Re: For UK people: Don McCullin exhibit at the Tate Britain

2019-04-12 Thread Bob Pdml
Saw it with Chris a few weeks ago. A stunning exhibition. I've been familiar with his work since the 1970s, have met and talked to him [1] for quite a long time, and I have several of his books. But even so, seeing it all in one place, an entire lifetime's work, is really extraordinary. And to

PESO - A flower macro, a street scene and some ruminations

2019-04-12 Thread Bulent Celasun
A flower macro : https://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/33716357618/in/dateposted-public/lightbox/ This was shot at Giethoorn, a beautiful, touristic Dutch city with mediaeval cottages encircled by canals. My usual shots were not any different from those you can find in the Internet. Neither

Re: OT: Out of the World image

2019-04-12 Thread P. J. Alling
Except that there's always been processing involved in printing even from a silver, (or other photo sensitive material), negative.   Taken to the extreme the only true photograph is a direct positive of some kind, and even then, time, temperature and other factors in the chemical processing

Re: OT: Out of the World image

2019-04-12 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Last night, during late-night drive, while there was nothing listenable on the usual radio stations, I turned on "Coast-to-Coast" on the radio (Late night AM radio talk program about "paranormal" things). There was some "expert" who was talking about this blackhole image: "This is not

For UK people: Don McCullin exhibit at the Tate Britain

2019-04-12 Thread Mark Roberts
Sounds like a good one: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n08/jeremy-harding/at-tate-britain Runs through 6 May. Sadly, Lisa and I won't be getting over there this year :( -- Mark Roberts - Photography and Multimedia www.robertstech.com 617-522-0174 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: PESOs From the Backyard

2019-04-12 Thread Paul Stenquist
Thanks Subash, and thanks to all who commented or had a look, Paul > On Apr 11, 2019, at 9:34 PM, Subash Jeyan wrote: > > lovely images, all very sharp. > > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:41:55 -0400 > Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> A few bird pics straight from the backyard.All with K-1, D FA >>

Re: OT: Out of the World image

2019-04-12 Thread Larry Colen
Matthew Hunt wrote on 4/11/19 8:44 AM: On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:39 AM Mark Roberts wrote: Also: It's HUGE! https://xkcd.com/2135/ But also tiny! By my calculations, the accretion disc appears about 1/15 as large as the flag planted on the moon. Aha, you mean in degrees of arc. Yeah,