Re: PESO - Crested Treehopper

2015-09-23 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Yet another awesome image! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Mark C wrote: > http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crested-treehopper > > Haven't been doing too many insect stacked focus macros lately

Re: PESO: The Monarch

2015-09-23 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Jack and John. I think you are correct, John. All the generations seem to be short-lived, except the one that makes the great migration. One of the things on my bucket list, right after the polar bears of Churchill, is the Monarch gathering in Mexico. Dan Matyola

Re: PESO - Crested Treehopper

2015-09-23 Thread ann sanfedele
He's very cute - looks like a friendly alien. ann On 9/23/2015 12:51 AM, Knarf wrote: Usual coolness. Love it! Cheers, frank On 22 September, 2015 9:42:50 PM EDT, Mark C wrote: http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crested-treehopper Haven't been doing

PESO - "selfie"on world photo day

2015-09-23 Thread ann sanfedele
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Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)

2015-09-23 Thread Igor PDML-StR
You never know, - maybe they are aiming at getting a Darwin award. Thank you, Mark, I've seen some of those, but I really enjoyed the last, CATastrophic image. Igor Mark Roberts Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:28:39 -0700 wrote:

Selfies: The death toll (really)

2015-09-23 Thread Mark Roberts
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do this stupid stuff for real. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML

Re: Total Lunar Eclipse

2015-09-23 Thread Alan C
Really, I don't know what all the fuss is about, unless perhaps you are a statistician or just plain superstitious. A so called Super-Moon occurs if the full moon is approximately at the closest point to earth on it's slightly elliptical orbit. It appears slightly brighter than normal but the

Re: Total Lunar Eclipse

2015-09-23 Thread John
It's also supposed to be a "super-moon". Not sure how much good it's going to do for me though. Local forecast: Cloudy skies with patchy drizzle and light rain. I'll give it a shot, but I ain't expecting much. On 9/22/2015 3:18 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: From an email I received this

Re: Total Lunar Eclipse

2015-09-23 Thread John
It's just that when the "supermoon" lines up with the earth's shadow for a total eclipse you get a deeper, more satisfying eclipse experience. IF you have good weather to see it. On 9/23/2015 3:30 AM, Alan C wrote: Really, I don't know what all the fuss is about, unless perhaps you are a

Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)

2015-09-23 Thread Bob W-PDML
"the 2015 death toll so far caused by selfies gone wrong is now higher than that for shark attacks, which is recorded at eight." Next time I go to the seaside I'm going to take a selfie with a shark B > On 23 Sep 2015, at 17:26, Mark Roberts wrote: > >

Re: Anybody have experience with Silver Halide prints?

2015-09-23 Thread John
On 9/23/2015 4:45 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 9/22/2015 6:30 PM, Darren Addy wrote: While looking for cheap 8x10 prints for my employer I tripped across sharpprints.com. Their prices of $14.95 for 24 x 36 prints sort of knocked my socks off. Looking into it a bit further they use a

Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)

2015-09-23 Thread Paul
A year or so ago a guy from our fair city was killed while on a motorcycling vacation in one of the Western states. The last image on the card in his camera was of the curve that he missed... -p On 9/23/2015 2:38 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: "the 2015 death toll so far caused by selfies gone wrong

Re: Anybody have experience with Silver Halide prints?

2015-09-23 Thread Mark C
I think there is some creative renaming of the process used in making these prints. In the past I would have called a Fuji Crystal Archive a "chromogenic" print, which I would consider to be the more precise definition of what it is. But it seems that they are now being called "Silver Halide

Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)

2015-09-23 Thread John
On 9/23/2015 12:25 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do this stupid stuff for real. I'm pretty sure people were killing

Re: PESO - Crested Treehopper

2015-09-23 Thread Mark C
Thanks, Jack! Much appreciated. On 9/22/2015 11:07 PM, Jack Davis wrote: Nicely done and in Halloween tones. Seriously well done, Mark C. J - Original Message - From: "Mark C" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Re: Anybody have experience with Silver Halide prints?

2015-09-23 Thread Mark Roberts
P.J. Alling wrote: >Pretty much any light sensitive imaging process has silver involved >primarily for three reasons, because the chemistry is well understood as >well as it's being more light sensitive than most, in fact IIRC, all >other similar processes, and easily the least expensive,

Peso-No Way!

2015-09-23 Thread Jack Davis
Decided to try salvaging a snag of Hank's Place. This may not be it, but it does seem to leave an opening for inconclusive thought. C? Thanks! J http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=976 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: Anybody have experience with Silver Halide prints?

2015-09-23 Thread Darren Addy
So just a little follow-up here. I asked sharpprints.com what sort of paper they used. Their reply: "We use Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, Lustre or Glossy Finish, we also have Kodak Endura Metallic Finish Paper" I asked how they were shipped. Their reply: "We ship 1-3 large format prints in a

Re: Anybody have experience with Silver Halide prints?

2015-09-23 Thread P.J. Alling
On 9/23/2015 4:45 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: John wrote: On 9/22/2015 6:30 PM, Darren Addy wrote: While looking for cheap 8x10 prints for my employer I tripped across sharpprints.com. Their prices of $14.95 for 24 x 36 prints sort of knocked my socks off. Looking into it a bit further they use a

Re: Anybody have experience with Silver Halide prints?

