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Forum: Repairs and Warranty Service
10-23-2021, 09:49 AM
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While we are on the subject of water damage, here is the last photo my weather sealed Pentax K-30 will ever take. You'd think I'd taken it under Niagara Fa...
Oh, wait.
My wife says I play too hard with my toys.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
04-30-2016, 05:43 PM
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Trillium erectum -- red trillium, wake-robin, purple trillium, Beth root, or stinking Benjamin. Its a perennial, but although the plant shows up in early spring on the forest floor of Eastern U.S. deciduous forests, it vanishes by mid summer when the canopy has filled out. The flower is pollinated by flies and has a smell like rotten meat.
This was taken with the Pentax 100mm macro lens and an AF 200FG fill flash covered with a light orange gel.
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Forum: General Photography
02-24-2016, 04:44 PM
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It is an old deprecated version. Management decided it must be rewritten in Java.
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Forum: General Photography
02-24-2016, 04:29 PM
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For those interested in a free education, Coursera -- https://www.coursera.org/ -- has several online university level photography classes:
1) https://www.coursera.org/specializations/photography-basics -- A 5 course, freshman level intro sequence from Michigan State University. Course registration required by Feb 27. Search the catalog for the individual classes and just register for each individually if you don't want to pay for the certificate.
2) https://www.coursera.org/learn/photography -- Seeing Through Photographs, a self paced course from The Museum of Modern Art, register and take anytime.
3) https://www.coursera.org/course/vicphoto -- Photography: A Victorian Sensation from The University of Edinburgh. No current sessions, add it to your watch list.
4) https://www.coursera.org/course/lyingcamera -- The Camera Never Lies from The University of London. Covers 20th century photojournalism. No current sessions, add it to your watch list.
5) https://www.coursera.org/course/compphoto -- Computational Photography from The Georgia Institute of Technology. No current sessions, add it to your watch list.
I've taken several classes via Coursera, mostly fillers from Ivy League Schools in my undergrad major that weren't offered at my school years ago. The quality has been pretty good overall.
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Forum: Post Your Photos!
02-11-2016, 09:58 AM
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My family and I were touring The Wilds -- https://thewilds.columbuszoo.org/home, a private, non-profit conservation center located on nearly 10,000 acres of reclaimed mine land in rural southeastern Ohio. In one of the aviaries, I was snapping away at the kids as they fed the birds when the youngest pointed at my feet...
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
01-31-2016, 04:05 PM
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Scanned color slide. K-1000, 50mm.
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
01-31-2016, 01:05 PM
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2015 pretty much felt like I was going in circles, getting nowhere.
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