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Adventures in photography with my Nikon D3100

The Animal Kingdom

Walt Disney World

Nikon D3100

Animation in production: statuettes from Pixar’s, ”Brave” & Walt Disney Animation Studios, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”

Exhibition at Hollywood Studios Walt Disney World 2012

Nikon D3100

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

—

Walt Disney 

 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/walt_disney_2.html#ixzz1o2ij3sXp

Disney in the Details: A different perspective of Walt Disney World 

Nikon D3100

A dream is a wish your heart makes when you’re fast asleep. In dreams you will lose your heartaches. Whatever you wish for, you keep. Have faith in your dreams, and someday, your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.

—Cinderella Walt Disney Animation Studios 1950

Cinderella’s Castle of Dreams in the Magic Kingdom

Nikon D3100

life: Did you know? — On this day in 1961 JFK established the Peace Corps. During John F. Kennedy’s historic campaign, he proposed that the United States should create a “new” army; an army, or rather a group of gracious civilians who would volunteer to help underdeveloped nations. The Peace Corp was founded out of this very concept. It was issued as a trial program that was established as a permanent program just a few months later.  I think in many ways it is the most important campaign since 1933, mostly because of the problems which press upon the United States, and the opportunities which will be presented to us in the 1960s. The opportunity must be seized, through the judgment of the President, and the vigor of the executive, and the cooperation of the Congress. Through these I think we can make the greatest possible difference. How many of you who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service and spend your lives traveling around the world? On your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one year or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country, I think will depend the answer whether a free society can compete. I think it can! And I think Americans are willing to contribute. But the effort must be far greater than we have ever made in the past. — John F. Kennedy (see more — JFK’s Run for the White House: Unpublished Photos)

life:

Did you know? — On this day in 1961 JFK established the Peace Corps.

During John F. Kennedy’s historic campaign, he proposed that the United States should create a “new” army; an army, or rather a group of gracious civilians who would volunteer to help underdeveloped nations. The Peace Corp was founded out of this very concept. It was issued as a trial program that was established as a permanent program just a few months later. 

I think in many ways it is the most important campaign since 1933, mostly because of the problems which press upon the United States, and the opportunities which will be presented to us in the 1960s. The opportunity must be seized, through the judgment of the President, and the vigor of the executive, and the cooperation of the Congress. Through these I think we can make the greatest possible difference.

How many of you who are going to be doctors, are willing to spend your days in Ghana? Technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service and spend your lives traveling around the world? On your willingness to do that, not merely to serve one year or two years in the service, but on your willingness to contribute part of your life to this country, I think will depend the answer whether a free society can compete. I think it can! And I think Americans are willing to contribute. But the effort must be far greater than we have ever made in the past.

— John F. Kennedy

(see more — JFK’s Run for the White House: Unpublished Photos)

wbsloan: I miss the pretty colours of Autumn from the Northern Hemisphere, we don’t seem to get them here in Brisbane In Red Square 

wbsloan: I miss the pretty colours of Autumn from the Northern Hemisphere, we don’t seem to get them here in Brisbane

In Red Square 

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

—~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English author. From ‘A Christmas Carol’. 

Photos on Christmas Morning

Effects added in Photoshop CS3

Everyday is a bonus.

—Kevin Cooney (My Pop)

Nan and Will. Photo filters adjusted in Photoshop CS3

life: Trying to get an angle where he might be able to get both Marilyn and JFK in the frame, Ray moved higher up in the Garden … and suddenly the moment arrived. “It had been a noisy place, everybody all ‘rah rah rah,’” Ray recalls. “Then boom, on comes this light. There was no sound — no sound. It was like outer space.” Marilyn was on the stage, taking off her white fur to reveal that scandalous dress underneath. “It was skin-colored and it was really tight. She didn’t wear anything underneath it, it was all sewn on, and those Swarovski crystals were sparkling. And she used this long pause…. Then finally, she comes out with ‘Happy Biiiiirthday’ — she starts the whole breathy thing — and everybody just went into a swoon. I was praying [that I could get the shot] because I had to guess at the exposure. It was a very long lens, which I had no tripod for, so I had to rest it on a pipe railing and try not to breathe.” Above: Bill Ray’s most iconic photograph, and one of the most famous pictures ever taken of Marilyn Monroe, as she serenades JFK at the Garden. (see more — LIFE Photographers Look Back)

life:

Trying to get an angle where he might be able to get both Marilyn and JFK in the frame, Ray moved higher up in the Garden … and suddenly the moment arrived.

“It had been a noisy place, everybody all ‘rah rah rah,’” Ray recalls. “Then boom, on comes this light. There was no sound — no sound. It was like outer space.” Marilyn was on the stage, taking off her white fur to reveal that scandalous dress underneath. “It was skin-colored and it was really tight. She didn’t wear anything underneath it, it was all sewn on, and those Swarovski crystals were sparkling. And she used this long pause…. Then finally, she comes out with ‘Happy Biiiiirthday’ — she starts the whole breathy thing — and everybody just went into a swoon. I was praying [that I could get the shot] because I had to guess at the exposure. It was a very long lens, which I had no tripod for, so I had to rest it on a pipe railing and try not to breathe.”

Above: Bill Ray’s most iconic photograph, and one of the most famous pictures ever taken of Marilyn Monroe, as she serenades JFK at the Garden.

(see more — LIFE Photographers Look Back)