Dec 30 2023 - Taking pictures of money

 

Can you make money taking pictures of money?  I bet you can.  How many pictures of money are on the internet?  Getty says there are 2,731 Canadian money stock photos.  Pixabay says there are 10,000 plus money images and pexels says browse 5,000 plus best money photos.  iStock has 3,268,449 money photos. Make money?  There are so many of them that say "free for commercial use". I like the picture of paper bills folded into an airplane.  I would guess there are some "weird" money images.  What pops up?  Pictures of dogs and cats with money. There's weirder stuff:  man eating coins from a plate, man with dollar bills in mouth like a tongue hanging out, man vomiting money, man eating bills like a sandwich.  Moving on to pretty pictures with money in them - these are cute girls/women set against pastel backgrounds with paper money fanned out in their hands, or putting a coin in a blue or pink piggy bank. Photographing banknotes is complicated with legal requirements. It has both copyright and counterfeiting issues. You cannot reproduce a banknote at 75% to 150% of actual size and in colour and with both sides showing.  How does one get a hold of all that money for the pile of money pictures?  Does one scan in the money, then print it, and then photograph it? Maybe there's a props company who can rent out "piles of money". There is a pile of money in Breaking Bad, and Quora has entries on what the $ value of the pile of money - $80 million was the estimate.  Wiki gives the answer as well. That's a lot of props money.  Maybe there are some standard props for all the movies that want to have "piles of money" and they go and rent the piles: The Dark Knight and Joker are just two in the list.   The picture of the day is a result of trying out various photography creative software yesterday.  My creative filters from Topaz don't work on the new MAC operating system.  I find that what's available in filters/plugins are geared for iPhones and iPads.  They are unsophisticated.  This one did turn out nicely.  Another orchid picture.  Corel Draw is what looks like is next, and that's because everything else has been trialed.  Wish me luck.

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June 28 2023 - Unforgettable Firepit Moments

 

This first picture is mine - it is at Butchart Gardens taken in 2019.   And the picture below is a screen shot from an ad.  One can put the picture into Google and find similar images and sometimes the source.  The little white dots are the focal points you can search on.  Butchart Gardens does not come up as the source.  The Latitude Run Courtyard Casual Santa Fe Dark Gray 5 piece fire pit with ... is overlaid on a background of Butchart Gardens. As I scroll through Latitude Run furniture, it seems this is the way things are done.  Superimpose patio furniture in front of houses, scenic landscapes and so on.   It is found in front of all kinds of settings - Butchart, in front of an infinity pool overlooking an ocean, on a tropical patio, and so on.     Welcome to beautiful living! Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblogspot.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwell.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

July 18 2022 - Space Pictures every day

Space this week and space every week.  Will there be pictures every week like those published in the last week?  The SPACE.com article says that astronomers were "starstruck" with the Webb telescope - more powerful than they could possibly imagine.  "It was an emotional day for scientists as they shared with the world the first science-quality images from NASA's next-generation observatory."  Here is the Flickr site with the most recent images. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasawebbtelescope/albums This is an excellent gallery as it has no ads and is archival so one can see all the activities along the way. For example, it has engineering test imagines and pictures of staff involved in the deployment activities.   How many pictures would it take to photograph every person working on the James Webb Space Telescope?  More than 1,000 and in more than 17 countries.   That's a lot of people and countries. But the Webb telescope is focused on space and there's a lot of space to cover, so we likely can expect pictures every week.

It looks like the Caribbean to me, but its is one of the Grimsby gardens on the tour on Saturday.  Sitting on the lake edge, there's a little bunk down below.  Skyline viewing from there would be excellent.  Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Sep 8 2021 - September Project ...for Forty Years

 

September is often the month we start projects.  Here's a project I missed out on - a yearly picture of something over my lifetime.  Oh well.  We can look at other people's versions - today we have  a yearly picture of siblings over four decades.  It is a distinct one, done by a professional photographer, so the images are compelling.   From the  NY Times article covering the story:  "Nicholas Nixon was visiting his wife’s family when, “on a whim,” he said, he asked her and her three sisters if he could take their picture. It was summer 1975, and a black-and-white photograph of four young women — elbows casually attenuated, in summer shirts and pants, standing pale and luminous against a velvety background of trees and lawn — was the result. A year later, at the graduation of one of the sisters, while readying a shot of them, he suggested they line up in the same order. After he saw the image, he asked them if they might do it every year. “They seemed O.K. with it,” he said; thus began a project that has spanned almost his whole career. The series, which has been shown around the world over the past four decades, will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, coinciding with the museum’s publication of the book “The Brown Sisters: Forty Years” in November." An update in 2021 shows Nicholas Nixon being interviewed about the story HERE.  The identify of the four sisters was not revealed for forty years.  Although, it would likely have been easy to figure out.   You can look at the pictures easily - there are many articles with the 40 pictures shown - there's a YouTube video that has the progression in 4 minutes. It is HERE.  It is a bit strange but as the photographer took such a similar picture each year with each person in the same position, it morphs extremely well.  Another version shows the full pictures in progression - it is HERE. At the end, you will find YouTube's endless versions of 25, 20, etc years of family photos.  It makes me realize this is a popular project.  Watching the progression of the passing of a lifetime, that September Song comes to mind, doesn't it? I hear Jimmy Durante's version.   And seeing the pictures, you can understand why Nixon's is so well known - such expressions he has captured. This is a lily in the Lilycrest Gardens field - such pretty colours and a nice progression of the blooms across the picture.

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Have Camera will Capture

One of the benefits of a camera handy is a picture at hand.  This picture of station wagon and wooden canoe was fun, and then we pulled up to the station wagon at a traffic light and had a conversation with the owner.  I recall he told us the canoe was older than the car.   What about those funny newspaper headlines: Man eats underwear to beat breathalyzer Alton attorney accidentally sues himself City unsure why the sewer smells Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 25 Federal Agents raid gun shop, find weapons Waterford boy, 8 saves sister's life - "I wouldn't do its again.  She's been a pain this week Most earthquake damage is caused by shaking Utah poison control center reminds everyone not to take poison Homicide victims rarely talk to police Here's the website for the rest.  And there's the Buzzfeed site - where the headlines are a little ruder.