Copper apostle sculptures by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc on the spire of Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris - (Selected by GETTY IMAGES)

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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them. 

On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.

These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, a Nikon D850 FX Pro body as my trusted companion, I travel light with less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 30.271+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site. 

***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on September 3rd 2018

CREATIVE RF gty.im/1028191232 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**

This photograph became my 3,446th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Thirty  metres at 11:24am on Thursday 23rd August 2018, taken off a river cruise on the Seine River of part of Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Paris, also known as Notre-Dame Cathedral, a Medieval Catholic Cathedrale located on the lle de la Cite in the fourth arrondissement of  75004 Paris, France.

Begun around 1160, the cathedral is regarded as one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture, though it was heavily destroyed during the French revolution and subsequently restored during a twenty five year period from 1845. The cathedral is of the Archdiocese of paris. It stands 90 metres tall to the spire, 128 metres in length and 48 metres width. Notre-Dame de Paris was made famous by the Victor Hugo novel published in 1831, 'The hunchback of notre-dame (original French title 'Notre-Dame de Paris or our lady of Paris).

Here we see three of the  copper sculpted twelve Apostles or Disciples,  three on each side of the steeple which was  constructed during the Notre Dame de Paris restoration by Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc during the 1800s on the instructions of King Louis Philippe 1.

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Nikon D850 65mm.  Hand held with Nikkor VR vibration reduction enabled on normal setting.  Shutter speed 1/2500s   f/5.0  iso200  RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L 8256 x 5504 FX).  Colour space. Adobe RGB.  AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. Manual  exposure. Matrix metering. Auto 0 white balance (8030K). Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control Normal.

Nikkor AF-S 24-120mm f/4G ED VR. Phot-R ultra slim 77mm UV filter. Nikon EN-EL15a battery. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag.  Nikon GP-1 GPS module. 

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LATITUDE: N 48d 51m 5.60s
LONGITUDE: E  2d 21m 5.20s
ALTITUDE: 30.0m

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RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB  NEF: 92.0MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 21.20MB

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PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.01 (16/01/2018)  LD Distortion Data 2.017 (20/3/18) 

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit  processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB DATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.2.11 15/03/2018). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

Taken in: France / Île-de-France / Paris / Quartier Saint-Victor (show map)

Taken on: August 23, 2018

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Camera: Nikon D850, f/5.0, 1/2500 sec, 65mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D850
Aperture:	f/5.0
Exposure Time:	1/2500 sec
Focal Length:	65mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 Windows
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