Friday, May 28, 2010

Testing out the eris droid!

Testing out the eris droid!

DSC01290


DSC01290, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 3
Aperture: f/14.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

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DSC01286, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 5
Aperture: f/14.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01369


DSC01369, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 24
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01367


DSC01367, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 7
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01365


DSC01365, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 20
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01376


DSC01376, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 5
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Jasper Night 1.6


Jasper Night 1.6, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

First United Methodist Church

Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 3
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Jasper Night 1.5


Jasper Night 1.5, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

First United Methodist Church

Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 6
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Jasper Night 1.4


Jasper Night 1.4, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

First United Methodist Church.

Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 7
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Jasper Night 1.3


Jasper Night 1.3, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Jasper County Courthouse.

Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 13
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Jasper Night 1.0


Jasper Night 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Jasper County Courthouse.

Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 22
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

The Dam Reflection!!!


DSC01182, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 12
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Monday, May 24, 2010

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DSC01213, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 27
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 400

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DSC01190, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 28
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

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DSC01176, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 30
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01167


DSC01167, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 52
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Mack: Press One for Rational Thought

Thanks to Mac Hall for letting me publish that story to my site.

 

Press One for Rational Thought

 

Arizona, a most unfashionable state after firing on Fort Sumter earlier this spring, is now a pariah (or is that a piranha?) for wanting the English teachers in its public schools to speak, well, English.

 

There is no word on whether Spanish teachers in Arizona schools must know Spanish.

 

Employing standard English is clearly not a requirement for holding a sinecure as a super special golly administrative assistant czarina in some school districts, but, generally speaking (speaking in English), English teachers really should have pretty good control of the language of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Belloc, Churchill, Tolkien, and Thomas the Tank Engine.

 

If a strong accent is a bar to employment as an English teacher, any native Texan currently employed as such ain't a-gonna be much longer; he's gonna have t' drag up pronto an' mosey into th' sunset, y'all.

 

English teachers must know English, just as a nurse ought to know patient care and a welder should use more than Elmer's Glue for bonding.

 

Imagine taking your wheezing pickup truck to your mechanic:  "Hey, Cletus, Ol' Blue's stalling on acceleration again…hey, where are you going?"

 

"Sorry, old friend, I've been reassigned by the government as a dental assistant.  Diversity and multiculturalism, they say."

 

"Dental assistant?  Cletus, you don't know anything about teeth; you only got two of 'em anyway!  And who's gonna take care of Ol' Blue, my 1956 pickup?"

 

"Here's Sven, your new mechanic.  He's an expert in Swedish massage."

 

"Massage!? Ol' Blue don't need a massage!  It's the carburetor!"

 

"Ja, me fix carburetor good with warm towels, ja.  Ze government say so, ja.  Ich bin ein multicultural sensitive mechanic now, is good, ja?"

 

Arizona is catching a lot of flak (which is a German import) for trying to control the international border and protect American citizens in the absence of enforcement of federal laws by the federal government.  The reaction in some in the salons of D.C. has been to sneer and to wear the now-obligatory cause-of-the-month rubber wrist bands pooh-poohing a state that was home to sophisticated cultures hundreds of years before Washington was inhabited by anything more than mud turtles and malaria mosquitoes. 

 

Some states are proposing an economic boycott of Arizona.  Two problems obtain – Arizona is an exporter of electrical power and water to other states in a nation that, due to governmental short-sightedness, is lacking in both.  California, for instance, is no more in a position to dictate terms to Arizona than Washington is to our Chinese masters.

 

The second issue is this – whom ("whom," he said, for he had been to school) do the critics think live in Arizona?  Vikings?  Arizona has enjoyed a Spanish culture for some 500 years, and numerous First Nations cultures for millennia longer than that. 

 

In Arizona you eat breakfast at Juanita's café', not at Janice's, and if you speed you don't get a ticket from Al Caldwell's friend Officer Fatback but from Officer Rodriguez.  You might buy your gasoline from a station owned by an Apache whose folks have lived on the same bit of land for a thousand years.  All these American citizens want to live under the same Constitutional protections as the rest of us.

 

Boycott them?  Why?

 

For the record, I, unlike the Attorney General of the United States, have read Arizona's new bill regarding folks who cross the international border without a passport, a driver's license, or at least a Sam's Club card.  The law is positively Merovingian in its harmlessness and inadequacy.  Crossing into the USA for work or study (or, sadly, crime) remains a great deal easier than trying – trying, because you might not be permitted – to pop across the Canadian border to visit Niagara Falls for an hour.

 

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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

New Hair Cut. No Glasses!

Taken With My 3.2 Megapixel Lg Dare. Http://Www.RMStringerPhotography.com
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Light Painting 1.3


Light Painting 1.3, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Some fun Light Painting using the Sony A500.

Exposure: 16
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 800

Light Painting 1.2


Light Painting 1.2, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Some fun Light Painting using the Sony A500.

Exposure: 17
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Light Painting 1.1


Light Painting 1.1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Some fun Light Painting using the Sony A500.

Exposure: 19
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Light Painting 1.0


Light Painting 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Some fun Light Painting using the Sony A500.

