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Taken at Boykin Springs located in the Angelina National Forrest. The park can be accessed from HWY 63 about 20 miles West of Jasper Texas. All photos taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Exposure: 0.8
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal Length: 45 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Taken at Boykin Springs located in the Angelina National Forrest. The park can be accessed from HWY 63 about 20 miles West of Jasper Texas. All photos taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Exposure: 0.6
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal Length: 24 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Taken at Boykin Springs located in the Angelina National Forrest. The park can be accessed from HWY 63 about 20 miles West of Jasper Texas. All photos taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Exposure: 0.5
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
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The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 5.33PM CST.
Boykin Springs Recreation Area located in the Angelina National Forrest off of Hwy 63 West. The photo was taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 4.04PM CST.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 5.18PM CST.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 5.30PM CST.
Final Selections!
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Final Selections!
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Final Selections!
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Final Selections!
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Final Selections!
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Taken in O'Fallon Illinois during the winter months...
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Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me post this!
Spawn-of-Satan Wireless
Once upon a time there was no 911 service, but you could use the handset of a Western Electric telephone as a club for beating burglars about the head and shoulders. Now an entire telephone is little more than a choking hazard for infants and puppies.
Cell 'phones, like toilet paper, are useful, but they have acquired such a cultic status that there may soon be an official government holiday dedicated to them. People actually have conversations about their 'phones, which did not happen in 1960: "I've got a 'phone. Western Electric. Black. It sends and receives calls." "Me, too. Western Electric. Black. It sends and receives calls."
I credit the invention of the Princess Phone as the beginning of the end of Western Civilization.
My lights-up-in-the-dark cell 'phone winked out last week, and I approached, yea, verily, the Temple of Telephones in Beaumont to have the matter remedied. I was in the temple at 0905, and at 0935 I was still waiting to be blessed by the priestesses and my name hadn't moved from the #4 spot, where it started, on the electric signboard. The Temple of Telephones features seven altars, but the hierarchy hadn't seen fit to assign more than two priestesses. Two of the faithful were at the two open altars when I entered and were still there when I left, muttering heresy under my breath. As I have often said before, the concept of customer service in many stores in Beaumont is pretty much Ignore-Them-And-Maybe-They'll-Go-Away. This also applies to nation-wide religions like my cell 'phone service provider, Spawn of Satan Wireless.
I was not optimistic about the 1-800-What-Do-You-Want, Peasant? number, but I suffered only five minutes or so of advertisements for newer-than-new Spawn-of-Satan Wireless telephones and services when a miracle occurred – a real human spoke unto me. She told me the obvious, that my 'phone service had been cancelled. I agreed with her diagnosis, and asked her whodunnit. She was amazed that apparently no one had dunnit, it was just dunnit, but that she would reconnect my 'phone and not charge me a $15 reconnect fee. She said this last bit as if she expected me to thank her and Spawn of Satan Wireless for not charging me to reconnect a telephone that they, not I, had disconnected. She mentioned this generosity twice. I didn't thank her twice.
And then I got a bill charging me $150 for early termination. Grrrrrrr.
Once again I am wirelessly harnessed to the world on the electronic choke-chain, and can re-join the faithful in chanting "Can you hear me now?" Before Vatican II that was "Audit me nunc?" Old people still maintain that telephone service was so much better when it was in Latin.
I miss Western Electric telephones, those great big chunks of manly, heavy, made-in-America plastic that you could have used as door stops or boat anchors were you so inclined.
I miss staplers, too. When Marco Polo and I were in school together there were two brands of staplers, Bostich and Swingline, made entirely of steel in American industrial cities by World War II veterans named Spike and Rocky who smoked cigarettes and drank cups of Joe in chrome diners. If Bostich or Swingline staplers jammed you simply opened them up and beat on them like the S.E.I.U. beat up Republicans until their attitude changed.
Alas that you couldn't take a photograph with a steel stapler. In order to take a photograph you had to have a camera. How did we ever live?
Now staplers are made in China of thin, brittle plastic. My previous one lasted less than a year, and I pleaded with the SupplyMeister for a new stapler, which was called (not kidding) EcoStapler. It lasted through exactly twenty staplings and then split down the middle like the temple veil on Good Friday. The toughest part of the EcoStapler was its hardshell plastic bubble, which took the edge off my Gerber pocketknife in a session of cutting, cursing, and bloodletting.
