Home sick this afternoon, bored silly. Was looking for a photo to illustrate strength of plywood box beam and stumbled onto this shot of the WA State Capitol (far right), Mt Rainier (yes, it really DOES exist), and the harbor in Olympia.
Okay, show me something back.
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Wait! That was the OTHER one! THIS one has the Capitol (and the lights on the 4th Ave. bridge haven't turned off yet)
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Wow !Uh-oh Blodgett, he's wiping the floor up with you, now...
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No sir, just happened to be in the right place at the right time. And a little "shade" setting on the camera which enhances the color that is there. Blodgett does a #### load with a hole in a box. That's some talent there.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Yup !=0)
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I just got this off ebay (thanks Lisa L for showing me the way<G>)...it's from 1924, and off a glass negative by a locally famous photographer. Might even be my grand dad's truck...he never did like chevvies LOL Don't worry, we can fix that later!
Ok, sunrise and sunset over Bogue Sound... Don't worry, we can fix that later!
Where's the photo of the truck?
D'oh!... Don't worry, we can fix that later!
Big Sur...and some lucky timing<G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!
WOW.
Now THAT's a draw...
hmmmmOne is never too old to yearn. Italian Proverb
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Gorgeous - just gorgeous.
Very serene feeling.
And NICELY "framed" photo to boot - with the overhanging branches./.. feels like you're standing right there, when looking at it.
With a little luck, mebbe I'll get that chance.One is never too old to yearn. Italian Proverb
6 am just upriver from us, looking downriver
god help me if you're just going home.
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Okay, here's the view out my window. It's pouring rain, again. The rain makes it hard to see the river which is just beyond the big ferns. The oak tree is covered with resurrection ferns which look dead when dry but turn dark green after about 30 minutes of hard rain.
Still like to see that box beam...
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Where did you take this picture from? Up by the roundabouts?
Here's a couple that I think I did ok on. I'm a terrible photographer and have pretty lousy equipment to boot. It was tough to screw these shots up though.
They're from last summer. My wife and I were coming back from Nantucket on the ferry at sunset. We were just pulling back into Hyannis when I took the pictures.
Wow and wow and wow !!Ok, I give up.I point the camera and I get a snapshot.You guys point it and get art.
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Nice shots, fellas. Just came back from the doc with a bunch of legal chemicals in me. Feeling a lot better, but I'll be laying low tomorrow, too. I'll try to find something worthy of this bunch. Maybe we can keep these land/waterscapes/ edge of daylight shots going?
iancrae - yeah, right in (I think it's called) 7 paddles park. Just below the new roundabout that puts you on Harrison.
Gotta go figure out if I want a pocket on my hat or not and place my order.
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RJT, That's nice. Armin's backyard maybe. He's up by Munising.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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I love that "Upriver" picture. Gorgeous.
Thanks Brian. I am lucky to live by such a possible nice shot. Email me if somehow you changed your plans and can make it or if you want a souvenier of the Fest. Pretty quick deadline on the order.
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Here's one from when it was cold. Lake Placid, NY, with 18 inches of ice, pic taken from top of Whiteface Mountain.
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Wow. That's the biggest holding tank I've ever seen for a windmill. No wonder they disconnected it.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Jim ** get your booty down to the Tacoma Thea Foss waterway and get some of these Tall SHips posted for our matesthey are beyond splendid when their sails are flying ( or full ol' salt )I'd do it but my remedial ash digital/posting won't happen this semesterkeep the beautiful photos comin
thanks John
Not only that, look at the size of those wind chimes !!Yes, that is a wind chime hanging in the middle there...Man, I am getting a lot of good wallpaper material from this thread.
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Here's a couple of my recent takes. The first one is a 1920s vintage wheat binder. My Dad is on our 1953 Ferguson pulling it. If you're not familiar with them, this is how wheat was harvested before there were combines. The binder cut the wheat off and tied it into bundles. The binder was ground driven, and was typically pulled by horses. (We don't have any draft horses, so the tractor had to do)The 2nd shot shows the wheat bundles being loaded onto wagons. Again, the wagons would have typically been pulled by horses. The wheat was then taken to a stationary threshing machine, where the wheat was separated from the chaff and stems. The thershing machine was typically run by a steam tractor before gas tractors became common.I have pictures of threshing machines if anyone is interested. But I don't want to post too many if no one is...
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Don't stop sending in if any others aren't interested. I do like seeing the history of old farming days!
"I do like seeing the history of old farming days!"
O.K. - All it took was one person who's interested. (-:
These were all taken at a farm show my Son and I went to near Springfield, Illinois.
The first picture is called "Threshing Machine Lineup". They had 3 machines there - Most I've ever seen set up in one place.
Next is "Carl throwing Bundles". He asked if he could throw bundles into one of the machines, and one of the guys handed him a pitchfork without a word. It was REALLY hot that day, and he did a good job considering that he's pretty small. He would have been 12 then.
If you're not familiar with threshing machines, you load the bundles on the conveyor that sticks out to the left. (Heads first) The machine then separates the grain and measures it, then augers it out to the wagon you see on the right. The guys who owned the machine charged by the bushel, so they had to know how much had been threshed.
The straw and chaff were blown out into a pile behind the machine through the tube that sticks up and to the right.
Next is "Carl on Bundle Wagon". He got up on top of a load while we were picking up bundles, and I thought it made a good picture.
Next is "Steam Tractor". They were using this steam engine to power one of the threshers. For some reason I didn't get a picture after it was set up. My tractor is on the right in this picture.
Next is "Girl with Hot Dog". She was adorable, so I took her picture. So sue me. (I did ask her Mom first if it was O.K.)
The last one is "Four Wheeler". I ordinarilly don't like four wheelers. But there was something about this one that fascinated me.
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Nice pix, thanks. Even the cheesecake. But what 4wheeler? You must've been distracted...
Is that a typical way to tie down a tractor? Gendarmes here wouldn't be amused. But this isn't flatland.
There's an annual steam-only gathering next county over. Never could figure why it has to be in August.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
"But what 4wheeler? You must've been distracted..."
IT was there - She was just getting on it. If you study the pic long enough, you'll even see that there are tractors in the background somewhere.
"Is that a typical way to tie down a tractor?"
Sort of. Some guys do a fairly poor job of it. Maybe that guy didn't have far to travel or something.
"There's an annual steam-only gathering next county over. Never could figure why it has to be in August."
Probably because that's when the guys who can do the thing don't have anything else going on. Once you get into September, everybody's busy through harvest time.
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Old machinery, eh? OK Here's mine, also originally horse drawn. Had 4" trees growing through it when it was rescued. Guy I bought it from couldn't believe I wanted to put it to work. Remains unpainted.
Wooden tongue was long gone. Steel now. Original steel wheels had already been replaced with old Jeep rims, rusted out by the time it came here. Now riding on Michelins.
My one local church attendance was right after the pastor, a friend, had first seen my "new" pride and joy. Saw us in the pews and changed his sermon about resurrection to include road graders. "Must have come over on the Mayflower."
Guy on the tractor is a city-slicker, visiting for the first time. Having the time of his life learning to drive a tractor. Driveway came out great. After this he progressed to uprooting trees with a Cat. The accountant really liked my entertainment.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Well, what I like about the whole deal is in the first photos your Dad was driving a tractor. And then in another post you talk about a show your son and you went to. I love the idea of that type of continuity of interests and respect among generations of men.
Many of us could testify to a yearning for that type of continuity in our own lives.
If you like that, do you remmber my "Three Generation Concrete Pour" thread?http://forums.taunton.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=tp-breaktime&msg=31476.1That will definitely be a "keeper memory" for me...
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I've seen a lot of old graders, but never saw one set up like that. I've given some thought to setting up a small one so the front of it would hook up to the 3 point hitch. That way you could easily vary the depth. But I may never get around to it...
Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
I've seen a couple of 2 wheeled ones, but the single axle didn't steer or offset. I can do a great job cutting ditches with mine. Does require an operator, and a driver who'll pay attention to where the blade is. Operator gets real busy at times on winding mountain roads.
