Re: The Perseid's peak is here!

2016-08-12 Thread Larry Colen
P.J. Alling wrote: And like clockwork, after three days of clear dry weather it rains for two with no sign of letup. I spent last night at Thunderhill taking pictures of the sky. I haven't had a chance to put together a set of photos based on artistic merit, but here's the "Where's

Re: Old Pentax sighting

2016-08-12 Thread Ken Waller
Was there a camera in that image? -Original Message- >From: Steve Cottrell >Subject: Re: Old Pentax sighting > >On 12/8/16, Bob W-PDML, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>There's a Pentax in this picture too, but you have to look carefully. >>

Re: The Guardian has a photo essay just for the PDML!

2016-08-12 Thread Ken Waller
Yeah, it doesn't even hint at an aperture simulator ! -Original Message- >From: John >Subject: Re: The Guardian has a photo essay just for the PDML! > >Can't be a real Pentax song though, 'cause there's nothing in there >about Cotty eating his hat. > > >On

Re: The Guardian has a photo essay just for the PDML!

2016-08-12 Thread John
Can't be a real Pentax song though, 'cause there's nothing in there about Cotty eating his hat. On 8/12/2016 3:17 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: The most amazing thing is that they've aligned themselves in the form of the PDML Song, arranged for two kazoos and a vuvuzella. Obviously as birds they can't

Re: Peso-Rail Fence Vista

2016-08-12 Thread John
OTOH - If that's NOT what's causing the problem, I don't know what it is. On 8/12/2016 1:14 PM, John wrote: If Dan is also using Firefox, you may have image auto resize disabled. Type "about:config" in the Firefox address bar Search for browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing The value

Re: OT More grand kids

2016-08-12 Thread Paul Stenquist
Congratulatiions! Excellent pics! Paul via phone > On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:38 PM, David J Brooks wrote: > > thanks Bob > >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: >> Congratulations! Lovely photos. >> >> B >> >>> On 12 Aug 2016, at

Re: Old Pentax sighting

2016-08-12 Thread John
I'm pretty sure all four of them had a Pentax cameras at least once. George had a Asahi Pentax S1a On 8/12/2016 12:25 PM, John Francis wrote: I'm pretty sure both Paul and Ringo owned Pentax cameras. On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:53:18AM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I have seen photos of the

Re: OT More grand kids

2016-08-12 Thread David J Brooks
thanks Bob On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: > Congratulations! Lovely photos. > > B > >> On 12 Aug 2016, at 16:32, David J Brooks wrote: >> >> Hi all >> >> Last Friday our daughter and her husband welcomed their second child >> into

6 Days to Aug 19 - September PUG Countdown

2016-08-12 Thread Brian Walters
'morning all Just a reminder that for the September PUG you need to take a photo next Friday (World Photo Day, August 19). Scope out potential subjects now!! Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- --

PESO - Waiting Hammock

2016-08-12 Thread Rick Womer
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=18273243 (K-5, DA 50-200) 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: Photos TV can't get!

2016-08-12 Thread Jack Davis
Agree! J Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 12, 2016, at 8:20 AM, Christine Aguila wrote: > > Hi All: > > Saw this this morning on CNN. Some of the underwater shots are just > stunning. Still photography, as we all know, still very, very relevant even > in this video age.

Re: Old Pentax sighting

2016-08-12 Thread Bob W-PDML
On 12 Aug 2016, at 20:54, Steve Cottrell wrote: > > On 12/8/16, Bob W-PDML, discombobulated, unleashed: > >> There's a Pentax in this picture too, but you have to look carefully. >> >> http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfhudncOkW1qe0edlo1_500.jpg > > Couldn't see the

PESO - The Wall #23

2016-08-12 Thread Bruce Walker
A shoot that I did August 2015 with local Toronto model Araina Nespiak yielded more great images than I knew what to do with. I have been posting shots from this on and off for the past year and finally got to this set from the shoot recently. All of the shots from this series that I call The

Re: Old Pentax sighting

2016-08-12 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 12/8/16, Bob W-PDML, discombobulated, unleashed: >There's a Pentax in this picture too, but you have to look carefully. > >http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfhudncOkW1qe0edlo1_500.jpg Couldn't see the camera, but is that Britt Eckland? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast,

Re: OT More grand kids

2016-08-12 Thread Bob W-PDML
Congratulations! Lovely photos. B > On 12 Aug 2016, at 16:32, David J Brooks wrote: > > Hi all > > Last Friday our daughter and her husband welcomed their second child > into the family, a girl named Gwen Windsor. As with grand child #1 i > bought her a domain name and

Re: The Guardian has a photo essay just for the PDML!

2016-08-12 Thread Bob W-PDML
The most amazing thing is that they've aligned themselves in the form of the PDML Song, arranged for two kazoos and a vuvuzella. Obviously as birds they can't sing the words [1], but they sure can fart the tune. [1] The Pentax Song (words, rhythm and music by Ringo Starr) Pentax! Pentax!

