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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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I went to Will Rodgers' house a few times. He was never home.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2015 - 10:59pm PT
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"It's diversionary to keep people from talking about their real interests."
--Gore Vidal
This writer ran for the House in the same year that JFK won the presidency.
But he couldn't run for the Senate because of the huge expenses.
He's always been one of my favorite writers, even though he was prone to support whackos like Timothy McVeigh in his very last years.
The video is diverting, but not diversionary.[Click to View YouTube Video]
I'm trying to locate a book of essays, Reflections on a Sinking Ship.
I read in another of his books of his father's witnessing of the sinking of the Lusitania, a solitary century ago.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2015 - 04:50am PT
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[....- ....- -----] posts already. That's a lot in less than a month.
Just think, if we had to do this in Morse code it would be a lot more challenging. Be glad we don't. I never learned anything but the numbers. I learned the numbers "by the numbers" in Boy Scouts. My merit badge never came...
I did not feel too badly, however. I looked at Herb Caen's column daily starting in .---- ----. -.... ----- , when the family moved here from Sacratomato. If he could make a name for himself with the number ...-- , and his "three-dot journalism," then I should be able to do likewise, was how I thought, maybe, but I've never thought of it till now. But I got stuck with the number ----. , unfortunately, due to the peach cannery influenza of ----- ----. -.... ---.. .
I've won'-der-ed about the Light Brigade for several years, ever since the days of Alfalfa.
The charge was made by the Light Brigade of the British cavalry,
which consisted of the 4th and 13th Light Dragoons, 17th Lancers,
and the 8th and 11th Hussars, under the command of
Major General James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (not shown).
Cardigan Girls, not Cinnamon Girls.Miss Shot.
Lady Shell.
[Click to View YouTube Video]A historical fact: The horse'-ed horde respected their mounts so much that they were fed mostly on alfalfa hay.
Wonder blunder hundred thundered...
a simple poem, but one of the most famous of its time, and of the .---- ----. th century, as well.
And it's a beginner's poem, really, easily dashed off in a few days time by Alfred "Lord of the Words" Tennyson, (or .---- ----- nyson, in Morse), to immortalize the GLORY of this "criminal Crimean catastrophe."
I can't help but to wonder why the Light Saber Brigade fail'-ed to show that day.
See the Rev for beta on these ..--- .
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2015 - 06:03am PT
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Anyone up for some dominos?
Derek fell into place just a little while after this concert.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Great Dane in the morning! Tremendous performance!
Some sunset shots, not fired in anger, but celebration of Rain!What a fine day!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say...
here are some of the highlights, from various evenings...
high-up cat, a'lights:
you never know, when it will 'rain cats, to dog us' here, :))
along with other antics, this ol' kitty keeps the place
in a lot of creative redecorate-mode, :))
as:
you never know WHAT he'll be up to next:
eventually, the whole SHELF came done, but he had a cat-helper,
that time, :)
fun stuff, keeping me busy, these days, while i finish the last
parts of 'catching up' and can soon, start new projects, :))
hopefully a garden, as spring in 'budding now' but wow, still only a few days, of sun, here and there, but rain is good for things to grow, as well!
happy flames, day...
wow, my RABBIT is 'less cuddling' but still well loved...
he's in the kitche now, running around, where as THAT one,
might not even FIT in my kithcen, :))
hope to get back, by the weekend... :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2015 - 07:44am PT
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Certainly always a pleasure to share your pets, neebee.
Good luck planting the garden.
Will the San Joaquin get more rain today?
The Dun Crow is my own invention. He's a flake, not a mystic. Like yours truly.
He hasn't appeared much in The Flames for the last year or so.
Just mystified and always wonderin', he's my alter ego (an alter-ego of my mouse alter-ego, though) who goes out wanderin' to become less mystified.
I'm happy to see him again. Crows live long lives.
Viva the Dunny bird!
The Pigeon Aspiring to Greatness must have his rest.
