Gravestones in 16:9 Aspect.

Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington Virginia: Saturday May 10, 2008

I took this photo and i wanted to see what it looks like in color and B/W. I use the B/W for my desktop. I shot it in an 16:9 HD Aspect Ratio so you can get the total effect of the sky and land. even though they are not exactly the same position i hope that you get the essence of the photograph. The color photo was shot in "Vivid Mode" for high contrast between the gravestone and the land & Sky. I think that it worked well.


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Arlington National Cemetery

This is a series of photographs i took in color and Black and White. This is an incredible large place to walk around it and a person could not see it all in a day. It has over 20 burials a day that happen there. If you ever get a chance to go there, I strongly recommend it. The feelings that it makes you have are strong.



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Back Stairwell...

Back Stairwell..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this at the National Museum of Natural History. It is part of the Smithsonian Institute that is located in Washington DC. I love the colors that it was painted. The Totem Poll is located in the center and it is over 35 feet tall. I thought that it was a hard photo to take because of the height of the structure and the lighting located around the walls.

Exposure: 0.4 sec (2/5)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Light Trails 2

Light Trails 2, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

We were at DC last night and we saw several of the memorials. I was on my way back to the car and we came upon the cross walk. It was a really good area for doing this type of photography with the surrounding lighting and both directions of traffic. I used "Vivid Mode" for this shot.

Exposure: 20 sec (20)
Aperture: f/14
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Light Trails 1

Light Trails 1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was the first of the "Traffic Trails" set that i used to post. I used a long exposure time and it hight F/Stop. I love the tail lights that were going past where i was set up to shoot the photo. The lighting across the street as well as the traffic lights gives it an almost ethereal feel to the photograph. This series was taken between the FDR and the Korean Memorials.

Exposure: 20 sec (20)
Aperture: f/14
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

The Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I shot this in Black and White as well as 16:9 High Definition Aspect Ratio. It was not a long exposure. I did use low F/Stop. I think that the B/W shows off the contrast in the marble that it was built with. I used a flash for this photo.

Exposure: 0.1 sec (1/10)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 30 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Washington DC Photos...

I took these yesterday while we were walking in Arlington Cemetery. The photos are of the JFK grave site. JFK, Jacqueline Kennedy, and two children are buried at the memorial. I have more photos to fallow this week.





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Washington DC

Off to DC to take some photos and have some fun.   I hope to have bunches of Night and Day shots of DC when I get back!!  I will load lots of them tomorrow…

 

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God does not think, He Creates; God does not exist, He is eternal.
Man thinks and exists, and existence separates thought and being,
holding them apart from one another in succession...

Subjectivity is truth, subjectivity is reality.

Soren Kierkegaard 1846 "Postscript: The Subjective Thinker"

 

Mother and the kids...

More Canadian Geese with babies. Taken at Waterford Business Park. There were several different groups with babies at this area.



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Reflection Picture...

This was taken off Old Hundred Road in the Waterford Business park in Midlothian VA. I thought that the reflection was amazing of the tree in the water.



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Same Rose...

Here are three photos of the same rose.This is the same rose that i took a Black and White of on 5-6-2008. Here it is in color and in B/W more open than it was on that day. I Think that it is a really neat idea for this situation. Two days make a lot of difference in the flower kingdom!


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Blue and Red...

I took these at the St Louis Science Center. This was the elevator shaft that was 4 stories high. It had several colors that changed to give it this effect. I thought that i was really cool. I shot this with a 1600 ISO speed so there is a little graininess to it.


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Light Purple Rose...

I used a Black Flash mode with Apature Priority to take this photo. I turned out very clear and if you look, you will see a rain drop on one of the petals. I also used the Cloudy weather setting. The flash did not wash out the flower like happens a lot when you do a macro.


Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 60 mm
ISO Speed: 400



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Still Life Photography...

I shot these photos of a candle holder set that we have on our TV Set. I lite the candles and let them burn and did a number of photos with and without flash.

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More Roses, Black and White.

These are to more roses that that i have in my back yard. They are also both B&W photos that i took on 5.6.2008 in the afternoon.


