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Star Wars Imperial Officer

Some cool photo book images:


Star Wars Imperial Officer
photo book
Image by istolethetv
New York Comic Con 2008. Comic book convention, New York City, April 20th, 2008.


Patrick McMullan Musto Party 2011 Shankbone 50
photo book
Image by david_shankbone
Photographs of Michael Musto's book launch party for Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back at the Copacabana in New York.

David Shankbone


Kenny Kenny Musto Party 2011 Shankbone 49
photo book
Image by david_shankbone
Photographs of Michael Musto's book launch party for Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back at the Copacabana in New York.

David Shankbone

Cool Photo Library images

Some cool photo library images:


Library Theatre Manchester, July 2010
photo library
Image by ricardo266
The Library Theatre Manchester (UK) closed, after 58 years at Central Library, on 4 July 2010. These photos were taken in the final few days of performance at the Central Library Theatre. The final play was the same one which opened the theatre in 1952, "The Importance Of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde. Central Library will now be closed for 4 years of renovation and refurbishment, but the existing theatre space will be converted and rebuilt for book storage. However, the Library Theatre Company lives on, and will be presenting plays at the Lowry Theatre and other Manchester venues over the next 4 years, before moving to a new permanent home at the Theatre Royal.

An exhibition in the Spotlighters Bar of costumes and model set designs used at the theatre over the years.


Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R. (LOC)
photo library
Image by The Library of Congress
Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Diesel switch engineer moving freight cars at the South Water street freight terminal of the Illinois Central R.R., Chicago, Ill. The N.Y. Central is one of the railroads that lease terminal facilities from the I.C.R.R.

1943 April

1 transparency : color.

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

Subjects:
Illinois Central Railroad
World War, 1939-1945
Railroad freight cars
United States--Illinois--Chicago

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 12002-11 (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.1a34775

Call Number: LC-USW36-593


Library Theatre Manchester, July 2010
photo library
Image by ricardo266
The Library Theatre Manchester (UK) closed, after 58 years at Central Library, on 4 July 2010. These photos were taken in the final few days of performance at the Central Library Theatre. The final play was the same one which opened the theatre in 1952, "The Importance Of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde. Central Library will now be closed for 4 years of renovation and refurbishment, but the existing theatre space will be converted and rebuilt for book storage. However, the Library Theatre Company lives on, and will be presenting plays at the Lowry Theatre and other Manchester venues over the next 4 years, before moving to a new permanent home at the Theatre Royal.

An exhibition in the Spotlighters Bar of costumes and model set designs used at the theatre over the years.

Album cover Jukebox

A few nice photo albums images I found:


Album cover Jukebox
photo albums
Image by Mosaic Maniac
This scattered photo mosaic was created using music album covers.
Click on the individual cells to see them enlarge at img.mosaicmaniac.com/Jukebox.html


Album meme...
photo albums
Image by Vic Acid
Duane did it, PJ did it, so now I'm doin' it... yeah, doin' it!

Group name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random (entry title or first title on the page)
Album title: www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 (last four words of last entry)
Album art: www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ (3rd image on page)

Group name came from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_of_the_Future
Album title came from: www.quotationspage.com/quote/1942.html
Album art came from: www.flickr.com/photos/kjten22/2231768752/

[Looking at this and working on it, I now have Kraftwerk's "Tour de France" stuck in my head... I think some real krautrocky motorik would fit this "band" and "album"]

shoooo, fly

Check out these photo processing images:


shoooo, fly
photo processing
Image by Joel Bedford
Well, I finally snapped and bought a dslr...yay!

This bug was in my room this evening. I composited it on another photo of wood that I took earlier this afternoon. Added some Photoshop lighting...blah, blah!


Unidentified Woman
photo processing
Image by George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1974:0193:0659

Maker: Southworth & Hawes

Title: Unidentified Woman

Date: ca. 1852

Medium: daguerreotype

Dimensions: sixth plate; 8.3 x 7.0 cm.

George Eastman House Collection

General information about the George Eastman House Photography Collection is available at http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/photography.php.

For information on obtaining reproductions go to: www.eastmanhouse.org/flickr/index.php?pid=1974:0193:0659.


Alice Mary Hawes
photo processing
Image by George Eastman House
Accession Number: 1974:0193:0683

Maker: Southworth & Hawes

Title: Alice Mary Hawes

Date: ca. 1855

Medium: daguerreotype

Dimensions: sixth plate; 8.2 x 6.9 cm.

George Eastman House Collection

General information about the George Eastman House Photography Collection is available at http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/photography.php.

