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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-08-2020, 07:32 AM
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I need to track down family photos of the Micro-Midget race car my dad made back in the 1950s. Midget racers, the next size up, looked like very small versions of the Indy cars of that time. With the Micro-Midgets. having room for a driver and a motor made it hard to maintain those same body lines and proportions.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-01-2020, 11:09 AM
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I remember reading a book about the AEF when I was a teenager. They were a brave and adventurous lot,...inspirations in that terrible war.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-05-2020, 04:51 PM
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I thought cormorants were a type of submarine, capable not only of extensive surface operations but also of flight.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-23-2019, 08:17 AM
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I immediately thought the same thing.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-12-2019, 07:32 PM
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Are the seats in a Weinermobile easy on one's buns?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-12-2019, 07:30 PM
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But didn't Henry Ford say you could have your Model T in any color, as long as it was black? I don't think you could order it in Candy Green Apple.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
11-22-2019, 10:04 AM
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I would be afraid of driving a car on the highway that wasn't a great deal larger than my coffin. ;)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-26-2019, 04:09 AM
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Thanks! Considering that it might have been a mistake using the yellow filter--which seemed to make some of the shots on the roll look too contrasty rather than ferreting some blue sky patches out of the clouds as I had hoped--I did have to do a bit of pp with the scans that came back from Old School Photo Lab. I don't think I had to do a lot with this one. My main objective was simply to keep as much detail in the highlights and in the shadows as I could, while keeping some true black and some true white. I guess I got lucky with the middle tones. :)
It's the first test roll with this camera, which might put a bookmark in my adding to my small collection of rangefinder cameras, unless I run across something absolutely irresistible for a very, very low price. I'll try color film in it next.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-25-2019, 04:33 PM
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Early 20th Century U.S. Mail delivery carriage. You'll notice that the powerplant for this vehicle is missing. Back when it was in use, it might have been found grazing in a nearby pasture.
Konica Auto S rangefinder w Konishiroku Hexanon f1.8 47mm + Yellow filter + Arista 100 B&W
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-14-2019, 08:35 AM
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A lot of paddling for no boat! Fall festival "Kettle Korn" maker stirring popcorn kernels in a giant wood-fired Wok. I think (but not sure) he uses a different pot and different paddle when he is making deep-fried pork rinds.
SMC Pentax-DA f/3.5-5.6 18-55mm AL + Pentax K-R dslr
(cross-posted)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-26-2019, 06:40 PM
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I love Corsairs. I remember building a plastic model of one back in the '60s.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-08-2019, 07:01 AM
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This is one of two vehicles at this summer's South Fulton Antique Tractor Show, held in Vermont, IL, that was labeled a "Doodlebug." In the Random House Dictionary, one definition of the term is "any of various small, squat vehicles," but even though this is the smaller of the two, it really isn't what I would call small, though its profile could be called squat. It is based on a 1928 Ford Model AA 1-ton truck. Modifications include oversized tires, including tractor tires in the rear, and a totally open cab area.
Vivitar Series 1 F3.8-4.8 24-70mm VMC at 24mm
Sears (Ricoh) KSX film slr
Expired Fujicolor NPS 160 at iso 100
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-04-2019, 07:11 AM
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If they really wanted "tipsy" they'd put the bar in a canoe.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-29-2019, 07:40 AM
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A couple of fixer-upper vehicles that were on our little acreage when we bought it 35 years ago. Whoever holds the title may feel free to drive them away any time they'd like.
From the archive of my old 4-megapixel Casio QV-R40 camera.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-14-2019, 05:34 AM
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T-era-looking Ford truck, on display at Tanner's Orchard, near Speer, Illinois.
Auto Sears MC f/2.8 28mm + Sears KS1000 (Ricoh XR-1s) + Kodak T400 CN
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-12-2019, 05:09 PM
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I fixed a tiny outboard motor when I was a kid. No hydraulic lines. Not even water cooled. Had a shear pin though. I had to learn how to replace them. A spline doesn't sound like something that would offer protection, but it would conduct a lot of power. My motor didn't have power. I was only a few steps above oars , designed before electric trolling motors had been invented.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-12-2019, 07:51 AM
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Shouldn't the shear pin have broken before all that damage happened?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-11-2019, 04:14 PM
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Shiny enough to be sports car, but its a Massey-Ferguson tractor.
RMC Tokina f/5.6 100-300mm
Pentax K10D
Shot taken at the South Fulton Antique Tractor Show, Vermont, Illinois.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-07-2019, 03:03 PM
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I meant to type "stern-wheeler," not "steer-wheeler" in my previous message.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-07-2019, 08:51 AM
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Towboat with barges passing. Illinois River, at the riverfront park, Havana, Illinois.
Incidentally, there's a song about working on an Illinois River towboat. Here, sung (and accompanied on fiddle) by it's author, John Hartford, who had actual experience piloting steer-wheeler boats on the Illinois and Mississippi, and who surely spent some hours chewing the fat with bargeworkers:
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Auto Sears MC f/2.8 28mm
Sears KSX Super (Ricoh KR-10 Super)
Kodak T400 CN (chromogenic B&W, expired & shot at iso 200)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-31-2019, 06:42 AM
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What model/year did the bucket seats come from?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-27-2019, 03:36 PM
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Yes, billowing clouds of vapor.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-27-2019, 12:12 PM
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Coal power plants along the Illinois river have cooling structures, but they usually don't look like the cooling towers at nuclear plants.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-29-2019, 12:01 PM
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Burlington Northern caboose, on display next to the old Fulton County Narrow Gauge Railroad Depot in Lewistown, Illinois.
Expired Tri-X, exposed at iso250, with standard development
Canon AF35M auto-exposure, auto-focus point-n-shoot with f/2.8 38mm lens
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