shawn Cassatt, Yongsan, Korea, On the Range; 3. Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra, Fort McPherson, Ga., Beast within Me.

Design elements – 1. Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra, Fort McPherson, Ga., 9; 2. 2nd Lt. Thomas Malejko, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Arch Elements; 3. Lt. Col. David Tygart, Stuttgart, Germany, Sunset Under Glass.

Mililtary life – 1. Sgt. Darlene Martinez, Fort Drum, N.Y., The Sacrifices We Make; 2. Staff Sgt. Joey Suggs, Fort Meade, Md., Dental Care; 3. Sgt. Shawn Cassatt, Yongsan, Korea, Remember Me.

Monochrome – 1. Sgt. 1st Class Lance Widner, Mannheim, Germany, Great Grandmother; 2. Col. John Powers, Camp Zama, Japan, Calm Morning at Mount Fuji; 3. Lt. Col. Mark Bonica, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, … and We All Fall Down.

Nature & landscapes – 1. 1st Lt. Christopher Snell, (unknown location), Sunset Swim; 2. Spc. Juan-Pablo Marin, Fort Benning, Ga., Moon Set; 3. Spc. Jenny Lu, Hohenfels, Germany, Hong Kong at Night.

People – 1. Capt. David Callender, (unknown location), Anna’s Dream; 2. Lt. Col. David Tygart, Stuttgart, Germany, Eval Fairy; 3. Col. Joseph Mancy, Stuttgart, Germany, Eyes that Speak.

Still life – 1. Staff Sgt. Brandon Quarterman, Fort Bliss, Texas, Reaching Perfection; 2. Lt. Col. Mark Bonica, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Reflections in Soap; 3. Warrant Officer Larry Olson, Wiesbaden, Germany, Sunflower in Contrast.

Division II

Animals – 1. Susan Doran, Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., Defiance; 2. Holley Swegle, Fort Hood, Texas, Painted Birds; 3. Eric Armstrong, Camp Zama, Japan, Man O’ War.

Digital darkroom – 1. Col. Richard Pugh, Fort Campbell, Ky., The Owl; 2. Stephen Cullum, Stuttgart, Germany, Volksfest FDR; 3. Gary Cashman, Yongsan, Korea, BMX Composite.

Design elements – 1. Robert LaPolice, Selfridge, Mich., Just Riveting; 2. Col. Richard Pugh, Fort Campbell, Ky., Blue Mosque; 3. James Holbrook, Stuttgart, Germany, What do I call this.

Military life – 1. Nell Williams, Fort Stewart, Ga., My Dad, My Hero; 2. Rebecca Colburn, Fort Carson, Colo., The Test Drive; 3. Ann Marie Detavernier, Baumholder, Germany, The Love Letter.

Monochrome – 1. Holly Swegle, Fort Hood, Texas, Dress Shop; 2. Barbara Underwood, Fort Lee, Va., Light and Shadows; 3. Jeffrey Kline, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Texas Snow.

Nature & landscapes – 1. Brenda Walker, Fort Campbell, Ky., Morning Serenity; 2. Mylan Dawson, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Ash Clouds over Holland; 3. Col. Richard Pugh, Fort Campbell, Ky., Point Lobos.

People – 1. Sherry Keene Hobbs, Garmisch, Germany, Belly Dancer; 2. Eugenia Whittenburg, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, Happy Beach Feet; 3. Holly Swegle, Fort Hood, Texas, American Woman.

Still life – 1. Mylan Dawson, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Green Tomato; 2. Michael Slone, Fort Meade, Md., Morning Coffee; 3. Frank Leon, Fort Knox, Ky., The faucet chronicles.

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Photographers expand horizons in 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest 110311
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Image by familymwr
Retired Col. Ray Pugh used Photoshop to merge three photographs into one titled "Point Lobos," which earned third-place honors in the Division II nature and landscapes category of the 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest. (Photo by Ray Pugh)

Photographers expand horizons in 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest

By Tim Hipps
FMWRC Public Affairs

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Brenda Walker strolled upon “one of those right places at the right time” alongside East Fork Indian Creek River when she photographed “Morning Serenity” on Fort Campbell, Ky…

Retired Col. Richard Pugh shot three photographs of “Point Lobos,” just south of Monterey, Calif., and combined them into one image by working 15 minutes with Photoshop…

Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra won a footrace with his wife to the bottom of a stairwell at Heidelberg Castle in Germany just before he looked up and photographed “9”…

…all three were winners in the 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest sponsored by the Army Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Command.

There were 3,691 entries from around the world – 1,348 in Division I for active duty military personnel and 2,343 in Division II for other eligible MWR patrons. After Army garrisons selected their best entries, 664 Division I and 1,031 Division II photographs were forwarded for Department of the Army judging.

