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Photography didn’t become commonplace until the 1840s, which means there aren’t very many photographs of people born before the 1770s. One of the surviving portraits before that time, however, is of a man from Maine who served in the Revolutionary War and reportedly lived into his 100s. He may be the earliest-born person to have ever been photographed.

Conrad Heyer, born in Waldoboro in 1749, was photographed in 1852 at the whopping age of 103. The image — a daguerreotype, the earliest widely available form of photography — is believed to be the earliest-born American to be photographed alive, though some historians dispute that. It also may be that Heyer was not only the earliest-born American — he may be the earliest born person, period, as other photographs of earlier-born people have yet to be discovered.

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Just an array of random pics. That I take of day to day things that interest me or peak my interest. Some are from my cheap phone camera, while some are from my NIKON. I am not a professional by any means, this is just a passion of mine. I've been told, and wanting to myself, to join some classes to expand my limited knowledge of photography. Tell me what you think, like, dislike or enjoy about my photos please!

A case of unrequited love. Two losts souls in time. Reunited by Reiki Candle Magick. My collection of Japanese paranormal photos. Appeared in the flames of my lighted candle. During my Reiki Candle Magick Ritual. My Filipino client's pastlife reading. She is the young queen of Yamatai(Wa, ancientJapan) late Yayoi period (c. 1,000 BCE – c. 300 CE).General Yazuku(my client's Japanese groom, present time) falls in love with the young queen. But not allowed pursue her. Inari. A spirit with a magatama & japanese kanji. A magatama amulet. Love token by General Yazuku to the young queen. Which was lost in time. Buried in their land(Japan) where there mansion was built. A series of spirit writing in japanese kanji.Kekkonshiki No Hi(shinto) wedding offering .About wedding requirements. Restless ghost that cause the paranormal disturbance in their household. Offering was done. The groom's 2 girlfriend are dumped. My client's wedding pushed through. CASE CLOSED.

A sunrise in the Vendée.

Here are 5 of the 12 photos that I presented last week in my photo club.
They loved them. Perhaps you might enjoy one of them too.
All were taken with my Canon T6i and a Sigma 50 to 500 mm lens.

The first 3 are somewhat difficult. They are of a flying hummingbird feeding from a flower.
They were at a huge garden, where there were literally thousands of flowers.
So, one has little idea as to when the bird would appear, or which flower the bird would feed from. In addition one needs to choose a very high shutter speed (these were taken at 1/3200 of a second) and thus a high ISO ( = 3200).







The next one was of a Monarch Butterfly.
However, while I was just about to press the shutter button, I noticed (something?)
out of the corner of my eye to the right of the butterfly.
So, I shifted the camera a bit to the right to include it in the picture.
I was very happy that the butterfly turned out very well and the other
tiny insect turned out well enough to at least get a look at it.
However, I still don't know what the heck that tiny insect is.



Lastly, I went to a jazz festival last month. Got right up front, center stage and met
a couple of the band leaders. One a female singer and the other one a terrific guitarist,
that I own several CDs of. His name is Mark Whitfield.

While I was taking photos, I sat right next to the guy the festival hired to take photos of the
event. I asked him if he was familiar with Mark Whitfield. He was not. I told him, that I had
never seen him in person, but I owned several of his CDs and that he is an excellent guitarist.

We both took hundreds of photos of each band. After Mark Winfield's band was done, the other photographer commented to me, "Man, he just gave us his all." I said, "Yeah. But the challenge with him, as I saw it, was that whenever he plays, he plays with his eyes closed." He responded with, "Well, I took a lot of photos of him. I'm sure I got several with his eyes open."

I then saw him go through all 84 photos he took of Mark, and not a single one had him with his eyes open. Because I noticed the challenge early on during his set, I got 11 photos of him with his eyes open. While I got plenty of his eyes closed while playing, I intentionally waited to the exact moment that he opened his eyes, to get several of those too, giving options for perhaps a CD cover. I did hand Mark my business card after the concert.

What the other photographer said next, made absolutely no sense. He said, "Well, we just looked at the JPEG photos. Some of the RAW ones probably have his eyes open."
I did not reply, because the RAW and the JPEG photos are exactly the same photos,
simultaneously stored onto the same memory card, except the way the image is stored is different.
I just let him 'save face' (pun intended).

Here's one of the photos of Mark, with his eyes & mouth open.



And here's a short little taste of some of his solo guitar work;

Near our East Ocean,there is a Dishi Lake, ( also called waterdrop lake) an artifical one which is located at the center of Lin'gang New City, Pudong . I'v never been there though passed by it many times when went to the hospital to see Dad ... That day before Dad out of the hospital,I spent about 2 hours strolling there to relieve my mental stress which came from Dad. the weather was not good for photo, but I did take some, here picked up a few of them to share ...

Beautiful place

A long corridor by the lake

Do you think trees can dance Walz?

A quiet path

Where's my partner gone?

Don't...I feel a little shy though

Wow, it's so nice!

Four wheels bike to make you more fun

I am still busy these days. Good day to you all!

What a great speech. Interrupted about 94 times with applause, I could see how our country is ready to work in unity and achieve greatness as he promised in his campaign.

Three basic but major issues that he touched: To protect our borders instead of other countries.

To refuse to support illegal immigrants at the expense of our needy people. 40 percent of Americans live in poverty and we are losing the great Middle Class.

No more Free trade: Imagine, we get taxed so highly when we sell our products to foreign countries while we don't tax foreign trades to sell to our country.. Imagine the impact on that.

Obama's 8 years of administration has incurred more debt that all the presidents combined.

The highlight for me is: "We might be divided in policies but we are united against hate and all it's ugly forms.

Even Sanders was clapping and some Democrats.

Most important: He said and quote: " We are now going to enforce our immigration like that of Australia and Canada, you can't come and immigrate unless you can support yourself and your family."

This is exactly what we need:

You go to Korea and or Russia illegally and you will get shot, you come to America and not only will you not get free house, food and health care, but you don't need to work because we are giving you all you need.

That is plain wrong. He says and quote: " Our poverty level is 40 percent, how on earth can we afford this? No more."