Have a swell Flyday.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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9/ 29/14 ,all the way back to see that the flames I turned into purpled green hued black-leaf relife, i'd added to and so they can be seen in the original else where
as for the butt kisser azzlicker I must question your foundness for Boob, the brest is in two perspectives, that I see one from lying flat and the other propped up on an elbow maybe? if i must I will add in the Nipple/Areolar.I messed up the for-breast, there were a few choices fir nipple placement, I choose to high-light the most imaginative ...
so back on , allowed to use Photo shop, but not to draw breasts (tits0 blitzo),so more of the thing s that I garb back from the trashthe above picture is #99 from5/4/15,untuoched and the one below is #133,and below is #137 & #139, , There is a flag in some that might justify photo shop _
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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I'm still wondering why that brown cat is so much bigger than the black one.
Must be some kind of dis-harmonic convergence.
I went to Detroit twice, took the plane/train not the family Mercury.
Steve Miller was not there either time.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2015 - 04:48pm PT
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Pretty much wasted this mornin' sleepin' in.
After I got these fifty-odd images in the camera, that is.
I gave them several hours of time and then culled the shots.
I had tried a new approach shooting this batch with the focus rectangle on the screen in different positions based on light sky or darker terrain.
It makes a huge difference in the amount of light that is gathered in shutter speed ranges of around 1/180th and 1/250th of a second, I noticed. I now check the "properities" of a photo and compare the details like shutter speed, ISO, etc.
It makes sense to do some editing, especially in a series like the one I'm presenting now, to "fix" a tone to the sky and the darker objects and repeat the process for the whole series. From one shot to the next, and as the day lightens, you can see that in the series.
This is what should concern you, Gnome.
Do you ever notice that the tone is different in shots taken at different focal length of the same object? It's because the light's different closer up, the air molecules are more jammed together the less the field of view, so it affects the light.
["Ha-ha," laughed the perfectionest.)
So I'm not the purist that the Gnome with the big name is concerning editing: I redo the images over and over sometimes. But one needs to follow a method or a series of shots will not appear the same, shot to shot.
One can get away with a single shot where there's no comparison except for others' work or you own earlier shots. There will always be others out there who know the tricks pulled to attain the effects in a certain image and who might could call you on it. One dare not fool oneself on that. Fritz the saturation nazi is out there, among others.I only say that because Fritz dolled up an image, albeit facetiously, on Grippa's Lichen and Love It thread. :0)
But Gnome, I'm wonderin'...
Why are you so all-fired concerned about nailin' the shot and not editing? Dude? Dude, do you think after-shot editing is fatuous?
I you do, dude, I think you are full of doo-doo.
Or is it because of these or a combignation of the followin' reasons?
1. You ARE all zen and so you simply flow.
(You could not be in a better place to do that than here in Flames turf, but I'm curious, so...)
2. You can't get the computer time so you can edit much. Gotta deal, huh?
3. You are lazy. (I know that's not it.)
4. You are playing games here. (Don't sweat it Jake, it's Chinatown.)
Here I am, goin' on about this like it means anything. Well, it does. I like to see people improve. It's the core of why this thread exists: didactic learning.
I know that you likely think that the vaunted "Complete Reproduction" is as accurate as it can be. The way is clear here--as soon as you shoot, look at the image on the screen and compare it to the actual scene.
I feel you probably do this from time to time. But make it a habit. Don't keep shooting away at the same settings, only to find later that THEY ARE ALL WHITED OUT! I hate that.
That brilliant red, that scintillation of gold rays of sunlight, are they the same? Is the sky actually darker than it appears on the screen? Is that halation you see curable by stepping left or right or centering it in the sun and eliminating it that way? You can't do sickum if you don't check the image after the first couple shots.
This is why a tripod is so helpful, aside from the rest of its benefits. I'll say right now that my eyesight is terrible and I need the tripod setup to help me focus--that simple. But the shots are almost always framed the same way and the field of view is the same, too, throughout a set because the camera position is relatively fixed.
I think it pays in overall quality to compensate by lightening the sky, the most common thing. Take a series of three shots set for different tones of light and dark--one is bound to please you, unless there are birds in the way.
When you start using the functions on a camera to create certain artistic effects, it feels good. This is what I did by locating the focus rectangle in differently-lit areas of the screen, using the tripod.
