December 2025 – Selldon Photography

Happy Birthday Steven Spielberg (1946)

Dec 18, 2025Selldon0008 Scale Models, Selective Coloration18/12, 1946, autobot, bumblebee, Movie, scale model, scale models, Steven Spielberg, transformers

Steven Spielberg (December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, Spielberg is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most…

Maiden Flight of the Douglas DC3 (1935)

Dec 17, 2025Selldon0008 Scale Models, Selective Coloration17/12, C47, DC-3, Douglas, Maiden Flight, scale model, scale models, Skytrain

The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner that was manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II. It was developed as a larger,…

Happy Birthday Arthur C. Clarke (1917)

Dec 16, 2025Selldon0009 Objects, Selective Coloration16/12, 1917, 2001, A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, Discovery, Movie

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke CBE FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was an English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host. Clarke was a science fiction writer, an avid…

Maiden Flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner (2009)

Dec 15, 2025Selldon0150 Aircraft, Selective Coloration15/12, 787, Aircraft, Boeing, Dreamliner, Jet, Maiden Flight

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After dropping its unconventional Sonic Cruiser project, Boeing announced the conventional 7E7 on January 29, 2003, which focused largely on efficiency. The program…

Airbus Delivers 5000th Aircraft to Qantas (2007)

Dec 14, 2025Selldon0150 Aircraft, Selective Coloration14/12, 2007, 5000th Aircraft, Airbus, Aircraft, Jet

Qantas Airways Limited, doing business as QANTAS or Qantas, is the flag carrier of Australia, and the largest airline by fleet size, international flights, and international destinations in Oceania. A founding member of the Oneworld airline alliance, it is the only…

Happy Birthday Paul Bracq (1933)

Dec 13, 2025Selldon0206 Limousines, Selective Coloration13/12, 1933, Mercedes, Mercedes Benz, Paul Bracq

Paul Bracq (born December 13, 1933, Bordeaux, France) is an automotive designer noted for his work at Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Citroën, and Peugeot. Bracq’s design career began in the studio of Philippe Charbonneaux, serving as his assistant in…

Sir Christopher Cockerell has the First Hovercraft Patented(1955)

Dec 12, 2025Selldon0008 Scale Models, Selective Coloration12/12, 1955, Hovercraft, Patent, S.R.N.6, scale model, scale models, Sir Christopher Cockerill

Cockerell’s theory was that instead of just pumping air under the craft, as Thornycroft had, if the air were to be instead channelled to form a narrow jet around the…

Maiden Flight of the F15 Strike Eagle (1986)

Dec 11, 2025Selldon0150 Aircraft, Selective Coloration11/12, 1986, Aircraft, Boeing, F15 Strike Eagle, McDonnell Douglas

The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle is an American all-weather multirole strike fighter derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. Intended for the Dual-Role Fighter (DRF) program (initially called Enhanced Tactical Fighter), the F-15E was designed in the…

STS-116 Shuttle Discovery Launches to ISS (2006)

Dec 10, 2025Selldon0008 Scale Models, Selective Coloration10/12, 2006, Discovery, ISS, Shuttle, Space Shuttle, STS, STS-116

STS-116 (also known as ISS-12A) was a Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS) flown by Space Shuttle Discovery. Discovery lifted off on December 9, 2006 for her 33rd flight at 20:47:35 EST. A previous launch attempt on…

The AEC Routemaster – the Typical Red London Bus – is Withdrawn from Service (2005)

Dec 9, 2025Selldon999 Other Vehicles, Selective Coloration09/12, 2005, AEC, Bus, London, Red Bus, Routmaster

The AEC Routemaster is a front-engined double-decker bus that was designed by London Transport and built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) and Park Royal Vehicles. The first prototype was completed in September 1954 and the last one was delivered…

The Flag of Europe is Adopted by Council of Europe (1955)

Dec 8, 2025Selldon0009 Objects, Selective Coloration08/12, 1955, EU, Europe, European Flag

