Here is a gathering in one place, the stories of every day people of their heritage, personal experiences, and inspiration for America!

What a tribute this July 4th, 2009

Real American Stories - Heritage

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BERNE CONVENTION

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My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty, Of thee I sing!

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May you have a very special Valentine's Day this 2009!

        

Just imagine how much opportunity there is in the United States of America! 

If a person put their mind to it, they can accomplish extraordinary tasks they never 

dreamed they could. 

This article below illustrates just this, but it also illustrates that people must speak 

up when things are departing from what is right for all, after all that is the American way!

Believe strongly about ethics, and abide by what is right, and when others see your 

exemplary ways, they will follow in your path, and listen to you.

        

Family Memories

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Have a wonderful, and safe New Year's Eve celebration!

                     Happy New Year!

     New Year's Eve Celebrations around the world:

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We at Camelot Portraits wish you a very Merry Christmas, 

        

What a wonderful gift to give for Christmas but a Photo Mirror with YOUR Christmas Photo!
These make very nice gifts for the ladies, or anyone who could use a small mirror with a big
plus: YOUR Photo would be on the front!

Photo Mirrors would fit in small areas, like a glove compartment, etc.

It is not too late to have a portrait created for this Christmas Season.
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This year is a special Thanksgiving, because it follows an historic election,

and an extreme downturn in our economy.

Let us all give thanks for what we do have, and to continue on in prayerful thoughts

for a successful turn around for our economy, for our patience, courage,

fortitude, justice, faith, hope, and charity.

Let us all remember our best manners in these times,

to have peace in our hearts,

to be able to forgive, and to always put our best foot forward.

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Veterans Day

by Taylor Weinman

http://www.fifeschools.com/cjh/news/newsitems/VeteransDayPoems.htm

Representing the red white and blue
The colors of our flag stand out proud and true.
The white stars on blue background with red and white stripes
Remind me of these veterans, who all risked their lives.
Just so the people of the U.S. could all live in peace and be free
These are the heroes that represent you and me.
They stood up strongly, united as one,
And kept up the fighting until they were done.
And although some have fallen, and lost their lives in war,
We pray for each one of them.
And now that their souls live on forever more,
Above in God's hands.
They watch over our nation,
And give us strength to triumph over others with strong anticipation.
So every year, when this day comes by,
Think of all the veterans that while fighting, had to die.
And remember that they were people With fire and passion embedded inside.
They die for this country,
So remember and honor them with pride

        

Howdy Pardner,
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As historical as the signing of our Constitution was in 1787, so is our election of November 4, 2008, whereby we may have a first black person as President, or we may have the first woman Vice-President. This election is covering issue upon issue, but the biggest are the economy, and our national security, and who is best to handle these tough jobs. This year is prominent due to all the crises that are continuing to open up before our very eyes, that is also making history.

Constitution Day

http://usgovinfo.about.com/blconstday.htm

On September 17, 1787, forty-two of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention held their final meeting. Only one item of business occupied the agenda that day, to sign the Constitution of the United States of America.

Since May 25, 1787, the 55 delegates had gathered almost daily in the State House (Independence Hall) in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. By the middle of June, it became apparent to the delegates that to merely amend the Articles of Confederation would not be sufficient. Instead, they would write an entirely new document designed to clearly define and separate the powers of the central government, the powers of the states, the rights of the people and how the representatives of the people should be elected.

After being signed in September of 1787, Congress sent printed copies of the Constitution to the state legislatures for ratification. In the months that followed, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay would write the Federalist Papers in support, while Patrick Henry, Elbridge Gerry, and George Mason would organize the opposition to the new Constitution. By June 21, 1788, nine states had approved the Constitution, finally forming "a more perfect Union."

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Camelot Portraits wishes you are all enjoying this beautiful fall 2008!
It may have been dry in some areas, but others have had just the
right amount of rain so the colors lasted longer.
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VOTE
Use Your Privilege To Vote!  Voting Is Your Civic Duty,
And Everyone Does Not Have That Privilege.

        

Now is the time to plan for your fall family portraits outdoors, for the leaves are either brown due to our dry weather, disappearing rapidly, or beginning to change.

        

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY INAUGURAL

RED BULL MOTO GP

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Enjoy todays race!
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We also celebrate your birthdays, and your special events with your family and friends.

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Visiting Indiana

Welcome!
Please enjoy your visit with us, even as we are undergoing changes on our
interstate system.
To help you with what is taking place, and when on Interstate 465, here is
our Indiana Department of Transportation's Central Indiana Public Website:
http://pws.indot.org/ipws/ci/

FOR CURRENT WEATHER WHILE IN INDIANA:

        

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Now that we are in the festive time of year, here are some ideas for delicious centerpiece displays for your guests. With an artistic touch and some helpful directions, you may be able to produce some of your own ideas.
How pleasing it is to see such displays, especially those of the edible kind.

