Photo Album

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I trust viewers will enjoy Photo Album as a visual introduction to my close knit family
and friends. As representative of the avian research project I truly love compiling and
presenting this educational and progressive website

Photo Album

Jayke in the arms of his very doting Nanna

Jayke paying attention to his wise old Grandpa

Jayke with his super proud and loving Dad

Jayke being loved by his Mom and Tiggy the cat

Jayke says: I Love Santa!

People reckon I’m a cute little boy!

Baby Jayke with his uncle Mark

Jayke feeling a ton of love from auntie Michelle

A Day out at the Adelaide Zoo

Jayke’s identical-twin-cousins -
Madison & Isabelle having great fun
at the Adelaide Zoo

Lavender

Reduced

Faded Slate with Indigo influence

Scale-Pattern Bronze-crop
Nestling

Clouded Recessive Red

Our Growing Family
of Charcoal-face -
Charcoal -head and
Blue-head Ash Reds

This dancing, prancing cock is certainly the centre of attention

Scale-Pattern Grizzle

Ice Checker /Barless Blue offspring

Faded Salt & Pepper Grizzle

10th September 2009

Frankfurt

Pigeons fitted with cameras

Around 1903 Julius Neubronner (1852–1932), an apothecary in Kronberg near Frankfurt, was receiving

prescriptions from a sanatorium in nearby Falkenstein via pigeon post, and delivered urgent medications

up to 75 grams (2.6 oz) by the same method. When one of the prescription-bearing 'poison eagles', as they

were known in the sanatorium, lost its orientation in fog and arrived four weeks late, Neubronner was

inspired with the playful idea of equipping his pigeons with automatic cameras to trace their paths.

This led him to merge his two hobbies into a new 'double sport' combining carrier pigeon fancying with

amateur photography.

Neubronner began the development of a light miniature camera that could be fitted to a pigeon's breast by

means of a harness and an aluminum cuirass. The pigeons had to be trained carefully to make them used

to their load. To take an aerial photograph, Neubronner carried a pigeon to a location up to about 100 km

(60 miles) from its home, where it was equipped with a camera and released. The bird, keen to be relieved

of its burden, would typically fly home on a direct route, at a height of 50 to 100 meters (50 to 100 yards)

and a speed not exceeding 15 kilometres per hour (10 miles per hour). A pneumatic mechanism in the

camera controlled the time delay before a photograph was taken.

According to Neubronner, there were a dozen different models of his camera. In 1907 he had sufficient

success with a camera using 4 cm film to apply for a patent. Initially his invention "Method of and Means

for Taking Photographs of Landscapes from above" was rejected by the German patent office as

impossible, but after presentation of authenticated photographs it was granted in December 1908.

The rejection was based on a misconception about the carrying capacity of domestic pigeons.

In 1909 the technology became widely known through Neubronner's participation in the Internationale

Photographische Ausstellung in Dresden and the Internationale Luftschiffahrtausstellung in Frankfurt.

Spectators in Dresden could watch the arrival of the pigeons, and the aerial photographs they brought

back were turned into postcards. Around the same time, his photographs were shown and awarded

prizes at two Paris Air Shows. His cameras, which weighed barely less than 75 grams (2.6 oz), then had

a size of roughly 8 cm by 4.5 cm and could take a series of 8 exposures.

A photograph of Schlosshotel Kronberg became famous due to its accidental inclusion of the

photographer's wing tips. It was subject of a copyright dispute in the late 1920s. The Schlosshotel had

been built for Neubronner's illustrious customer Kaiserin Friedrich, and was still known as Schloss

Friedrichshof for some time after her death in 1901.

Around 1910, Neubronner developed the Doppel-Sport Panoramic Camera, which could capture a
panoramic view on 3 cm × 8 cm film. Like the other models it never went into serial production.
The last model (before 1920) weighed slightly more than 40 grams (1.4 oz) and could take 12 exposures.

In 1920, Neubronner found that ten years of hard work and considerable expenses had been rewarded

only with his inclusion into encyclopedias and the awareness that an ancillary technology, the mobile

dovecote (described below), proved its worth in the war. Neubronner's Doppel-Sport camera is shown in

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the exhibition - Photo & Film Deutsche Museum Munich.

Royal Adelaide Show

Matthew, Stephanie, Myriah & Rodney

Manny Arquette

1st November 2009

Matthew Arquette’s 20th Birthday

2009 Exotic Pigeons Gallery

Indian Fantail

Helmet

Giant Runt

Jacobin

American Show Racer

Blondinette

Hungarian House Pigeon

Nun

Muffed Ice Pigeon

Exhibition Homer

English Tumbler

Saxon Monk

Muffed Saxon Spot

Saxon Shield

Oriental Frill

Old Dutch Capuchine

Danish Tumbler

Zitterhall

Indian Mondaine

Lahore

Voorburg Shield Cropper

Komorner Tumbler

Show Flight

German Beauty Homer Modena

Bokhara Trumpeter Black Trumpeter

Satinette Show King Almond Roller

High Flier Dewlap

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE LEBANON PIGEONS

Courtesy of Thomas & Carolina Sankari

Shafari

Mawardi

Irjani

Irinfli

Baramli

Shikli

Barbarisi Owl

Orfali

Syrian Dewlap

Karakand Tumbler

Rehani

Schikli

Mfattel Dewlap

Msawed

Mazoni Dewlap

Schrabi Dewlap

Damascene Checker

Rare & Royal Turkish Tumblers

Courtesy of Kurt Gürsu

Takla Tumblers

Miski
Brown Check with
Yellow chest

Candy

Aynah Sabuni

Gümüş

Akpaça Arap

Trabzon

Selçuklu

Bursa

KÜPELİ (EARRINGED) SUMI COCK

Abraq Dewlap

The Australian Avian Research Organization is highly appreciative of the Photography
contributed by Thomas & Carolina Sankari and Kurt Gürsu.
Website details: WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE LEBANON PIGEONS -
turkishtumblers.com and guvercinbirligi.com

Manny Arquette

Dec.18, 2009

Egyptian Swift

New 2010 Additions

Peak-head Tortoiseshell with stockings

Charcoal-head & Charcoal-face
Spread Ash siblings

Feb.13, 2010

Living Pictures 2010

Bush
Shaking
His
Toosh