The flag of Europe or European flag consists of twelve golden stars forming a circle on a blue field. It was designed and adopted in 1955 by the Council of Europe (CoE) as a symbol for the whole of Europe. Since 1985,…

The Pneumatic Tire is Patented by John Boyd Dunlop (1888)

Dec 7, 2025Selldon0010 Architecture, Selective Coloration, Uncategorized07/12, 1888, Dunlop, Gran Turismo, GT5, John Boyd Dunlop, Patent, pnematic tyre

John Boyd Dunlop (5 February 1840 – 23 October 1921) was a Scottish inventor and veterinary surgeon who spent most of his career in Ireland. Familiar with making rubber devices, he invented the practical pneumatic tyres for…

Happy Birthday Suzie Wolff (1982)

Dec 6, 2025Selldon0204 Sports Cars, Selective Coloration06/12, DTM, F1, Mercedes, Suzie Wolff

Suzanne Wolff (née Stoddart; born 6 December 1982) is a Scottish former professional racing driver and current managing director of F1 Academy. Wolff started in karting, before graduating to Formula Renault and Formula Three, then moving to the Deutsche…

NATO Introduces the AWACS Early Warning System (1970)

Dec 5, 2025Selldon0150 Aircraft, Selective Coloration05/12, 1970, 707, AWACS, Boeing, E-3 Sentry, Jet, Military

AEW&C aircraft are used for both defensive and offensive air operations, and serve air forces in the same role as what the combat information center is to naval warships, in addition to being a highly mobile…

Happy Name Day Barbara (04/12)

Dec 4, 2025Selldon0204 Sports Cars, Selective Coloration#12, 04/12, 1962, Aston Martin, Barbara, DB1, Gone in 60 Seconds, Movie, Movie Car

Every person’s name has a corresponding name day. As a car and movie fan, I have taken the 2000 movie Gone in 60 seconds, starring Nicolas Cage an inspiration. In…

First Burger King Serves its Customers in Miami, Florida (1954)

Dec 4, 2025Selldon0009 Objects, Selective Coloration04/12, 1954, Burger King, Florida, Miami

Burger King Corporation is an American fast food chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Burger king is headquartered in Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded on July 23, 1953, as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based restaurant…

Pioneer 10 Satellite Has Closest Approach to Jupiter (1973)

Dec 3, 2025Selldon0160 Spacecraft, Selective Coloration03/12, 1973, Jupiter, NASA, Pioneer 10

Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is a NASA space probe launched in 1972 that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Pioneer 10 became the first of five artificial objects to achieve the escape velocity needed to leave the Solar System.…

Happy Name Day Pamela (02/12)

Dec 2, 2025Selldon0202 Convertibles, 0203 US Cars, 0600 Gone in 60 Seconds, Selective Coloration#12, 02/12, 1953, Chevrolet, Chevy, corvette, Corvette C1, Gone in 60 Seconds, Movie, Movie Car, Pamela

Every person’s name has a corresponding name day. As a car and movie fan, I have taken the 2000 movie Gone in 60 seconds, starring Nicolas Cage an inspiration. In…

STS 61 Endeavour Launches to Repair Hubble (1993)

Dec 2, 2025Selldon0008 Scale Models, Selective Coloration02/12, 1993, Endeavour, Hubble Space Telescope, scale model, scale models, Space Shuttle, STS-61

STS-61 was NASA’s first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, and the fifth flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The mission launched on December 2, 1993, from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The mission restored the space-borne observatory’s vision…

Ford Motor Co. Introduces the Conveyer Belt (1913)

Dec 1, 2025Selldon0008 Scale Models, Selective Coloration01/12, 1913, Assembly Line, Conveyer Belt, Ford, Ford Motor Company, Transit

In 1908, Henry Ford introduced the Model T. Earlier models were produced at a rate of only a few a day at a rented factory on Mack Avenue in Detroit, Michigan and later at the Piquette Avenue…