December 2025 – Page 2 – Selldon Photography

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…