Re: Old Pentax sighting

2016-08-12 Thread Bob W-PDML
Ringo's a pretty decent photographer. He has a book out at the moment: http://bigread.mojo4music.com/2013/10/ringo-starr/ There's a Pentax in this picture too, but you have to look carefully. http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfhudncOkW1qe0edlo1_500.jpg B > On 12 Aug 2016, at 17:26, John

Re: OT More grand kids

2016-08-12 Thread David J Brooks
thsanks Ken and Paul. I got the idea from a TV news morning show a while back. Idea is to do these updates and send emails over the years and when they get old enough let them have the passwords and they can look back. Dave On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Ken Waller

Re: OT More grand kids

2016-08-12 Thread Ken Waller
Congrats ! Nice idea to keep those interested up to date. -Original Message- >From: David J Brooks Subject: OT More grand kids > >Hi all > >Last Friday our daughter and her husband welcomed their second child >into the family, a girl named Gwen Windsor. As with

Re: PESO - Eyeballing a beetle

2016-08-12 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 12/8/16, Jostein Øksne, discombobulated, unleashed: >BTW, I seem to remember you posting pics made with Canon's 65 mm MP-E >lens. I remember them as pretty good too. Yes that lens is pretty good, and when used in conjunction with a ring light gave amazing results. But out in the wild (as you

Re: Peso-Rail Fence Vista

2016-08-12 Thread John
If Dan is also using Firefox, you may have image auto resize disabled. Type "about:config" in the Firefox address bar Search for browser.enable_automatic_image_resizing The value should be "true" if you want Firefox to automagically resize images so they will fit in the browser window. On

Re: OT More grand kids

2016-08-12 Thread Paul
She's a cutie!! -p On 8/12/2016 10:31 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Hi all Last Friday our daughter and her husband welcomed their second child into the family, a girl named Gwen Windsor. As with grand child #1 i bought her a domain name and hosting through Clark's host-gator account. It took

Re: The Guardian has a photo essay just for the PDML!

2016-08-12 Thread David J Brooks
probably a lurker Dave On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/aug/12/yoshinori-mizutani-hanon-bird-photography-tokyo-in-pictures > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >

Re: Old Pentax sighting

2016-08-12 Thread John Francis
I'm pretty sure both Paul and Ringo owned Pentax cameras. On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:53:18AM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > I have seen photos of the Beatles with a Spotty. > > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Morris

OT More grand kids

2016-08-12 Thread David J Brooks
Hi all Last Friday our daughter and her husband welcomed their second child into the family, a girl named Gwen Windsor. As with grand child #1 i bought her a domain name and hosting through Clark's host-gator account. It took some live chat calls to get it working but her is her first entry ofor

Re: Need recommendation for solid, luggable tripod

2016-08-12 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
My Feisol CT3442 Tournament legs are about ten years old and show no signs of wear or age as yet. They've been used a lot. I looked up the latest version and note that they've been uprated to 55lbs load and have the new "rapid anti-leg-rotation" technology in the leg locks. The anti-rotation

Re: OT Well i finally did it

2016-08-12 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
I hope you enjoy your new-found time a lot, Dave! G > On Aug 10, 2016, at 10:13 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > > This will be old news for those that saw it on FB, but, I have finally > sent in my resignation letter to the school bus company. I had decided > way back in Feb

Photos TV can't get!

2016-08-12 Thread Christine Aguila
Hi All: Saw this this morning on CNN. Some of the underwater shots are just stunning. Still photography, as we all know, still very, very relevant even in this video age. Cheers, Christine http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/sport/cnnphotos-al-bello-olympics/index.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss

Re: The Guardian has a photo essay just for the PDML!

2016-08-12 Thread Bruce Walker
That's eerily cool. And I can see why the photographer is getting some interest too: his galleries of other projects and publications on his website are excellent. Also interesting to me that at least one series that he posted for 4 years to Tumblr got edited and published in book form. On Fri,

Re: PESO - Eyeballing a beetle

2016-08-12 Thread Jostein Øksne
The metallic sheen is quite iridescent in real life too. But I agree, it ended up taking too much space in the final frame. Jostein Den 10. august 2016 02.48.22 CEST, skrev ann sanfedele : >looks like some sort of undersea critter... interesting - not "ugh" >from >me except

Re: PESO - Eyeballing a beetle

2016-08-12 Thread Jostein Øksne
You don't think him a cutie? :-) Thanks. Jostein Den 10. august 2016 01.14.59 CEST, skrev Ken Waller : >Great demonstration of the software and hardware but the subject - ugh >! > > >-Original Message- >>From: Jostein >>Subject: PESO -

Re: PESO - Eyeballing a beetle

2016-08-12 Thread Jostein Øksne
Thanks mate! BTW, I seem to remember you posting pics made with Canon's 65 mm MP-E lens. I remember them as pretty good too. Jostein Den 10. august 2016 00.45.43 CEST, skrev Steve Cottrell : >On 9/8/16, Jostein, discombobulated, unleashed: >

Peso-Summer Gray Heron

2016-08-12 Thread Jack Davis
Heron well up in a tree welcoming the sunrise. Yesterday at CA State Wildlife Area. Comments welcome! J http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=1088 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

The Guardian has a photo essay just for the PDML!

2016-08-12 Thread Mark Roberts
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/aug/12/yoshinori-mizutani-hanon-bird-photography-tokyo-in-pictures -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to

Re: Peso-Rail Fence Vista

2016-08-12 Thread Jack Davis
Many thanks, Dave! J - Original Message - From: "David J Brooks" To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 3:57:13 AM Subject: Re: Peso-Rail Fence Vista excellent shot Dave On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Jack Davis

Re: Peso-Rail Fence Vista

2016-08-12 Thread David J Brooks
excellent shot Dave On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > > > This landscape is because I'm in a hurry to see fall colors. > A private view of the Grand Tetons that I discovered several years ago. > Shot with an LX. Not my favorite scene of the area, but it