On the way to or from the job I don’t just drive oblivious of the surroundings. If I’m lucky, I have packed my good camera and stop and take a shot. If not, I’ll pull out the job camera and just hold it up and press the button.
It needs some refinement I’m sure. But there might be something in this artsy fartsy “My Rearview Mirror” portfolio.
Or maybe not.
How about something from your way to or from the job?
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Many years ago we were driving on a highway in Florida. The sunset was so beautiful we pulled off the road, got out and sat on the hood of the car just to take it all in.
Funny thing was while were were taking it all in cars going both ways started pulling off too. In just a couple of minutes there must have been twenty or more vehicles pulled over with people sitting inside, on hoods, in the backs of pickups or in the grass to enjoy the view.
It only lasted maybe ten or so minutes before the sun actually went down and the show faded. And then the people continued on their way. We were the last to leave.
Whole event lasted perhaps ten minutes. It was unplanned and largely unspoken. I always wondered about it. How in the middle of business as usual we stopped and several dozen other people thought it was a good idea. So there we sat. Silently observing a sunset. And then, when it was over, quietly getting on the road again without saying anything. One of those 'smell the roses' moments. Free to anyone willing to take a little time and relax.
I did that once 4Lorn. My teenage kids started bitchin' at me. I ignored them and just told them to button up, I wasn't going anywere, while I enjoyed this most glorious sight.
They still beef about it when we bring it up!
blue
What a great image, very cool.
"Moonrise over Hernandez New Mexico", perhaps the most famous black and white landscape ever photographed, was seen as Ansel Adams was driving along and shot in 30 minutes. And that was with a large format camera that required several minutes to setup.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
Saw this in my mirror & pulled off for a pic.
Somewhere in Wyoming. The new moon in the upper left.
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Same picture posted twice, a Prospero new feature.
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4Lorn, Blue and Joe,
Great isn't it when you have the opportunity.
I find myself checking out the possiblilities b/4 dawn when I take the dog out. If it looks promising, off I go to the various (depending on the sun angle) locations for the best view and picture opportunity.
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Hey cal, How in the hell do get the rear view mirror shots while yer driving? I'm all over the road as it is<G> Guess the folks behind me won't mind, ha.You made me stop and take a couple on the way home last night...I'm working way out in the country, beautiful drive...pic doesn't do it justice.Hey did you win any prizes? "what's in a name?" d'oh!
I dont mean to critcize . If you had stopped and waited 15 minutes ,... LOL.
Tim
Hey Tim, I know what you mean, in 15 min. I was home, and the house was pink!I can only stop and smell so many roses, ha. "what's in a name?" d'oh!
That's what I'm talkin' about holly!
Nice job. Early quits anymore with the time rollback.
As to the picture taking while moving. Either you take a chance an develop a "sense" of the road, pull over and do it safe, or just stick the thing out there and snap away-quickview the screen, and do'er again if necessary.
Remember, I take pics like I play golf. Take a hundred, there's bound to be a couple good shots in there somewhere.
I just entered this past sunday. I think they look the entries over for a week or twol, then post the winners. We go over a weekend and view them all, check our outcome on the printed list. Last year I was ecstatic to have three shots on the first page, best I finished-13th of 565. There's some good photographers that enter. To be in the thing is quite an honor for me. I sort of let my prep slide due to some heavy work load. I felt like a kid cramming for finals as I went back over the files and printed out only 4. Ah well, 90 percent of the fun is being there taking them.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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"Remember, I take pics like I play golf. Take a hundred, there's bound to be a couple good shots in there somewhere."You crack me uip, and I'm never playing golf with you...cause I really play golf like I take pics...shoot five hundred get one good shot...and it's usually the last one, keeps bringing me back<G>Good luck in the show. "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Hey thanks, I'll need it.
And yes we will play when we run into each other again.
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Looking at all the great shots, I'm reminded of the story of the city slicker up in Canada. The guide advised the slicker, "when your'e in the woods, be sure to make plenty of noise, like rattle your keys and coins and that will usually scare any bears and keep them away".
He then pointed out a pile of "scat" (bear poo) and told the fella, "that's from a black bear". "They eat mostly nuts and berries and you can tell by carefully examining the scat and you'll see the seeds".
The slicker then asked about how to id grizzy scat. The guide said "easy, you'll see bits and pieces of keys and coins!"
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Nice looking Buck.
You take that this fall?
Day after Christmas. There's a couple that still have their antlers on. Odd this late.
Here's the training program.
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hey cal, you can keep the friggin' deer...they just ate the buds off our rohdedenron...grrrrr...the azaleas are so chewd up, we'll never know when it's spring.That flyboy of yours might be a broad-winged, if not that, maybe a brown-headed eagle<G>60° here today, and looks like a nice run for at least a week...I'm gonna try to get out and spank the pill for ya.Hope you're keepin' Joyce warm<G> "But to be honest some folks here have been pushing the envelope quite a bit with their unnecessary use if swear words. They just put a character in to replace a letter. But everyone knows what they're saying." Sancho
I know all about the chomping mutha's. Do you have a neighbor that puts corn out so they don't have to get off their lazy #### 's and go look?
Joyce warm? Well, would certainly hope so. You taking care of the home fires too?
I'll take a look at the broadwing.
Snow's melting fast, but still too deep to let that white pill fly. Still stuck in the dome, of which I'm damn near a par golfer. Amazing isn't it?
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not mine ... but i couldn't resist
yes, Virginia, dogs do go to heaven
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Great Mike...
something different, hope y'all don't mind... early one morning at the job...
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Strolling by the building at work.
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Putting garbage to use as nesting material.
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you know it's wet when the crawdads come up out of the sewerMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Looks like fishing going to start a little late this year!
Hope all is well on your end?
good to see your smiling face..
have you thought about Mt. Tremblant in August ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
"have you thought about Mt. Tremblant in August ?"
We can only wish!
We have been Burried in Work, (A good thing!).
10 units (2800-3000sq.ft each) during the week , with 3 more getting ready to start 3 blocks away from this. Along with my 1900sq.ft Mt House on Weekends. So unless you want to get me under control were unfortunately going pass on Canada!
Hope its a good year for the Flounder!!
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glen.. those are some pretty big pump rigs !
what are they pouring ? the slabs ? after the partitions ?
got any pics of the cement finishers ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike,
They were pouring the floors in six units & the Piers in the next 4.
Did not have a chance to get any photos of the flatworkers, they did 90 yds on the floors that day & about 30 on the piers.
Yesterday poured the walls on two, two morr on Friday, my foundation guy is FAST! Crane forms in, Crane forms out!
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glen those look like 10' walls you're pouring ?Mike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike,
10' 7"3/4 basement floor to 1st floor plywood. Finished basements, about 3100 finished sq.ft. per unit.
OK, I just gotta ask, How come I don't see any footings under those wall forms?
Are the walls being poured over pin piles?
HV
Took a drive at lunch trying to get away from the noise and congestion. Searching for the boondocks but couldn't make it there and back in an hour. But did snap a pic or two.
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That's a nice little getaway. I love those old bridges.
We've got a place about ten minutes from here called Bernheim forest. It's an arboretum and research forest. I refer to it as Church. It's got everything that's great in life all wrapped up into one. I try to take the dog at least one day on the weekend. I put her on a long rope and she pretty much stays with me without correction. They have lots of regular hiking trails in all sorts of lengths. My nephew wanted to go this morning and we decided on the lake Nevin trail. It's a stone path that circles the lake mile and a half or so.
The first one is me and the dog.
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This is a view from one end of the lake. It's at an area they use in the summer for concerts. It's a great setting. They have small boulders set up for seating.
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Hey cal, these guys were hanging around a couple a weeks ago...said they were on their up to your place, see 'em yet?
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Outside of the gates the trucks were unloadin',
The weather was hot, a-nearly 90 degrees.
The man standin' next to me, his head was exploding,
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Ha, there is something to the saying "a little birdie told me"<G> Outside of the gates the trucks were unloadin',
The weather was hot, a-nearly 90 degrees.
The man standin' next to me, his head was exploding,
Well, I was prayin' the pieces wouldn't fall on me.
They couldn't stop talking about the good feed down your way.
You're making a name for yourself.
Check this out. A quaint little cottage over in Lafayette, La.
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Have you and Joyce been looking for new courses?<G> Outside of the gates the trucks were unloadin',
The weather was hot, a-nearly 90 degrees.
The man standin' next to me, his head was exploding,
Well, I was prayin' the pieces wouldn't fall on me.
A course in this..........
A course in that................
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Happy 4th !
Sorry no Fireworks!
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Awesome pic.
Good to see you, Happy 4th!
Back at you! Hope all is well in C-City!
Should be dried in @ Leadville in a few more weekends, then we can put up vistors there!
And the same to you........a day late.
Here's a daylight visitor.
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That's a nice little getaway. I love those old bridges.
That area is doomed. Urban sprawl is quickly approaching. If the bridge is solid, they might turn it into a bike path. They've already pulled up the tracks.
We've got a place about ten minutes from here called Bernheim forest.
Looks like a fantastic spot. You're lucky it's so close.
I grew up in the boondocks about 1.5 mi from a State Park/lake/wildlife preserve. Nothing like being able to get away from the noise and congestion. Used to ride the bike over and then bike & hike the trails (back before Mt biking was popular). Just have to remember your bug spray (I usually forgot it). It was prime mosquito, deer fly, tick, chigger country. The park guys had a couple small fields back in the brambles where they'd plant sunflowers. Pretty neat to break through the overgrowth and come across a whole field of sunflowers. Wish I had some pics. They also did corn, but that wasn't all that unusual. The corn/flowers weren't harvested, they were left for the wildlife.jt8
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Good to see they've finally got a bridge over the turbulent Lick creek. Incidentally, the bridge is the wide part of the road.
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Snapped this heading home the other day...
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Rain....rain...rain
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Caught a picture the other night that made me think of this thread. I was on my way south on I-65 headed for Indy.
That's a Big Cal type of picture
J,
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Thanks Calvin,
That's not easy to do when you're doing 75 down the highway, but it was worth it.
You got a good one man.
Nope, not easy. And knee driving not necessary.
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hey cal, only took 694 posts to get back to the point, ha! Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Here you go, a different angle.
Passenger self portrait.
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Ah, so you're the one who wrote on the walls down in the bowels of that bridge.
Here you go folks, our Glass City on a pretty warm Jan. morning.
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Little blurry, but he wasn't willing to stick around for me to get a better shot.
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"If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep." -- Dale Carnegie
Beautiful...did you take that?
Yessir, my cabinet rep's husband was a supervisor on this bridge project. Largest undertaken by the state of Ohio. Got up on it the day they laid the last section. I've posted several both here and at QT of the I-280 Bridge here in Toledo.
Here's the other side (downriver) of the bridge.
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A detail of the cables.
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And the overall shape
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And thanks for the complement.
5 died on this project, it's open now. Here's to their hard work and the tears they left behind.
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I must have been there just a few days before you - was there the day tyhey were putting up the last "cable". In the first two pics you can see it going up through the boom of the telehandler.
Third pic is another pic of downtown - not near as nice of a day - it was FREEEEEEZING.
Fourth is another from down inside the bridge.
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I have not driven over yet. It doesn't seem to be anywhere I've been or have been going. I really should if for no other reason than to take another on the way..........seeing as this is where it all started with my rear view mirror motif.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Have you seen the Sunshine Skyway bridge in Tampa? If so, how does this compare by size?
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Hey man, I'm starting to get the hang of it.
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Thanks. I sat on the bench in the garden. Waiting.
This little one flew up to the lens-maybe 4' away. Must have been looking at her reflection. Autofocus couldn't come through fast enough.
Looked up and there on a twig above me she took a perch.
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So today when I'm screwing off...............
washing the fleet, van cleanup, watching the Open.........I took a break and set up the camera in the same spot. I'm doing way too much to sit there but I spy one of those big yellow swallowtails in among the same flowers.
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It's not very clear here, but look at that proboscus!
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Beautiful pics....We had bee balm back in Ohio and had to keep tearing it out as it spread, but the bees and butterflies loved it....Funny story about swallowtails...We have them come through here, beautiful...My husband went out one day and looked at our citrus trees...What are those black flecks??? Well, I'll be damned, those are eggs that the swallowtails placed on our trees...We had to use an environmentally safe spray as those little buggers eat the leaves and blossoms...
Man, these little suckers are fast...and they are flying pigs...they're going through 2 feeders a day! Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
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Sorry, couldn't get it in the side-view mirror without going through the guardrail.
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Calvin,
Since it was you who started this thread- I'll post to you instead of all.
Sunrise over Bangor, Me. taken at 5:30 one morning last week, shortly after I arrived.
Walter,
I'll post this to you and include John.
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Hi Walter ... Early mornings are the best.
Carpentry and remodeling
Vic Vardamis
Bangor Me
Vic,
I'm going to e-mail it to the Bangor Daily for their weekend landscape series.
They put another of mine in from Vinalhaven
Best regards,
Walter
Another lake sunset:
Nice shot!
Here's one for you. Just off Kelly's Island, 6 mi's in Lake Erie.
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Looks like it isn't quite as flat there. The only mountains we have here are mountains of corn ;)
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I said 'I don't know.'"
-- Mark Twain
John, This Saturday we had our road cleanup along the river, so close we expand our hunt down the banks when the brush permits. While picking trash up along the water I spied a Monarch. He kept eluding any attempt of a closeup but after a few hundred feet he stopped-to warm up I imagine.
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Nice shot. We've had a bunch of them this year. But my camera isn't all that great for closeups.
Neice & nephew visited the butterfly house in St. Louis. Thousands of the boogers in there (butterflies that is). And NO ONE took any pics.
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"Those who wish to sing always find a song." -- Swedish Proverb
We've had a bunch of them this year. But my camera isn't all that great for closeups.
As an example, they tend to come out like this:
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"Those who wish to sing always find a song." -- Swedish Proverb
Number 3 might be an American Painted Lady-from those "eye" like markings on the wing.
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Nice work Calvin. What camera are you using? My wife has been photographing flowers and birds in the garden. I think she needs a better camera than what she is using.
Thanks Mike. Nikon D100 and that was with the 200 telephoto. You can't get too close or it starts to blur out, but those butterflies don't let you in that close to begin with. For the flower (and other non moving closeups I've got a Macro lens and some add on rings which bring it in even closer.
This with the 200 again.
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Calvin,Some people couldn't take a good picture if their life depended on it.Some people can take some good pictures, but that's all they are... Pictures.Few people can paint with a camera.You are one of those few.
Yeh... That'll work.
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Now if you can get a picture of those three, I'll REALLY be in wonderment.;o)
Yeh... That'll work.
pc. of cake, though they might be a bit stiff.
That (portraits) is one thing I've only gotten lucky a couple times with. That's a whole nother ballgame and one I've got some interest in. I just have to pursue that some time.
Here's a sort of portrait from our trip to N.O.
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Took this in the front yard one morning (facing east).
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And behind me, this perennial favorite.
Big song, small body.
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Hey, can ya tell me what type of bird that is? I pulled a tarp off some stuff, and she had a nest under there with six eggs. Never came back to it, unfortunately, just sang on & on from 20 yds away.
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shear,
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About a mile down the road, must have been about 20 of these guys working shifts. Lunching on ripe doe...I thought I smelled something<G> Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Harry,
Due to soil conditions the buildings are on drilled Caissons. We also had to over excavate 3 ft. & import clean dirt $$$.
Thanks. I understand the $$$$ part. One that I'm on now has a 100' long augered retaining wall. Eleven holes, 31' deep with 35' 12" I-beams and god knows how many pressuer treated 6 x 12s. After we exed out 17' of soil, we got to pour 80 yards of cdf to controll the subsurface water running diagonally across the cut. $$$$$
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can I preview???Heck and I wanna know where the pics for Leadville are..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
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So, what's it look like at the bottom of that hill?<G> Outside of the gates the trucks were unloadin',
The weather was hot, a-nearly 90 degrees.
The man standin' next to me, his head was exploding,
Well, I was prayin' the pieces wouldn't fall on me.
When the snows melt,
One word.....
TROUT!
Just hold on there Cal...very too soon I'll be up in a 120' lift with a 10' jib !!!!! We are doing some cornice on the Old Courthouse in Lexington....eegads, a hunnert and 20 feet..
Might just be a picture me puking on the people down below.
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Yup...thats the plan. I found a 1 GIG memcard for 100.00 with a 20.00 rebate...will hold 720 pics at 5.0 mega pix...we be snapping a lot due to the fact no one else will have shots of the city from that vantage point.
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I'm on the edge of my seat.
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We discussed yesterday , another job where we are fabricating a hanging scaffold that is lagged to the roof, and a frame suspended to install our pic on...this way we can be away enough to work on the box gutters and cornice. This is also way up, and down town.
Next rain day, Dale and I will be welding up Grant's design and implement it carefully.
I almost forget what wood working is like, I have turned into a metal fabricater...was gonna do my soffits and cornice on my house with homemde mouldings, now I think I will just go with copper being as I have the training and tools handy.
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I buy all my digital stuff from B and H Photo. This should take you to 1G flash cards:http://www.bhphotovideo.comI have a 2G Sandisk ULTRA, muy friggin bueno. Snap snap snap all day long. Delete delete delete all night long.Be 1011100001011
seems to be behind me while I work everyday
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It'll be nice to see in person andy.
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I don't have one as nice as yours but I took it on my way to "church" (my version of it anyway) Wanted to try it out. I couldn't get the picture to take without being blurred until I found a feature on my cam that takes pictures through glass. I'm gonna post a couple more fall pics in the Daybreak thread.
Looking good Cal.
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Edited 11/5/2005 12:23 pm ET by Gunner
I like how the pic is almost the same as the fore ground coming up..kinda spooky, to think that this is where ya been, and this is where ya are going are the same huh?
You'll fit right in Andrews med room..I here he has cameras and mirrors, ( some One way) don't fall for the reflections, it is a portal to a similar dimension, that has everything just like you remember but you forget that it is separate from the here that you know...
And before ya know it, you are on the Martha Stewart show in your underware, sleeping like a baby.
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Thanks alot. Now I'm gonna be worried to death. But I sleep in my howdy doody jammies with teh little footies sewn in. And the trap door of course.
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P.S. It took me forever to get the dog to stop sticking her head out the window and jumping up in the front seat. As soon as we enter that place she's all about hitting the trail. She gave the geese a he l l of an azz chewing this summer because they were blocking the road.
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Here's another one with a slighty better background. I dodn't think of teh mirror image of the mirror image until Sphere pointed it out.
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Edited 11/5/2005 1:02 pm ET by Gunner
Just goes to show ya how simple life is, Ya been there..it looks just like where ya are going ...almost static being ness at that point, that is where ya find th truth in nature. She can cloak herself is such beauty, that you forget that you too are a part of her majesties, and time may just stand still while you observe it.
Picture your self as an F stop, repeated over and over, you choose that which you see..everything is still there, you just focus on the nearest thought that takes a residence in your "life" as you know it ( there is the biggest paradox, we never know anything, we just experiance it and think we have a handle on it, and so repeat as needed to fufill our "vision" of correctness)..
Volumnes have been written, about the phenomenon of "just in time" observance of what is ..now you get to see what really is behind you, all the while acknowledging the what is to come aspect of the unknown and can compare it to what you are experiancing,..can be a sobering thought process.
Autumn is very complex time for some of us..confusing. We have needs to gather the harvest and secure our interests for the expected winter, all the while, we sub consciously "let Go" of our unneeded leaves, and feel to be making room for the new harvest of the yet to be determined crop of sustinance..a gamble.
OF course, we are blind to the process..we just do it..and that do it has ramifications, same as spring time mating..we just naturally wish our being can be reborn in another strong being, hence we breed.
If none of this entered in to our beings, it would be a very quiet place that we call earth.
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Nice shots, pretty interesting those mirror shots. Gotta get on a big rig and get one with all those mirrors, possibilities are limitless.
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Remember that t.v. show about the doctor from NYC that moved to Alaska? The name escapes me now. But Sphere sounds just like the DJ on that show.
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Northern Exposure.
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Actually, I like the DR. on "HOUSE" Fox Monday nites..be blunt, be observant, and be funny..all the while being in your own "house" ..what ever it may be.
Be real, leave them awestruck, and often pregnant with wonder.
If ya can't, yer not.
Dammit, it is Tuesday nites,,tivo away mon frere..........that was enjoyable, now for fun, let's coddle the mass'es..
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Edited 11/5/2005 5:57 pm ET by Sphere
That was a good damn show...but Sphere knows way more than Chris,dg&rI've had a New Year's day round here, nothing like a polar bear club deal...it's a modified and modified again Stabler scoring system. Nobody can figure it out, so the one that comes in with more pills than they started with wins the tie breaker. Makes walking in the woods payoff<G>Never thought to take the camera, d'oh... "what's in a name?" d'oh!
Organize a weekend on the links, we'll fly in.
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Not on the way to work, but there was a party goin' on, that's for sure...
Those luminaria's are somethin else. I love those things, and a long lighter.
We went to a party tonight at Shuey's. Fall party, sort of a reunion of a farm family from mid ohio/kentucky. Great food and that's an understatement. Aunt Emma is the pie queen. Last yr she dug 1500 lbs. of potatoes. If she weighs 90 lbs I'd think she had a couple roll of qtrs in her pocket.
Here's a variation on the rear view mirror theme, if that's what it is. And you know what jim?.......we could have quite the coffee table book here. America Through My Rear View Mirror (ps, not that dinky kind on the fender of an austin heally either)
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Edited 11/5/2005 10:42 pm ET by calvin
Took this one while flying the Cessna with the window open of the lake where my wife grew up, just prior to turning to start my appoach to the airport.
Jon
yeah baby, that's taking it to new heights!
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Calvin,
Hey one more.
Beautiful country to fly over. Now I just gotta' get my own plane so it won't be so pricey.
Jon
You're making me dizzy.
Jon, I remember a long time ago a pilot asked me if I wanted to go for a ride. Sure, why not. He took me up in one of those planes with the wings towards the bottom of the fuselage.
He asked where I lived and proceeded to that area south of Bowling Green, Oh. When he asked if I saw my place, I had to respond that I couldn't tell exactly because of the limited view below with the wings there..............
Holy smolly.............he tips that plane sideways and asks again.
Even after we landed, my body felt waves of movement.
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While I was "on the way" over the river and through the woods... What in the gosh darn golly have you done to Rez?
.............he tips that plane sideways and asks again.
Even after we landed, my body felt waves of movement."
Calvin,
Done that a few times myself. Called "emergency avoidance maneuvering". Pull close to 3.5 G's banking 60 degrees and can't wait to get back on the ground after doing it over and over, for over an hour, not to mention full power-on stalls, where the plane helicopters and ultimately rolls over sideways into a dive.
Jon
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Just wanted to tell ya Ive really enjoyed this thread .
I took the boy with me on the atv deer hunting and we really ended up riding you know . He wanted to ride more than sit and wait on Mr Deer. He got enough of that in about 30 minutes, so we rode 80 miles ! My point in telling you that story is that I thought we were only going to be deer hunting with guns so I didnt bring the camera and kicked my butt all day. I would have gotten a close up of a couple of mama does with young ones in tow . They were grazing and strolling with out a care in the world. Of course ! They werent in season. I saw several other shots that got passed by such as a water fall. This sucker is embedded deep in the boondocks too . Not somthing you can just ride by. You gotta have it as a destination and then its about 5 rough miles into it but awsome . I was d^mming the whole time.