Tape dispensers, too, were once made of steel, with good steel teeth for sundering the tape apart in a most satisfactory way. Now tape dispensers are plastic, which wouldn't be a bad idea except that they are filled with Chinese sand and soon begin spilling sand all over one's endeavors. My tape dispenser is mended with its own tape so no more sand will leak out, but the cuts are a little ragged since the Chinese teeth are little inclined to honest work.
Someone said the new staplers and tape dispensers coming out of India will also take pictures and paint your toenails.
I wished that it was not as bright as it was. I will have to go back soon and do some omre like this.
Boykin Springs Recreation Area located in the Angelina National Forrest off of Hwy 63 West. The photo was taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Exposure: 0.8
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Not sure why there are so many holes in the walls of this building. They make for neat photography.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 4.55PM CST
Looking out from the inside on the mill.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 4.55PM CST.
I love this photo because of the light coming in through the window on the right wall.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 5.17PM CST.
This is the sign you see when you at the trail head leading you to the mill.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 4.50PM CST.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 4.57PM CST.
Another in the Macro set of the rusty piling bolts that i found at Aldridge Mill.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Quantaray LD 70-300 Tele-Macro Lens
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 6.02PM CST.
Inside of one building on the property. The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 5.02PM CST.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 5.23PM CST.
I took this Macro using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. I love the old bolt and the splash of color on the rocks.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas located close to Boykin Springs Rec area in the Angelina National Forrest on Hwy 63 West. Taken with the Quantaray LD 70-300 Tele-Macro Lens
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 6.02PM CST.
Macro Photo taken of a tree fern growing in moss on the old pileing of a nonexistant building.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas close to Boykin Springs Rec area located in the Angelina National Forrest. Taken with the Quantaray LD 70-300 Tele-Macro Lens
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 5.54PM CST.
The Old Mill in Aldridge Texas close to Boykin Springs Rec area located in the Angelina Natioinal Forrest. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 5.29PM CST.
Atesian Spring located in Boykin Springs Recreation Area. It is located in the Angelina National Forrest off of Hwy 63 West. The photo was taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 4.03PM CST.
Boykin Springs Recreation Area located in the Angelina National Forrest off of Hwy 63 West. The photo was taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Uploaded by RMStringer on 14 Feb 10, 3.59PM CST.
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The 2 photos “Sandy Creek Park 1.0a and 1.0b were taken using the different White Balance settings to demonstrate how this works in camera. This is what the photo looks like using the Custom White Balance setting of 2500k G3 Setting. Sandy Creek Park off of Main Street in Jasper Texas. Taken using the Sony 18-70mm Lens in a 16:9 Aspect Ratio at different lengths of time. I used the Opteka Timer Remote Control and a Tri-Pod to take the photos. I used an "On The Fly" Custom White Balance on this set of photo to cut out the Orange glow from the High Pressure Sodium Lighting that is used in this park. It is the first time that i have ever done this. I was very impressed with the results.
Exposure: 11
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 20 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Uploaded by RMStringer on 31 Oct 09, 1.30AM CST.
This photo won me "Photo Of The Week" on KWMU in St Louis Mo.
Red Legged Honeycreeper is what he is called.
Not really sure why he was sitting in the Butterfly Dome at the zoo. He has a brilliant color to him and he was just sitting in a clump of trees in the center of the dome. I love the DOF and Bokeh that this photo has.
Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 230 mm
ISO Speed: 400
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The United States Witch Force
The United States Air Force has officially welcomed witchcraft through granting a worship space (apparently a ring of rocks on a hilltop) to Wiccans (which sounds ever so much nicer than saying witches) at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
The cynical among us might ask (and we do) why witches would want to fly airplanes when they possess perfectly serviceable brooms.
The more reflective among us might ask if this nation has at last lost its collective mind.
And the even more reflective might consider how this process of degradation of religion (which is a perfectly good word) has been going on for a while.