“There were many really excellent photos, which made the judges’ decisions a difficult task,” said Linda Ezernieks, who monitors the annual contest at Army MWR Headquarters in Alexandria. “Originality, creativity and technical quality were the main criteria in making final selections.”

Winners in each category – animals, digital darkroom, design elements, military life, monochrome, nature & landscapes, people, and still life – were posted on a website where Army Knowledge Online account-holders voted for their favorite photo in each division.

Walker’s “Morning Serenity” took first place in the nature and landscapes category and was voted the most popular photograph in Division II.

The subject of the photo is a fisherman wading and casting in the middle of East Fork Indian Creek River while the sun shines through the lush, green trees and casts a rainbow-like appearance off the steam hovering above the stream.

“It’s back on Fort Campbell,” Walker said. “I take my dog running back there early morning. It was really hot and the steam was rising and the rays were going through the trees. It was absolutely beautiful back there.

“I take my camera everywhere I go now.”

Walker left her business card on the windshield of a truck parked nearby and later learned the fisherman was Sgt. Randy Shorter of Fort Campbell.

About five years ago, Walker took some of her photographs to the MWR Custom Framing Shop at Fort Campbell, where she found out about the Army Photography Contest. She has produced prize-winning photos for the past three contests.

“It’s a wonderful opportunity to get exposure, plus cash prizes,” said Walker, 48, a military family member. “I enjoy looking at everybody else’s work. It inspires me and motivates me to get out and get more interesting, different shots.”

What does Walker enjoy most about photography?

“Just being able to capture what I see through my eyes, my heart and my head,” she said. “A lot of it comes out through your emotion. It’s another form of art.”

Pugh, of Clarksville, Tenn., took first place in the Division II digital darkroom category with “The Owl,” second in design elements with “Blue Mosque,” and third in nature and landscapes with “Point Lobos.”

Pugh shot the high-tech looking photo of “The Owl” at Land Between The Lakes, a national recreation area located south of Paducah, Ky., and embellished it in Photoshop, as he did with “Blue Mosque,” a shot of the roof of a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey.

“I like this contest,” said Pugh, 65, who photographed winning entries in each of the past three years after serving 30 years in the Army. “It gives people a chance to show off something they did, which is great.”

Piedro, 31, an Army recruiter in Douglasville, Ga., is a former combat photographer. His “9” earned first-place honors in the Division I design elements category. He took third place in digital darkroom with a self-portrait called “Beast within Me” that would make a dandy Halloween poster.

“I got the idea when I was in the gym working out with my partner and a couple people came up to us and said: ‘You guys are lifting like beasts.’ The idea just popped into my head, so I got home, took the shot, and just started editing,” Piedro said. “That’s where that photo came from.”

The subject of the photo looks like a cross between a werewolf, a vampire and an Avatar, complete with fangs, dagger-like fingernails and alien ears – seemingly howling at the moon that looms behind a naked tree.

“The fangs, the ears, the eyes and the hands are all Photoshopped,” Piedro said. “And the stomach that’s concaved a little bit, that was done in Photoshop. For the background, I took certain parts of images from other photos, adjusted them, and made everything into one image.”

So what’s real?

“The body, and the face,” Piedro replied. “That’s it.

“If you look closely, the eyes are actually black and the pupils are red, so that’s been Photoshopped.”

Piedro, however, does not think of himself as a Photoshop expert.

“I actually don’t do too much Photoshop,” he said. “I try to keep my images as pure as possible. But every now and then, I get my creative side and I do a little bit of Photoshop – just trial and error, playing around.”

Piedro won two categories and received an honorable mention in the 2007 Army Photography Contest but missed the competition the past two years.

“I think it’s a great, great program,” he said. “It’s a great way to get the creative process of people that do see the world and travel the world by being in the military, and not even just as Soldiers, but supporting staff, civilians, wives.

“It’s a great way to get recognition for something that we love to do.”

As is often the case with photography, Piedro did not know exactly what he shot that day in the stairwell to the gardens at Heidelberg Castle – until he downloaded the photo.

“When I got home and I looked at, I was like: ‘That’s 9, yeah.’ And that’s where the title came from.”

Piedro cherishes photography’s uncanny ability of giving him the opportunity of “freezing a moment in time that only I can see and sharing that with others.”

Several other military photographers earned multiple places in the 2010 Army Digital Photography Contest.

Holly Swegle of Fort Hood, Texas, took first place in Division II monochrome for “Dress Shop,” second in animals for “Painted Birds” and third in people for “American Woman.”