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More VA Beach Convention Center Pics...

I took these while just messing around in between our comp times. Just some neat architectural photos about light and dark.




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Sun rays...

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Our Cat in Black and White

This is just a little experiment that i was doing using Black and White setting on my camera. I choose our cat as the subject of the photos. I picked out the best of the batch or so i think to share with you.


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Big Dandelion...

I took this series on 5.5.2008 in the afternoon. If i had a better lens, i could get in tighter with better detail of the bloom. It all takes money to do this.




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Rose in B&W

Rose in B&W, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I thought that this was the best rose B&W shot for today. You can see the texture of the rose on the petals with everything else out of focus.

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 45 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Photography Stuff...

I just made a new set of photos on FlickR. It is called "Night Photography" This is my favorite type of photography. All of these photographs were taken on my adventures and trips.There are taken at night, most with no flash. These are shot with my 10.2Mp Sony a-200 DSLR, my 5.1Mp Sony DSC-H1 Cybershot, and my 1.3Mp LGVX8600 cell phone.


Please go and look at he set. Let me know what you think.

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Rose 3 [Set 2]

Rose 3 [Set 2], originally uploaded by RMStringer.

New Rose Set Taken today.

I got the idea for this from a photo from a group that i belong to. I got down very low to shoot the sun going down behind the rose. I like the effect that it made.

Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Neat Monument...

I took several pictures of the structure. Here are a few of them...
The last one is in a 16:9 HD Aspect Ratio.

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Neat Signs...

Most of the signs at the Convention Center were back lite. I took several and i wanted to show them to yall as the were really neat IMO. I took them in various camera modes as well as focal lengths.




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Final Destination Cheer Competition...

We went to Final Destination yesterday at VA Beach. It was built up by most of the competitions that we have attended. There were over 500 teams in the competition. It was held at the VA Beach Convention Center. It is a really neat structure and very modern looking. In my opinion, it was ill-suited for this competition. We have been to several of the contests around the country and they have always had a good stage set-up for the contest. The arena did not have a stage that was high off the ground and the lighting in the arena was very bad. The seating was low and limited and priority seating was to far away for most parents to get good pictures of their children.

I for one, was not impressed with the set-up of the competition at all and i get that was the tone from other people that i spoke to as well. Here is a picture of the Convention Center:











Our team did well and we placed 2nd in our division! We were very happy with these results. It was a long day and i took many pictures that i will be posting soon

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Mountain Biking Today!!

I went with Jeff today to Powhite Park for a nice ride today. We meat at 2.0pm and started on the trails. It was a windy day at 85 degrees and sunny! We had a good ride and rode 4.5 miles, not really hardcore today just getting in a good cardio work-out! Powhite is really hilly, not many lat trails and they are in really good shape given all the rain that we had in the last 9 weeks. Some of the obstacles have been taken out due to they want the trails to be more hiker friendly because of the condos that are being built next to the park. In my opinion, they could have cut a trail to the side of the obstacle and let it in. We will see what happens to the park after all the people move in.

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Rose 3

Rose 3, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

These are some of the first blooms from my roses. I have been waiting for them to start blooming. I hope to have several more blooms open on some of the other roses in my backyard. I thought that this was a very nice shot.

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Concert Tonight!

Antiflag & Street Dogs at The National 6.30pm
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Powhite Park-Richmond VA

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Waterfall Revisited...

Waterfall Revisited..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I went back and wanted to do the "waterfall" thing again after knowing a little bit more about my camera. I used the same waterfall that i located in the fron of my neighborhood. I shot the photo in Shutter Priority this time. The results were amazing. I achieved the desired effect that is wanted when shooting waterfalls. The water is slowed down and it gives a milky look with the surrounding area in sharp focus. It had just finished raining and was overcast with some breaks in the clouds.

Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture: f/36
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Mack re NPR

Thanks to Mac for letting me post this.

