On Sep 20, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Darren Addy wrote:
Haven't seen anybody ever write about this yet, but people are
spending serious dollars on the Hasselblad XPAN ($1500-$2500) but you
could do the same thing with a Pentax 6x7, a 67 45mm lens, and the
Fotodiox panormama kit for the Pentax 67:
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
steve harley
on 2011-09-19 16:26 Stan Halpin wrote
You can probably buy crutches in all sizes in those same stores . . .
not sure what your point is — perhaps to disparage thrift stores? — but
indeed,
that was where
On 11-09-20 1:23 AM, Brian Walters wrote:
I assumed that if you don't want to participate in the Pentax Gallery
any more or if you don't want to have your photos on our mobile
site, they won't transfer your photos and data to the new site(s) if
you notify them by Oct 3. I'm not sure what our
I suppose they will use some images to promote the gallery as they've done in
the past. It's a typical disclaimer and not worth losing sleep over, IMO.
Paul
On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:40 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
Hi All:
I received this message from the Pentax Gallery website people.
I
Don Guthrie shark50...@gmail.com writes:
http://donspix.posterous.com/doors-to-nowhere-3-pix-for-the-indecisive-pho
I like the b/w one best. The yellow posts unbalance #3 by grabbing
attention, and cropping them out weakens the composition in #1.
-tih
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The market is a bunch of 28-year-olds
Not a great photo, I just wanted an ID on this guy. He was hanging
around with the goldfinches several weeks ago (before they left) but
he doesn't look like a goldfinch, just a wannabe.
http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/yellow-guy.html
Any ideas?
Thanks!
cheers,
frank
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Sharpness
Frank,
He/she is a young goldfinch.
It takes 'em a while for their colors to come in.
Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 7:13 AM, frank theriault
knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
Not a great photo, I just wanted an ID on this guy. He was hanging
around with the goldfinches several weeks
Bob's right. Either it is a young goldfinch, or it is a male that is
molting to change into his drab winter outfit.
Dan
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote:
Frank,
He/she is a young goldfinch.
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote:
#3 is my favorite. The stairs need to touch the ground,
and the 6 yellow posts are a plus in the color photo.
BW is boring...
Regards, Bob S.
Agreed
Dave
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Don Guthrie
William Robb wrote:
Not liking Ansel Adams certainly strains a friendship, but I'll grant
you are still a more or less worthwhile human being until you say
something to redeem yourself.
The monochrome needs to be cropped to more or less square, and then it
works.
,mark.
One cannot try to
That's a nice shot, Tom.
Judging by the angles, it doesn't even appear to be that extreme of a
telephoto shot, either.
One shudders to consider the cost of those tickets. Somewhat stratospheric,
wasn't it?
-Charles
Thanks. You're correct, third row center. Almost exactly the same as
On 11-09-19 4:24 PM, Don Guthrie wrote:
The 1st set in a series. Of these 3 pix of the same thing I can't pick
my favorite treatment. Your opinion would be valued.
http://donspix.posterous.com/doors-to-nowhere-3-pix-for-the-indecisive-pho
#3, the bright yellow posts jump out and draw in
Looks like a goldfinch preparing for winter
ann
On 9/20/2011 08:13, frank theriault wrote:
Not a great photo, I just wanted an ID on this guy. He was hanging
around with the goldfinches several weeks ago (before they left) but
he doesn't look like a goldfinch, just a wannabe.
OK 3 votes for Goldy... there ya go Frank!
I thought youngster first, then molting male and settled on the latter
ann
On 9/20/2011 10:17, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
Bob's right. Either it is a young goldfinch, or it is a male that is
molting to change into his drab winter outfit.
Dan
Dan
From: Bruce Walker
Talk about Ansel Adams (see A door to nowhere thread) had me searching
for something about a repeated criticism of Ansel Adams that I've run
across: that he's the Normal Rockwell of photogs; that his output is
kitsch rather than art; that his belief in beauty above all rather
On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:50, Tom C wrote:
That's a nice shot, Tom.
Judging by the angles, it doesn't even appear to be that extreme of a
telephoto shot, either.
One shudders to consider the cost of those tickets. Somewhat stratospheric,
wasn't it?
-Charles
Thanks. You're
I'm sure I would enjoy seeing the photo galleries of any Ansel Adams critic.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is
On Sep 10, 2011, at 8:48, Rick Womer wrote:
Leaping effortlessly through time and space, this is from our trip to Toronto
in May:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14149418size=lg
I like this quite a bit. I can't really tell where the light's coming from so
it's very interesting
Right. Your new camera is weather sealed, so it doesn't matter if *YOU*
get soaked and catch your death from cold.
I hope it doesn't rain either Mark.
