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The first muster of militia forces in what is today the United States took place on September 16, 1565, in the newly established Spanish military town of St. Augustine.The militia men were assigned to guard the expedition's supplies while their leader, Pedro Menéndez de...
Police cars are usually very visible in our society, advertising the important role of police and loved by children. The role of the police is to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health, and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Law...
Air rescue is a modern technological advancement that delivers power and flexibility to incredibley difficult tasks! Since around 400 BC, Chinese children have played with bamboo flying toys. It was not until the early 1480s, when Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci...
The first fireboats from the late 18th century were tugboats, fitted with firefighting equipment. Modern fireboats are capable of pumping sometimes tens of thousands of gallons of water per minute and are very fast. Fireboats are used for fighting fires on docks and...
Search and rescue is aimed at people and animals in distress and immediate danger. The history of search and rescue goes way back and the principle is mentioned in Psalm 107:19: Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He saved them out of their...
Fire engines are some of the most beautiful vehicles of them all! They have developed from horse drawn steam powered pumps to flashy chrome, colors, lights and sirens. Fire trucks are all about public service. They come to help you if your house is on fire or an...
Like firemen paramedics are some of the most celebrated everyday heroes we have! The history of ambulances goes way back but the Spanish used them to carry wounded already in 1487 during the Siege of Málaga, part of the Reconquista. The U.S. Army started using...
Where do you see yourself in the future? The book provides insight into how a couple chooses to change everyday life, how they set out to transform a ruin into a home in southernmost Italy, and what awaits in such a choice. It can be an inspiration for those who want a...
sentiment is the most extensive photo book of Olli Boehm's photographic work to date. Against the background of his soulful pictures. Photographs, partly painted over, digitally edited or captured in between during his breaks in shooting. It is not technical perfection...
No photographer ever pressed the shutter button to capture the images in this book. The subjects never posed for these images. They all arise from the imagination of an advanced artificial intelligence, trained on millions of images. The technology of artificial...
The title of this book, Pictures from the other Side, has a double meaning:The 'other side' in this context means a view of Jakarta and Indonesia from the viewpoint of an outsider, a foreigner.The title page illustrates this 'other side' with a wide street cutting...
Photography on analog film has simply put received a recent renaissance. In our digital age, I guess a romantic veil surrounds the analog approach to photography. Even when shooting digital cameras, we do postprocessing to simulate the look of analog film. We talk about...
This is a picture book with 30 beautiful nature pictures from Sweden and the Baltic Sea. The pictures are from colorful early morning to mid-day pictures. It is winter time and stormy waves with ice at the coastline give a frozen landscape. Have a nice time and enjoy a...
The fall of 2021.The fall of a hero. Shocking news: James Bond dead.The man who was for almost 60 years more invincible than even Iron Man - dead! So let me ask you this question: Where have you been when James Bond died? In "falling. leaves of autumn" Simon...
Trees and clouds and buildings in the cities of Seoul and Goyang in the late summer and early fall of 2021. Their colours and their shapes and the light they are bathed in. Simon Wagenschütz tried to catch all of this in the pictures collected in this book which is...
Ninja Photography is describing an attack system for making images. Try to create images that are part of you will take a while, but dont cave in, you will get there, even if you may despair at times along the road towards your own photographic language of images....
In this book, the author shares his observations of small-town Japan "from pebbles to boulders." Stranded in the city of Yukuhashi (northern Kyushu) in the first half of 2020 on account of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, he had ample time to reflect on his...
This book is about taking panoramic photos on analog film or digital directly in camera without using stitching software.This is for the photographer focused on the shoot rather than on the post-processing, for the photographer who wants to finish the image directly in...
A young student travels to Great Britain for six months to do a semester abroad and comes back with experiences that she would like to share.
What is a photographic image, a painting or a sculpture other than a way to capture the viewer's attention? The author has hopefully seen something in her environment that she wants to draw the viewer's attention to. The photographic image can, in other words, be said...
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