Reference site:
http://www.wilhitehouse.com/presidential.html

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FIRSTS at the INDIANAPOLIS 500:

http://www.indy500.com/

The track's first car race was a 300-mile event on August 19,1909; and the first 500-mile race took place on Memorial Day, May 30, 1911. RAY HARROUN won in his Marmon Wasp, inventing the rear view mirror so he didn't need the extra weight of a "riding mechanic" to help look for other cars. The race was held on Memorial Day every year (except for war years) until 1971, when Congress changed the holiday to the last Monday in May. The race is now the Sunday before.

Indianapolis automobile manufacturer and entrepreneur Carl Fisher founded the track in 1909. He acquired 300 acres northwest of Indianapolis and laid out his track in an era when most oval racetracks were one mile. The track was to be a proving ground for any manufacturer who wanted to test his vehicle against his competitors'.

More History:
http://www.roadking.com/article-archive/story804.php

RAY HARROUN  WON THE  FIRST AND INAUGURAL INDY 500 MAY 30, 1911

UNITED STATES

More History:
http://www.historicracing.com/drivers_alpha.cfm?start=21&page_no=2&driverID=2045
Born
12 /  1 / 1897       
Died
19 /  1 / 1968
After starting competing as a riding mechanic he switched to driving in 1906. He won the American National Championship in 1910 and the first Indy 500 the following year.
If RAY HARROUN is remembered at all, it's for winning the first Indy 500 in 1911. ... Harroun designed a light, streamlined, one-seater with a pointed tail and a stabilizer. To replace the mechanic, he added a rearview mirror. Whether or not the car actually finished first at Indy, it performed exceptionally well, averaging 74.602 mph.

That was his last race. HARROUN later invented a carburetor that was a forerunner of modern fuel-injection systems. He also developed a kerosene-burning Maxwell race car in 1914 that was running on tracks for nearly 15 years.

INTERESTING HISTORY, AND STATISTICS OF THE INDIANAPOLIS 500
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100617


WOMEN IN RACING FIRSTS:

DANICA PATRICK
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/sports/othersports/21patrick.html?fta=y

When a 23-year-old rookie named DANICA PATRICK became the first woman to lead the Indianapolis 500 three years ago, she raised the tantalizing possibility that in a male-dominated American sport, a woman might for the first time stand in victory lane.

PATRICK eventually finished fourth in that race, but she quickly became a phenomenon...But along with her celebrity came a question: When would she win?

It was answered Sunday in Motegi, Japan, where PATRICK, now 26, became the first woman to win an Indy car race. She defeated the two-time Indy 500 winner Hélio Castroneves by nearly six seconds in the Indy Japan 300.

“I feel way too young to be giving life advice, but this is a great platform to have,” PATRICK  said Sunday night in a telephone interview from Los Angeles, where she had landed after a virtually sleepless flight from Japan. “This reaches outside racing. This is about finding something you love to do, and following through with it.”...

...There was a time when PATRICK could not have competed in Sunday’s race. A few years before JANET GUTHRIE, an aerospace engineer and road racer, became the FIRST WOMAN TO QUALIFY FOR THE INDY 500 in 1977, women were not allowed in the press box, the garage area or the pits.

As GUTHRIE wrote in “Life at Full Throttle,” an account of her career in racing, women were dismissed as lacking the strength, endurance and emotional stability to compete against men. Even a driver with GUTHRIE'S credentials as a road racer was seen as dangerous.

“A woman might be a reporter, a photographer, a timer/scorer, she might own the race car — but she couldn’t get near it at any time for any reason,” GUTHRIE wrote. “A woman on the track itself was unthinkable.”...


OLYMPIC CHAMPION YAMAGUCHI SERVING AS INDY 500 HONORARY STARTER

1992 Olympic gold medalist, popular professional figure skater and recent "Dancing with the Stars" winner KRISTI YAMAGUCHI  will wave the green flag to start the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 25.

As the first female honorary starter in Indianapolis 500 history, YAMAGUCHI will send the elite 33-car starting field into the quest for the checkered flag and racing immortality. The race will be broadcast live at 1 p.m. (ET) on ABC, the IMS Radio Network and XM Satellite Radio.

YAMAGUCHI replaces world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. as honorary starter after Mayweather was forced to relinquish his role due to a death in his family...

