Re: OT: Christchurch central rebuild plan
Thanks for your comments, Walt. I wasn't sure if you'd be able to see the video from overseas. I read an article on the Daily Mail site as well which offers an outside view and some good stills from the video. Note the caption on the last photo is wrong... the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is the Catholic one, not the Anglican one in the photo. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180971/Christchurch--ashes-Convention-centre-stadium-theatre-complex-planned.html So far there's been surprisingly little whingeing so the plan must be pretty good. Dave On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:39 AM, Walter Hamler wrote: David, thanks for posting. I found the video interesting, even inspiring. I barely recognized some of the central city locations other than the river near Hagley Park and the area near the old cathedral. I hope I live long enough that a good portion of the rebuilding will come to be and my wife and I could possibly make a return trip someday!! Good luck to all. Walt On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:25 AM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: The authorities have just released their rebuild plan for the central city. I've not studied it in any detail - just watched the video. My first impression is one of excitement but I'm sure the devil will be in the details ;) http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7378437/Rebuild-plan-for-Christchurch-unveiled Cheers, Dave -- 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. -- 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. -- 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: PESO - Spousal Parking
On Jul 30, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Rick Womer wrote: It's next door to the Cathedral, and the building may have been the rectory at one point. So it's not in London's equivalent of the Castro? -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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: OT - GoPro Test
On 30/7/12, Anthony Farr, discombobulated, unleashed: I really enjoyed watching these, Cotty. You can turn a run-of-the-mill subject into entertainment. I wish I had that mindset. In wanting to only produce something of 'great consequence' or 'Art, I frequently either never get anything started, or let entertaining scenes like this go begging. Bravo, Sir. You are too kind. But it comes a lot easier after doing it for a quarter of a century! (but that doesn't necessarily hold true - after half a century life itself doesn't get any easier!!) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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: OT - GoPro Test
And then one hits the three quarters milestone... :-) Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On July 31, 2012 12:28:35 PM Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 30/7/12, Anthony Farr, discombobulated, unleashed: I really enjoyed watching these, Cotty. You can turn a run-of-the-mill subject into entertainment. I wish I had that mindset. In wanting to only produce something of 'great consequence' or 'Art, I frequently either never get anything started, or let entertaining scenes like this go begging. Bravo, Sir. You are too kind. But it comes a lot easier after doing it for a quarter of a century! (but that doesn't necessarily hold true - after half a century life itself doesn't get any easier!!) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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. -- 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: PESO - Hard Rain
On 28/7/12, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: I think this should hae been my August PUG submission, but alas, it's already in. In any event, I went to the beach a couple of weekends ago. It rained: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/07/hard-rain.html Fantastic! Love it! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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: PESO - Shopping
Quoting knarftheria...@gmail.com: I took one photo this weekend. This is it. Feeling very Derbyesque, I guess: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2012/07/shopping.html?m=1 Very nice. In every way. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- 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: PESO: Larry Bait
Quoting Walt Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com: Hi all! I haven't done much photography in a while as it's been just too damned hot to get out with the camera for the past month. Well my excuse is that it's too damned cold to get out with the camera. It's a wonder that either of us get to do any shooting Saturday, though, was *relatively* nice as it only got up to about 91F with a breeze. As it happens, a bunch of my high school classmates gathered at a nearby home and I was able to get the night off from work to attend the festivities. I took a few pictures, but they were the typical sort of house party photos you see splattered all over Facebook. There was one shot, though, that I thought Larry would appreciate. This is the girlfriend of one of my oldest buddies from my school days, holding the Storm Trooper helmet he made years ago. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/7678227568/ K20D, SMC-F 35-135/3.5-4.5, ISO 800, 1/100 Well done - nice tone to that. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ I wanted to take more photos of the woman in question as she has some of the greatest tattoos I've ever seen -- and I say that as someone who's not particularly into the ink scene. Also, she was pretty hot. But, inasmuch as she was my buddy's date, I didn't feel comfortable asking her to show me all the artwork on her body. -- 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: PESO: The Dark Side
Quoting Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: From the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195016 That's just bizarre But well caught and shot - and as Ken says the other balloon to the lower right adds balance to the composition. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- 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.
Interesting dilemmas
Great story that set me thinking - what would I have done in the same situation. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2012/jul/28/bystanders-photographers-who-didnt-help?INTCMP=SRCH Peter -- 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: PESO: The Dark Side
Thanks, Brian Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: Quoting Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com: From the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195016 That's just bizarre But well caught and shot - and as Ken says the other balloon to the lower right adds balance to the composition. -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- 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. -- 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.
? on M28/2.8
I've a chance to acquire one M28/2.8. Must certainly be the latter version. Looks like the A design (bevel on front edge) but no A settings or connections. The pics don't give me enough info, but the coatings look like the cool blue of the A rather than the amber of the M. Correct? Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- 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.
PESO: We the People
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195157 Comments are appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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: OT - Backups Cockups, Netbooks MyBooks, Hard Drives , Dryers
This is such a heart-warming story for me. It makes me glad knowing that I'm not the only person on earth that computers hate. I will never buy another Western digital hard-drive, and especially never another MyBook. Several years ago, I bought a couple of MyBook drives (340GB 500GB) because they seemed to be really inexpensive. I found out instead that they're just really CHEAP (Of poor quality; inferior; Worthy of no respect; vulgar or contemptible). There just don't seem to be enough low, vulgar synonyms for *PIECE OF SHIT* to describe MyBook power supplies. The only positive thing I can say about them is Windoze-XP didn't seem to have any problem blowing away the pre-installed CRAPWARE. I wish I had an answer for making folders sharable in Vista, but the only Vista computer I have has only one shared folder all of the contents/sub-folders were auto-magically shared as well. From: Anthony Farr Backups, to me, originally meant CDs, then DVDs. But doubts were raised about the permanence of optical media, and my backup load was too large to periodically refresh everything, so I moved to hard drives. A couple of years ago I saw a product called Clickfree Automatic Backup, which is a small device placed in the usb cable between a computer on a wifi network and an external hard drive. With a little bit of software running on each computer in the network, they'd all be periodically backed up with no attention required. Great! And in all honesty it worked a treat. My son and I had all our data secured across 3 computers. But... and there's always a 'but', isn't there, the time came when my 500GB drive wasn't a big enough repository, so I got a 1TB WD MyBook, and my troubles began. Although there was nothing wrong with the MyBook, it had its own backup software, didn't it. No worries, thinks I, I'll just delete it from the drive. I don't want it, didn't ask for it and won't ever use it, so why not? The answer to 'why not?' was that WD had put the backup software on a fixed partition, and all my subsequent research on forum after forum informed me that the partition resists every attempt at deletion or reformatting. Bastards! Never mind, thinks I, I'll just ignore it. But... a week or two after the MyBook went into service I noticed that backups had ceased to occur on schedule. Then I noticed that the Clickfree icon in 'My Computer' had gone plain, when it should appear as a logo. Uh oh. Looking into it I found that the device, which came filled with installation files and firmware and such, was empty. The Clickfree help desk was great, I couldn't ask for better. They gave me a link to download the files needed to reflash the firmware, but to no avail. Then they emailed the files to me to ensure that I had uncorrupted copies of them. Still no success. So without any hesitation they sent me a new device. And that's where the Clickfree story ends for the moment, because it seemed to me that the MyBook had killed the Clickfree, and I wasn't about to give it a second chance. Now I was back to doing manual backups. No way was I going to use the WD backup software. I would plug the Mybook into my netbook computer and send to it, over my home network, the new files and changes from each computer . Even at 54Mb/sec it was quicker than doing a disk to disk copy on one computer, because the source computer only had to read the filefrom its disk, and the destination computer only had to write the fileto its disk. Doing the job on one computer leads to a lot of disk swapping and appallingly slow copy and paste times. It was a perfect solution until about two months ago when I took the netbook on a long car trip. At the end of the journey I found that I'd forgotten to shut it down, it was only on standby which doesn't safely park the hard drive's read/write heads. Soon afterwards it developed the faintest of clicks. Soon after that it crashed and has been out of service since. My backup strategy had been derailed. Fast forward to last week. It was cold, so our heaters were cranked up to full power. It was a wet, grey day so the family was inside using televisions and Nintendo Wiis and computers and all the accessories that go with those things. The kettle was on to brew a pot of tea. The washing machine was in mid-load. Then... my dear wife, who knew not what she was about to do, started the clothes dryer. Everything went very quiet for half a second, then our son complained about 'unsaved progress', but no harm was done, or so I thought. I was wrong. The external hard drive on my computer, where I keep my documents because they're safer there than in a laptop's internal drive, was gone from the drive list in 'My Computer'. The unexpected shutdown had prematurely ended its life, and I'd lost all my new files and changes of the last two months, because I hadn't put a new backup process into place. The only positive spin I can put on it is that I've been in a