Now lets get back out there and do some more shootin! <G>
Tim
Glad you like it.
I've gotten the camera bug Tim. I don't go anywhere w/o the point and shoot job camera. If I have my wits about me, I take the good one and the lenses. You never know.
Shame on you.
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Now Im gonna have to get you a deer shot. Our deer look a lot different . That caused me to stare at you pic for a while .
Exellent pic .
Tim
These locals are well fed. No corn to speak of, but bushes, roses, hosta's and alot of grassland. Here's a not too good of a shot of some "training" going on at the bottom of our hill.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Looks like you did as well as the day decided to give you.
We dont have corn either to speak of cause somhow its shipped in cheaper by river barge. I noticed from the other picture that your deer have dark colors . Our are generally palimino. Theres somthing else to as they are not built the same . Yours seem to be showing muscels and ours are sleek looking like Cher. Our have a longer flank under them . Less body and maybe more legs but that might be decieving with proportion. I hope I get another shot holding the camera to show you.
Yesterday DWs boss that lives down the street walked out to get his paper and was looking face to face with an 8 point buck and a doe. He said him and the buck stood frozen for over a minute . They were only about 100 feet apart he advised. The doe was farther but she waited on him to make a move . He did and was very fast leaving the property. That was an odd occurance in town to see a buck.
Tim
>>>"ours are sleek looking like Cher."I don't know if that's insulting to Cher or the deer?
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Your pic was missing something. Wonder if the park rangers would object? ;)
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Edited 11/21/2005 12:40 pm by JohnT8
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Thats awsome . I hope the thread doesnt die , its been fun .
Tim
I won't let it die Tim. There's a few of us here that have a real interest in photography and nature. If just for our own pleasure, we'll keep plugging away.
Some guys get up early to get to the job. I try to beat the sun to get the shot. Work will be there. Stuff like this is here for the moment.
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Alright then, time for a story since you are shooting water.
When I was a lot younger and less responsible [it was just me to support] , I half lived on the water commercial fishing . Later I returned to the water to trap and ran a set line in the winter from a flat bottom boat. Then I got into coon hounds from bird dogs and started training them and competing in trials. That also took me back to the areas I knew so well from a boat to train with no other hunting pressure . I worked as many as 8 dogs per night from a boat staying all night alone . Ive written somewhere here how comfortable I am on the water . At least here I am on the Arkansas River.
The sunset and sunrise shots bring me back to those times . Theres a feelin being out there alone baiting lines when the sunset happens. Its quiet , man its quiet. Theres a few fish swirling the water and the waves from them can last a long time on a still evening. The geese fly in to roost from the main land about that time . Then as soon as that started its over and darkness starts covering every thing and the sounds of the night start. But for the sundown its quiet. Strange being out there at that time. What a feelin.
Tim
You got it buddy, that is all feeling. If you were a painter, what you could do on that canvas. I feel blessed to be able to experience this, especially here in NW Ohio, not known for it's breathtaking landscape. You've got to hunt a bit, but it is there. And in such a populated area, great luck to be able to get in places considering there isn't much not in private property. Lucky me.
Living a mile from some interstates we have quite a bit of background noise. You can still get the natural sounds if you put your mind to it. Often it's just a matter of "forgetting" the constant drone of sound life around here propagates. It's not easy, but you can get there if you try. Tonight for instance, the sound of two bucks clacking their antlers on each other. The haunting Screech Owl, lately replacing the call of the Great Horned Owl that's been around for over a year now. The birds of course and I love their songs.
It's just a matter of listening and looking, something not that usual in the city.
Here's another "on the way". From last spring's Mudhens Opening Day. We stopped in the pub on the way to the game. Our annex bartender.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Wow! I didn't know all these great shots were here. Thanks for the hint, Calvin! Here's my last trip through Southern Utah...had to share after I saw all those sunrises.
http://www.garymkatz.com/ontheroad/southwest-2005.htm
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I couldn't help it Gary after you showed me those shots. You're gonna be a great addition to the BT ad hoc photography club and bull #### society.
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Nice shots, Gary. Thanks.
Pretty cool huh jim?
The guys' not just a pretty face.
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You made my jaw drop. It's been a while since I've witnessed the true beauty of Utah and that area. Thank you very much for bringing back some good memories. Very nice work.
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Wow !I'm on dialup, and I couldn't look away from the page. Breathlessly waiting for the next shot to load up.Thank you for the next year's worth of wallpapers ! LOL
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Man, you're gettin' me goossed up for the next trip...great pics, well, fer a carpenter<G> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
On the way from rock to rock in Point Lobos...macromedia<G> And, through water, too.. Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Why can't I ever remember the attachments? Don't answer that! Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
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High Water
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I dont know what it is about witnessing that scene but Ive spent a lot of time watching it .
Tim
I spent a good bit of time trying to get that smokey looking fog water. I need to find some falling stream or creek, not easy in the flatlands of NW Oh.
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Hey cal, Thanks, I grew up on, and in, a river...I miss it...so, I love your pics of watery stuff.I was on my way to have a spot of coffee on the sunporch this am, this baby had just popped open...I only took a few filtering liberties<G> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Hey, filter on Leon.
Thanks, takes the dreary out of today. Fog at the bottom of the hill, temp is 46 and that's the last of the snow. Kind of eeery down there. A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Cool, looks black and white with a hint of maple<G>Speaking of cool, 60° and sunny here, til about an hour ago. It was so nice I had to clean the gutters...dang<g> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
So, you growing those indoors?
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Calvin,
That's an awesome shot!
Gary
I Would hate to be a judge . Subjects are surely different and get different feelings.
Im not a big wildlife pic fan but I think his pic of this deer rocks. He has some other shots I grade less than this one .
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Wanna share with us how you and Mr Ringtail came to be united at night ?
Were you looking for him?
Tim
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Wanna share with us how you and Mr Ringtail came to be united at night ?
He was out with his bluetick tracked the bandit through the woods until they'd treed him (is that banjo music I hear?). Only at that point did Cal realize he'd left the 22 at home and had to settle for a pic.
:)
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Hey cal, I just buy 'em (Home Depot/Lowe's "rescues") and shoot 'em. Sherry "Snort breathes the life back into them. She even orchid-sits for brown thumbed friends. Man, there's always something in bloom...'s nice.That snowy tree pic is a sweet one, put it on the top of the pile for next year's show. Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
I simply must meet this woman. She sounds loving and kind. Can you verify?
Well, I've a newfound (land) excitement for the competition. Well, not really the compo part. But the critical eye of those that know photography. And it just so happens there's a local photo club contest in February. I'm thinking I'll pick some out for that one. I might revisit that spot with some fresh snow and try and brighten it up a tad. I'm learning a few things (and that is good). Even on a dark day, snow tends to misguide the meter a stop or so.
Even with a fresh snow, the deer tromp it up so much it looks like a playground.
With the river up above flood stage, I'm thinking that vantage point would have my feet a bit wet.
Check out this one, a spot not far from there on the other side of the towpath. Some possibilities here come spring.
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No dadgum wonder you got coons !! Looks like coon heaven there. Water aint just water for a coon. They love those dead logs layin in the water but better yet across a water path. Deep water dont mean squat to a coon. Catfish like deep but its useless to mr coon. The picture ya shot is shallow water with slow tapering banks. Lots of worms and crawdads plus the stuff that gets highlanded when the water goes down 6 inches, clams and such. They even like wading in 6 inches of water feeding off the bottom and catching fingerlings and shad. A herring is prime eating too as oily as it is . Ill bet you got some big ole coons up North there!!
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Yeah, I saw the buck and it's great, too, but the picture of that downed tree really drags me in.
Gary
Thanks man, still looking for the falling water tho.
Won't find it on the Maumee River, it falls something like 12' from Ft Wayne to Lake Erie.......maybe a hundred miles.
If it quits raining, maybe I'll go up to the old locks and take a look. A foot of snow melt and an inch or two of rain, the water come-ith (how the heck do you spell that?).
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Still don't have it yet Gary. I'm looking for floating fog. I've still got the flowing semi fog. I'm going to seek out some help and come up with this effect yet. It was a nice walk nonetheless.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Very nice.
Sorry I didn't drag the shutter longer. I've got a better one of the water, but no fog.
G
Man, some serious moss! Thank you for the color. Getting tired of the various shades of grey I've been seeing around here.
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I went fishing with a friend West of Corvallis just before the JLC Portland show. It was the second time he took me to that spot on the Alsea River. Both times I spent more time looking through my view finder than I did casting flies.
Nope, never seen the stuff in bloom. But I had that feeling if I laid down and stayed very still the stuff would grow all over me, too.
Gary
Gary, you could have taken either one of those pictures just down the hill from me.You are correct. If you stand still too long, it will grow over you, too.
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That one immediately became my wallpaper !!!
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
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I love that shot. The close up makes a pretty nice wall paper for my desk top.
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You complimentary dog, you...............
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Dang what a difference! One of these days I hope to have the time and patience. Very cool.
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The time you make, the patience................well, you might be able to find it. With not using film, you have a bit of leeway there. This is my (has been my) only "hobby" and it only a couple of years old. It satisfies something in my life. Maybe the satisfaction, not having a daughter to "bring up" anymore. I don't know gunner, but it beats going down to the bar. If I could understand what they were talking about, I'd be hanging at a fine photograpy site.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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I can't stand most bars. Everyone insists on playing loud music, then they want to talk. Stupid to me.
Some day I'll get more serious about it. It's interesting looking at the pictures posted here. There are definatley some good photos, it's helping me kind of develop an "eye" for what to look for.
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Yup.
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On the way for another cup of coffee I looked outside. Just a bit of light through the trees............best get the camera and go upriver. Man, I love sunrise.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Very beautiful Cal. I love sunrises and sunsets.
I just pulled a 22 hour shift. After pulling an 18 hour shift the night before. We left Versailles (horse country) at daybreak. Even though my mind was shot I really enjoyed the view on the way home. We always take the back way when we go over there and it's mostly farm land great scenary.
And as luck would have it no camera. Definatly didn't plan on being there that long.
Ugha Chaka! Ugha Chaka! Ugha, Ugha, Ugha, Chaka!
bummer.
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Nice .....I really like your water shots, ....you gettin real good with those....
thanks md, but the water is there. Just a matter of getting off the #### and going down to the river. Now if there was no river, then that for sure would be getting good at it.
And that was fully manual, now that's some progress. I lied. Not Fully Manual. There's a white balance setting on this D100. Auto, incand, fluor, direct sunlight, flash, cloudy, shade. I'm not sure what this means exactly but I do know that shooting in lower light with the shade setting brings out the color more. Perhaps this is the same as using a warming filter. Maybe you can help me out here a bit on what this does? FYI, I had it set to shade. I'll look at the shot info and see if there's one in there I turned it to auto. There is no off.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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I just sent you an e-mail....in the meantime here is a Nikon forum..
..http://www.nikonians.org/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID84&conf=DCConfID3those settings on your camera must function similarly to smaller apertures, and / or color correction.....like using tungsten film outside and having to warm it up..... I assume the Shade setting slows the shutter,...or circuit.....like using a smaller aperture , colors begin to saturate and things like water start to look softer
Here's the info outta the manual.
The color of light reflected from an object varies with the color of the light source. The human brain is able to adapt to changes in the color of the light source, with white objects appearing white whether seen in the shade, sun or incand. ltg. Unlike the film used in film cameras, dig. cameras can mimic this adjustment by processing information from the camera's image sensor (CCD) according to the color of the light source.
So, there you have it>?
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.....well then how can you duplicate any shot you take....
I'm guessing the camera memory tells you that ??since the electronics don't "see" color....
camera makers have to "build" color into the circuitry ??
Lets see, How can I duplicate the shot. Set the fstop and shutterspeed the same, use shade setting like it was b/4 and take the picture...........if that's what you mean. On all the pictures taken that are still on the camera, there is shooting information including time of day available. This contains all the settings and lists whether or not any setting was auto (still tells you the actual setting).
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hit me in the head....DOH !!!
Hey, we're talking about something that's in my hand and you can't even see it. We're lucky we made some sense to ourselves here.
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I keep attributing digital with some kind of mystical powers....I have never lost a roll of pixels after all.....yeow!!
Water, Water ,Water, all you guys want is more Calvin pictures of water!
What do you think he does with all that water when he's done taking pics - sends it down the river for ME to get rid of!
What the Hell am I going to do with all the water from the pics that didn't turn out so well?
I've been sending it to Canada for the last millenium - when they catch on I'm screwed!
Maybe I'll send it (sell it ) out west - looks a little dry out there.
Great pics everyone, there are some really good days out here, I never had anywhere to share them, I'll try to capture some of the good stuff.
Just joking Cal - keep sending the water - I'm not sure what we'd do without it.Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
Jeff,
From the looks of the shadows, if I'm guessing right, you've got a great place for some b/4 work shots there. Unless I have no idea where you took those from. I've never been there but there's a plot of ground that looks awful square on the map. Filled land? Called the Port Authority.
Speaking of Oregon (that'll confuse the none glasscity-ites), do you know dave richards?A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Here's some from the Jersey shore. The first 2 I got up early to watch the dawn. leavingLBI was taken driving over the bridge to the mainland right after a storm.
Here's one taken on the Garden State Parkway while I was driving home
Shep, a little bigger please.
I'm on dial up, not crank up.
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sorry- first time I had 'em too big. I got carried away going too small the second time.
Third times the charm?
right size?
and the Garden State Parkway one
Nice.
That GSP one reminds me of the traffic the last time I tried to enter the hiway on those little curved driveways you there in Jersey call on ramps.
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what, you don't like our roads?
all you have to do to drive in Jersey is close your eyes and hold your right foot down
:)
Hey, I love your roads. I remember tho that entering the hiway in an old VW van was a treat many don't get to be a part of.
Or for that matter, get to do twice.
At least in Michigan you like to keep your eyes open, for the view,
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oh yeah, I remember those old VW vans. Took forever to reach slow. You were most definitely getting a thrill driving one of those in NJ.
BTW, I really like Mi. Don't get there as often as I'd like, but my wife is from the GR area, and I went to Hope College in Holland, Mi. ( which is where I met her ).
Now if I could only get my in-laws to learn the right name for carbonated beverages :)
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We'll be headed out to Mi. this summer for a niece's wedding ( how they keep gettin' older while I stay the same I'll never know)
I'm not sure if we're driving or flying, but I'll let you know as things get closer.
I'm just hoping the wedding's not the 3rd weekend of August.
not the 3rd wknd, nor the 1st of July. We'll be rather busy with my daughters. Any other time if we're around, stop on by. 2 mi's from the Turnpike. A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Yep, Port Authority, Facility three.
I've heard his name, Dave, - drywaller?
This thread made me think of catching some of the good moments to share - I'll keep my eye's open.Remodeling Contractor just on the other side of the Glass City
on I 94 WB about 40 miles from Chicago.......came off the ramp toooo fast..........couple years ago
Those that keep their eyes open can gather a whole lot of nice things to see. Can you get out on that point, looks like a nice spot for a sunrise in the summer.
Yes dave is the doctor of drywall in my opinion. Glad I hooked up with him, makes my work so much easier while still keeping the quality I hope all my jobs exhibit.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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I am sorry it took too long to respond.
Suuuure You can get out on that point.
Nooooone Reeeeealllly cares if you're on federally protected land - if they don't know.
You are 100 % right about the view ( you keep you're eyes open even through someboby else's pictures)
It's a pretty good spot for date night - don't tell anyone
Head's up - I'm making it a point to call you this week - Dale's is screaming at me and I'm in your neighborhood. - Is that O.k.
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On the way home today, slow drive, but the snow was Tasty!
show off ! <G>
Tim
Tim, the real show for Sunday was here..http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=68065.21
"Nooooone Reeeeealllly cares if you're on federally protected land - if they don't know."
This is off the thread , but I couldnt pass this up.
I took a guy coon hunting and we crossed a posted sign on a fence in route to dogs treed. He had a problem with it and didnt want to follow me so I left him at the fence.
To the best of my memory;
#1 Im going home with the dogs.
#2 this farmer lives in town and we are supposed to have written permission to enter these woods.
#3 Its 2 am and hes in bed .
Pick your posion. He will be whizzed either way.
He really wont care if I go in and get them provided we dont wake him in the process. <G>
Tim
Great pictures everyone. I went through some older pics and found a few worth posting. These were taken in August 2003 on the Wisconsin River north of the Dells in between rain showers.
These are from the Mears, Michigan area this past June. You can see Lake Michigan on the horizon in 1278.
Calvin,
You should probably leave the white balance settting on auto. The cameras are pretty good at picking the correct white balance. I know some people who carry a card with them, shoot the card in a picture, then set the white balance on the computer so that the card is correct. But you'll have to shoot in RAW to do that. I shoot everything in RAW now, for that reason, and also because you can save/enhance a photograph that under or over exposed by almost 2 stops without losing any pixels/quality. Andyou can alter color balance. With the quality of pictures you're taking, I'd say it's time you started doing that. Just be prepared to work with much larger files, which is a lot slower and requires a lot more storage space.
Gary
Gary,
I haven't stepped into the RAW zone yet. I understand I think the file size situation and believe I might have an idea how many pictures are possible to take with a 1G card. After that, I am naked of information. I do like to putz with the white balance on the camera because of the color enhancement, but appreciate what I can and would be able to do on the computer.
I think too, since I've had no class of any kind it would behoove me to take one. Hell, I know diddley about f-stop, aperture, and those other names which escape me now.
And I think something that might self teach me would be a journal if I would make the time to enter data into according to the way the shot was taken, the conditions and I suppose camera settings...................or not. That might just be a waste of time.
I appreciate so much the encouragement I get from you and the other folks here. And the education too if I could just retain some of it.
Back to RAW. I've got a 6 yo compaq which I did add a 200G hd to because my photo files were (are) huge. However, the ram or whatever is not up where it should be for photoshop elements to really help it speed through much of anything. I wonder if the RAW adjustments would further aggravate the situation as far as time spent waiting. I guess I could answer the question by just taking some and seeing what the hey.
thanks again and if it wasn't so early, I'd buy you the one beer this month you might drink.
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Calvin,
Yes, the raw images will drag your computer down into the dirt. I've got 2gig of ram and sometimes that's not enough when I have other programs running--which is a must, too. But the raw images are awesomely worth it. Every now and then (make that 'all the time' with me) you get a good composition that wouldn't make a great picture because you had to take it so quickly. So it needs work. I adjust RAW images for almost every shot now. Takes a lot of time, but worth it. Here's a shot I took on a jobsite yesterday that I wanted really really bad. The light on most of the interior was great, but behind me there was too much sunlight pouring in, so I closed down the aperature (fstop to about f16--bigger number, smaller lens hole, less light comes through, you shoot slower--drag the shutter more--and get deeper depth of focus). Then, using RAW I opened up the shadows and held the highlights. I wanted the picture pretty bad. Sorry for posting an On The Job shot....I know it's supposed to be On The Way to work!!! But boy, the architecture really gets me sometimes, and seeing the guys working in the 'picture', especially when the light is good---just can't resist.
Gary
Sorry for posting an On The Job shot
It's easy to forgive, when the picture is that great. Makes me jealous, I was running MDF all week.--------------------------
It's only satisfying if you eat it.
Gary, moreso this thread seems to be "on the way somewhere........I couldn't help but take this picture..........good thing I had a camera...........might have missed it. So, your shot certainly qualifies.
Like this one, I was on the way by the window, saw some deer, went down the hill with the camera. Well, it was so nice I just kept going. I ended up in the woods on the floodplain. And in this woods there were things to take a picture of.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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It's good that you spend time reflecting on these pictures.
Gary
But couldn't forget Tim and the deer that always seem to look for him.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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I love those eyes. Next time pop your flash a little, get a little sparkle in those black platters.
Gary
Thank you, filed away for that sparkling feeling.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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You could probably get the same effect by dodging those eyes a little. That's what we'd do in the darkroom. That's a real common problem with any animal's face (of course human's count in this) because the eyebrows usually provide protection, therefore shadow to the eyeballs.
Anyways, it might be a good image to try dodging a little in photoshop (which I am NOT handy with).
Gary - I was interested to read what you said earlier about closing down your aperature, then over exposing a little to get details in the shadows. A similar technique is to read your light meter in the shadows, and set your f-stop/shutter speed for that. Of course, you then get a lot ,ore detail in the shadows and highlights get blown out so you have to do the same burning/dodging to get the details in both.
I'm pretty sure I've read that this is one area that digital cameras are far superior to film, in that they have a MUCH wider exposure range they can capture in any given lighting situation. TIPI,TIPI,TIPI!
That deer was close at your toes! Tame deer?
Not really tame, but in the area along our river they do get used to people. Move slow and be downwind..........you can get close for sure. Our land runs along the park. This group knows our hill well.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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On the way home last night, job camera at 25 mph., without running into anything. There's point and shoot and then this.....hold up and press.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Very nice, Calvin. I'm familiar with that technique. I think it's a couple clicks worse than taking a cell phone call, but some stuff is hard to resist.
Gary
Yer sur gettin good at that .
Ya know one thing Ive found out while this thread has been running;
To be ready to shoot. I could exaust this this post with reasons , but the simplest reason is that it doesnt do a lot of good when the camera is in the case when ya get the idea and traffic is in full patteren with out a turn off place. Timming seems to say it all when we are living in a paced world such as we are........
Yer doin good.
Tim
kudos to all!Gary you must have some more shots of those trusses, sdtonework and columns - private residence? bay area Calif? thanks
Actually, no, I don't have a lot more shots of those trusses, but I'll be going back there soon, and later, too, to shoot some finish shots. The house is in Camarillo, north of L.A., near Oxnard. I haven't worked on that job, only spent a day or two there, helping my brother do some layout and design work. I sure would have liked to work there, though.
Gary
I think Tim hits it on the head when he says you have to be ready, no matter what the equipment. If it isn't a staged shot, you don't have alot of time to get ready. The job camera rides in the passenger seat, or in my lap if I think something might be coming up.
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I was actually sittin' in the truck, my driving is way too bad to try any more under power...and then there's that clean windshield thing<G>...the sun sets slowly over the porta-let... Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
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nah, just picked steel outta my teeth<G> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
OKAY!! I got one, finally, On The Way! On the way from ISLIP airport on Long Island to Boston this afternoon in a small plane. Don't tell anyone. It's now illegal to use a camera in an airport or on a plane. But I couldn't resist. How often are you sitting in this seat? Sorry it's not a sunset/sunrise...maybe next time.
Gary
Nice shot.
Man, those little planes give me the hebegeebees. I'll take the wide body any day. TIPI,TIPI,TIPI!
Man, those little planes give me the hebegeebees. I'll take the wide body any day.
You'll think that until some wide body sits down next to you. Or one on either side of you. 80
I like the seating in the one Gary's posted. Got room to breathe.
Shoot, didn't know it was illegal to take pics on planes. What is the penalty? Loss of camera, cavity search, show up on CNN in an orange jumpsuit, get gunned down by Barny Fife security guards?
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So, you got a little tail<G>On my way home tonight, had to pull over. Almost got stuck, gotta figure out this "on the fly" thing...seems like you got it down, ha. Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Here's a technique that works for picture taking on the fly.