The historical religious tensions in this country are very real, but so are frequent and noble examples of mutual respect: General Washington writing a letter to a Jewish congregation to thank them for their loyalty to the new nation, General Lee integrating his parish, the four chaplains on the sinking USAT Dorchester in World War II sacrificing their lives by giving their lifejackets to other men. These actions were not predicated on some vague moral relativism but on the core beliefs of each faith. The Jewish chaplain who gave his lifejacket to the first soldier he saw without one did so because he knew that was exactly the most Jewish thing he could do.
Mutual respect cannot deteriorate into relativism, however, for then respect must cease to exist. One can no more refer to truth being subjective than one can refer to the sunrise being subjective. Tomorrow the sun will rise, even if a majority of Americans vote that it should not. One can honestly hold that the Real Presence in Holy Communion is not true even as another honestly maintains that it is true. What cannot be honestly held is the feely-goody concept that the Real Presence can be true for Mr. Smith because he wants it to be true, and not true for Mr. Jones because he does not want it to be true. Even more dishonest would be Mr. Smith, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Hoogerwerf agreeing to vote democratically on whether or not the Real Presence is true, and further agreeing to be bound by the results.
Mutual respect among people does not logically extend itself into indulging the fantasies of the childish or deluded among us. Witchcraft is a make-believe neo-paganism of a very silly and made-up sort that real pagans – Aristotle, Plato, and Virgil come to mind – would have laughed out of any ancient temple, grove, or spring. The paganism of our ancestors was an honest and intelligent attempt at understanding reality, not the feverish imaginings of the ill-educated whose religious instruction in youth was no more substantial than a Fisher-Price Play Church.
A cadet at the United States Air Force Academy pursues truth. A petulant will demanding that 2 + 2 should equal 5 because the bearer of the will wants it to be so cannot change the reality that 2 + 2 must always equal 4 and can be no other. Such an individual cannot be trusted with any position of leadership and responsibility. A cadet who insists that physics and trigonometry are subjective "truths" depending on the individual's feelings should not be trusted with a bicycle and certainly not with an aircraft. If this individual thinks himself The Blue Flower Fairy and wishes to worship toadstools or oak trees, and maybe even learn conversational Klingon, he is free to do so, and Godspeed (so to speak) him. The rest of us are equally free not to be required to fund him in a military academy or obey him as a superior officer in the defense of this nation.
If a candidate for a military academy represents himself as a witch, Harry Potter, an elf, or a light bulb the response should be a hearty, insensitive belly-laugh as the poor sap is led gently away.
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GrayMak Studios which is located at 1501 S Wheeler in Jasper Texas. Michael Sarver built and funded this amazing studio using an all Pro Tools® 8 and Pro Mac setup. The design of this studio is to make the artist comfortable while performing, editing, & producing their projects.
GrayMak Studios which is located at 1501 S Wheeler in Jasper Texas. Michael Sarver built and funded this amazing studio using an all Pro Tools® 8 and Pro Mac setup. The design of this studio is to make the artist comfortable while performing, editing, & producing their projects.
GrayMak Studios which is located at 1501 S Wheeler in Jasper Texas. Michael Sarver built and funded this amazing studio using an all Pro Tools® 8 and Pro Mac setup. The design of this studio is to make the artist comfortable while performing, editing, & producing their projects.
GrayMak Studios which is located at 1501 S Wheeler in Jasper Texas. Michael Sarver built and funded this amazing studio using an all Pro Tools® 8 and Pro Mac setup. The design of this studio is to make the artist comfortable while performing, editing, & producing their projects.
GrayMak Studios which is located at 1501 S Wheeler in Jasper Texas. Michael Sarver built and funded this amazing studio using an all Pro Tools® 8 and Pro Mac setup. The design of this studio is to make the artist comfortable while performing, editing, & producing their projects.
11.11.2008
Now coming back and revisiting this photo, i realize that it had much more going on than i first had thought. The shadows cast by the different light patterns are really nice. The shadows cast by the plants in the background on the pots are really nice. I only saw the main splashes of light and dark. I used my 70-300mm lens for this photo.
I took this at Union Station in St Louis on Sunday morning. I love the way it turned out in B/W with the water,sun,stone, and light patterns. The photo shows some great contrast of the area. Union Station is a historic landmark and if you are ever in St Louis, i suggest that you go and visit it.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Uploaded by RMStringer on 16 Jul 08, 12.03PM CST.
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