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Thursday, January 07, 2010
Waves!
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Angry Lake!
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Monday, January 04, 2010
The Ellen Trout Zoo 1.6
The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin Texas Sunday, January 3, 2010. Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens.
The Ellen Trout Zoo 1.10
The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin Texas Sunday, January 3, 2010. Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens.
The Ellen Trout Zoo 1.14
The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin Texas Sunday, January 3, 2010. Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens.
The Ellen Trout Zoo 1.22
The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin Texas Sunday, January 3, 2010. Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens.
The Ellen Trout Zoo 1.27
The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin Texas Sunday, January 3, 2010. Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens.
The Ellen Trout Zoo 1.4
The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin Texas Sunday, January 3, 2010. Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens.
The Ellen Trout Zoo 1.2
The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin Texas Sunday, January 3, 2010. Taken with the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro Lens.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Mack: Great Work -- Now Go Away
Many Thanks to Mac Hall for letting me place this on my website.
Great Work – Now Go Away
Last fall a Navy commando unit in a brilliant operation captured a notorious terrorist alive. Alive. But the terrorist later said that the sailors socked him during the confrontation and gave him a fat lip, and now the sailors are being court-martialed. So will the Japanese government now sue World War II veterans for hurting Generalissimo Tojo’s feelings? Will Grandpa be yanked off his rocking chair and sent to jail because he once said something rude about Adolf Hitler during the
More recently a police officer in a city far, far away was suspended with pay after he fired his pistol at a man who was threatening people, including the officer, with a knife. In such matters one would think that the suspension would be for the sake of the officer, for a good man does come away from such a matter the same man who went into it. But the matter always seems to project as a suspicion of the officer, and the dreary electronic comments from the sort of people who take their ideology from street corners and their grammar from twitting
The concept of suspending someone for doing his job does not obtain in most vocations. One does not imagine the head of surgery saying “Doctor Snorthbargle, you were simply brilliant today in saving the life of that emergency patient. You’re suspended until the medical board investigates you. Now go away.”
The supermarket manager does not call for an inquiry on little Siegfried the sack boy because the customers compliment him for his good work.
When a team wins a football game they are not sent home while a court determines whether or not they acted wisely in doing so.
Consider the possibility of a police officer observing a citizen driving carefully, following all state and local laws while operating a safe and well-maintained motor vehicle. The officer arrests the citizen and brings him before a justice of the peace who rules: “Citizen Jones, you were seen driving in a prudent fashion. Your license is suspended while I refer your case to the grand jury. I am impounding your car. You may have one telephone call to send for someone to come and get you. You might want to tell that friend or relative to drive irresponsibly unless he too wants the full majesty of the law to come down on him like a ton of cliches’.”
What if Captain Smith had parked the Titanic for the night long, long ago? “Captain Smith, you brought the company’s newest ship and all her passengers and crew safely to
The judge summons Perry Mason to the bench. “Mr. Mason, you were wonderful today. You saved an innocent woman from the death penalty and you helped the police find the real murderer. You represent everything that is true and noble in the legal profession. Your license to practice law is suspended until further notice, and the bailiff will now escort you to your cell.”
On a fine autumn day several liberal arts graduates from the United States Department of Agriculture descend upon Farmer Brown with briefcases full of legal documents. “Farmer Brown, you raised fine crops of wheat and soy this year. You provided part-time employment for three transient laborers and for five high school kids during the haying season. You filled out all your government forms accurately, paid your taxes, demonstrated wise agricultural practices, and in all ways are an excellent man. Your livestock are well cared for and you are unfailingly considerate of your neighbors and the environment. Therefore, we must investigate you. During this investigation, which may take a year or two, you are forbidden to farm. This means you will lose the land that’s been in your family for generations, but don’t worry; it will make a nice parking lot for Giganto-Mart. Further, your federal government, for whom you voted, is in its infinite generosity giving you a discount on your monthly rental of a public-housing unit.”
These are humorous imaginings, but there are very real exceptions to the idea that the laborer is worth of his hire: the illogical ways the American people sometimes mishandle their own police and their own young men and women in the services.
Jessie Sturat: Playing Accordian!
Phillip Glyn and Ridding High at Solley's Disco Saturday night 1-2-2010. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash
Phillip Glyn: On the Spoons!