 

You'll Never Hear This on NPR

In an unsettled time when some discount stores will sell a customer only 100 pounds of rice a week (Oh, no!  How will we survive the coming winter?), one is strangely comforted by the eternal 1968-ness of National Public Radio.  Here are some observations that will never be heard on NPR:

 

We've polled everyone who works for the station, and no one here knows what "Hegelian dialectic" means.

 

Food prices are skyrocketing, huh?  Does this mean we have to scratch our files of stories about greedy, overweight Americans?

 

We really are being just a little too, too precious by bragging about how we don't have advertising but then really do have advertising anyway, and then spend hours and hours of air time begging for money because we don't have advertising.  We also receive hundreds of millions of your dollars in tax support every year, and voluntary donations are tax-deductible.  This message is sponsored by the Calvin and Ethel Plonk Foundation for a Greener and More Diverse Recycled America.

 

Have you noticed how cleverly we phased out global warming in favor of climate change?  Clearly the planet, which has been cooling and warming in cycles for millions of years, is little influenced by your lawnmower.  However, if today there is rain and tomorrow there is sunshine we can call it climate change and still blame it on your lawnmower.  Climate change – formerly known as weather.

 

Today on All Things Considered we're not going to feature a single story about some lazy oaf in New Orleans who can't be bothered to clean up his own front yard while whining about how the rest of you aren't sending him enough money.

 

Following All Things Considered we'll have Car Talk and then Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, known to radio professionals as dead-air time.

 

And now an interview with AlleeSHEyah von O'Hara y Gomez d'Raheem, the daughter of a Chinese-Irish father and a Spanish-Moroccan mother whose parents were persecuted everywhere else and who then came to America and received lots of freebies but were snubbed by a grocery-store carryout which is why AlleeSHEyah hates America and wrote an award-winning book of I, I, I, me, me, me poetry that doesn't scan detailing her existential angst. And, honestly, her book stinks. 

 

In the next hour we'll feature an award-winning musician, Friedrich "Stubby" Hamncheese who plays fusion Afro-German-Suomi on an Indian sitar hand-made by unemployed Sherpa draft evaders in Toronto, and, really, that doesn't make any sense at all.

 

You people need to get real about fair-trade coffee.  If some grocery chain re-labels a can of coffee with pictures of happy Colombians holding hands and dancing barefoot in the rain forest, and charges you two more dollars for it, are you stupid or something?

 

We use words like existential, ethnic, fusion, diversity, and fair-trade a great deal because that makes us sound, like, you know, smart and stuff.

 

And now, commentary by grumpy old Daniel Schorr, who disapproves of everyone.

 

In the end, we at NPR are just a bunch of otherwise unemployable white liberal arts graduates who play old records and subtly sneer at people who have real jobs and love America.  We even think Al Franken is an intellectual. So why would you send us money?

 

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Prom night -- tattoos, cell 'phones, and rented clothing. Why?

Good Place To Purchase Books!

I know that many of you read books and novels from many of the big name authors.  I like as much as any to read them as well.  If you go to Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, or even Wall-Mart you can pick them up in hardcover for a premium price.  If you wait for a little bit, you might be able to get them at your local Goodwill outlet.  We went there and have bought several books for a little money. They price hardcover books at $3 and paperbacks at $1!  I purchased a coffee table book that retails for well over $60 at the local goodwill for $3!  They are all donated to the stores and they resell them for profit to help the needy. We have found all the big name authors and the books are in good condition; most of the at least.

 

I read a book by Brad Meltzer about 6 months ago called “The Book Of Fate” that I purchased at Wall-Mart.  I found his first book  “The Tenth Justice” and I got it for $3!  It is in excellent shape and in hardcover.  So if you are looking for some bargain priced books, Goodwill is a great place to go look and it is for a good cause.

 

RMStringer

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You have no conscience and it seems you never will - Cyberaktif

 

More Rain...

More Rain..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was taken at 7.27pm and it is another installment of my "Rain Project" It was raining this evening and i used my camera to try to get individual drops of rain falling. I opened the door to our deck just big enough to get my lens out and keep it dry. I used the flash and it worked better. I tried many Exposure settings and 1/60 was the best for this instance.

Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Flash: Flash fired, red-eye reduction