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Dunross Portraits 2020

21/1/2020

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  1. Click on the supplied link and type your email address to enter the system
  2. Step through the instruction screens. Note that downloads from the system are not available at this time.
  3. Click "Open" when you reach the title screen. You will see the class group shots
  4. Click on your child's class portrait and "Favourite' it by clicking on the ♥ symbol at the top of the screen. Enter your email address again and click 'Sign in" to be able to save your selections.
  5. Click the left arrow (at top left) to go back. Click on your child's class name at the top of the screen to view individual child portraits.
  6. Scroll down to find your child’s portraits. Tap a photo to view it full screen.
  7. Make your selection of all your favourites by clicking on the ♥ symbol for each of the portraits.
  8. Click on the shopping cart while you have one of your favourites full screen 
  9. Choose a Package and “Add to cart”.
  10. Select the images you would like for your package items. Note: your favourites will be grouped under a separate tab to make it easier to select them.
  11. When done with selecting your package prints you can go to the checkout or "Keep shopping" for your early bird bonus wallet prints or Add-ons.
  12. At the checkout, use "Add a Note" to add your child’s name.
  13. Fill out the Billing and Shipping details. Enter your name (ignore that it asks for 'name on card'), your email address, house address (use the Dunross address for privacy if you wish) and contact number. Enter 0000 for zip code (if you have not yet been given one)
  14. Click NEXT.
  15. Select Shipping method: Delivery to school or Pick up from RAPSO office
  16. Click NEXT and note payment instructions. Please note that we can only offer off-line payment and delivery to school or pick up from our office at this time.
  17. Click “Place your order” to finish and receive your order confirmation via email.
  18. Make a note of your order number to send in with your payment
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James wins Professional category of European Union eXpressions photo contest

10/11/2019

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The Labasse of our lives by James B Solomon
A friend asked me to share my journey regarding my winning photograph for the European Union"s eXpressions photo competition that focused on The Environment and Climate Change under the theme " My World My Responsibility".
Many years ago I visited the Labasse during the National clean up campaign, I marvelled at the layout and was very impressed with the high quality road that existed there.
About 4 years ago I had to make a couple trips again. There was this stark raw upsetting beauty to it that I recorded with my cell phone. I admired the men and women who earned a living in that environment.
eXpressions launched and I immediately thought of the Labasse, especially its relation and proximity to the city, I went in and created a couple of images that I studied at length. Next came a road trip where I photographed the pollution in a stream emptying into the Blanchicheusse beach, a little too pretty, but it gave me an idea to light paint the water bottles responsible for so much pollution in our country, in our World... I titled it "Plastic's middle finger to the World." Still I was not satisfied because really, our climate crisis is our responsibility, we are the ones who are the cause of it.
I simply had to make another visit to the Labasse, I had to fully commit to bringing to light the RAW nature of what I, what we, are contributing to.
I did not shy away from the fact that this is where my fellow citizens earn their living, that in order to create the image that I needed, that I too had to scavenge for my shot, and so I went to this place, hidden from view from so many of us as we drive past it on an almost daily basis. In plain sight of many of the movers and shakers who occupy high rise offices, I HAD to stand in the middle of the stink of it, in order to bring it to light.
I had moved West of the Labasse in 2012 and many a morning awoke to the smog that had settled over the city during the night, I became a victim of the effects of the Labasse, and with all the protests then and since, I am at a loss as to why things have not really changed. I know and I'm aware that there are good and responsible men and women who are trying to make a difference, but they are overwhelmed,

​It is time that we do our part.
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How to place your picture order online

19/5/2019

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Mobile Users:
  1. Click on the supplied link and type your email address to enter the system.
  2. Scroll down over the cover photo and tap the menu bars on the right of the screen (three horizontal lines).
  3. Tap on the folder headings eg Portraits, Groups, Presentation of Certificates, General Coverage to view the various sets of images
  4. Scroll through to find your portraits. Tap a photo to view it full screen.
  5. Make your selection of favourites by clicking on the ♥ symbol 
  6. Click on the Shopping cart while you have one of your favourites full screen
  7. Choose your print size or digital. "Keep shopping" for more prints or "View Cart"
  8. When done with selecting your prints you can go to the Checkout .
  9. Click "Apply coupon" or "Apply gift card" if applicable and fill in the relevant code.
  10. Fill out the ​Billing and Shipping details. You will be asked for "Full name on card", just type in your name if you are not paying by card/Paypal. Click "Next"
  11. Select your Shipping method. Note that you can only select "Delivery to school" if you have prepaid, are paying by Paypal or will pay by bank transfer. Otherwise, select "Pick up from RAPSO Office". Click "Next".
  12. Select your Secure payment via Paypal (in US$), or Offline payment (via bank transfer (in TT$), cash, cheque ("RAPSO Imaging Ltd") or in-person credit card payment when you pick up your photos from us at at our office in Diego Martin).
  13. Our bank information is: Account: "RAPSO Imaging Ltd", at RBC Westmall, account # 11 000 000 317 6245, routing # 010100039. You should make your payment in TT$.
  14. Note that prices are quoted in the ordering system in US$ (Paypal cannot be used with TT$). Should you choose to pay cash, cheque, credit card (in person) or bank transfer, you will pay the equivalent TT$ amount.
  15. Contact us if you would like us to send your photos to you by TTPost or International courier.
  16. Click “Place order” to finish and receive your order confirmation via email.
  17. Note: we have had one or two reports of the online system giving trouble with some mobile phones, if this happens to you, please try accessing the system via your laptop or desktop computer.

