A visit, board, search and seizure team returns to the ship after boarding the Spanish ship Castilla

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A visit, board, search and seizure team returns to the ship after boarding the Spanish ship Castilla

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ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 21, 2011) The visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) team assigned to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) returns to the ship after boarding the Spanish navy landing platform dock ship Castilla (L 52) during the bilateral Spanish Amphibious Landing Exercise (PHIBLEX) 2011. Whidbey Island is deployed as part of the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group participating in PHIBLEX off the coast of Spain. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Rachael L. Leslie/Released) 110621-N-GH121-467

Visit, board, search and seizure team members retrieve a rescue basket.

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GULF OF ADEN (Dec. 28, 2011) A member of the visit, board, search and seizure team aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91) retrieves a rescue basket line from an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the Raptors of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71, during medical evacuation training. Pinckney is assigned to Combined Task Force 151, a multinational, mission-based task force working under Combined Maritime Forces, to conduct counter-piracy operations in the Southern Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Eddie Harrison/Released) 111228-N-ED900-620

The visit, board, search and seizure team from USS Halsey approaches a Yemeni dhow.

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GULF OF ADEN (Feb. 5, 2012) The visit, board, search and seizure team from the guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) approaches a Yemeni dhow. Halsey is the flagship for Combined Task Force 151, a multinational, mission-based task force working under Combined Maritime Forces, to conduct counter-piracy operations in the Southern Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Somali Basin, Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Krishna M. Jackson/Released) 120205-N-RP435-311
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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

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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

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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)