For information on obtaining reproductions go to: www.eastmanhouse.org/flickr/index.php?pid=1974:0193:0683.

Nice Photo Gifts photos

A few nice photo gifts images I found:


Decorative Hexagonal Origami Gift Boxs with Lids
photo gifts
Image by Dominic's pics
This is a poster created to promote the sale of some Hexagonal Origami Gift Boxes in support of the survivors of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

(The best quality version of this image is here.)

The poster / flyer is intended to be square - like origami paper - so there are crop marks at each corner to assisting in cutting the printed out paper to the correct shape. A version of this image without borders and crop marks can be found here.

You can see views of all 20 boxes individually for sale in a set here.

You can plunge into the eBay auctions here.

Cool Photo Development images

A few nice photo development images I found:


Monterey Road Child Development Center Halloween Parade 2011
photo development
Image by Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Children participate in the Halloween parade at Monterey Road Child Development Center Oct. 31. The parade is an annual event in which care providers and volunteers escort the children around the center before lining up in front of the building while proud parents and grandparents take photos of the happy children.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook

PHOTO by Tonya K. Townsell, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.


Monterey Road Child Development Center Halloween Parade 2011
photo development
Image by Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Children participate in the Halloween parade at Monterey Road Child Development Center Oct. 31. The parade is an annual event in which care providers and volunteers escort the children around the center before lining up in front of the building while proud parents and grandparents take photos of the happy children.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook

PHOTO by Tonya K. Townsell, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.


Monterey Road Child Development Center Halloween Parade 2011
photo development
Image by Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - Children participate in the Halloween parade at Monterey Road Child Development Center Oct. 31. The parade is an annual event in which care providers and volunteers escort the children around the center before lining up in front of the building while proud parents and grandparents take photos of the happy children.

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook

PHOTO by Tonya K. Townsell, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

Software and Game Design round 2 of the Imagine Cup 2012

Check out these photo software images:


Software and Game Design round 2 of the Imagine Cup 2012
photo software
Image by MSP Social Media Team
Software and Game Design round 2 of the Imagine Cup 2012 and their great presentations! Watch the best of IC teams!

You are the STORY!

Welcome to Sydney, Welcome to Imagine Cup 2012.

Imagine Cup Properties:
Website: www.imaginecup.com/
Blog: www.imaginecup.com/blogs/default.aspx
Twitter: twitter.com/imaginecup
Facebook: www.facebook.com/microsoftimaginecup
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/imaginecup/

See more of the MSPSMT online!
Blog: www.icsocialmediateam.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/imaginecupsocialmediateam
Twitter: www.twitter.com/mspsmt
YouTube: www.youtube.com/wwmsp
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/mspsmt

Uploaded By: MSPSMT Robert Staniucha


Software and Game Design round 2 of the Imagine Cup 2012
photo software
Image by MSP Social Media Team
Software and Game Design round 2 of the Imagine Cup 2012 and their great presentations! Watch the best of IC teams!

You are the STORY!

Welcome to Sydney, Welcome to Imagine Cup 2012.

Imagine Cup Properties:
Website: www.imaginecup.com/
Blog: www.imaginecup.com/blogs/default.aspx
Twitter: twitter.com/imaginecup
Facebook: www.facebook.com/microsoftimaginecup
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/imaginecup/

See more of the MSPSMT online!
Blog: www.icsocialmediateam.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/imaginecupsocialmediateam
Twitter: www.twitter.com/mspsmt
YouTube: www.youtube.com/wwmsp
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/mspsmt

Uploaded By: MSPSMT Robert Staniucha

NS_Edge_151107

Some cool online photo editor images:


NS_Edge_151107
online photo editor
Image by New Statesman
Photo © Joel Chant. www.joelchant.com Tel/Fax: 020 8509 7928 Mobile: 07976 291 576
email: info@joelchant.com 15/11/07-New Statesman/Edge Upstarts event marking Social Enterprise Day.
The only way is u? debate chaired by online editor Ben Davies with key speakers, left to right: Phil Hope MP, Cliff Prior, CHief Executive UnLtd, BBen Davies, Alison Ogden-Newton, Chief Executive SEL, Nigel Kershaw, The Big Issue


NS_Edge_151107
online photo editor
Image by New Statesman
Photo © Joel Chant. www.joelchant.com Tel/Fax: 020 8509 7928 Mobile: 07976 291 576
email: info@joelchant.com 15/11/07-New Statesman/Edge Upstarts event marking Social Enterprise Day.
The only way is u? debate chaired by online editor Ben Davies with key speakers, left to right: Phil Hope MP, Cliff Prior, CHief Executive UnLtd, BBen Davies, Alison Ogden-Newton, Chief Executive SEL, Nigel Kershaw, The Big Issue