Major advantage is I make roads with a trackloader. With the grader to follow, I don't have to be precise with a machine that isn't quite right for the job. Dozer would be better, but I don't have one.
Here's DW checking my progress and the finished product. Well, could use a little more stone.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Driveway....really a driveway? I would love to have one! Big and beautiful far back in the woods....
Awesome everyone. I'm having scanner problems but I'm enjoying everything your posting. Thanks. Some frikkin nice shots, for sure.
Huh?
Pretty difficult to get here without using it. Rises 400' in 1/2 mile. Don't get many strangers wandering in. Had a van load of Witnesses up once. Wide-eyed by the time they got to a building, especially the ones on the drop-off side. I told them they were welcome as long as they didn't proselytize. Didn't stay long.
Oh, there was also a guy selling frozen steaks out of a pickup. That was before we got any electricity in. He said if I'd buy the steaks he'd go out for the charcoal.
Actually have had a surprising number of guests who won't come back, fear of the driveway. Flatlanders...
If you live suburbia, or urbia, country really is available. Might have to go somewhere else to find some. After several yrs looking, we gave up on Denver environs and ended up here. Great decision.
If you wanta see what life on the mountain's like, take a peek at what a guy in Florida put up about me: http://paccs.fugadeideas.org/tom/index.shtml Unfortunately Sphere's tomatoes growing up on the roof aren't ripe enough to show in the photo.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Somewhere in my Mom's old pictures is a picture of my Dad running one of those old graders in the mid to late 30's. He was in the CCC's during the depression and worked on road building crews in southern Missouri. When I was a kid (in the late 50's), we went to one of the old camps and found one of the old graders. Pop looked it over and decided it was one he had actually used.
Guess he's no longer around? I never got a lesson, learned by doing. Not the first time I've wished there was an old guy around to show me how something was supposed to work. And I'm sure no spring chicken. Deck was long gone so I had to guess how everything was supposed to be attached. Sure works great.
Probably don't see many graders like that in San Jose. Quite a few around here of one design or another. Saw one at a scrap yard that would've taken a good team to pull, maybe 25' long with a 15' blade. Too big for me, didn't ask how much. Probably still there.
That's great, thanks. PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
here's one from the Lake Michigan getaway spot -
"there's enough for everyone"
Sunset behind the big white oak in our front yard... Don't worry, we can fix that later!
now dat's freaky - - I opened several picts in new windows and then browsed them, brought yours up and thought "who's messing with me and how did they get a pict of the big oak down by the creek?" - -
got a spot on the farm eerily similar - here's a pict of the tree and the horticultural society - I don't know where I have a pict of the tree without leaves, gonna have to take a couple this winter/spring -
"there's enough for everyone"
It's our tree, honest<G> There's nothing better than chillin' under a gnarly Sherwood Forest white oak, but I see you know that, LOL Last ice storm brought down branches bigger than other trees. Had enough firewood for last winter, and a start on the next. Don't worry, we can fix that later!
...chillin' under a gnarly Sherwood Forest white oak...
indeed - - hard to take a picture and do it justice - the species of ours is 'Chinquapin' - member of the white oak group - wonder how old it is -
"there's enough for everyone"
Morning mist a little closer to the Fest site.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Very nice Cal. Your giving me soome good wallpapers for my computer.
I dug through my photo albums and came up with these. Taken back in my homeland of Montana.
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Walpapers.
Exactly.
Here is my newest one. (1024 wide, and rotated to level.)
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This one will be next.
(1024 wide, and contrast stretched 2 or 3 times.)
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BTW: the best thing about Montana... The night sky. I could freeze to death laying out there looking at it, and die happy.
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Yep Big Sky Country. That Beaver dam was taken North of Kalispell if I remember correctly. Late eighties I think.
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I was sitting here reading and enjoying all the great photos and I thought I'd share a couple of my favorites. These are taken near sunset in central Missouri, 8/2/2003. Two are of the same cloud w/ and w/o some photo enhancements. That afternoon sky was a real cloud show and I felt lucky to see it let alone snap a few pictures of it. Enjoy. Thanks BT.
Gorgeous.
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Cool pics Boss.
I love seeing old equipment, even better if it's in action. There's something really cool about seeing how folks used to accomplish some of the same tasks we still need to do today... with way less. Equipment in general is just fun to look at.
I've been guilty more than once of standing there watching the excavators dig..... while I'm supposed to be framing. Watching those big machines' repetitive motions and extreme efficiency is just fascinating to me. Not to mention their awesome power.
I have this book on framing written in the sixties. From time to time I find it and read the introduction again. The author talks about pulling up to the site with just his tool bags, a framing square, and a worm drive with a 50' cord and getting to work.
Simpler house and simpler times. Sometimes I look at the service body truck and 12' trailer packed full of tools that I need to haul around and shake my head. But the houses keep getting bigger and more complicated and our time frame to complete them gets shorter and shorter. Some of what I haul around speeds us up, other stuff compensates for the lower grade materials, and other stuff handles the increased scope of work expected out of the framers.
Simple efficient equipment always makes me wonder what "it must've been like back then".
Cool.
I don't want to sidetrack this thread with talk about simpler times vs. now. But from what I remember as a kid, simpler=harder. Don't forget that angle.
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My boss just bought a bunch of equipment like that. All old horse drawn farm eguipment. He's using them for decorations around his place. But we're all scared that if we get slow again he's over thinking mind will have us out using the stuff. LOL
In the last couple of years he's really gotten into draft horses and wagons so there's really no telling what he'll come up with.
Riverfest 2005. Be there, or be square.
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So that's where Jimi Hendrix got the idea for "Purple Haze" - lol
Here's a picture I took a couple of years ago near Lake Tahoe. It's a "Scenic Vista" spot and there were several people wandering around. I got lucky and got a shot with no one in it.
Now THIS is what a permanent thread should look like. All you guys are just incredible! Keep 'em coming everyone, this is the good stuff. I'll try and get a few of my own posted soon.
Jim - the sun never sets here. All I have are sunrise photos. Must be a regional difference kind of thing...Brian, you shouldn't be shooting photos of babes in pink behind your wife's back now that you are married...LOL
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I know most of these are nature related, but I didn't see any rules posted. So I'll post a couple more of my favorites even though they don't involve nature.... well they kinda do... they're outside at least.
The first one is scan of a 4x6 photo that sits on the dash of my truck. It's my favorite picture of my wife and was actually the first one I ever took of her. I'd give my left one for the negative but haven't been able to find it anymore. It was pretty beat up when I finally decided I better scan it before it's totally lost forever. The photo is in even worse shape now, but at least it's somewhat preserved.
The second one is a picture from our wedding. I just think it's so cool. Always reminds me of a '70's Pink Floyd album cover or something. An 8x10 copy sits on my desk.
Brian,Send me an original, full-size scan.Don't do anything at all to what comes off the scanner. Just send the full-size thing straight to me that way.I'll clean it up.You'll be able to have a photo printed from the result.I'll send you a copy of it back, on CD if you want.
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You took that?..........................C'mon now this is Gunner your talking too.
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I'm the original space cadet.
MMMM....where's your house?
you earthlings are so inquisitive!!
Up the road a few miles from here...brotha Walt Whitman's crib.
Don't ask whats behind his house...the landscaping isnt quite the same anymore.
Sorta like the Joni Mitchell song, Take paradise and turn it to a parking lot (mall).
Walt Whitman Mall.
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The secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!
When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..
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Hey Andy, man, is there anything behind his house?
A big pond.Didn't you read the book ?
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Like I said...behind Walter's house is a big mall...Walt Whitman Mall and a four lane Typk.
See what progress brings.
Be well bro
a...The secret of Zen in two words is, "Not always so"!
When we meet, we say, Namaste'..it means..
I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides,
I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.
I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you
and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.
Was going to attach a pic but my button don't work . It just turns white around the edge and procedes to do nothing. Any way it was a picture of a small body of water no sunrise or sunset ,and just a very small fishing boat. Red . some fishing gear and the waves laping on the shoreline.
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Didn't know that there was one here . where is it located? If it s on my computer I would not have a clue were to look for it . I only know how to make it go and stop.