From: Jack Davis
Just read this and am likely not the first one to comment about this, but them
K5 is grommeted and sealed against moisture
From: Brian Walters
On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:40 AM, Igor Roshchin
s...@komkon.org wrote:
Hi All:
I received this message from the Pentax Gallery website people.
I suspect that many of you received a similar message.
I noticed the sentence:
However, if you prefer
not to display your
From: frank theriault
Not a great photo, I just wanted an ID on this guy. He was hanging
around with the goldfinches several weeks ago (before they left) but
he doesn't look like a goldfinch, just a wannabe.
http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/yellow-guy.html
Any ideas?
A yellow
From: Tom C
William Robb wrote:
Not liking Ansel Adams certainly strains a friendship, but I'll grant
you are still a more or less worthwhile human being until you say
something to redeem yourself.
The monochrome needs to be cropped to more or less square, and then it
works.
,mark.
One cannot
The distance between I could have done something and I have done
something (particularly done it First) is vast indeed.
Darren Addy
Kearney, Nebraska
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I Coulda, woulda, shoulda is always trumped by I DID.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Darren Addy pixelsmi...@gmail.com wrote:
The distance between I could have done something and I have done
something (particularly done it First) is vast indeed.
Darren Addy
Kearney, Nebraska
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From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
Paul Stenquist
I find the essayist's snoopy metaphor silly and demeaning. And while he
admits to an Adams renaissance, t's clear that he doesn't understand
the artistry of Adams' work and how he was able to bend light
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
Darren Addy
I'm sure I would enjoy seeing the photo galleries of any Ansel Adams
critic.
I think you've misunderstood the function of critics. Are you suggesting
that noone should criticise something unless they have
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote:
I think you've misunderstood the function of critics. Are you suggesting
that noone should criticise something unless they have personally done
better? That would be absurd.
I am suggesting that I personally value
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
Darren Addy
I think you've misunderstood the function of critics. Are you
suggesting
that noone should criticise something unless they have personally
done
better? That would be absurd.
I am suggesting that I
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote:
The function of critics is to provide an opinion for those with an
insufficient mental capacity to form one of their own.
that's probably the most arrogant thing I've ever read on the PDML.
Congratulations.
But you can't be
On 20/09/2011 12:35 PM, Bob W wrote:
that's probably the most arrogant thing I've ever read on the PDML.
Dammit Bob, does this mean I have to revert back to being the list dickweed?
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On 20/09/2011 9:43 AM, Tom C wrote:
LOL. I like you, is that redeeming enough? :-)
Fine. We can still be friends.
Tom C. (ALL my work is derivative)
What utter bullshit. Your work is some of the most original and non
derivative work I've seen.
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Darren Addy wrote:
I'm sure I would enjoy seeing the photo galleries of any Ansel Adams critic.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
http://photo.net/photodb/presentation?presentation_id=539118
By you know who.
Tom C.
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William Robb
that's probably the most arrogant thing I've ever read on the PDML.
Dammit Bob, does this mean I have to revert back to being the list
dickweed?
you're gonna need to pick up the pace a bit, I think
B
On 11-09-20 2:11 PM, Bob W wrote:
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
Paul Stenquist
I find the essayist's snoopy metaphor silly and demeaning. And while he
admits to an Adams renaissance, t's clear that he doesn't understand
the artistry of Adams' work and
On 9/20/2011 11:35 AM, Bob W wrote:
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
Darren Addy
I think you've misunderstood the function of critics. Are you
suggesting
that noone should criticise something unless they have personally
done
better? That would be
On 9/20/2011 11:56 AM, Tom C wrote:
Nice quote and I'll agree to that last statement. :-) Budweiser still
goes better with pizza than anything non-beer.
I'll keep that in mind. I've never enjoyed it with anything else
non-beer. Generally, when I've had it I've been sadder budweiser.
--
On 9/20/2011 11:52 AM, William Robb wrote:
On 20/09/2011 12:35 PM, Bob W wrote:
that's probably the most arrogant thing I've ever read on the PDML.
Dammit Bob, does this mean I have to revert back to being the list
dickweed?
You're the list dickweed? I thought I was the list dickweed
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
- Original Message -
From: Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org
To: PDML@pdml.net
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 12:40 AM
Subject: On All Pentax Imaging Web Properties
Hi All:
I received this message from the Pentax
A female American Goldfinch.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
- Original Message -
From: Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: PESO - Yellow Guy
Frank,
He/she is a young goldfinch.
It takes 'em a while for their colors to come in.
Regards,
On 9/20/2011 12:05 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Kenneth Brower does an admirable and thorough job of fending off all
of Adam's critics, including an accidental critic: John Szarkowski ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2002/07/brower.htm
I wonder how much of Adams' work is
On Sep 20, 2011, at 13:56, Tom C wrote:
Nice quote and I'll agree to that last statement. :-) Budweiser still
goes better with pizza than anything non-beer.
