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Monday, June 09, 2008

Picture 077

Picture 077, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Close to the Airport in Charlotte Amalie, St Thomas Island summer 2006 vacation

Exposure: 2 sec (2)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 16.5 mm
ISO Speed: 64

I have been trying to get more and more of my photos on Flickr placed on the Google map that is provided. So far, i have gotten most all of my St Thomas, Duke University, Epcot and Universal Studios placed. I also have various other photos on a map from different sets. Another example would be the Baltimore Harbor pics that i took with my LGVX 8600 Cam Phone. It is a neat option to be able to do that. Feel free to go and look at some of them.

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St Thomas USVI Summer 2006

St Thomas USVI Summer 2006, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this on vacation in St Thomas summer 2006 with my Cybershot 5.1Megapixel. This was my main camera before i bought the a200.

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/2000)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 6 mm
ISO Speed: 64

Knights Templar Chapel...Alexandria Virginia

These are the stained glass windows that are located on the 4th floor of the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria Virginia. The room according to the website is sponsored and maintained by the Grand Encampment of Knights Templar of the United States.

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Sunday, June 08, 2008

Sunday Morning Bike Ride...

Well folks we went to Pocahontas Park this morning at 7.45am and we hit the trails. We rode Lake View I,II,III. We have ridden I & II before but never III. It took off from Lake View II and it was really a GREAT trail to ride. It had many more turns and hills and was long. We decided to park inside the main park and not ride from Quala Lot as that would have added about 3+ miles to the ride. As it turned out, we rode about 14 miles this morning. I drank an entire pouch full of water! It was so hot and humid and there was not wind at all other then when we were riding our bikes. It was a fun ride but i have been really tired all day since i rode this morning.

Well, i need to get ready for sleep and work tomorrow...

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Firefox as Windows Explorer

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Out Kitty in Color.

I was just messing around and shooting the cat in color using flash. She does not like the flasha nd you can tell in this photo! I took several of them like this and she looked the same...

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My Lillies...

I took this set today. They are located off our back deck. There are about 100+ blooms. They have been opening all this week and will continue well into next week. I hope that you enjoy them! The third in the set was taken in Blacka nd White. I thought that the contrast was really nice between the blooms and the other things in the yard.

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Saturday, June 07, 2008

Sunday Morning Bike Ride

We are going to go and ride Lake View 1,2,3 tomorrow morning. If we rode from Quala Road lot, it will be 18 miles. I think that we are going to park in the main park and cut out about 3 miles of the ride. I will give some updates tomorrow after the ride.

Tags: Mountain Biking, Pocahontas Park, Chesterfield Virginia, USA

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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"

Friday, June 06, 2008

Paul Van Dyk - The Other Side

I am so hung up on this track. I love the Dip Dish Remix clocking in at over 9 minutes. It reminds me of The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. PVD had a good style on this track with the male vocals.I am just sorry that i was not able to purchase all the mixes of this track.

Seal - Don't Cry [OFFICIAL video]

This was almost the highlight of the concert that i saw at the Woodlands in Houston summer 1994. He did an extreamly long rendition of this song. I wish that he would release that version!

Seal - Future Love Paradise [OFFICIAL video]

Another song that i loved of his. I bought this album when i was in college at SFA(Nacogdoches Texas)summer of 1991.

Seal - Crazy [OFFICIAL video]

I saw him at the Woodlands in Houston Texas. I was totally blown away by him. He had Phil Hartnoll from Orbital as his keyboard player and it was an amazing show. I would really love to see him in concert again. Summer 1994

Information Society - What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy)

This was the first concert that i ever went to in a club. Rhinestones in Beaumont Texas. I was 16 and i was wearing a Bomber Jacket that i purchased at a store at Parkdale Mall called Chess King...

Snow - Informer

WOW!! Club FX in Vinton Louisiana.

Snap! - The Power

I saw them at Rhinestones club in Beaumont Texas.

bg the prince of rap - this beat is hot

I always loved this track because of the KLF rift that is mixed into the song. The production was superb as was many tracks of this era.