I would love to be able to use RAW, as Big Mike has suggested emphatically to me. But there are reasons that I need to stay with JPEG at the moment.
Consider yourself mentored.
Here are my results. I am very pleased by their versimilitude, dude. And I had a pretty fun time editing. I had a plan, is why.
A well-known mentor, known to have guided many of us Taco posteurs, keeps coming back to the saying:
"Fail to plan, plan to fail."
Failure is in the eyes of the beholder, I might add.
I was pleased to have a note from Tamara Robbins, who asked for me to send her the photo of her father and Tom Frost on the stage at the second Oakdale Climbers Festival.
I'm glad she took the trouble. She could simply have copied it to her computer. But this way, knowing she wanted to share it with Liz, her mom, the first woman to climb NWFHD, I sent that one and attached several more of the same two guys which were in my folder from that event.
And I have had similar requests. I'm so pleased to oblige anyone in this manner.
And while I'm on the main trail, I'd like to say to Fish Finder again that I'm sorry about that one from Facelift. I hate makin' you dizzy.
I neglected to say how fine that lake and sunset shot is. It would make a good add for Red Bull.at first it looked like a red bull elephant
but now it's a chimney climb
maybe somewhere in the desert
or it looks like two people
with their faces turned away
gazing at something in the distance
maybe they are seeing the same thing
maybe they should close their eyes
and go find an elephant
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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thanx
My Mono pole escaped my grasp - as to the tripod issue.
1. You ARE all zen and so you simply flow.
(You could not be in a better place to do that than here in Flames turf, but I'm curious, so...)
2. You can't get the computer time so you can edit much. Gotta deal, huh?
WELL TO, TO TURN TO THE SOUTHERN SKYES I am on my way,
Sadly yes to 1 & 2, the side bars hold true,
and off to use the shablet now ,,
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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Precipitation in Merced?
Harmonic Divergence
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 10, 2015 - 07:26am PT
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Those fabulous ones are so so testy?
That tuna of the taco said some wise , sage shite about the change in meaning and the use if some questionable means that now are the norm. I did not memorize or copy it I just liked that it echoed my comments, on another thread about not weighting the rope and that the idea of striving for purity was once the only way.
Any way he balked and jerked the wise and left blank so the continuum of the thread needs attention and some have already changed or fled as well also too.
Regrets already forwarded to the appropriate party!
Below is more rant and babble that implies my true blue nature as if you needed to be re assured by me when you have it down .
I like the added , charged feature of photos that the new digital technology allows to catch a scene in seventeen minutes, sunset, and as you so rightly say play a bit with the features that the programs offer or best combine with when in the work shop.
Phylisyborg's photos and the like. . .
Changing twenty feet in direction, altered filters, all to be tried, but I almost never post them.
I do post some;Re-touched to enhance Clarity brighten crop etc.
The limited time that I get to edit Re touch,and "save as" archiving both photo and changes, is what I do post the results of .
That said I like the flexibility to do all manner of strange to my strange pictures .
Then last week I started to trash some four hundred pictures that were of random things that
Are constantly by chance in syncopation with things the mouse posts and sine your shots are better I threw away all things like suspended crystal that led to just pictures of suspended, thread and hanging picture chains, which when inverted had my wife threatening divorce.
Try it out you get #3gsge light weight chain and hang it gallery style in groups of threes and sevens a four for the open space , then light it so you get shadow & relief on the white ish wall background. Then invert the pictures. And run from the long suffering wife.
Oh no
I have lost a lot of the post???
bout the way the dumbing down of all the things of old, some of lore, that happened out of a knack for survival, and and a mix of Braun and bump on a log level thinking that was as much a part of some climbing as was the spider-web of the early years where lines from the ground and back up to not always the high point,
We're the norm
Wait what ?..I was sayin' bitches be bitches bra if you delete what you say I won't reference you at all I said it you said it too ! Garfield cartoon,? I am on a tablet but I'll edit with some addition and very little deletion!
Cush or not that is in my mind not so much weak as cheesy if you say it leave What you spray! - if you delete - say why the change of hart. That saves the continuity of the thread intact, what am I on about ?? Bête .? Better kept till I see it as don't see it now?m!M
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