NS_Edge_151107
online photo editor
Image by New Statesman
Photo © Joel Chant. www.joelchant.com Tel/Fax: 020 8509 7928 Mobile: 07976 291 576
email: info@joelchant.com 15/11/07-New Statesman/Edge Upstarts event marking Social Enterprise Day.
The only way is u? debate chaired by online editor Ben Davies with key speakers, left to right: Phil Hope MP, Cliff Prior, CHief Executive UnLtd, BBen Davies, Alison Ogden-Newton, Chief Executive SEL, Nigel Kershaw, The Big Issue

Cool Free Photo Software images

A few nice free photo software images I found:


marimite
free photo software
Image by Konstantin Leonov
Accidently found this stuff, made somewhere in june 2011.

Not much changed since that, just my desktop moved from xfce to openbox as well.

I use GIMP and ufraw to work with images (currently also use gphoto2 to fetch pics from camera)
mplayer or smplayer to watch movies
opera and firefox for browsing
geany for programming
deadbeef for music playback
transmission-gtk or rtorrent for torrents
xchat for irc
psi for jabber

mostly free opensource software with rare exclusion of opera. that's about all software i use often.

by the way, AKG headphones are great, i highly recommend them if you're looking for good headphones. just don't plug them like you see on this picture, with builtin sound cards :D use good source and amplifier.


Ripping Through the World
free photo software
Image by Stuck in Customs
Daily Photo - Ripping Through the World
I know everyone has their own various tastes for HDR, and mine is all over the map! Sometimes I really feel artsy and go crazy with one, like this car above. It's hard with awesome cars... because the reflectivity in HDR is so off the map.

I've been meaning to get to one of those high-end car shows and go crazy with my tripod. I've heard the Concours d'Elegance in Pebble Beach is really one of the best in the world... but maybe you all know of some other stellar car shows you can recommend?

New Video Tomorrow!
We posted a behind-the-scenes video a few days ago, and a new one is coming tomorrow. You can see previous ones on the Videos page.

Updated Woopra Video Review (Thanks London!)
I recently updated my Woopra Review, which is a cool real-time analytics tool for your website or blog. I recommend it! You can try it for free and be up and running in just 10 minutes after a visit to the Woopra site.


www.stuckincustoms.com

Nice Edit Photos photos

Some cool edit photos images:


The Father
edit photos
Image by michmutters
Seven Street Portraits
Procamera
Snapseed
Noir Photo
Mextures


The Naruto Fan
edit photos
Image by michmutters
Seven Street Portraits
Procamera
Snapseed
Noir Photo
Mextures


The Busker Friends
edit photos
Image by michmutters
Seven Street Portraits
Procamera
Snapseed
Noir Photo
Mextures

Anna Ziegler (LOC)

A few nice image url images I found:


Anna Ziegler (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Anna Ziegler

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

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

Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
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.20521

Call Number: LC-B2- 3689-4


Barnard College, 1913 (LOC)
image url
Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

Barnard College, 1913

1913 June 4.

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

Notes:
Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
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.13080

Call Number: LC-B2- 2699-2

layout_023

Check out these photo collage maker images:


layout_023
photo collage maker
Image by Pearl Mountain


calendar_10
photo collage maker
Image by Pearl Mountain

White Christmas

A few nice image shack images I found:


White Christmas
image shack
Image by Martin Beek
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten,
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white


“There are many threads connecting the series, the same mountain, for example, appears in the background of all the drawings. It represents both a high place and a hard place to reach, reflecting man's spiritual and physical struggle, an ever-present obstacle which needs to be overcome. Time is another recurring theme and is explored in a number of ways. The falling leaves mark the succession of the years and snails give a feeling of the slowness of time passing. Dandelion clocks express the ephemeral nature of life while clock faces indicate no time at all, perhaps a reference to eternity and the timeless drama we are all engaged in. The shack is a shelter from the storm of life. It's contents mirror the man's state of mind, it's starkness reflects the harsh reality of life in a land where the elements, like the passing years, show no mercy. It's ever changing layout gives the shack a dream-like feel and brings into question what's real and what is not.

