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"
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
Waterford Business Park
I was about 3 feet from the bird. If you blow up the size, you can see water drops on the front of the chest. It looked at me but never got really scared with me that close. I was able to shoot about 5 other pics of the goose.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Waterford Business Park
You can see the goose opening its mouth telling me to stay away and not get to close to the babies. I was about 6 feet from them. It would look away and then i would move closer, it would turn and look at me and open its mouth again.
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/9
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Clematis I was fortunate enough that my neighbor let me take these photos of their flower. I saw it yesterday and i thought that it was fake so curiosity was killing me. This is what you get to see. I have several more of the flowers that i might post at a later date.
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Clematis, Taken in Apature Priority. As up close as i could get and still be a good photo.
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100
I took this at Myrtle Beach while were down for cheer comp. I wanted to try Black and White at night so that is how it came out. It is a little grainy because of the high ISO speed. I had never shot a B&W photo at night so this is a first attempt. At the time this photo was taken, i had the camera for about 2 full weeks. It was really cold that night and the wind was really blowing. We stayed at the Embassy Suites @ Kingston Plantation.
Exposure: 30 sec (30)
Aperture: f/22
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 3200
I was standing near the shooter and i was able to get a little muzzle flash!!! 45Mag FMJ (Full Metal Jacket) bluets. This was pure luck to be able to capture this flash from the pistol. I am very greatful for my friends letting me go to the shooting range and do this with them.
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 320
This was a 45Mag with Hollow point bullets. We walked with 15 feet of the target on this shot. I was lucky to get this photo as it turned out to be very good. The hollow-points made more destruction than did the full metal jacketed bullets.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400
This was another lucky shot and photo!! 45Mag FMJ bullet. We went to a shooting range today and i brought my camera to try and get some good photos. This turned out to be a very neat photo!!
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/7.1
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100
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The bloom has a friend on it, a "May Fly" is sitting on a petal of the opening bloom.
Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100