Re: Interesting dilemmas
One has no way of knowing. I intervened once when in Cologne four rather tall and massive ticket inspectors were beating up a scrawny 5'6 African guy who only spoke French, didn't understand them and got scared when they cornered him so he raised his hands (literally, nothing more) to keep them away from himself. One lifted him by the throat, carried him out of the streetcar and threw him into one of those small waiting huts where they proceeded to beat him up as a group. They were later sentenced to six months on parole plus 4.600 DEM, i.e. 90 days' worth of salary after tax for the initial aggressor and half that for the other three. I was proud that I had helped. I'd like to think I'd give my life if it would let my son live a minute longer; at least I feel that way. I'd also like to think o fmyself that I would take a chance to help someone else. But you never really know until you're in the situation because it is one beyond your imagination. And I know for sure that cops committing an act of brutality will only extend it to include you when you try to interfere with them. I've seen it happen too often. So for that instance, I know I'd take as many pictures as possible, try to put together a credible witness's account of my memories and go to the proper authorities without further ado. My 2c... Cheers Ecke 2012/7/31, Peter Jordan pjp...@btinternet.com: Great story that set me thinking - what would I have done in the same situation. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2012/jul/28/bystanders-photographers-who-didnt-help?INTCMP=SRCH Peter -- 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. -- Sent from my iP address -- 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: PESO: We the People
Well done, Dan Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 5:10 AM Subject: PESO: We the People http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195157 Comments are appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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. -- 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: PESO: We the People
Beautiful, Dan. That really conveys the peaceful soaring nature of ballooning to me. Just curious: what lens? On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195157 Comments are appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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. -- -bmw -- 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: OT - GoPro Test
That's just too cool, Cotty. Did you stick that thing onto a pole of some sort to get those wheelbarrow following shots, like when the PoV zooms way overhead? I'm going to try and convince my wife we need one of these. She's into making short films and docs and we just spent most of the weekend at the Mississauga Indie Film Fest, so her imagination will be racing and this would be the perfect time! :-) On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: A few shots from my new GoPro. Lawn-mowing and cycling content. The former judders a bit as I had the camera on NTSC oops! Converted quick and dirty. The cycling is PAL but all this of no consequence as web video is viewable anywhere... https://vimeo.com/user2607591/review/46188061/6771783691 -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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. -- -bmw -- 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: PESO: Larry Bait
On 30/07/2012 20:19, Walt Gilbert wrote: Hi all! I haven't done much photography in a while as it's been just too damned hot to get out with the camera for the past month. Saturday, though, was *relatively* nice as it only got up to about 91F with a breeze. As it happens, a bunch of my high school classmates gathered at a nearby home and I was able to get the night off from work to attend the festivities. I took a few pictures, but they were the typical sort of house party photos you see splattered all over Facebook. There was one shot, though, that I thought Larry would appreciate. This is the girlfriend of one of my oldest buddies from my school days, holding the Storm Trooper helmet he made years ago. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/7678227568/ K20D, SMC-F 35-135/3.5-4.5, ISO 800, 1/100 I wanted to take more photos of the woman in question as she has some of the greatest tattoos I've ever seen -- and I say that as someone who's not particularly into the ink scene. Also, she was pretty hot. But, inasmuch as she was my buddy's date, I didn't feel comfortable asking her to show me all the artwork on her body. I would have been utterly unable to resist titling it Kiss the helmet, darling. -- No fixed Adobe -- 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: OT: Christchurch central rebuild plan
Dave, I enjoyed watching the video and applaud the efforts to rebuild. We would like to visit New Zealand and especially Christchurch again some day. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:06 AM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your comments, Walt. I wasn't sure if you'd be able to see the video from overseas. I read an article on the Daily Mail site as well which offers an outside view and some good stills from the video. Note the caption on the last photo is wrong... the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament is the Catholic one, not the Anglican one in the photo. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180971/Christchurch--ashes-Convention-centre-stadium-theatre-complex-planned.html So far there's been surprisingly little whingeing so the plan must be pretty good. Dave On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:39 AM, Walter Hamler wrote: David, thanks for posting. I found the video interesting, even inspiring. I barely recognized some of the central city locations other than the river near Hagley Park and the area near the old cathedral. I hope I live long enough that a good portion of the rebuilding will come to be and my wife and I could possibly make a return trip someday!! Good luck to all. Walt On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:25 AM, David Mann dmann...@gmail.com wrote: The authorities have just released their rebuild plan for the central city. I've not studied it in any detail - just watched the video. My first impression is one of excitement but I'm sure the devil will be in the details ;) http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7378437/Rebuild-plan-for-Christchurch-unveiled Cheers, Dave -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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: ? on M28/2.8
Check Boz's site, but the bevel on the front edge is your key. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Collin Brendemuehl coll...@brendemuehl.net wrote: I've a chance to acquire one M28/2.8. Must certainly be the latter version. Looks like the A design (bevel on front edge) but no A settings or connections. The pics don't give me enough info, but the coatings look like the cool blue of the A rather than the amber of the M. Correct? Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- 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. -- 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: PESO: We the People
Dan, Good shot. Especially colorful baloons. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195157 Comments are appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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. -- 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: PESO: Larry Bait
On 7/30/2012 11:41 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Walt Gilbert wrote: Hi all! I haven't done much photography in a while as it's been just too damned hot to get out with the camera for the past month. Saturday, though, was *relatively* nice as it only got up to about 91F with a breeze. As it happens, a bunch of my high school classmates gathered at a nearby home and I was able to get the night off from work to attend the festivities. I took a few pictures, but they were the typical sort of house party photos you see splattered all over Facebook. There was one shot, though, that I thought Larry would appreciate. This is the girlfriend of one of my oldest buddies from my school days, holding the Storm Trooper helmet he made years ago. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/7678227568/ K20D, SMC-F 35-135/3.5-4.5, ISO 800, 1/100 You are indeed very good at baiting. And not a bad photographer either. Thanks, Larry. I knew you'd appreciate that shot. If I had subject matter like that to shoot all the time, I'd be a much better photographer. I wanted to take more photos of the woman in question as she has some of the greatest tattoos I've ever seen -- and I say that as someone who's not particularly into the ink scene. Also, she was pretty hot. But, inasmuch as she was my buddy's date, I didn't feel comfortable asking her to show me all the artwork on her body. Methinks her body qualifies as artwork on its own. She is quite nice to behold. I'm going to have to stay in touch with my buddy who's dating her to see about doing more photos. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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: PESO: Larry Bait
On 7/31/2012 5:55 AM, Brian Walters wrote: Quoting Walt Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com: Hi all! I haven't done much photography in a while as it's been just too damned hot to get out with the camera for the past month. Well my excuse is that it's too damned cold to get out with the camera. It's a wonder that either of us get to do any shooting Yeah, I use the same excuse when it's winter up here, too. Though, I do manage to drag it out whenever we have a decent snowfall. But, when it's just a plain, cold, nondescript day, for some reason, the camera just doesn't feel like getting out of the house. Saturday, though, was *relatively* nice as it only got up to about 91F with a breeze. As it happens, a bunch of my high school classmates gathered at a nearby home and I was able to get the night off from work to attend the festivities. I took a few pictures, but they were the typical sort of house party photos you see splattered all over Facebook. There was one shot, though, that I thought Larry would appreciate. This is the girlfriend of one of my oldest buddies from my school days, holding the Storm Trooper helmet he made years ago. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/7678227568/ K20D, SMC-F 35-135/3.5-4.5, ISO 800, 1/100 Well done - nice tone to that. Thanks, Brian. I just converted it to b/w and slid the color-temperature slider in Picasa just a smidge over to the cool side. I like the look of silver gelatin and try to replicate it, but it's hard to get it just right without an example right in front of me to reference. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ I wanted to take more photos of the woman in question as she has some of the greatest tattoos I've ever seen -- and I say that as someone who's not particularly into the ink scene. Also, she was pretty hot. But, inasmuch as she was my buddy's date, I didn't feel comfortable asking her to show me all the artwork on her body. -- 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.
