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Café Regatta Helsinki a quirky little waterfront café restaurant with a lovely outside terrace in Helsinki Finland in summer. $ - Worldwide distributor. wim

I still stoop for a dime. wim

Wow! Thank you. wim

For your first ‘test’ submission we need all images to contain valid camera data. from: https://www.alamy.com/contributors/alamy-how-to-pass-qc.pdf wim

Yep paywall. The book says about the sprockets: For safekeeping the negative was cut from a a strip of 35mm film at the start of World War II. Sprocket holes are missing on one side. Possibly the film was manufactured without them - or possibly somebody has cut them off. Asked about this, Cartier-Bresson replies: "I swallowed them." When I let Google search for the first sentence of that quote, I got these two brilliant results: A nice pdf of the available exhibition. From Curatorial Assistance. A box of prints with 18 pages of images of the negatives with the complete captions. On Luminous Lint. (Never seen that one before.) wim

If you have an hour to spare, lots of old geezers here including Loengard, as the picture editor of Life. wim edit: and if you have $6500 lying around, you can have this exhibition in your living room. Or you could buy the book. Bookfinder (set to UK and Pounds). AddAll new / used (set to DC and $).

That's Fiona Adams, for those who don't have a Washington Post subscription: Guardian obituary And this is that photo from: More about that day in a life 18 April 1963. Before that Astrid Kirchherr (Guardian obituary) of course died on May 13. (very brief discussion here) But in between another great photographer has died: John Loengard, one of my all time heroes, on May 24. There have been some wonderful obituaries. NYT obituary (probably behind a pay wall); Harvard Crimson (!) obit; ASMP obit; Beatles Magazine obituary; Medium obit; rfotofolio remembers with a 2016 interview; Fox 2 short interview a year ago on youtube; wikipedia; personal website; His famous Beatles photo: Actually it was this one, as he shot it in b/w: Life had it colorized. And somehow it was released as a color print as well: I have one. Unsigned. So Loengard was a true disciple of Cartier-Bresson who was as the NYT writes working almost exclusively in black and white? Hmm then what's this? From thet NYT obituary: One of Mr. Loengard’s photographic heroes was Mr. Cartier-Bresson, the master of street photography, who had done his best to avoid having anyone photograph him. When Mr. Loengard asked him to pose for pictures that would accompany an exhibition of Mr. Cartier-Bresson’s early work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Mr. Cartier-Bresson asked, “Can you take all the pictures from behind?” No, he said, he could not. “I felt the most important thing was to nail him down, as quickly as possible — get that face — and then he started taking pictures of me, and he went click-click,” Mr. Loengard said on the PBS show “Charlie Rose” in 2011, “and I had a motor on my camera, so I went ‘zeep-zeep,’ and we sounded like two insects getting interested in each other. “He thought this was amusing, and he giggled.” HCB HCB flies a kite. One of his best portraits: Which is still in my personal top 20 of great portraits of all time. Despite. I have a signed 1st ed of Georgia O'Keeffe at Ghost Ranch which is beautiful, but my favorite Loengard book is still Pictures under Discussion. The Online Photographer blog on books by Loengard. There have been many photographers associated with the Beatles like Robert Freeman, who died last November (Guardian). He shot some of the best album covers for them. Including With the Beatles; A Hard Day's Night; Beatles for sale; Help! and Rubber Soul: wim

Good choice! Take a camera. 3,644 images of Cat Cafe's on Alamy. Only 4 of the Liverpool one, including: Stockimo, so the style is probably deliberate and this is the tabby one, not the ginger. The rest is Google Street View style, which can be good btw especially if your image is better than GSV. wim

DRN703 - Desert View Watch Tower overlooking the Grand Canyon and Colorado River. EFDRKX - Eternal Flame Peace Memorial on the Gettysburg Battlefield. C48F7J - Antony Gormley's Exposure looking at the sunset over the IJsselmeer Lake, Lelystad, The Netherlands. wim

No. Besides regular jpg is always 8 bit. There is an xl standard that exists, but not many programs/applications will be able to read it. wim

It lives in Liverpool's Cat Cafe. They have a ginger Norwegian Forest Cat. So well spotted! wim edit: His name is Paddington. image. cat cafe

+1 for Ginger Maine Coon google images writer of the Maine Coon Handbook wim

Could you flatten/unfold some of the boxes? Not all have intricate protective stuff inside. Some boxes fit in other boxes too. wim

My notifications are waiting for me when I log in. They show up as a number. If there's a notification while I'm logged in, I get a warning sound. Thumbs up or down do not trigger a warning or notification. I would think that would be the same function that's triggering the email. Weird. So it keeps all of that off my phone. Just my desktop and while I'm traveling on my netbook while on wifi. Which is perfect (for me). wim

I don't understand the problem. My settings are Do not send me notifications btw. And I get none. In the box to the right there's a red warning: Browser notifications disabled. wim

22 for $955 gross. Compared to 2019: monthly average licenses -19% monthly average $$ -28% Compared to 2016 (anyone remembers Brexit?): monthly average licenses -26% monthly average $$ -49% wim

What you're looking for is called an Ultra Slim M42-NEX Mount Adapter. ($3 on Ebay or even less on Aliexpress) wim

If anyone is into gulls, have a look at this book: Gulls of the World - A Photographic Guide - Klaus Malling Olsen 2018 Without it I would never have known the difference between the argenteus and the argentatus. Hmm I still don't see it, but I now know there is. Upperparts paler than in argentatus. Note very pale eyes surrounded by narrow, palish orbital ring, creating ʻsceptical lookʼ. Sceptical look? Does mine have the sceptical look? Hmm. Reviews of the book: 1; 2. (And the list of errata from 2. - Insert laughing gull emoji here.) And there's the brilliant http://www.gull-research.org website. (Take a look at this page.) wim

Yeah I have some shots of Deliveroo and similar bike services. 24 fps is very useful for these - but can clog up the hdd really fast. wim

The really good left handed scissors have the blades the other way around too, not just the handles. I'm no south paw, so I wouldn't know, but my OH sometimes curses *regular* ones, even when they are rounded off evenly. She prefers her left handed red Fiskars. The orange ones are right handed. I cherish my Westcott 14232 Titanium Ultra Smooth 6" Spring-Assist Scissors. Which seems to be out of stock everywhere. It is right handed as per where the blade sits, but otherwise totally bipartisan: Uhh ambidextrous 😁. wim

Have a look at your files if there's a difference there. Like a higher ISO with the ones that showed the faster focusing. Or a wider aperture. The defaults for the Auto settings can be different than your own settings for Aperture. The newer ones (mkV and onward) are faster because they offer Phase Detect AF. Make sure you have your RX100 set to Phase Detect AF in the Aperture Mode: it is a setting somewhere. Phase Detect is default on for the all auto settings afaik. So that could be the cause also. wim

All 5,200,568 are visible in the Lowlands over here. wim

Don't forget a camera. Plenty of ultrasound scan images of Alamy, but most are of pregnancies. wim

There's one tip missing: Number 51: write stories about easy ways to make money. Should be number one actually. GRQ. (Which is also the unfortunate airport code for Groningen Eelde Airport. Hmmm that could be an interesting photo. Only 210 kilometers.) wim

Because of Corona/Covid it has been up to 4 weeks last month. Normally it's a couple of days. Maybe also because thousands of SS contributors are on the move. It seems that around 4 million images have been withdrawn over there. (Completely futile of course: it will SS only take 1 month to reach their previous number again.) wim