First United Methodist Church.
Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography
Exposure: 7
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Jasper Night 1.4
Jasper Night 1.3
Jasper County Courthouse.
Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography
Exposure: 13
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Jasper Night 1.0
Jasper County Courthouse.
Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography
Exposure: 22
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200
The Dam Reflection!!!
Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography
Exposure: 12
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Monday, May 24, 2010
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Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography
Exposure: 27
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 400
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Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography
Exposure: 28
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200
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Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography
Exposure: 30
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200
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Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography
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Aperture: f/5.6
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Mack: Press One for Rational Thought
Thanks to Mac Hall for letting me publish that story to my site.
Press One for Rational Thought
Arizona, a most unfashionable state after firing on Fort Sumter earlier this spring, is now a pariah (or is that a piranha?) for wanting the English teachers in its public schools to speak, well, English.
There is no word on whether Spanish teachers in Arizona schools must know Spanish.
Employing standard English is clearly not a requirement for holding a sinecure as a super special golly administrative assistant czarina in some school districts, but, generally speaking (speaking in English), English teachers really should have pretty good control of the language of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Belloc, Churchill, Tolkien, and Thomas the Tank Engine.
If a strong accent is a bar to employment as an English teacher, any native Texan currently employed as such ain't a-gonna be much longer; he's gonna have t' drag up pronto an' mosey into th' sunset, y'all.
English teachers must know English, just as a nurse ought to know patient care and a welder should use more than Elmer's Glue for bonding.
Imagine taking your wheezing pickup truck to your mechanic: "Hey, Cletus, Ol' Blue's stalling on acceleration again…hey, where are you going?"
"Sorry, old friend, I've been reassigned by the government as a dental assistant. Diversity and multiculturalism, they say."
"Dental assistant? Cletus, you don't know anything about teeth; you only got two of 'em anyway! And who's gonna take care of Ol' Blue, my 1956 pickup?"
"Here's Sven, your new mechanic. He's an expert in Swedish massage."
"Massage!? Ol' Blue don't need a massage! It's the carburetor!"
"Ja, me fix carburetor good with warm towels, ja. Ze government say so, ja. Ich bin ein multicultural sensitive mechanic now, is good, ja?"
Arizona is catching a lot of flak (which is a German import) for trying to control the international border and protect American citizens in the absence of enforcement of federal laws by the federal government. The reaction in some in the salons of D.C. has been to sneer and to wear the now-obligatory cause-of-the-month rubber wrist bands pooh-poohing a state that was home to sophisticated cultures hundreds of years before Washington was inhabited by anything more than mud turtles and malaria mosquitoes.
Some states are proposing an economic boycott of Arizona. Two problems obtain – Arizona is an exporter of electrical power and water to other states in a nation that, due to governmental short-sightedness, is lacking in both. California, for instance, is no more in a position to dictate terms to Arizona than Washington is to our Chinese masters.
The second issue is this – whom ("whom," he said, for he had been to school) do the critics think live in Arizona? Vikings? Arizona has enjoyed a Spanish culture for some 500 years, and numerous First Nations cultures for millennia longer than that.
In Arizona you eat breakfast at Juanita's café', not at Janice's, and if you speed you don't get a ticket from Al Caldwell's friend Officer Fatback but from Officer Rodriguez. You might buy your gasoline from a station owned by an Apache whose folks have lived on the same bit of land for a thousand years. All these American citizens want to live under the same Constitutional protections as the rest of us.
Boycott them? Why?
For the record, I, unlike the Attorney General of the United States, have read Arizona's new bill regarding folks who cross the international border without a passport, a driver's license, or at least a Sam's Club card. The law is positively Merovingian in its harmlessness and inadequacy. Crossing into the USA for work or study (or, sadly, crime) remains a great deal easier than trying – trying, because you might not be permitted – to pop across the Canadian border to visit Niagara Falls for an hour.
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
New Hair Cut. No Glasses!
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Light Painting 1.3
Some fun Light Painting using the Sony A500.
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Light Painting 1.2
Some fun Light Painting using the Sony A500.
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Light Painting 1.1
Some fun Light Painting using the Sony A500.
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Light Painting 1.0
Some fun Light Painting using the Sony A500.
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Monday, May 17, 2010
Macro 1.7
Macro with Sony Alpha 500 DLSR taken using the Schneider-Kreuznach Componon 40mm f/4. All photos © RMStringer Photography.