Phillip Glyn and Ridding High at Solley's Disco Saturday night 1-2-2010. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash
Dale LeJune: Drums and Vocals
Phillip Glyn and Ridding High at Solley's Disco Saturday night 1-2-2010. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash
Gerald Dean: Bass
Phillip Glyn and Ridding High at Solley's Disco Saturday night 1-2-2010. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash
Malcom Buckalew: Guitar and Vocals
Phillip Glyn and Ridding High at Solley's Disco Saturday night 1-2-2010. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash
Jessie Sturat: Piano/Accordian/Vocals
Phillip Glyn and Ridding High at Solley's Disco Saturday night 1-2-2010. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash
Phillip Glyn: Lead Vocals and Precussion
Phillip Glyn and Ridding High at Solley's Disco Saturday night 1-2-2010. Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash
Friday, January 01, 2010
Going Home...
One of my most viewed photos of 2009.
Sunset At Lake Sam Rayburn...
The Sun is almost down and the lake will be dark and quiet. Time to get to the camp and eat and sleep when the time is right for it. I wonder if they had fun on this day and what will they do tomorrow?
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/10.0
Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 200
DSC07128
One of my most viewed photos of 2009.
An old building in downtown Beaumont Texas. I am not sure if any one uses it...
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Black and White Evening...
One of my most viewed photos of 2009.
Lake Sam Rayburn Texas! August 30, 2009
I was taking a series of Sunset photos while i was in the boat and waiting for it to be loaded. I was doing some color photos using the Minolta 35-105mm Lens and using a "Center Weighted Average" Metering Mode. I decided to go and switch to Black and White mode and was like WoW!! I love the textures and skyscape They photos have an HDR quality to them.
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 105 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Baja Boat Sunset 1.1
One of my most viewed photos of 2009.
29th Reunion at Rattlesnake Island, Lake Sam Rayburn Texas.
Another in the series of Wess's Baja boat racing across the lake at Sunset.
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 26 mm
ISO Speed: 400
IH 10 1.1
One of my most viewed of 2009.
Shot at location around Beaumont Texas.
Interstate 10 East and West. Taken facing North.
IH 10 make a turn to the right and heads East to Lake Charles Louisiana. It also branches off into HWY 96 and 69 North.
Exposure: 18
Aperture: f/18.0
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Herman Park 1.6
One of my most viewed of 2009.
Taken All Around Houston Texas on Friday Night, August 14, 2009.
Reflecting Pool at Herman Park. This was a 59 second exposure of the Reflecting pool. I love how the light just POPS!! It is, in my opinion, right at the edge of being over exposed. I used the 18-70mm Kit lens and the wireless shutter release in BULB mode. I use a very low ISO for this long exposure.
Exposure: 59
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Night Sky November 17, 2009
One of my most viewed of 2009.
It was taken using the Sony 18-70mm Lens and made using the program called Startrails. I took 64 different photos that were 45 seconds long at ISO800. The focal length was 18mm at f/3.5 from 10.39pm to 11.09pm CST facing the North Western Sky. I used the Opetka Programmable Wired Shutter Release to accomplish this photography set . This photo is the equivalent of a 48 minuet timed exposure.
The purple tint in the upper corners is due to the CCD Sensor heating up for the use of the equipment. There is noting that i can do about that. I am going to try another technique to see if i can eliminate it.
DSC06171: Work 2.4
One of my most viewed of 2009.
I think that this photo is perhaps even better than the Work 2.7 photo. The color and lighting is brilliant on this photo. The bright arc is not overpowering any of the photo and you can see the orange glow of the lights in the metal shot reflecting on the metal to the left of the weld. The orange glow on the inside of the pipe si from the hot metal penetrating the pipe and welding it together.
Exposure: 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 60 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Thursday, December 31, 2009
New Years Eve!!
It has been a very interesting year for all of us. Some tears as well as laughs were heard and shed. My wish for 2010 is for it to be a better year than 2009 was for all of us. Sure, it has been good in some aspects, for one, my Photography has been taken to a new level, my life has made some interesting turns and I have meet some great people. I moved back to Texas to help family and re-find myself so I can be a better person.
You never know what will come you way when one door closes and another unexpected door opens. Embrace the challenges that come in 2010 and lets have fun doing it together. Look for more bigger and better things from me in 2010 to appear on this very site.
Until then, my friends, have a very safe New Years Eve and if you party, do it responsibly. Please come home alive…
RMStringer
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Evening Lake...
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Cloud Horse
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Friday, December 25, 2009
Christmas Sunset...
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Convergence...
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Merry Christmas Everyone!!
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
Cold Merry Christmas!
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Nuclear Evening...
Lake Sam Rayburn Sunset December 9, 2009. Taken at the Twine Dikes Park boat ramp using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro lens. I used different Metering Modes for this set.
I love how the water looks like metal or something other than what it is. The clouds almost look like a bomb exploded in the distance and we are seeing the aftermath...