Maxx - Getaway

Reminds me of the clubs i used to go to in South West Louisiana.

Mysterious Art - Requiem

1989 Folks. Very good tune.

Big Brown Moth!

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

B&W Bonsi Plant

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Nice Rose Today.

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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Pool 1

Pool 1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

While at the KOA, the girls went to the pool. It was freaking COLD!! I did not swim but they did. I was told that the pool was opened on the 22nd of May. It was too cold for me. The water was really clear and I thought that the photo was really neat with my shadow in the water. Notice the ripples in the water. This was taken on Saturday morning after it cleared off from the rain that we had the night before. It was about 76 degrees for the high temperature on that day. I took this in 16:9 Aspect Ratio.

Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Aperture: f/10
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 100

1820 - 1889

1820 - 1889, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

With this grave stone being well over 120+ years, you can tell by the deterioration of the stone from being in the weather for so long. I did not know any of the people buried in the cemetery or what they died from, just that they ended up in this particular site.

Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 24 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

In the Tunnel

In the Tunnel, originally uploaded by Tobi_2008.

I saw this in the Black and White Photography (POST 1, COMMENT 3) (Pool) on FlickR. I belong to this group. I wanted to share it with all of you.

Looking away...

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Going east morning sun.

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Monday, June 02, 2008

The Watcher...

The Watcher..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

The kitty is watching you...

This was a very hard photo to take. The cat was sitting on the bench with the sun and shadows on her from the big window. I took the photo in RAW format and then used Image Data Lightbox Sr to convert it to a Jpg. I did a bunch of RAW photos this evening. I am impressed how the cam dealt with the bright and dark contrast of the setting.

Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Another Kitty Photo...

I used the flash for this photo. She does not like it and omst of the time looks away when it does its metering function. She did not for this shot.

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Black and White Cloud...

I took this while driving back to my house after shooting all of the tomb stones at the Mount Hermon Cemetary off of Genito Road near Swift Creek Reservoir.

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Yellow Day Lilly...

Yellow Day Lilly..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I have many of these blooming at the moment. Well over 100+ blooms ready to open!

Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Looking into The Dead Zone...

Looking into The Dead Zone..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I do not know how many graves that are located here but it is many of them. This is located about 3-4 miles from my house. I wanted to get some of the fence looking over to the graves. I used 16:9 aspect ratio to capture some of the vastness of this cemetery. I was not able to get them all in the photograph. The fence makes it look like it is forbidden to enter the area if you are a living person.

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Mountain Biking Saturday Morning

We went to Pocahontas Park on Saturday morning and we rode The Red and Blue Trails. It was very humid but we got there early enough so it was not that hot. We had a 9 mile ride when it was all over with.

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Mack: When in Doubt, Blame the Soldiers

Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me publish this story.

When in Doubt, Blame the Soldiers

"War hath no fury like a non-combatant"

-- Charles Edward Montague

On the night of 6 June 1944 my father was on a ship in the English Channel with his armored car and crew and a few thousand of their closest friends, waiting for their turn to land in Normandy on the second day of the invasion. He said "it looked like all Europe was on fire." He landed on 7 June, and was told by the beachmaster to "drive inland as far as you can go; drive like *&##; nothing is secure."

"As far as you can go" turned out to be Zwickau some ten months later, with leisurely stops at Bastogne and Dachau.

Imagine a soldier in World War II landing on a beach in Normandy or anywhere else and being sent home for saying something rude about Hitler or the Emperor of Japan: "Sergeant Hall, stop that; mass-murderers have their feelings too, you know. We have to understand Hitler's special needs. After all, he had a rough childhood. Didn't you pay attention during the group therapy sessions that replaced lifeboat drill? We're pulling you out of the invasion and sending you home for sensitivity training."

Perhaps a journalist from, oh, Princess magazine heard about that exchange, and published it. In a few days Hitler could have read the sad story in the Washington Zeitgeist or the San Francisco Morning Screed and wept into his morning injection of weird drugs before filing a complaint with the United Nations.