Exposure: 17
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Monday, May 17, 2010

Macro 1.7


Macro 1.7, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Macro with Sony Alpha 500 DLSR taken using the Schneider-Kreuznach Componon 40mm f/4. All photos © RMStringer Photography.

Macro 1.9


Macro 1.9, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Macro with Sony Alpha 500 DLSR taken using the Schneider-Kreuznach Componon 40mm f/4. All photos © RMStringer Photography.

Macro 1.15


Macro 1.15, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Macro with Sony Alpha 500 DLSR taken using the Schneider-Kreuznach Componon 40mm f/4. All photos © RMStringer Photography.

Macro 1.16


Macro 1.16, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Macro with Sony Alpha 500 DLSR taken using the Schneider-Kreuznach Componon 40mm f/4. All photos © RMStringer Photography.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010

A photo of Me!

A friend took this photo of my working last Wednesday at the 46th Jasper Lions Rodeo Parade.

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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Old Home 1.1


Old Home 1.1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Old Home by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.

Train Tracks 1.4


Train Tracks 1.4, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.

Train Tracks 1.12


Train Tracks 1.12, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.

Train Tracks 1.11


Train Tracks 1.11, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.

Train Tracks 1.1


Train Tracks 1.1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.

Train Tracks 1.25


Train Tracks 1.25, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.

Train Tracks 1.28


Train Tracks 1.28, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.

Trai Tracks!

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Senior Portraits

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Monday, May 10, 2010

Steel Magnolia Live 1.0


Steel Magnolia Live 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010 "Fish-Eye" Lens Used.

Steel Magnolia Live 1.1


Steel Magnolia Live 1.1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010 "Fish-Eye" Lens Used.

Steel Magnolia Live 1.4


Steel Magnolia Live 1.4, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010 "Fish-Eye" lens Used.

Steel Magnolia Live 1.20


Steel Magnolia Live 1.20, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010

Steel Magnolia Live 1.14


Steel Magnolia Live 1.14, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010

Steel Magnolia Live 1.16


Steel Magnolia Live 1.16, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010

Steel Magnolia Live 1.26


Steel Magnolia Live 1.26, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010

Steel Magnolia Live 1.43


Steel Magnolia Live 1.43, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010

Sunday, May 09, 2010

Mack Goes Green

 

 

Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me post his humor.

 

 

How's That Green Workin' Out For Ya?

 

Cuthbert strolled into his neighborhood GaiaFirst Collective People's Earth Cooperative.

 

"How can I help you, sir?" asked a young woman wearing her prize collection of piercings, only one of which was still slightly pustulant.

 

"I'm thinking of starting a small garden in my back yard," said Cuthbert.

 

"Going green, are you?" asked the young woman, whose name tag read "How Can I Help You My Name is Heathyr."

 

"Oh, I hope not!" exclaimed Cuthbert, examining the backs of his hands just to be sure.  "Though I did work for B.P."

 

"B.P.!?" exclaimed Heathyr.  "You worked for that evil, wicked, polluting multi-national oil company?"

 

"Nah, I was twenty years with Bob's Pies," replied Cuthbert.  "Got a little crazy with the food coloring sometimes."

 

"Ahem.  Right.  With what can I help you?"  Heathyr said "With what can I help you?" instead of "What can I help you with?" because she was an English major although she had once considered being a Portuguese lieutenant.

 

"Well, I need a shovel, rake, and hoe."

 

"Oh, sir, I'm so happy that you are going to hand-work your garden instead of pillaging the planet with a polluting tractor or other power machinery.  That shows you love Mother Earth!"

 

"No, it shows that I have a really small back yard."

 

"Ahem.  Well, yes, now here is our selection of lovely shovels."

 

"But they're all made in China."

 

"Yes, but they're hand-crafted by ethnic Tibetan tribespersons who are one with, like, y'know, nature, and, like, stuff.  These are fair-trade shovels."

 

"At these prices I wonder who gets the fair?  All right, since I have no choice.  Same for the rake and hoe, I suppose?"

 

"We do feature a lovely rake, the Beau Brummel model, with a fake English name but really made of recycled bicycles by other-abled midgets in India."

 

"Okay, and a hoe.  Now for some tomato seedlings."

 

"Yes, sir," said Heathyr.  "For our climate I'd recommend Obedient Boy or Early MS."

 

"I've heard of Big Boy and Early Girl – are these new varieties?"

 

"We have renamed our tomatoes CORRECTLY," sniffed Heathyr.

 

"Um, okay, twelve of each.  And some sweet corn."

 

"Ah!  Here we have organic corn seeds of the original plants grown by the all-natural First Nations Native Americans Indigenous Peoples."

 

"You mean Indians?"

 

"SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!  You can't SAY that, sir!"

 

"Why do these seed packets have pictures of Che Guevara on them?"

 

"That's because our beloved Che was, like, y'know, one with The People, and, like, y'know, organic and stuff."

 

"Che Guevara was a psychotic mass-murderer."

 

"He was NOT!  I saw The Motorcycle Diaries, so I KNOW."

 

"Ah, well, who am I to argue with a film?  Oh, I'll need some fertilizer."

 

"We specialize in sheep poop," said Heathyr.

 

"You certainly do," replied Cuthbert.

 

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