The Spy!

The Spy!, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

She was very tired in this photo and barely able to keep her eyes open. I tried to keep her looking at me to get this photo!

Exposure: 2 sec (2)
Aperture: f/20
Focal Length: 135 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Looking outside...

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
From RMStringer

Bird Eggs...

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
From RMStringer

Cat in window

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
From RMStringer

Cicada 1

Cicada 1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I was in the kitchen last night and looked at the door leading to our deck when i saw this Cicada. I went to grab my camera and set it up to do some Macro shots at night using the flash. I enabled the 180-300mm Macro function and placed the camera in "Manual" on Night Mode to get a few of the shots of the bug.
Here is the Wikipedia link to the bug: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/14
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC05970

DSC05970, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Taken while walking around Union Station in St Louis. These benches are located all around the building and it is a shopping mall as well with many neat and unique stores and eating establishments. It also has a Metro Link stop that can be accessed from the outlying areas of the metro region.

Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Undercover...

Undercover..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Taken at Union Station in St Louis. We ate at Landry's this day. They are a chain from Texas and I have eaten at several of them across the country. If you ever get a chance to eat at one, DO IT! The food is excellent and the atmosphere is wonderful. This setting is really neat being that it is all covered with the artificial "lake" to maker it look like it is on the waterfront. I took this using my 18-70mm kit lens.

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 400

New MyShutterspace Photography Group

Sony Camera Users

This is the URL: http://www.myshutterspace.com/group/sonycamerausers

I created this group several nights ago. If you use the "MyShutterspace" Social Networking site, and you use a Sony camera, then this would be a group for you.

Here is my profile page" http://www.myshutterspace.com/profile/RMStringer


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Mack: World Geezer Day

 Thanks to Mac Hall for letting me post this.

World Geezer Day

 

With the close of World Youth Day in Australia, we aging Boomers naturally ask why we can't have a day of our own with a visit by the Pope.  After all, our parents said we were special, right? 

 

The young people are fond of singing "Benedetto!" (Clap! Clap!) over and over while waiting for the B of R to land at the airport.  For World Geezer Day it's more likely to sound like "Benedetto!  (Wheeze! Wheeze!).  Gotta keep that oxygen going, Gramps.

 

World Geezer Day will require clearly written rules, unlike World Youth Day.  The kids in Sydney were by all reports just as nice as can be, but Boomers tend to feel (and it's all about feelings, right?) that ordinary good behavior is so bourgeois and beneath them.  Here, then, are the rules for the proposed World Geezer Day:

 

John Lennon, the Dalai Lama, and Heather Mills are not saints.  The canonization of Jimmy Buffett, however, is up for discussion.  Even so, "Margaritaville" will not be sung at the Elevation.

 

Please note the signs for the hand-holding section and the non-hand-holding section at Mass, as well as the hand-waving-mouth-open-eyes-closed section and the respectfully-modest-it's-not-about-me section. If you don't know how to behave at divine services, young people will be available to help you grow up.

 

The Mass will be in Latin.  Deal with it.  Your ancestors understood it perfectly, as do your children and grandchildren.  It is only baby boomers, with all their college degrees and who are purportedly the most educated Americans ever, who wah-wah that they can't understand the simple Latin of the Mass. 

 

Teenagers will be provided to assist you with your oxygen tanks and to help you understand the difference between the Mass and Bob Dylan.

 

There will be no – repeat, NO – felt banners.  Further, there will be no liturgical dance, no guitars, no sitars, no bongos, no tambourines, no dangling speakers, no slide shows, no films, no turning on and off of lights.  The Mass is worship, not a hootenanny.

 

As a concession to politics…um…dietary needs, communion wafers are organic and fair trade, and made from wheat raised by barefoot First Nations farmers living in communes and singing songs about Chez Guano along an obscure tributary of the Verizon River in Lower Saxony (you paid attention in third-grade geography, didn't you?).

 

One of the featured workshops will be on praying the Rosary.  This will be taught by teens since obviously you people never paid attention to your mothers and fathers.

 

Sorry, no, the Holy Father will not autograph your tee-shirt.

 

Please understand that the Sacrament of Penance cannot be accomplished through text-messages ("4-giv me F 4 I have sind…").

 

Incense, yes; marijuana, no.

 

When all else fails, remember that this is not 1968.  Grief counselors under thirty will be available to help you find closure.