Macro 1.9
Macro with Sony Alpha 500 DLSR taken using the Schneider-Kreuznach Componon 40mm f/4. All photos © RMStringer Photography.
Macro 1.15
Macro with Sony Alpha 500 DLSR taken using the Schneider-Kreuznach Componon 40mm f/4. All photos © RMStringer Photography.
Macro 1.16
Macro with Sony Alpha 500 DLSR taken using the Schneider-Kreuznach Componon 40mm f/4. All photos © RMStringer Photography.
Friday, May 14, 2010
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Old Home 1.1
Old Home by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.
Train Tracks 1.4
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Train Tracks 1.12
Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.
Train Tracks 1.11
Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.
Train Tracks 1.1
Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.
Train Tracks 1.25
Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.
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Train Tracks by Fish-Eye! Zykkor Super Wider Semi Fish-Eye 0.42x used on top of the Minolta 28-100mm f/3.5-4.5 Macro Lens. All photos are © RMStringer Photography.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Senior Portraits
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Monday, May 10, 2010
Steel Magnolia Live 1.0
Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010 "Fish-Eye" Lens Used.
Steel Magnolia Live 1.1
Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010 "Fish-Eye" Lens Used.
Steel Magnolia Live 1.4
Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010 "Fish-Eye" lens Used.
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Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010
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Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010
Steel Magnolia Live 1.16
Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010
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Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010
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Steel Magnolia live at the 64th Jasper Lions PRCA Rodeo. Night 3, May 7, 2010
Sunday, May 09, 2010
Mack Goes Green
Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me post his humor.
How's That Green Workin' Out For Ya?
Cuthbert strolled into his neighborhood GaiaFirst Collective People's Earth Cooperative.
"How can I help you, sir?" asked a young woman wearing her prize collection of piercings, only one of which was still slightly pustulant.
"I'm thinking of starting a small garden in my back yard," said Cuthbert.
"Going green, are you?" asked the young woman, whose name tag read "How Can I Help You My Name is Heathyr."
"Oh, I hope not!" exclaimed Cuthbert, examining the backs of his hands just to be sure. "Though I did work for B.P."
"B.P.!?" exclaimed Heathyr. "You worked for that evil, wicked, polluting multi-national oil company?"
"Nah, I was twenty years with Bob's Pies," replied Cuthbert. "Got a little crazy with the food coloring sometimes."
"Ahem. Right. With what can I help you?" Heathyr said "With what can I help you?" instead of "What can I help you with?" because she was an English major although she had once considered being a Portuguese lieutenant.
"Well, I need a shovel, rake, and hoe."
"Oh, sir, I'm so happy that you are going to hand-work your garden instead of pillaging the planet with a polluting tractor or other power machinery. That shows you love Mother Earth!"
"No, it shows that I have a really small back yard."
"Ahem. Well, yes, now here is our selection of lovely shovels."
"But they're all made in China."
"Yes, but they're hand-crafted by ethnic Tibetan tribespersons who are one with, like, y'know, nature, and, like, stuff. These are fair-trade shovels."
"At these prices I wonder who gets the fair? All right, since I have no choice. Same for the rake and hoe, I suppose?"
"We do feature a lovely rake, the Beau Brummel model, with a fake English name but really made of recycled bicycles by other-abled midgets in India."
"Okay, and a hoe. Now for some tomato seedlings."
"Yes, sir," said Heathyr. "For our climate I'd recommend Obedient Boy or Early MS."
"I've heard of Big Boy and Early Girl – are these new varieties?"
"We have renamed our tomatoes CORRECTLY," sniffed Heathyr.
"Um, okay, twelve of each. And some sweet corn."
"Ah! Here we have organic corn seeds of the original plants grown by the all-natural First Nations Native Americans Indigenous Peoples."
"You mean Indians?"
"SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! You can't SAY that, sir!"
"Why do these seed packets have pictures of Che Guevara on them?"
"That's because our beloved Che was, like, y'know, one with The People, and, like, y'know, organic and stuff."
"Che Guevara was a psychotic mass-murderer."
"He was NOT! I saw The Motorcycle Diaries, so I KNOW."
"Ah, well, who am I to argue with a film? Oh, I'll need some fertilizer."
"We specialize in sheep poop," said Heathyr.
"You certainly do," replied Cuthbert.
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Jessica Barrow Cap & Gown 1.7
Jessica Barrow Senior Portraits shot on location at Captured Images & Framing, Woodville Texas.
Jessica Barrow Cap & Gown 1.1
Jessica Barrow Senior Portraits shot on location at Captured Images & Framing, Woodville Texas.