...In addition to her Olympic gold medal-winning performance at the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France, YAMAGUCHI  is a two-time World Figure Skating Champion (1991-92), a U.S. National Champion (1992) and a four-time World Professional Figure Skating Champion. She was one of the first U.S. women to compete in both pairs' events and ladies' singles. She won the 1988 World Junior Pairs title and the 1989 and 1990 U.S. national pairs title with partner Rudy Galindo.

YAMAGUCHI a native of Fremont, Calif., was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in December 2005.

She added to her championship resume May 20 when she was named overall champion of season six of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," in which she was paired with professional dancer Mark Ballas., a native of Fremont, Calif., was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in December 2005.


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The price of photographic prints today are, in many cases,
no more expensive than they were in the last 15 to 20 years.

Your Photographs represent your memories. In 10 to 20 years,
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Note of Interest:
Just because there are an increased number of megapixels on those small point and shoot cameras, does not mean that the quality of the photos will be any higher!

VERIFICATION:

Sensor Sizes in relation to photo quality:

Sensor Sizes
www.dpreview.com/learn/?/key=Sensor_Sizes

The Laws of Physics

Luminous-Landscape
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/sensor-design.shtml

Visible light is found in the wavelengths between a 400-750nm (.4 to .75 micron). Obviously, an individual pixel (photo site) can't be anywhere near this small and still record photons. Today's smaller digicams feature sensors down to about 2.2 microns in size, and as we all know can be quite noisy. At this small size they simply can't capture enough photons as compared with their inherent noise level. DSLRs offering 8-12 Megapixel on APS sized sensors seem, therefore, to have settled in the 5-6 micron level and offer an optimum combination of resolution, low noise and moderate cost.
In summary, if you try for ever higher resolution in a small chip – something's gotta give. The smaller the pixels, the lower the quality as compared to a similar sensor with larger pixels. Very small pixels (sub 5 micron) start to run into the laws of physics, where signal to noise ratio, and the simple ability to capture enough photons limits their ability to sustain significant improvements given known technologies.

Making Sense of Sizes

So now we have enough information to try and make some sense of the entire issue of relative sensor size, image quality, and costs. Put simply – bigger is better, and costs more. That's the core of any discussion about digital image sensors.
The statement that bigger is better has implications for the competitive marketplace. In the days of film no one argued with the fact that large format produced superior image quality to medium format, and that medium format offered higher image quality than 35mm, and so on down the food chain. (Issue of features, convenience, and size aside.)...

This example holds true in much the same way today with digital. When enlarging medium format film, the fact that it required only a 4X enlargement to 35mm's 8X to make a roughly similarly sized print ...

Like Falling off a Logarithm

Every photographer is familiar with the F stop scale, the ratio expressed logarithmically of a lens' focal length to aperture. Each stop represents a doubling or halving of the amount of light reaching the sensor or film.
... F/2.8 – F/4 – F/5.6 – F/8 – F/11 – F16 – F/22 – F/32 – F/45 ...
Similarly, going from a 6 Megapixel chip to a 11 Megapixel one doubles the number of pixels, and the F stop ratios are a convenient way of thinking about this. Is it any coincidence that standard F stop increments are very close to the Megapixel counts on chips? F/5.6 (6MP) to F/8 (8MP) is one stop – a doubling. F/11 (11MP) to f/16 (16MP) is another doubling.
But, as we all known from our personal experience, such an increase, a doubling of pixel count, doesn't produce a doubling of apparent resolution. Subjectively what is seen is that such a doubling produces a noticeable increase, but not a dramatic one. It isn't until one increases pixel count by about two "stops" that an obvious advantage is shown by the larger chip. This is seen when going from a 6MP to an 11MP camera, or from a 16MP back to a 33MP or 39MP model. Simply put, it takes a quadrupling of area to produce a meaningful visible difference between sensors, even when both are being reproduced at the limits of the reproduction technology (say, 300 PPI on a print).
As to what these differences may be, we are now in the realm where bar room and discussion forum brawls break out. Some claim not to be able to see any significant differences under these circumstances. If so, fine, simply carry on as before. No one is trying to twist your arm. But, I can see the difference, and so can many other photographers.
What it is that we're seeing is another matter. I describe it as micro-contrast; very fine tonal transitions that seems to get lost with smaller sizes. This could well be caused by the relative lack of strain on the camera's lens when lower magnifications are called for. It is also something that we've always seen when comparing larger formats to smaller ones in the film world. Few would argue that a contact print from 8X10" film, or a 2X blow-up from 4X5" film, shows appreciably higher image quality than 35mm, even when both are printed well within the resolution limits of their optical train and the printing paper itself.