Peso - carrot soup recipe with pic
http://annsan.smugmug.com/WorksinProg/recipes-with-photos/6695312_SPVrJT/1/1060188476_3SPqr/Medium I started working on a recipe calendar but decided , on the whole, my best dishes are not so photogenic and I'm not such a good food shooter This one worked pretty well, though I'm about to make some for myself - I may have shown this to some of you before but I have a couple of guesses about who might make some :-) ann -- 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: Peso - carrot soup recipe with pic
It says a password is required to view the pictures... :-( Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On July 31, 2012 6:40:50 PM Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: http://annsan.smugmug.com/WorksinProg/recipes-with-photos/6695312_SPVrJT/1/1060188476_3SPqr/Medium I started working on a recipe calendar but decided , on the whole, my best dishes are not so photogenic and I'm not such a good food shooter This one worked pretty well, though I'm about to make some for myself - I may have shown this to some of you before but I have a couple of guesses about who might make some :-) ann -- 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. -- 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: PESO - Spousal Parking
Rick, I showed the picture to my wife and she thought it was hilarious but I don't know why. Great picture though. On Jul 30, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Rick Womer wrote: It's next door to the Cathedral, and the building may have been the rectory at one point. -- 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: PESO: Larry Bait
On 7/31/2012 8:22 AM, mike wilson wrote: On 30/07/2012 20:19, Walt Gilbert wrote: Hi all! I haven't done much photography in a while as it's been just too damned hot to get out with the camera for the past month. Saturday, though, was *relatively* nice as it only got up to about 91F with a breeze. As it happens, a bunch of my high school classmates gathered at a nearby home and I was able to get the night off from work to attend the festivities. I took a few pictures, but they were the typical sort of house party photos you see splattered all over Facebook. There was one shot, though, that I thought Larry would appreciate. This is the girlfriend of one of my oldest buddies from my school days, holding the Storm Trooper helmet he made years ago. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/7678227568/ K20D, SMC-F 35-135/3.5-4.5, ISO 800, 1/100 I wanted to take more photos of the woman in question as she has some of the greatest tattoos I've ever seen -- and I say that as someone who's not particularly into the ink scene. Also, she was pretty hot. But, inasmuch as she was my buddy's date, I didn't feel comfortable asking her to show me all the artwork on her body. I would have been utterly unable to resist titling it Kiss the helmet, darling. Heh. If I'd been a little more quick-witted, I'd have said it when I took the photo. -- Walt -- 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.
PESO: New cedar table
I am sort of ham-handed and physically unskilled; the only things I normally create are software, prose, and photographs. But in an unaccustomed fit of carpenterial energy, I built a table for our cabin, and it’s kind of pretty. Close-up: http://goo.gl/zevu4 Narrative, with a couple more pix: http://goo.gl/R4MIE -T -- 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.
Bikers w/o engines
Every year thousands of bike riders gather to ride across Iowa in one week. Here's two of them who really got up to speed http://donspix.posterous.com/1-bike-riders-went-across-iowa-last-week#!/ -- 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.
PESO: Pretty boat
Two masts, four sails, sun from behind: http://goo.gl/iDw5b There was another boat, and the an amusing visual narrative: http://goo.gl/pBLFx These are both with the ancient eBayed Tokina 400mm. There’s really something to be said for a long-ish tele that’s light enough to hand-hold. Loafing around on the deck when the light is good with the Tokina and a bottle of wine, it’s really not terrible at all. -T -- 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: PESO: We the People
That's a very effective balloon shot. Patriotism aside, that a beautifully done balloon. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Dan, Good shot. Especially colorful baloons. Regards, Bob S. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195157 Comments are appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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. -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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: PESO: New cedar table
On 31/07/2012 10:16 AM, Tim Bray wrote: I am sort of ham-handed and physically unskilled; the only things I normally create are software, prose, and photographs. But in an unaccustomed fit of carpenterial energy, I built a table for our cabin, and it’s kind of pretty. Close-up: http://goo.gl/zevu4 You need to learn about how to attach things from underneath. Pretty wood though. -- William Robb -- 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: PESO: Larry Bait
On 7/30/2012 4:39 PM, Walt Gilbert wrote: On 7/30/2012 2:30 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Walt Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote: There was one shot, though, that I thought Larry would appreciate. This is the girlfriend of one of my oldest buddies from my school days, holding the Storm Trooper helmet he made years ago. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/7678227568/ K20D, SMC-F 35-135/3.5-4.5, ISO 800, 1/100 Nice. Has a bit of a 1950's Terry O'Neill vibe to it. Thanks, Bruce! I'm sure it's a very, very, teeny-tiny bit of a vibe, but I'll take it. I wanted to take more photos of the woman in question as she has some of the greatest tattoos I've ever seen -- and I say that as someone who's not particularly into the ink scene. Also, she was pretty hot. But, inasmuch as she was my buddy's date, I didn't feel comfortable asking her to show me all the artwork on her body. And you call yourself a photographer. Sheesh. :-) Well, I wouldn't call myself a photographer just yet. I'm not sure I ever will with any sense of confidence. But, I do enjoy taking photos of the ladies. -- Walt You can substitute an expensive looking camera and chutzpah. -- -bmw -- Don't lose heart, they might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a lengthly search. -- 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: Interesting dilemmas
From: Peter Jordan Great story that set me thinking - what would I have done in the same situation. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/interactive/2012/jul/28/bystanders-photographers-who-didnt-help?INTCMP=SRCH Peter Indeed. But for at least a couple of the images, I have to wonder if the photos may have been the only way the photographer could effectively intervene? -- 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.
Mini-GESO: Storm Clouds Landscapes (4 photos)
Some rough weather passed through the area the other day, but my area managed to avoid the high winds and hail. We did get a nice summer thunderstorm, though, and some nice, dark clouds. I grabbed the K100D Super with the 50/1.7 and my K20D with my Promaster 70-300. The landscapes were all taken with the K100. The other image, taken with the K20, doesn't *quite* fit into the set, but I threw it in anyway because it's a picture of mammatus clouds, and I think they're cool. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157630777945530/ Comments suggestions eagerly accepted. Thanks! -- Walt -- 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: OT: London Olympics 2012
I've hurled many times on St. Patricks Day. On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 July 2012 05:52, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Rockne looks him in the eye and says 'You want me to give a bunch of Irishmen clubs and have them play field hockey?' He'd obviously never seen Hurling. regards, Anthony -- 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. -- Steve Desjardins -- 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: Peso - carrot soup recipe with pic
I like your choice of showing the table edge (upper left corner). It breaks the tension and incites the curiosity. Don't know if Dr Phil would agree, but Sounds seriously good! J. ;-) Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com/ - Original Message - From: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:40 AM Subject: Peso - carrot soup recipe with pic http://annsan.smugmug.com/WorksinProg/recipes-with-photos/6695312_SPVrJT/1/1060188476_3SPqr/Medium I started working on a recipe calendar but decided , on the whole, my best dishes are not so photogenic and I'm not such a good food shooter This one worked pretty well, though I'm about to make some for myself - I may have shown this to some of you before but I have a couple of guesses about who might make some :-) ann -- 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. -- 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: PESO: New cedar table
I'm impressed! Looks photogenic and substantial. Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com/ - Original Message - From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:16 AM Subject: PESO: New cedar table I am sort of ham-handed and physically unskilled; the only things I normally create are software, prose, and photographs. But in an unaccustomed fit of carpenterial energy, I built a table for our cabin, and it’s kind of pretty. Close-up: http://goo.gl/zevu4 Narrative, with a couple more pix: http://goo.gl/R4MIE -T -- 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. -- 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: PESO: Pretty boat
Nice back lighting! What created the large black background? Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:22 AM Subject: PESO: Pretty boat Two masts, four sails, sun from behind: http://goo.gl/iDw5b There was another boat, and the an amusing visual narrative: http://goo.gl/pBLFx These are both with the ancient eBayed Tokina 400mm. There’s really something to be said for a long-ish tele that’s light enough to hand-hold. Loafing around on the deck when the light is good with the Tokina and a bottle of wine, it’s really not terrible at all. -T -- 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. -- 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: OT: London Olympics 2012
On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:17 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, hockey - I mean ice hockey - is huge here. When I was a kid it was cold enough that we played organized hockey at outdoor rink with natural ice. I don't think I played in an arena with artificial ice until my third season for a playoff game. When we weren't playing organized hockey we played pickup games or shinny (as scrub is to baseball) on backyard rinks. I didn't even know there was field hockey or grass hockey until I was about ten years old. I seem to recall during an Olympic Games (likely Mexico in '68) hearing them talk of hockey, and my father explaining that in much of the world hockey (no modifier) was on grass and ice hockey was what we played. I decided to look up hockey in wikipedia and see which is older and was surprised by the range of games called hockey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey Some years back I learned snorkeling in my attempt to play underwater hockey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_hockey We feel that any game where a backhand shot is illegal, where there's no bodychecking and where there are no fist fights couldn't possibly be hockey as we know it. Besides, there were no guys named Jean-Guy, Jacques or Henri. Whatever they were playing on that big green field wasn't anything we were familiar with! Mind you this was a time when there were exactly two American players in the entire National Hockey League; all the rest were Canadian. It would be another fifteen years before the first Europeans came here to play in the premier professional league in the world. And when the first Russians came here they had to defect, just like ballet dancers. With ice hockey so popular outside our borders these days, it's easy to forget that up to a couple of decades ago it really was a largely North American thing. Cheers, frank What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Anthony Farr farranth...@gmail.com Sent: July 29, 2012 7/29/12 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: London Olympics 2012 On 30 July 2012 11:21, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: You're probably right that field hockey is a much bigger sport in the third world and girl's prep schools. I was thinking mostly of North America, Europe and Russia. Well obviously a nation needs to be reasonably affluent to support a sport that is alien to its its climate, which requires artificial rinks with powerful refrigeration to overcome relatively high ambient temperatures even in winter. But you call many of these nations third world at the risk of being labeled a cultural imperialist. Hockey is massive in the Asian sub-continent, and is strongly entrenched in Western Europe. Naturally, ice hockey is more strongly followed in Northern and Eastern Europe and North America, where the culture of snow and ice sports is strongest, and barely represented in Central Africa, Equatorial America and South East Asia where there is practically no culture of winter at all. But the people who follow these sports are equal citizens of the world, and are due absolutely no more or less consideration or respect because of their homelands' place in the world or the hue of their flesh. Shame on anyone who would think otherwise. regards, Anthony -- 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. -- 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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: PESO: Pretty boat