The problem you describe is usally caused by a pop-up blocker.The pop-up blocker can be found in a security program, or your browser, etc. Sometimes even an ISP will have an automatic pop-up blocker.What do you use as a browser ?What do you use for anti-virus ?Firewall ?Etc...
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Norton
Dont know
I have a Dell computer
But it has worked before.
A couple of people in this thread had trouble with Norton blocking them from attaching. You might wan to read the thread, and then maybe ask them some questions..
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O.K. since this is no longer a sunrise thread I can post this pic of me and my bud out hiking this morning.
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That's just awesome.
Thanks. She's a blast to take along. Wouldn't go without her.
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Very nice. And a tutu to you. LOLPAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
I'm probably going to regret this, but what's a tutu?
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It's the little pink frill/dress thingy that a ballerina wears.
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DOH! View Image He was reffering to my profile pic. Gotcha. Thank you oh great one.
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edit: sorry about the sizing first try attaching pics like this. Second one is blank.
Whadda mean it's last call? I just got here.
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Watch out for chiggers. Looks like chigger & tick country.
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John, what's a chigger ? Don't think we have them around San Diego.
what's a chigger ?
If you don't know you are one lucky dog!
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woof !
Dog gets baptised in frontline plus every month. I fog myself every trip. They say ticks have been pretty heavy this year.
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Wow Jim - That is some impressive work for a pinhole camera. Here's a pinhead look at West Central Texas.
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That was the sun going down. Here it is coming back up again.
If we fail to catch a cosmic fish it may be a trillion years before the opportunity comes again
kevin, I like the opportunity to set up the tripod and just snap away as it comes up or goes down. I'll shoot 60/70 times, sort it out when I get home. With any luck there's one in there that looks killer.
This looks pretty good as a print.
Same spot miz, very cold on the fingertips tho.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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And you bring all the boxes jim, we'll be getting up early and crossing the river, maybe still getting a rise over the water.
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I do that too. Those sunsets came out of a group of probably 120 shots total over about three hours. I was on my way home from the office and decided it was worth pulling over and blowing an evening on. It was hard to pick my favorites from that group.
The sunrise in the second post was a different story - one shot and done. It was perfect. I took two more just to be safe but that first one was all I needed. It's kind of a neat story actually.
I was on my way out of the valley one morning, on my way to the office, when the sunrise in the second one unfolded in front of me at what seemed like an inspired moment. I was praying for a good friend of ours who had just received the news that she had terminal cancer. I was planning to go see her on my lunch hour and was asking God to give me something encouraging to share with her. When I crested a hill that sunrise seemed to erupt in front of me and I had this almost audible thought, "just tell her that the sun comes up in the valley."
Fortunately I had the digital camera with me and there was enough juice left in the batteries for a couple of shots. I printed the photo, with the simple little poem that follows, mounted it on foam core, and took it to her at lunch time. She went into full remission shortly thereafter and is perfectly healthy today.
Her name is Sunny... Sometimes, a picture really is worth a thousand words. In this case, I believe it spoke volumes.
The Sun Comes up in the Valley
Whatever the storms whatever the strifewhatever the darknessthat assails us in life...
The sun comes up in the valley
The clouds may be dark and forebodingThey may promise a lifetime of rainthe fear may seem often o’erwhelmingin a heart that is filled with such pain...
But the sun comes up in the valley
Today is one moment in timeand as time flows away like a dreamthis moment is all we can seebut as dark as this moment may seem...
The sun comes up in the valley
There’s a savior who knows every detailand He counts every drop of your painhow He smiles at the sound of your birthrightas He lovingly whispers your name...
Oh Sunny...
The Son comes up in the valley
(I later wrote a song for our church that was inspired by that photo too ... but I'll spare you. :-)>)
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Excuse me...me thinks ... something musta got into my eyes...
<sniff sniff>
(dang GWA...what a touching story and, lovely poem!)One is never too old to yearn. Italian Proverb
Well, I can't believe I'm going to post this on the forum, but as long as I'm showing my kinder gentler side, here's a much better photo inspired poem.
Don't worry, the attached photo is not of my kinder gentler side. It is the back door of an old abandoned store on the homestead where the ex-wife and I used to spend our Sundays. I found it one day while building a pile of discard photos and got all inspired. (You know it's got to be a truly inspired work when you see the word "alas" right?)
Anyway, Here you go. Put on a black turtle neck, get yourself a glass of wine and some cheese, light a few candles, then open the picture before you read the poem - I don't know why, it just works better that way... <G>
The Door
Though I feign a countenance euphoricAs Chaplinesquley on through life I marchmany are the empty hollow heartachesstrewn before the scarred and battereddoorway of my heart.
Thus safe atop encasing walls of graniteI lift my golden chalice to the crowdbut never offer I an invitationfor a soul to breach the doorway of my shroud.
And so I fashion strong my gilded fortressand so I fear to love and fail to dreamand so this heart once quickened by love’s whisperhardens ‘neath the rule of fear’s regime.
Safe within these halls of hallowed darknessI risk no peril from a lover lostI fear no bitter failure or frustrationnor the cold and biting pains of winter’s frost.
But alas I know the fingers of life’s sunsetwill caress some day this raged face of stone.Will I not consider then what I have conqueredand lament the guarded life I’ve spent alone?
In that hour as soul forth reaches toward immortalAnd this heart cries out "give peace" in haunted tonesWill those cries not echo back devoid of answerOff the walls of guarded years I’ve spent alone
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"Well, I can't believe I'm going to post this on the forum..."
Thank you for sharing GWA. I enjoyed it! Ya write good. (and forgive me but...at 98 deg F and 99% humidity here in AR...I had to go with the black half top instead of turtleneck!)
Do "The Alphabet Song" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" have the same tune? and... Why did you just try singing those two songs?
Happy Birthday dude.
May love and sunshine come walking thru your door...
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Thanks, and she did - Screwed up my dark side big time!
Nothing but corny prose since. :-)>
I was in a strange mood for an egg sandwich this morning. I had to blow out the candle she stuck in it before I could eat it. Now how in the heck am I supposed to write decent poetry with that sort of thing going on all the time?!
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Nice vignette - tks for sharing.
As to:
"Now how in the heck am I supposed to write decent poetry with that sort of thing going on all the time?!"
Well sometimes one can get inspired from re-reading prose from the acknowledged masters of the genre.
Try "The Builders" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, for e.g.
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Wow, love it! Longfellow is an easy poet to read. I've read several of Longfellow's poems, even have a couple of his books, but I don't think that one is in any of them. I'm pretty sure I would have remembered reading it because it really struck a chord.
I think that's what I like about him over several of the others. You can sit down with Hiawatha (sp) or ride with Paul Revere for several hours without getting lost. I noticed after reading several pages of Hiawatha once that I was actually hearing tom-tom drums in my head. Just amazing how he developed that rhythm.
Anyway, ah-pree-shate-cha! We might have to start a new builder's poems thread so as not to highjack, but here is another Longfellow that will probably resonate with several members of the forum.
THE CASTLE-BUILDER
A gentle boy, with soft and silken locks A dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes,A castle-builder, with his wooden blocks, And towers that touch imaginary skies.
A fearless rider on his father's knee, An eager listener unto stories toldAt the Round Table of the nursery, Of heroes and adventures manifold.
There will be other towers for thee to build; There will be other steeds for thee to ride;There will be other legends, and all filled With greater marvels and more glorified.
Build on, and make thy castles high and fair, Rising and reaching upward to the skies;Listen to voices in the upper air, Nor lose thy simple faith in mysteries.
*Just so I don't go too far afield, I'll attach a dramatic sky shot I took of one of the "castles" my firm built a few years ago. :-)> Even mid-day sun can be dramatic with a few clouds and a high level of saturation and contrast.
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That's not dramatic.Now THIS is dramatic !!
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LOL - yup! Looks like mid-day in Texas alright.
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You know, after reading all the posts about the heat, I am beginning to think that maybe I should be thankful for 56-65 degrees and constant rain...We had this weather all summer last year. By the end of summer I felt gypped. We never actually HAD a sunmmer last year.I hope we get at least a month of summer this year.
