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Forum: Lens Clubs
04-27-2017, 10:40 AM
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the sun came out for a minute and three white throated sparrows came for a drink
so I grabbed my k2000 and tamron 55b
I had forgotten how vibrant this old camera makes images
I still hate manual focusing but the shot isn't too bad
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-15-2017, 09:44 AM
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it is amazing
we had a crop duster who worked around a couple of the towns I took care of
he used a gorgeous red stearman
when he flew over the donut shop (between jobs) half the geezers would stand out in the parking lot looking and listening
my father-in-law was in the pacific in wwii
he said a lot of the air cover they got was from spitfires
he didn't watch war movies or documentaries much
but when the sound came out of the speakers
he would just grin and say...spitfire
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-02-2017, 07:26 AM
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gifthorse's composites took me on short PP trip
my son thinks it should be a velvet painting at a truck stop but I like what happened anyway
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Forum: General Talk
03-27-2017, 05:11 PM
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like this?
png rename to ico
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Forum: Digital Processing, Software, and Printing
01-08-2018, 12:41 PM
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I can't imagine outsourcing my pp work...it's actually why I take pictures
then I thought about it and imagined it for someone else...it kinda worked
it seems as though you would have to be precise in articulating your vision
I have no cohesive arc of expression
i'm all over the place
however each image gets the look I want
I see other photographers whose work an be distinguished by the processing...almost like a brand
if that was your goal and you could find someone with really good slider memory...it might just work
interesting question
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-04-2018, 05:06 PM
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we were discussing badgers on another thread
so...
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-07-2018, 12:17 PM
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in the midst of interstate traffic we found this one
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-27-2017, 08:03 PM
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one of the things I've enjoyed about wildlife photography are the moments when I am not the blundering, oblivious dolt
some hikers pushed this coyote up out of the high weeds onto a paved track near where we were sitting
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-26-2017, 06:43 AM
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I learned the hard way long ago that boundaries are important
the younger rams reinforced that concept several times
however, this guy, he just swung around and chewed
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-19-2017, 10:04 AM
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the mice and juncos are contending over grain spillage near this rotting tie wall
real fights...totally unexpected considering the difference in sizes
my desire for a shot was interrupted by a cooper's that actually dragged a mouse from the wall a couple of days ago
no visible rodents since
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-08-2018, 03:03 PM
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if you look you will see them but you can't work cows in the style we know without the horn
think of the horn as a belay point
there are all sorts of almost fetishistic regard for whichever bit of gear someone believes in
mcclellans are supposed to be light and an almost minimalist approach to saddlery...like a k1000 to photography
we've just about exhausted what I know about tack :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-08-2018, 09:10 AM
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excellent work...it's nice to see traditional saddles made anew
if you watch the really old westerns you'll see they have tall cantles (the back of your butt bit) and horns
in the films when we were growing up they are lower
then like everything else the traditionalists got in a snit, so several of he new films have returned to the older style of tack
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Forum: Lens Clubs
01-07-2018, 02:20 PM
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I come that way
but if a gigungo lens will justify it...i'll explain it to the treasury...i'm sure she'll understand :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-07-2018, 12:44 PM
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beautiful work!
were those pommel bags or saddle bags...did he say?
"horse" pistols were often carried on the pommel or in a bag
last year I saw a setup that was a smallish bag on one side and the flapped holster on the other
the dealer was saying it was original
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
01-05-2018, 11:03 AM
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if one of our dogs can crave polish dill pickles I imagine a bit of rye bread is fairly benign
today the high and low is 14
the squirrels have actually calmed down a bit
since xmas we've had a lot of sex going on...maybe for warmth?
anyway a couple yards away this female has her back to the wall and can reject any more suitors from about 270 degrees horizontally and 180 degrees vertically
she either has really fattened up or is pregnant
she doesn't seem to enjoy the subzero mambo any longer
I hope the back story is better than the image :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-06-2018, 05:17 AM
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I worked in a department that had alan, allen and allyn...all given names
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Forum: General Photography
01-05-2018, 03:52 PM
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I use it as well but only when I can't source polyester strappage
polyester generally won't snag or fray as easily
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-03-2018, 05:33 PM
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you must be a very good attorney :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-03-2018, 10:15 AM
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my two favorites so far happen to both be german tourists
in Yellowstone a younger guy decided to pet a buffalo while his girlfriend iphoned him
the kid got a pretty good head butt
had enough sense to boogie
mel gibsoned over the hood of his rental which followed him into the ditch when the bull hit it
in denali a quite lovely photographer pursued a cow and calf moose into an alder thicket along a creek
we heard some thrashing and a cameraless woman came ou moving at a rapid pace through the blueberries
her enormous tripod, ginormous lens and whatever it was attached to remained behind
the cow poked her head out and kind of looked around then went back into her family
I've defied Darwin on occasion but I never wanted to be a meat puddle
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-03-2018, 07:44 AM
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our bison seem to be the crankiest, maybe because they tend to be the most accessible
people are so removed from nature that they forget it's wild not TV
every trip out west there will be some Jehu courting disaster
they aren't cows and anything that can move a car off the road is probably too big to antagonize
that said I've even had whitetail bucks in the midst of rut challenge me on a trail
this year we had a bighorn ram square off against our car...a fifteen minute wait while his testosterone became depleted
you just never know :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-03-2018, 12:51 PM
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you've lost me this time
Shirley has connections to top gear, profumo , cricket and an aldi...Charles martel and poitiers?
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we'll have that ourselves in six or seven months
bert might load up a couple of container lods with his bobcat though :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-02-2018, 02:11 PM
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heeler?
boisterous beasts and borderline narcissists...it's all about them...play play play...NOW...or they'll herd you and remind you why they are called heelers :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-02-2018, 03:53 PM
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I do believe labs are WR, perhaps even AW
a lot of handsome critters today!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-02-2018, 02:06 PM
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have fun
this story is true however the advice is supposed to be apocryphal...
a ranger at one of the lay-bys on the lamar river was talking to some very concerned tourists about bears
he told his audience that it was really quite simple to tell a black bear from a grizzly
if the bear only killed you, it was probably a grizzly
if it ate you as well, then it was likely a black bear
my advice is don't get killed or eaten :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-01-2018, 12:01 PM
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dad drank George dickel's whiskey which he was quick to tell you was not bourbon
as I recall he drank it straight
as his gut went he took up a tawdry relationship with cross border whiskeys
often in a perverse menage-a-trois
he once said it didn't matter what he did with them they just broke his heart
there was no romance...just rude meaningless drinking
as for me
when I drank I didn't much care what it was
with the exception of vodka...which I didn't
my favorite was probably gin or maybe scotch
if it was gin the magic was in the juniper berries not the price
scotch however...when I had the money I drank the glenlivet..it was as smooth and delicate on my tongue as an angel's caress on my weather'd cheek
odd thing is I seldom experienced hangovers unless I drank beer
but I did have visions after a gin-soaked night
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