Desktop Users:
  1. Click on the supplied link and type your email address to enter the system.
  2. Scroll down past the cover photo until you see the  portraits then select which set of photos you would like to view from the horizontal headings eg Portraits, Group Portraits, Presentation of Certificates, General Coverage
  3. Scroll down to find your images. Click on a photo to view it full screen.
  4. Follow steps 5-17 above.
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Fatima Graduation Mass - How to place your picture order online

26/4/2019

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Mobile Users:
  1. Click on the supplied link and type your email address to enter the system
  2. Scroll down over the cover photo and tap the menu bars on the right of the screen (three horizontal lines)
  3. Tap Group Portraits, Presentation of Certificates or General Coverage to view the various sets of images
  4. Scroll through to find your student's portraits. Tap a photo to view it full screen.
  5. Make your selection of favourites by clicking on the ♥ symbol 
  6. Click on the shopping cart while you have one of your favourites full screen
  7. Choose a package and “Add to cart”.
  8. Select the images you would like for your package. Note: your favourites will be grouped under a separate tab to make it easier to select them.
  9. When done with selecting your package prints you can go to the checkout or "Keep shopping" for add-on prints, digitals or block prints.
  10. At the checkout, add a note with your Student's name
  11. Fill out the Billing and Shipping details. We can offer online payment via Paypal, plus cash, cheque ("RAPSO Imaging Ltd") or credit card payment when you pick up your photos from us at Fatima or at our office in Diego Martin – make your selection under “Shipping methods”.
  12. Note that prices are quoted in USD (Paypal cannot be used with TTD). Should you choose to pay cash, cheque or credit card (in person), you will pay the equivalent TTD amount (given in the letter sent to you from Fatima).
  13. Contact us if you would like us to send your photos to you by TTPost or International courier.
  14. Click “Place your order” to finish and receive your order confirmation via email.
  15. Note: we have had one or two reports of the online system giving trouble with some mobile phones, if this happens to you, please try accessing the system via your laptop or desktop computer.

Desktop Users:
  1. Click on the supplied link and type your email address to enter the system
  2. Scroll down past the cover photo until you see the group portraits then select which set of photos you would like to view from the horizontal headings: Group Portraits, Presentation of Certificates or General Coverage
  3. Scroll down to find images of your student. Click on a photo to view it full screen.
  4. Follow steps 5-12 above
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Dunross School Photos - How to place your picture order online

31/1/2019

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.Mobile Users:
  1. Click on the supplied link and type your email address to enter the system
  2. Scroll down until you see individual child portraits then tap the menu bars on the right of the screen (three horizontal lines)
  3. Select your child’s class from the list (or tap Class Portraits for the group shots)
  4. Scroll down to find your child’s portraits. Tap a photo to view it full screen.
  5. Make your selection of favourites by clicking on the ♥ symbol (don’t forget to include the Class portrait)
  6. Click on the shopping cart while you have one of your favourites full screen
  7. Choose a package and “Add to cart”.
  8. Select the images you would like for your package. Note: your favourites will be grouped under a separate tab to make it easier to select them.
  9. When done with selecting your package prints you can go to the checkout or "Keep shopping" for add-ons.
  10. At the checkout, add a note with your child’s name
  11. Fill out the Billing and Shipping details. Enter the Dunross address for privacy but be sure to enter your own email address and telephone number. Please note that we can only offer off-line payment and delivery to school or pick up from our office at this time – make your selection under “Shipping methods”.
  12. Click “Place your order” to finish and receive your order confirmation via email.

