Sentences with phrase «taken by an amateur»

But compare the image taken in June last year with one taken by amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley on 8 May and you will see that one of them, known as the south equatorial belt, has disappeared.

This video, taken by amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa of Kumamoto, Japan, shows the moment when the object burned up in the atmosphere (the small flash to the center - left at about 2 seconds).

«This is arguably one of the finest images of M51 ever taken by an amateur astronomer,» said judge and astronomer Will Gater in a press release.

San Francisco, CA About Blog Amateur Astrophotography brings to you all the pictures of interstellar objects taken by amateurs.

San Francisco, CA About Blog Amateur Astrophotography brings to you all the pictures of interstellar objects taken by amateurs.

San Francisco, CA About Blog Amateur Astrophotography brings to you all the pictures of interstellar objects taken by amateurs.

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But Sim Tack, a Stratfor analyst, told Business Insider that estimates of 100,000 or more Russian troops were taken from a Ukrainian blog, informnapalm.org, which is run by amateur journalists.

While private pension funds and mutual funds often steer stock markets in places like the United States, markets in China are more often swayed by amateur investors and well - heeled individuals willing to take big risks.

Introduced to basketball at 14 by a high school coach impressed by his indoor soccer skills, Torres took to the game immediately, joining a traveling amateur team at 17, then signing with Venezuela's top pro league a year later.

Or maybe you've moved beyond the stuff of amateurs, regularly taking on such high - wire challenges as putting chick peas into your chocolate chip cookies and yellow squash into your cupcakes while evading detection by the younger set.

«They've reversed the normal political formula» in which professional staffers take the lead and pound the phone to drum up crowds, said Chip Evans, a liberal radio host and former chairman of the Washoe County Democratic Party, who watched the event take shape and said he was struck by the extent to which it had been organized by local amateurs.

Andrea Jenkyns, a former music teacher and amateur opera singer, was a high - profile winner for the Conservatives, taking Ed Balls» Morley and Outwood seat after being prompted to run for parliament by the death of her father from MRSA contracted in hospital.

Using common but sophisticated software like Adobe Photoshop, combined with open access to literally millions of raw images taken by publicly funded space missions of the past and present, many amateurs are finding few technical barriers to creating stunning images.

«The American amateur sportsman in general should know that in going to Athens he is taking an expensive journey to a third rate capital where he will be devoured by fleas,» sniffed the New York Times.

Using imagery taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2007, amateur astronomers located an object that could be a Russian lander that went dark after a few seconds on Mars in 1971.

French amateur astronomer Marc Delcroix processed the amateur images and confirmed the discovery of a bright spot on an image by French amateur Régis De-Bénedictis, then in others taken by fellow amateurs in September and October.

With the «Success - Booster,» you eliminate the usual mistake made by practically all amateurs, as well as a lot of professionals — little by little taking the fun out of training.

Always being a big guy and working out regularly, the transition from amateur to professional bodybuilding was easy for Jay and in 1992 he he well and truly put his name on the map by taking second place at the Golds Gym Worcester Bodybuilding Championship.

By this time, the IFBB dominated the competitive bodybuilding landscape and the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) took a back seat.

It may be suggested that holding back a finished artwork by an Angulo brother for a late reveal, even if it is only a fumbling entry into amateur filmmaking, befits a narrative arc that takes the boys from confusion to mastery — with one too many drippy musical montages as the finish line nears.

His career thus far both in front and behind the camera has been diverse to say the least from exploitation flicks shot for almost nothing like the Amateur Porn Star Killer series, to a film more considered and meaningful (and genuinely haunting) like My Name Is «A» By Anonymous, and scoring a lead role in an Albert Pyun one take film called The Interrogation of Cheryl Cooper.

Being teenage boys, they're far too intrigued by the boobs on display to fret over the obvious occult ritual taking place, but when Anna is subsequently murdered, they decide to attempt some amateur late - night sleuthing, with predictably unpleasant results.

The meandering plot takes in the pre-production period of an amateur production of Twelfth Night which the title character happens upon by going about her business of selling pirated DVDs.

The men of The Full Monty (1997) Long before Channing Tatum was doing amateur night, this charming British comedy took the states by storm, resulting in four Academy Award nominations.

A trailer has arrived online for the upcoming thriller Negative, which is directed by Joshua Caldwell (Layover) and stars Katia Winter (Sleepy Hollow) and Simon Quarterman (Westworld); check it out below after the official synopsis... After he takes a picture of a random young woman on the street, amateur photographer Hollis is shocked when she -LSB-...]