Grab camera, hold on lap until the perfect photograph comes up. I'm assuming you are using a small digital camera. Turn off flash. Front window, don't look through view finder, hold camera close to the glass at object of interest and pull the trigger. Same thing to either side. Shots out the back, past all the tools is especially difficult. I'd use the zoom on that one.
After taking picture, check the on screen display "Quickly" so as not to run off the road. Adjust shot as necessary.
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After taking picture, check the on screen display "Quickly" so as not to run off the road. cal man, doode you've got to come "fly" with me...ha,ha,haI'll practice in the wally world parking lot early sunday morn<G> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Point and shoot.
Not Aim, point and shoot.
No knee driving, unless of course you are drinking coffee or filling out your job book.
Just hold the camera up in the general direction and push the shutter.
Admittedly, if you can't hold the camera in front of yourself, take a picture without chopping your head off, you might want to practice.
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Okay coach, I just might be ready for the bigs<G>...I gotta do this out of a moving vehicle, right? Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Train, bus, lawnmower........whatever.
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Spring training, awwwright<G> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
yeah man, the equipment trucks left last week for FLA.
Pitchers and catchers report in a couple weeks I'm thinking.
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Not sure exactly when the Indians report, but the Yankee pitchers/catchers report 7 days from today. But who's counting.
Jim and Kathy report March 23. Three games, three days, three different stadiums, nasty sunburns all round. And you can bet WE'RE counting!TIPI,TIPI,TIPI!
Florida, or Arizona?
I've never been to spring training.
Arizona. This will be our first trip. We have talked about it for years but our youngest left the nest a couple years ago and it's amazing how much free time we have to do the stuff we always daydreamed about.
Talking about taking a cruise next.
Maybe visiting Cadioli in Australia.
Always wanted to see Alaska.
And South America.
Africa. TIPI,TIPI,TIPI!
Good list.
Cruise ships scare me, but the rest of the list looks like fun.
Cruise ships scare me, but the rest of the list looks like fun.
I thought the same thing. I didnt want to be sea sick with no place to go.
The trip I took to Alaska on my first cruise was the best trip Ive ever taken. Simply awsome ! I wanna go back!
Stopping at the villiages were not really much fun . Id rather stay on the boat ! Youll never be treated like a king until you take a cruise. The scenery was breath taking unlike any Ive ever seen sitting on the top deck having drinks with a lady with half covered boobs doin refills. It was a tough couple of weeks. <G>
Tim
I didn't want to be sea sick with no place to go.
That's my biggest fear.
Did you get sick?
I've been avoiding a cruise ship the past 3 years, and now I've been given the choice of a cruise, or Disney World. I don't understand why she wants to go to Disney World, because there are no kids involved.
IF we go on a cruise it's going to be in the Mediterranean, so it might be pretty cool.
Thats kinda what DW did to me . Im a fuddy dud . She was the one whizzed when I said we werent going to the fest last year.
On the Alaska deal you stay pretty close to land and often in inside passages . Look at A cruises and you will see a map showing where the crusie goes. Pretty calm waters. A couple of days we were at sea and one of those nights we had some bad weather . I looked down and saw 6 ft waves which I guess is nothing to a ship. But it rocked the ship softly . We finally went to bed that night and the ship ran into the eye of the storm. More rocking in bed . I got up and went for peanut butter and ice cream and it passed. <G>
You would not believe the food . Any time 24/7. The meals are all wonderful included in the price of the cruise.
In the mornings we would get a pot of coffee and our breakfast and share it over the view of snow covered mountains on the top deck. AWSOME! That top deck is the place to be . These pics in this thread are awsome . That cruise was like living in those pics for 2 weeks.
I didnt get sick but could have the night of the storm.
Tim
Hi Cal,
I have finally got some images on the way to work.
Sunrise from our balcony
http://jaws23.smugmug.com/photos/53101268-L.jpg
Early morning over the paddocks
http://jaws23.smugmug.com/photos/55522429-L.jpg
sunrise over the beach at home
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Real nice John, I could get comfortable on that balcony. The beach picture reminded me of our campsite last summer on a Lake Erie island. I rise with the birds and make the coffee. This site offered some good sunrise shots while it perked.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Kelly's !?! Darn, I was hoping to see some early morning shots of " the other island".
Then again I guess It's pretty hard to catch the sunrise over there. ;-)
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Well, use your imagination and drape a couple passed out bodies on the table. Cleaned up the empties the night b/4.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Is that a camera on a tripod in the picture? hehehe
LOoks like heaven on earth cal with the wine .
Tim
Yeah Tim, camera on a tripod for the best shots. I guess this one was "on the way" to take it. It was a great 3 sites we rented on the island. We're going again this sept, after labor day. Hope the sun hasn't moved down the horizon too far so we might get the sun over the water again.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Were gonna do the same thing this spring during the kids spring break. I gotta get it reserved !!!!!! First time Ive really thought that more folks than me will have the same idea. grr, <G>
Ive told you about it before as it looks a lot like the lade you set up. Its on a point up high off the water with a overlook pointing to the South and West. Fabulous sunsets.
Ahh cant wait! Ill set up the tripod and see what happens.
Tim
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Looks like a great spot Cal, you sure have some big lakes over there.Cheers,
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The Great Lakes John. http://www.great-lakes.net/
At one time the area surrounding the region didn't think twice about using and abusing. Luckily they have been thinking in another direction for quite some time now. Our Lake Erie, being the shallowest, was on the verge of not being able to sustain life. While clean by no means, it's better than it was and with continued vigilance and area cooperation, we might just get it right.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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John,
Wonderful pictures. Great lighting and composition. Perfect fit with Calvins exceptional photographs. I liked the campsite table, too.
Thanks! This thread has become a real getaway for me.
Gary
in consideration of your Alaska cruise
been many yrs but my folks did a fly up
Alaska cruise - mouths of glaciers etc
return by Alaska state ferry ( somehow think it may "land" in Bellingham? )
and they raved of the state ferry as much as the cruise - they enjoyed all of it very much!
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Thanks Gary, since buying a new dlsr I've rekindled my photographic juices,
I am now up to amateur status! this one is not a lake but our beach at home, the Norfolk pines you can just see in the distance.Cheers,
John
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Here are some pictures from Cape Cod during the early hours of our blizzard yesterday. The first is Nauset Light and the second Hemminway Landing in Eastham, Mass. The third is Bridge Road (small bridge over a marsh and the fourth is our house.
P.S. Don't open the first one. I forgot to shrink it before posting.
Here are a few more. Lucky timing at Nauset Light. Coast Guard Beach thru the windshield. Another shot of Bridge Road. And a happy snowdog (Harley).
Roger, thought you were shooting B&W till the coffee cup and the pup.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Yea, it was a pretty good storm. I had to drive to the next town during the storm and it was a white out for much of the way.
Roger, thought you were shooting B&W till the coffee cup and the pup.
LOL , ya I thought the same thing . Pretty dreary looking .
Tim
Surely your not working in that weather!!
Love the snow dog image.Cheers
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Hey John,
No, I wasn't working. I had to go help a friend who had surgery.
Here are a few pictures from "the morning after". It was really pretty out there this morning. Some pictures are from the same vatage points as yesterday. I also got a visit from a hawk on Fort Hill.
The last picture is from yesterday (forgot to include it). It's the stream that's down the end of our road.
Enjoy!
Thanks Roger, great shots!
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Thanks, Calvin, everyone. Here's another picture of the hawk. He didn't seem too concerned about me being there.
Hey, it ain't rocket surgery...
Now that's a beauty.
Gary
Leaving Austin,Tx., headed west to Marble Falls for a date with the Links. Being a bit dry of mouth, we drove through this libation emporium and this caught my eye.
After unloading the gear and gorging ourselves at one of the guys father's place, we did get on course.
There's some serious money in them thar hills. I'll pull out a couple homes as seen from Lake LBJ.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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duck your head , worms !
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Here's a picture of a pond in town followed by pictures of what's left of the fishing boat.
BTW, ignore the one called remains1 because I uploaded the wrong (full sized) picture and it's a huge file. Use remains1 small instead.
Cheers!
Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime - Mose Allison
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Spring finally!A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Thanks, Calvin. Nice crocus! We had a nuthatch fly into the house today looking for a place to nest. Some excitement for the dogs. Great time of year!
Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime - Mose Allison
That nuthatch must have been the one that entered the open doors of my van yesterday. Little rascals.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Ya gotta love the way they "hang" around, though<G> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
And they've invented anti gravity evidently.
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sinkhole typography.. basic Cape Cod.. beautiful pic
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whereabouts was the shipwreck ? i saw it on the news last night... lucky, lucky guys
they still have only found a lifering from that boat two- three weeks agoMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Hey Mike,
The wreck was on Coast Guard Beach in Eastham. If you google "850 Doane Rd Eastham, MA" and look at the hybrid map the boat was just about at the intersection of Doane Rd and Ocean View Dr.
I wonder what happened to their fuel. Haven't heard any mention of it.
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Yeow! Where are they located, Cal? Doesn't look tidal but does look southern. How much is the flood insurance???
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On LBJ lake in Texas maybe an hour west of Austin. The lakes are formed by a series of dams on a river called the Colorado. There's some bucks in that basin.
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It was another nature day on Cape Cod this morning. The herring have begun their annual trip up the runs to spawn. One of my favorite signs of Spring. I can always tell when it's starting because the seagulls are hovering over the beach making happy noises.
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Here they are bunched under the bridge...
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Here's where they started at high tide...
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Here's part of their journey...
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Here's where they're going...
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Added bonus: Wild turkeys in the road...
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A little privacy for those fish, man!
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Yea, those little guys and gals need all the help they can get. There's a ban on catching them this year because the numbers were way down last. Between the increase in the striped bass population, poachers, and the legitimate use of herring as bait they're having a tough time. All part of the cycle of life I guess...
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Wow, great shots of the wreck. I've spent time in those waters...looks like the classic sandbar off the beach 100-200 yds or so. You can see the outer break.
I can certainly see these wrecks happening years ago...but it's amazing to me to see them happen today, what with more reliable engines, good anchoring systems, and most importantly, the advent of inexpensive GPS systems. Not to mention the Eastham Light! Is that still operational? I remember seeing it from Nauset two years ago.
A swim to shore in that surf of 200 yards, in fishing/foul weather gear..and in temps that must have been what 40 degrees? is pretty extreme, especially for a non swimmer. Heck, even a swimmer would be next to useless in foul weather gear.
Glad to see they made it. The Cape is one of the better reminders of the power of nature.Jake Gulick
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Hey Jake,
Yea, I'm surprised as well that they ended up on the bar. They were from Maine so maybe they weren't familiar. Or maybe someone fell asleep with the wind blowing onshore. When the boat got caught on the bar it was rolled over by a wave. That took the pilot house out and they decided to swim for it.
But they were really lucky. You're right about the water temp - it was right around 40.
I was amazed how fast the boat broke up. It was onshore in the morning and in a dumpster by noon.
Yes, the Nauset light is still there. They moved it back from cliff a few years ago to save it for a few more decades.
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Edited 4/14/2006 5:28 pm ET by Crash
I was doing some research up Cape way, snapped a few shots overlooking Chatham and the harbor, with the Atlantic beyond.
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Edited 4/16/2006 2:53 pm ET by Lateapex911
Edited 4/16/2006 2:53 pm ET by Lateapex911
Nice pics! Chatham has some beautiful homes. Did you stop at the parking area across from the Coast Guard station that over looks the entrance to the harbor? Did you know that Nauset Light in Eastham used to be one of the twin lights in Chatham? Eastham originally had three small lighthouses ("the three sisters"). The sisters are now in a small park near Nauset Light on Cable Road.
It's called Cable Road because that's where the first under-ocean cable (The French Cable) came ashore. Sometimes after storms the remains of the cable are exposed. There's a French Cable Museum in nearby Orleans. They basically preserved the old office where they had the teletype they used to send morse code across to Europe. We've come a long way in the last hundred years... ;-)
We're heading to Chatham today with some friends for lunch at the "Impudent Oyster."
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Impudent Oyster?
Where abouts is that? Visit Chatham somewhat regularly.....never been there.
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It's just off of Maint St in town. The address is 15 Chatham Bars Ave. That's the road that T's with Main St. Turn onto Chatham Bars Ave and it's just a couple of doors down on the left. There's a public parking lot next to it.
It's a very nice little restaurant. I'm hooked on the Nantucket scallop roll but there are lots of good dishes. Great service. It's a unique little gem in Chatham.
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Cool....I'll be checkin' it out this summer!
Thanks.
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I am in love with the architecture of the Cape...from formal to cottagy, so much of it just seems so "right".
Been to the Coast Guard Light/station many times...remember the beach there before the "cut"??? How many houses were lost?
Cool info on the 3 sisters. I remember that vaguely. Another favorite is Highland light, and the links. Scruffy little course...I'd play that in a second before some other better courses.
The Cape is one of, if not my favorite places. Chatham is great, and I like Orleans and Eastham and Wellfleet and on up as well. I try to stay in Nauset Heights whenever possible. I seem to remember some mention of a cable coming ashore there as well, and there is (was) a big black cable that came out of the sand in the little cove off the main beach. I also seem to remember something about U boats bombing the beach there, or something.
I'll be sure to try that spot in Chatham. Ever been to the place in Orleans that has the stoplight in the front yard? It's across from the motel, on the way to the beaches as you come from the north. I have been there so many times I can't remember the names of the streets or the resturaunt, LOL. Anyway, it's really two places in one. Upstairs and downstairs. Downstairs is very ecclectic, and had Trivial Pursuit cards on each table. And the BEST Bisque that I have EVER had....from LA to Maine. I haven't been in 2 or 3 years, ( sad) but if it's still there it's worth a try.
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Edited 4/17/2006 3:11 pm ET by Lateapex911
Did you stop at the parking area across from the Coast Guard station that over looks the entrance to the harbor?
You mean this one???
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Edited 4/17/2006 3:19 pm ET by Lateapex911
Jake,
Are you talking about the Arbor Restaurant with the Binnacle Tavern in the back? If so, that's a favorite of ours as well.
I'm going away for a couple of years on a site assignment (no, not prison). Maybe we should have a Cod Fest when I get back. Mike isn't far away in RI and I think dieselpig, J D Reynolds, and a few others are around. Even Calvin used to cruise the Cape in his hippy days. Fishing, golf, whale watch cruise, clams, lobster, beer...
I was standing in front of Coast Guard Light about 3 hours ago. Here's a picture of its twin light at Nauset Light Beach during a storm this winter.
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Wow! no acumulation when it's blowing sideways at 70mph, eh?
The Binnacle!n That's it! Thanks! I LOVE that bisque..it's funny how 'famous" that place is. I was in LA, and desribed it to a friend..and he knew! "Best bisque I've ever had", he said, LOL..
I think I need to make it a point to get up there this summer, when the hydrangeas are blooming, no matter what. of course, nows a bad time to plan such a thing, LOL.Jake Gulick
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Well, if you like the Binnacle next time you're out you should also try Joe's Bar and Grill in Orleans. If you head toward Chatham from the Binnacle (on Rt 28) turn left at the light at Main St toward Nauset Beach (different from Nauset Light Beach). Go two or three miles and it will be right in front of you at a split in the road. Try to get into the bar area because it's pretty neat. Great food prepared creatively and they change the menu every year.
Damn I'm getting hungry typing this... ;-)
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Been by it a million times on my way to the cottage. It used to becalled something else, and I haven't been in it since they changed over. I bet that it's "new" ten years ago, LOL...
Of course I can remember when there was a great burger place at the head of Nauset Beach road across from the Ships Knees Inn called Mayos...but I was very young...;)
I will absolutely add it to my "must do" list.Jake Gulick
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Well, the burger place must pre-date my time around here, which started around 1990.
Here's one more piece of local knowledge - the best clam shack type place is the Friendly Fisherman in Eastham. Head east on Rt 6 past the traffic light at the National Seashore Visitor Center and thru the next light at Bracket Road. The Friendly Fisherman is on the right at the end of the parking lot. If you reach the driving range you've gone too far.
They have about a dozen picnic tables and only outdoor seating. They have the "Best of Cape Cod" lobster roll. But everything is great and they give you a big pile of food. They have a fisherman's platter that will literally feed four hungry people (costs about $27 though). They also have a nice fish market with reasonable prices.
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If I reach the driving range I've gone too far??? HA! I've gone ust far enough! Sounds like a great double destination! I know the loaction as well. I'll add it to my list.Jake Gulick
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This was on the way to work this weekend... Does anyone know where?
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I dont know, maybe somewhere in Europe?A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Yea, Madrid. We had a nasty storm on Saturday. I lived in Ohio for three years and this one rivaled any T storm I saw there. There were rivers of hail in the streets.
They had the bull fights on Sunday but it didn't interest me. Those who went said they basically just saw bulls getting slaughtered for 3 euros... ;-)
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Yea, got here a day early to get over the jet lag before the fun starts. Took the red eye and only got about two hours of sleep on the plane.
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Shingle fish and herons must be really big in Europe...=0)
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Luka,
I'm working on it, damn it! ;-)
How about a shingle bull???
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Yeah !!
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Gonna rent a new Cayman and get north to tour the 'Ring?? ;)Jake Gulick
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Funny you should mention that. I'm moving to Netherands for two years and wanted to bring my little '88 944TS to drive at the 'ring" but it keeps dying on me lately!!!
A Cayman would be soooo sweet!
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Finshed up at noon today so we got to do some sight seeing before heading home tomorrow. The Armory in the Royal Palace was the best. That and all of the butt cleavage on the streets... ;-)
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Uhh I'd like to see some of the butt cleavage you were talking about. As llong as it's girls.
Pardon my fat fingers.
I hear ya! But I felt funny trying to take pictures of the butt cleavage. Didn't want to look like the "ugly American." So here's some artistic butt cleavage for you...
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I know what your saying. LOL.
Pardon my fat fingers.
But I felt funny trying to take pictures of the butt cleavage.
That is why God created digital cameras. You can turn the lcd on and just put the camera on your knee or some such thereby making it less obvious that you're taking 'fashion' pics.
Wish I'd had a digital camera with me a few years ago in Heathrow. Couple very nice looking ladies wearing mesh pants...with apparently nothing on underneath, but I didn't want to stare so I couldn't verify. Had I had a digital camera, I could have verified whether or not my initial assumption was correct :)
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Yea, I could have done the digital camera lcd thing but would have felt a little bit like a perve. If I started doing that then I might start going hardcore with "up skirts".
Kinda like they say that smoking pot can lead you getting hooked on crack. In this case, a little 'crack' could get me hooked on up skirts... ;-)
As it was I felt a bit like this kid...
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Since it's almost Easter I thought some Church spires might be in order.
Goes along with the steeple thread as well.
Thanks,
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Just can't get enough of those sunsets. Addictive and hopefully for a long time.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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I raise your sunset with one from the Southern hemisphere :)Your right Cal they are addictive I'm always shootin' them.
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Nice.
Sunrise/sunset and clouds in the sky. I could watch for hours.
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Nix on the weatherman gig.
Its much better just watching the weather than getting blamed for it.
Outside of Baseball, where else could you be paid well for failing most of the time?
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Why would you want a job where you get blamed for stuff you have no control over?
Oh, wait a minute. We're contractors.
We already have that kind of job.
Exactly!
Now, to more serious matters.
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Not yet.
I was waiting to find out when my niece's wedding is.
But it's the weekend prior to Fest.
So I'll be getting my reservation in very soon.
I'mm looking forward to meeting a lot of you BTers.
I'm looking forward to meeting a lot of you BTers.
Boy, have you got disappointment looming.
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Nah.
I've got low standards
Took these about an hour ago before it even hit the news. Fishing boat went aground on Coast Guard Beach in Eastham. Coast Guard received a May Day call around 4:30 am. Two men went overboard. They found one alive and they are still searching for the second. I came across it by accident on my usual morning drive with the dogs.
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Sorry... here are smaller versions...
Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime - Mose Allison
Looks like it just ran up on the beach. Why would 'going overboard' be so hazardous on the beach?
jt8
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John,
There's a sand bar that's off the beach by maybe more than 100 yards. Between the bar and the beach the water is pretty deep (I'll check my charts later).
Here's a cropped section of a hi res TIFF picture showing a close up.
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Edited 3/27/2006 10:20 am ET by Crash
Just to follow up. They found the other guy. He had broken into the Coast Guard Station to try to warm up.
Turns out they had a dog with them (a pug) that also made its way to shore. They found it walking the beach also suffering from hypothermia. My bad joke of the day to my wife, "I guess they thought they had found a pugsicle."
I went back after lunch and the boat (a scalloper from Maine) had already broken up on the beach. They were loading the parts into a dumpster. Those guys were pretty lucky.
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Beautiful work Roger. Thanks a bunch.
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Cool pictures Roger.
Very nice
Doug
We only got 4-8". It is just about gone already.
I didn't think it was that bad to drive in, but apparently other folks had some trouble. There was a 15+ car pile-up on the interstate (they had 'er just about cleaned up when I went by) and various cars off the road at various points along the route. the picture with the red/white semi..his driver side trailer wheels were up in the air. Lucky for him he didn't go over the side, because there is a fair drop off there.
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John
Those pictures of the highway littered with cars in the ditch bring back memories!
Never see that down here
Doug
Those people in the ditch probably have very nicely framed pictures of the snow in their cameras.
We were on the plane to S.F from Chicago and back we shot alot of photos too but didn't know or was told about no/no? This was last Nov.....
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I have never in my life been on anything except dialup.Couldn't afford it in the city.Now that I have moved out here, it is affordable in the city, but unavailable out here.LOL
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Awesome shots Gary. I was just watching a Utah National Park special last night on pbs.
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I wanna go back....
Going to try and camp in Death Valley for a few days right after the first. That should be interesting.
Gary
Just in case you haven't stopped by for a while.
Wondered why no birds at the feeder.
Looked a bit further and saw this guy perched.
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Cal! You're right, I have been by in a long while! Just too wrapped up in too many things.
Great shot. I love the blue of the sky in the background. I'm in MA right now, just arrived today, and I bet it's about as cold here as it looks to be there. It was 80 at my house yesterday.
Gary
Gary, Well, we had a heat wave today. It headed all the way up to a few degrees below freezing. 13 now. Position players report to Spring Training. Warm weather not far behind.........at least in Florida.
One positive on this 5 week cold spell. Quite a bit of sun and blue skies. And to think that first week in January b/4 the temp fell, was teeing 'em up right here in Ohio.
At nite we've got the owls and the few remaining deer with antlers squaring off in the dark. That's a little bit harder of a shot to get.
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Beautiful! We have a resident hawk who comes in to our little bird water feeder....It's amazing how silent these hawks are....It perches on the water and doesn't spill a drop....
Carol. Pretty blurred out, but you should see this boy maneuver the trees.
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Gorgeous!!
Really nice calvin! It is quite amazing to watch birds of prey swoop through a thick forrest. We have a lot of red tail hawks here, and they are a very sizeable but extremely agile bird.
I'm having trouble figuring this one out. The round forehead, maybe young. Any ideas-NW Ohio. This family of hawk is here year round.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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This from my back deck. No deer in the picture we do get them coming down our driveway and down the hill to the river.An ex-boat builder treading water!
You need Irfanview.
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A couple from a trip to ID and WA this summer.Note the dust devil in #53
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I like the river pic .
