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That's a Lot of Bread!
That's a Lot of Bread!
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Challenge: Bread (Basic Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S700 / S5700
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
Date: Feb 9, 2008
Aperture: F/3.5
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/600
Galleries: Cityscape, Advertisement
Date Uploaded: Feb 9, 2008

 This is the Perfection Bakeries (now Aunt Millie's Bakery) falling slices of bread sign on Pearl St. in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. There are 9 slices of bread on a wheel, which rotates 5,083 times per day, making the slices of bread appear to fall out of the loaf and onto the plate. The sign was installed in 1957 and has been in constant use since - over 50 years! Barring power outages, that is close to 850 million slices of bread. That's a lot of bread!

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Place: 98 out of 167
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Comments: 8
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Nikon D40
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
 02/21/2008 01:53:02 AM
I just thought the title meant that it was a big loaf. I didn't realize this sign was animated. That's pretty cool.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III
Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO
 02/19/2008 11:58:20 PM
Nice street view of this, though it looks like a fairly "white bread" sort of shot.
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Nikon D50
Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
 02/18/2008 10:46:09 PM
Great creative idea.
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Nikon D90
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 02/15/2008 03:31:35 AM
That is a lot of bread...Oppressive advertising (in a "cheerful way") Quite like this one! Original.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
 02/14/2008 10:02:00 PM
Nice color and great blue sky background.
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Sony DSLR-A200
Sony 75-300mm f/4.5-5.6
 02/14/2008 09:26:45 PM
*GRIN* now, whodda thunk that you'd have found a sign like this! Really out of the ordinary!
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Nikon D40
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G
 02/13/2008 09:24:05 PM
I like how the sky and the Sunbeam name are both blue. The lines of the building pointing to the name also work well.
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 02/13/2008 03:59:01 PM
What a shame you couldn't have had someone up on the roof - just to give it a sense of scale and perspective.

Nice colours and angles though.
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