Recently an American soldier was sent home from Iraq because he was accused of using a copy of the Koran for target practice. This was said to be offensive to the sort of people who strap bombs to their own children.

More recently a Marine was removed from checkpoint duty for handing out coins which bore the quotation from Saint John 3:16 on them instead of quotations from the Koran about how lovely it is to kill Jews.

Okay, okay, a soldier surely has better things to do than pot at a book, and a Marine at a checkpoint should be watching carefully for the little girl whose father packed her school bomb that morning so she can kill and die for his god.

Somewhere nearby there is a cranky old sergeant whose job is to growl "Private Ponsonby, if you want to discharge that firearm you find an Al Queda," or "Corporal Snortborger, you ain't no missionary." And that should be the end of it. The United Nations, whose craven peacekeeping forces are a terror only to women and children, doesn't get a say. Neither should the sort of people whose experience of war is limited to John Wayne movies and pose-for-the-camera protest marches.

A soldier who gives someone a token or religious medal with a few words about divine love on it may be a little off-task (or maybe not), but he's the one who was sent in to clean up the mess the politicians made, and he appears to have a better idea than most politicians about how to do it.

Could we at least pause for a moment to say something at least slightly disapproving of an ideology that tortures and murders the few prisoners it manages to take? Dare we suggest that strapping bombs to one's own child is not good parenting? Is it beastly to infer that cutting the throat of a diminutive stewardess is not nice? Is one boorish to notice that the previous Iraqi regime actually built a concentration camp for the children whose parents it had imprisoned or murdered?

Could we at least pause for a moment to say something at least slightly approving of the American soldiers we have sent into combat and, worse, "peace-keeping?"

Giving a Christian blessing to a civilian is not a soldier's duty, but neither is it a war crime.

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Chairman: "We deplore your spirit of disharmony."
No.6: "That's a common complaint around here, isn't it?"

-- The Prisoner

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Rain Storm...

We have had a chance of Thunder Storms for the last 2 days. It did not rain here yesterday when we had the greatest chance but it rained this evening. I saw it rolling in and wanted to get a few photos of the clouds. I took the first one in Black and White and the rest in color. All were shot in 16:9 HD Aspect Ratio.

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Our Cat, Another Pose!

Our Cat, Another Pose!, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I just happened to have my camera handy yesterday afternoon while the cat was looking at me. She is in a comfortable sitting position on the couch and she sits there often. She has a very big attitude and is very playful even at 5+ years old.

Exposure: 0.333 sec (1/3)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Panorama Creations...

Well folks, i have been doing some reorganizing of my Flickr Account and i made a new set called Panorama Creations. It is all the Panoramas that i have made over the last 3-4 years using Panorama Maker 3.0. Here is the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmstringer/sets/72157605360343797/

Please go and take a look at them.

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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Facing West in Downtown St Louis

West Facing St Louis, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is another series that i took while on Spring Break in St Louis. I took all the photos freehand with no tripod I was standing in front of the Old Courthouse when i took this 5 photo series. I took all of the photos with my Sony a200 10.2Megapixel DSLR.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Unopened Bloom... Magnolia Tree 1

Unopened Bloom... Magnolia Tree 1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is a Magnolia Tree bloom that has not opened yet. I have been waiting for it to bloom for about 2 weeks. It is in a house in our neighborhood. The blooms are very pretty and smell wonderful. I love how the sun's light is surrounding the bloom and glistening on the leafs.

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 35 mm
ISO Speed: 100

B/W Wheat Field and Clouds

B/W Wheat Field and Clouds, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was also taken off of 481 West on Sunday. I took this in B/W to get a neat contrast of the wheat, trees, and sky all at the same time and I shot it in 16:9 Aspect to get more of the surroundings in the photo. I took this around the same time that I took the close up photo of the wheat.

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Grave Rows 1

Grave Rows 1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took all of these on the weekend trip to DC. It was on 5.10.2008
I don't know their names but only that they died for our country in some form or fashion during some war that was fought...

Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 22 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Hill Close-up

Hill Close-up, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took all of these on the weekend trip to DC. It was on 5.10.2008
I don't know their names but only that they died for our country in some form of fashion during some war that was fought...

Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 40 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Citronella Fire

I took this while in North Carolina at the KOA. It is burning Citronella to help keep the bugs away. We filled it up during that afternoon and it burnt for over 8 hours. We have these at our house and brought them with us for the weekend.

Exposure: 0.5 sec (1/2)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

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gas1

gas1, originally uploaded by NENA_OTTO.

i saw this on Flickr and i had to post it to the blog. I do not have a gas stove like this but i want to find one to try a shot like this.

Rust...

Rust..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was on the side of an old barn on 481 East that i rode by and on my mountain bike and then the next day, i drove to and took this photo. I think that the metal is galvanized metal. I liked the colors that are in the photo. I think that the wood grain is a nice touch to the metal(LOL)

Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Another Old Building...

Another Old Building..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

While i was taking photos of the general store, i turned around and found this building on the opposite corner. It stood out to me by the way that it was all alone, no home near it. You can tell that it is very old due to the unevenness and the slanting of the structure. Perhaps it was a gas station or a post office or some other business. I say that because of the bars on the front windows and the way that the drive comes in front of it. I took it in 16:9 Aspect Ratio to get all of it and the surrounding trees.

Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 45 mm
ISO Speed: 100

KOA Camping...

I-95 Exit 154 at Enfield, 0.5 mile west on Highway 481. Right on Bell Acres at KOA sign.

From Highway 301 take Highway 481 west Bypass in Enfield and follow 7 miles (cross over I-95). Right on Bell Acres.

From Highway 48 turn east on Highway 481. Just after bridge, turn left onto Bell Acres.

Enfield / Rocky Mount KOA
101 Bell Acres
Enfield, NC 27823

This is where we stayed for the Memorial Day Weekend.

Technorati Tags: KOA, North Carolina, Camping, Vacation

Camera Update.

Over the three day weekend i took over 2 gigs of photos. I went to North Carolina on a full charge an shot over 400 photos on one 2 gig card. I can get over 440+ normaly on a 2 giger, but i did lots of RAW format photos and they take lots of room. When i switched cards, i still had over 60% better life left! I was ready for another 400+ but time ran out on us...

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KOA Memorial Day Weekend Vacation!

We went to a KOA Campground in Enfield North Carolina for the Memorial Day Weekend. We did "tent" camping. It was our first attempt at this. We had a good time! They had swimming and other activities for the campers. We got the tent set up on Friday evening and during that night, it rained on us. Were kind of freaked out about this and hoped that we would not be trapped in the tent all the next day. It reined from about 2am till 9.30am and then it cleared off. We were really happy about that. We had a good camp neighbors and did several camp fire sittings with them.

I did lots of photography and learned some new techniques and settings with the camera. I used the EV Bracketing and did lots of Black and White photographs. I did a lot of RAW photos and 16:9 Aspect Ratios as well. I did lots of nature and clous photos using the Bracketing method. With that method, you can make HDR Photos using special software and i will post a few soon.

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Monday, May 26, 2008

White Easter Lilly...

White Easter Lilly..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This was blooming at the entrance to the office of the KOA that we stayed at this Memorial Day weekend. This is as tight as i could get. You can see pollen on the pistil of the bloom. I used a "Back Flash" on the flower. I love using that flash setting.

Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Sunday, May 25, 2008

Old Building

481 East & 48 South in North Carolina Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Blue Sky...

Rocky Mnt NC KOA Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Wheat...

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Good Day!

All clear now! we had rain from 2am - 9am. 75 deg now!
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Set up & done!

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Getting set up @ KOA

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Thursday, May 22, 2008

The Bee Cropped Photo...

I cropped the original photo to zoom onto the Be better. Here it is! The resolution is just amazing with my A200. No distortion from the original to the cropped photo. look at the clarity of the bee in contrast to the surroundings and notice you cannot see his wings frozen.

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