Tim
Hey. WTF? You came up here to WA this summer and didn't give a holler?
Jim,My cousin got married near Couer d'Alene in July and my wife & I and my parents flew out there. Since we were so close and none of us had been to Seattle we drove there to visit for a day.The problem was we had a very limited time, crossed Mercer Island about 5pm on a Sunday and left on 520 at evening rush hour on Monday.We had just enough time to walk around a little, see the Pike Street Market (our hotel was about 4 blocks away), visit the locks, and Volunteer Park.Thanks for the thought though. If you're ever near DC or Richmond I will expect a holler from you.
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That's some nice country over there, around Lake Couer d'Alene, huh? From there to Missoula Montana is one of my favorite areas of the country. Lots of people migrate from here in the Puget Sound region to there. Sand Point is a little farther North and I've heard lots of good things about that area, too, but haven't seen it yet.
Sorry to have missed you, Jon. See you next trip, okay?
"See you next trip, okay?"It's a deal.We took an afternoon before the wedding to go up to Sandpoint and Pend'oreille. The pics are pretty weak but it's the best I have.
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On the way out the door, looked down the hill and see this big boy...........
While this little squirrely faced sob watched me.
Then finally found what makes those nuthatch's hang upside down with ease.
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all this talk of cold and stuff in the other thread figured i would put some pics of the view from our new jobsite
the house is going to be 6300 sqf raised ranch. i ws standing where their master bedroom suite is going to be.man i would hate to see this every morningDue to recent budget cuts the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice.
Great site. Where in the warm world is that?An ex-boat builder treading water!
i would hate to see this every morning
I had a place like that . Drank coffee on the deck every morning when it was half azz decent to. That and 5 lots next to it . Started selling the lots off and finally the house. I was keeping two lots closets to the water in a bay where I kept a boat . Just got the dock approved and the guy that wrote the paper said , "whatta take for it? " I priced it for a lot more than it was worth to me and it became history for me. DW said , "youre gonna kick your butt for that !" I wish I had a nickel for every time Ive thought about it and said "damn".
Those deals helped pay for the pad weve got now which I could not have afforded with out those deals , but I hated to leave that water. So it had a price to pay after all other than money. Still hurts.
Tim
tim i grew up on the water-born in keywest, raised a few miles north of ft lauderdale
when i moved i went to atlantic beach N.C lived there for about ten yrs,close enough to the ocean to throw a rock in the surf from the front porch
met a florida girl came back here where thats the only water around,have to drive about 1 1/2 hrs to get to the ocean
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Thats the best pic of that deer.
Tim
Why Jon mentioned what he did was because you needed to down size the pic for this site . Theres a lot of dial uppers that wont touch its file size. Also the pic would have been all in the frame.
I think I got a little more snow this morning .
What kind of tree is that ? I cant tell because me thinks it has weird bark. <G>
Tim
That's a cottonwood.With moss.Round here it goes all the way round, and usually all the way up a tree, as well.
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How do you figger which way is north, then.
moss all around a tree, no sunshine- even the birds gotta be confused.
I'm loving all the pics.
I haven't done any photography for awhile, besides recording some work.
This is inspiring me to start again.
Yer telling me !!
=0)
I took this picture in my back yard yesterday. At 11:30 am !! The lightest part of the day is from 10 to 12. And I even lightened the picture up some !! It really is dark around here.
This scene is typical for here for at least 4 months of the year. I get direct sunshine only 3 to 4 months of the year. The rest of the months are somewhere in between.
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Beautiful view. I love the snow on the trees.
I guess you don't have much use for sunglasses out there.
Or do you run screaming for the shadows when the sun finally does come out?
Sun ?
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LOL
It is a somewhat stressed red oak. These pictures are a pleasure. What a great landscape we live and work in. An ex-boat builder treading water!
Tim, I've enjoyed a few of those sunsets while duckhunting.
This isn't a duckhunting pic, but it is shot over lake huron where ducks often land.
I lost probably my best "drive to work" picture when my computer crashed.
blue
Heres one my buddy sent me from colorado,he took it at bout 8 am this past saturday
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Friend sent this to me last month. He and dw had taken a trip from IA to ID. This shot was taken in W. Nebraska.jt8
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You should join a flying club. Unless you're flying several hundred hours per year, the economics just arent there. I'll be the first to admit that when I was flying regularly I really wanted an airplane but didn't need to own one!
Mike
Mike,
With the new LSA rule, it is now affordable to own your own plane, but I agree, once I get enough hours in, I'll go that route, as I'd love to have access to a Lancair IV, which can cruise at 335 knots. At about $370K a little cost prohibitive for me on my own.
Jon
I'll chip in a quarter, if I get a free plane ride !=0)
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
does this one count?
took it today on the way home from a little saturday working ... had the time ... so I drove a bit out of my way to take a pic of a very cool roof line I saw on a side trip from the jobsite. Figured after this job ... I'd never get back down that lonesome road ... and I had my camera with me ... so out of the way I went driving.View Image
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Jeff, that does count, very cool...now just stay that way...riiiiight<G> "what's in a name?" d'oh!
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This was taken in Brunswick, Maine. It was about 6:45 in the morning, on my way to work. I just had to stop and take a couple of shots. This one, I think, came out the best.
Rod
Nice, not.
Waitaminute, that didn't come out right.
Haunting, not.
That neither.
Nice shot, not.
I give up,
not.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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On the way in to the Salt Mine today, last hill before the job site. Snow, Clouds, & Cold!
it speaks.. Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks
"I don't think it's funny no more" Nick Lowe.
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Yes, 20 miles south of Denver. 8" of Snow in the Mts today.
Edited 11/5/2005 11:57 pm by G80104
Forgot to pic the mirror. Dadgumit.
Went to the cabin to day and took the camera. Had to pick up a trailer with materials up there. I enjoyed the drive as usual, but right now is pretty special.
Missed #4
Nice area.
Now that's a leaf rake'n nightmare!
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"Now that's a leaf rake'n nightmare!"
Youre right . Most of us run power vacumns of some description here . I mow my yard 12 mos a year with a bagger in tow. Ya otta see people diving by in Febuary and Im sitting on my lawn mower with coveralls.
Tim
Storm just passed through. A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Damn,... thats GOOD!
<G>
Tim
65 mph sunrise
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Here's a couple from around the hotel I'm staying at. Early morning getting ready for another day. Next trip down here I'm bringing the good camera. The company camera is alright but I can do much better with mine.
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Hey Dude ,
this ISNOT on the way home but its cool and oh yea , not mine . I stole it fair and sqaure from the tile forum. hehehehehe, but its home grown where ever home tis.
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Tim, Went looking for land today, found this 20 acre piece. It's not as colorful as your place though. No leaves turn here, rake pine cones and juniper berries instead.
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Very nice view .
What did you think about the 20 acres?
Tim
Joe,
This was yesterday for us,
Thats a bitter sweet picture for me .
Looks like yall are in a wonderland for the kids but our kids have never seen such.
Tim
I snapped this shot while driving around Lake Pend Oreille in Sandpoint, ID. I was there on a photo shoot for the McBirney house (which appears in the newest issue of the mag). I was just taken aback by these flowers and the lake in the background and had to snap some shots.
Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
Nice meadow Justin.
A bit large for this dialup, but worth the wait. Remember buddy, we're not all fast servers.
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When you sign on with FHB as an editor, you're told that you will have to travel the equivalent of one week out of each month. Of course that is just an average, sometimes you won't travel for a few months at a time, and other times you are on the road for awhile in a row.Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
When you sign on with FHB as an editor, you're told that you will have to travel the equivalent of one week out of each month. Of course that is just an average, sometimes you won't travel for a few months at a time, and other times you are on the road for awhile in a row."
Justin,
If you ever find yourself in MKE, give me a call, might be able to set you up with a place to stay on the cheap for Taunton.
Jon B.
Edited 11/21/2005 10:28 pm ET by WorkshopJon
This was taken while driving down I75 in Michigan at 75 mph.
Just picked up the camera and shot out the window.
JT
Wow !
Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
JT,
Right place, Right time.
Nice shot.
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Not at all - just right next to Detroit - in Livonia to be exact.JT
Nothing wrong with that view Z.
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Love the shot through the window with the oak tree...
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That is EXACTLY what I thought the first time I saw, and every time now, that I see my new wallpaper. Your water falling pic...Some of the time I am reminded of when I was a kid. Wandering around, getting myself into places where I doubt many people had ever been before. Thereby seeing things that not many see. Also stopping a lot to just take in whatever was in front of me. Rcognizing, admiring, and respecting the beauty in the ordinary...Did you have to wade out there to get that pic ?
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Those are two awesome shots!
Cuyahoga River at Lake Erie.
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Well z, I don't know the advancement of your years but central texas is some tough sailing. If you should ever get up this way on a scouting mission, lemme know.
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Z,
I live in L.A. I often wish I had wonderful scenery outside my door, and seasons, too. But it just makes me look a little harder. That treasure hunt can be fun, too. Some people might think that photos of concrete curbs, asphalt, and wooden gates are pretty boring, but I don't think so.
Gary
As I said earlier... the beauty in the ordinary.I love texture in photographs.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
"To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower..." - Blake
Went by this on the way to a great meal... Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Top of the Hill today, 50+mph winds!
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This Winter has been one WOW after another. Got a 4 mega pix Sony from the DW for X-mas. Once we get it figured out, Look-Out!
You so suck. ;-)
Turns to date: 0
Made a few for everybody today!
You still planning a Ski trip this year?
Hey, what's up with the white wrinkles on thoses hills? Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Snow Snakes!
How do you find time to work with all that skiing.<g>
We follow the Rules.
On the way into Index, WA there's a great little collection of old stuff on the side of the road. Stopped and talked with this guy for quite awhile. Good people.
That's old irrigation pipe in the lower left, wood staves wrapped with wire bands - maybe 12" in diameter, 10 maybe 12' long? Very cool stuff.
Yeah, definitely "planning" one. The girlfriend has the week off, but we haven't booked anything yet. To be honest I've been dragging my feet. I just bid an enormous kitchen down in New Orleans, and the time frame may interfere with the trip.
That all said, she usually gets what she wants. She even dragged me out for New Years Eve.
Doode, you're not supposed to look like you were dragged out, especially by that babe<G> What is happening to the younger generation? Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
I just came across this thread. Beautiful photographs everyone !! I couldn't resist adding my photo of the "wildlife" I photographed in my rear view mirror on the way to work. :) I'm not sure I know how to attach photos, so we'll see if this works.
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Hey, I know Joe, he ain't neurotic, course, he ain't that exotic either<G> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Joe Mama, maybe!
TIPI,TIPI,TIPI!
Jim,
Great logging shot. I've never seen one of those wagons but always wondered...
That must have been a scan, huh? I know you wouldn't be caught dead using a digital camera--ludite, right?
Gary
Yeah, that's a scan.
I think digital cameras are great. Only thing is, I really like working in the darkroom and just a few years ago learned how to use cameras and film. So it's all still new to me and fun. I guess at some point I'll try a digital camera. I sure envy how well your guy's digital images look online. I'm pretty sure film is still superior for big prints, though, and I have the equipment I need for film.
Hey, did Mike tell you I was trying to catch up with you in Portland? You were always really involved teaching or running from one of your presentations to the other and I was only there a few hours. Anyways, sorry to have missed you (again). See you next year in Seattle, huh?TIPI,TIPI,TIPI!
This was out there, as I was loading up from the job last night. I tried a couple more from inside the truck, man, I gotta clean my windshield more often<G> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
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Here's another attempt.
Sunset over Carvers Harbor Vinalhaven,Me. Last of Oct. from the roof of a house where we were topping out a chimney.
I could force myself to live there .
<G>
Tim
I'll buy you your first lobster when you arrive.
In your line of work, you get some pretty good aerial shots.
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Thanks Calvin.
Now that my technological skills have improved some, I'll post some more at times.
I head the road cleanup along a couple miles of River Road through the park. I seldom leave the donuts and van w/o bags, picker, or a camera. It's a darn nice couple hours spent on a saturday morning doing something of consequence and enjoyment.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Jim,
I think there's room for both--but it's really a budget issue. I still drag around my view camera. Nothing is as intimate as seeing something upside down, waiting for the sun to get just so, or a shadow or a cloud to move to right there, or hiking all the way back because it's a morning shot. I spend more time studying a spot and learning about it, remembering it, with the view camera. But boy, the digital is sure a lot less expensive to start up.
Here's a scan from Arches Nat. Park.
And wow, Cynthia, that Trinity shot is good.
And I loved the harbor with the sunset,
And Calvin, where'd you come from and where have you been? You've got an incredible eye.
gary
Gary, the benefits of digital are certainly cost since you can see the possible end result right now, and later view it b/4 printing. But to the gattling gun type of shooter like me, it manages to help get that "good" picture. Another thing is to put yourself into the position to take that good picture. What's gotten me the lucky shot is to constantly be aware of what's around me. Too many go through life w/o seeing. I concentrate on no one thing at the expense of others. I've been told a few times that I have a good eye. I don't know if that's really the case. Luck plays a big role in it. That and staying awake to our surroundings. The beauty is there, just a matter of capturing it.
Now, if you took pictures of a staged shot, choosing and placing the pcs. in position and then snapping..........that would be a composition requiring a "good eye". Sort of the difference between a reporter and a novelist.
Then there's the technically perfect photographer. Since his name has been mentioned recently, Ansel Adams. His photographs to me exhibit the vastness and beauty of his subject. When I look at his photo's in a book, I can see so much more than that 8x10. I get the feeling of actually looking at what he saw, GIGANTIC!
At any rate, here's one on the way to a job. I looked left, saw the rays coming out of the clouds. Had to stop and grab the job camera. Took two pictures. Got the rays in one. Should have looked left a bit sooner.
Rats, somtimes the reproduced images here get all muddled up. What causes that? Something in the resizing?
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On the way into Index you cross a river. This bridge was recently (do you know exactly when, Luka?) built to replace the old one. This photo doesn't do it justice. It is a beautiful, simple, small, bridge up there amidst the jagged peaks. It was love at first sight for me.TIPI,TIPI,TIPI!
Good picture !!The completion year is cast into the concrete somewhere there. I am going to have to go have a look at it to be sure. (CRS) But I have been driving over that for I think 3 years now.MUCH better than the old one lane crap it replaced !!
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
On the way out of town, and another enjoyable weekend in the Colorado High Country!
TEA-PEE 06!
Gary, took a drive this afternoon and ended up here on Hwy 21 on the west side of Utah. This is heading east toward Frisco peak & Milford. Not much traffic today. Actually there's not much traffic any day in 90% of Utah.
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great shots all...
here's over the Connor pass
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Cynthia, you defintely synched in...I wish we had rear view mirrors here<G> Hey, pocket doors can't come off the track if they're nailed open
Nice one. I love the big city. Give us more.
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Nice shot, but that's gotta be a few years back. We haven't had those old Chevy's for yellow cabs for a few years now.
Good catch. That photo was taken a while ago. I had forgotten about it until I saw the other photos taken in the mirror. Here are a few others from my NYC commute. I hope I'm getting the hang of resizing. These may still be a bit big.
I'm easily amused. For some reason I've always liked this shot I took a while back. It got a little fuzzy when I resized it, but you get the idea.
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"The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded."-- Dr. Dale Turner
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'Nemo me impune lacesset'No one will provoke me with impunity
cool
No offense, really, but it's:
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wildflower"
Blake was a bit anti-religious--not behind organized spirituality (you'd have to have been there to understand, I think), so he'd be the type to say "a Heaven" rather than "Heaven." Kind of thing a finish guy would notice--looking a bit too close at the joinery I am, maybe. But the next two lines are the kickers.
"Hold Infinity in the palm of your Hand
And Eternity in an hour"
Great fence!
Gary
ROFLOLI saw the quote somewhere and stole it. It was as I pasted it here.=0)
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
so did Ansel Adams
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I studied all his life and work in college. Loved it.=0)Don't ask me for details, though. CRS LOL I just remember what I like, and a few of his pictures.
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
My BIL here has one of his prints here, He came upon it up at the dump, and jusat liked what he saw so he took it home. Years later, he learned about AA, and had it appraised - yep, authentic!
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I don't get it about Ansel Adams. Art appreciation is individual taste for the most part, that goes without saying. But I took book after book of his out of the library, really tried to see what all the fuss was about, and I just don't. Left me cold.
Oh well, some people like opera, some don't, I guess.
they do???LOL
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Well, at least they SAY they do.
ROFLOLI'm guessing that is likely in more cases than not.;o)
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~~ Eric Hoffer
Minus the tree.
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"All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why." -- James Thurber
To me, the trees make the inside to outside connection ...now photoshop out that wire, and ya really got it. I'll do it when I'm not feeling so lazy...takes a lot of energy to beat my son with the graphics degree...<BFG>
I saw this in my mirror while I was driving down Ogden Avenue out of Chicago the other day. The picture didn't turn out the greatest but it was a first attempt at taking a picture and driving (through a less than desirable neighborhood without getting myself killed in the process no less).
We certainly don't want to encourage unsafe travel.
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Went out today to an old farmhouse with shingles blown off from 60 mph winds on Wed.
They are an old couple with lots of acreage-been customers for 30 years.
This stone arch is on the street at the edge of their property-on Osgood Brook.
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Calvin,
Maine is blessed with some really fine stone.Monson slate is World reknowned for some of the finest roofing slate ever quarried.
The other picture I put on of Vinalhaven-had some magnificent granite quarried there.The columns on the Cathedral of St. John The Divine in New York came from there.Tapered fluted columns in two pieces-38' bottom sections with 19' tops.An unbelieveable undertaking to fabricate and install!
Weddnesday am...
a rare site in this region.
Sun rising, moon setting and an inch of snow.
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Kinda hard to find any picturesque scenery around here.
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Edited 5/4/2006 4:26 pm by JohnT8
Nothing wrong with that John. Damn near as flat as here, I'm sure you've noticed.
Kind of a neat effect isn't it.
Been thinking coffee table book.
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hey cal, was looking thru some pics for trim details, and I found this:
I wasn't driving, but I was in the car, and on the way to the North Coast Brewery in Ft. Bragg...which turned out to be a whole lot of work once we got there<G>
Then, I've just got a thing for purple flowers...
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On the way to work this a.m. and noticed this beauty. Came home and got the camera out.
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Ummm, poiple<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
check this out:
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Macro, macro man<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Macro,
and then some:
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Woah, that's nice picture...hey, here's dinner: blue feesh upon cedar siding...waste not want not<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
So, tell me.............do they use knotless cedar on those broiling boards? If not, I've got a bunch of one foot scraps (birdhouse type material) that I've been stashing............but there's those WRC knots for sure. Can only imagine the mini explosions those could produce.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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These are a couple of pics from a strong thunderstorm that went south of my future in-laws house in northwest indiana a couple of weeks ago. Getting the lightning in the shots was dumb luck. There are dial up friendly versions too.Quick question: How do insert an image into my post so that the attachment doesn't have to be opened?
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cal, I wasn't kidding about the siding, beveled and all...don't know about the knots...maybe popcorn? I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Well, whoop-d-doo. Joyce has a salmon destined for dinner tonight. Guess I'll grab some scrap. Hope I don't blow the sumbits in the grill.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Just got the word from my son the chef..knots not a problem.I just weighted it down in a baking pan of water for an hour, put it on top of the grill, & slapped on the fish...no need to turn...EZ<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Give me the rundown, I'll be trying it tomorrow probably, didn't get home till 9 tonight-BLT's.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Here's a pic on the way home tonight. I snapped it with my cell phone. It's a castle. You don't see those everyday in the states.
See you knows more about it then I do. It's in his neck of the woods. They are rebuilding it after a bad fire last year.
Wake me up before you go-go.
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Hey, jpg me, man! I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Here. I think this is what you want.
Wake me up before you go-go.
Coool. Thanks<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
One of these days I'm gonna stop out front and do the tourist thing and take pictures. It's pretty cool just sitting up on the hill like it does.
Wake me up before you go-go.
Got this one in an E-mail from Southren Colorado, Guys says he doing a lot of Fishing?
Thinking the only type of fishing going on is the Ice Type!
I want to see pictures of the house. And the fish.
Wake me up before you go-go.
it's under there some place...
wait a few months... it's should show back up...
can't go but 2 days without it snowing....
G8 should be able to ski there untill his regular shiing haunts open fer business later in the year...
ate the fish...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
we can find snow covered mountain pics anywhere on the web. Give us something we don't see anywhere else.
Wake me up before you go-go.
the majic word is not give...
dig out yur wallet...
stop in and see them for yerself....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I've commited my travel funds to the tipi.
Wake me up before you go-go.
too bad...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Leaving work yesterday snapped a pic of these future Xmas dinners.
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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..."-- Nelson Boswell
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Had to beat from the Heat today, heres a few from above 10,200' above the sea....
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I was on the way, hobbling around the beds out to the garage. I figured I'd take the camera and tripod because there's this native plant I got for joyce last summer. She likes it. Its called a water plant-the leaves look wet all the time. The flowers are small but boy are they pretty.
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I like it! I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
and damn if it didn't rain.
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And here are some taken with the 105 macro; no step rings
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Things you might pass up, but those close ups bring out. I'm really liking this.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Think what Georgia O'Keefe would have done with digital photography.
I don't know man, I've admired some of her paintings I've seen. I know her former lover/husband was large in early photography. I suppose if she had expressed an interest in it she would have done some pretty cool things. Her use of color and shape are very nice.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Not to give you more things to do when you come east, since as you already stated the main reason is to attend the fest and all, but there are some great museums in NYC:
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), and the International Center of Photography.I like museum crawls as well as pub crawls :-)
I doubt we'll go into the city this time. With the wedding this summer and all the other activities we've got on the agenda, my wife only has so many "days" of vacation to alot to this trip. That photo center sounds terribly enticing.
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Photos look great, your hard drive must be HUGE, is your photo library well organised?Here about as close as I can get with my 28-200http://www.johnwalkerbuilders.com
Those aussie spiders are some kind of smart! I really like to get good shots of insects, they're pretty interesting things. That and the reproductive features of plants. Truly beautiful things.
13,500 files
17.5 GB.
I installed a 200 GB internal hardrive.
They are organized pretty good. I try to move my favorite pictures into a file that I can draw on when I want to show or enter something. I do have all my good camera pictures in one file. Then there's jobs according to year that I try to take care of.........
John, dig it-The Inner Sanctum:
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I've been following this thread for awhile, but that has got to be one of the nicer pics, keep up the good work. Maybe you can have a one-man show of your photography in the Tipi.
I'm telling you, I just get all excited when taking these closeups. If I took a magnifying glass with me I might see the detail b/4 I shoot. But I don't. And what comes up is like the first microscope day in biology. Amazing what goes on down there in smallville.
edit: To give you a sense of the size, a nickel would just about cover the flowers.
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Amazing. What kind of equipment do you use.
Nikon D100 with a Tamron90mm Macro lens. On occasion will add some closeup rings. Do some contrast adjustment with Elements 3.0. Occasionally putz with the color adjustment etc too.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Hi cal,
some nice photos there as usual, got to get me one of those macro lenses.Cheers,
Johnhttp://www.johnwalkerbuilders.com
You'll love it.
From what I hear, look at the 150mm.