Exposure:0.001 sec (1/1250)
Aperture:f/4.0
Focal Length:70 mm
ISO Speed:200
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Photography Show!!
Hey Folks, I am going to do a Photography Show here in Jasper Texas with 3 other photogs on April 3, 2010 going for 5 weeks at THE EAST TEXAS REGIONAL ARTS CENTER in Jasper Texas. Please come and help support Me and the Arts Center that night!!
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If you want to Purchase a photo, please EMAIL me.
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To Look At My Full Line Of Photography,
Please go to Flickr/RMStringer
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
From Forrest Jones
“Experience has proven that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep them undisciplined and ignorant of basic systems principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganised, and distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand.This is achieved by:
1. disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality programme of public education in mathematics, systems design and economics, and discouraging technical creativity.
2. engaging their emotions, increasing their self indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities by:
a) unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of a constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the TV and the newspapers.
b) giving them what they desire - in excess - “junk food for thought” - and depriving them of what they really need.
c) rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities. These preclude their interest in, and discovery of, the silent weapons of social automation technology.
The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore the best approach is to create problems and then offer solutions.In summary:
Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.
Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history.
Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth grade level.
Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.”
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1. disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality programme of public education in mathematics, systems design and economics, and discouraging technical creativity.
2. engaging their emotions, increasing their self indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities by:
a) unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of a constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the TV and the newspapers.
b) giving them what they desire - in excess - “junk food for thought” - and depriving them of what they really need.
c) rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities. These preclude their interest in, and discovery of, the silent weapons of social automation technology.
The general rule is that there is profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore the best approach is to create problems and then offer solutions.In summary:
Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance.
Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history.
Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth grade level.
Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals.”
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Old Home 1.0
Taken on HWY 59 North just south of Goodrich Texas. Old and abandoned farm house taken in 16:9 Aspect Ration using the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
The old place on the side of the road, left to fall down and damaged from a storm. No longer of any use to anyone...
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Old Home 1.5
Taken on HWY 59 North just south of Goodrich Texas. Old and abandoned farm house taken in 16:9 Aspect Ration using the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Wanting to look in through the broken glass. Look at the uneven wood and how the house has decayed through no use.
Exposure:0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture:f/5.6
Focal Length:70 mm
ISO Speed:200
Gentel Shadows...
Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens close to Lake Sam Rayburn Dam on RR 255.
I love the shadows cast on the dieing grass seen in this photo. The colors of Fall are ever depicted here with shorter days and cooler temps...
Exposure:0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture:f/5.0
Focal Length:18 mm
ISO Speed:200
Old Home 1.9
Taken on HWY 59 North just south of Goodrich Texas. Old and abandoned farm house taken in 16:9 Aspect Ration using the Sony 18-70mm Lens.
Looking at a lost life. Who lived here and where are they now to leave stuff like this in the floor. The home is is very bad shape. I could not stop myself from getting some photos of it today...
Exposure:0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture:f/5.6
Focal Length:18 mm
ISO Speed:200
Looking South.
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Mack: Christmas
Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me print this.
The Arts of Christmas
Christmas is pretty. Of all the holidays, both religious and secular, Christmas inspires more and better attempts at literary, visual, and musical art than all the others. Easter, the premiere Christian holy day, ends its somber Lenten anticipation with beautiful music celebrating the Resurrection, but in popular culture is almost ignored. Independence Day is red, white, blue, explosions, and John Philip Sousa, which are okay, but no one spends four weeks in preparation for the Fourth. The religious holidays of All Souls and All Saints have been perverted into the ghastly Halloween, and Thanksgiving barely makes a nod at the Pilgrim fathers before dismembering a turkey and then yelling at a footer match on television.
But with Christmas comes art.
Arnold Friberg, who painted one of the most famous versions of Washington at prayer, wisely said that art which has to be explained is not art at all.
And so it is with Christmas. A Christmas tree needs no explanation, not even to an infant – it simply is, with its colored lights and angels and glass globes and "Baby's First Christmas" ornament. Adults argue whether Christmas trees are pagan in origin (they probably are), and certainly the aforementioned Pilgrim fathers banned Christmas trees (and Christmas itself) as Romish corruptions, but a child in his wisdom delights in trees.
Christmas music, too, never requires National Public Radio gaseous exhalations invoking such Charlie Brown teacher-isms as "fusion," "inculturation," and "textual analysis." Handel's glorious music is as clear to an atonal simpleton like me as it is to James Levine of the New York Phil. Fr. Franz Gruber's simple and sublime "Stille Nacht" and Gene Autry's jolly "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" as a contract piece for Montgomery Ward both have their places in the canon, one to honor the birth of the Savior and the other to honor the cash-register.