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It's really not that bad, just a matter of adjustment. I sure get moody after a couple days of overcast skies so this climate is perfect for me. Nothing a little freon can't handle! :-)>
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This tangent on heat, the birthday thread, and all these great photos reminds me of the photography trip I took on my 30th birthday. A buddy and I drove 13 hours to Colorado, hiked all day to the peak of a glacier formed lake, for the soul purpose of having a great photography outing, and the shutter battery died on my Canon AE-1 about halfway up the assent - no spare.
Here's a shot I took from a meadow about halfway up, just before I realized my folly. It does make me wish for the comfort of a cooler climate right about now.
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Acted upon your comment/idea...and simultaneously answered your prior query/comment to me in Woodshed thread...
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Jim,
I took this one in Balboa Park (San Diego, CA).
Editws to add: Don't why it attached twice!
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Edited 7/6/2005 1:40 pm ET by jazzdogg
Hey Jazz, Like the rats and the pied-piper, I was just following the music over this way and found you here.Here are a few shots from the Smokies in April. #65 and 78 are at the base of Hen Wallow Falls. 3 and 10 are of a long black snake coming down the side of a large tree, then going back into his hole after having his picture taken a few more times. 1481 It was snowing and windy up on Clingmans Dome.
Nice snaps, Keith!-Jazzdogg-
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These clouds coupled with the sun don't happen often enough.
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Here are a few of the skies I worked under while we were building the house.
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that pic of the snake going right up that tree is great ! What kind is it ?
Hey Jazzy! I'm in San Diego too !
Hi Joe,
Being from San Diego, you'll undoubtedly recognize these images!-Jazzdogg-
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Those are some great pics !Have you considered doing an article for FHB ???
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LOL - yea, I've even got the title ready...
"How to build a house you'll never finish in three years or less for twice your initial budget!"
I could have sworn the sky was perfectly clear over every one of my neighbor's houses when I took each of those pictures. <G>
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There IS a reason it's called, Big Country.
Nice pics, BTW.
Whadda mean it's last call? I just got here.
Jim, there are some people I guess who don't even notice the beauty in a sunrise. Can't understand how they miss it.
Here's something that we all could walk by without any more than a passing glance. Sure, from a distance it's pretty, but up real close, a whole nother world.
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Wow. GREAT shots Cal!
Is that a "Monarda Didmya Scarlett"? (sp?)
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Thank you. I go exploring with the closeup lens joyce got me for Christmas.
I know it's monarda, after that I'm lost.
This group has leaves around the bloom that are red, any help?
Here's one I like of an early bloom. No tri-pod and a slow speed, I should go find it again for a clean shot.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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"...with the closeup lens joyce got me for Christmas"
Wah!?!?! It's not one of the Riverfest door prizes? RATS...
;-)
Really beautiful shots there Cal. Really hoping to be able to see all this IRL next month. Meanwhile, keep an eye on your snail mail...
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Well, you'll see a changed landscape. Nothing stays the same here. If the fest was early last month there'd be this outline of Dames Rocket. May into June is really aromatic here. Come August, hopefully it won't be too drab. Just about all the garden is shade and perenials that like that. By later in the summer most of the blooming plants have finished.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Well one expects the blooming in a garden to be dynamic...tis the nature of things. (Like the pun???)
Nice WELCOMING shot.
(Ya gonna email me driving directions to your place from my hotel or do I gotta find Luka and the shuttle van and stick my thumb out...assuming I make it?)
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I'm sending a flyer and map. It'll have your route hi-lited to here.
Need arrival time if you know it.........and departure.
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Dang, that closeup lens kicks a$$. Friend sent me the attached. We don't have closeup lens, so we just get as close as possible, crop it to size and hope the pic is clear (most of the time it isn't clear enough).
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Edited 7/11/2005 12:43 pm ET by JohnT8
Man you guys are really stepping it up a notch with the addition of those flower pic's! If this thread doesn't facilitate the "return of Newf" I think it's a dead hope.
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Here ya go, another one from the same friend. When his wife ain't out snapping pics of flowers, he is taking pics of his current 'hobby'.
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not a close-up , taken with a fisheye and then cropped"
here is the original"
Hope is never dead, but you know how stubborn some people can be. Haven't been "flowered" by Newf lately? How about these from this morning's email?
Yehaw - hope springs eternal after all! What's the emoticon for dancing with glee?!! Welcome home young lady!
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Nice to see ya back around, kiddo. Hope you'll stick with us.
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Nice of him to smile for your picture :)
I have to admit I don't take too many flower pics, so I will offer up another one a friend took.
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Edited 7/12/2005 1:45 pm ET by JohnT8
Is it just my imagination or do the faces on those flowers in the second shot bear a strong resemblance to Newf?
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Hey cal, I lovvvvve taking pics of flowers. Hope Jim doesn't mind the hijack<G>Mrs 'Snort is into orchids, dang strange plants. I messed around with some filters on this one... Don't worry, we can fix that later!
Wow! Looks like angelic hosts dropping in for a surprise visit or something.
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I like the angelic point of view. I usually see them as out there in a more alien way, or as amazingly erotic<G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!
This is off a 25' World Cat behind Topsail Inlet. It's good to have friends<G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!
After spending nearly a month in Richmond, VA working on our house there I returned to the mountains and found this great thread.
A couple of months ago I stoped to take a picture of a house renovation that a new neighbor is doing. I am attaching a picture of the renovation and a view that that house had at that moment in time.
DaneI will always be a beginner as I am always learning.
Sweet, everyone!
Have an appointment to get my scanner reattached Saturday. Can't wait to spend a little time going through my negatives.
Can't wait - It's sure to be a positive experience for all of us.
Just tease us and leave us... I see how you are. <G>
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see if this one came through the scan ok to see
Well, these aren't of a caliber with what's already been posted, but it is a part of the country that's been a little neglected in this thread. Sunset was taken in south central Utah, the rest are Bryce.
Clearly no reason to apologize for them. They're great. And making me think about a road trip. Incredible country. Been a long time since we were there. Thanks.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Well, I gotta post one more pic. This is my 3 (now 4) year old - she did the whole hike down into the canyon and out again without being carried. What a trooper!
All right! Getting her started early. And good lookin' like her mom.
Now you've gotta get her ready to pack your gear into that slightly larger canyon a little farther south (in Arizona).
We always figured the best time to visit Utah was early winter. Arches, with a little snow, is wonderful too.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!
Great shots
Here's a couple of Bryce with the snow melted off
Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing those.
Jim, just back in the door from up at Kelly's Island on Lake Erie.
North east side of the island, campsites on the water, oh man.
Used the saturation bombing method of framing the shot.
You'll be the first to know if something came out good.
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was just a perfect day last time I was though there - you couldn't take a bad shot
Actually, I tend to think Bryce is a more photogenic canyon than the Grand
Edited 7/15/2005 3:04 am ET by Shoeman
Wow !! Another BT'er with just the right eye !Are these the only pic size you have of these, or are they made smaller from larger pictures ?If made smaller, could you either post, or email me these in 1024x768 ?I could enlarge these, but they'd lose detail.
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going back a few years
View Imageedited to add when I first loaded this, it seemed too dark on the monitor I was useing, so I tried adding some brightness in a photo editor - I don't know how to use any of that fancy stuff - should just stick to resizing for posting - now that I see it on another monitor, it seems all washed out - oh well - you get the idea
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Edited 7/15/2005 3:09 am ET by Shoeman
Luka, You're right with the talent here.
That and a little bit of luck like reserving 3 adjoining campsites and getting this venue.
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Sunrise, northshore of Kelly's Island, Oh.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Spectacular! Thi sthread has me redoing my wallpaper every day, Sometimes twice.
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Here you go, sitting offshore.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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YEA BABY!
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Fantastic shot Calvin
thank you.
almost overslept this one.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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again.........WOW..............
Here is a water shot for you - no sunrise or sunset, just glass smooth water
Edited 7/15/2005 9:33 am ET by Shoeman
try that again
very nice.
very very nice.
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That is a keeper. Got 'er set as my wallpaper.