There's also a way to take your telephoto and give it some macro ability with step rings. 1x,2x,4x. Might need a transition ring to fit the telephoto. I add the step rings to the macro for SuperBad closeups.
It will open a whole nother world to your picture taking.
edit: If I get time today or tomorrow I'll set up the camera and take a series of shots with all the aforementioned crappola. You can compare and contrast the artillery.
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Edited 6/10/2006 9:09 am ET by calvin
Man, you're making me want to break out the camera. I've got the Nikon 105 macro and it is really sweet; no step rings though. My biggest barrier at the moment is that my body is a N90, and I am so over film! Just can't justify (or afford - got to pay off the bandsaw first - LOL) the D100.
Keep those pics coming!
OK, think of the savings over film. I just took a bunch, probably a couple 2-3 dozen of this dogwood bloom w/bee and here's one of two keepers.
You'd have had to reload film. She'd have flown away.
If you've got the lenses that'll work, keep an interest in the digital body.
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Nice pics Cal. You should stay home from work more often. This is good stuff. Makes a nice desktop background. Thanks.
"With every mistake we must surely be learning"
Mike, I see you're from upstate NY. My birthplace.
And being from the great state of NY, do you know that this years Fest of Breaktimers is on L.I. A great opportunity to meet up with the goofiest guys and gals on this forum. Check out the Breaktime Fest folder-Tipifest.
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Thanks Cal, Look forward to seeing them.Cheers,
Johnhttp://www.johnwalkerbuilders.com
You bet John, the wind was blowing a bit. I think I got some of each pc that might not have moved too much. Will get them up here some time tomorrow.
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Do you use a tripod or are the hands steady enough?Cheers.
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John, if I were a marksman, I'd hit the bldg next door.
Tripod for sure. Depending on the lighting I can often do ok with fast shutter speed. Usually tho, better off with a brace of some sort, log, ledge or bldg. With the Macro lens, breathing jumbles it all up. I'm going to look close, and it probably isn't anywhere near focus, but a real small gnat got trapped between the rings as I was adding it on. Might see footprints across the screen.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Here's the comparison. Forgive the movement in some of these.
A 1.5'' Dogwood bloom taken 8'' away:
0036- 200mm telephoto
0037- 200mm telephoto with +1 close up ring.
0038- 200mm telephoto with +1 and +2 closeup ring
0040- 200mm telephoto with +1,+2, and +4 closer to 4'' away.
90mm Macro lens:
0041- Macro at 8''
0042- Macro at 5''
90mm Macro lens with:
0044- +1 closeup ring @ 2.5''
0047- +1 and +2 rings @ 4''
0058- +1, +2, and +4 rings @ 1.75'' away.
The macro lens has a deep recessed lens. These measurements are taken from the focus ring, not the glass.
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OK, let's see how these slide scans, originally sized for 8x10 to 13x17 prints, turn out when squeezed down to something a dial-upper can view...
These two were taken with a 200mm lens at a wide aperature to blur the surroundings:
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OK, not too bad. The sage has a bit more of a gold/yellow but pretty much gets the idea - backlit at sunrise.
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I like the sage shot alot. Attempted this yesterday. I saw the same type of effect you have with the sage, but had some trouble getting it. If the wind quits today, I'm trying again.
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The nite b/4 I found this guy resting on the same tree. He's probably not long for this world with his tattered wings.
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Here's a form of the color purple.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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These are a with a Kodak cx7530 last spring.
A few from our garden last month. The Dutchman pipe Vine is fun and the swallowtails like it.
Isn't it amazing how much beauty we can find in our own back yards if we just look?
I've always thought I've looked at things, but until I started taking these macro shots I've only seen half the beauty. I'm addicted now.
One other thing. I saw some pics yesterday that a golfer took in Mississippi a bit after the Hurricane. He did a beautiful job capturing the scene there. I need to work on those type of shots.
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I've always been more of a "still life " photographer.
I've always been kind of uncomfortable taking pics of people, especially candid type shots.
I'd love to see those pics of Mississippi. I've spent some time on the Gulf Coast, and can't quite bring myself to visit there yet. Any chance of being able to post some?
Boy, I hope I can remember...........but nope, can't remember the golfer that helped feed the victims in Mississippi and who has donated the proceeds from his photo sales. If anyone watched the US Open yesterday and remembers his name, please post it. I think a short story was done on TV by Tim Rosaforte, showing his photo's yesterday. They were great.
edit: The guy I'm trying to remember is known (or was known) for throwing his whole bag into the lake.
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Hey cal,I was on the way to the bar for a frosty rum party beverage, when these guys started laughing at me...a little conch fritter shut 'em up<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
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Calvin, I sneak into this thread and the pics are awesome.......It's so good seeing you appreciate nature.......I just put some water into the birdbath we have.....Poor little birdies here in Tucson are dropping.......I do appreciate the greenery and beautiful flowers you shoot.......We have had owls come into our place recently....They come in at sunset for dinner!! I'll try to post some pics husband got of one of them resting.....Hope you and yours are well......
Bring it on Carole................this is on the way. Hell yes, if you're on the way to take a picture, and in fact do take one, we'd be happy to see it. There's some nice sights here at BT.
thanks.
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I didn't take the pic, husband did, he's the photographer.....I'll do it tomorrow.....Got lots of bird pics......Birds are really different out here.....
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I saw that segment.
He wasn't one of the players, but got to announce the pros teeing off.
He's a pro at some course in the area.
And I can't remember his name, either. Maybe someone with a better memory will come up with it.
Im still here and enjoying . Just been lazy , lol.
Tim
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Butch, could you reduce the size of the picture. Not so much the load time as the reproduction of the print. When it's this large there's no detail on my screen. Almost like an abstract painting.
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Calvin I wished I knew how to reduce, and I've been here anddone this, but just can't seem to do it.
When you bring up your pictures on your computer, is there a program that came with the camera? Usually you can resize with that. On Windows XP, there's a resize feature in "My Pictures". Sometimes if you right click on your pic the menu will come up to rotate etc. There should be a resize option there. Take it to about 75kb or 640x480pixels.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Butch,You can download this free program and it is fairly simple to resize and adjust your photos.http://irfanview.com/
Just got a Nikon D50 with a 'couple of lenses..here's one BT'rs might like:
Thats a nice honest shot a man doing his work, your hands with the timer on?Cheers,
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My hands. Visiting amatuer photographer trying out my new camera. I was putting deck boards down.
Heres a guy from Jackson, WY...
Morning coffee on the deck."A wink is good as a nod to a blind man."
Yard flower on the way down a lane in Hope Town... I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Eric, Nice shot. Have you observed this butterfly? We've got a couple here, maybe a couple inches across. They fly straight up, spiraling. A territory dance I have learned.
Storm approaches=tornado siren.
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Calvin, I've not seen butterflies like that; this shot was serendipity. What coloring on the spiralling butterflies?Eric
This is close to the ones I'm talking about. Mostly orange, but more blacks and browns.
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I took my team out for a (fiscal) year-end celebration today. They had an awesome year and deserved the best; we took a cruise on SF Bay, to Angel Island (aka Ellis Island West) and back on the USS Potomac, FDRs presidential yacht that he used to retreat to to get away from the cares of the presidency as war grew in Europe. Very cool to be that close to that kind of history! Bonus - 80+ degrees on the Bay (could easily be in the 50's and foggy). Kinda hazy, but here we are, on the way - Part 1
The fantail was FDR's favorite place to hang out.
The presidential runabouts are a pair of late 20's Chris Crafts - sweet!
The garrison is one of the forts, to protect SF Bay.
More info on the ship is at http://www.usspotomac.org - interesting if you like history.
Cruisin' SF Bay - part 2
The boat is docked in Oakland, 2nd biggest container port on the West Coast. Think there are any Hitachi SCM's in those containers? And if you wondered how cars get to the islands, check out Hawaii-Bound.
Ah, home.... I mean... is that Alcatraz?
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Cool pix
That's the place. 3rd generation SF Bay area, in my 57 years I still haven't made it to the Rock. ('Course while I was growing up ya didn't "visit" it - LOL). I hear it's a really interesting tour, especially the night one.
It was a great trip - very different feel to have those 1920's engines chugging away under your feet, compared to a modern ferry. Made pretty good time too, for something that old and heavy (120' long, all steel).
Here you go. This is the one I'm talking about. He slowed long enough to take a shot.
Last nite we went up the drive to have some deck beer with our neighbors. As it often does, it landed on my shoulder and stayed on I guess till I got up to the deck. Luckily our neighbors saw him so I didn't sitdown and relax and ruin a beautiful relationship. He stayed on my shoulder for a long time. I finally convinced him to go back home.
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Since this has turned into more than on the way home ;
Some time I told you that where I camp is some what like your place. I promised a pic when I returned to show you ;
[that might have been the wine coolers smiling ]
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aND SOMETIMES you can wear a kid out or should I say let them wear out for too much fun ;
Pretty cool Tim, resembles our riverplane pretty closely.
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hey cal, I was on the way to the beefsteak patch, and... I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Beautiful and cool wildlife.
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Check this out. While on the way through a message from Wrecked Angle, look what he included to me in this attachment:
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Whoa, that looks like hot AND spicey water...or the Jolly Green Giant's summer place<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Almost looks like one of Cloud Hidden's projects.
Is that thing a chili pepper, apple, strawberry...??
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Yeah, that thing is really cool looking
(just as long as I'm not making the mortgage payment on it).
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"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." -- Saint Basil
Anyone up for a little sailing during this heat wave?
Belfast, Me. harbor this morning-working on a roof with this vantage point.
Picture didn't take-trying again
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Maybe this will work
We were on our way, canoeing down the New River this weekend...or was it up?...the danged thing flows north<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
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I snapped this on the way home last week. Kinda cool skyscape:
Aquidnick Island ( where Newport is ) has a lot of nurseries ( and now a lot of vineyards too )
and one of the things you will often see are the mule skinners and their mules out in the shrubs root pruning and weeding ... they usually work about 6 guys together
i see it so often and keep saying .. hey .. i gotta stop and take these pictures
finally did....
most of them are on East Main Road.. this one is right near Chaves Gardens ( one of my HS classmates )
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most of these guys grew up in the Azores and live in Fall River or New Bedford
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Sort of on the way, this small hotel is being built up the road from the house I'm building.
i liked the early morning image of the crane and concrete pump.
Also its an excuse to edit the photo Mike Smith/Cal style and have it come up on the post.
Thanks Scott for asking the question on how to do that,now to get it to work!
Cheers,
John
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well... it is a little big as files go.. but here it is
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Thanks Mike! sorry about the size.
I'm on Firefox and still can't get the hang of getting the picture on show,I copy the photo but it doesn't paste, any clues.
Cheers,
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john.. jon blakemore uses firefox.. and he was talking about pasting in this thread
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On the way to the Mt. Lot today.....
Champ Bailey looking good tonight!
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On the way to my shop - these come up in the yard every year this time, and we just mow around them.
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Forrest
Carr Lane is about a half mile long.. for some reason there are Chinese Chestnut trees on both sides of the lower half
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these will make great eating and stuffing.... most of the time you don't have to husk them , the cars run over them and you just pick them up
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the Jerusalem Artichokes behind the office are ready for digging
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the yellow petals have fallen off most of the flowers and we should get a first frost any day now
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Mike - DW wants to know - how does one prepare Jerusalem artichokes? We do fine with okra and Japanese eggplant , but . . .
Forrest
you can treat them like carrotts... they are best raw..
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Here's an inland scene off the stone pier on Kelley's Island in Lake Erie. A nice place to camp.
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Back in the indian days when the cheif would say whoa to his white paint hoss ;
I can see him cross his hand across the view and say; this will be a good place to camp. Plenty water and much food.
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TimMemphest 2006
November 18th
well, there was frost on the fairway this morning, so i went back and dug the artichokes
here's what they look like on the end of the stem.. kind of like potatoes
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this is from two small root systems.. cooked some for dinner..
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I love Jerusalem chokes.....We have Jicama out here and they soak up whatever you cook them with or they are good in salads.....How did you cook them?
a little butter, salt & pepper... 2 minutes in the microwave
what's jicama ? do tellMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
according to my dictionary, a large white fleshy fruit of a Mexican vine, eaten raw or cooked....I've never cooked it, but it's great sliced up in salads.....There are a lot of strange fruits out here.....:) We used to get it in Cleveland, but only at certain times of the year.....Here, it is year round....Has no taste of its own.....Just had a big storm roll through here and had our first hail of the fall!!
Irish monks tower? Maybe just an old silo here in GA?
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Forrest
Here is a pic I took last week behind a house I worked on:
Kinda makes you want to drop your tools and go for a walk in the woods.
Indeed.Here is another shot from that house...you'd think it was in the middle of the boonies:
poured a garage foundation last week..
right off shore one of those floating drydocks was loading up..
they show up in the spring and fall... moving yachts from summer quarters to winter quarters.. either the Med. or the West Indies
typical charge , from what i'm told, is about $100K to the med
here's "Dockwise" low in the water with her stern doors open
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and some of the yachts circling for their turn
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Wheew, must be nice to have that kinda $$ to throw around just to ferry your boat around every season. Seems like you could find someone to sail it over there for less, but I suppose some of them aren't suited to open ocean.jt8
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Seems like it would be cheaper in the long run to just have two boats.
But, then I'm not going to be spending that much on even one boat.
they have a website.... google on "Dockwise"
pretty cool operation....
lot's of good pics..
here's one from the site ... welding the stanchions to the deck
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That's really amazing!
Went by the Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, Wa. on my last trip up there and there are some magnificent ships around there, too.
That's pretty cool. I didn't know such a service existed. But that's Newport for ya...."War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." Ambrose Bierce
I missed the really vibrant colors by about a week (just didn't have the camera with me when I needed it, or was in a hurry).
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"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On the way back home this weekend, passing by the favorite Fishing Hole.....
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Is that Lake Springfield?
Jill Taylor: "Do you know what causes sibling rivalry?"
Tim Taylor: "Having more than one kid."
Yes, the shallow end of it.
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Had to go back and put some knobs on/do a little pick up work a couple weeks ago and saw this log raft on its way to the mill in Shelton. That's Mt Rainier on the horizon.
Here's the latest honorable mention. Not my favorite, but proud once again to - almost.
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cal, cool...I'm still trying to get past dishonorable mention<G> Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."
Hey Basswood, here's a shot of your old home...Longs Peak to the left of center on the horizon
Cool. Is that shot from the Loveland area?
>> Cool. Is that shot from the Loveland area?No, from my deck in Erie.
Ever run into a guy named Chris Bearly? If you grew up in that vacinity--you must have.Now that I think about it, if he ran into you...you would know it!
No, I didn't grow up here (imported from out of state in 89)
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I'll tell you Mike, that woman has one of the warmest smiles on the coast!A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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One of ?That smile warms both coasts.=0)
Get over it....... The angry going eat you up. ~Brownbagg '06
Mike,
Does she know that you call her that? Better hope she doesn't surf Breaktime... ;-)"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." Ambrose Bierce
Helen and Hatteras...you took the long way home<G> Oh God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No." Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
The next time you see me comin' you better run"
Well Abe says, "Where do you want this killin' done?"
God says, "Out on Highway 61."
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I really enjoyed that Mike .
Thank you .
Thats the stuff I like to see .
Theres an old general store that serves meals in the mountains Ive been wanting to share for a long time and I havent done it .
Tim
we've got a General Store in western Coventry.... little village called Summit
(used to be a RR station )... still serve take out lunch in their deli
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It's too easy, well not as easy as BLTs...soak da plank, do whatever to the salmon...me, I like a little lemon juice and maple syrup. put the grill on the fire, put the plank on the grill, put the fish on the plank...check it every five min til it's done, no flipping...might take from 10-20 min...bam! I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
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G, do you ever have to cut the grass?
Two times so far this season, but the Snow Blower been used 4 times since we started cutting the grass!
but the Snow Blower been used 4 times since we started cutting the grass
Chasing the neighbor's cat doesn't count :)
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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake..."-- Nelson Boswell
Yeah, but were you on the way?<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
but were you on the way?<
On the way back from MTS. about 60 miles away from the home.
Just checking<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Boiler, dumb luck plays a big roll in my shots. Like in the trades, showing up is half the battle.
What I do to insert them is: Load like you did, then hit done. This brings you back to the message. You have a choice to post or:
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Very nice. Ft. Bragg? How close are you to seven lakes?
Wake me up before you go-go.
Very nice. Ft. Bragg? How close are you to seven lakes?I've got five of them so far...LOL...actually, I have no idea what you're talking...that was Ft. Bragg, CA...I was stationed at Ft, Bragg, NC, you gotta be talking about CA...unless you've been sharing Sphere's medicine<G> I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
I'm talking North Carolina.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Seven-Lakes-North-Carolina.html
Wake me up before you go-go.
Looks nice, except for the gate thing...thinking of relocating?<G> Lots of firing ranges around...LOL I need a dump truck, baby, to unload my head
Nope I aint goin no where. I have a buddy that's retired Army that has a karate school there. Just curious.
Wake me up before you go-go.
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They've been dirtier
I took a few photos of downtown Nashville while I was there, I saw some incredible buildings and sites there. Union Station, Bell South Building, LP Field, and a confederate cemetary.
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Heres a few more on the way down there.
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The last picture is of the skyline in Nashville at dawn, thats the Bell South Building that looks like Batmans headquarters. You might be able to see the cranes in the background there were 3 of them.
on the way to jlc live in Columbus a few years ago.
Liked your nite shots.
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Is that a bridge in the background? Looks like it. Pretty cool picture.
Too bad its in Ohio, I would like to see it in person. I am allergic to Ohio. LOL
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Cal, the OSU campus has changed in the 28 years since I wet there... ;-)
I see that Troy Smith won the Heisman. Great QB. Should be a great game for the championship."War is God's way of teaching Americans geography." Ambrose Bierce
The new bridge is beautiful, and Lane got cleaned up too. The road wasn't easy and I don't expect this game to be. They've adjusted to almost everything that was thrown against them, hope they can solve former BG coach Urban's spread offense. A good game for sure.
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pass that bridge almost daily. nice pic
Thanks mike
sitting at the light, first time I had seen it. A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Don't know what you do down there in Columbus but you've had a recent import of a good cabinet/door guy.
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yeah, i checked out his web site the other night as you suggested, everything looked
great. i'm a builder/framer in the upper arlington area and will also pass his info onto
acouple friends of mine who are also builders.
sorry I didn't remember the name. I'm going to have to start reading with comprehension.
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Here's one from Sunday...Yep, Northern Iowa between Cresco and Lime Springs...no snow on December 10!
been trying to sell our '91 F150.. finally knocked it down to $500
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got a call from the movie company in town, filming "Dan in Real Life "
they rented the truck for $200 for three days
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jeez mike, you got it made in that town.
You are one cool operator.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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yeah, and Ben Franklin always was my favorite dead presidentMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike, I love every single last one of them.
Cept for Nixon of course............morally, if not monetarily.
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Edited 12/20/2006 9:47 pm ET by calvin
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the passing of a legend...
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a street near you, if you want it ...
they want it goneMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
MIL cottage?
My dog house?
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great club house to hang out & watch widescreen TV.... Indians & BunglesMike Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Bungles?
Clowns would be more appropriate.
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This just happened a week ago. Nice neighborhood close to my home.
Gave me the chills.
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Hope no one was hurt. Property can be fixed or replaced, people can't.
jt8
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." --Dave Barry
On the way from a job I passed this place. Backed up and took this shot. Question is, with the wood looking "new", what do you surmise is/was the problem? Couldn't be more than a yr old.
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I must be blind as a bat, whats wrong?
Doug
Doug, the deck frame has a bit of a whoop to it.
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Ohhhh, now I see it! Right in front of my eyes.
Doug
dang moles.
or was it gophers...
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."-- Buddha
mophers.......
settlement due to mophers......see it all the time.
"Being a cowboy aint all ridin and shootin" - Tim Mooney
Saw this in my neighborhood yesterday. This addition was put up in the warm weeks in december. Wife says "see how fast these guys work" (as opposed to you-know-who). Had a bit of wind past couple days, and sideways rain sunday/monday.
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Sheathing must be soaked. Both gables, not a single staple to hold the tyvek in the exposed area. came right off. Must have tacked a couple at the top and called it good. Waiting to see if/when they'll fix it. Also, looks like they're planning to leave it unsided till the spring.
Sorry Cat, above wasn't meant exclusively for you.
Hope you can get some mileage out of their mistake with the DW.
"Being a cowboy aint all ridin and shootin" - Tim Mooney
Sorry Cat, above wasn't meant exclusively for you.<<<
You're kidding, right? I was just saying 'mine, mine, all mine'---- <G>
"Being a cowboy aint all ridin and shootin" - Tim Mooney
;>)
Looks like a lack of a proper pier / foundation. A sink hole maybe?Organic design?
When I passed it and took the picture I thought maybe it was caused by the failure of fasteners. The time period of the treated wood appears fairly new. The right corner post seems to be pushing up on the decking. But you are right, the two mid span seem to have sunk, the belly is even in the bench.
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Ever find out what caused the whoopie in that deck?
no man, haven't been over that side of town. If it was a frost heave, bet the thing is way up outta the ground now.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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arson?
"Being a cowboy aint all ridin and shootin" - Tim Mooney
I don't know any of the details yet. I got busy the past week and lost some time because of a cold, so haven't had time to look into it. My main interest in this particular place is whether it is salvageable or not, and at what cost. Land around here is very scarce (12 m north of Boston), good old houses are renovated, and something like this if in good shape goes for ~ 2/3 of a mil.
Heres a house I nearly RAN into
NAIL IT !!!
Heres a house I nearly RAN into
By truck or by foot?My brain + his brawn = a perfect team
Add some more color into your life.
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This from the Holden Aboretum outside Cleveland. Planted, not a bouquet on the table. Cool place.
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Isn't the Holden a cool place? We used to go birding there...Love your pics...
First time there.
How bout this, a train garden.
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That's neat...I went to their site and saw that photos could be entered in their amateur photo contest...You really ought to...
On the way to Northern Maine on Monday morning I took this shot of our highest peak- Mt. Katahdin at 5267 feet I think.
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I've only climbed it twice, but it's a huge draw.
Some folks I know climb it once a year- I climb every day, so it doesn't have the same appeal.
It's also the Northern terminus of the 2000 mile Appalachian Trail.
Best regards, Walter
I am building a 3 storey holiday home on the Great Ocean road about 1/2 hour from home, heres the trip there.
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Nice drive John.
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Hi Cal, thanks, things are good down here I have another 800k house to start soon and only 3 minutes from home.I see you have been busy with some nice photos as usual have you bought any more photo gear?
cheers,
Johnhttp://www.johnwalkerbuilders.com
No new gear yet John, my qtr (25 cent pc.) bowl is producing a collection for just that purpose. I need more telephoto. I wanna see the hair on that hummingbird.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Wayne who works for me and is a good friend just bought a Canon Mk11 16 mp $10k worth of camera!he is saving up for lens to go with it.I recently bought a Sigma 10-20 lens for wide angle shots and would like to upgrade to the Pentax K10 however that will have to wait.Its an expensive hobby but you have to work for something.
cheers,
Johnhttp://www.johnwalkerbuilders.com
A costly hobby for sure, but if you divide the hours of enjoyment into the total......................
Shoot, I don't make that much per hour.
Oh well, more hours of enjoyment I guess.