What is the significance of the crucifix, the guns, the bottles of wine, the various books and the other elements that are featured? Like a Rorschach test, the story that we each read into these drawings will tell us as much about our own world view as it will enable us to glimpse Martin Beek's own vision portrayed in this work.” (From a review by I Clow)

White Christmas is like a Christmas Card image; I have been told that Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas on Waikiki Beach, when I drew this back in 1997 I was thinking about how I’d be like to be in America too, maybe even Waikiki; I wanted this not to necessarily be a comforting image of hearth and home but one of a bleak battle with the elements like other pictures such as Worst Of The Storm and A Cold Wild Wind . Incidentally the “Berlin" theme is carried throughout the series on the mailbox, it could allude to European settlement of north America or the once divided city. The hill/ cliff that appears in many of these drawings particularly “Lovers Leap “ and is an inversion of Mount Nebo Arkansas depicted in a number of my earlier works and first exhibited at 1984.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white


AT&T Point Reyes Radio (KMI) Receiver Site
image shack
Image by Matt Blaze
AT&T Point Reyes, CA High Seas Radio Receiver Site (KMI), 8 March 2003.

This was the receiver shack, guarded by a chain link fence and a large, carved wooden sign. The transmitter site was in Dixon, CA. The AT&T high seas HF radiotelephone service was discontinued in 1999; the KMI facilities were abandoned shortly thereafter. The site was razed in 2004.

Image taken with a Nikon D-100 digital camera, handheld.

More at www.crypto.com/photos/misc/kph/


Center and Left side of my desk
image shack
Image by Psychlist1972
Select and comment on the geek/retro items you find.

Cool Free Photo Edit images

Check out these free photo edit images:


Free Organic Green Spring Plant Seedlings in Natural Window Light Creative Commons
free photo edit
Image by © 2006-2013 Pink Sherbet Photography
My photos that have a creative commons license and are free for everyone to download, edit, alter and use as long as you give me, "D Sharon Pruitt" credit as the original owner of the photo. Have fun and enjoy!

Cool York Photo images

Check out these york photo images:


Day 3 Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone 12
york photo
Image by david_shankbone
Day 3, September 19, 2011: Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York.

David Shankbone
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames

The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project

Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 9 September 25 Photos
Day 12 September 28 Photos
Day 14 September 30 Photos
Day 16 October 2 Photos
Day 17 October 3 Photos
Day 20 October 5 Photos
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 50 November 5
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti

Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20

Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here


Day 3 Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone 10
york photo
Image by david_shankbone
Day 3, September 19, 2011: Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York.

David Shankbone
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames

The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project

Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 9 September 25 Photos
Day 12 September 28 Photos
Day 14 September 30 Photos
Day 16 October 2 Photos
Day 17 October 3 Photos
Day 20 October 5 Photos
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 50 November 5
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti

Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20

Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here


Day 3 Occupy Wall Street 2011 Shankbone 9
york photo
Image by david_shankbone
Day 3, September 19, 2011: Photos documenting the protest event Occupy Wall Street in New York.

David Shankbone
Good Magazine: The (Un)Official Occupy Wall Street Photographer's 15 Favorite Frames

The Occupy Wall Street Creative Commons Project

Day 1 September 17 Photos - Preoccupation and Occupation Begins
Day 2 September 18 Photos - People settle in; cardboard sign menage begins
Day 3 September 19 Photos - Community forms; protest signs
Day 7 September 23 Photos - First rain, protest signs, life
Day 8 September 24 Photos - Pepper spray day, Zuni Tikka, people
Day 9 September 25 Photos
Day 12 September 28 Photos
Day 14 September 30 Photos
Day 16 October 2 Photos
Day 17 October 3 Photos
Day 20 October 5 Photos
Day 21 October 6 Photos - Naomi Klein
Day 23 October 8 - Faces of OWS
Day 28 October 13 - Tom Morello of RATM
Day 31 - protesting Chihuahua and The Daily Show
Day 36 - Parents and Kids Day and quite a crowd
Day 40 - protesting hotties, Reverend Billy and tents
Day 43 Photos - Snow storm at OWS of the first NYC winter snowfall
Day 47 - Solidarity with Occupy Oakland
Day 50 November 5
Day 52 November 7 - Jonathan Lethem, Lynn Nottage and Jennifer Egan
Day 53 November 8 - David Crosby and Graham Nash play OWS
Day 57 November 12 - Former NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey
Day 60 November 15 - Police evict protesters from Zuccotti

Occupy Colorado Springs Colorado on November 20

Do you want to see the Occupy Wall Street series laid out thematically? Click here

Cool Picture Frame images

Some cool picture frame images:


Raspberry Pi and Parrot DF3120 LCD picture frame
picture frame
Image by Nathan Chantrell
Using a Parrot DF3120 3.5" LCD picture frame as a display for the Raspberry Pi.

