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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-08-2022, 02:16 PM
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We visited Kauai for a few days, but we did not see that particular spot. Maybe next time. HA!:D
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-07-2022, 10:11 AM
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Somewhere in Utah, originally posted several years ago on a different thread.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
09-07-2022, 03:52 AM
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The last two images are just stunning.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
08-17-2022, 03:04 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-31-2022, 05:35 AM
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Poor fellow has been waiting a long time to fill his tank.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-29-2022, 03:50 PM
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Lovely shot, but I would make it more of a pano by cropping away 2/3 of the dark area at the bottom of the image. Too little detail there to contribute to the image.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-29-2022, 03:37 AM
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I used to see that many in the back yard. Now I'm happy to see two or three blinking for a mate. Extinction - excepting a massive meteorite impact - is local. The decline isn't because of a massive event, it's because of loss of a weedy patch here, a housing development going up on several acres in the next state, a golf course "improving" some land and "getting it onto the tax rolls" One local population after another being wiped out. Little by little the milk weeds that monarch caterpillars require become harder to find, fewer in number, more widely scattered. Then there is a random event, and the small number of surviving monarchs all fail to produce viable offspring. Some monarch populations are doing OK, but overall, their numbers are down catastrophically. If you've never seen the mass gatherings of monarchs in Mexico where the eastern populations overwinter, it's worth a GOOGLE search to see some pictures.
ADDENDUM: Try this site
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/26/23142942/monarch-butterflies-comeback-mexico-good-news |
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-28-2022, 07:19 AM
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It's not possible to stop the sun and make the moment last longer (unless you are a latter day Joshua), but you could have arrived sooner if you'd get yourself in shape;);):D:D
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-27-2022, 10:10 AM
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FYI: For me, the first image with more color on the puddles works better. And thank you so much for expending all that effort to get these images for sharing with us.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-25-2022, 07:31 AM
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VAV insects in trouble or endangered. although I have not seen any official comment on them, my casual observations suggest that lightning "bugs" have suffered a major decline in numbers. When our firstborn was only five or six I can remember he and several other boys about the same age collecting lightning bugs by the dozen in jars, then later turning them loose. Now if I see three or four blinking in back, I think it's a big deal. Very sad.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-23-2022, 05:03 PM
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Whether captured with outstanding reflexes or a high speed continuous shutter sequence, that is a fine image of a BIF. Congratulations
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-23-2022, 11:38 AM
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I have scattered milkweed seeds for several years on the hillside in back of the house, both common milkweed and the yellow-orange type sometimes called "butterfly weed," This year is the first time I've seen some plants, but still not much in the way of flower heads. Frustrating.:mad: I'm very patient, but I can only wait so long to see positive results.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-23-2022, 09:10 AM
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Glad to hear they are still doing well in your area. Some of the Western (California) populations are down over 90%. A sad tale from me. Several years ago I heartened to see a good many monarch caterpillars on milkweed plants in an overgrown field along the edge of which is a trail that we use. A week or so later when we walked the same spot the entire field had been mowed, almost certainly wiping out an entire cohort of monarchs. I have seen a monarch flying there on rare occasions this year, but so far not a single caterpillar on an abundant crop of milkweed. It may not matter, as the people who mow it annually are oblivious and probably also indifferent to the plight of monarchs..
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-23-2022, 04:12 AM
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The night heron is about as good an image as I've seen of that bird.
The monarch image is a great capture, but it makes me sad. When I had an insect collection as a kid in the 1950's I wouldn't turn to look at one, they were so common in the fields where I went collecting. Over the years, I've been appalled at how their numbers have declined. As of the past week or so, they have been put on the endangered species list with local population declines estimated of 50~80% or more. I have little hope for survival of the species.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-20-2022, 07:15 AM
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I thought the image was from this year. I can see from the link that in April 2020 Patoka was unusually low. How much normally-under-water shoreline is visible at nearby Quabbin Reservoir is a good indication of the severity of local drought. I remember the Quabbin hitting the highest level since it was built during a prolonged rain in June of 1986. I could not go to photograph the spectacular discharge over the spillway because we were working in shifts with a wet-dry vacuum to keep ahead of seepage in the basement, one of only two years we had that trouble (the second time, more recently, was insignificant compared to '86).
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-20-2022, 06:34 AM
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A wide swath of should-be-under-water along the shore of Patoka Lake. The water conserved by not using it on lawns today may save your life tomorrow.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-16-2022, 11:49 AM
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Using music or performance by the current at-the-top popular is doomed to wear thin. Disney made that mistake with "Captain Eo" which had a 12 year run, so it was probably worth the expense of producing. It had a basic idea that I find tiresome and absurd = if you play the right music and everyone gets involved, all evil things will be defeated. In feature length movies the hero(s) commonly end the film dancing and singing in the street, sometimes on the top of a car, and everyone within earshot joins in. The only variation on this theme that I found engaging was Coca Cola's "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing."
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-14-2022, 08:32 AM
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The golden silk spider is cool. A couple of things about it in case you are unaware:
1) It's a tropical spider, unknown here in MessuChewBits, but it is extending its distribution up the east coast because of global warming.
2) The one in image you posted is a female. The males are tiny, about the size of one of the tufts of "hair" on a legs of the big lady.
3) The related species in the Virgin Islands spins one of the largest known webs, commonly eight feet in diameter but there are reports of some 20 feet across
4) The silk to make such huge webs is also the strongest spider silk. It can be harvested and made into cloth to make a garment. - extremely time consuming so even a scarf made from the cloth is very expensive. Not viable to collect the silk commercially, only for the sake of "look what is possible."
5) One commercial use of the silk that SFAIK is now defunct = cross hairs in a telescopic sight.
Old Shelob would be proud to call them a relative.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-14-2022, 08:13 AM
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Really nice lighting in that image
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-12-2022, 10:10 AM
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Molly looks like a sweetheart.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-10-2022, 01:50 PM
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The last image is a really good fish-eye shot.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
07-05-2022, 04:26 PM
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Really fine capture. Lots of detail in the feathers. I've worked on hummers and know very well how difficult it is to get an image that good.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-28-2022, 01:52 PM
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Strawberries - we've been having them in the evening almost every day for the past two weeks. We get them from a local farm = picked fresh daily. I also chop up a few to put on cereal in the morning. They are an anticipated treat in June. Soon the treat will be sweet corn on the cob, also picked fresh daily (it is a vegetable that neither keeps nor freezes well).
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-25-2022, 05:44 AM
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I used that lens from the time it was introduced up until recently when it went to another Pentaxian. It never fell short of hopes much less expectations for IQ. One of the great lens designs.
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Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II
06-21-2022, 05:05 AM
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Aphrodite/Venus was never clothed. Artemis/Diana might be either dressed or not. As to the period, I don't know of any time, pre-Grecian to modern, when sculptors declined to show a woman's breasts, although there were certain eras and places when it was less common (Victorian Britain?).
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