 

John Paul II began World Youth Day during his reign, and Benedict XVI has enthusiastically continued this happy custom.  Perhaps this is because neither Karol nor Joe had a youth.  Oh, technically they did, but they grew up under the Nazi tyranny, not exactly kegger time on the beach.  Modern kids gather in the open to celebrate the Faith; when young Karol and Joe were young they celebrated the Faith too, but usually in secret, and further celebrated finding something to eat occasionally, and celebrated being alive at the end of each regimented day and at the end of each terror-filled night.  Perhaps it is this genuine deprivation in their teens and twenties that made them so determined to joy in the youth of our time as a new generation celebrates life and worships in freedom.

 

-30-

 

Based on my experience with DirecTV I cannot recommend them. They are deceptive in their practices ("You see, sir, when you activated the receiver you automatically agreed to a term of service...") (no, I didn't), and their customer service is based on robot 'phone answering and then on humans who are so scripted that they often are of little or no help. Sometimes they just plain lie. The Texas Attorney General's office backed DirecTV down for me, but it should never come to that.

 

 

Recycling Of Waste

When we moved into out new area we had to get garbage service. The charge $16 month to pice all your yard wast and up to 10extra bag as well. The bill quarterly, so it is about 48$ every 3 months. Not to bad in my opinion,

Now on the Recycling issue. When we have lived in other areas around the country, we have dnoe the program. SO i figured i should check that service out here. The want $6 a month to pick up the Recycle Bin. Where they then take it and seperate it and sell it to reclamation centers for money. WE bought the stuff at a store, so it is OUR stuff. IF we choose to recycle, we should not have to pay for them to pick it up, We should get a credit for what we turn in. Why do we have to pay them to take it away, stuff that would have been thrown away anyway! What a Crock!@ We p[ay them to take refuse in a box thy provide so they can seperate and make money by selling it to some other facility. What a good game they have going!!

What do you think of this as i am sure that many of you who have to pay to "help the environment" in this manner? They should pay us a fee based on hoe much material er recycle that they pick up. I know some cities have the program that are free pickup of recycled materials, i would do that. Not Here! Wast Management (Wasted Management) as i have heard it called, charges us to make more money for them. Not a good idea.

SO, just put all the garbage into one bag and let them separate it out at their offices where they have to employ someone to do what we used to do and paid them for the privileged to do it. IT is just wrong!!

Now, off of my Soap Box...


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Strange Trafic Trails

Strange Trafic Trails, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

My wife was driving down he street and i aimed the camera at her car. Wild looking Light Trails from it when she came down the street and turned in our driveway. I was using my 70-300mm Lens for this shot.

Exposure: 13 sec (13)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Juipter Motion Trail

Juipter, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

10.55pm CST I went outside tonight and set my camera up on the tri-pod with the wireless remote and my 70-300mm lens ready to do some "Rotation Of Earth" photography. I pointed my camera at Jupiter and took this shot! It was shot in a 16:9 format. The exposure time was 54 seconds. The camera was in "BULB" mode and "Night" style with the lens in Manual Focus. This photo turned out much better than the one from last night as the Moon was not adding light to the night sky. I was able to capture more stars in this photo.

Exposure: 54 sec (54)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 400

DSC06121

DSC06121, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

10.47pm CST I started out the night by taking "Full Moon" photos. Here is one that i did ISo200 with f/5.6. It was shot in a 16:9 format.

Exposure: 0.1 sec (1/10)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Star Streak...

Star Streak..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I went outside tonight and set my camera up on the tri-pod with the wireless remote and my 70-300mm lens ready to do some "Rotation Of Earth" photography. I pointed my camera at Jupiter and took this shot! It was shot in a 16:9 format. The exposure time was 77 seconds. The camera was in "BULB" mode and "Night" style with the lens in Manual Focus.

Exposure: 77 sec (77)
Aperture: f/11
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 400

On metro

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
From RMStringer

St Louis: Live on the Levee

We are going tonight to see OAR and watch Fireworks in St Louis at the Live On The Levee.
I have only heard one song from OAR but it is a free concert and the Fireworks are free as well, So it beats sitting at home unloading boxes!

I will have photos to post over the weekend from this event!

Have a good evening!


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Cloud 1.0

Cloud 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took the all on the same day, Just different cloud shots, some with the Rays coming through the clouds. I used the "Landscape" style for this set.