A steep wooded slope; if you look close you can see tree trunks. -T On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Nice back lighting! What created the large black background? Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com - Original Message - From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:22 AM Subject: PESO: Pretty boat Two masts, four sails, sun from behind: http://goo.gl/iDw5b There was another boat, and the an amusing visual narrative: http://goo.gl/pBLFx These are both with the ancient eBayed Tokina 400mm. There’s really something to be said for a long-ish tele that’s light enough to hand-hold. Loafing around on the deck when the light is good with the Tokina and a bottle of wine, it’s really not terrible at all. -T -- 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. -- 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. -- 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: PESO: Pretty boat
The picture of the sailboat has a wonderful mood. The wine, in moderate amounts, may help to hold the 400mm steady. :-) Jostein Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Two masts, four sails, sun from behind: http://goo.gl/iDw5b There was another boat, and the an amusing visual narrative: http://goo.gl/pBLFx These are both with the ancient eBayed Tokina 400mm. There’s really something to be said for a long-ish tele that’s light enough to hand-hold. Loafing around on the deck when the light is good with the Tokina and a bottle of wine, it’s really not terrible at all. -T -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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: PESO: Larry Bait
You can substitute an expensive looking camera and chutzpah. Yeah, I really do need to work on that whole chutzpah thing. -- 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: PESO: New cedar table
That's far better than anything I could have built! Respect. Jostein Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: I am sort of ham-handed and physically unskilled; the only things I normally create are software, prose, and photographs. But in an unaccustomed fit of carpenterial energy, I built a table for our cabin, and it’s kind of pretty. Close-up: http://goo.gl/zevu4 Narrative, with a couple more pix: http://goo.gl/R4MIE -T -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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: PESO: Pretty boat
Tim, that backlit schooner is very nice indeed. One might brighten the background just a touch. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW - Original Message - From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:22 PM Subject: PESO: Pretty boat Two masts, four sails, sun from behind: http://goo.gl/iDw5b There was another boat, and the an amusing visual narrative: http://goo.gl/pBLFx These are both with the ancient eBayed Tokina 400mm. There’s really something to be said for a long-ish tele that’s light enough to hand-hold. Loafing around on the deck when the light is good with the Tokina and a bottle of wine, it’s really not terrible at all. -T -- 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. -- 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: PESO: New cedar table
It looks to be adequately overbuilt. I wouldn't rebuild a merlin on it, but it should be fine for a Mopar 440. On Jul 31, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Tim Bray wrote: I am sort of ham-handed and physically unskilled; the only things I normally create are software, prose, and photographs. But in an unaccustomed fit of carpenterial energy, I built a table for our cabin, and it’s kind of pretty. Close-up: http://goo.gl/zevu4 Narrative, with a couple more pix: http://goo.gl/R4MIE -T -- 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. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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: PESO hors d'oerves
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Larry Colen On Jul 30, 2012, at 9:21 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Hope they cook better than they spell. Wait: Doritos is cooking? The French must have a word for crispy fried thin patties of corn D'oriteaux B ;-) besides, they're probably even vegan. Fun catch Larry. Thanks -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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. -- 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: PESO: Pretty boat
It's a great life if you don't weaken. I like the last one where the sun has gone over the yardarm. Message: 5 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 09:22:35 -0700 From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: PESO: Pretty boat Message-ID: cahbu6it_frjxpy0kknvqyjq-hvbs4vhyboafz+11o4vncvb...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Two masts, four sails, sun from behind: http://goo.gl/iDw5b There was another boat, and the an amusing visual narrative: http://goo.gl/pBLFx These are both with the ancient eBayed Tokina 400mm. There?s really something to be said for a long-ish tele that?s light enough to hand-hold. Loafing around on the deck when the light is good with the Tokina and a bottle of wine, it?s really not terrible at all. -T -- 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: Peso - carrot soup recipe with pic
go back I took it out On 7/31/2012 11:46, Boris Liberman wrote: It says a password is required to view the pictures... :-( Sent with AquaMail for Android http://www.aqua-mail.com On July 31, 2012 6:40:50 PM Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: http://annsan.smugmug.com/WorksinProg/recipes-with-photos/6695312_SPVrJT/1/1060188476_3SPqr/Medium I started working on a recipe calendar but decided , on the whole, my best dishes are not so photogenic and I'm not such a good food shooter This one worked pretty well, though I'm about to make some for myself - I may have shown this to some of you before but I have a couple of guesses about who might make some :-) ann -- 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. -- 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: Peso - carrot soup recipe with pic
Thanks for telling me - I can't see the table edge... I'm making some of the soup now tho ann On 7/31/2012 13:28, Jack Davis wrote: I like your choice of showing the table edge (upper left corner). It breaks the tension and incites the curiosity. Don't know if Dr Phil would agree, but Sounds seriously good! J. ;-) Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com/ - Original Message - From: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:40 AM Subject: Peso - carrot soup recipe with pic http://annsan.smugmug.com/WorksinProg/recipes-with-photos/6695312_SPVrJT/1/1060188476_3SPqr/Medium I started working on a recipe calendar but decided , on the whole, my best dishes are not so photogenic and I'm not such a good food shooter This one worked pretty well, though I'm about to make some for myself - I may have shown this to some of you before but I have a couple of guesses about who might make some :-) ann -- 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. -- 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: 40 MP Shootout with English Translation
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:20:49AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: I'm really glad they published this. I was just about to pull the trigger on that Nokia, but now I'm reconsidering. -- said by no-one, ever. Next up: sprinter Ivet Lalova versus a mollusk. Well, they're both carbon-based lifeforms, eh? Which one goes better with a crisp chardonay? Your wife - does she go? (Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.) -- 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: ? on M28/2.8
be careful, Ive seen quite a few smcm 28/2.8 lenses with sluggish aperture motion. - J.C.O'Connell hifis...@gate.net - -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Collin Brendemuehl Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7:59 AM To: pdml Subject: ? on M28/2.8 I've a chance to acquire one M28/2.8. Must certainly be the latter version. Looks like the A design (bevel on front edge) but no A settings or connections. The pics don't give me enough info, but the coatings look like the cool blue of the A rather than the amber of the M. Correct? Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- 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. -- 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: OT - GoPro Test
On 31/7/12, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: That's just too cool, Cotty. Did you stick that thing onto a pole of some sort to get those wheelbarrow following shots, like when the PoV zooms way overhead? I'm going to try and convince my wife we need one of these. She's into making short films and docs and we just spent most of the weekend at the Mississauga Indie Film Fest, so her imagination will be racing and this would be the perfect time! :-) I have one of these: http://www.b-hague.co.uk/hague_handyjib_k1.htm which I slightly modified (of course!!) to make the wheel ratio 1:1. Will be using it tomorrow filming a 'speed recruitment' session for a business club meeting as part of a series about youngsters trying to get work. It adds extra dynamic angles for shots in an otherwise boring situation... Thanks for the kind words. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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: PESO: Pretty boat
On 31/7/12, Tim Bray, discombobulated, unleashed: Two masts, four sails, sun from behind: http://goo.gl/iDw5b A gaff-rigged schooner. V nice :-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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: Mini-GESO: Storm Clouds Landscapes (4 photos)
I like the 3rd one down the best... and i like the mammatus clouds - except when I see them up close and personal. scary. ann On 7/31/2012 13:12, Walt Gilbert wrote: Some rough weather passed through the area the other day, but my area managed to avoid the high winds and hail. We did get a nice summer thunderstorm, though, and some nice, dark clouds. I grabbed the K100D Super with the 50/1.7 and my K20D with my Promaster 70-300. The landscapes were all taken with the K100. The other image, taken with the K20, doesn't *quite* fit into the set, but I threw it in anyway because it's a picture of mammatus clouds, and I think they're cool. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157630777945530/ Comments suggestions eagerly accepted. Thanks! -- Walt -- 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: 40 MP Shootout with English Translation
John Francis wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:20:49AM -0700, Larry Colen wrote: On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: I'm really glad they published this. I was just about to pull the trigger on that Nokia, but now I'm reconsidering. -- said by no-one, ever. Next up: sprinter Ivet Lalova versus a mollusk. Well, they're both carbon-based lifeforms, eh? Which one goes better with a crisp chardonay? Your wife - does she go? (Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.) Does she like PHOTOGRAPHY? -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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: OT - GoPro Test
