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Happy Birthday Bob I didn't know when I met you 74 years ago that we would eventually have such a long and loving relationship. I met you in 1951, a week or so before I started my freshman year at Towson High School. Towson High School I was13 almost 14 and you were a 15 year old sophomore. The band started practice a week or so before the beginning of school. Since we started band practice early, I had not yet registered myself as Lee Figge and Mr Bernstein was the only teacher in...

Welcome to GOSH, our new Go Out and SHoot challenge! This challenge will run for 2 weeks and the idea is to go out (or stay in) and shoot new material for it. So no images from the archives for this one. As this is a personal challenge the winners are those that go out and shoot. That’s what this challenge is meant for: to motivate us to pick up the camera and take photographs. The themes are chosen via a poll. >>> The theme for GOSH #2 = Nature. This theme tied with another theme in...

Welcome to GOSH, our new Go Out and SHoot challenge This challenge will run for 2 weeks and the idea is to go out (or stay in) and shoot new material for it. So no images from the archives for this one. As this is a personal challenge the winners are those that go out and shoot. That’s what this challenge is meant for: to motivate us to pick up the camera and take photographs. The themes are chosen via a poll. We start this challenge with the winner of the very first poll: A Wee Bit of...

I recounted this to an Autopian article about rental car experiences, and thought it might interest people here: I was sent from Detroit to Florida for work once, in mid-February, in the mid-1990s. Dreary Detroit, and the women in the office knew I’d not been to Florida, ever. Mid-20’s me, I thought nothing of it; it was a job. Office-arranged travel plans. Well, it was a fiasco. Shiat traffic to DTW airport, clocked a crow to the front grille of company van on the way to DTW, took...

Welcome to our definitive Studio Lighting thread. Whether you are working with high-end strobes in a dedicated space or experimenting with portable kits outdoors, this is the place to share your work and process. This thread covers the full spectrum of light: • Genres: Beauty, Fashion, Commercial, and Experimental. • Setup & Gear: From classic Rembrandt lighting to advanced multi-light setups. • Learning: Ask questions (Q&A), share your unique techniques, and help others...

Right. We'll actually make this a little bit interactive. On some of the Murals, you'll see a black number on an oval shaped plaque in the corner. If you take note of the number, and look here, you'll get a bit of a description of the painting :) https://katikatiopenairart.co.nz/ourmurals/ Oh, and there's more than just Murals. There's also a few sculptures and other Art pieces spread around the main street of the town. I've included a few of them too :) Getting a sneak peak of local news...

As some of you know we had Amsterdam Sail this year again. It's a 5 day maritime event held once every five years in Amsterdam in the Netherlands since 1975. Tall ships from all over the world visit the city to moor in its eastern harbour. The event was cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic. This year's motto was United by Waves. Sail Amsterdam takes place literally in my backyard as I live near the eastern docks where the tall ships come in. I always visit Sail and take pics. The...

EDIT: This thread has evolved from me sharing an experience in a supermarket to an almost daily log for the community at large. So don't hesitate to share your everyday experiences here, be they world shocking or be they the little things that are part of every day life. All is welcome. A few hours ago I was in the supermarket, getting some groceries. I was pushing a shopping cart and you know how it is, sometimes an isle is crowded and you have to wait a bit for someone to move out of...

These are glass negatives from c1890 to c1910 although some could be considerably earlier than 1890 and some are perhaps later than 1910, maybe from the 1920's or 1930's or later than that perhaps even. These photographs were taken by my wife's Great Uncle, Albert Black, probably with different camera's he may have owned. An Aunt of my wife (Marion) gave me 200+ Negatives (16 boxes) filled with these negatives, in the ORIGINAL boxes they were bought in. I will show you pictures of some...

My dad was an Anatomist -he taught human anatomy to first year medical students. And he was interested in photographing human anatomy whether real, or artistic. So of course he took photos of the Manneken Pis statue. Manneken Pis is the name of the statue of a little boy who is urinating - he supplies water to what was at one time a water supply for the city. Manneken-Pis - closer He no longer has that function. He was 'dressed' in costumes four times a year, but we did not see that...

Before I start you need to know that I received Nifty from POTN member Tessa (in Estonia), who was a great host. She sent me the lens and packed it with a little Estonian doll and a fridge magnet. When I mentioned it in the Nifty thread at POTN the crowd of course immediately demanded to see pics of it. -.-.-.-.-.-.- Posted on POTN March 15, 2013: The postman didn't come this morning and I ended up having to go to the post office to pick Nifty up. Problem was it was raining. Steadily...

Daddy was fascinated by the way the traffic was directed - policemen with white gloves who were almost dancing. He took movies of them. German traffic cop German children old couple Mannheim street American GIs with a German girl - the GIs had access to many things unavailable to the civilian population Nuns Pforzheim snack bar - July 2, 1950 Between 30 June and 16 July we visited a lot of places in Germany and Austria. In those days, Germany was divided into 4 sectors -...

My mother learned to drive in 1923 in North Carolina. She was 14 and she learned on a Model T. The Model T had a different transmission from what you see today. Part of shifting gears was done with your feet. Mother She was taught by her uncles - her mother's younger brothers Willard and Earle who were 20 and 24 years old. Willard Earle They wanted to visit their girl friends and neither one wanted the other one to drive. Plus my mom looked old enough to maybe make the girl...