Forum: Post Your Photos!
03-10-2024, 07:14 PM
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Yep, parts of Texas are beautiful! This is a wonderful shot, thank you for sharing. I have a niece living there in Boerne, she loves it.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-10-2024, 07:07 PM
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Those adjustable Feit bulbs are tempting ( we sell ‘em at our store), but so far I’ve resisted. Mostly because I don’t want to need yet another app.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-09-2024, 11:21 AM
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Racer, your menagerie rivals mine (I'm tech support for the whole family, so I claim it all )...
3 desktops, 1 Win and 2 iMacs
3 laptops of varying vintage
at least 5 iPads of varying vintages
3 iPods (I think)
2 active iPhones and one Samsung
2 network printers, a couple of TV sets, a couple of Rokus, not sure what else...
Crazy what we accumulate innit?
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Forum: General Photography
03-01-2024, 05:36 PM
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For the 2017 eclipse, I took two cameras, my K-50 (50-300 & 1.4 TC) and my old K-100D (300 fixed & 2x TC). They were set up side by side so I didn’t have to waste any time moving. We were in a parking lot in Eugene, Oregon, with several thousand of our closest friends, but it was a morning show so heat wasn’t an issue.
I shot a bunch of practice images, so the settings were pretty good. The one thing the practice showed was about focus creep - I had to use tape to keep it fixed in place…. Have fun! And remember to look around, the photos aren’t the experience!!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
02-22-2024, 02:50 PM
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Been away myself, life and all. @Racer X 69, so so sorry to hear your news. Sending many positive vibes up your way. I hope you can find the perfect spot for Mrs Racer 2.0, and may you missing her be mixed with happy memories of your love.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
02-01-2024, 12:23 AM
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Harts Pass was one of my dad's favorite places when I was a kid in the '60s. The folks always tried to drive that road at night - you can see oncoming headlights so you have time to plan where to edge past the other fella. Downhill direction got priority as a common courtesy thing.
Last time I went up there was in 1999 - my brother and I took my dad's ashes up to his place. Parked at the top, and set out up the ridge on the Pacific Crest Trail, taking turns packing the ashes and a river stone my uncle had engraved. Mind, the rock was probably about 70-75 pounds, so our motivation to keep going fell rapidly as we went up that dang ridge. We finally said heck with it, found a suitable place for the memorial rock, and scattered Dad's ashes to the winds. And OF COURSE, the wind swirled around right at the wrong moment and gave us both a faceful of Pops... I'm quite certain he got a great laugh out of that!
Thanks for the photos and video, Racer - brings fond memories back.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-19-2024, 03:08 PM
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One of my buds at work just had a cataract done. He says the difference is absolutely amazing.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-18-2024, 09:17 PM
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My computer says it has been four days since the last post in The Eternal Thread. WTF?!?
BACON! Tokyo! Dogzilla!
Oh Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-23-2023, 11:15 AM
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Today is a day of expressing gratitude for the good things in our lives. Like a delicious Turkey. Wrapped in bacon…. And friends, family, health, that sorta stuff. :)
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Forum: General Talk
11-20-2023, 11:34 AM
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Happy belated birthday, Norm! And a hearty wave to Tess and your beautiful pups, too! As usual, your pictures are still gorgeous. Come drop in when you feel like it, we'll be hangin' around...
Jim
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-20-2023, 11:24 AM
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bacon! dogzilla! tokyo? drivel!!!! busted shift key |
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras
11-14-2023, 07:41 PM
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Well, the water is natural here. The hole it collected in was man-made, though. An old quarry in the woods behind the USGS offices in Augusta, Maine (44.30751688412032, -69.81310429737992 to be precise), shot on my trusty old Canon A4 back in 2007.
Alrighty folks - I know someone else out there has more shots, let's go!! |
Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-30-2023, 12:02 AM
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I made my Mum a cribbage board from some driftwood cedar a few years back. She loves it, non-traditional shape and everything.
Jim
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-14-2023, 08:28 PM
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Ah, the things hidden away inside the forum…. I am nowhere close to the top, but at least I have made enough posts to get four digits! :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-20-2023, 10:11 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-07-2023, 09:34 PM
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Always enjoyed seeing that sign on our trips down to Kansas City area!
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-29-2023, 10:53 PM
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Oh... Oops. Guess I should've checked that. I sorta assumed a small mirrorless camera with little bitty lenses was going to be a 4/3... :o:o:o:o
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
08-29-2023, 12:10 PM
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Your brother has been laid to rest in a beautiful place. Were you able to do it at the Falls? (that funicular was pretty cool to ride up and down the hill)
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
08-29-2023, 11:28 AM
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My wife bought a Sony a600 recently. Been learning how to use it... Here is a shot from our latest adventure, a trip down the California coast to look at lighthouses. This is the old lens from the Point Vicente Lighthouse. I think this was the inspiration for our old buddy C3-PO!!! |
Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
08-29-2023, 11:05 AM
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Well, that would have been serious motivation! :D:lol:
But would it be better than the prospect of getting back to a place where bacon was freely available? Hmmm
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
08-23-2023, 01:14 PM
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One of my uncles was in AOG back in the 70s/80s. He was a sheet metal worker, and went off to fix several planes that had "issues". The one I recall best was a trip to Greece (Athens I believe) where the plane slid off the runway. I got a really cool leather cowboy hat out of it... :)
Mmmm Bacon!
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
08-07-2023, 07:28 PM
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My wife and I were just there a week or so ago. Part of a California Lighthouses roadtrip we did... This was one we got to, very nice even if you can't see much of the insides (unless you're into surfing, they converted it to a museum of the sport...). Pretty cool place, but Santa Cruz was enough to make us crazy.
Lovely shots, by the way!
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Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras
08-03-2023, 09:10 PM
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Thanks, UncleVanya, on behalf of my better half! The coast redwoods were huge and impressive trees. They certainly make you feel humbled with their size and longevity.
We came home by way of Yosemite National Park and one of our stops was their grove of giant sequoias. Those guys are even *more* humbling!
@Barondla, your shot deserved a win, shows Nature “green in tooth and claw” :D:p:D:D
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Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras
07-25-2023, 02:09 PM
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My phone (the rock), and my wife’s new Sony (the tree) - a couple from the road trip we’re on. Seeing a bunch of California lighthouses and family. And some Nature stuff, of course!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-04-2023, 09:18 AM
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Beautiful day to be on the water (any water!), Racer.
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