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Wow, where's that area? Canoeing?
Can't remember the name of the lake, but, If my memory serves me right it was a lake on the side of the Richardson Highway just south of the Denali Highway
more vague answer? Alaska
Here ya go.
Anybody on dialup, these are just giant versions of what's already posted - no need to reopen.
Thank you very much !!Really excellent pics !Now if I could just get everyone to post in the 1024 size...; )
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Here ya go pal.
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I could have been happier going my entire life never having seen that !
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Ohh. You don't want just any 1024 picture?
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I'd rather still be able to sleep after opening a thread here.I'm finicky that way.Now I'm not going to get any beauty sleep between now and the fest.
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Don't worry a little ether on a hanky you'll be sleeping like a baby.View Image
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I'd post 1024 for you, but I have watched too many people get beat down around here and schooled in the Infranview or whatever that I am tramatized.
Seriously though, if you want anything I've posted in 1024 just say the word.
I've been avoiding posting big ones to keep the file sizes down. But I also offered to email a larger version of any of the stuff I posted if someone wanted me to. And I'm sure many of the others would do likewise. Or maybe everyone who posted stuff could upload a 640X480 size, and also a 1024X768 size.
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A: BINGO.
Looking over the 14th to 16th century slate roofs of Mont St. Michael, Normandy, France.
And Shoeman...I was kind of hoping for the latter.Post both.I am on dialup. I like the small pics too. But these are not just the run of the mill construction pics. Or pics of the latest "look who did something stupid on the highway" pics, etc...If I take the smaller pics and enlarge them to fit the 1024 screen, they lose quality. I have the double rainbow up now. And while it isn't terrible, it has lost some quality.I don't mind waiting for the larger pic in this thread.As long as you aren't simply enlarging a smaller picture yourself, and do have a larger one, It would be appreciated.=0)
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Yea but when I did it you had double standards.
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Not double at all.I have standards.Your pic doesn't meet them.See... Now you have not only deprived me of beauty sleep, you are making me get ugly.I hope when I get to the fest everyone knows it's all your fault.
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Ohh your way beyond sleep to fix that mug.
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Howz zis? Don't worry, we can fix that later!
You're spoiling him.
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Cool !!!Thanks.
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Well, here's a shot you might like. I took it one day when my boys were wading in a crick out at the farm. You'll notice that it's convienently provided in 640X480 preview size, as well as a 1024X768 wallpaper size.
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Thank you Ron.=0)
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What you do with that camera borders on criminal.When you point the camera at the landscape you get art.But when I point the camera at the landscape I get a snapshot !There aughtta be a law !
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Come on man, nature is there. Nothing to it. You create art, this is already there. Hardest part is getting up early enough to take the shot.
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Cal, in photography there are pictures, and there is art.There are whole communities of people who are artists and aspiring artists with the camera.Like this one... http://wetcanvas.com/forums/channels.php?s=&channel_id=23What you and Bob Simonson, and Aimless, and 'snort, and Shoeman, and a few others around here do with that camera is art.
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alright.
thank you.
are-teeeest.
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And another example. Just look at Jim Blodgett.He's really pushing the line into art with those pinhole cameras and other stuff that he is doing.Either he already had the panoramic pinhole camera made, or he was working on one, when he was at Rhodefest.Maybe it was that he already had the one with stationary holes, and was working on an idea where the hole would move slowly around a cylinder.All of that to take an out-of-focus picture !! LOL That is art.But so is having a natural eye for framing a picture, and knowing a good one when you see it. I think you would wow them at any competition.
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Wow great shot! Biking? Please tell us about that!
I used to run a wilderness lodge in Denali National Park. There were old mining roads in the area that you could go biking on. That shot was taken on the top of Wickersham Dome which I beleive is only 35 or 40 miles from the base of Denali.
Was a great place to spend summers. Wintered in Fairbanks - the darkness got a bit old.
RE: Alaska - did you/do you know Kirk Hoessle and 'Alaskan Wildland Adventures'?
"there's enough for everyone"
I hear Alaska. My daughter is working at a gift shop near Denali this summer...sent me these the other day:
We're going up there for a visit mid-August.
Could you post a larger size of "EmilyALflowers.jpg" ?
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Would like to, but it's lost.
Thanks anyway.=0)
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The name sounds very familiar - but I can't quite place him.
Oh man, that was cold !!I thought you liked my rugged handsomeness.
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Hey Jeff, here is larger copy of the double rainbow pic for you.
I have the photos or the original files taken with a 6.3 megapixel camera of anything I post here or in the "Critter Shots" thread - so I can send you even larger than the 1024 if you want.
Thank you.=0)These are great !
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Quick! Get the shovels out and follow the rainbow, there is a sweet pot of gold buried at the end of the rainbow!!! Nice shot of double rainbows!
Hey glad to see you back. Thanks for the new wallpaper.
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Hail, Theodora -
so good to see you posting -
here's one more sunset from last May - View Image"there's enough for everyone"
I'm getting a wallpaper a day out of you guys.
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Here is a picture of Mt. Rainier that I took last year.
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This is a stream beside the road going to a kitchen remodel I did a few months ago. I was back there recently and - now that the rainy season is over - it's just a trickle.
Nice, everyone. Very, very nice.
Inspiring, actually.
Calvin,
Your close-ups are great!. Mine are taken from a little farther away because I seldom remember to bring my tripod and my hands aren't as steady as they used to be!
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Thank you and right back atcha.
That close up lens magnifies more than just the target. Every breath, twitch or blow of the wind. What I find amazing is the things I don't see till I load the picture.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Here's a shot I took when I was out mowing early one morning.
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Once you've seen one shopping centre, you've seen a mall.
Ron, a morning like that is my favorite.
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If you liked that pic, it's suitable for use as desktop wallpaper. I can email it to you (or anyone) if you want a large version. Just don't like to post stuff that's TOO big.
Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
We remember taking photos that close too. We used the add on close-up lens and it did show a whole new world there! What was yours? On one of the photos that my wife took of the snap dragons it did show it pretty spooky. No one could beleive it was a flower...
A Nikon D100 with a 90mmMacro lens. Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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this is the last time
feeling bold now , this is from the other end of Lake Michigan"
my buddy Randy, closing a 138kv switch"
Could you post that lighthouse shot in a larger size ?
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is this OK?"
Do you have a larger original ?This looks like you just enlarged what you had already posted.Enlarging this even further would make it so pixelated, it would be worthless as a wallpaper. I need a larger original pic.If you don't have a larger file size original, thanks for trying anyway.=0)
"And, in my humble view, neither Democratic nor Republican party politics has anything to do with lib or con anymore. It's now just pandering to the visceral hatred that's been bred amongst those who refuse to waste their time and energy performing one of the singular most difficult tasks known to man: thinking." -SHG
Give me some time to find it as the orig is on a cd, and my filing system really sucks....LOL"edit :
man o man there is a really large file for you two posts down ...I sent the thing to me by mistake
Edited 11/10/2005 6:37 am by maddog3
I found one of the St Joe Mich. LH .......while your waiting sir...."
Very cool !Thank you very much.=0)
"And, in my humble view, neither Democratic nor Republican party politics has anything to do with lib or con anymore. It's now just pandering to the visceral hatred that's been bred amongst those who refuse to waste their time and energy performing one of the singular most difficult tasks known to man: thinking." -SHG
My pleasure, I will try to find the other one with the gull OK?"
Thank you.=0)
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I found it....I only hope ..."it"... is the one you want LOL
.....one more....
That's it ! You got the right one.It DOES look like an oil painting.=0)And it just might end up being one if I show it to some friends.;o)Thank you ! It just became my wallpaper.
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wow..thank you for the compliiment .glad to oblige
Since you are into positing michigan lighthouses he's a couple more.East Channel Lighthouse Munising Bay, Lake Superior, MichiganStannard Rock, Lake Superior
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Hey Thanks, those are two I have not seen
thanks Armin!A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Hey, whaddaya doing posting a picture of an oil painting <grin>?