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Yep you can't put a price on enjoyment........ oh apparently my wife says you can!
My sparkie is into water skiing now thats expensive $80k boat etc. but its something he works hard to do and I know his young family get heaps of fun out of it.
So a new lens or camera sounds cheap eh.My progress is slow in the functions department but I am making headway with all the settings, i think the camera is still smarter than I am.
cheers,
John
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It's a blast John and like my golf game-
there's a couple good shots amid the hundred taken. Gotta love it.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Hey Holly.
Bud Select:
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Ha! Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they'd cut it out but when they will I can only guess.
They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky.
Not a rearview, but it was on the way - on the way to get in front of this guy.
Before his tree scattered all over 475 .
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I had a Reliant wagon when I was going to college. I could get everything I owned on/in that thing. Real attractive with a recliner strapped to the top. Of course the muffler was almost dragging.
Such simplier times.
jt8
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." --Voltaire
The only place that's maybe better to get those sightings is any freeway up in Detroit. If you miss the sighting, you can always catch the residue along the side of the road.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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I go up and help my brother now and then, ( Novi, Plymouth ).
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3 man golf league tomorrow (if I get my required work done) as usual. 4:22 . We have room if you're available.
No beer girl.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Nothing I would rather do, but, don't trust the phys therapy yet to swing clubs.
Days are getting shorter though so Beers start erlier <- (see).
I'll be in touch.
Thanks, J.T.
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Village Idiot, on Friday-after work. We usually get there by 6 0r so.
Pizza oven is back in bizness.
couple guy band.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.
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Hey mon, no see a Christmas card from the snorts I'm thinking.
As you can see, I kind of got tired waiting. Every year this New Years Eve stuff gets harder to make it through.
Hope yours is happy and prosperous!
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Edited 12/31/2007 7:28 am ET by calvin
Whoa, dead man drinking!... hard drive crapped out, but we're working on some sort of season's greeting...Hope you and Joyce ring it in in a fine fashion. Winterlude, Winterlude, my little daisy,
Winterlude by the telephone wire,
Winterlude, it's makin' me lazy,
Come on, sit by the logs in the fire.
The moonlight reflects from the window
Where the snowflakes, they cover the sand.
Come out tonight, ev'rything will be tight,
Winterlude, this dude thinks you're grand.
I don't know about tonight. This last week + has been an endurance contest. And a massive food intake arena. It would be nice to just do................nothing.
I know we have no real plans as of yet, but that won't stop Joyce from investigating further I'm sure.
Hey, we could always get stoned.
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Its taken him years to hone his reflexes so that he can take a nap without losing his grip on the beer. ;)
jt8
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair
Good Morning
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Edited 1/9/2008 10:35 pm ET by calvin
Edited 1/9/2008 10:36 pm ET by calvin
good morning to you too
"I'd rather be a hammer than a nail"
Calvin,
Nice picture! Sunrises are a wonderful time of day.
Walter
You got that right Walter.
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From:
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3:14 am
Sheeze...dang morning people. You find me up at 3AM and I'm probably heading to bed, not waking up.
;)
jt8
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair
Nice shot. We had a fabulous sunset yesterday. Wish I'd had my camera. jt8
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair
Johnboy, you've got to take that point and shoot everywhere. An opportunity missed is a bad scene.
In these winter months the camera gets cold in the van. You can imagine the quick warmup if I see something worth shooting.
That road goes southwest along the river. Not any opportunity to pull over for a nice steady aim, so you hold it up and snap away. That one was probably a 55mph shot, trying to time it to limit the blur from the telephone poles. Not much manual framing of the picture, just blast away and hope for the best.
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Calvin,
Back at ya with sunrise coming up over Vinalhaven.
Light house leaving Rockland Harbor
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10 days ago..
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And thank you dog, a cold site and an elbow self portrait, somewhere in Indiana. You plan on Festing at Douds this summer? Should only be a couple hours drive for you.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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I always wanted to meet some of you guys. but distance and time are the problem.
from where I'm at, everything is South
whereabouts is Dave ?.
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Beautiful Wabash, In.
You should be able to slip down there, no?A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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man o man, that's near Mexico,
not that far at all..
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Alright then, no excuses. Bring that film and lets go.
Might be the first weekend in August, check the Fest folder for more info. Mark out the calendar and bring the missus.
A good time will be had by all.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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all righty then,mmmm August in Indiana.
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Makes your head spin, don't it.
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nice, very nice....I'm sweatin already.
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I'd wondered where this thread had gone.
These are a few sunrise shots from about a month ago.
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A few sunsets from the same day.
Nice way to start, and finish the day!
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Doug
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SWEET !!!
Some of those colors in the sky don't even have a name.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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mmmm August in Indiana
Isn't that track #2, right behind "summer time in Heidelburg"? ;)jt8
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair
LOL, maybe "On The Banks of The Wabash, Far Away " would have been more appropriate...... " Many years have passed since I strolled by the river,
Arm in arm, with sweetheart Mary by my side,
It was there I tried to tell her that I loved her,
It was there I begged of her to be my bride.
Long years have passed since I strolled thro' the churchyard.
She's sleeping there, my angel, Mary dear,
I loved her, but she thought I didn't mean it,
Still I'd give my future were she only here.".
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I was sorting out some older things and came across these,
it happened next to a restaurant I was working on.....the "job" shotwhen the FD showed up and was setting up, the firemen dragging the hose got his bell rung when the tire finally blew itself off the rim, and knocked him over the curb
you can see it rolling away while three firemen are checking on their buddy.
that's his helmet laying on the ground between them and the rolling tire and in #1 &1a, if you look behind the bus there on the grassy knoll, you can see the driver and a passenger just standing there, like burning tires happen all the timeI dont know why the one file is so big...
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OK , better now
BTW the building in front of the bus used to be McDonalds headquarters. they moved years ago to a really BIG place about a mile away.
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not really "On The Way" . but I figured I could use the computer cam to take the picture.
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YIKES!A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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why do you say Yikes.
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I was trying to hide it !.
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On the way to work, or coming back from lunch at 2, this is what it looked like.
We had 4-14" of snow Thurs-Fri. Then Sunday evening we had thunder showers/hail/sleet. Monday shot up into the 50's and viola! Fog all day and night. Driving at 40MPH, you had anywhere from 2-6 seconds of visibility. This pic wasn't a bad spot. I was afraid to slow down in a bad spot (get rear ended by some yahooo).
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Hauntingly similar to yesterday's drive home. About 6 so not real dark yet-good thing, headlights and fog are no fun.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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had the same thing here, lots of fun in the dark.
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They had a 17 car pile up yesterday (newpaper photo). Just takes one idiot on his cell phone, and/or not paying attention, and/or speeding. And suddenly there's a Hell of a mess.
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"The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones." -- Somerset Maugham
Snowy and foggy crossing the mighty Penobscot.
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Looks like a good night to be curled up next to the wood stove.
jt8
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hey cal,here's bouncing down the driveway tonight and my view of the eclipse... dang son has my good camera... so, thanks for the memories<G> Winterlude, Winterlude, my little daisy,
Winterlude by the telephone wire,
Winterlude, it's makin' me lazy,
Come on, sit by the logs in the fire.
The moonlight reflects from the window
Where the snowflakes, they cover the sand.
Come out tonight, ev'rything will be tight,
Winterlude, this dude thinks you're grand.
my god man, is that mrs snort in the tub?A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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She's at her mom's, that's her blow-up doll, nice, huuuhhh? Winterlude, Winterlude, my little daisy,
Winterlude by the telephone wire,
Winterlude, it's makin' me lazy,
Come on, sit by the logs in the fire.
The moonlight reflects from the window
Where the snowflakes, they cover the sand.
Come out tonight, ev'rything will be tight,
Winterlude, this dude thinks you're grand.
My ego just got de-flated.
At least I think it was my ego.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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well, it wasn't mine...:-) Winterlude, Winterlude, my little daisy,
Winterlude by the telephone wire,
Winterlude, it's makin' me lazy,
Come on, sit by the logs in the fire.
The moonlight reflects from the window
Where the snowflakes, they cover the sand.
Come out tonight, ev'rything will be tight,
Winterlude, this dude thinks you're grand.
Nice shot. I haven't figured out how to get my digital to take a good shot of stuff that far off. When the moon first came up, it was HUGE and purple. Wanted to get a shot, but it just comes out blurry. I'm sure there's a way, but I just haven't figured it out.
jt8
"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular."-- Adlai Stevenson
Focusing on it period (point of focus if adjustible) and a tripod is all I know about it.
And a bit of luck.
If the exposure is too long-you lose any detail of the craters etc.
My point and shoot-no where near the lens capacity will turn out grainy-why I have no idea.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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the moon is reflecting sunlight, and this trick works best with a full moon, and as much of the moon as you can fill the picture withif your camera allows you to set the ASA, and and you can adjust f-stops on your lens, set it to f16 and use the ASA as your film speed..... as ithough it were a sunny dayi.e. ASA is 400 then shutter speed is 400 and the lens aperture is set to f16 and if you happen to have a 2X converter then set the lens to f8
thatis how it worked with a film camera anywaysand as clvin wrote use a tripod or something solid like a bean bag or buckwheat pillow or a bag of rice, anything like that will help steady the camera.
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looks like your about to hit it ;)
Ductape can fix EVERYTHING!!!
That one shot reminds me of a puzzle I bought Ma a while back.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair
whoa..... sort of a Time Machine feel to those two !.
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You know, I'm glad I dreamt this thing up. I'm enjoying traveling without going anywhere. Course, not as sweet as the real thing, but darn good time nonetheless.
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With gas prices what they are- armchair traveling is becoming much more fun!
Have you checked out " Waiting for a crane" in the photo folder?
I caught yesterday's start post, did the crane come? I'll have to take a look.
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Cal,
We were there at 11:30 yesterday and took pictures. The crane came at 12:30 as they had arranged- my title was slightly misleading.
They were right on schedule- it just wasn't there when I was.
Walter
I perused through the rest of it.
Very cool and I'm sure you'll keep the photo process up and running. We need to get the homowner to do a little narration if he's up to it.
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I usually throw the camera in an old gymbag I've got in the car, but it wasn't there. Haven't seen it in a few days. I need to figure out where I've left it.
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." --Upton Sinclair
The sky was so blue here today, I just had to take a picture for you.
Okay, okay...so maybe I need to work on the composition a bit...it was still pretty.
...and I think there might be a song in there somwhere...
"He said "Buck up baby, it's okay. The sunlight on the floor will always fall." ~ Sarah Harmer
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CDN pooper at work today. No shortage of the lawn/parkinglot fertilizers.
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So what was that like?It was like coming THIS close to your dreams. And then watch them brush past you like a stranger in a crowd. At the time you don’t think much of it. You know we just don’t recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they’re happening. Back then I thought, “well, there’ll be other days.†I didn’t realize that that was the only day. --FoD
Yup, they've been honking now for a good month. We had/have a sizable contingent that winter here, but there's always an impressive flyover in the early spring.
Proud mutha isn't it.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Proud mutha isn't it.
They think they own the place. There were two of them on that planter this morning glaring at the people walking by.
Plenty of crawdad sign, but no sign of the dads. The ducks don't usually hang around when you walk up. One of the swans tried to keep an eye on me, but the weather was just too perfect. In their nest made of garbage.jt8
So what was that like?It was like coming THIS close to your dreams. And then watch them brush past you like a stranger in a crowd. At the time you don’t think much of it. You know we just don’t recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they’re happening. Back then I thought, “well, there’ll be other days.†I didn’t realize that that was the only day. --FoD
Very nice John!
Here's something that caught my interest Sunday. This blooms all winter-not sure it's name.
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You should have lots of subjects for your close up lens this time of year.
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. -- Dave Barry
Boy, you can say that again.
And sumbits, I'm busy as all get out and the grass is growing and golf leagues have started and there's ballgames ............
The downside to all that #### is that the opportunity might be only a couple days. Gotta do it when it needs done. I'm gonna try hard.
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looks like a painting.
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting matches over such issues as toaster settings. -- Dave Barry
Hey cal... might be a helleborus? If dogs run free, then what must be,
Must be, and that is all.
True love can make a blade of grass
Stand up straight and tall.
In harmony with the cosmic sea,
True love needs no company,
It can cure the soul, it can make it whole,
If dogs run free.
Yup, I just said over my shoulder-hey Joyce, what's that flower called by the front door that blooms all winter and has that sort of greenish flower................
Hell............
Helle..........
Hellebbbb...........
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And this one would be?
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These are low to the ground and no place to lay down in the bed. So I took a chance and held the camera down under it and attempted to aim.
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Cool spring perennial.
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Nice !!!
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Gracias.
Here's another one of which the name escapes me. I was on the way to take a picture of these-opening now-last maybe a week or so.
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Snowbelles, maybe? Hey, I just knew the helleborus cause we got 'em.Irises began boinking out this weekend, ya gotta get right inside of em <G> If dogs run free, then what must be,
Must be, and that is all.
True love can make a blade of grass
Stand up straight and tall.
In harmony with the cosmic sea,
True love needs no company,
It can cure the soul, it can make it whole,
If dogs run free.
Searching for a Rainbow....
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Searching for babes on a boatride.
On my way up the the top deck on a lake cruise boat I came upon this Cavs girl (Cleveland Cavalier dance team) after a photo shoot they had on board.
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Practicing for paparatzi school.
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So's you don't get the wrong idea, here's the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame from the waterside.
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Nice floation divieces !
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Searching for a Rainbow....
It was hiding behind the neighbor's house.
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Nice!
Looks real Green there, we have been a bit dry & brown around here!
Ever get on a ferry and up pulls a tanker truck, a mixer truck and oh yeah-for good measure-a food supplier?
All we needed was the beer truck that pulled off b/4 we got on.
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that mud flap come off of AC's truck???
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
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smooth.....
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
You workin' on the islands now?
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Our annual "clean out the van" and go camp up at Kelly's.
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All we need is the beer truck. I've got a box of pretzels in my trunk. ;)
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look at this campsite John, not too shabby.
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A nice spot. 3-4 families that get together every year for the event.
We eat better at the site than we do at home.
Well, sort of.
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Looks like a good time.
jt8
And a good time it was.
The Ice Man.
and a self portrait.
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Snuck a little "where's Cal" in on that one.
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Ahoy.
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On the way to working on the project house the other night.
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John, they used to do a "fly in" over to the Fort across the river every May. Damn, they quit doing it. Quite a site.
30/40 balloons of all shapes and sizes.
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Last year when we went whitewater rafting, I was up early sipping my coffee...kept hearing this pshhhh, pshhhh, pshhhh noise. Finally, the balloon appeared, so I took some pictures.
As they floated over, the guy asked me if he could refill my coffee!
"Everyday we learn something new. Take life as a test and shoot for a better score each day. It doesn't have to be an "A" the next day, but let's hope it improves." 08/27/08
Matt Garcia 1986-2008 22 yo Fairfield City Council Member, shot 09/01/08 RIP
tee time was 6:30.....so on the way i saw these guys fishing off the rocks at Potter's Point
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later on i saw Bob Sutton picking up some supplies in his Model T
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the other night Helen & I caught this sunset on the beach down the street
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Just returned from the last game of the yr. Beautiful day and a sweep of the tigers.
I got the feeling they didn't even want to play.
What a screwing they've given their fans in Detroit.
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i'm counting on Detroit to put Tampa Bay into 2d place.....
from what you're telling me, sounds like they're mailing it in Mike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Well, the only real action I saw from the tigers was that goofball Sheffield attempting to put his head under the arm and in range of Carmona's fist.............on Friday nite.
Leland was taking a suspension the past 3 days, so he wasn't there to knock a few heads around. Maybe he's coming back for the Tampa series.
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yes.... i'm looking forward to the indians at fenway...
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Yup, I remember.
Interject this which I'm sure he knows.
Garko has been taking the ball to right
successfully.
Choo is on fire.
And Cabrera isn't doing anything to harm his chances with the team.
Downside-Grady had 4 K's today. Now that's not usual.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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On the way up this weekend. Fall colors starting, Nature @ it's Best!
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Boy, aint that the truth.
I thought it was just me, and being pretty busy.
Fastest summer inmy memory.
at Labor day I was ready for the Fourth of July.
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Drove through the largest nesting ground for Blanding's turrtles in North America on the way to a cabin on the Mississippi.
Stopped and moved one to the other side of the road.
I see this just about every moring...
After today they are covered with snow, will try to get a pic of that, it is really something after a fresh storm.
You must be close to Ashton given that view.
I'm in Driggs, at base of mountains about 40 miles closer than Ashton. Peaks still socked in with clouds this morning for a snow shot.
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View, off the 4th floor of the project were doing right now,
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Is this going to be housing?
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From my last trip to China.
"We don't throw the first punch, but we'll throw the last" Barack Obama Oct.2008
Is that where the saying comes from?
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Ha Ha...droll...very....droll (in my best Fred Flintstone voice)"We don't throw the first punch, but we'll throw the last" Barack Obama Oct.2008
Droll?
maybe so.
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Are you still sore at me for my Ohio football comment. That was said in humour. Big smiley and all."We don't throw the first punch, but we'll throw the last" Barack Obama Oct.2008
toni, I think you've been in the tavern too long. You must be reading way more into my responses.
"plain as the nose on your face".
I'm full of 'em. Taught by my mother.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Calvin, I've actually not been in the Tavern that much anymore. My work is almost done there. I'm just sensitive these days ;-)On a side note, I saw where you mentioned a procedure in the near future. Know that we're pulling for you.Go Browns!"We don't throw the first punch, but we'll throw the last" Barack Obama Oct.2008
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here's some looking from the causeway across the Great Creek over the golf course to the Newport Bridge
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the sun was just getting low enough in the west to light everythimg up
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Man, there's some rough.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Mike
Great pics of Jamestown. I moved to RI in 78' from NYC . The company I worked for had a lot of golfaholics they finally convinced me I had to take up the game so I took a few lessons and Jamestown was first course they took me to thank God it's pretty hard to lose a ball there but I managed to. We played and then looked around town big culture shock for a guy from NYC. Still chasing the ball still losing a few and still enjoying Jamestown. Since then Barbara and I take a ride down about once a month for the Bay Voyage brunch or a lunch or dinner in town and a walk around.
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i see you're also in Englewood ( Lucille Ball )... my mom & dad rented a place in Englewood for about 10 years in the '80'si'm going to go play in about an hour.... buddy finished butchering his deer ... so we can make it out by 2Mike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Mike
Mike
Yeah about 10 years ago we went to visit some friends in North Port and end up buying a house in Englewood it's only a 1/2 mi from the gulf beaches and we belong to a great golf course 27 holes so a little variety not the same every time you play. where were your folks in Englewood so much has changed rt41 looks like rt2 in Warwick and our local road has gone from 1 lane each way to 4 .
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Zeeya! I love that little animated graphic at the bottom of your posts! Would I be asking for a trade secret to know how it's done? If you'd have to kill me, forget it!
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No secret so no killing. This is the short version. There are 3 images in this one the 1st is start position in the second the blade is is moved slightly and in the 3rd the blade is moved again to another position then they are put into a software program that overlays all three images you then set the speed (they call it a delay) that it changes from the 1st to 2nd to the 3rd image this changes too fast for the human eye to detect and so it looks like the blade is turning and then it just keeps repeating
I've enlarged each image if you look at the front part of the blade where it cuts through the wood you'll see how the position of the blade changed and so when they are overlayed it look like the blade is turning
This is very similar to when I was a kid and we used to get those little flip pages cartoons much like Walt Disney did his first animations frame by frame.
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Thanks, ZEEYA! And thanks for not shooting me; I hate it when I get shot! I'm gonnah wait awhile on the profile post, but, FYI I'm a musician, turned programer, turned exterior restoration artist from the Greater Boston area, now living in Miami and working as a Union Carpenter for Local 79 out of Ft. Lauderdale, FL. When asked what I'm making, I usually tell 'em "History"!...........smile
here's some more Jamestown... this is Sheffield Cove with a lone quahogger digging off the sandbar
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a little closer view
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on the other side of the causeway is Mackeral Cove...pretty much dead low tide, our tidal range is about 2.5 ' - 3'
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i built this house and garage / guest house in about '84.... a new owner did extensive remodeling in about 2004... the original owners were from Connecticut.... introduced me to molded doors and skim-coat plaster
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Ok,its about time a picture from down under was here, this is the view from a planned project, we had to erect some temporary height poles to give the neighbours the right to agree or object.Cheers,
John
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/391875439_Zek8L-L.jpg looking right
http://www.smugmug.com/photos/391876098_RWLmz-L.jpg looking left
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Wow! What a beautiful spot!
Hey - maybe you could add some blue to the site - it looks kinda' faded and washed out . . .
Forrest
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Nothing like yours, but this has been my site since August and a couple more months to come.
7:00 sunrise, Tuesday. Fremont Ca., the mission hills in the backround. Mike
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
Are those sunrises something? Happy Thanksgiving, Mike
Likewise Carole, enjoy the day. Don't be a stranger. ; ^ ) Mike
Small wheel turn by the fire and rod, big wheel turn by the grace of god.
Thanks, the same to you. Don't worry, I won't be a stranger. :)
last day for Jamestown.... and it looked like a frost delay, so Billy brought some of his turkey soup....
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finall got out around 9....but there was sleet on all the greens...everyone was walking around with two inch ice lifts
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no blood and no pars until the 5th.... the only other skin of the day was the 7th
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9 was enough... started to rain... 'sides... last day is Dollar Day... any drink...any beer....any food.... next week we move to our winter course
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Ahh man, and I can't even swing a club. First question on my tongue come the tuesday meeting with the surgeon.
Sexual deviancy would be number two.
And bringing up the rear-when can I work?
Other than sno blowing, that bout sums it up.
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On the way, up the Hill on the Sled......
And with the State of the economy, few of the sleds have yet to be started this Year!
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Had a meeting out in the boondocks Wednesday. On the way back, I noticed this building with its alternative siding choice.
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A year from now you may wish you had started today. -- Karen Lamb
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Just about the point I was going to click the first pic, I spotted an old guy coming around the back corner of the garage. So I hollered, "you mind if I take a pic of your building?" He hollered back to go ahead. By the second pic, he came hobbling around the front and was waving me over.
He said he had collected licence plates for years and years and wanted to do something with them. Apparently his wife was pestering him to paint the building, so the idea gelled. Also people have given him plates. IIRC, he said he has 38 states represented (by far most are IL though). Of the ones I saw, they went at least as far back as 1938.
He also has a visitor book for you to sign if you stop by. This town is NOT on a main drag, so I was surprised that on the two or three pages in the ledger book how many different states had wandered by. Not to mention a couple from Germany and someone from Switzerland.
And he continues to take donations, so if you have any old plates you need to get rid of, his address is:
Doug Tolen
RR#2 Box 1
Tower Hill, IL 62751
Just one of the colorful people who make up this patchwork nation of ours. I'm always on the lookout for quirky things like that. ;)
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A year from now you may wish you had started today. -- Karen Lamb
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Is he still alive? Only heard his show a couple times in the last couple years, and it wasn't him doing it either time.
jt8
A year from now you may wish you had started today. -- Karen Lamb
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I find it hard to believe his wife likes that better than paint :)
6 Town Houses, 5 blocks from the Ticket window @ Coors Field.
Nice Urban Setting!