The picture frame is running a minifs Linux and SDLvncviewer to connect to the Pi.

The Pi is in a case from www.modmypi.com


063/365 Sometimes, I can't quite picture you anymore
picture frame
Image by Gibson Claire McGuire Regester
so right in fron of this barn, was a field of POISON IVY.....I walked through it.
I might die
this place was about 2 miles away, and I walked....until my neighbor drove by me and asked me if I was running away from home haha, then she drove me the rest of the way there.

I was a bittt freaked out when I was here because I was alll alone, besides the weird bird noises I heard. eeep!

gibsonselectric.tumblr.com/ follow me on tumblr!

hey hey hey! View On Black

Tumblr!
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Darcie Stock PNG

Some cool i stock photo images:


Darcie Stock PNG
i stock photo
Image by rubyblossom.
~~~~~~***Please, feel free to use my Textures, Backgrounds, Stock, etc., in your Artwork.
If you do use them, I would love it if you would please post your work in my group, Ruby's Treasures.

~~~~These are pictures of my Grandaughter , please use them caringly~~~~


...Please DO NOT redistribute as your own...

To see my full Photo Stock Set please visit Here


Flash or no flash

A few nice flash photo images I found:


Flash or no flash
flash photo
Image by inajeep
I took two photos of this plant/weed. One w/ the flash and one w/out. I cut the image in half and spliced them together. The colors were not processed by photoshop.


Flash vs. Human Torch (320/365)
flash photo
Image by JD Hancock
Flash: Wally West, hot-shot member of the Justice League with super-speed who can vibrate through solid objects.

Human Torch: Johnny Storm, hot-headed member of the Fantastic Four with the powers of flight and pyrokinesis.

If they had to fight, who would win?

#320 in the Duel 365 series.


flash shadow artifact, P7010062
flash photo
Image by Anita363
Alright, what on earth is going on here? Why is there a "drop shadow"?

This is a perfectly ordinary handheld daytime shot against a perfectly ordinary daytime sky with a perfectly ordinary inboard flash. (Truth to tell, I was trying to shoot in silhouette, & was thwarted when the stupid flash decided to fire.) See EXIF data for details (click on More Properties). No fog or mist. Any ideas?

See also discussion thread here in Technique group: www.flickr.com/groups/topic/59187

Here is someone else's example from the ID Please pool: www.flickr.com/photos/kpocheffy/26029388/ . And the discussion thread there: www.flickr.com/groups/topic/57094/

Cool Image Editing Online images

Check out these image editing online images:


HANUMAN 19
image editing online
Image by shankargallery
Art for the Soul by Richard Lazzara
www.shankar-gallery.com/contact.html
shankar@shankar-gallery.com
www.shankar-gallery.com
www.myspace.com/richardlazzara
www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/s/shankargallery/
is.gd/7nKW
www.artscad.com/@/RichardLazzara
www.artscad.com/@/ShankarGallery
www.artmajeur.com/shankargallery/
www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/t/thangkashankarsalon/
art.la-passerelle.net/art_pages/richard_lazzara/index.html


For SALE Prints:

www.redbubble.com/people/richardlazzara
www.clustershot.com/richardlazzara
shankargallery.imagekind.com/
www.zazzle.com/shankargallery
www.poosteers.com/P.nsf/Poster?Open&RA=SRVV-76LS9E
www.poosteers.com/P.nsf/Poster?Open&RA=SRVV-76LRXU
www.blurb.com/tags/shankargallery
www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/106645
www.cafepress.com/shankargallery
www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/t/thangkashankarsalon/

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www.shankargallery.blogspot.com/
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Rosetta Stone at the British Museum
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The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta, and transported to England in 1802. Once in Europe, it contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing, through the work of the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text on the stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repeal of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples. Two Egyptian-Greek multilingual steles predated Ptolemy V's Rosetta Stone: Ptolemy III's Decree of Canopus, 239 BC, and Ptolemy IV's Decree of Memphis, ca 218 BC.

The Rosetta Stone is 114.4 centimetres (45.0 in) high at its highest point, 72.3 centimetres (28.5 in) wide, and 27.9 centimetres (11.0 in) thick.[1] It is unfinished on its sides and reverse. Weighing approximately 760 kilograms (1,700 lb), it was originally thought to be granite or basalt but is currently described as granodiorite of a dark grey-pinkish colour.[2] The stone has been on public display at The British Museum since 1802.