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 31/7/12, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: That's just too cool, Cotty. Did you stick that thing onto a pole of some sort to get those wheelbarrow following shots, like when the PoV zooms way overhead? I'm going to try and convince my wife we need one of these. She's into making short films and docs and we just spent most of the weekend at the Mississauga Indie Film Fest, so her imagination will be racing and this would be the perfect time! :-) I have one of these: http://www.b-hague.co.uk/hague_handyjib_k1.htm which I slightly modified (of course!!) to make the wheel ratio 1:1. Will be using it tomorrow filming a 'speed recruitment' session for a business club meeting as part of a series about youngsters trying to get work. It adds extra dynamic angles for shots in an otherwise boring situation... Thanks for the kind words. Whoa! That Handy-jib gadget is very nifty. No wonder you are into this: a whole 'nother world of stuff to drool and obsess over. -- -bmw -- 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: Mini-GESO: Storm Clouds Landscapes (4 photos)
Thanks, Ann. If I had to pick, I think it would be the one just above it. As for the mammatus clouds, I've managed to capture them a couple of times. Unfortunately, they've not been as well-defined as some of the really spectacular ones I've seen. But, you're right; they do seem to accompany some pretty nasty storms. We just lucked out this time. -- Walt On 7/31/2012 2:55 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: I like the 3rd one down the best... and i like the mammatus clouds - except when I see them up close and personal. scary. ann On 7/31/2012 13:12, Walt Gilbert wrote: Some rough weather passed through the area the other day, but my area managed to avoid the high winds and hail. We did get a nice summer thunderstorm, though, and some nice, dark clouds. I grabbed the K100D Super with the 50/1.7 and my K20D with my Promaster 70-300. The landscapes were all taken with the K100. The other image, taken with the K20, doesn't *quite* fit into the set, but I threw it in anyway because it's a picture of mammatus clouds, and I think they're cool. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157630777945530/ Comments suggestions eagerly accepted. Thanks! -- Walt -- 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: PESO: We the People
Beautiful shot. Stunning work by the maker of those balloons. Paul On Jul 31, 2012, at 8:10 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195157 Comments are appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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. -- 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: PESO: We the People
On 7/31/2012 7:10 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195157 Comments are appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola That's a great shot, Dan! Wonderful colors, nice and sharp, and a great subject. -- Walt -- 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: Mini-GESO: Storm Clouds Landscapes (4 photos)
I like. I'm a sucker for atmospherics. Took a boatload one day in Phoenix in March. I'll share when I get a chance. When the room darkens, always grab a camera (or two) and rush outdoors. It's either a storm, or a very large asteroid. In either case, good photos are ready to be made. On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:12 , Walt Gilbert wrote: Some rough weather passed through the area the other day, but my area managed to avoid the high winds and hail. We did get a nice summer thunderstorm, though, and some nice, dark clouds. I grabbed the K100D Super with the 50/1.7 and my K20D with my Promaster 70-300. The landscapes were all taken with the K100. The other image, taken with the K20, doesn't *quite* fit into the set, but I threw it in anyway because it's a picture of mammatus clouds, and I think they're cool. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157630777945530/ Comments suggestions eagerly accepted. -- 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: Mini-GESO: Storm Clouds Landscapes (4 photos)
Walt Gilbert wrote: As for the mammatus clouds, I've managed to capture them a couple of times. We had some at GFM last year: http://www.robertstech.com/galleries/gfm2011/7db02635.html http://www.robertstech.com/galleries/gfm2011/7db02643.html -- Mark Roberts - Photography Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- 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.
Test
I have a few messages that have not shown on the list, but are included in the archives. (?) Jack -- 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: Mini-GESO: Storm Clouds Landscapes (4 photos)
On 7/31/2012 3:28 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Walt Gilbert wrote: As for the mammatus clouds, I've managed to capture them a couple of times. We had some at GFM last year: http://www.robertstech.com/galleries/gfm2011/7db02635.html http://www.robertstech.com/galleries/gfm2011/7db02643.html Oh, man, those are beautiful, Mark! But, tell me this much: How the hell do you catch mammatus clouds at the *golden hour* -- Walt -- 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: Mini-GESO: Storm Clouds Landscapes (4 photos)
Thanks, Joseph. I've been a dilettante weather nerd for years, so I can't wait to get the cameras out when there's severe weather in the area. Anxious to see what you got in Phoenix. I'm a sucker for that kind of thing, too. -- Walt On 7/31/2012 3:21 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: I like. I'm a sucker for atmospherics. Took a boatload one day in Phoenix in March. I'll share when I get a chance. When the room darkens, always grab a camera (or two) and rush outdoors. It's either a storm, or a very large asteroid. In either case, good photos are ready to be made. On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:12 , Walt Gilbert wrote: Some rough weather passed through the area the other day, but my area managed to avoid the high winds and hail. We did get a nice summer thunderstorm, though, and some nice, dark clouds. I grabbed the K100D Super with the 50/1.7 and my K20D with my Promaster 70-300. The landscapes were all taken with the K100. The other image, taken with the K20, doesn't *quite* fit into the set, but I threw it in anyway because it's a picture of mammatus clouds, and I think they're cool. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157630777945530/ Comments suggestions eagerly accepted. -- 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: Test
I received this message through the PDML. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a few messages that have not shown on the list, but are included in the archives. (?) Jack -- 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. -- 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: PESO: New cedar table
very nice looking! You should be proud of it. -Original Message- From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com Subject: PESO: New cedar table I am sort of ham-handed and physically unskilled; the only things I normally create are software, prose, and photographs. But in an unaccustomed fit of carpenterial energy, I built a table for our cabin, and it’s kind of pretty. Close-up: http://goo.gl/zevu4 Narrative, with a couple more pix: http://goo.gl/R4MIE -T -- 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: Mini-GESO: Storm Clouds Landscapes (4 photos)
I like the third image best, mostly because of the light reflecting on the right side of the roof. The first two are also very nice; the fourth seems barren without something to give contrast to the clouds. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Walt Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote: Some rough weather passed through the area the other day, but my area managed to avoid the high winds and hail. We did get a nice summer thunderstorm, though, and some nice, dark clouds. I grabbed the K100D Super with the 50/1.7 and my K20D with my Promaster 70-300. The landscapes were all taken with the K100. The other image, taken with the K20, doesn't *quite* fit into the set, but I threw it in anyway because it's a picture of mammatus clouds, and I think they're cool. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157630777945530/ Comments suggestions eagerly accepted. Thanks! -- Walt -- 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. -- 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: PESO: New cedar table
fine work! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: I am sort of ham-handed and physically unskilled; the only things I normally create are software, prose, and photographs. But in an unaccustomed fit of carpenterial energy, I built a table for our cabin, and it’s kind of pretty. Close-up: http://goo.gl/zevu4 Narrative, with a couple more pix: http://goo.gl/R4MIE -T -- 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. -- 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: PESO: We the People
Nice colorful capture. Looks like you're getting some vignetting. -Original Message- From: Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com Subject: PESO: We the People http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195157 Comments are appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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: Mini-GESO: Storm Clouds Landscapes (4 photos)
Thanks, Dan. I was a little handcuffed on the last shot as they were almost directly overhead. But, I just had to have a photo of them, since they don't come along every day. One of these days, I hope to get a nice shot like Mark's. But, then, don't we all. -- Walt On 7/31/2012 3:44 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I like the third image best, mostly because of the light reflecting on the right side of the roof. The first two are also very nice; the fourth seems barren without something to give contrast to the clouds. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Walt Gilbert ldott...@gmail.com wrote: Some rough weather passed through the area the other day, but my area managed to avoid the high winds and hail. We did get a nice summer thunderstorm, though, and some nice, dark clouds. I grabbed the K100D Super with the 50/1.7 and my K20D with my Promaster 70-300. The landscapes were all taken with the K100. The other image, taken with the K20, doesn't *quite* fit into the set, but I threw it in anyway because it's a picture of mammatus clouds, and I think they're cool. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/sets/72157630777945530/ Comments suggestions eagerly accepted. Thanks! -- Walt -- 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. -- 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: PESO: Pretty boat
Lovely. You captured the schooner perfectly, and the light is quite appealing. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Two masts, four sails, sun from behind: http://goo.gl/iDw5b There was another boat, and the an amusing visual narrative: http://goo.gl/pBLFx These are both with the ancient eBayed Tokina 400mm. There’s really something to be said for a long-ish tele that’s light enough to hand-hold. Loafing around on the deck when the light is good with the Tokina and a bottle of wine, it’s really not terrible at all. -T -- 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. -- 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: Peso - carrot soup recipe with pic
A great culinary illustration, Ann! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: http://annsan.smugmug.com/WorksinProg/recipes-with-photos/6695312_SPVrJT/1/1060188476_3SPqr/Medium I started working on a recipe calendar but decided , on the whole, my best dishes are not so photogenic and I'm not such a good food shooter This one worked pretty well, though I'm about to make some for myself - I may have shown this to some of you before but I have a couple of guesses about who might make some :-) ann -- 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. -- 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: PESO hors d'oerves
Marvelous! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of The French must have a word for crispy fried thin patties of corn D'oriteaux B -- 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: PESO: New cedar table
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:45 PM, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 31/07/2012 10:16 AM, Tim Bray wrote: I am sort of ham-handed and physically unskilled; the only things I normally create are software, prose, and photographs. But in an unaccustomed fit of carpenterial energy, I built a table for our cabin, and it’s kind of pretty. Close-up: http://goo.gl/zevu4 You need to learn about how to attach things from underneath. Pretty wood though. A shame about the screw heads, but agreed: gorgeous wood. Countersinking and wooden plugs could be used here too. Visit Lee Valley Tools sometime: http://www.leevalley.com/ -- -bmw -- 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.