Lt. Col. Mark Bonica of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, took second in Division I still life with “Reflections in Soap,” third in monochrome with “… and We All Fall Down” and received an honorable mention in military life with “Free Gift When You Join Today.”

Staff Sgt. Brandon Quarterman of Fort Bliss, Texas, won the Division I popular vote contest for “Reaching Perfection,” which topped the still life category.


SIDEBAR:

Here are the results of the top three finishers in each category with photographer’s rank, name, installation and photo title:

2010 Army Digital Photo Contest
Division I

Animals – 1. Pfc. Amber Smith, Yongsan, Korea, What’s for Dinner; 2. Staff Sgt. Wilberto Sierra, Fort Bliss, Texas, Dragonfly; 3. Staff Sgt. Robert Curtis, Vicenza, Italy, Tough Love.

Digital darkroom – 1. Spc. Thomas Mort, Fort Knox, Ky., Over the Top; 2. Sgt. Shawn Cassatt, Yongsan, Korea, On the Range; 3. Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra, Fort McPherson, Ga., Beast within Me.

Design elements – 1. Staff Sgt. Pablo Piedra, Fort McPherson, Ga., 9; 2. 2nd Lt. Thomas Malejko, Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., Arch Elements; 3. Lt. Col. David Tygart, Stuttgart, Germany, Sunset Under Glass.

Mililtary life – 1. Sgt. Darlene Martinez, Fort Drum, N.Y., The Sacrifices We Make; 2. Staff Sgt. Joey Suggs, Fort Meade, Md., Dental Care; 3. Sgt. Shawn Cassatt, Yongsan, Korea, Remember Me.

Monochrome – 1. Sgt. 1st Class Lance Widner, Mannheim, Germany, Great Grandmother; 2. Col. John Powers, Camp Zama, Japan, Calm Morning at Mount Fuji; 3. Lt. Col. Mark Bonica, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, … and We All Fall Down.

Nature & landscapes – 1. 1st Lt. Christopher Snell, (unknown location), Sunset Swim; 2. Spc. Juan-Pablo Marin, Fort Benning, Ga., Moon Set; 3. Spc. Jenny Lu, Hohenfels, Germany, Hong Kong at Night.

People – 1. Capt. David Callender, (unknown location), Anna’s Dream; 2. Lt. Col. David Tygart, Stuttgart, Germany, Eval Fairy; 3. Col. Joseph Mancy, Stuttgart, Germany, Eyes that Speak.

Still life – 1. Staff Sgt. Brandon Quarterman, Fort Bliss, Texas, Reaching Perfection; 2. Lt. Col. Mark Bonica, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Reflections in Soap; 3. Warrant Officer Larry Olson, Wiesbaden, Germany, Sunflower in Contrast.

Division II

Animals – 1. Susan Doran, Rock Island Arsenal, Ill., Defiance; 2. Holley Swegle, Fort Hood, Texas, Painted Birds; 3. Eric Armstrong, Camp Zama, Japan, Man O’ War.

Digital darkroom – 1. Col. Richard Pugh, Fort Campbell, Ky., The Owl; 2. Stephen Cullum, Stuttgart, Germany, Volksfest FDR; 3. Gary Cashman, Yongsan, Korea, BMX Composite.

Design elements – 1. Robert LaPolice, Selfridge, Mich., Just Riveting; 2. Col. Richard Pugh, Fort Campbell, Ky., Blue Mosque; 3. James Holbrook, Stuttgart, Germany, What do I call this.

Military life – 1. Nell Williams, Fort Stewart, Ga., My Dad, My Hero; 2. Rebecca Colburn, Fort Carson, Colo., The Test Drive; 3. Ann Marie Detavernier, Baumholder, Germany, The Love Letter.

Monochrome – 1. Holly Swegle, Fort Hood, Texas, Dress Shop; 2. Barbara Underwood, Fort Lee, Va., Light and Shadows; 3. Jeffrey Kline, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Texas Snow.

Nature & landscapes – 1. Brenda Walker, Fort Campbell, Ky., Morning Serenity; 2. Mylan Dawson, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Ash Clouds over Holland; 3. Col. Richard Pugh, Fort Campbell, Ky., Point Lobos.

People – 1. Sherry Keene Hobbs, Garmisch, Germany, Belly Dancer; 2. Eugenia Whittenburg, Fort Shafter, Hawaii, Happy Beach Feet; 3. Holly Swegle, Fort Hood, Texas, American Woman.

Still life – 1. Mylan Dawson, Kaiserslautern, Germany, Green Tomato; 2. Michael Slone, Fort Meade, Md., Morning Coffee; 3. Frank Leon, Fort Knox, Ky., The faucet chronicles.

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