Re: Intl. Photo Day 2016

Late to the conversation, but I always look at the gallery, whether I’ve submitted or not. And definitely appreciate Brian’s efforts. m > On Sep 13, 2016, at 8:39 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: > > We used to have open galleries once or twice a year, IIRC. That would make

Re: Intl. Photo Day 2016

We used to have open galleries once or twice a year, IIRC. That would make it easier since you could put up any old shot lying around, at least once or twice a year... On 9/13/2016 8:36 AM, ann sanfedele wrote: No, I didn't mean the open gallery as an add on... I actually thought about

Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

So engineers are about as good at video as they are at documentation? A key moment "The code is the documentation, if you don't understand it you shouldn't be looking at it." Which has nothing to do with actual engineering, except the person saying it had once called my code two clever by

Re: GESO Scotch Trek

The question is can he get someone else to polish it for him, or does he have to do it himself... On 9/13/2016 3:13 AM, Nicole Jacque wrote: Nothing down there is worn, well polished though. On Sep 12, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: Great shots of the Fizzball.

Re: Intl. Photo Day 2016

I don't know when "World Photography Day" will fall in August 2017, but for most here in the U.S. THE DATE is going to be August 21. http://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/eclipse-2017/ On 9/12/2016 10:37 PM, ann sanfedele wrote: Certainly glad to hear that you want to press on BRian, I had

Re: OT: Chromatic aberration

You've got to look at the optics, after all they are from Calvin Kline. On 9/13/2016 8:03 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: It's hard enough to find a lens with excellent optical properties. Now we also need to worry about chromatic aberration when shopping for jeans.

Re: PESO - Convict Barracks Ruins

Nice shot and angle. Glad the light cooperated. Fascinating location. On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:15 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > These barracks are located on a high cliff at Stanley on the north coast > of Tasmania, where they have been exposed to gales from Bass Strait

Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

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Re: OT Track Day Wednesday at Thunderhill (Willows CA)

Larry Colen wrote: >Tomorrow, Nicole and I will be teaching at Thunderhill, in Willows CA >(90 miles north of Sacramento, 40 South of Chico). > >As it turns out, we could use the assistance of someone to do simple >things like check the fluid levels between sessions. We will also be >able to

Re: A milestone

> On Sep 13, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > Not for me, per se, but for my miata. 100,000 miles on the odometer > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/29036393154/in/album-72157670548513113/ > > If you don't like arachnids, don't look at the other photos in the

Re: Intl. Photo Day 2016

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016, at 02:32 AM, John wrote: > I don't know when "World Photography Day" will fall in August 2017, but > for most here in the U.S. THE DATE is going to be August 21. > > http://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/eclipse-2017/ That's a bummer. World Photo Day is two days earlier

A milestone

Not for me, per se, but for my miata. 100,000 miles on the odometer https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/29036393154/in/album-72157670548513113/ If you don't like arachnids, don't look at the other photos in the album, I saw someone that seemed to want to go for a ride. -- Larry Colen

Re: PESO - Convict Barracks Ruins

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016, at 06:59 PM, Alan C wrote: > There are some families in SA descended from convicts who managed to > escape > overboard & swim ashore when the ships passed by. Probably several didn't > make it! Nevertheless, those who did could easily evade the overstretched > authorities

Re: GESO Scotch Trek

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016, at 06:17 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > > Brian Walters wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016, at 05:13 PM, Nicole Jacque wrote: > >> Nothing down there is worn, well polished though. > > > > Boom. Boom! > > > > I had to Google 'Fizzball". According to Wikipedia, Fizzball is "a > >

Re: GESO Scotch Trek

P.J. Alling wrote: The question is can he get someone else to polish it for him, or does he have to do it himself... I suspect that is very high on the list of questions that the vast majority of people don't want to know the answer to. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on

OT Track Day Wednesday at Thunderhill (Willows CA)

Tomorrow, Nicole and I will be teaching at Thunderhill, in Willows CA (90 miles north of Sacramento, 40 South of Chico). As it turns out, we could use the assistance of someone to do simple things like check the fluid levels between sessions. We will also be able to take people for some

Re: OT - Facebook and napalm girl

Jostein wrote: I believe you're right about user-hoots and Zuckerberg, but I don't think the majority of Facebook's users constrain themselves like you do, Paul. Part of its success is being so much more than what you list. A platform for discussing news, sharing images, playing games,

Re: PESO - Convict Barracks Ruins

Thanks Gonz. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ On Wed, Sep 14, 2016, at 05:56 AM, Gonz wrote: > Nice shot and angle. Glad the light cooperated. Fascinating location. > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:15

Re: PESO - Convict Barracks Ruins

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016, at 08:10 PM, David Mann wrote: > Lovely, reminds me of the ruins on Norfolk Island. Yeah - the two locations have much in common in terms of convict treatment. I'd like to get back to Norfolk - honeymooned there in 1969. I doubt much has changed... Cheers Brian

Re: OT Track Day Wednesday at Thunderhill (Willows CA)

On 9/13/2016 8:05 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: Larry Colen wrote: Tomorrow, Nicole and I will be teaching at Thunderhill, in Willows CA (90 miles north of Sacramento, 40 South of Chico). As it turns out, we could use the assistance of someone to do simple things like check the fluid levels between

Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

A quick perusal of KEH.com for Leica R lenses gave me the vapors... On 9/13/2016 2:22 PM, Sandy Harris wrote: http://adaptist.weebly.com/pentax-k-multi-mount-wr-version.html See also: http://leitax.com/ -- I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality

Re: A milestone

Ah, so at 100K you don't have the bugs worked out yet. (;+> Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: "Larry Colen" Subject: A milestone Not for me, per se, but for my miata. 100,000 miles on the odometer

Re: PESO - Convict Barracks Ruins

There are some families in SA descended from convicts who managed to escape overboard & swim ashore when the ships passed by. Probably several didn't make it! Nevertheless, those who did could easily evade the overstretched authorities in the wild days of the Cape Colony & enjoy their new found

Re: PESO - Convict Barracks Ruins

Lovely, reminds me of the ruins on Norfolk Island. Cheers, Dave > On Sep 13, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Brian Walters wrote: > > These barracks are located on a high cliff at Stanley on the north coast > of Tasmania, where they have been exposed to gales from Bass Strait for >

Re: PESO - Convict Barracks Ruins

What Brian said! J Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 12, 2016, at 9:19 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > > Thanks for the comment, Ken. Personally I think the structure on the > left balances the composition although a square crop on the main > structure would probably work. > >

OT: Chromatic aberration

It's hard enough to find a lens with excellent optical properties. Now we also need to worry about chromatic aberration when shopping for jeans. https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1EIHFCTFF0YT9/?ASIN=B00FS5DO6E -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: BBC pays respect to PDML mascot

ha! love it - what a nice shot too! ann On 9/13/2016 2:18 AM, Chris Mitchell wrote: Each day at 6am, there's a slot called "Tweet of the Day". Here's today's: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b020tr6m "...in the breeding season they look rather dashing" Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail

Re: Intl. Photo Day 2016

No, I didn't mean the open gallery as an add on... I actually thought about every month being an open gallery - thinking more people would submit without a theme... but I do like the themes myself, actually. Selecting one month as an open gallery sounds good to me, personally. The

Re: PESO - Convict Barracks Ruins

Brian, I agree... not just from the point of view (hehe) but as information... I like it as it is ann On 9/13/2016 12:19 AM, Brian Walters wrote: Thanks for the comment, Ken. Personally I think the structure on the left balances the composition although a square crop on the main structure

BBC pays respect to PDML mascot

Each day at 6am, there's a slot called "Tweet of the Day". Here's today's: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b020tr6m "...in the breeding season they look rather dashing" Chris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the

Re: PESO - torso study #1

Two words regarding the black spot: Cindy Crawford. :) I did hide all sorts of other stuff that bothered my esthetic senses (like dark lines in the hose), but I am very selective about the "flaws" that I remove in a shot, and both of those I intentionally left. The seam because I like where it

Re: PESO - torso study #1

Yeah, I pondered that for a while but decided it worked as this is a subset of a torso. Torso being the trunk of the body minus the head and limbs. I couldn't come up with a synonym for derriere that didn't sound crass, so torso it is. Thanks for looking and commenting, Godfrey! On Mon, Sep

Re: Pentax Multi Mount.

On 12/9/16, P.J. Alling, discombobulated, unleashed: >Apparently a lot of legacy lenses for other mounts can be used on Pentax >DSLRs if one one brave or foolish enough to attempt this conversion. I >forgot where where I first read about this but I was going through some >old bookmarks and

Re: PESO: Bonding

On 12/9/16, David Mann, discombobulated, unleashed: >Meet our newest member :) Still waiting for her to tell us her name. >We thought we had a few weeks left to pick one... > >http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/1024/#peso Congratulations Dave. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast,

Re: OT: Chromatic aberration

It will take a while for my mind to stop trying to make sense of that. Let. It. Go. On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > It's hard enough to find a lens with excellent optical properties. Now > we also need to worry about chromatic aberration when shopping for

Re: BBC pays respect to PDML mascot

Beautiful plumage! > On 13 Sep 2016, at 07:19, Chris Mitchell wrote: > > Each day at 6am, there's a slot called "Tweet of the Day". Here's today's: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b020tr6m > > "...in the breeding season they look rather dashing" > > Chris > > --

Re: GESO Scotch Trek

Nothing down there is worn, well polished though. > On Sep 12, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: > > Great shots of the Fizzball. So tell me Larry, is anything worn under the > kilt? > > B > >> On 12 Sep 2016, at 09:00, Larry Colen wrote: >> >>

Re: GESO Scotch Trek

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016, at 05:13 PM, Nicole Jacque wrote: > Nothing down there is worn, well polished though. Boom. Boom! I had to Google 'Fizzball". According to Wikipedia, Fizzball is "a cross-platform computer game in which the player bounces the titular "fizzball" around the screen. The game

Re: GESO Scotch Trek

Brian Walters wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2016, at 05:13 PM, Nicole Jacque wrote: Nothing down there is worn, well polished though. Boom. Boom! I had to Google 'Fizzball". According to Wikipedia, Fizzball is "a cross-platform computer game in which the player bounces the titular "fizzball"