Re: Angry glitz chicken

2023-07-04 Thread Marco Alpert
OT, because these are just crappy phone pics, but we also have glitz chickens dropping by our house fairly often (and we live in a typical suburban neighborhood - no idea where they normally hang out). They’ll come right up to the front door. Also, we had a little momma bird build a nest in

Re: Angry glitz chicken

2023-07-04 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jul 4, 2023, at 9:59 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: > > You gave your mom bird a nice place to nest! can't tell who shes is I'm > thinking a finch of some sort.. It's small, maybe when she's out of the nest I'll mount a mirror that'll give me a better angle to photograph her. > > as to

Re: Angry glitz chicken

2023-07-04 Thread ann sanfedele
You gave your mom bird a nice place to nest!  can't tell who shes is  I'm thinking a finch of some sort.. as to exposure on the peacock  looks ok to me.. on my HP desktop.. and Paul's birdies in trees lately have been a bit  on the too light side.   Which makes me a tad concerned about his

Re: Angry glitz chicken

2023-07-04 Thread Rick Womer
Larry, I like these pics! I’ve never seen peacocks this close-up, and so haven’t appreciated the details of their colors. The exposure is tricky, as the bird is dark-colored and there is dappled sunlight. I imagine that you already did what you could with the exposure sliders in LR. A

Re: PESO-Hydra Greece

2023-07-04 Thread Stan Halpin
I just rechecked the link- it leads to my PESO page rather than the intended image. Sorry! Just scroll to the last image… Sent from my iPad > On Jul 4, 2023, at 11:28 AM, Stanley Halpin > wrote: > > Working my way through images from my recent trip to Italy and Greece. The > photo linked

Re: Angry glitz chicken

2023-07-04 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jul 4, 2023, at 6:12 AM, Comcast wrote: > > Very dark. Is this right out of camera or phone? Thanks for the feedback, no it isn’t “right out of the camera”, according to Lightroom I did darken it 1 stop. Going back to it, it looks fine on my phone, fine when large on my computer

GESO - Philly Art Museum, Outside

2023-07-04 Thread Rick Womer
A photo-friend and I took a walk around the museum last week. It stands on a hill next to the Schuylkill River, on the site of Philly’s first public water reservoir (circa 1815). The dam was built in 1821, and powered pumps via waterwheels to replace unreliable steam engines. The Art Museum

PESO-Hydra Greece

2023-07-04 Thread Stanley Halpin
Working my way through images from my recent trip to Italy and Greece. The photo linked below doesn’t have any particular merit, IMHO, except that it made me stop and think: How often does this place change their menu? Stan https://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848 -- %(real_name)s

Re: Angry glitz chicken

2023-07-04 Thread Comcast
Very dark. Is this right out of camera or phone? Paul > On Jul 4, 2023, at 3:11 AM, Larry Colen wrote: > > We’ve got some feral glitz chickens in the neighborhood. One was hanging > out in the shade in our front yard yesterday when I had my camera ready to > get some pictures of mombird

Re: Angry glitz chicken

2023-07-04 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jul 4, 2023, at 12:20 AM, Alan C wrote: > > Do you call Peacocks "Glitz Chickens" over there? That’s just something that I made up this weekend. > Amazed they are feral. There are a few in the neighborhood, they’re even noisier than the mourning doves. > BTW, I see there are also

Re: Angry glitz chicken

2023-07-04 Thread Alan C
Do you call Peacocks "Glitz Chickens" over there?  Amazed they are feral.  BTW, I see there are also chicken/peacock hybrids in existence! Alan C On 04-Jul-23 09:11 AM, Larry Colen wrote: We’ve got some feral glitz chickens in the neighborhood. One was hanging out in the shade in our front

Angry glitz chicken

2023-07-04 Thread Larry Colen
We’ve got some feral glitz chickens in the neighborhood. One was hanging out in the shade in our front yard yesterday when I had my camera ready to get some pictures of mombird and her nest. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/53020903352/in/album-72177720309537234/ full set

Re: PESO Tango Nuevo

2023-07-04 Thread Alan C
Well done, Larry! "they are photogenic enough"   Indeed! Alan C On 04-Jul-23 08:31 AM, Larry Colen wrote: Lauren and Dominic put on a nice (improv) performance at the milonga Saturday. They are a new dance couple (he lives in Portland, she lives in LA) and this was their first time

PESO Tango Nuevo

2023-07-04 Thread Larry Colen
Lauren and Dominic put on a nice (improv) performance at the milonga Saturday. They are a new dance couple (he lives in Portland, she lives in LA) and this was their first time performing together, a couple hours after their first time teaching together.