Cheap white wine from a box - with ice cubes - works for me! I have no class.
-Charles
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Bob W wrote, in repsonse to Darren Addy:
I am suggesting that I personally value Accomplishment, no matter how
small, over Criticism (no matter how highly-regarded).
The function of critics is to provide an opinion for those with an
insufficient mental capacity to form one of their own.
I wonder how much of Adams' work is underappreciated by not seeing the
original prints, but only seeing it on posters on office walls, or
perhaps on the web. Kind of like watching Star Wars via VHS on a 12
CRT TV in 2000, versus watching it in the theater in July 1977.
--
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Well done. God, he's old!
Paul
On Sep 20, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Tom C wrote:
http://photo.net/photodb/presentation?presentation_id=539118
By you know who.
Tom C.
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Paul, That's kinda what I was thinking...
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
Well done. God, he's old!
Paul
On Sep 20, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Tom C wrote:
http://photo.net/photodb/presentation?presentation_id=539118
By you know who.
Tom C.
--
I have an acquaintance who fancies himself a movie director though
he's never sold anything commercially. I've found I've stopped
discussing movies I like because I watch a movie to be entertained. He
watches a movie to critique it, and that takes all the fun out of it.
Tom C.
That may
The telling day for that thought was June 18th 2006 ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3chFhCP5mQ
(Good photos, BTW, Tom!)
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:17:44PM -0500, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Paul, That's kinda what I was thinking...
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Paul Stenquist
I finally got my Minolta Scan Multi II operational again. What a slog,
though...
It's a SCSI scanner so I got a SCSI card with 64-bit driver support
for my computer. But I couldn't get the card to recognize the scanner
no matter what I did. Card problem? Scanner problem? Who knows... So I
tried
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Christine Aguila christ...@caguila.com wrote:
Girlfriend, get the K5!!! I'm working towards getting a 2nd one for back-up.
1) The other day I was shooting long with the K-7 wide with the K-5 for
action stuff, and I couldn't believe the difference. Auto
On 20/09/2011 1:25 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
You're the list dickweed? I thought I was the list dickweed and you were
the list asshole. Now I'm confused.
We don't actually have an official list asshole at the moment.
I transferred to the Dickweed department a while back, and left the
On 20/09/2011 1:37 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
I wonder how much of Adams' work is underappreciated by not seeing the
original prints,
I saw an original (signed by St. Ansel himself) print of Moonrise over
Hernandez in a gallery in Santa Fe. I was struck by the depth and sheer
richness of the
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On 20/09/2011 1:25 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
You're the list dickweed? I thought
On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Bob W wrote:
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On 20/09/2011 1:25 PM, Larry Colen
On 20/09/2011 3:06 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote:
Thanks. A little girl talk always helps!
I feel dirty now.
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On Sep 20, 2011, at 8:23 PM, William Robb wrote:
On 20/09/2011 3:06 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote:
Thanks. A little girl talk always helps!
I feel dirty now.
With good reason. If the PDML engages in little girl talk, we could all end up
in hot water.
Paul
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Cheeky bastard.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Bob W wrote:
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From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of
William Robb
Sent: 20 September 2011 22:58
To:
What a bum!
On 11-09-20 8:35 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
Cheeky bastard.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Paul Stenquistpnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote:
On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Bob W wrote:
while we're on the subject of critics and assholes, you might enjoy the
following from critic
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:09:47PM +0100, Bob W wrote:
while we're on the subject of critics and assholes, you might enjoy the
following from critic and art-lover Kenneth Tynan: The buttocks are the
most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are
non-functional. Although they
Apparently to some the butt is art.
Jack
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To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net
Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: OT But is it art?
What a bum!
On 11-09-20 8:35 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote:
Indignity?
Nah - THIS is indignity!
http://www.pbase.com/wendybeard/image/138022017
:-)
Wendy
(poor Bandit :-) )
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Daniel J. Matyola
danmaty...@gmail.com wrote:
http://blogs.delphiforums.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=mainwebtag=djm1963entry=132
Comments are always
Yes, indeed it is.
Dan
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:36 PM, wendy beard pointyp...@gmail.com wrote:
Indignity?
Nah - THIS is indignity!
http://www.pbase.com/wendybeard/image/138022017
:-)
Wendy
(poor Bandit :-) )
On Mon, Sep
A few of you have been to my house, and have seen my redwood grove. Even
though they are young and small for redwoods, at about 100' tall and 4' in
diameter, they're still pretty big by human standards. I recently picked up a
work from home programming contract, and when I need to clear my
on 2011-09-20 23:21 Larry Colen wrote
As you might guess, when I was taking a break this afternoon, I noticed how the
angle of the light brought out the texture of the bark on one of the trees,
inspiring me to grab the camera, and give another try. I think that this shot
does a fair job of
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