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it is weird how it turned out !Thanks... jazzdog
Me and the dog in church this morning. It's kind of a hassle to set the camera up on a log hit the timer and run back to get in the shot. On my way back the dog had pulled the pack that she was tied to over and it scared her so she wasn't in the mood to look pretty, or cooperate.
Maybe I should just take pics of the scenery instead.
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THANKS BLODGETT!
I would yell at Calvin but he ran away camping. Thanks to your thread I've went and ordered a new digital camera from Amazon. The freebie company Mavica is getting to bulky.
This picture taking is kind of cool.
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How about a couple of sunsets from a recent fishing trip both from Martha's Vineyard. The first one is from Cape Poge the other from Menemsha Pond, both taken while flyfishing for stipers.
Good morning.
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They called it stormy monday.
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Can anyone play here, Here are a few good ones Skiing at Sugarloaf Mtn in ME, Mtn Biking in Camden ME and Sunset on the honeymoon in the Caribbean
"Zeroscape" is the back yard and "Texas Sunset" is the Highway at the front of our property. I took these shots on the 13th.
They are the last pictures of those two views without 360' tall wind turbines in them. Fitting that nature cooperated so nicely... one last time.
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Bigger please.
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I bet you've heard that all your life.
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Actually I've always heard, "that's too big".You know, Gunner you really shouldn't assume that everyone else has had the same experiences you have...
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Booger eater.
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Poopie head.To infinity !
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Hey Ralph, better request a room on another floor.
in another wing.
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Sorry, those are on my dial-up puter at home and I don't have the speed to upload large files. I'll see if I can load them back on the camera and bring them to the office tomorrow.
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Cool.=0)
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That was then, this is now...
Ah well, the humming birds are still fun too watch. Excuse the slow shutter - I was standing at the kitchen window, aiming for the horizon, and managed to catch a visitor.
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Kevin, ystdy, working around here. This catches my eye and I'm camera-less, but not for long. Settings all screwed up, no tripod and there's a bit of a long shutter speed setting.................
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Wonder what they took this one with?
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I don't know but while working in the shop today, i've got the camera on a tripod, increased the shutter speed a bunch and I've been stopping the wings, but there's alot of noise in the shot. Needed to use the flash to brighten enough, could only open the aperture to 5.6, must be the lens limit I guess.
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The elusive picture. And I'm def. not satisfied, hope the little guy comes back.
edit: It looks even worse here on the attmt. Like an impressionist oil. Must be some loss in the translation.
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Edited 7/22/2005 1:54 pm ET by calvin
They are tuff little buggers to shoot.
I have many shots but none that are quite right. Sit there at the picinic table and someone says - wow look at the humming birds - the second I pick up my camera their off.
Really like those irradecent green ones.
I tried again this aftn, they really like those monarda. I'll hope when I load them that they're better............
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Dang, calThey are hard to get...as a matter of fact, I can't even find the few good pics I've gotten<G>and that's out of a couple hundred, ha...Try focus on infinity, and the burst mode...and then hire someone to keep track of what you shot. LOL There is nothing--absolutely nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Ernest H. Shepard
Ok, I might have one, it's on the fridge, but I can't find it in this digital toolbox...here's a runner up... There is nothing--absolutely nothing--half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Ernest H. Shepard
Looks like it won't be long before you have as many windmills around you as they do out at Iraan.
I was out there a few weeks ago and I think they have multiplied.
I've been thrown into better places than this.
I just saw all these beautiful photos and thought you guys might like the one I attached. It was taken during the spring near a place called the "Grapevine" north of Los Angeles off Interstate 5. The wildflowers were mind boggling!
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Thanks Calvin,
The photo does not do it justice!
Wow !The nature of nature.Do you have that in 1024 width without having to magnify it yourself ?If so, could you post it ?
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Luka,
I will attempt a 1024 width and post it. Nature!
Cool !Thank you.I can enlarge this one myself to 1024. But it will lose quality that way. So if that is the plan, please don't go to that trouble.If you have one that is already that size or larger, that is what I was hoping for.=0)
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Luka,
Try this...
Thanks for trying Steve.It's the same either way.Exactly the same artifacting that is noticeable when it is enlarged.It's really good as is, though.It certainly made it into my pile of wallpapers.=0)Now I am wondering how it would look as a painting.
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Maybe should have been posted in the critter shots thread - but, it seemed more appropriate here
Fantastic shot Steve.
Shoe, do you think any of the picture posters hang at a photo site? Or are we just wood guys that like to take pictures. Posting pictures of our work is hard because we're in such good company. Still sometimes we did something nice and post it. But has anyone here gone to a photo site and posted some of this stuff? I don't know alot about art or photography, but there's some nice pictures here. They're so much more than just "vacation" shots.
Which brings this to mind. What compels you? What do you feel looking for a shot? What sense of satisfaction do you get?
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Did you check out that site that I linked to ?
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Honest?
No.
But I have been perusing a couple of others that some folks here at home suggested. I guess it's no different than posting jobs here or at QT. You think it's good enough and do it. Just something more mystifying about the photo site. Hell, I've been working in the trades for so long it doesn't much phase me at all. You get lucky and have an eye for how something should look, it's not hard to be proud of your work. But all this art talk puts the photo taking and showing in some kind of other world, at least to me. I've gotten some real nice things said of some of my pictures here. I entered and did well in one nature photo contest I entered. I don't know what I'm trying to say exactly, but it's just plain #### 'ed different.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Well take a few minutes tomorrow to check it out.I'm not surprised that you won.You have an eye for composition, contrast, color, etc. Call it stretching it if you want, but the elements that make art what it is, show up in your pics. And in those of several others here.I think you'd find some interesting stuff at the art forum. And you just might get more of a photography bug than you already do.And that is aside from the fact that there are people there that can explain to you what I have tried to say, and do a helluva better job of it.
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Don't know about others and photo sites.
I have never been to a photo site.
I always kinda liked snapping pictures, then when I moved to Alaska, I had to go out and buy a 35mm. Nothing fancy - just a used Canon Rebel. But the scenery was such that I was compelled to take pictures of some of it to show my friends back home in Minnesota. You know - the whole "worth a thousand words" thing.
Still shoot 99.9 percent on fully auto, idiot proof, point and shoot, what you see is what you get mode. Fortunately, I have been lucky to see some pretty cool things when I had a camera around.
Don't know if I've answered your questions at all. Really think my motivation is simply to capture nature and be able to relate it to others without having to use a lot of words.
Thank you, you answered exactly. And you furthered my thinking on being some damn lucky to be where the shot is, taking it being secondary, having it come out nice being pure luck with a little help and ambition. I'm still thinking Luka's a bit stretching it with the heavy "art" theme.
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Went out hiking with the dog this morning. Got a couple on the new digital.
The first one is a trail shot nothing to spectacular, the next one is a lake that's great to hang out at. I couldn't get any cool flower pictures to come out looking as good as Cals so I took a picture of the pancakes I made when we got back, and of course the dof by the stove picture waiting for a pancake.
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Leave me alone I'm gonna take a nap after the pancakes.
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Man gunner, I got high speed and those pictures took 4 seconds to view!
You keep that up and I'm not gonna open your stuff anymore.
BTW, I had pancakes for breakfast this morn myself, but mine never stick around long enough for photographs!
Doug
If you right click and open them in another window then they open smaller it seems. Also look at the file size.
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those pictures took 4 seconds
I didnt think 4 sec's was all that long, was making a joke!
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Here's one I took last weekend. Took it during a camping/canoe trip to the Current River in Missouri.
I got up at about 5am and walked down to check out the river. There was a mist covering it, and it looked pretty cool. So I waded out and took a few shots. This one is the best one.
Here's a thumbnail:
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And this is a link to the full sized 1024X768 pic if anyone likes it and wasnts to use it as a wallpaper.
You get a canoe later and I'll paddle you.
Excelent !!Thanks for the link. It's my new wallpaper.=0)
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LOL I just read yours after posting to Boss. EWWW! KEWL! We have matching wallpaper.
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Great minds wallpaper alike !
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ROAR!
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Aren't you guys also going to be sharing a room at the fest? What's next, matching shirts? Oh, yeah, there ARE going to be fest shirts. Y'all are starting to get a little scary.