Contents

• 1 History of the Rosetta Stone
•• 1.1 Modern-era discovery
•• 1.2 Translation
•• 1.3 Recent history
• 2 Inscription
• 3 Idiomatic use
• 4 See also
• 5 Notes
• 6 References
• 7 External links

History of the Rosetta Stone

Modern-era discovery

In preparation for Napoleon's 1798 campaign in Egypt, the French brought with them 167 scientists, scholars and archaeologists known as the 'savants'. French Army engineer Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard discovered the stone sometime in mid-July 1799, first official mention of the find being made after the 25th in the meeting of the savants' Institut d'Égypte in Cairo. It was spotted in the foundations of an old wall, during renovations to Fort Julien near the Egyptian port city of Rashid (Rosetta) and sent down to the Institute headquarters in Cairo. After Napoleon returned to France shortly after the discovery, the savants remained behind with French troops which held off British and Ottoman attacks for a further 18 months. In March 1801, the British landed at Aboukir Bay and scholars carried the Stone from Cairo to Alexandria alongside the troops of Jacques-Francois Menou who marched north to meet the enemy; defeated in battle, Menou and the remnant of his army fled to fortified Alexandria where they were surrounded and immediately placed under siege, the stone now inside the city. Overwhelmed by invading Ottoman troops later reinforced by the British, the remaining French in Cairo capitulated on June 22, and Menou admitted defeat in Alexandria on August 30.[3]

After the surrender, a dispute arose over the fate of French archaeological and scientific discoveries in Egypt. Menou refused to hand them over, claiming they belonged to the Institute. British General John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore, refused to relieve the city until de Menou gave in. Newly arrived scholars Edward Daniel Clarke and William Richard Hamilton agreed to check the collections in Alexandria and found many artifacts that the French had not revealed.[citation needed]

When Hutchinson claimed all materials were property of the British Crown, a French scholar, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, said to Clarke and Hamilton that they would rather burn all their discoveries — referring ominously to the destruction of the Library of Alexandria — than turn them over. Clarke and Hamilton pleaded their case and Hutchinson finally agreed that items such as biology specimens would be the scholars' private property. But Menou regarded the stone as his private property and hid it.[4]

How exactly the Stone came to British hands is disputed. Colonel Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner, who escorted the stone to Britain, claimed later that he had personally seized it from Menou and carried it away on a gun carriage. In his much more detailed account however, Clarke stated that a French 'officer and member of the Institute' had taken him, his student John Cripps, and Hamilton secretly into the back-streets of Alexandria, revealing the stone among Menou's baggage, hidden under protective carpets. According to Clarke this savant feared for the stone's safety should any French soldiers see it. Hutchinson was informed at once, and the stone taken away, possibly by Turner and his gun-carriage. French scholars departed later with only imprints and plaster casts of the stone.[5]

Turner brought the stone to Britain aboard the captured French frigate HMS Egyptienne landing in February 1802. On March 11, it was presented to the Society of Antiquaries of London and Stephen Weston played a major role in the early translation. Later it was taken to the British Museum, where it remains to this day. Inscriptions painted in white on the artifact state "Captured in Egypt by the British Army in 1801" on the left side and "Presented by King George III" on the right.

Translation

Experts inspecting the Rosetta Stone during the International Congress of Orientalists of 1874

In 1814, Briton Thomas Young finished translating the enchorial (demotic) text, and began work on the hieroglyphic script but he did not succeed in translating them. From 1822 to 1824 the French scholar, philologist, and orientalist Jean-François Champollion greatly expanded on this work and is credited as the principal translator of the Rosetta Stone. Champollion could read both Greek and Coptic, and figured out what the seven Demotic signs in Coptic were. By looking at how these signs were used in Coptic, he worked out what they meant. Then he traced the Demotic signs back to hieroglyphic signs. By working out what some hieroglyphs stood for, he transliterated the text from the Demotic (or older Coptic) and Greek to the hieroglyphs by first translating Greek names which were originally in Greek, then working towards ancient names that had never been written in any other language. Champollion then created an alphabet to decipher the remaining text.[6]

In 1858, the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania published the first complete English translation of the Rosetta Stone as accomplished by three of its undergraduate members: Charles R Hale, S Huntington Jones, and Henry Morton.[7]

Recent history

The Rosetta Stone has been exhibited almost continuously in the British Museum since 1802. Toward the end of World War I, in 1917, the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London and moved the Rosetta Stone to safety along with other portable objects of value. The Stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway 50 feet below the ground at Holborn.

The Stone left the British Museum again in October 1972 to be displayed for one month at the Louvre Museum on the 150th anniversary of the decipherment of hieroglyphic writing with the famous Lettre à M. Dacier of Jean-François Champollion.