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Is that your pop-up trailer? How do you like camping with it? How much trouble are they to set up? Any serious shortcomings? What does it do to your gas mileage?
I'm not just curious. It's about the only kind of trailer I could pull with my Toyota pickup so I've been waiting to ask someone whose opinion I trust all about 'em.
It's about the only kind of trailer I could pull with my Toyota pickup so I've been waiting to ask someone whose opinion I trust all about 'em.
s-10 sized pickup or 1500? You could probably still find the campers that fit in the back of the truck, but I don't know if they make them for the smaller trucks.
jt8
Shortbed four banger. No camper made for it. Pop up trailer is the only thing that's recommended for that truck.
I suppose I could rent one for a weekend but I'd like to get an owner's views on them first.
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HVC,
I don't own it, but have shared it with my mechanic buddy for the last 3-4 yrs. And by shared it, I mean slept in the other "bedroom". He pulls it with a Toyota Tundra. No problem with that p/u.
So, I can give you the "living conditions" opinion, but as to mileage and pulling-sorry.
As you might have seen in the pic, we go overboard on camping. We don't camp out of that popup, we use it to sleep in. We set up my van as the IGA, the pavillion for dining and whatever. 3-4 families camp together-we're pretty well equipped. We've been doing this since the kids (now 25) were small.
Sleeping-a bit cramped and the mattress could use a bit more ...........well, matress. I can take it but the wife always has something to say. Our friends have mentioned maybe getting a slightly larger pop/up-we'll see.
Way more room than a tent. Easy to "pop up". Alegedly there's a table in it-We use the camp tables under the pavillion. You can carry a propane tank that runs a camp stove that mounts outside-I guess it mounts inside too. I also think there's a propane frig-which we don't use. Our use-sleeping.
Easy to pull from my driving (limited). Easy to manuever-a trailer towing novice would have no problem.
What more can I say?
edit: Set up-Easy. Drop it, chock the wheels, adjust the leveling "legs" and crank it up. Install the door-pc of cake.
A little short (I'm 5'9') on the bed length and I hope you're not wide. The rest is a dream.
I think Dinorsaur pulled a newer model up to the Fest-give him a shout as to his experience.
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Thanks for going into it for me. Knowing that it's easy to set up and that it's been comfortable enough for everyone, year after year...that's what I needed to hear.
Fresh from the morning walk.
It's a bit chilly in Austria this morning. Cameraphone resolution isn't so hot; I'll take the real one out tomorrow for a better shot.
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Yesterday and today walking around. New powder overnight.
Last shot is for you. No photos of the beer frauleins yet. I'll have to rectify that.
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What a great opportunity.
Not that I want to experience that white stuff at this time....
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Austria. Nice. What kind of Triathlon are you running there?
I'm bringing sexy back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yIqwyR1ays
No race. DW has a conference here and I tagged along.It's a bit on the cool side. Temps staying around 5 to 8 degrees. Going to try heading out for a run in a bit and some XC skiing later.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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Have a good time.
I'm bringing sexy back.
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You'd love the running here. 140 kilometers or so of open trails. You can take a different route every time out the door.Ran up a mountain yesterday. Pretty fun.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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Very cool. How's the iPhone work there?
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Think it works, but I've kept it off. Read too many horror stories of people returning to discover the $2,500 bill. Seems the data fetch, if not turned off, continues to pull info on mail, weather, stocks, etc. and since you are roaming, you get zinged for every tiny amount. And I can just connect the laptop for next to nothing when needed.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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Gotcha. I was wondering about the fees also. How much longer are you going to be there?
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one of the roads home yesterday, and D blast furnace at beautiful Mittal Steel (the old Bethlehem ) at Burns Harbor last monthahh, goofed on the size.
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Not much color till the crane.
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the coldest I have ever been is in that damn mill, it is cold right now @ -6 and it has been snowing here since last week, also got about 18" on top anything flat outside.
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more color ?, more ice ?.
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I remember some serious cold outdoor work from many moons ago. Shoveling to get to the parapet, shoveling that to work on it. Bashing the snot outta the lumber pile to get the pcs. Trying to keep your #### into the wind. The only thing we found easy on that job was directing the crane with the load of material.
Believe me, no desire to be back up on that building, view or not.
I've got to had it to you and wish you a warm breeze tomorrow.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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well g'night then , BTW I'm taking tomorrow off.
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lost track of the snowstorms......but it did seem like a good time to go out and visit some scenes....
here's the Friends Meeting House
right next to the old Grist Mill
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in dial up size it looks like this......
peek out....
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the photog is inspiring me
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dodge the snowplows and park on a sidestreet, next to the Old Friends Meeting House
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the windmill is directly behind the Meeting House
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next to the old miller's house on North Road
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and the Newport Bridge off to the southeast
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one more of the windmill
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you know how in certain scenic areas the artists have painted the same scene so many times , that the locals start to number them.....Rockport , ME comes to mind.... like "motif # 7 "
well in Jamestown... motif #1 would have to be Beavertail Light, and the Windmill would be motif # 2......
the Creek would be motif # 3 ..... House on the Rock #4
East Ferry #5...... .... and the Newoport Bridge #6
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Mike, nice the way a spot of color appears on a seemingly B&W photo. A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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hey.... you're right....that red door makes itMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
no good deed goes unpunished....
when , there's snow on the driveway I have to back in the drive, because there is no place to turn around
and I have to park facing out.... anyways.... backing in after the photo shoot
i got sideways, straddling a rock on the side... so this morning , Roy and I jacked up the truck so we could get the rock out from under the running board
Roy with his brother's car jack
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scene of the crime
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the culprit
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I like gray winter shots. but the long shot won't make a good desktop for me :(
can you push a doodad on your camera to fix that? man, sorry to see what happened to your truck too.
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SCOTT..... do you fool around with Irfanview ?
if you take that hi-res pic and open it in Irfan , i think you can make it do what you want
or lemme know which pic you want and we can play with it in the collectiveMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
the long shot of the mill and meeting place ,isn't Irfan for Windows?.
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don't know.... but if you're on a mac.... can't you edit with iPhoto ?Mike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
when I made a desktop picture the pixels ? turn the branches into mosaics, or sawtooths or steps and I don't know how to use iPhoto to fix it.
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is this the one you want ?
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definitely .very much yes.
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scott..... all i had to do with that was right-click it
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and i get a drop-down menu ........one of the choices is "set as background"......
and it turned into the "wallpaper" on my opening screen
moogie can tell you how to do it on a Mac
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I can right click and all that , it's just that the resolution goes to hell, I was wondering if you can increase your resolution on the camera when your composing the picture ?and since we're pals now, just call me Tom :).
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ok.... tom.. i musta miscounted the maddogsMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
no problem at all, it has been a long time since the 2 others were here huh ?.
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ain't that the truth ......Mike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Maddog Maglin made a brief appearance here not too long ago. He's living and working in Columbus now.
To further confuse the issue.
ps, he might not know a thing about electric.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Perhaps you will like these.
Man eric, drop down in the snow and get a timed exposure. You've got fall!A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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That way you see the water rolling over the rocks. I get it.
I'd ratehr just go back there in the summer time. There is a deep ravine with several small falls that drop into pools.
Rumor has it that even the most inept carpenter can entice their loved ones to get naked and............ah, you know the rest.
Gotta be careful here, it's a family station.
Man, I've been in search of fall for a while. All we have here is what slips over the rock. I need a couple foot drop and some more raging water.
I want the smoke water, man!
Now the smoke water with the naked woman ..........
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We live at the foot of the NYC watershed. Lots going on with water here.
Now the smoke water with the naked woman ..........
Sorry, no pics.......at least none I can share with you, hehe. hehe........
On the way down the hill, last Sat, another great snow year.
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Gorgeous!
Hey Cal,
here is a shot from vacation a few weeks ago
no snow-
carved stone at the base of a Mayan pyramid- nice light and shadow i thinkNo Tag
Sweet.
DO NOT go in there............A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Hey cal, we got a little bit of your fluffy stuff, how do I send it back?http://www.tvwsolar.com
I went down to the lobby
To make a small call out.
A pretty dancing girl was there,
And she began to shout,
"Go on back to see the gypsy.
He can move you from the rear,
Drive you from your fear,
Bring you through the mirror.
He did it in Las Vegas,
And he can do it here."
Any trick for the folks taking those snow shots to not end up looking like a dark and dreary day? I've noticed before with my own pics that a bright, sunny, snowy day tends to turn into a drab digital photo.
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the meter is over-powered by all the reflected sunlight
slow down the shutter?
use a larger f-stop.
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what type of camera do you use ?SLRP&S.
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I've have an Olympus that is several years old.
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire
I have a very little knowledge of digital, but if your camera has a white balance feature, you can adjust it to take snow pictures.
I would start by metering a a bright spot while trying to keep shadows or dark spots out of your meters zone, whatever that area or pattern is, when you are trying to establish a base exposure that you then adjust downward to a lower EV maybe even a -EV.but you don't want to underexpose too much or the pictures come out too dark.
I wonder if you have tried using filters, like Neutral Density or a polarizer, they are very good at slowing the light down before it hits the meters or sensors, One of my favorite outdoor photographers was Galen Rowell, he used 35mm equipment exclusively and produced some absolutely stunning pictures.......some of his shots were made with both a Nikon Series E zoom, which was a cheaper version of the more expensive Nikkors. and expensive glass Neutral Density gradient filters, perhaps you can get some ideas from looking at his work or his books...I wish I had a thimble full of his talenthttp://www.mountainlight.com/gallery.html I have a Cokin gel ND gradient which I use, but because of the way film gets developed anymore, the effect usually get burned out and I end up with average exposures so I end up trying to put the effect back in using software but it's not quite the same.
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Calvin,
went to Castine , Me. this morning to try to solve some ice backup problems.
This craft is right out their front door. Training ship for Maine Maritime Acad.
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I've got to start taking more " on the way" Lots of good stuff for folks to see and enjoy.
Hope you're back to 90+ per cent.
I think I'm back to a hundred percent.
Downside-there's only 20 percent work at this time.
Throw in the cold and deep snow and I might as well have something else done to the system.
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Glad you're doing so well phyically.
Work will pick up I'm sure - for all of us.
So, late December I was on the way out to see if I could walk on the ice storm driveway.
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It warms up a bit and the glacier melts enough to step out in the side yard w/o falling down-remembering of course this was just hours away from the DEEP FREEZE.........I spy this fine specimen.
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Besides the birds waiting for me to fill the feeders, this guy gets ready to spring for dinner.
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The recuperation period was not too bad once I got outside.
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He's got a rack the ladies at the Star would be proud to be sporting !!
We had a couple of deer poached (NO HUNTING) here in the Metropark area up the river. They took one Huge racked buck one nite with bow, went to the station and register him. So proud they were that they went up to the BassPro store and displayed him in the parking lot.
Would have been all well and good had they not further goofed and posted a picture on the state DNR website. Someone who had been taking pictures of this buck over the years and it had a drop tyne to single him out from the pack, gave DNR the heads up and arrest them they did. New now is the fine for this-fine equals marketable value of trophy-which in this case evidently can be as much as 10,000.00.
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Thanks.
How bout the barreness of this one.
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You see, trying to get this cold outta my mind.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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I have a shot on 35 of a singlr flower on a lily pad..........I will not even bother to scan it.
I have and old OM2. Never quite figured it out (I think) but every once in a while I got magic out of that box. The camera is 35 yrs old.
It broke and I had it repaired from salvaged parts, cost me over half what I paid for it.
Paul B gave me a whole body so I have a spare.
Can one get film developed anymore?
As far as I know you can get it developed-at worst, by mail.
You get time and ambition, scan some of those shots or have them converted to disc and post away.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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How are those kiosks for scanning?
Here, digital photos
Eric, where did you take those?
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Those were taken with a closet swag Ricoh 3.2 megapixel. Last Christmas I bought my self a cute little Olympus 6mp camera that just gives me fits. I can't figure out how to get consistant shots from it.
Two of the photos were up in Gene Davis land, Lake Placid. DW and I honeymooned there after completeing the 350 mile trip on our bicycles 8.5 years ago. Those two shots were on the way up Mt Marcy. The steps lead to an observatory thing at the top.
The sunflower I grew from some seed that the birds had dropped!
I received this one today, pretty awesome.
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I was going to ask what the junk was in the water......till I read that it is vancouver. Man, some serious clouds.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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For those of you in the mid-west - that grey stuff is called Fog. A famous quote attributed to Mark Twain: "The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco". That's because of the fog - down to the deck and chills you to the bone.
That's awesome! It reminds me of Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back.
"...but because of the way film gets developed anymore, the effect usually get burned out... "
...which is why almost all outdoor pro photographers use slide film. A PITA in some ways, but then you don't get a computer or a semi-trained printer operator futzin' with your image...
yeah, the only problem I have with slides is the lab is about a 80 mile round trip.
I have asked those the operators where I take my film to not make any adjustments but they tell me they have to turn something off ...... it sounds like a real complicated step
or tell me to send it in but one guy was pretty good about it,.
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My slide processor is 20' away - at the mailbox. I buy the prepaid mailers when I get my film from B&H - I think the Fuji lab was in Phoenix but moved. Don't really pay attention since it's on the label... Anyway, I've been quite pleased with the quality. Similar experience with the Kodak lab.
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http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/shop/364/Film_Film_Processing_Mailers.html
See the bottom entry, for Fujifilm. Note that they are dated so ya gotta be sure to use them! Click right below the rating to read the 44 reviews, all very positive about speed and quality.
edit to add: Cool - post #1000! What a great thread!
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a nice long thread, hat's off to calvinthanks for the link, I just might have to try it.
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sumbits, we made it to a thou.
Sure are some good photo's here. Thanks to all of you for participating.
Right now I'm getting ready to be on the way to Nashville. Might just get lucky again.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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have a safe trip calvin and I'll cross my fingers.
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Out my back door when I came home a couple of evenings ago!
........Iron Helix
are you even having Winter? where's the snow ?
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I live in the southern tip of Illinois..30 miles from the confluence of the Mississippi and the Ohio Rivers......not a lot of snow, but 40+ inches of precip/year and less than 4000 degree days of heating. Lots of heat and humidity inthe warm months.
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never been that far south in Illinois, but I really like your view, do you have any other seasons ?.
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We have awsome springs when the green grows from the edges of the winter gray forests.
Summer is hot and humid...great swimming, fishing, boating, great days for tall gin & tonics and iced beer! Masses of green forest great our eyes!
Fall has a massive display of oranges, reds, and yellows as the tired green leaves of the summer give way to a kalidescope of color.
Four full seasons....all are a joy to watch from atop our hill.
Every morning and evening is a visual symphony........Iron Helix
Good trip down, couldn't stop and visit gunner and pick up a complimentary safe. Women fine, music good-more than just briar music. This city is full of friendly people. All cabs have dents and those damn smelly hanging things.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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well that was quick
good to be back home ?.
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Not home yet, leave this morning and hope the trip back home was good.
when we get there.
More women, all pretty.
Nice town Nashville
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never been to Nashville, been to Kentucky though, it was OK , but I have a hard time understanding what folks from southern Indianapolis are sayin.
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If you make your ears slow down, you can just about make it out.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Walking home tonite...
What's it fenced off from, spray cans?A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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They are renovating the park. I actually consulted on the renovation of the arch, it was done several years ago.
Just saw your picture of the arch in Washington Sq. park. I can't believe the fence is still up. I've paid so much money to the parks department to remove the fence and put it back up when we have done filming in the park.
That fence is more recent (I believe) as the arch was restored a few years back. The whole park is being renovated now. My daughter has been playing in that park for the last 9 years.
With the slr, a polarizing filter will cut down the glare. Increasing the shutter speed will deepen the shot. A little manipulation of the aperture don't hurt either.
I'm sure a trained person can give you some REAL information that might be useful. Remember, I'm the shoot it, look at it, then putz with the settings and shoot again guy. Like my golf game-occasionally I get a sweet shot off the tee.
I've found too that the placement of the camera and direction of the shot in relationship to the sun can often enable you to get better depth and color in spite of that snow and light. And not the usual sun behind you. More off to the side confuses the sensors less I think.
What works for me is setting the camera either for speed or aperture, then using it semi auto, adjusting my setting till just about LO light.
And of course there's the initial MENU settings that usually have Full Sun settings and some variations there also. Point and shoots have the same options, a little more limited.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Nice, I'll take em,
Thanks Eric, between yours and Mikes, I got enough now to use them as screensavers too.
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What can you tell me about the Old Friends Meeting House?
Not much on wiki other than it was burned by the British and rebuilt in 1786.Lotsa Quakers in the genealogy here. My family swam over with Penn.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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steve..... the story i always got was that the wealthy Quakers who wanted to get away from the malaria in Philly started summering in Rhode Island
but the ostentatiousness of Newport made them look elsewhere
so they built their summer colony in Jamestown ( there were lot's of permanent , year-round quakers already in various parts of RI )
anyways .... the place to be , for Mainline Philly, was Jamestown... so we have lot's of Whartons, Biddles, Smiths ( not my Smiths ), Dodge, Bullock, ....the list goes on....
i have a friend who is from that line.... Willim Wharton Smith III..... he's proably one of your cosins
then....over the bridge in Saunderstown..... lot's more quakers....the name Cope comes to mind
so..... i'd bet you have many relatives hereMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
I learned that the hardway in China.Where in Austria were you? I was in Vienna and Saltzburg 2 summers ago, beautiful country.
Seefeld in Tirol. Just about 45 mins outside Innsbruck.
Map here http://tinyurl.com/app3tsLovely little ski town. You'd like it. Loads of downhill and apparently the best nordic skiing in Europe. 260k of groomed trails in the area.Haven't been in Vienna or Salzburg for a couple of years. Went to both for the honeymoon.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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Dying to ski in Europe, hopefully soon. We had some friends ski in Austria this year, not sure where, but their pics were lovely.My German buddy here skis in Switzerland every year, his stories make the place sound like it's out of fairytale. (and of course the frauleins). Thanks for the map.
Hi All,
All that snow and skiing looks fantastic! down here at home we had Australia Day part of the celebrations were at my home beach, Havaianas had an attempt to create the longest line of inflatable air beds in the form of a thong (flip flops to you)it was typical of our irreverence to our national day.
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And the Tigermoths are always buzzing around here.
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This was on the way from one bar to another, to another, to another................
a couple country mus-ettes on the hood of a caddie ambulance in Nashville.
Howdy pardner.
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Glad to see your still up for a bit of mischief.http://www.johnwalkerbuilders.com
Oh yeah, we mischief'd the heck out of Friday nite in Nashville.
The bartenders are very attentive.
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And now back to winter,
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Sitting here on a mild morning looking at the above is pretty comfortable. Like gazing out the window.
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Beats floating out on Lake Erie on a hunk of ice too.
National news eh?
Luckily for them the ice is still 1-2 ft thick there along the shore. Their bridge was just too short. I guess they didn't lose any of the 4 wheelers the more affluent fisherman rode out there.
Sure pissed off the sheriff of Ottawa county. 4000.00 / hr for the helocopter rescue squads. The airboats I'm sure go for much cheaper.
Tickets abound on shore.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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fer shure it's going to be someone else's fault those dorks were out there, "but no one told us to stay off the ice".
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All those last nite that the stations interviewed took full responsibility for their actions and outcome.
Didn't see anyone opening there wallets though. I'm sure the tickets will be a slap on the wrist. They had nothing but praise for their rescuers.
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Back in the vein of the thread..........
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nice, what's the blue pyramid looking thing in the back?and is that a star filter or something you can add ?.
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the blue thing caught my eye also. It is a science center on the edge of downtown Nashville. Looked very cool from floor 22. The lower left in the photo above is the.................name escapes me now-but it's where Nashville's hockey team calls home.
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Yes, a cross screen filter w/4pts. I might get the 8pt. Just got it b/4 the trip. I see it as a bit too much with all those lights, but might be a nice addition with just a few pts of light.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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4pt. is just enough! I had a 8 pt and was overwhelmed whenever I tried to take a Christmas scene, but yours looks real good, at least you had clear night.
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As usual,
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Do yourself a favor and go. I'm generally more of a hot weather fan (swim/bike/run is hard in the snow), but this place was just delightful. Actually it was so nice, I'd go back in the summer for a training camp. Those Alps make for some fine bike riding.Had to head to Innsbruck for the frauleins though. Ski areas were loaded with middle aged Russians and the odd Italian (complete with the 25 yo mistress).'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb
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If you are considering Switzerland I highly recommend Gstaad. You can take the train through the Bernese Oberland valley and stop at various resorts, including Glacier 3000 which is awesome and Chateau d'Oex as well as Gstaad.
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Jeff
http://www.ski-europe.com/resorts/gstaad.html
http://ski.intermaps.com/gstaad/index.swf?lang=en
Hey Jeff, thanks for that. How often do you ski in Europe. I hear the apres' ski is phenomenal.My buddy skis Bad Scoul every year as he grew up in Bavaria. Won't be this year, maybe next year.
That was the first time. Points of comparison, though:Aspen, Vail, Park City, Whistler, Breck in North America and quite a few in the East.
It's a very different experience, especially taking the train up and down the valley from Zweissimmer to Chateau d'Oex (pronounced almost like 'day'). Each ski area quite different - more so than say mountain-to-mountain at Killington VT.
By joining a ski club we did a week there for about 2/3 the cost of one trip to Aspen, and that might be a lot better today with the dollar better than 2 years ago.
Gstaad IS a resort town ... and high end at that, but lots of fun. You can rough it a little too if you want.
Jeff
What ski club? The economic advantage sounds attractive.
Local one here in central NJ. Definitely worth it.
Jeff
I'll have to see if I can find one here in NYC. Being you are from Jersey (what exit? sorry couldn't help myself ;-) are going to the NJ Minifest hosted by Shep? I believe it is the 21st, check the Bt fest folder for details if you are interested.
I take those events to be 'contractor only' ;o) - wouldn't dream of disturbing 'the force' (not being a contractor myself).
Jeff
Hey, all our welcome, especially non-contractor. Don't be shy.
these guys were out todayNo Tag
Cool. Swans? Where do they live, anyhow?http://www.tvwsolar.com
I went down to the lobby
To make a small call out.
A pretty dancing girl was there,
And she began to shout,
"Go on back to see the gypsy.
He can move you from the rear,
Drive you from your fear,
Bring you through the mirror.
He did it in Las Vegas,
And he can do it here."
these are on Indian Lake near Bellefountaine, Ohiothere were eight of themNo Tag
Beautiful President's day on the beach in eastern Long Island.
Spring's coming here, too. A scene a couple miles from me...
Thanks you two, nothing beats a beautiful day.
Well, that's not true.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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When you have both it's double happiness, (the Chinese have it right)
Surprised you have ice yet. Ours is flying by as cubes. River WAY up.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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on the open lake it has all washed up in peoples yardsNo Tag
You just need a bag or Doritos to lure them closer.
That works up until the hordes of gulls spot you.
jt8
lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort
cool.
somewhere we have pictures taken at Trafalgar Square (London) with the thousands of pidgeons about - being fed and perching on everything and everyone.
this barn caught my attention on the way
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I have a Trafalgar Sq. with pigeons pic somewhere as well. This is San Marcos Square in Venice last summer.
got the wrong laptop with me for travel shots
I do love Venice. Wife and I have spent days wondering around walkways and plazas
Fantastic squares all over Europe...