Exposure: 1/4000 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Everlast - Letters Home from the Garden of Stone

I guess that this video is the new single from his upcoming album.

Gary Jules - Mad World

Gary Jules (born March 19, 1969 in Fresno, California as Gary Jules Aguirre) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his cover of Tears for Fears' third single "Mad World", which he recorded together with friend Michael Andrews for the cult film Donnie Darko. It became the UK Christmas Number One single of 2003. Since then it has been used on popular American TV shows, and most recently in the commercial for the Xbox 360 video game Gears of War.

Tears For Fears - Mad World

What a great Song!! There is a version that is sung on the Donnie Darko movie that is very good.

Random Person!

Random Person!, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I was sitting at CVS the other day ion the cat while my wife was inside. I had the polarizer on the 18-70mm lens and was just taking random shots with the filter. This person came walking out and saw me in the car, waved at me and then posed. I was not going to take it at first but he just stood there posing so i had to. This is what i got!

Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

The Dark Knight...

Going to The Midnight Show!!!

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Dove1.2 Crop

Dove1.2 Crop, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is a crop that i did of the Dove 1.2 photo. It was taken with my 70-300mm lens on my Sony a200. The clarity is Amazing to me. The original focal length was 280mm I do not crop many photos and i just wanted to see what it looks like.

DSC05935

DSC05935, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is about as little motion as you can get from a Bee. He looks like he is hugging the flower! I love the detail in the wings. They look so delicate. I used the Macro setting on my lens to get this photo. I am very happy with it and will be shooting many more.

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/22
Focal Length: 300 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Not Supposed To Be There...

Not Supposed To Be There..., originally uploaded by RMStringer.

This is a wonderful shot of our cat sitting where she is not supposed to. She likes to climb and get on high places. I think that it was well framed and love the lighting and contrast.

Exposure: 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

Flickr Group!

I started a Flickr Group called the StLouisSonyGroup. IT is for everyone that lives in the St Louis Metro and surrounding areas to post photos and such(NO Videos) about their life and times here.

 

Here is the url: http://flickr.com/groups/850972@N22/pool/

 

So if you live in Missouri or Illinois and even Kansas and use a Sony Camera, then you should join!

 

RMStringer

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My BLOG:  BOB's Thoughts...

Link - http://renigade.blogspot.com/

My Camera: Sony DSLR a200

My Pictures: RMStringer

Link - www.flickr.com/rmstringer

 

 

 

H in the sky...

Taken with my LGVX8600 1.3Megapixel phone.
From RMStringer

DSC05812

DSC05812, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I wished that this shot was taken at night. I used my 18-70mm lens to take this and it turned out great1 With no clouds in the sky, it would have been a sweet shot at night. It was taken at Short Pump Town Center, a local "open air" mall in the North West End of Richmond Virginia.

Exposure: 1/3200 sec
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 400

New Flickr Group

I started a group called the St Louis Sony Group. Address = http://flickr.com/groups/850972@N22/

 

Please go and look at the photos and join if you use a Sony Camera. Please no videos!

 

 

RMStringer

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My BLOG:  BOB's Thoughts...

Link - http://renigade.blogspot.com/

My Camera: Sony DSLR a200

My Pictures: RMStringer

Link - www.flickr.com/rmstringer

 

 

 

DSC06102

DSC06102, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

These are a series of timed exposures that i took the other night using my Wireless Remote and my 70-300mm lens. I took the photos in "Night Mode" This was taken at 10.09pm CST.

Exposure: 18 sec (18)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100

DSC06002

DSC06002, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Were driving East and going over the MLKing bridge when i took this photo. I love the color of the bridge and the shadows on the road from the bridge structure. This was also taken with my 18-70mm lens while driving down the road. I used a UV filter for this shot as well.

Exposure: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 30 mm
ISO Speed: 400

DSC05817

DSC05817, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this in a shoe store as we were walking around the mall. You can see a few specs of dust in the photo from them being on the lens. I have got to be better at brushing the lens off before a taking a picture! This would have been an otherwise great still life photo without the artifacts on the pic.

Exposure: 0.01 sec (1/100)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 400

DSC05694

DSC05694, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

I took this before i left Midlothian. It was the only bloom that i had in my backyard. It is kind of bitter sweet to post it...

Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1000)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 200 mm
ISO Speed: 400