He's not above cheating to get ahead, and also a semi-savior for the game, as he pulls out a deal to take it from an amateur pastime to a professional juggernaut by getting the most talented college player, a war hero named Carter Rutherford (Krasinski, License to Wed), to join the team.

After being subjected to a succession of useless therapies by a series of royal quacks, the Duke takes a grudging chance on one Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian - born amateur actor and self - taught speech therapist with no credentials other than his own track record.

by Walter Chaw Displaying a troubling affection for long - suffering historical figures planted in the middle of amped - up costume epics, James («I prefer Jim») Caviezel follows up his dazed turn as a saviour with another dazed turn as a saviour: Bobby Jones, the last voice of virtue in professional sports, steadfastly refusing to take one filthy piece of silver and so betray his amateur (Latin root: love) status on the PGA tour.

LVRJ took it a step further by stating that the SEMA Show is where car fantasies come true, with the custom builds and the wide variety of aftermarket parts allowing both amateur and pro vehicle builders to let their imaginations run wild.

I'm an amateur writer myself, and I've been finding that we have to take 9 to 5 jobs to get by regardless.

A good editor isn't like the amateurs who've popped up the last few years to take advantage of the «gold rush» of self - publishers that are desperate for the services that will make them as good as the ones by publishers.

If you have a book cover made by a program like Createspace's free cover generator, people will assume you are an amateur, and what's worse, that you don't take pride in your projects.

Joanna Penn differentiates between «self - published» and «independent» authors — whereas self - publishing has an amateur, hobby - like character, Penn defines independent authors as writers who treat their writing like a business and do everything it takes to ensure their books are just as high quality as those being published by a publishing house.

He also says that «While amateurs go broke by taking large losses, professionals go broke by taking small profits.

You also don't want to have to keep replenishing the tank's population — adding new items without taking great caution not to harm the rest of the inhabitants is a mistake made by amateurs.

Despite the initial optimism, the XBLIG section proved to be as much of a curse as it was a blessing, because for each title that was genuinely worth taking a look at, there were nine titles that were either shoddily put together by amateurs or simple, exploitative cash - ins on other creative concepts or even just sex appeal, and the only users who browsed the XBLIGs were the truly adventurous, willing to wade through a cesspool of human waste to get the rare nugget of gold.

Composed from amateur footage taken by Abraham Zapruder and subsequently published in Life magazine, Laing's shaped - canvas painting highlights the international fascination with America's cultural revolution and the ways in which it could shift the political landscape.

For the title of this exhibition, Williams has taken a line from a documentary by French director Jean - Luc Godard, in which an amateur filmmaker compares his daily job as a factory worker with his hobby of editing his films of the Swiss countryside as «the production line of happiness.»

Six artists of color use performance, photography, textiles, and more to take on stories such as modern - day gentrification in Bed - Stuy, traced through an amateur kung fu film found at the former home of a theater frequented by Reverend Al Sharpton; the Syrian refugee crisis and conflict, mixing media coverage and first - person accounts; and the actual Revolutionary War's 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, conducted by a woman of color.

This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of art who inspire Flavin's evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.

Their installations feature diverse photographs from the Arab Image Foundation — an archive in Beirut housing more than 70,000 images taken by professional and amateur photographers from the late 19th century to the present.

The central new piece of the LAZY SUSAN SERIES, AMATEUR DRAMATICS (2010), was co-produced by the participating institutions and takes the form of the eponymous Lazy Susan: a large rotating disc that looks like a mix between carousel and presentation platform.

His work is a mix of performance and video art and his well - constructed stories are hilariously funny takes on life and the art - world, featuring performances by local amateurs and professionals.

Also interlaced throughout the film are photographs of Berkenblit's family and images taken by her father, who was an amateur photographer and chemist.

That exhibition's title is taken from a line in a documentary by Jean - Luc Godard, in which an amateur filmmaker compares his daily job as a factory worker with his hobby of editing his films of the Swiss countryside by calling it «the production line of happiness.»

WAR / PHOTOGRAPHY comprises iconic images as well as previously unknown pictures, taken by military photographers, commercial photographers (portrait and photojournalist), amateurs and artists.

Intended to mirror a scene created by amateurs during the opening hours of some terrible cataclysm, the scene appears like the work of a group of crazed convenience store workers who, faced with impending catastrophe, have taken whatever materials were close at hand and erected a slapdash religious altar.

Honor 6X does right by the consumers and amateur photographers who like to take out their camera phones everywhere they go.

A study released by Seattle - based Redfin says homes with listing photos taken with digital single - lens reflex (DSLR) cameras sell for more money than those with amateur photos.