Having more MP doesn't give you better shots
Ipernity Blog
http://www.ipernity.com/blog/robertoballerini/28881

Tuesday November 13, 2007 at 09:44AM

... Vegitill's post:
www.ipernity.com/blog/14831/28793

Take a look to the 6mpixel.org site.
A more correct statement of this post title would be: having more MP doesn't give you better shots if the sensor size remains the same!
To have a more precise digitalization of a scene, having more pixels isn't sufficient; you have to have a corresponding increase of the sensor size or a better quality of the sensor sensibility; without those conditions, you will only capture more thermal noise: this is what I can understand from their site and what I can subscribe.
http://www.ipernity.com/blog/robertoballerini/28881

Puff! (disappeared) pro replies:
The problem seems to be mainly on compact P&S cameras; in the DSLR world they're increasing the size of sensors; the latest sensors have a surface greater than a 35 mm film.

Don Andre pro says:
You're right about noise, but there's also diffraction that is important to know about.

Diffraction occurs when a wave passes a small gap. The wave will magically expand behind that gap, reaching places that had no direct line to the center of the wave. (see this picture for example:
Wave Diffraction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wave_Diffraction_4Lambda_Slit.png
or take a look at this video:
Wave Diffraction Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4570787435193654614

As light is also just a wave this also happens in photography, the gap there is also there and called aperture. The smaller this aperture gets the more the light will expand anew at the position of the aperture reaching much more places on the sensor. Usually this concentrates around the centre of the pixel it would normally hit creating what is called an airy disk. The smaller the aperture gets the larger these disks become and obviously the closer the pixel density the more overlapping you'll experience.
Naturally the overlapping of the airy disks leads to a drop of sharpness and resolution. Typical DSLRs currently are diffraction limited at about f/11, after which sharpness drops. At f/16 for example you'd have more in focus, but it will be less sharp than at f/11. Now don't search for f/16 in a compact camera, you wouldn't find it! Because of their small sensors and their small pixel gaps, these cameras never go beyond f/8 really and as the article says some are limited by f/5.6 already. That's also why resolution doesn't always increase if you just add more pixels.
Sensor Size Comments
http://www.ipernity.com/blog/14433/28881/comment/826576#comment826576

Yahoo Answers on 12MP point and shoot:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080124034141AAflgrR

3) There are other reasons not to get a 12MP imager though--including noise and interference between closely-packed photosites so that a 12MP camera actually delivers a worse image than a lower MP camera on a point and shoot sensor of the same physical size. So, as you increase megapixels, at a certain point, you get diminishing returns.

4) On an SLR with a huge sensor (height x width), the difference between 7MP and 12MP is big--with a lot more apparent resolution. On a point and shoot, with their smaller sensors, the 7MP camera may actually deliver the better image.

For most reasonable print sizes, most people don't need more than 5 or 6 megapixels, even on a point and shoot.

        

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"The Alfred Sung collection offers separates, and dresses bridesmaid styles. Each dress is designed to provide contemporary style options while keeping your budget in mind."

These colors are arranged in a complimentary manner, so that viewing the bridesmaids all together is reminiscent of the colors in nature. If you cannot find your exact colors for all of your bridesmaids dresses, this is one wonderful idea!

This idea is a great time-saver too.

This site includes Wedding Planning Guide: Bridesmaids Etiquette, Wedding Dress Trends, and Invitation Guide; Wedding Dress Styles; the entire Color Family; choices of: Length of Dress, Type of Neckline, Silhouette, Sleeve Length, and Fabric. Included also are Bridesmaid Style Guide; Bridesmaid Dress Trends; "HOW WILL YOU ASK?" Bridesmaids Cards for the time you ask your special lady friends to be your bridesmaid; also, Accessories for: The Bride, bridesmaids, Groom, and his Best Man; and Flower Girl Dress Styles. There is a search function to assist your locating a 'DESSY GROUP' Retailer near you.

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Please Take A Moment To Ponder This Very Important Message

~ ~ ~ When you are conversing with your photographer what you may like for your photography style for your wedding, ask him or her to please show as many faces of the wedding couple, and the guests as possible.
As people age, especially parents, it is more important for them to see the faces of their young daughter, and young son as they enter the sacrament of matrimony. Even though some may think that showing the backs of the heads is the style, as the years pass, and you look upon these treasured wedding moments of your own son, and daughter, and all you see is the back of someone's head, it could be anybody's head. The faces of their growing son, and daughter is what they treasure the most. This can never be re-captured. Once the wedding event has taken place, it is quite difficult to try to re-capture it.

So, this is the message to for you all to ponder ~ ~ ~

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