Re: GESO: Kruger Park scenes 9th Feb.

2021-02-11 Thread ann sanfedele
Alan, I love the Ostrich family - I've photographed and kinda made friends with ostriches in zoos but never saw chicks..! The heron in classic pose is a keeper of course.. In terms of filters and light, if you were shooting in the old days with film and in black and white and just can't be out

Re: GESO: Kruger Park scenes 9th Feb.

2021-02-11 Thread ann sanfedele
Alan - I wrote my follow up to Ken's comments before seeing this..  so you do have a physical problem keeping you from what you want to shoot at the best times ann On 2/11/2021 2:26 AM, Alan C wrote: Yes Ken, you are right. The problem is being in the right place during those hours. The big

Re: GESO: Kruger Park scenes 9th Feb.

2021-02-11 Thread Bob Pdml
Tutankhamen was fond of ostriches. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/natural-histories/tutankhamuns-ostriches > On 11 Feb 2021, at 03:06, Alan C wrote: > > Thanks, Bob. Ostrich farming has spread to the whole country now. It used to > be confined to the Karoo. BTW, there are even some

Re: GESO: Kruger Park scenes 9th Feb.

2021-02-11 Thread Ken Waller
I doubt filters would produce the effect of better light. Better light occurs around sunrise and sun set. Showing up around those times would certainly improve the possibility of shooting under better light. I’ve gotten up way before sunrise to travel to spots waiting for sunrise in the hope

Re: GESO: Kruger Park scenes 9th Feb.

2021-02-11 Thread Bob Pdml
> On 11 Feb 2021, at 04:23, David Mann wrote: > > Love the ostrich family. I've seen ostriches at farm-parks here but never > chicks. About 15 or so years ago the next big thing was going to be emu > farming, but it never took off. They’re flightless birds, so no surprise there... > >>

Re: GESO: Kruger Park scenes 9th Feb.

2021-02-11 Thread Bob Pdml
We stayed in Kruger for about three nights when we were there. The rand was very, very low against the pound and RSA was incredibly cheap for us. > On 11 Feb 2021, at 03:06, Alan C wrote: > > Thanks, Bob. Ostrich farming has spread to the whole country now. It used to > be confined to the

Re: Filtering

2021-02-11 Thread Igor PDML-StR
I am guessing that Doug has figured out the change and reverted it (on Feb 9, shortly after sending the message quoted below), but just in case: The update has changed at least one small detail. For a few days, from (approximately) Sun Feb 7 09:57 2021 until Tue Feb 9 16:21 2021, the

Re: GESO: Kruger Park scenes 9th Feb.

2021-02-11 Thread Alan C
Still is - about £1=R20. Pricing is international now. Half price pensioner discounts are available mid-week, out of season. Good for the campers & caravaners. Alan C On 11-Feb-21 10:44 AM, Bob Pdml wrote: We stayed in Kruger for about three nights when we were there. The rand was very,

LINK TO ARCHIVES

2021-02-11 Thread Alan C
What happened to the link to thePDML archives? Alan C -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

Re: LINK TO ARCHIVES

2021-02-11 Thread Alan C
Thanks, Brian I found both of those but they are not as user friendly as the Pipermail one. The "link" at the bottom changed to %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List on 7th Feb. The old link also gives error 404 Alan C On 11-Feb-21 11:10 PM, Brian W wrote: On 12 February 2021 at 04:36

Re: LINK TO ARCHIVES

2021-02-11 Thread mike wilson
This? https://pdml.net/empathy/list/pdml.pdml.net > On 11 February 2021 at 17:36 Alan C wrote: > > > What happened to the link to thePDML archives? > > Alan C -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please

Re: LINK TO ARCHIVES

2021-02-11 Thread Brian W
> On 12 February 2021 at 04:36 Alan C wrote: > > > What happened to the link to thePDML archives? The pipermail one is giving a 404 error - not sure why (http://pdml.net/pipermail/pdml_pdml.net/) This one still works: https://www.mail-archive.com/pdml@pdml.net/ as does the one Mike linked to

New look of Pentaxphotogallery

2021-02-11 Thread Igor PDML-StR
I don't know if it has been discussed on the list... I've just noticed that PPG has a new look. My first impression: a much lighter (in a good sense) and user-friendly design. Cheers, Igor -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to