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Forum: General Talk
04-12-2024, 03:33 AM
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And I raise you Don't Let Your Deal Go Down.
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Don't tell my wife but I'm in love with this woman.
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Forum: General Photography
04-12-2024, 02:12 AM
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I've checked out your blog and discovered you're a one man rabbit hole. I've spent too much time there already. My mother is Sumatran and has wrtitten a cookbook. I could tell you one or two things about rendang. What you cooked I'm afraid doesn't come close. I literally learnt to cook at my mother's knee. I've just had a quick look at Scritti Politi, after what must be decades. Wood Beez is a much more musical pop song then I gave them credit for forty years ago. Yes! 40! I agree that juxtaposing poetry composition and scientific method is tenuous. One thing I might point out is there are versions of songs and cover versions. A cover attempts to replicate the exact sound and arrangement of the original, hence cover bands. A version of a song is just that. A version and not a cover. Thank you for your blog. My weekend is now gone.
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Forum: Contest Voting
04-07-2024, 02:37 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Contest Voting
04-07-2024, 02:37 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Contest Voting
04-07-2024, 02:36 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Contest Voting
04-07-2024, 02:36 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: General Talk
04-06-2024, 05:51 PM
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Saw Tedeschi Trucks Band in Sydney last night. No support. Pure unadulterated TTB. And when Derek Trucks started the slide opening of Midnight in Harlem the audience of course went crazy.
Here's a version from 2012:
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A few weeks ago saw Víkingur Ólafsson playing the Bach Goldberg Variations at the Sydney Opera house.
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In the last four weeks I've seen two of the best two concerts I've ever seen in my life. It's like going from the sublime to the sublime.
If any of you out there get a chance to see either of them beg, steal or borrow.
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Forum: General Photography
03-08-2024, 05:28 PM
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For what its worth my standard travel kit is the KP with the DA 21. I'm more likely to take it out with me and apart from exposure and composition there are no choices to be made. But that's just me. As I get older I become more minimalist in approach.
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Forum: Monthly Photo Contests
01-02-2024, 02:24 AM
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Forum: General Photography
12-22-2023, 04:31 PM
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Some people find blue skies boring. They can also tend to play havoc with exposure. Learn to love clouds. Buy the The Cloudspotter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney. Embrace cloudy skies.
NYC may be the wrong place to exclude people in your photos. Even if you're not interested in them as people they're fantastic for providing a sense of scale.
When I first bought The Americans by Robert Frank what struck me was how important it was to see the all the photos in the context of the book. Of course I recognised a few of the individual photos but they didn't really make sense in isolation. Seeing all the photos together creates the bigger picture. The chronology is less important than the collection itself.
Having said all this I've also looked at your photos and can see your strict rules have led to some striking images. They're great! You have a good eye for architectural form.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-06-2023, 04:07 AM
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I'm like Sandy and have also reached peak camera. In the last two years I've been giving gear away to family and friends. There comes a point in your life when you start decluttering. I don't have a foot in the grave but I'm far along enough to realise you can't take it with you.
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Forum: Pentax KP
09-29-2023, 08:24 PM
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The DA 21mm + KP is my travel camera of choice if I don't take my GR. It's the perfect combination.
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Forum: Pentax KP
09-29-2023, 08:12 PM
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Aren't they worth more now than when they were first released? If you can get one for a good price then you'd be crazy not to buy.
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Forum: Repairs and Warranty Service
09-28-2023, 03:00 AM
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I've spent a small fortune at DCXpert over the years. Never any problems. Always superfast fulfillment.
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
09-25-2023, 08:14 PM
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For my level of editing skills it's all I need. Better results than Corel PaintShop Pro which I used for a long time. I love the photo indexing which enables me to quickly scan through every photo on my hard drive.
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Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras
01-14-2023, 08:21 PM
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My Canon s110 from 2012 still gets a lot of love. They're also desirable. 2nd hand asking price is not much less than the new price. You'll also need extra batteries.
 Mt Ainslie by Francis Johns, on Flickr
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
01-08-2023, 02:56 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
01-08-2023, 02:56 AM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
12-22-2022, 02:55 AM
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Pentax FA 43. Will be packing it again this Xmas for family shots. My parents are in their nineties and there are new great grandchildren this year. The posterity shots are the most important.
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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
11-25-2022, 10:20 PM
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Having children and realising I had to record their lives. They're in their teens now and refuse to be photographed without scowling and complaining. GAS cured!
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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
11-18-2022, 07:12 PM
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The most glaring gap is the DA 21mm. The KP and the 21mm are made for each other. As they come in both black and silver you can justify getting two of them.
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Forum: Winners' Showcase
11-07-2022, 08:03 PM
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I would like to nominate this photo
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Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges
10-22-2022, 12:39 AM
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'...as well as the risk of a lower sperm count...'
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Forum: Pentax KP
09-02-2022, 03:50 AM
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I think I paid around 650 EUR (in Australian dollars) new. So this price isn't cheap. It's hard to believe but when it was first released it wasn't considered anything special so there were deals to be had. But it's a great camera and maybe this is what they're worth now. BTW if in the first week of October if you see someone doing street photography in Berlin around the tourist traps with a KP + 21mm it could be me.
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