Yer telling me....
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That was worth getting up for, wasn't it.
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Thanks for the new wallpaper.
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My addition to the thread...Tupper Lake, New York..getting ready for a day on the ice....sorry the pic is so dark.....
If you aren't one of the one's I'm talking about,you shouldn't have any complaints....
Can you reduce the size a fuzz? I remember Tupper. Not far from where I was born if I remember correctly. Inlet/Eagle BayRemodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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yep..let me see if Irfanview can take care of that....forgot to mention we saw a bald eagle that morning just a bit later...will try and post again real soon.....If you aren't one of the one's I'm talking about,you shouldn't have any complaints....
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the heat this week in the northwest has been no fun
its hit high 90s here for days
so looking at your shots an the first 20 or so responces
everyone a beauty
man I cant wait till next week
a week kyaking the umpqua, and the in september , a week off port townsend
right now, as Im swetting my asp off after cooking in the sun all day since 6am
now in an non ac office thats in the 90's
port townsend, on the water, sounds like godsend
oh an by the way, if your not in the northwest, and dont know about port townsend, dont worry, its nothing, stay away, waste fo time, go to disneyworld for your break
just like many of you , who have a place of beauty adn cool water, and one more tourista is too many
then again, good friends, laughing, relaxing, cooling off while the water laps your toes, welcome, welcome
Here's one I took last weekend while out galavanting.
Warning it's a big file but I left it that way in case someone wanted it for a wallpaper.
I'll cut it down and repost it in a second for the SLOW children.
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Here's the slow version.
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Fishing rod leaning by the door, frying pan on the stove ready for your break to run out and catch a walleye and have a nice sandwich for lunch....
Hey 'Snort, old buddy, glad to know you're out there somewhere. Do you remember this one? McWay Falls, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Big Sur...hey, I'l buy you a beer, you drink it, I'll get the buzz<G>The poster formerly known as 'Snort
Just like you to hide the pic<G>The poster formerly known as 'Snort
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Trick photography<G> "what's in a name?" d'oh!
If you boys would have dragged yourselves out of bed a tad sooner and waited to attack the Diner, you'd have seen this lovely morning light, waterfowl, and color.
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Ya know, I mentioned it, but T just gave me the bird, and we did have 3 pillows to play with<G> Dang pretty place you've got up there.Speaking of birds, a buddy took this... "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Gorgeous.
Big lens, close set up, how'd he do it?
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cal, he built his own digital camera!...built a table saw and a lathe too...did I mention crazy as a loon? "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Well, I certainly wouldn't think of competing with that.
A gull, almost fully auto. Last nite, down river.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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You guys are giving me the itch. Headed for the darkroom right now (well, as soon as I get caffiened up).
Nice shots, all 'round.
Looks like taking a nature walk with you could be dangerous<G> "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Took a nature walk to Stratford, Ontario over Labor Day. Here's the morning on the Avon.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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And in keeping with the ferocity of nature, some more wild fowl.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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You keep the morning covered, please, it's the only way I'll se it<G>but dinner time, I can handle.In the ferocity of nature theme, here's some from this weekend at the coast. Ophelia was stirring things up a bit... "what's in a name?" d'oh!
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I'm lucky enough to have some great friends with a house on Emerald Isle overlooking Bogue Sound. Those were off their dock. It's down below Morehead City/Atlantic Beach. Hope this weather stuff lets up enough for some king fishing in a couple of weeks, and I might get some more pics, I only have 10,000...LOL "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Not on par with other stuff in this thread but here's a nature shot I took recently
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A candid shot that just warms the very cockles of my heart "what's in a name?" d'oh!
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How you gonna keep them down on the farm after they've seen...
Dang, a rare Tri-Plex<G>You didn't happen to get a pic of that cultured block log cabin thing down the street from cal's, did ya? Man, Maumee, does have it all! "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Went for a ride today. Found a cool shot of a bridge. Well it's cool to me anyway.
NOTE:Forgot to downsize the pic until I started choking Prospero on the upload. Resized it and uploaded it at 640x480. So ignore the 2 meg one.
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hey that is a nice bridge.....how long to make toothpicks out of it with your new toy?"
That's how I look at everything now. How many seconds willit take to cut in half.
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You know that Robbie Robertson song where he says "...how come you always end up down at Mike's place? I don't know, the wind just seems to blow me that way..."?
On the corner.
Wind could blow 4 ways.
Good for business.
Tried to show you folks as much of the area as we could. We missed Dales. A good place, good sandwiches, and peanut shells on the floor. They used to cut your tie off after 5. Had a whole lot of 'em hanging from the ceiling.
Any of you pass through again, gimme a call. We'll hit a couple more places.
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......suhweeet"
A bridge pic someone had sent me a while back (they found it online somewhere). Kinda liked it, so kept it in the wallpaper folder.
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You know john, somebody has probably done it.........but a photobook of bridges would sure be interesting. They are a thing of beauty.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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You know john, somebody has probably done it.........but a photobook of bridges would sure be interesting. They are a thing of beauty.
I used to take pics of barns when I was a kid. Probably 90% of those barns are gone. When I was a kid, they'd burn the old, monster-sized barns down so that they could put up a cheapie metal utility shed.
Just have NO idea where the pics are. :)
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give me a hint holly.
What the heck is a cultured block log cabin thing anyway?
Here's one entry in the Nature Photo Contest. Won't win anything, but to get on the first page of entrants is a real treat..........if I get lucky.
And a couple 100km Ontario roadway shots I didn't think fell under the Open Nature heading.
You let me know a bit more on that cabin and I'll go take a picture. Like Jim, I love this "hobby".A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Those last two shots are a big WOW!
Doug
Thanks Doug. A little color tweaking with Elements on the second one.
The first is what the camera sees.
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The second with just a bit of adjustment of color and contrast levels.
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For that photo contest they suggest limiting after shot messing around. So nothing but pure, virgin picture for that. I like that. It puts it all on the subject and the eye.
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Very cool!
Has a three dimensional look to it.
Doug
In those pics I wasn't driving. Check this for a surreal feeling.......A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Have not had time to check out all of the pics in this thread that I've somehow missed along the way.
I've been playing with some panoramic shots near my home, narrow and long, well lets see what happens. I apologize for the size.
Is that dock curved, or is that a curved film plane, or...?
"Is that dock curved, or is that a curved film plane, or...?"
The picture is 5 pictures joined together, there is a panoramic setting on my Canon digital. The software that puts them together came with the camera and is called Photostich. The wharf looks curved because the foreground is shorter in comparison to the horizon after they are joined.
Heres anothe one. My 4yr old at the little beach down the road this summer. Maybe 6 pictures joined together.
Edited 11/1/2005 1:06 am by gordsco
That's it, holding traffic up while you slow down to take a pic.
;)
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Well, if I had slowed down, that would have been a factor. Road construction kept me at 25 and as you could see with the framing of the photo, no aim taken.
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You let me know a bit more on that cabin and I'll go take a picture.If'n I can recall correctly, it's about a block from your driveway, towards the bridge. Looked to be faceted cinder blocks of some sort, maybe a gambrel roof. Corners of the building kinda looked like lapped logs?Hey, the way Mr. T was driving, there was no way I was getting a picture<G> "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Yessir, there are block like that around here, peculiar to around the '30's. The lapped log look is probably some decorative quoin's. I'll have a look.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Hey got to prop this thread back up. Here's some I took walking around the French Quarter this morning. I love big cities in the morning.
They are just random pics. Nothing spectacular but some might find them interesting.
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Here's a few more I took from the roof a few minutes ago.
The one marked day1 is from earlier. I got a little confused when I attached those.
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Thanks gunner.
You'd never no the devastation that city went though.
The french qtr was pretty much untouched by the flooding and winds?
What's the talk about this upcoming yrs MardiGras?A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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The French quarter got off pretty easy that's why a lot of the workers are staying down here. There is still a lot of businesses closed because of lack of manpower. The house of Blues which is a block away is finaly due to open the 12th. Maybe next time I come back I can make it to one of their localy famous Sunday morning gospel breakfasts. That's something I really want to attend. Local musicians jamming.
