Members of a visit, board, search and seizure team from USS Anzio assist mariners aboard a skiff

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Members of a visit, board, search and seizure team from USS Anzio assist mariners aboard a skiff

Image by Official U.S. Navy Imagery
GULF OF ADEN (Aug. 12, 2011) Members of a visit, board, search and seizure team from the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio (CG 68) assist mariners aboard a skiff in the Gulf of Aden. The Sailors provided food and water to the distressed mariners. Anzio is on a routine deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brian M. Brooks/Released)
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The playful search for beauty

Image by dollen
Colorado Model "Teddy" www.modelmayhem.com/903689

I don't often post the same image with different processing. But in the case of this image there is a bit of a back-story and a Flickr experiment at work.

First post here: www.flickr.com/photos/dollen/5180082820/

As many of you know Rj Dollen is a collection of creative types headed up by me, Cam. We collaborate, debate and often disagree on what processing works best, what lighting suits a model or achieves our end result best… and in a larger sense what is "beautiful." Now, all of that probably sounds like a lot of words clumped together just to say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." But is it really?

With that in mind check this out:
flickreffect.tumblr.com/post/1593187255

and this too

www.ted.com/index.php/talks/eva_zeisel_on_the_playful_sea...

and with that… here is the second version of "what is beautiful" as it relates to this image of Colorado Model "Teddy."

… and lastly an open challenge/call to you in the form of Opensource Photography.

I cordially invite all of you Photoshoppers, Post Processing Pro's, digital darkroom guru's and whatever you want to call yourselves, to edit away in the name of BEAUTY. Show us your mad skills. Show-off with your best effects and tweaks processing and beautification tricks. Then post it back to the same group you got it from for all to see. Sound fun?

Disclaimers:
• Its just for fun. Doing this does not make it your picture.
• You can't sell it, you CAN Post it in your streams, but do give credit (i.e. Photo by Dollen, mad tweaks by (insert your flickr name/link here)
• You can't grossly manipulate the girl. This isn't about making her look bad, or putting her head on a horse body or anything like that. Be respectful to the model/subject please.

Here is the group:
www.flickr.com/groups/opensourcephotography/

The source files is in the description of the group

Afghan soldiers search villagers’ homes

Image by United States Marine Corps Official Page
Farid Ahmad, a squad leader with the 215th Corps, 1st Kandak, 1st Brigade, and member of the 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Combined Action Company, watches Afghan women and children walk out of the room of a compound in Gowragi, Afghanistan, so his fellow Afghan Army soldiers can search it during a clearing operation, Oct. 1, 2010. The clearing operation was followed by a sustained presence in the area. (Official Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mark Fayloga)

Canaries who live aboard Ambulance Train to cheer wounded with song

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Canaries who live aboard Ambulance Train to cheer wounded with song

Image by National Library of Scotland
Two nurses and their canaries posed by their train, France, during World War I. This photograph was taken at an angle down the side of the train. As a result the image is dominated by overpowering dark metal-sheeting. At two intervals along the composition nurses are leaning out of open windows. Their uniforms are clean and sharp, and they are intent on the cages they are holding. The cages are on display and hold canaries which apparently were used to alleviate the boredom of the patients.

This photograph would have sent an ideal propaganda message. The implication that proper, well-organised and efficient care was provided for those at the Front would have reassured those at home. The canaries meanwhile provide a light-hearted note to the seriousness of war injuries.

[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Canaries who live aboard Ambulance Train to cheer wounded with song.']

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Image Theft Protection

Image by Cayusa
Day 55 of 365 (Year Three)

Week 110 Assignment 2 for Take A Class With Dave and Dave.

Inspired by a Cartoon/Comic - Create an image inspired by cartoon or comic. Open to interpretation. This was going to be limited to The Far Side until I found that Larson's cartoons are not widely available online.

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Back in my first year of 365 Days I did this comic strip self-portrait to which my friend Ron responded with his own. I had planned on doing several more of these, but Ron sort of Flickr'd himself out and stopped doing 365 days, which meant that my source material became harder to come by.

Luckily, I convinced Ron to participate in this week's assignment, although he did wait until the last minute to get me his files. Apparently he felt that his wife's birthday and spending time with the family over the weekend was more important than the assignment. I know, he really needs to work on his priorities. He just doesn't get it.

This particular comic is based on a What The Duck strip that, when I read it, I knew I had to recreate it with Ron.

(What The Duck # 235 "Un-intellectual Property" see original strip here)

Two boys greasing their feet

Image by National Library of Scotland
Cold feet, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph shows two young members of one of the Labour Corps, probably the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC). They are sitting in the snow by one of the Labour Camp huts. They have their boots off and according to the original caption are greasing their feet, presumably to give some relief against the cold.

This image perhaps gives a glimpse of how strange and alien Europe must have appeared to many of the Labour Corps men, and how far away home must have seemed. For the South Africans, for example, it was a six-week sea voyage from their home port to France.

[Original reads: 'Two boys greasing their feet.']

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