In July 2003, Egypt requested the return of the Rosetta Stone. Dr. Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, told the press: "If the British want to be remembered, if they want to restore their reputation, they should volunteer to return the Rosetta Stone because it is the icon of our Egyptian identity". In 2005, Hawass was negotiating for a three-month loan, with the eventual goal of a permanent return.[8][9] In November 2005, the British Museum sent him a replica of the stone.[10] In December 2009 Hawass said that he would drop his claim for the return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum loaned the stone to Egypt for three months.[11]
Inscription

In essence, the Rosetta Stone is a tax amnesty given to the temple priests of the day, restoring the tax privileges they had traditionally enjoyed from more ancient times. Some scholars speculate that several copies of the Rosetta Stone must exist, as yet undiscovered, since this proclamation must have been made at many temples. The complete Greek portion, translated into English,[12] is about 1600–1700 words in length, and is about 20 paragraphs long (average of 80 words per paragraph):

n the reign of the new king who was Lord of the diadems, great in glory, the stabilizer of Egypt, but also pious in matters relating to the gods, superior to his adversaries, rectifier of the life of men, Lord of the thirty-year periods like Hephaestus the Great, King like the Sun, the Great King of the Upper and Lower Lands, offspring of the Parent-loving gods, whom Hephaestus has approved, to whom the Sun has given victory, living image of Zeus, Son of the Sun, Ptolemy the ever-living, beloved by Ptah;

In the ninth year, when Aëtus, son of Aëtus, was priest of Alexander and of the Savior gods and the Brother gods and the Benefactor gods and the Parent-loving gods and the god Manifest and Gracious; Pyrrha, the daughter of Philinius, being athlophorus for Bernice Euergetis; Areia, the daughter of Diogenes, being canephorus for Arsinoë Philadelphus; Irene, the daughter of Ptolemy, being priestess of Arsinoë Philopator: on the fourth of the month Xanicus, or according to the Egyptians the eighteenth of Mecheir.

THE DECREE: The high priests and prophets, and those who enter the inner shrine in order to robe the gods, and those who wear the hawk's wing, and the sacred scribes, and all the other priests who have assembled at Memphis before the king, from the various temples throughout the country, for the feast of his receiving the kingdom, even that of Ptolemy the ever-living, beloved by Ptah, the god Manifest and Gracious, which he received from his Father, being assembled in the temple in Memphis this day, declared: Since King Ptolemy, the ever-living, beloved by Ptah, the god Manifest and Gracious, the son of King Ptolemy and Queen Arsinoë, the Parent-loving gods, has done many benefactions to the temples and to those who dwell in them, and also to all those subject to his rule, being from the beginning a god born of a god and a goddess—like Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, who came to the help of his Father Osiris; being benevolently disposed toward the gods, has concentrated to the temples revenues both of silver and of grain, and has generously undergone many expenses in order to lead Egypt to prosperity and to establish the temples... the gods have rewarded him with health, victory, power, and all other good things, his sovereignty to continue to him and his children forever.[13]


Idiomatic use

The term Rosetta Stone came to be used by philologists to describe any bilingual text with whose help a hitherto unknown language and/or script could be deciphered. For example, the bilingual coins of the Indo-Greeks (Obverse in Greek, reverse in Pali, using the Kharo??hi script), which enabled James Prinsep (1799–1840) to decipher the latter.

Later on, the term gained a wider frequency, also outside the field of linguistics, and has become idiomatic as something that is a critical key to the process of decryption or translation of a difficult encoding of information:

"The Rosetta Stone of immunology"[14] and "Arabidopsis, the Rosetta Stone of flowering time (fossils)".[15] An algorithm for predicting protein structure from sequence is named Rosetta@home. In molecular biology, a series of "Rosetta" bacterial cell lines have been developed that contain a number of tRNA genes that are rare in E. coli but common in other organisms, enabling the efficient translation of DNA from those organisms in E. coli.

"Rosetta" is an online language translation tool to help localisation of software, developed and maintained by Canonical as part of the Launchpad project.

"Rosetta" is the name of a "lightweight dynamic translator" distributed for Mac OS X by Apple. Rosetta enables applications compiled for PowerPC processor to run on Apple systems using x86 processor.

Rosetta Stone is a brand of language learning software published by Rosetta Stone Ltd., headquartered in Arlington, VA, USA.

The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone to last from 2000 to 12,000 AD. Its goal is a meaningful survey and near permanent archive of 1,500 languages.

