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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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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 10, 2015 - 12:46pm PT
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Speaking of balaclavas floating down the River Void
And of Old Camp Fortran photos, etc., brings to mind
like an old photo postcard
sent years back
never to be delivered
until yesterday
this came for me
from me
though at the time it was written
by me
I never thought it was that good
it has stood a test of time
it is a classic by the loosest definition
"The Dog Nanny"
The dame I'm watching is a Shepherd.
She in turn is watching a bug crawl by her nose.
Such a vast difference in size!
As I watch them, I wonder
Who might be watching me?
I can believe in gods, or "a God,"
In beings being greater than I can see
In reality or in my mind's eyes.
I would like to believe in a female Shepherd,
Benevolent, watchful, and unworried
That I might eventually figure out Her game
And thus spoil the surprise.
I lean silently down as she sniffs her new-found pet
And I gently whisper in her big old ear,
"Boo, Dawg!"
She rolls over on her back and wags her tale.
I hope that I am able to do the same
When some mythtical Dame
Leans down and gently whispers my name:
Flame...
Brian Berming'am
posted to another's poetry thread
backin' the day
Bless you all and please go see page one of The Flames.
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2607974/The-Flames
Steve Miller Band/Big old Jet Airliner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PljkJTYt7M
Lynnyrd Skynnyd (sp?_ / Free Bird
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY
It's Sunday once more.
More Than a Nod to God
Don't want no stormy Monday
Just a pleasant valley Sunday
And I hope that maybe one day
You'll answer my question
"What say?"
Brother Keith sez:
"Send me $76.99 in cash, check, or money order to this address--
Feet of Mountain Climbing Ministries
PO Box 541446
Grand Prairie, TEXAS"
The Feet Of Mountain Climbers Television Broadcast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n51jdKgoOmI
This is quite a story. This speaks more to me than the bible. This man is a man who has been blessed and just wants to share it.
I'm not being snide, because it's with pride that I say I love the life I have and believe I'm in the palm of the hand which is accompanied by the fickle fingers of fate.
You may say it's a Christ-based life. That's a term which is to me more accurate than "Christian life," because "Christian" means so many things, like a mutineer or a minister. Witness the number of sects and reformed churches associated with the name.
I passed by the old building, all of twenty years old, of the First Baptist Church, now the Love Church of Merced, the other day. I wondered about whether there were secondary Baptists and so I went to the internet to Czech on that.
I was touched by this group of ladies' effort to THANK their friendly neighborhood guys.
The music's not that bad, either.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
And that brings us to the end of today's services.
Go in peace to love and serve your choice of Lords.
And don't forget that tonight is the long-awaitedNathan/Pickles third rematch.
The available footage from Nathan/Pickles III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpWoaDwqCOs
It was a dog-fight, as one can clearly see.
For now, I say, "Later; and be glad I did not post Pleasant Valley Sunday by The Monkees."
Instead, The Flames takes pride in presenting:
Carole King, the Queen of the Kings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtyqPzeso5A
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 10, 2015 - 05:49pm PT
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Even in death, Rev. Ike tried to keep the hustle going that made him a millionaire many times over. "In lieu of flowers," Ike Ministries announced before its scheming patriarch was cold to the touch, "Rev. Ike would ask that tributes and/or Offerings be sent to: Rev. Ike Ministries ..."
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 10, 2015 - 06:40pm PT
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I have read but two words
Female Shepard !!??
The tail tale that I tell is true true but you won't believe it
The wife still reads on adinfenitem the pets lists, she may have moved on from Craig's list
Or not but she hands me a honey do list that is often peppered with be sure to see
Or the dreaded call this number
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 10, 2015 - 06:49pm PT
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This needs to go down now this second
The thing is it's a weekend of the obscene
The drive to grand mad' sure to be hell both ways
A hundred mile haul past all the rock
to sit on an uncomfortable folding chair
and watch other people drink,
the whole thing while smiling if we can remember to do that.
So in the honey do list was the Call this number note it said;
Chekzz shepard pups? All black Totowa by 80 and a number.
I am dutiful if tepid as to another dog so I called.
The answering machine recited a different number that I did not
Note, and I left a short message and my number,.
Ten minutes tops the phone rings it is 201-221 -1555
Now I know you are all seeing that and
You all are not daft enough to think it real!
no one will call and ask if Ahmed has puppies please.
The language that we communicated in was seemingly
Okay I was clear he was clear about things I did not ask or want to know
Until he said he has a three year old girl dog that was not suitable for his needs , his program he says that the pups go for big bucks to cops and the like but the three year old has had one litter and is not fixed.
I am sure he was interested in some cash transfer we left it vague.
Now that is just the trip that I am tripping on as I am not yet over the clusteredphuck that driving across the Hudson River is I am forced to relive pitch by pitch in my mind illegal climbs on the Pallisades. As I sit in "I kiss my wife and children with this mouth, up against your mothers rear ended,tail pipe, traffic on the Tappanzee Bridge.
The biggest best project that I have now failed to record twice is the building of another bridge
Across the Hudson that is ongoing, and a marvelous photo op.
Anyway the doggie question is so driven home by all the posts and the stoic in me is or was gonna hold out but
The fact that I was able to here the words Totowa and Female Shepard on Mother's Day from a sleepy dog breeder makes me think she needs us pronto!
We shall see!
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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 11, 2015 - 01:12am PT
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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 11, 2015 - 07:13am PT
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Buenos dias!
Hoy.
Anoche.
Adios!
MFM
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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May 11, 2015 - 11:04am PT
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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 11, 2015 - 11:27am PT
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What about Zorro did you want to know, Marlow?
He's not eligible for flamehood. I think it's because he's gay, can't speak in English, and owns a Volvo.
Those are some truly graceful looking objects, though the Tom Brown's a bit of a cudgel compared to a surgical blade.
We thank you for this morning's contribution, because, frankly, I was tired and not in a very creative state a few hours ago. It's Monday Morning Malady--it seems to strike retired folks as well as the enslaved, but just not nearly so often.
I think Susan the SCSeaGoat, is immune to it, however; and neebee is beyond its reach most of the time, too, I'm thinkn'.
Ennui. You can have it!
Thinkin' of Susan, knives, and groups of people who work in synch brought me to this subject (nothing to do with drink).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutty_Sark
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Nothin' in the galley
Nothin' in the hold,
But the skipper's turned in
With a bag o' gold.
Waitin' for the day
That we get our pay.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Tomorrow you'll get your pay.
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