Any time a Hallmark Christmas movie is broadcast an angel rips its wings off, but there is a lengthy catalogue of great Christmas films, including Holiday Inn, The Bishop's Wife, The Shop Around the Corner, Miracle on 34th Street, and Christmas in Connecticut. John Wayne's Three Godfathers, with its themes of sacrifice and redemption, is laden with Christmas allusions. Every year Linus Van Pelt in A Charlie Brown Christmas reads to us the infancy narrative from St. Luke, and he doesn't need a voice-over narrator to explain it all to us.
And, hey, don't shoot your eye out.
In the 13th century St. Francis of Assisi set up the first Nativity scene, forever giving serious sculptors and even more serious manufacturers a subject for artistic endeavors of varying quality. Perhaps the best Nativity scenes are the cheap ones the children can play with. Since World War II this Catholic tradition has become popular with other Christian faithful, just in time for public displays to be shut down by some local courts, who understand it very well.
Happily there was no Martha Stewart at Bethlehem to instruct Mary on decorating the Stable just so. If Christmas begins with a stable, as St. Luke and Linus remind us, need it continue in a museum-display living room on the cover of Southern Living? One does not imagine the Blessed Mother apologizing to the shepherds because "the stable is a mess."
Nativity scenes remain simple, which is a small miracle. In churches one sees other Christian symbols, including statues and crucifixes, which appear to have been beaten out of scrap metal by a disturbed chimpanzee with a sledge hammer. Church committees are often deceived into paying good money for debris when a disciple of Billy Mays saliva-sprays them with polysyllabic adjectives explaining what his purported art means. As with the emperor's new clothes, few people have the courage to say "I DO know something about art, and this ain't it, pal."
But art has left the humble Stable alone, not fitting it out with rocket pods or even running water, and a little child can place the Infant Jesus in His manger between Mary and Joseph, set the camels here – or maybe there? – and the ox and the shepherds where she feels they need to be, not where a decorator with a color chart and the rule of three says they must be. Little children pretty much know how Christmas should be, and their play is the best art of all.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Looking North: Vacancy...
Taken with the Sony 18-70mm Lens close to Lake Sam Rayburn Dam on RR 255.
This is a little sitting hut overlooking a low bluff overlooking the lake. A cold Front had blown through the area and you can see the "white caps" on the water looking north. I love the muted late afternoon sun and sky in this photo. It looks and feels like Fall...
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 30 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Laurel and the Electric Circus 1.0
Laurel and the Electric Circus at Solley's Disco December 19, 2009. Taken using the Sony 18-70mm and theSony HVL-F58AM Flash with an Omni-Bounce 580 Diffuser.
Laurel and the Electric Circus 1.3
Laurel and the Electric Circus at Solley's Disco December 19, 2009. Taken using the Sony 18-70mm and theSony HVL-F58AM Flash with an Omni-Bounce 580 Diffuser.
Laurel and the Electric Circus 1.10
Laurel and the Electric Circus at Solley's Disco December 19, 2009. Taken using the Sony 18-70mm and theSony HVL-F58AM Flash with an Omni-Bounce 580 Diffuser.
Laurel and the Electric Circus 1.12
Laurel and the Electric Circus at Solley's Disco December 19, 2009. Taken using the Sony 18-70mm and theSony HVL-F58AM Flash with an Omni-Bounce 580 Diffuser.
Laurel and the Electric Circus 1.29
Laurel and the Electric Circus live at Solley's Disco December 18, 2009. Taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash with an Omni-Bounce 580 Diffuser.
Laurel and the Electric Circus 1.25
Laurel and the Electric Circus live at Solley's Disco December 18, 2009. Taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash with an Omni-Bounce 580 Diffuser.
Laurel and the Electric Circus 1.23
Laurel and the Electric Circus live at Solley's Disco December 18, 2009. Taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash with an Omni-Bounce 580 Diffuser.
Laurel and the Electric Circus 1.31
Laurel and the Electric Circus live at Solley's Disco December 18, 2009. Taken using the Quantaray 70-300mm Tele-Macro and the Sony HVL-F58AM Flash with an Omni-Bounce 580 Diffuser.
Laurel and the Electric Circus 1.44
Laurel and the Electric Circus at Solley's Disco December 19, 2009. Taken using the Sony 18-70mm and theSony HVL-F58AM Flash with an Omni-Bounce 580 Diffuser.
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