PESO - Simon's kayak
http://alunfoto.blogspot.no/2012/07/simons-kayak.html -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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: Bikers w/o engines
It takes a whole week to bike across Iowa?G Nice pan, with a feeling of action and motion. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com wrote: Every year thousands of bike riders gather to ride across Iowa in one week. Here's two of them who really got up to speed http://donspix.posterous.com/1-bike-riders-went-across-iowa-last-week#!/ -- 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. -- 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: PESO - Simon's kayak
Marvelous soft colors and great choice of DoF. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:04 PM, AlunFoto - Jostein Øksne p...@alunfoto.no wrote: http://alunfoto.blogspot.no/2012/07/simons-kayak.html -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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. -- 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.
London Olympics
I find this very strange. Is offensive tweeting really a crime in Britain? While the tweeter appears to be a jerk, didn't Daley increase the harm (if any) from the tweet by republishing it? UK police arrest teen for tweets about diver ASSOCIATED PRESS July 31, 2012 5:11AM Updated: July 31, 2012 8:16AM LONDON — A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of posting malicious Twitter messages directed at British Olympic diver Tom Daley, U.K. police said Tuesday. Daley’s father died of brain cancer a year ago and the 18-year-old Olympian had hoped to win a medal “for myself and my dad.” But he finished fourth on Monday, out of medal contention, in the 10-meter synchronized platform competition with teammate Pete Waterfield. Afterward, Daley tweeted a message saying “After giving it my all...you get idiots sending me this...” and retweeted a message from user @Rileyy69 which said: “You let your dad down i hope you know that.” Dorset Police said early Tuesday that a 17-year-old man was arrested “on suspicion of malicious communications” in relation to Twitter threats made against Daley. Police said the man was detained at a guest house in the southwestern coastal town of Weymouth in the early hours of the morning, and is currently helping police with their inquiries. In Britain, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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: PESO: Pretty boat
I can see a hint of something, but could not have told what it was. Thanks, Tim! Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com/ - Original Message - From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 10:38 AM Subject: Re: PESO: Pretty boat A steep wooded slope; if you look close you can see tree trunks. -T On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Jack Davis jdavi...@yahoo.com wrote: Nice back lighting! What created the large black background? Jack Davis http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis http://www.photolightimages.com/ - Original Message - From: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 9:22 AM Subject: PESO: Pretty boat Two masts, four sails, sun from behind: http://goo.gl/iDw5b There was another boat, and the an amusing visual narrative: http://goo.gl/pBLFx These are both with the ancient eBayed Tokina 400mm. There’s really something to be said for a long-ish tele that’s light enough to hand-hold. Loafing around on the deck when the light is good with the Tokina and a bottle of wine, it’s really not terrible at all. -T -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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: Bikers w/o engines
No - it just feels that way :-) My brother met his wife on RAGBRAI many, many years ago. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:08:37PM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: It takes a whole week to bike across Iowa?G Nice pan, with a feeling of action and motion. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com wrote: Every year thousands of bike riders gather to ride across Iowa in one week. Here's two of them who really got up to speed http://donspix.posterous.com/1-bike-riders-went-across-iowa-last-week#!/ -- 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. -- 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. -- 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: London Olympics
Wow... The first thing that went through my mind was that this criminalize stupidity in a public space. I can't see much good coming from that. :-( Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: I find this very strange. Is offensive tweeting really a crime in Britain? While the tweeter appears to be a jerk, didn't Daley increase the harm (if any) from the tweet by republishing it? UK police arrest teen for tweets about diver ASSOCIATED PRESS July 31, 2012 5:11AM Updated: July 31, 2012 8:16AM LONDON — A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of posting malicious Twitter messages directed at British Olympic diver Tom Daley, U.K. police said Tuesday. Daley’s father died of brain cancer a year ago and the 18-year-old Olympian had hoped to win a medal “for myself and my dad.” But he finished fourth on Monday, out of medal contention, in the 10-meter synchronized platform competition with teammate Pete Waterfield. Afterward, Daley tweeted a message saying “After giving it my all...you get idiots sending me this...” and retweeted a message from user @Rileyy69 which said: “You let your dad down i hope you know that.” Dorset Police said early Tuesday that a 17-year-old man was arrested “on suspicion of malicious communications” in relation to Twitter threats made against Daley. Police said the man was detained at a guest house in the southwestern coastal town of Weymouth in the early hours of the morning, and is currently helping police with their inquiries. In Britain, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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: London Olympics
As it says at the bottom of the article you quoted, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Even in the USA, where freedom of speech is often taken to be synonymous with freedom from any consequences of your speech there is an exception for 'hate speech'. There are also statutes against cyber bullying in several jurisdictions. Nothing is absolute. Just where the line is drawn between what is, and what is not, acceptable behaviour varies considerably between countries. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:15:46PM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I find this very strange. Is offensive tweeting really a crime in Britain? While the tweeter appears to be a jerk, didn't Daley increase the harm (if any) from the tweet by republishing it? UK police arrest teen for tweets about diver ASSOCIATED PRESS July 31, 2012 5:11AM Updated: July 31, 2012 8:16AM LONDON ? A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of posting malicious Twitter messages directed at British Olympic diver Tom Daley, U.K. police said Tuesday. Daley?s father died of brain cancer a year ago and the 18-year-old Olympian had hoped to win a medal ?for myself and my dad.? But he finished fourth on Monday, out of medal contention, in the 10-meter synchronized platform competition with teammate Pete Waterfield. Afterward, Daley tweeted a message saying ?After giving it my all...you get idiots sending me this...? and retweeted a message from user @Rileyy69 which said: ?You let your dad down i hope you know that.? Dorset Police said early Tuesday that a 17-year-old man was arrested ?on suspicion of malicious communications? in relation to Twitter threats made against Daley. Police said the man was detained at a guest house in the southwestern coastal town of Weymouth in the early hours of the morning, and is currently helping police with their inquiries. In Britain, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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. -- 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: PESO: The Dark Side
On Jul 30, 2012, at 13:43 , Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I had hoped to get it paired with a somewhat larger (ie closer) balloon, but it took so long to inflate Darth Vader that the others were fairly distant by the time it got aloft -- and it didn't stay up very long, either. When you spend $100,00 for a balloon vs the normal $35,000 - $65,000, you tend to be very careful about piloting it. Or he/she took off with almost empty tanks. :-) -- 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: Test
From: Jack Davis I have a few messages that have not shown on the list, but are included in the archives. (?) ? Jack I frequently see replies to messages that I don't remember seeing the original message in the digests. -- 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: PESO: The Dark Side
True. I have learned that the more unusual the design of the balloon, the harder it is to keep it in the air and navigate it. They didn't even try to get the dinosaur balloon off the ground. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: On Jul 30, 2012, at 13:43 , Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I had hoped to get it paired with a somewhat larger (ie closer) balloon, but it took so long to inflate Darth Vader that the others were fairly distant by the time it got aloft -- and it didn't stay up very long, either. When you spend $100,00 for a balloon vs the normal $35,000 - $65,000, you tend to be very careful about piloting it. Or he/she took off with almost empty tanks. :-) -- 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. -- 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: London Olympics
In the US, hate speech is actionable or criminal only if it is based on racial, religion or other classification, or if it is repeated often enough to become harassment or cyber stalking. If I tweet that a certain baseball player is a lazy inept bum, and an embarrassment to his family, that would not be hate speech. If I said instead he was an embarrassment to his race, that might be. I can't imagine the tweet described in the article being considered criminal or actionable in the US. Bad taste and lack of class are not yet violations of the law. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:31 PM, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: As it says at the bottom of the article you quoted, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Even in the USA, where freedom of speech is often taken to be synonymous with freedom from any consequences of your speech there is an exception for 'hate speech'. There are also statutes against cyber bullying in several jurisdictions. Nothing is absolute. Just where the line is drawn between what is, and what is not, acceptable behaviour varies considerably between countries. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:15:46PM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I find this very strange. Is offensive tweeting really a crime in Britain? While the tweeter appears to be a jerk, didn't Daley increase the harm (if any) from the tweet by republishing it? UK police arrest teen for tweets about diver ASSOCIATED PRESS July 31, 2012 5:11AM Updated: July 31, 2012 8:16AM LONDON ? A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of posting malicious Twitter messages directed at British Olympic diver Tom Daley, U.K. police said Tuesday. Daley?s father died of brain cancer a year ago and the 18-year-old Olympian had hoped to win a medal ?for myself and my dad.? But he finished fourth on Monday, out of medal contention, in the 10-meter synchronized platform competition with teammate Pete Waterfield. Afterward, Daley tweeted a message saying ?After giving it my all...you get idiots sending me this...? and retweeted a message from user @Rileyy69 which said: ?You let your dad down i hope you know that.? Dorset Police said early Tuesday that a 17-year-old man was arrested ?on suspicion of malicious communications? in relation to Twitter threats made against Daley. Police said the man was detained at a guest house in the southwestern coastal town of Weymouth in the early hours of the morning, and is currently helping police with their inquiries. In Britain, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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. -- 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. -- 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: Test