I'll try to remember to post some pics when I get home.No Tag
Yeah, I love Europe for those same reasons, just wandering through those old cities is amazing. Have you been to Prague? Wonderful place too.
yeah- Prague is great!
We go to Europe every couple of years . Fly in somewhere and rent a car and spend a couple weeks exploring.
have you been to St. Paul du Vence? Very cool.
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Edited 2/18/2009 10:32 pm ET by hubcap
No I haven't explored the Riviera east of Cassis. Went from Aix en Provence to Cassis then west to Camargue and on to Spain. So much to explore, so little time. Was planning on returning to Italy this summer, but with the economy and all, may stay local this year.
We are kicking around cruises this year. Big time discounts out there...No Tag
Yeah, I love Europe for those same reasons, just wandering through those old cities is amazing.
Be sure to wear good shoes. Feet can get sore walking on this stuff all day.
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lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort
Neat old barn. You need a shot of it on a sunny day...maybe a bit closer. Be a nice PC wallpaper pic.
jt8
lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort
I had that thought too- the old barn closer on a sunny dayhere is something from Veniceand rooftops in BavariaNo Tag
The Venice shot looks like a postcard or magazine shot. Practically a timeless shot. You don't know if it was taken yesterday or 100 years ago.
If those roofs in Bavaria were colored tile, then I'd rather see that one in color. It would make a wicked jigsaw puzzle.
I'd like to get to Deutschland some day. Spend a couple days seeing the big sites and then spend the rest of the trip sitting around drinking big mugs of cool beer and watching the natives.
jt8
lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort
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nice pics, very idyllic road. Soothing for us city folks.
Hub, I'm getting to the point I'm hoping for some green.
In the landscape as well as in the wallet..............
well, actually in the front pocket...........
or for that matter, the underwear drawer.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Nice. I just made the barn shot my PC wallpaper. Is that a hawk in the tree over the barn?
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lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort
yeahI think it is a red tail hawkNo Tag
I got this kind of greenNo Tag
turtle union meeting going on?
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lotsa worse things happen to better people than me every day. --Snort
that shot was taken on the way to a house I was building- I'd drive thru everyday and sometimes there would be fifteen or twenty of the little buggers on every log in sight.No Tag
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Deliciously framed with the limbs.
You international dude.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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hame and Austin Powers...here is an old stone barn somewhere off the loup de whatever the french word for wolf is-on the way to Gourdon.No Tag
And you think your having a bad day...... (sorry for the wideness!)
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just runnin' em off the road are we???
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Not me, that one didn't have one of them Bama08 bumper stickers :) !
ROAR!!!!!!!
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Signs of spring...No Tag
I don't think I have had the pleasure.
Buckeye in spring?A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Spring, pushing the debris of fall and that nasty cold.........
right outta the way.
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Those plow drivers get to going and they don't stop for nuthin ;)
Plow those folks right outta the way.jt8
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They can't afford to plow in this economy, this is how most of us get around in theses parts....
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I'll match your clock tower and raise you one ;-) Salzburg.
sweet!I haven't been to Salzburg.
Spent a couple of days in Vienna and one overnight in a pension just about an hour from the Italian border- way up a mountainside in a very alpine farm house.don't have those pics with me tonightNo Tag
I dug up another clock tower
and a shot of the Austrian Alpsblack and whitesNo Tag
couple of German countrysideNo Tag
Magnificent, thanks for posting, gotta go back to Europe soon. May have a business trip to Genoa in May.
looking through these pictures is giving me the itch too.
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Walter, here's the coopers hawk all puffed up.
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Calvin,
Thats almost my screen name. Thats another slater from Vermont I asked to look at the Benson Timber Frame.
The job where I didn't buy a tele handler , even though I was counselled that I should.
Nice picture Calvin.
I'm just setting up my job now where the eagles might be seen.
Walter
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I went down to the lobby
To make a small call out.
A pretty dancing girl was there,
And she began to shout,
"Go on back to see the gypsy.
He can move you from the rear,
Drive you from your fear,
Bring you through the mirror.
He did it in Las Vegas,
And he can do it here."
Riding around in the snow a few weeks ago...
Yuk!
This color is one of my favorites. Combined with the yellow...............man, to have a Ford Fairlane 500 in that!
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I will remember the "the" from now on. When my daughter enrolled at Ohio State we found out in the "indoctination" meeting that it would now be known as THE Ohio State University!
Of course "a" slateman is welcome here in this thread. I'm sure he's been on the way somewhere.
Will anxiously await the raptor's photo.
Here's another angle.
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I get a kick out of intro's on NFL games where the players from OSU all say THE Ohio State.
Mine is in small letters - from people bumping into me and saying " hey you're the slate man ? Aren't you ? "
Looks more Comet color to me. Tulips might open by this evening... ticks are out too, arrrrgh.http://www.tvwsolar.com
I went down to the lobby
To make a small call out.
A pretty dancing girl was there,
And she began to shout,
"Go on back to see the gypsy.
He can move you from the rear,
Drive you from your fear,
Bring you through the mirror.
He did it in Las Vegas,
And he can do it here."
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Calvin,
A little local color from my trip today .
These folks asked about a roof job .
Heading back into Rockland Harbor .
Boats for North Haven .
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Thank you, a little nautical flair.
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Cal,
The tank sits on a property I worked on briefly yesterday . Must have been an old water tank at one time to get fresh water way up on a remote end of this island .
Looks like it's self filling now !!
Walter
Might check it out. A lot of them were made out of clear redwood or cedar. Salvage rights?
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
I think it's going to be refurbished .
Makes salvaging it tough. I salvaged one made of of CVG Fir, well actually the bottom half of one, made a great kids pool for a few years.
They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.
Got a bald eagle down here at the lake Cal- I have seen him twice in the past two weeks
pretty cool
haven't managed a snapshot
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Doug, here you go with a vivid imagination, an eagle way up there.
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And if you trust me, the semi closeup. Point and shoot has a bit of limitation.
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Could be a UFO!jt8
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
-- Robert Frost
The nearby pond has a variety of critters, but the king & queen are a pair of nesting swans:
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None of the other critters mess with them. Flared feathers/wings is usually all it takes for an intruder to get the message. Assuming this is the same pair (I think it is), this is the 3rd summer they've come to the pond (they tend to show up near the end of winter). I had gotten a bag of 'wildlife feed' (aka field corn) and had been occasionally feeding the swans before the grass greened up, so they will let me get fairly close, but still keep an eye on me. They might look casual and relaxed, but they're always keeping an eye out.
There are also some transient swans. This one is a single (no mate) and might be young because he/she is only about the size of a CDN goose (whereas the king and queen are larger than the geese).
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And then you have the nasty CDN geese. noisy, dumb, poop EVERYWHERE, tend to fight with each other, etc.
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And they breed like rats:
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When I was feeding the swans, the geese would walk right up to me and make a racket until I gave them something. I noticed some of them had bands on their legs, but couldn't make out what the fine print on the bands said (didn't have my camera with me). The geese tend to be greedy, but it backfires. Dummy #1 will have a few kernals of corn but instead of eating it, he/she decides to chase away Dummy #2 for fear of #2 getting a kernal. Well while #1 is chasing #2 across the pond, Dummy #3 comes up and starts eating the corn....until he chases off Dummy #4.
There are a variety of ducks, but the most common are mallards. They are also the only ones that will come close enough to get their pic taken.
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jt8
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -- Carl Sandburg
now that's the way to spend the day... very nice.
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Stumbled on this site tonight. Some interesting pics:
http://www.lanimilbus.com/naturephotosoct07/naturephotosoct07.htm
Granted, this ain't exactly the thread topic, but I figured what the heck.
jt8
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Holy smokes, a prolific picture taker for sure.
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Cal ,
A couple pictures of my snapping turtles across the driveway -- out trying to lay her eggs .
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The next door neighbors to the house I'm working on in Belfast
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Bearly able to tell,
but is that a full foil faced mask on the one?
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Belfast had a " bear festival " for several years . Artists would fabricate them and they'd stay on the streets all season .
They'd auction them off when Fall came .
We've got some brightly decorated "walleye" sculptures they conjured up to commemorate the spring spawning run up the river.
And a part of Toledo was called Frogtown in the 1800's, so there's those mutha's scattered about also.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Cal,
On the ferry ride back from Vinalhaven on Sunday we come right past the Rockland Coast Guard station .
This boat " Eagle " is one of their training ships . It was here all weekend for tours .
Built in Germany in 1936 . Quite a large sailing craft .
Walter
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Walter, a number of years ago there was a Tall Ships docking over a weekend here on the Maumee Bay. I'm pretty sure I remember the Eagle as one of the many participants.
Sure was a sight.
The fella I was doing a kitchen for was the comandant of the Yacht Club. His boat got to lead them from the Bay up the Maumee and into port. So my vantage point was right on the #### end of the boat or front end of the regatta.
I probably posted pictures in this thread back there in the beginning maybe.A Great Place for Information, Comraderie, and a Sucker Punch.
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Lookout boys, got a new camera today. Went with d5000.
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On the way to the Fest we stopped in Oregon-visiting with a buddy from HS and his wife. Took a jaunt to the ocean.
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On the way to the fest.
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Cal,
How much did you pitch in the hat ??
Walter
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Cal,
Very nice photograph !! The trees almost appear surreal .
Walter
Rainier in the clouds. Surreal for sure.
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Thanks Cal ,
Hope you post more when you have time .
Walter
Off to the saltmines Walter, but here's some of the Rainier local flora.
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Is that Sasquatch in the backround ???
Nope, Luka stayed at the Fest site.
Woke up to these varments at Kathy and Jims
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Cal,
We're lousy with those guys - cute as they are .
Don't know if you saw this timepiece in " Non SIP timber frame "
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Yeah, but a hassle to pick it up and turn it 15 degrees for daylight savings time and then back every year.
Forrest
Forrest.
On my recent west coast travel-thought about leaving the watch on Ohio time.........doing the simple math to come up with local.
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Couple bucks to that dude-
Should have crossed the street for this fella.
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From that tall ships floatilla several yrs ago.
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I worked in an antique shop down in the Flats about 20 years ago and waited for the Tall Ships to come in. We used to trade T-shirts from the Compass Rose. Those ships were fantastic.
Yup, and what a treat to be on the ship leading them into the harbor. Course, we did see quite a bit of the first one.
And those sailors up there stood tall the whole way.
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Husband made some terrific photos of those tall ships. I miss it, Calvin.
The Bounty.
These are all from my construction camera, hadn't gotten far into picture taking yet.
damn.
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Thank you, Calvin. Husband and I used to go down into the Flats and he would take pictures. It was cold as hell and he would get out and I would sit in the car. Your photographs are great. Damn, the early ones are the best.
Calvin,
Thanks for posting that excellent shot .
Heading back to Vinalhaven tomorrow , so maybe I can continue in the nautical theme !
Walter
Calvin,
Heres one from this afternoon taken from the Lanes Island bridge looking at the Maine State Ferry Terminal on Vinalhaven
Haunting
and daunting.
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hey cal,
I wonder where the attached pics in this thread are On The Way to...?
Whelp, when I look at the thread initially.................the posts are crammed over to the right pretty far. Using Luka's tip on holding the cursor on the edge of the reply and scrolling up to find what that message is in response to................
Ha ha ha.
At any rate, here we were on the way somewhere.....
I'm sure.
TEST:
or
or:
or:
That water tank looks like the ones they have on the roofs of tall NY NY buildings. Saw an episode of Dirty Jobs where he was helping them replace one.
jt8
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
-- Robert Frost
On the way to the side door I noticed something on the table outside that looked from a distance like a pc. of candy.
Don't know which end is
Don't know which end is which, nor what kind of caterpillar this would be........be nice if a ?optologist could name it and provide a picture of what it turned into.......or was.
>>>be nice if a ?optologist could name it and provide a picture of what it turned into.......or was.<<<
Go ask Alice...
You think she'd know?
You think she'd know?
Bet she does
Hey cal,
just checking the photo feature
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woiks! Shot while strolling thru Central Park after the Great Blizzard of ought 9
Thanks!
This photo I take it is lodged on a photo site? Am I remembering that's the only way to get it to pop up full sized right from the get go?
I think you mentioned that "Preview" works.
Not for me
Worked, seems like they turned it off...
And, yep, I use a shutterfly account. picasa might be easier, but I'm not sure if the free storage space is enough... I've got "people" working on that... I'll keep you apprised.
really sucks, don't it ?
1100
really sucks, don't it ?
1100 posts gone to hell with no pics
bite me
Mike, How'd it go on the
Mike, How'd it go on the course Sunday?
cal, here's a discussion on
cal, here's a discussion on doing the full size embedded thing:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/breaktimeclass/messages?msg=38.457
and boss has another way with thumbnails and tabs... hmmm, that sounds gross.
Hey, you gonna get a front row seat for ed's video?
golf was great... by the back nine we became really adept at playing caroms off the ice
I find it surprising the way Ice on the pond makes it so much easier going over.
And not really with contact either. I mean straight up you got over, shot.
At least for me it takes the "wet" out of the equation. That damn game is just too head oriented.
Damn, it's some kinda cold outside. Wonder if we'll survive the walk down to the Idiot.......
Thanks for the link Holly.
You'd think Ed would give us a coupon or something for a viewing.
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nah.
Wow, the way you've been
Wow, the way you've been working Ed, can't believe you're not in the front row!
So, you open a picasa or shutter fly acct yet?
We're having a "significant weather event"... I'm staying inside til Monday...
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Hey, guess what? Preview STILL DOESN'T WORK... I need to find a job "fixin'" stuff, ha!
Hey cal... looks like ed was passing on some more BS about fixing up the photo threads. I don't even see that as a goal in the wannafixes dept. anymore.
I'll keep the faith with ya, but it is also becoming painfully evident that the present mouthpiece has not got making this a useful forum as a top priority. Bastige.
Hey cal... looks like ed was passing on some more BS about fixing up the photo threads. I don't even see that as a goal in the wannafixes dept. anymore.
I'll keep the faith with ya, but it is also becoming painfully evident that the present mouthpiece has not got making this a useful forum as a top priority. Bastige.
Thanks for hanging with the struggle.
Makes me feel like I'm handing out leaflets for the Grape Boycott in the supermarket parking lot.
Seize the Time!
Here's a chilling thought. Ed's much younger. He might outlast my will to live.
So, what's this about "fixing" the photo stuff?
When the *******ing began, ed
When the bitching began, ed and matt asked for a list of photo threads that we would like to see reunited with their photos, and said that even though it was very, very, very time consuming, they would get on it.
If you were a web producer, and had produced a site that has a photo gallery as one of the discussion topics, wouldn't you work on actually having the photos in the the dicussions?
At first, I thought ed was just another guy like us, trying to make the best out of a rezvoned up situation.
I don't know what the guy is, but he ain't no web producer, more like a web reducer.
oh, cheers!
ahh yes, I remember that ancient discussion about fixing.
Seems we retain a bit more, even considering our age, than the younger and questionably more astute web ducers. And I'll give them both/all a bit of leeway in that they do have a lot on their table...........I suppose. I don't know for sure on that. I know there's some things I pass by out of the limits of time management. "Later" can become an overused word. I "forgot" can be an all encompassing and overused excuse.
But this is way beyond.
On a more sober note. I am going to a ceremony next week where my immediate (end of drive) neighbors are receiving an award for the porch addition I put on their house last yr.
Now admittedly, all I am is the assembler, the design was there's in conjunction with a very good designer who drew up the plans-detailed elevations due to the Historic Neighborhood committee aproval necessary.
But, I'm one proud puppy to have been a part of it.
Did a thread at Quittintime on it:
http://www.quittintime.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/12865/an/0/page/0#Post12865
Oh, and congratulations on the porch - there used to be a magazine that was interested in that kind of project -
Oh dave, you are such a jokester...........
Very cool porch job... congrats on being involved in an award winner... better than the dog you've in the fight here, eh?
Gracias'
Now, if I could just get out on the golf course.
Da Plaque unt Interior'e
Designer talk...................
And ze' other anglero's
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I like it!
but is the flash on that there fancy image making box you got broke? How'd the ceremony go?
And, not that it has anything to do with this thread... do you know what's happened to Luka? Is he really ed?
You have succeeded
in confusing me. I tried (ha ha ha) to click on what might usually maybe perhaps take you to the post you are responding to.................of course that took me to the first post on the previous page..................which means zip.
Did I post a rather dark picture? hence the broke flash on the fancy image making machine?
You'd best somehow figger a way to point it out pacifically. The inside porches are a bit dull-on camera flash with that wide lens does unnatural things. I need one of those fancy flashing things you hold up in the air, away from that big wide ass 'd lens.
ok?
Luka. He's not Ed I don't think. You might be able to reach him via email-he's been having his seasonal computer gliches and in that way has been incognito. Due to getting ripped on every site and in every way he's elected to stay away from the usual 3. Still shows up at QT on occasion.
So bright boy, you going to the Fest this summer? and if so, why not sign up so it looks like a party. Right now it looks like a poorly attended wake.
Here, something a little bright and cheerful.
Crocuses?
Pear trees just popped ou this week, and the redbuds bout ready.
I was making sport of your non-flashing, my old sony would light that place up!
I knew you'd know what's up with Jeff. Ripping comes with opinions.
More cash has got to flow in before I can commit to the fest... man, somebody's got to hip Adirondak Jack. I'm staying undecided, presently.
Commit Now
And start throwing qtrs in a jar. By July you'll have enough to cover the room. Then you're only out the Fest charge.
Think about it. Donuts are 75cents. That's got a qtr change. It adds up.
And start throwing qtrs in a jar.
man, those quarters are for the magic fingers machine<G>
those qtrs................
Well, unless that sweet wife of yours had a recent table saw accident.................
you got all the magic fingers you can handle right there.
you got all the magic fingers you can handle right there.
That would be the magic finger!
Latest sneak attack on unsuspecting subjects
You know those bushes mean old Mr. Jones planted along his yard so your ballgame was constrained?
He saw a bit more beauty in the spring than I did in those thorny things.
Full Frontal Nudity at the Fest-you missed it.
I don't know if I go for that stone cold stare though.
Glad I stopped.....
b/4 I kept going.
Mike, I get an email for a reply from you. Click the link, it takes me cal's first post. Scroll through every fucking thread, then find out you weren't even talking to me. The people in charge of this place now are azzholzes.
They don't have a clue how a functioning website works. I have an unemployed Labrador with the web between the toes thing going on. She doen't have much sense. but she can retrieve... I'm thinking she could get the search/retrieval thing working better than the present bozos in charge. They must be fucking poodles.
edited to add, or maybe they just like fucking poodles?
Mike in spite of the car trouble............
you lucky dog!
Here, I might find one open when the snow melts enough-it's close-but then I'd have to put a gun to these pansies head to get them off the couch and out.
50 here tomorrow, I'm bookworking it in the a.m., zip to the dome to see if I might still have it....
then try to be "like Mike".
Holly and you aren't kidding. This "team" in charge are hopeless. Act of God might be able to sort it out.
I say the comments about them fixing the photo threads, and figured I'd add my 2 cents worth.
Given the way they're doing it I dno't relly care if they fix any of them or not. With the pics just thumbnailed at the end of the post they're all but worthless.
Since we can't edit our individual posts that were transfered over from the old system the old threads are all but worthless IMHO.
Hence my opinion that I don't really care...
ron...you comming to saratoga in july ?
I took this pic about 6 years ago. The thing that always got me was that I hardly every have a camera on me, but this day I had taken Mrs. Bob's camera to take a pic of some work stuff.
On the way home I decieded to take the backway home. As I came to this bridge I had to take some shots of it because they were building it's replacement not far to the right of the pic.
Turned out, that the very next day when I was planning to take shot's from the other side, it was gone! In less than 12 hours. That bridge was a part of most kids lives who grew up in this are, for several generations. One of those things that has just been around for ever.
Well here's the link anyway:
http://picasaweb.google.com/implumberbob/DropBox#5351664359192086690
That is (was) one fine bridge!
Very nice that you took that b/4 they took it down. Showing up is half the game.
The other half is having that camera.
I seriously lookin' at getting a camera for myself.
Maybe in the next month or so I'll bring myself to part with some $$$
I'mm leaning towards a camera phone, but still not sure.
Cool!
While camera phones have come along way, I don't think I'd opt for the combo. You can get some pretty samm portables that I think still do a better job of recording images. But then again, I don't have a camera phone. An old point and shoot-3.6 mp, the big Nikon that's only 6 mp but with the array of lenses and the innerds of the camera-pretty darn nice. Those investments go from a few hundred for the P&S to a few thousand for the good one.
So as you can see-almost anything for any sacrifice.
The new DSLR's w/14mp's anti vibration technology and capability of huge ISO settings are the Rolls I either wish I had or am trying to achieve via the quarter jar............................................
And when you start really looking at things closely you see scenes you never knew about, like this spring blooming moss from this past Sunday.
That's good!
I like that,... but I'm way too cheap to pay more than $100 for a camera.
Besides, I may break the dang thing the next day.
I do like the higher priced ones and how well they perform.
Remember the last fest?
I had been posting all those pics from Rick's iphone, I knew they weren't the best quality, but man,... when Jim and some others started posting their pics! You could see a huge difference.
Still, I can't cause myself to send that kinda money. Mrs. Bob's camera cost about $100 a few years back, it's a Sanyo VPC-S600 6 megapixel. I did add more memory. It didn't come with enough to hold but a few pic's or a short clip. I added the cheapest memory, 1 gig, and it is way more memory than I ever see us needing.
While the camera phones don't have the best quality, I figure that it's the best way for me to make sure that I have a camera on me for those, you know, 'Kodak moments'.
I'm pretty sure that in 5 years or so, I'll have both. :-)
pb, it's like anything else
Money dictates the depth you dive. A dirty rotten shame, but look what's happened in just say 8 yrs. The 3-4 hundred dollar 3.6 mp I got new, you can get twice the camera for a third or less the price.
Just keep throwing qtrs' in a jar. In a few yrs you got the good one.
I find myself making correct change so I can get qtrs as change. Not really the way frugality should do it, but it does make for a quicker payout.
So here's the moss from another focus pt. Down at the base of those filaments is the soft part of this moss-that feels so good barefoot. But looking closer the "leaves" of the moss look like spiney holly.
Nature is just one cool thing if you take the time to really look close.
(man, this prestudy for the lead class tomorrow is grueling.)
>>>"A dirty rotten shame, but
>>>"A dirty rotten shame, but look what's happened in just say 8 yrs. The 3-4 hundred dollar 3.6 mp I got new, you can get twice the camera for a third or less the price."<<<
That's one of the biggest things that keeps me from buying a new camera, me and my dad both have went out and bought the latest greatest gadgets, and find out in a short time that it's getting out dated way faster than we'd have guessed.
But with electronic technology, it kinda doubles every 5 years. And I've got to the point that I hate to spend much any of it.
I got a very basic cell phone, and it's a pre-pay. I spend about $150 per year on the service.
My computers are both the old XP class, and I built them from parts I'd mostly scrounged.
I can't build my own camera tho. :-)
Ohh those moss pictures are real cool, that's the kinda stuff that keeps me looking at cameras when I walk by them in the store. I usually get run off when they see the drool starting to run down my whiskers! hehehe
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