2015-09-23 Thread John
On 9/22/2015 6:30 PM, Darren Addy wrote: While looking for cheap 8x10 prints for my employer I tripped across sharpprints.com. Their prices of $14.95 for 24 x 36 prints sort of knocked my socks off. Looking into it a bit further they use a Chromira Pro Lab silver halide printer. Googling that

Re: Anybody have experience with Silver Halide prints?

2015-09-23 Thread Mark Roberts
John wrote: >On 9/22/2015 6:30 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> While looking for cheap 8x10 prints for my employer I tripped across >> sharpprints.com. Their prices of $14.95 for 24 x 36 prints sort of >> knocked my socks off. Looking into it a bit further they use a >> Chromira Pro Lab silver halide

Re: Anybody have experience with Silver Halide prints?

2015-09-23 Thread John
On 9/22/2015 9:38 PM, Darren Addy wrote: Great info Mark. Thanks! I'm curious... what do people do with big prints these days? In the "old days" there was dry mount. Then there was peel off self-stick mount boards. But what do people do with larger prints like 24x36? I'm dying to get a few of

Re: PESO - Crested Treehopper

2015-09-23 Thread ann sanfedele
Yes Yoda ! that'sthe name.. ugh CRS ann On 9/23/2015 6:33 PM, Mark C wrote: Friendly is he, like Yoda! :-) Thanks Ann. On 9/23/2015 11:32 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: He's very cute - looks like a friendly alien. ann On 9/23/2015 12:51 AM, Knarf wrote: Usual coolness. Love it! Cheers, frank

Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)

2015-09-23 Thread Knarf
I think the Darwin Awards should have a special "selfie category". Cheers, frank On 23 September, 2015 12:25:55 PM EDT, Mark Roberts wrote: >http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll > >This is why you

Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)

2015-09-23 Thread Larry Colen
Knarf wrote: I think the Darwin Awards should have a special "selfie category". How to simultaneously both achieve and prevent immortality. Cheers, frank On 23 September, 2015 12:25:55 PM EDT, Mark Roberts wrote:

Re: PESO - Crested Treehopper

2015-09-23 Thread Mark C
Thanks, Frank. I've shot a lot of bug but never knew about these "treehoppers" this this summer. They are pretty cool looking. On 9/23/2015 12:51 AM, Knarf wrote: Usual coolness. Love it! Cheers, frank On 22 September, 2015 9:42:50 PM EDT, Mark C wrote:

Re: PESO - Crested Treehopper

2015-09-23 Thread Mark C
Thanks, Dan! On 9/23/2015 9:17 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Yet another awesome image! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Mark C wrote: http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/crested-treehopper

Re: PESO - Crested Treehopper

2015-09-23 Thread Mark C
Friendly is he, like Yoda! :-) Thanks Ann. On 9/23/2015 11:32 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: He's very cute - looks like a friendly alien. ann On 9/23/2015 12:51 AM, Knarf wrote: Usual coolness. Love it! Cheers, frank On 22 September, 2015 9:42:50 PM EDT, Mark C wrote:

Re: Anybody have experience with Silver Halide prints?

2015-09-23 Thread Bill
On 9/22/2015 6:30 PM, Darren Addy wrote: While looking for cheap 8x10 prints for my employer I tripped across sharpprints.com. Their prices of $14.95 for 24 x 36 prints sort of knocked my socks off. Looking into it a bit further they use a Chromira Pro Lab silver halide printer. Googling that

Re: PESO - Conversation

2015-09-23 Thread Rick Womer
Thanks, Ann and Frank. I could have made it more Seuratesque by shooting at ISO 52000, so there would be great gobs of impressionistic noise. Rick On Sep 23, 2015, at 12:59 AM, Knarf wrote: > I adopt Ann's pithy comment. > > Cheers, > > frank > > On 22 September, 2015 10:59:44 PM EDT, ann

Re: PESO - Zig Zag

2015-09-23 Thread paul stenquist
Nice geometry! I thought this was going to be a photo of someone rolling a joint. Zig-Zag singles were the best! Paul > On Sep 23, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Rick Womer wrote: > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18087922=lg > > (K-5, DA 16-45) > > Comments appreciated. >

Re: PESO - Zig Zag

2015-09-23 Thread Ken Waller
Interesting capture. The top of the railing in the U LH corner seems at odds with the rest of the lines and shadows. -Original Message- >From: Rick Womer >Subject: PESO - Zig Zag > >http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18087922=lg > >(K-5, DA 16-45) >

Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)

2015-09-23 Thread Ken Waller
I totally agree John and now we have the photo evidence to prove it. -Original Message- >From: John >Subject: Re: Selfies: The death toll (really) > >On 9/23/2015 12:25 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >>

Re: PESO - Zig Zag

2015-09-23 Thread ann sanfedele
a nicely captured grim scene ann On 9/23/2015 8:53 PM, paul stenquist wrote: Nice geometry! I thought this was going to be a photo of someone rolling a joint. Zig-Zag singles were the best! Paul On Sep 23, 2015, at 8:45 PM, Rick Womer wrote:

PESO - Zig Zag

2015-09-23 Thread Rick Womer
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18087922=lg (K-5, DA 16-45) Comments appreciated. Rick -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: Total Lunar Eclipse

2015-09-23 Thread David Mann
Oh, I thought we were going to get to make some human sacrifices. Cheers, Dave > On Sep 23, 2015, at 7:30 pm, Alan C wrote: > > Really, I don't know what all the fuss is about, unless perhaps you are a > statistician or just plain superstitious. A so called Super-Moon occurs