Rosetta Stone was also a pseudonym used by Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) for the book "Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo"

See also

• Rosetta (disambiguation)
• Behistun Inscription
• Decree of Canopus, stele no. 1 of the 3-stele series

Notes

• Allen, Don Cameron. "The Predecessors of Champollion", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 144, No. 5. (1960), pp. 527–547
• Adkins, Lesley; Adkins, Roy. The Keys of Egypt: The Obsession to Decipher Egyptian Hieroglyphs. HarperCollins, 2000 ISBN 0-06-019439-1
• Budge, E. A. Wallis (1989). The Rosetta Stone. Dover Publications. ISBN 0486261638. http://books.google.com/books?id=RO_m47hLsbAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=rosetta+stone&as_brr=3&sig=ACfU3U1_VaJ_NxkLmbZuYyDLji99DXwY6w. 
• Downs, Jonathan. Discovery at Rosetta. Skyhorse Publishing, 2008 ISBN 978-1-60239-271-7
• Downs, Jonathan. "Romancing the Stone", History Today, Vol. 56, Issue 5. (May, 2006), pp. 48–54.
• Parkinson, Richard. Cracking Codes: the Rosetta Stone, and Decipherment. University of California Press, 1999 ISBN 0-520-22306-3
• Parkinson, Richard. The Rosetta Stone. Objects in Focus; British Museum Press 2005 ISBN 978-0-7141-5021-5
• Ray, John. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt. Harvard University Press, 2007 ISBN 978-0-674-02493-9
• Reviewed by Jonathon Keats in the Washington Post, July 22, 2007.
• Solé, Robert; Valbelle, Dominique. The Rosetta Stone: The Story of the Decoding of Hieroglyphics. Basic Books, 2002 ISBN 1-56858-226-9
The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle, 1802: Volume 72: part 1: March: p. 270: Wednesday, March 31.

References

^ "The Rosetta Stone". http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx. Retrieved 2008-05-21. 
^ "History uncovered in conserving the Rosetta Stone". http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/article_index/h/history_uncovered_in_conservin.aspx. Retrieved 2008-11-11. 
^ Downs, Jonathan, Discovery at Rosetta, 2008
^ Downs, Jonathan, Discovery at Rosetta, 2008
^ Downs, Jonathan, Discovery at Rosetta, 2008
^ Retrieved on 2008-25-6
^ See University of Pennsylvania, Philomathean Society, Report of the committee [C.R. Hale, S.H. Jones, and Henry Morton], appointed by the society to translate the inscript on the Rosetta stone, Circa 1858 and most likely published in Philadelphia. See later editions of circa 1859 and 1881 by same author, as well as Randolph Greenfield Adams, A Translation of the Rosetta Stone (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925.) The Philomathean Society holds relevant archival material as well as an original casting.
^ Charlotte Edwardes and Catherine Milner (2003-07-20). "Egypt demands return of the Rosetta Stone". Daily Telegraph. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/1436606/Egypt-demands-return-of-the-Rosetta-Stone.html. Retrieved 2006-10-05. 
^ Henry Huttinger (2005-07-28). "Stolen Treasures: Zahi Hawass wants the Rosetta Stone back—among other things". Cairo Magazine. http://www.cairomagazine.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=1238&format=html. Retrieved 2006-10-06. [dead link]
^ "The rose of the Nile". Al-Ahram Weekly. 2005-11-30. http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/770/he1.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-06. 
^ [1] "Rosetta Stone row 'would be solved by loan to Egypt'" BBC News 8 December 2009
^ "Translation of the Greek section of the Rosetta Stone". Reshafim.org.il. http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/rosettastone.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-22. 
^ "Text of the Rosetta Stone". http://pw1.netcom.com/~qkstart/rosetta.html. Retrieved 2006-11-26. 
^ The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (2000-09-06). "International Team Accelerates Investigation of Immune-Related Genes". http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2000/ihwg.htm. Retrieved 2006-11-23. 
^ Gordon G. Simpson, Caroline Dean (2002-04-12). "Arabidopsis, the Rosetta Stone of Flowering Time?". http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/296/5566/285?ijkey=zlwRiv/qSEivQ&keytype=ref&siteid=sci. Retrieved 2006-11-23. 

External links

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• The Rosetta Stone in The British Museum
• More detailed British Museum page on the stone with Curator's comments and bibliography
• The translated text in English – The British Museum
• The Finding of the Rosetta Stone
• The 1998 conservation and restoration of The Rosetta Stone at The British Museum
• Champollion's alphabet – The British Museum
• people.howstuffworks.com/rosetta-stone.htm

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