SE Texas Snow.

A field near my home in Forrest Hill on Lake Sam Rayburn Texas. Taken With My 3.2 Megapixel Lg Dare. Http://Www.RMStringerPhotography.com
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Sandy Greek Park 1.0b

Sandy Greek Park 1.0b, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Photo used in the article on Digital Photo Buzz.com. Here is the link: http://digitalphotobuzz.com/15-amazing-long-exposure-photographs

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.

Lost Highway II

Taken With My 3.2 Megapixel Lg Dare. Lake Sam Rayburn TX. Http://Www.RMStringerPhotography.com
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DSC09755: Blue Bird...

DSC09755: Blue Bird..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

Uploaded by RMStringer on 22 Nov 08, 10.52PM CST.

Lost Highway...

Taken on HWY 255. Taken With My 3.2 Megapixel Lg Dare. Lake Sam Rayburn TX. Http://Www.RMStringerPhotography.com
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Mack: The United States Witch Force

 

 

Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me publish this on my site.

 

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 Recording Studios, Jasper Texas

Graymak Recording Studios, Jasper Texas, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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.