Desktop Users:
  1. Click on the supplied link and type your email address to enter the system
  2. Scroll down until you see the class group portraits then select your child’s class from the horizontal list (or click on Class Portraits for the group shots)
  3. Scroll down to find your child’s portraits. Click on a photo to view it full screen.
  4. Follow steps 5-12 above
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Community Voices

31/1/2019

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Beauty Through the Lens

31/1/2019

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Rachel is featured in Trinidad Newsday
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Read the online article here
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Tufted coquette

28/7/2018

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Male tufted coquette
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Female tufted coquette
The tufted coquette - Lophornis ornatus - is the smallest** resident bird in Trinidad and Tobago and the second smallest hummingbird in the world (the Bee hummingbird - Mellisuga helenae - being the smallest). It breeds in eastern Venezuela, Trinidad, Guiana, and northern Brazil. It is an uncommon but widespread species, and appears to be a local or seasonal migrant, although its movements are not well understood.
This small bird inhabits open country, gardens, and cultivation. It is 6.6 centimetres (2.6 in) long and weighs 2.3 grams (0.081 oz). The black-tipped red bill is short and straight.
The male tufted coquette is a striking bird. It has a rufous head crest and a coppery green back with a whitish rump band that is prominent in flight. The forehead and underparts are green, and  rufous plumes with iridescent green spots project from the neck sides. The tail is golden rufous.
The female lacks the crest and plumes. She has green upperparts (dorsal), except for the whitish tail band, and rufous underparts (ventral) that become much paler on the belly. The tail is mostly bronze green with a dusky band and whitish tips to the feathers. Immature males resemble the female, but their throats are whitish with fine dark spotting.
The female tufted coquette lays two eggs in a small cup nest made of plant down and placed on a branch.
Tufted coquettes are quite tame and approachable which allows you to get close for photographs! Their call while feeding is a light chik.
Their food is nectar, taken from a variety of flowers, and some small invertebrates. They particularly love cultivated vervain and lantana in the garden. With their small size and steady flight, these birds resemble a large bee as they move from flower to flower with their distinctive bobbing tail motion.

** note that the rufous shafted woodstar which is extremely rare (can sometimes be seen at Yerette hummingbird sanctuary) is similarly small - 2.75 inches

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Purple Honeycreeper

2/11/2017

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The purple honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) is a small bird in the tanager family. It is found in the tropical New World from Colombia and Venezuela south to Brazil, and on Trinidad. A few, possibly introduced birds have been recorded on Tobago.
The purple honeycreeper is 11.5 cm long, weighs 12 g and has a long black decurved bill. The male is purple with black wings, tail and belly, and bright yellow legs. Females and immatures have green upperparts, and green-streaked yellowish-buff underparts. The throat is cinnamon, and there is a blue moustachial stripe. The call of purple honeycreeper is a thin high-pitched zree.
The Trinidadian subspecies C. c. longirostris has a longer bill than the mainland forms.
This is a forest canopy species, but also occurs in cocoa and citrus plantations. At the upper limit of its altitudinal range, it frequents premontane rainforest, usually rather low-growing (10–15 m) and full of epiphytes and mosses.
The purple honeycreeper is often found in small groups. It feeds on nectar (particularly from bromeliad and similar flowers, to which its bill shape is adapted), berries and insects, mainly in the canopy. It is a bold and inquisitive bird, responding readily to the call of the ferruginous pygmy owl (Glaucidium brasilianum) by coming out of cover and searching for the presumed predator to mob it. The female purple honeycreeper builds a small cup nest in a tree, and incubates the clutch of two brown-blotched white eggs.
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Purple honeycreeper photographed by Rachel Lee Young at Yerette Hummingbird Sanctuary, Maracas St Joseph.
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Blue Chinned sapphire

2/11/2017

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The blue-chinned sapphire (Chlorestes notata) is a hummingbird that breeds from Colombia south and east to the Guianas, Trinidad, Peru, and Brazil. There have been occasional records from Tobago.
It is a bird of forests and sometimes cultivated areas with large trees. The female lays her eggs in a deep cup nest, made of lichen and other fine plant material and placed on a horizontal tree branch. Incubation is 16 days with a further 18–19 days to fledging.
The blue-chinned sapphire is 8.9 cm long and weighs 3.8 g. The bill is fairly straight, with the upper mandible black and the lower reddish. The male has mainly green plumage, darker above, with white thighs, a forked metallic blue tail and blue upper throat. The female differs from the male in that she has green-spotted white underparts.
Blue-chinned sapphires feed on insects and nectar, mainly in trees but sometimes on vines or smaller plants like Heliconia. The song is a high metallic ssooo-ssooo-ssooo.
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Blue chinned sapphire feeding on the flowers of Antigua Heath photographed by Rachel Lee Young in the RAPSO garden, Diego Martin.
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