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Jessica Barrow Senior Portraits shot on location at Captured Images & Framing, Woodville Texas.
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Jessica Barrow Senior Portraits shot on location at Captured Images & Framing, Woodville Texas.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Senior Portraits
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Last Light...
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Sunday, May 02, 2010
Mack: Sleepy Little Southern Rattlesnakes
Thanks to Mack Hall for letting me publish his column on my site. I have been doing this for several years trying to spread his wit and style to others. He was a teacher of mine for several years in a town where I grew up. He now publishes this in the regional paper in SE Texas. I help him by posting to my website as well.
Sleepy Little Southern Rattlesnakes
Alas that terrorists and foreign oil executives never seem to bother rattlesnakes, a professional courtesy which suggests that vipers of all species recognize each other and perhaps even share a secret handshake. Well, maybe not a handshake.
According to an Associated Press story, rattlesnake roundups are declining. Hmmm – rattlesnake roundups. As fond as I am of cowboy films, I don't remember John, Roy, Hoppy, Gene, and the boys herding snakes along the Chisholm Trail to Texas. How would they do that? "Slither along, little herpetofauna, sing a-kiyi-fangy-ki-yay?" Think of the classic movies: Fang-fight at the O.K. Corral, Fang of the Barbary Coast, They Died With Their Snakeskin Boots On, Stagecoachwhip, and The Sons of Katie Adder.
Eastern diamondback rattlesnakes, like fire ants and some world leaders, live mostly underground. In rural communities catching these critters and killing them is jolly good sport, just like in Rio Bravo, and rattlesnake rounder-uppers have developed marvelous new ways of snatching serpents out of their dens. Instead of pouring gasoline down a hole and seeing what pops up, modern hunters, Beyond Petroleum, insert plastic tubes and listen for the rattle, and if such a sound is forthcoming then a smaller tube with a hook is inserted (somehow I feel the discomforting words "you may feel a little pressure" are spoken at this point), and the snake is dragged out.
The rattlesnake is then killed and eaten. The convention is that snake tastes like chicken. Since I've tried chicken, I've no need to sample snake. Perhaps snakes could be made part of the school lunch program: snake tenders, snake fingers, snake-fried snake, and snake ring things.
The skin is made into belts, purses, shoes, boots, wallets, and other fashion accessories for sale to tourists, though I suppose rattlesnake do-rags are not do-able.
The rattlesnake's skull and bones and rattles are made into trinkets, and I certainly hope to find toys made of rattlesnake remnants for the next niece or nephew for Christmas: "Uncle Mack! Thank you so much for my Barbie Snake House! You're the greatest!"
These hunts supplement rural economies through their curiosity value, and people really do pay money to stand around and eat snake sandwiches and buy stuffed snakes, and good for them.
Unfortunately, environmentalists are unhappy with rattlesnake hunts, maintaining that rattlesnakes are declining in population everywhere but in Congress. Alas that no one rounds up environmentalists and makes trinkets of them. Anyone who spends any time outdoors from Pennsylvania to California will observe that there is no shortage of rattlesnakes, and that rattlesnakes are not our anthropomorphic friends. Rattlesnakes can kill a healthy adult, and will kill a child.
But then, hey, it's always open season on children in American now, and no doubt PETA will defend to the death – a baby's death -- a snake's right to choose.
If rattlesnakes were to disappear, who would care except the sort of unread sheeplings who wear Che Guevera tee-shirts? The biodiversity argument holds no venom; Ireland has no snakes at all, nor does Newfoundland, and the folks and animals there seem to rich and rewarding lives without the blessings of pit vipers.
The AP writer was doing pretty well until he employed the most over-used cliché' in Christendom, referring to a small town in Alabama as "sleepy." But perhaps this is not the scrivener's fault; he may have been simply following orders and the AP style book. One never reads in the national press of a Southern town as anything but sleepy, so possibly use of the tired metaphor is an edict. Southern towns, according to the form book, are always sleepy, with the court house dozing in a hammock and the grocery store snoozing on the back porch and Main Street fitting itself into its CPAP mask for a good night's slumber. Middlebury, Vermont, enjoying superior character, never sleeps, nor does Bangor, Maine.
Towns aren't sleepy, but some unimaginative writers are.
I dare not suggest that anyone reading this excellent newspaper kill rattlesnakes since some sub-species are protected under penalty of law, and goodness knows I would never place the life of a child over that of a reptile; that would be wrong.
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Saturday, May 01, 2010
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