That happens to me as well,l and not very infrequently. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:38 PM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: Jack Davis I have a few messages that have not shown on the list, but are included in the archives. (?) ? Jack I frequently see replies to messages that I don't remember seeing the original message in the digests. -- 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. -- 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: OT - Backups Cockups, Netbooks MyBooks, Hard Drives , Dryers
Ditto on Macintosh computers. Using one gig out of the box as a backup one finds out that attaching through a powered hub creates a hard drive that won't wake up for Retrospect, which makes for no backup. When asleep, if it doesn't wake up fast enough for Retrospect, which reports it to the OS as being missing, so it is unmounted by the OS. It's a faulty combination of firmware and non-erasable software that makes it unreliable for anything other than normal storage. It still sits on the shelf, waiting for some day that I may want to use it for something else. All of my other drives are connected the same way, and work reliably, or as reliable as any hard drive. I keep 5 TB of unused spares on standby (2,2,1). On Jul 31, 2012, at 03:17 , John Sessoms wrote: This is such a heart-warming story for me. It makes me glad knowing that I'm not the only person on earth that computers hate. I will never buy another Western digital hard-drive, and especially never another MyBook. Several years ago, I bought a couple of MyBook drives (340GB 500GB) because they seemed to be really inexpensive. I found out instead that they're just really CHEAP (Of poor quality; inferior; Worthy of no respect; vulgar or contemptible). There just don't seem to be enough low, vulgar synonyms for *PIECE OF SHIT* to describe MyBook power supplies. The only positive thing I can say about them is Windoze-XP didn't seem to have any problem blowing away the pre-installed CRAPWARE. I wish I had an answer for making folders sharable in Vista, but the only Vista computer I have has only one shared folder all of the contents/sub-folders were auto-magically shared as well. From: Anthony Farr Backups, to me, originally meant CDs, then DVDs. But doubts were raised about the permanence of optical media, and my backup load was too large to periodically refresh everything, so I moved to hard drives. A couple of years ago I saw a product called Clickfree Automatic Backup, which is a small device placed in the usb cable between a computer on a wifi network and an external hard drive. With a little bit of software running on each computer in the network, they'd all be periodically backed up with no attention required. Great! And in all honesty it worked a treat. My son and I had all our data secured across 3 computers. But... and there's always a 'but', isn't there, the time came when my 500GB drive wasn't a big enough repository, so I got a 1TB WD MyBook, and my troubles began. Although there was nothing wrong with the MyBook, it had its own backup software, didn't it. No worries, thinks I, I'll just delete it from the drive. I don't want it, didn't ask for it and won't ever use it, so why not? The answer to 'why not?' was that WD had put the backup software on a fixed partition, and all my subsequent research on forum after forum informed me that the partition resists every attempt at deletion or reformatting. Bastards! Never mind, thinks I, I'll just ignore it. -- 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: OT - Backups Cockups, Netbooks MyBooks, Hard Drives , Dryers
Quoting John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: This is such a heart-warming story for me. It makes me glad knowing that I'm not the only person on earth that computers hate. I will never buy another Western digital hard-drive, and especially never another MyBook. Several years ago, I bought a couple of MyBook drives (340GB 500GB) because they seemed to be really inexpensive. I found out instead that they're just really CHEAP (Of poor quality; inferior; Worthy of no respect; vulgar or contemptible). There just don't seem to be enough low, vulgar synonyms for *PIECE OF SHIT* to describe MyBook power supplies. My experience with WD externals is similar. The first MyBook died after about 2 years of service but I haven't thrown it out yet - I might rip the drive out of the casing and fit it into a powered drive case to see if there's any life left. I then bought two WD Essentials. The first one's power adapter died twice (replaced once under warranty) and it's currently working in a third party powered case after the built in power supply died. The second one seems to work when it wants to, which doesn't always coincide with when I want it to. I haven't any experience with other brands so maybe this behaviour is just par for the course. Sorry I can't help with your problem, Anthony. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ The only positive thing I can say about them is Windoze-XP didn't seem to have any problem blowing away the pre-installed CRAPWARE. I wish I had an answer for making folders sharable in Vista, but the only Vista computer I have has only one shared folder all of the contents/sub-folders were auto-magically shared as well. From: Anthony Farr Backups, to me, originally meant CDs, then DVDs. But doubts were raised about the permanence of optical media, and my backup load was too large to periodically refresh everything, so I moved to hard drives. A couple of years ago I saw a product called Clickfree Automatic Backup, which is a small device placed in the usb cable between a computer on a wifi network and an external hard drive. With a little bit of software running on each computer in the network, they'd all be periodically backed up with no attention required. Great! And in all honesty it worked a treat. My son and I had all our data secured across 3 computers. But... and there's always a 'but', isn't there, the time came when my 500GB drive wasn't a big enough repository, so I got a 1TB WD MyBook, and my troubles began. Although there was nothing wrong with the MyBook, it had its own backup software, didn't it. No worries, thinks I, I'll just delete it from the drive. I don't want it, didn't ask for it and won't ever use it, so why not? The answer to 'why not?' was that WD had put the backup software on a fixed partition, and all my subsequent research on forum after forum informed me that the partition resists every attempt at deletion or reformatting. Bastards! Never mind, thinks I, I'll just ignore it. But... a week or two after the MyBook went into service I noticed that backups had ceased to occur on schedule. Then I noticed that the Clickfree icon in 'My Computer' had gone plain, when it should appear as a logo. Uh oh. Looking into it I found that the device, which came filled with installation files and firmware and such, was empty. The Clickfree help desk was great, I couldn't ask for better. They gave me a link to download the files needed to reflash the firmware, but to no avail. Then they emailed the files to me to ensure that I had uncorrupted copies of them. Still no success. So without any hesitation they sent me a new device. And that's where the Clickfree story ends for the moment, because it seemed to me that the MyBook had killed the Clickfree, and I wasn't about to give it a second chance. Now I was back to doing manual backups. No way was I going to use the WD backup software. I would plug the Mybook into my netbook computer and send to it, over my home network, the new files and changes from each computer . Even at 54Mb/sec it was quicker than doing a disk to disk copy on one computer, because the source computer only had to read the filefrom its disk, and the destination computer only had to write the fileto its disk. Doing the job on one computer leads to a lot of disk swapping and appallingly slow copy and paste times. It was a perfect solution until about two months ago when I took the netbook on a long car trip. At the end of the journey I found that I'd forgotten to shut it down, it was only on standby which doesn't safely park the hard drive's read/write heads. Soon afterwards it developed the faintest of clicks. Soon after that it crashed and has been out of service since. My backup strategy had been derailed. Fast forward to last week. It was cold, so our heaters were cranked up to
Re: PESO: We the People
Thanks for looking and commenting, Jack, Bruce, Bob, Steven, Paul, Walt and Ken. I liked these two balloons since they were colorful, but not as outrageous as many of the balloons on display were. I like the detail work on the We the People balloon, and the fact that it doesn't overdo the patriotism angle. I thought the colors and symbols on the other balloon provided contrast, without taking away from the first balloon in any manner, and the distance and angular separation between the two at that moment appealed to my eye. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=16195157 Comments are appreciated. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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: London Olympics
On 31/7/12, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: I find this very strange. Is offensive tweeting really a crime in Britain? While the tweeter appears to be a jerk, didn't Daley increase the harm (if any) from the tweet by republishing it? The laws are being tested. It's a criminal offence in the UK to publish defamatory information - Twitter is another method... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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: OT - GoPro Test
On 31/7/12, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: Whoa! That Handy-jib gadget is very nifty. No wonder you are into this: a whole 'nother world of stuff to drool and obsess over. The Hague stuff is poor man's Polecam: http://www.polecam.com/ -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- 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: London Olympics
