Horses

,”What is that thing ya are pointin’ at me?’

The little one is thinking ” We can really eat that stuff!?”

These photos are of the range horses around Lobo Valley,Texas.

Feb 21

Happy First Birthday Little Guy!

Mar 18

The First Female Photographer ?

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Anna Atkins (Children) Albumen print – 1861. Born in Kent,England -March 16,1799 – June 9,1871. Anna was a botanist and photographer ,she married John Atkins in 1825 and was elected to the London Botanical Society in 1839. Anna Atkins was known to use a camera in 1841.

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Others claim that Constance Talbot -1811-1880 is the first female photographer. Constance married William Henry Fox Talbot in 1832, he was a key figure in the early development of photography. No camera based photos survived by either woman, so the issue will likely never be resolved.

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Constance Talbot-the only photograph known of her.

Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins.

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Mar 4

Photography Firsts.

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Oldest surviving camera print B: Nicephore Niepce. 1826

First Double color photo By:James Clark Maxwell, 1861

First color print on paper, 1877.By: Louis

First photo with a person in it. Boulevard du Temple.By: Daguerre 1838

The first high speed photography animated image sequences photographed in real time .1878-1887. By: Eadweard Muybridge,Waugsberg.

: First photo scanned to a digital computer. By: Russell A. Kirsch. ( father of youngster) 30 years later in 1993, the younger Mr. Kirsch was scanned nightly on KGW-TV channel 8 in Portland, Oregon.

Other Notable Firsts:

1900- Kodaks 1st. Brownie Box Camera

1901- Kodak 120 film format.

1909- Kodak announces 35mm Safety Film for motion pictures.

1912- Vest Pocket ,Kodak, uses 127 film.

1914- 1st.feature film in color-“The World,The Flesh and The Devil”

1923- Harold Edgarton invents the Xenon Flash for strobe photography.

1925- Lieca introduces 35mm format to still photography.

1935- 1st. 135mm film cartridge introduced.

1948- The Hasselblad camera.

1948- Edwin H. Land = 1st. Polaroid instant camera.

1957- 1st. Asahi Pentex SLR.

1959- 1st. Nikon F.

1992- 1st. photo CD.

1995- Kodak DC40 and Apple Quicktake 100 – first digital consumer cameras.

2000- J-SH04 by Jphone -1st. mobile phone with a camera to take and share photos.

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Feb 28

Rainy Day Blues-Smitty the Smoocher, Part 5.

After a week of daily rain and hardly a walk – my Smitty the Smoocher turns into Smitty the Couch Un-Stuffer !!!

Just look at that smile !!!

Gonna buy raincoats and boots !!!

Feb 27

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Jan 19

Smitty the Smoocher – Part 4

Hiking is a lot of fun…but I think when I get bigger I will be a BadArs Biker !!

Jan 16

Smitty the Smoocher -Part 3

This is the day I fought the bee and the bee bit me back !!!

Jan 14

Smitty the Smoocher -Part 2.

To save our house from massive destruction Mom decides to make me her hiking pal in training!! It is fun to explore all those trails out there in the Saguaro National Forest !!

I learned to stay far away from those things Mom calls ‘CA-Ca-tusses!’ We go way far and by the time we get home I want a cookie and a nap !!

See Ya Later!!