They say they are going to hold Mardi Gras. One complaint being raised by evacuees is that they can't find homes for them to return to the city. But the city is going to find housing for a hundred thousand tourist.
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"I love big cities in the morning"
Yeah, I don't know what that is, almost an air of anticipation as the day begins or something. I always find cities far more interesting in the morning, too.
Yer pic is clearer than mine.
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"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."-- Hal Borland
Edited 9/12/2005 11:23 am ET by JohnT8
I took the dog out hiking (well actually mulling around in the woods) this morning and came across some really nice scenes. Here's three.
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Sorry 11-05-05 2 got by me in resizing here it is for the Duppers.
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Can't believe you have water there, and that the dog wasn't in it. I picked up some some killer Keen lowcut waterproof hikers, I'll try to remember to get some pics of Mrs 'Snort and the pup doin' perk test bores tomorrow...I'll be the one in the cool shoes<G> "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Yea she was all in it. She talked me into leaving the trail half way through. I don't let her off leash back there cause she's too hard headed when she gets something on her mind. And we ran into a couple wild dogs earlier this year in that area. But anyway we splashed all the way down the creek on our way back to the jeep. She loves it.
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Yer pup sounds so open minded..Sometimes I ask the one that sleeps on our porch to do human stuff. That's when I get "the look. I love a dog that's really a dog. "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Her favorite trick is to wait until I'm ready to lay down then jump on my pillow and lay there. If I'm in the mood to play the game I'll just lay my head there and go to sleep. She loves it. Soon as I get into deep sleep she'll stand up walk right across the top of me and go lay down on my feet. She has to be touching some part of me all night.
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I know you know this, but it's nice to have a friend like that, isn't it? Bet Luka feels that way about you, huh? "what's in a name?" d'oh!
I never missed my dog when I was at Riverfest. I slept like a log........................Hey wait a minute that aint right!
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Edited 11/5/2005 8:55 pm ET by Gunner
Damn good thing you're into self help...I was thinking of having Mr T spend some quality time with you<G> "what's in a name?" d'oh!
ROAR!
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That's some nice looking country, Gunner. Where do you live?
Hey 'snort - did you say "perk bores"? As in septic tests for a building permit?
Kantuck but you knew that.
That's where I try to go every weekend, take the dog, do a little hiking, waste some time.
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I know I'm boring, and, I'm getting even better at it<G>Yep, 30 acres for sale, 10 acres wrap around us. Mrs 'Snort cold called owner. Turns out, he'd like to sell. 9,500 beans an acre. That's a lot of moola for me.Turns out, he's got three 10+ acre lots in an already developed subdivision. 2 and 1/2 acre lots allowed in the covenants, which have expired.I could probably get a loan for 1 lot. Perkability is a bitch around here...I'm finding 1 and 1/2 sites on the one lot that wraps around us, which has some gorgeous stuff on it. I hate to be a pig, but 'd love to find three...dang, 2 would be okay... County wants $310 per perk site for approval. Soils engineer might cost 500 beans per site, but that would alleviate the county (and my tax dollars)...ahhhh, the cost of raping the landSo, yeah, I'm boring... "what's in a name?" d'oh!
That does sound like a lot for land. (At least around here).But you'll likely never have another chance to buy land adjacent to yours. I'd think pretty hard about it if it was me...
If something doesn't feel right, you're not feeling the right thing
< I'd think pretty hard about it if it was me...>I'm tryin to think of the winning lottery number<G>...and I'm trying to stall him from putting it on the market just as long as I can. It's not even a tough decision, it's finding the moola, that's tough. "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Yep, 30 acres for sale, 10 acres wrap around us. Mrs 'Snort cold called owner. Turns out, he'd like to sell. 9,500 beans an acre. That's a lot of moola for me.
That's a chunk of change, but like Boss says, it is rare that you get a chance to buy the ground adjacent to ya, and IMHO, 90% of the time you'll wish you had. Make him a lower offer, maybe he will take it.
jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
The property I'm sitting on has almost doubled in 10 years. We got it through owner financing, until we built. He's giving me a "deal" cause there's no realtors fees, yet<G>I know, if I don't, I'll be kicking myself every time I look over there, and that would be 100% of the time LOL. "what's in a name?" d'oh!
I know, if I don't, I'll be kicking myself every time I look over there, and that would be 100% of the time LOL.
That's a tough spot to be in. I'm almost always in one of those situations where one more $50/mo payment will send me over the edge. But if there was any way you could refi you current place to include the 10 acres... ha ha, what's another $600/mo!
Although, I think Boss and I are assuming that you view your current house as your permanent residence and aren't moving every few years. If you're thinking of moving in the near future, don't bother unless you think you can make $$ on the 10.
For me, I think the perfect house would be one smack in the middle of at least 100 acres (all of which I would own in the perfect world).jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
Your leaves are well ahead of ours if you saw my pics from yesterday.
Awsome pics .
Tim
I think they were a little late this year at home. Are yours late? Or is that normal?
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LOL. Im gonna have to be honest and stupid . I dont really know except we are having one HOT fall. It was 82 degrees today! Deer season starts next week and if its that hot they can run wild for another year. I dont care .
Tim
Yeah, same in my neck of the woods. Not going to be too much sucessful deer hunting going on around here.
Gunner, any limestone caves in the general area of that dry creekbed?http://www.costofwar.com/
Not that I know of.
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Do you still have the large version of 11-05-05_3.jpg ?
jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
Yea I have it at home on my computer there. It'll be a week and a half before I get back. Watcha got in mind?
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Yea I have it at home on my computer there. It'll be a week and a half before I get back. Watcha got in mind?
Just PC wallpaper. The posted copy doesn't fit 1024 without stretching. Its no biggie, if you remember when you get home upload that sucker.
Now... if you'd taken 2 or 3 shots in sequence as you travelled down that road... I could have Flash'ed them together. ;)
jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
Next time I'll do the sequence thing.
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Here you go.
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Hang on I just realized that's not the one you wanted here.
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Edited 11/21/2005 11:00 am ET by Gunner
Yeah, that's the ticket. Great pic. Bet most of those leaves are gone by now.
jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
I'm planning on hiking up there tommorrow I'll check it out.
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I'm planning on hiking up there tommorrow I'll check it out.
LOL, we'll send you out there every month and take a pic from the exact same spot, then Flash them together for a 'year in the life' of a wooded roadway.jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
I'm out there about every weekend when the weathers good. That's my version of church.
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Well take out the can of orange spray paint so that you can paint an "X" on the spot of the road that you're standing on... that way you'll be sure to get the right spot next month ;)
jt8
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
Yep the Rangers love that. LOL
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Just don't forget your tinfoil hat, and tell them you are marking the spot where the UFO abducted you last night.If they get pushy, ask them if they want to see the bruises from the probe, as you start to turn around and drop yer draw's.Beleive me, they'll find some excuse to leave you alone real quick...;o)
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon. - Napoleon Boneparte
ROAR! I could just get some barrels out and set them in the road. They would be too lazy to find out if they were legit. Just drive around them for a year.
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True.Oh, one caveat on my previous post...Don't offer to show the bruises if either of them mentions anything about squealing like a pig.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon. - Napoleon Boneparte
LOL I see you've been to these parts.
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Ah, so box beams are really a Communist conspiracy to imbed cameras in all our homes!
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Jim, tonight we visited a home and got to see a unique to me-photo printing process. From a distance the prints looked like photographs. Up close, like paintings. They were printed on "homemade" type paper, somewhat like water color paper. The thick, coarse paper. Man, these flower pictures were killer! I got the email address of the artist. I've got to ask him about the process. This was very cool! His sister says he is trying to print on aluminum.
And today, jacci graduated with honors!
What a day!
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Well congratulations to the bachelorette! (or whatever degree holders are called)
I gotta tell you man, when I went to school to study photography I was surprised at how much time we spent in the darkroom. But in no time I found myself far more interested in that part of the craft. I can easilly spend 5, 10, sometimes 20 hours working on a single print. To me, it's the most creative part of photography, for sure.
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