On 7/31/2012 4:54 PM, Steve Cottrell wrote: On 31/7/12, Daniel J. Matyola, discombobulated, unleashed: I find this very strange. Is offensive tweeting really a crime in Britain? While the tweeter appears to be a jerk, didn't Daley increase the harm (if any) from the tweet by republishing it? The laws are being tested. It's a criminal offence in the UK to publish defamatory information - Twitter is another method... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law The UK gives much greater leeway to plaintiffs in libel/slander/defamation cases than the US. It's relatively impossible for a public figure to sue for defamation in the US as the burden falls upon the plaintiff to demonstrate actual malice. The question then becomes whether or not the plaintiff in this case would be considered a public figure due to his status as an Olympic competitor. The key precedents here would likely be either New York Times v. Sullivan if he were indeed considered a public figure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._Sullivan), or Brandenburg v. Ohio, which would require that the speech in question be both intended to incite violence, and likely to cause it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio). -- Walt -- 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: PESO: New cedar table
OTOH, the neatly spaced screw heads are themselves an esthetic statement of sorts. From: Bruce Walker On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:45 PM, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 31/07/2012 10:16 AM, Tim Bray wrote: I am sort of ham-handed and physically unskilled; the only things I normally create are software, prose, and photographs. But in an unaccustomed fit of carpenterial energy, I built a table for our cabin, and it?s kind of pretty. Close-up: http://goo.gl/zevu4 You need to learn about how to attach things from underneath. Pretty wood though. A shame about the screw heads, but agreed: gorgeous wood. Countersinking and wooden plugs could be used here too. Visit Lee Valley Tools sometime: http://www.leevalley.com/ -- 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: London Olympics
No Constitution, so no First Amendment. From: Daniel J. Matyola I find this very strange. Is offensive tweeting really a crime in Britain? While the tweeter appears to be a jerk, didn't Daley increase the harm (if any) from the tweet by republishing it? UK police arrest teen for tweets about diver ASSOCIATED PRESS July 31, 2012 5:11AM Updated: July 31, 2012 8:16AM LONDON ? A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of posting malicious Twitter messages directed at British Olympic diver Tom Daley, U.K. police said Tuesday. Daley?s father died of brain cancer a year ago and the 18-year-old Olympian had hoped to win a medal ?for myself and my dad.? But he finished fourth on Monday, out of medal contention, in the 10-meter synchronized platform competition with teammate Pete Waterfield. Afterward, Daley tweeted a message saying ?After giving it my all...you get idiots sending me this...? and retweeted a message from user @Rileyy69 which said: ?You let your dad down i hope you know that.? Dorset Police said early Tuesday that a 17-year-old man was arrested ?on suspicion of malicious communications? in relation to Twitter threats made against Daley. Police said the man was detained at a guest house in the southwestern coastal town of Weymouth in the early hours of the morning, and is currently helping police with their inquiries. In Britain, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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: OT - Backups Cockups, Netbooks MyBooks, Hard Drives , Dryers
on 2012-07-31 15:40 Brian Walters wrote My experience with WD externals is similar. i have a 1GB WD dual drive RAID unit; it's still working, but it's noisy and RAID 0 performance rarely outweighs the potential for failure for me, so it sits idle; it was remarkably cheap for a fast Firewire 800 drive at the time, so it got past my dislike of manufacturer-packaged drives -- 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: London Olympics
If I should tweet I like cats!, I'm sure many cat haters would find that offensive. Thus are we reduced to the lowest thin skinned common denominator. It's rather extreme to elevate poor taste to the level of hate speech. British Police win the gold for stupidity. From: John Francis As it says at the bottom of the article you quoted, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Even in the USA, where freedom of speech is often taken to be synonymous with freedom from any consequences of your speech there is an exception for 'hate speech'. There are also statutes against cyber bullying in several jurisdictions. Nothing is absolute. Just where the line is drawn between what is, and what is not, acceptable behaviour varies considerably between countries. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:15:46PM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I find this very strange. Is offensive tweeting really a crime in Britain? While the tweeter appears to be a jerk, didn't Daley increase the harm (if any) from the tweet by republishing it? UK police arrest teen for tweets about diver ASSOCIATED PRESS July 31, 2012 5:11AM Updated: July 31, 2012 8:16AM LONDON ? A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of posting malicious Twitter messages directed at British Olympic diver Tom Daley, U.K. police said Tuesday. Daley?s father died of brain cancer a year ago and the 18-year-old Olympian had hoped to win a medal ?for myself and my dad.? But he finished fourth on Monday, out of medal contention, in the 10-meter synchronized platform competition with teammate Pete Waterfield. Afterward, Daley tweeted a message saying ?After giving it my all...you get idiots sending me this...? and retweeted a message from user @Rileyy69 which said: ?You let your dad down i hope you know that.? Dorset Police said early Tuesday that a 17-year-old man was arrested ?on suspicion of malicious communications? in relation to Twitter threats made against Daley. Police said the man was detained at a guest house in the southwestern coastal town of Weymouth in the early hours of the morning, and is currently helping police with their inquiries. In Britain, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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: London Olympics
The same person was repeatedly sending these messages and has been warned about harrassment. The article you cited doesn't tell the whole story. It is true that you can be prosecuted for abusive behaviour, but it's by no means a law that everybody supports, and so-called hate speech laws appear to be just as dumb - why should someone's choice of religion be protected from insult? I can understand it applying to things like race, age, sex, handicap and suchlike because these are biological facts that we can do nothing about and have not chosen. Religion, on the other hand, is not like that, it's a choice just as politics and shopping is. You should be as free to insult my religion, or absence of, as they are to insult my choice of political party or supermarket or poor sporting achievements, but if you bombard me with texts about what a crap diver I am, or follow me around shouting at me because I'm a member of the Loony Party, I can have you charged with harrassment. B -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Daniel J. Matyola Sent: 31 July 2012 22:44 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: London Olympics In the US, hate speech is actionable or criminal only if it is based on racial, religion or other classification, or if it is repeated often enough to become harassment or cyber stalking. If I tweet that a certain baseball player is a lazy inept bum, and an embarrassment to his family, that would not be hate speech. If I said instead he was an embarrassment to his race, that might be. I can't imagine the tweet described in the article being considered criminal or actionable in the US. Bad taste and lack of class are not yet violations of the law. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:31 PM, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: As it says at the bottom of the article you quoted, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Even in the USA, where freedom of speech is often taken to be synonymous with freedom from any consequences of your speech there is an exception for 'hate speech'. There are also statutes against cyber bullying in several jurisdictions. Nothing is absolute. Just where the line is drawn between what is, and what is not, acceptable behaviour varies considerably between countries. On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:15:46PM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: I find this very strange. Is offensive tweeting really a crime in Britain? While the tweeter appears to be a jerk, didn't Daley increase the harm (if any) from the tweet by republishing it? UK police arrest teen for tweets about diver ASSOCIATED PRESS July 31, 2012 5:11AM Updated: July 31, 2012 8:16AM LONDON ? A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of posting malicious Twitter messages directed at British Olympic diver Tom Daley, U.K. police said Tuesday. Daley?s father died of brain cancer a year ago and the 18-year-old Olympian had hoped to win a medal ?for myself and my dad.? But he finished fourth on Monday, out of medal contention, in the 10-meter synchronized platform competition with teammate Pete Waterfield. Afterward, Daley tweeted a message saying ?After giving it my all...you get idiots sending me this...? and retweeted a message from user @Rileyy69 which said: ?You let your dad down i hope you know that.? Dorset Police said early Tuesday that a 17-year-old man was arrested ?on suspicion of malicious communications? in relation to Twitter threats made against Daley. Police said the man was detained at a guest house in the southwestern coastal town of Weymouth in the early hours of the morning, and is currently helping police with their inquiries. In Britain, tweeting messages considered menacing, offensive or indecent can lead to prosecution. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola -- 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. -- 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. -- 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. -- 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: OT - GoPro Test
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Steve Cottrell Sent: 31 July 2012 22:58 To: pentax list Subject: Re: OT - GoPro Test On 31/7/12, Bruce Walker, discombobulated, unleashed: Whoa! That Handy-jib gadget is very nifty. No wonder you are into this: a whole 'nother world of stuff to drool and obsess over. The Hague stuff is poor man's Polecam: http://www.polecam.com/ for the Olympics they have erected a cable across the Thames from Millwall Park to Greenwich Park, which is almost a mile, to carry a camera which flies in on the horsing around that's going on in the park. It gave me quite a shock to hear the camera whizzing over my head when I walked beneath it on Sunday. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=5588425 B -- 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.
