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Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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We can dream!

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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Blurry Photography on Flickr!

1.alphamale_31


2.goanga


3.jaypearson15


Three photos taken from the Sony Alpha DSLR-A200 group on Flickr. 
We had a "Blurry Photo" contest and i selected the top 3 pics that
entered to be showcased on my blog. 
Please enjoy!!

If you use a Sony A200, please join Flickr and our group!!

Technorati Tags: Sony, A200, DSLR, 10.2Megapixel, Flickr, Photography

Mack's Favorite After-the-Hurricane Things

 

 

 

Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me publish that.  He lives in Deep South East Texas where Hurricane Ike came through on late Friday/Early Saturday morning.   He is now going through the cleanup process like my family is having to do. Our prayers go out to all the victims of Hurricane Ike.

 

Favorite After-the-Hurricane Things
(apologies to Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Dedicated to Jasper-Newton Electric Co-Operative

 

Sweet smelling armpits and hot-water showers
Plugged-in electric clocks that tell us the hours
No more MREs in pink plastic wrappings
These are a few of my favorite things
 
Co-Op bucket trucks working on my street
Clean socks and clean shorts and non-smelly feet
Linemen who make electricity sing –
Definitely some of my favorite things!

 

The generator stored once more in the shed
Children asleep in their own little beds
Thankful for cold winds that autumn will bring
These are a few of my favorite things

 

In the gas line
In the ice line
When I'm FEMA sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad!

 

 

Just to be alive is a grand thing.

-- Agatha Christie

DSC09767: Optical Illusion 1.1

DSC09767: Optical Illusion 1.1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 90 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: Flash fired

Pink Floyd Member Rick Wright Dead at 65

I have been a big fan of Pink Floyd since i can remember.  I was able and fortunate enough to see them in 1994 at Rice Stadium in Houston Texas.  It was an incredible show!   He will be missed in the rock community.

From Rolling Stone Website:

Rick Wright, keyboardist and a founding member of Pink Floyd, died today after a battle with cancer. He was 65. “The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with great sadness that Richard died today after a short struggle with cancer,” Wright’s spokesman said. “The family have asked that their privacy is respected at this difficult time.” Wright, along with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and drummer Nick Mason, laid the foundation for Pink Floyd, with Wright’s organ work one of the trademarks of the band’s debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. With the addition of David Gilmour and the subtraction of Syd Barrett, Wright’s responsibilities with Floyd expanded, writing and singing on two songs on the band’s second album A Saucer Full of Secrets. Among Wright’s most well-known works as a member of Pink Floyd are co-writing credits on “Us & Them,” “The Great Gig in the Sky” and the Atom Heart Mother gem “Summer ‘68.” In a sidebar to a feature last year, David Fricke said of “Us & Them,” “Rick Wright composed the floating-chord piano figure at the heart of this song during the sessions for Zabriskie Point. Director Michelangelo Antonioni rejected it, allowing Wright to resurrect the theme for this Dark Side highlight.” Wright remained a member of Pink Floyd until a rift with Roger Waters resulted in his exit after The Wall. Wright later rejoined the band when David Gilmour took over the reins after Waters left the band. Wright was also on hand when the band reunited in 2005 for the Live 8 concert in London. Recently, Wright had joined David Gilmour’s solo tour. Check out the playlist of key Richard Wright songs below.

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Hurrican Ike Mid-West Effects.

We felt Hurricane Ike' s presence in the St Louis Metro area late Saturday night/Early Sunday morning with wind over 53mph and 3+ inches of rain. We have stream and river flooding in the Metro area. The effects really caught the region by surprise! We are supposed to have beautiful weather all week long as Ike was coupled with a cool front coming through the area as well.

I took these photos during some rain squalls yesterday morning.





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DSC09797: Contrast 1.2

DSC09797: Contrast 1.2, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

The dark and light tones created by the ambient light are nice. I took this in B/W to show the contrast around the window.

Exposure: 0.333 sec (1/3)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC09731: 9.33pm=All Digital

DSC09731: 9.33pm=All Digital, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Digital Time Caught In A Digital Moment...

Exposure: 0.25 sec (1/4)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 800

Strange Sunset Cloud.

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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Power Trio...

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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Storm cloud.

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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DSC09600: Blue

DSC09600: Blue, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Our Kitchen phone. I live the Blue lights on it. This made an interesting photo IMO. All you really see is the buttons, LCD screen and bottom light.

Exposure: 0.167 sec (1/6)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 80 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC09584: 9.11.2008

DSC09584: 9.11.2008, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

9/11: Let us all remember and never forget!

I saw the flag on our neighbor's house just hanging and gently moving in the light breeze. It instilled what a great country we still live in and that we can make it better if we all try. It is an overcast and slightly rainy day. The humidity is very high due to all the rain that is approaching our area.

Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Picture 381

Picture 381, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was part of the inside of the main welcome center of Anheuser-Busch located in St Louis. I thought that it was really neat with all the flags and mirrors. I wanted to get as much of it without getting any of the wall or as little as i could.

Exposure: 0.02 sec (1/50)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Picture 411

Picture 411, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I had just gotten the camera about a week before i took this photograph. We had traveled to St Louis to look for housing and we decided to tour the A-B Factory. It was a cool damp day when we did the tour.

Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Newest Ike Satllite photos

IR Photo


Projected Path...
Technorati Tags: Hurricane Ike, Storm, Weather

Colts starting DT arrested on drug charge

Here is another THUG playing football.  He is just another great example of an idol for our children to look up to...
 
Hey, then we like that in our society where children idolize and dress like convicts and gangsters without even knowing why they dress like that.  They think that it is cool...


INDIANAPOLIS - Indianapolis Colts starting defensive tackle Ed Johnson was arrested early Wednesday on a drug possession charge.

Colts president Bill Polian said the team was still gathering facts about the case before determining how it will discipline Johnson, but Johnson will not play Sunday at Minnesota.

"He will not play this week, for sure,'' coach Tony Dungy said.

Polian said Johnson was stopped for speeding between midnight and 1 a.m. on Interstate 465 just north of Indianapolis. Police also charged him with marijuana possession.

He later was released on bond from the Hamilton County Jail.

Johnson was temporarily expelled from Penn State in 2005 for violating the school policy on sexual misconduct and confining another student against the student's will. He was reinstated in 2006, but later suspended for the Outback Bowl for violating team rules.

Technorati Tags: Foot Ball, Thug, Colts, Rant, Rave,

Hurrican Ike Taking aim at Texas

My family will have to evac out again from the southeastern coast of Texas once again.  Please keep them in your prayers.

Hadron Collider Getting Ready to Run...

Scientists turn on biggest ‘Big Bang Machine’

Chapter 3: After 14 years of work, atom-smasher comes to life amid hoopla

Maximilien Brice / CERN

The eight torodial magnets can be seen on the huge ATLAS detector with the calorimeter before it is moved into the middle of the detector. This calorimeter will measure the energies of particles produced when protons collide in the center of the detector.

Will it work or blow up the Earth?  We will soon find out!

Lets hope for the best!

Technorati Tags: Science, Technology, Hedron Collider

DSC09490: Blury

DSC09490: Blury, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I love this photo even it is blurry! We were driving down the road and i turned around to get the shot. I will go back soon and do a nice long exposure.

Exposure: 1 sec (1)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 60 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Yesterdays Storm Clouds.

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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Street Dogs!!

Oct 7 2008 6:30P

Bluebird

St Louis, Missouri

They are playing in St Louis






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Morning Sun...

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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DSC09407: Pine Tree

DSC09407, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

All were taken with the Minolta 35-105mm F 3.5-4.5 Lens. Pine Tree This was just a little DOF trial with the new lens.

Exposure: 0.1 sec (1/10)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 45 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC09539: At Night...

DSC09539: At Night..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was taken with the Minolta 35-105mm F 3.5-4.5 Lens. I was trying to see how it did at night doing timed exposures and traffic trails. I have the Sky A-1 filter on the lens as well. It is a very crisp lens.

Exposure: 5 sec (5)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Picture Comparison...

I took this one several days ago using the Quantaray LD 70-300mm f4-5.6 Tele-Macro:

Exposure: 0.025 sec (1/40)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 160 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Taken with the Minolta 35-105 f/3.5-4.5:

Exposure: 0.4 sec (2/5)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200


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DSC09382

DSC09382, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was taken with the Minolta 35-105mm F 3.5-4.5 Lens.

I took this at a friend's home today. He just got out of the hospital and someone gave him this get well flower arrangement. I walked over to his home to show him the new lens. He is a shutter bug as well.

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/14
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: Flash fired

Before the rain...

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
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MP3 Player.

MP3 Player., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

My MP3 player on our bed. The white really stands out against the orange and tan. It is a 40gig Creative Zen Touch. I bought it in 2005 while i lived in Massachusetts.

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Flash: Flash fired

Photo of the week!

I got the photo of the week at 90.7 KWMU located in St Louis.

Use this link to go there.
http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/arts.artsmain

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ZZ Bush

ZZ Bush, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I love the way this plants looks. The leaves are so glossy! The green really contrasts with the white wall behind it. The different angles that the stalks go are real nice against the wall as well. I love the glossy leaves that they have and they are very easy to take care of.

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Flash: Flash fired

Bike Ride on Saturday Morning

On Saturday morning we rode the MCT trail system as the GORC mountain bike trails were very wet and muddy. We started our ride at 7.45am and made a 20 mile loop tarting at New Poag road and riding do to I255 and then back to our starting point. Total ride time was about 1.40 minutes.

We rode the Orange trail south to the MCT Bluff trail, then back to MCT Nature Orange Trail, connected to the Schoolhouse Red trail back to the Goshen trail north to the Watershed Blue to our parking area.

It was a besutiful morning and i cannot wait to go and do it this week at the regular GORC/SIUE ride at 6pm on Thursday evening.


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The Night Light

The Night Light, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

A light at a neighbor's home. I love the light cast on the wall.

Exposure: 0.033 sec (1/30)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100

New Lens on the way!!

MINOLTA MAXXUM 35-105mm AF f/3.5-4.5 w/MACRO "RESTYLED"

I got this little diddy on EBAY for around $80 in perfect condition!! Here are several pics of the lens. I should have it home by Tuesday. I will post some pics when i get it.

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Spider Web.

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone. Saw it before our ride this morning.
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