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Thursday, June 10, 2010

The Big Dipper 1.1

The Big Dipper 1.1, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Night Exposure Using the Sony A500. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 373
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Aldridge 2.28 crop

Aldridge 2.28 crop, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Photos taken with the Quantaray LD 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Tele-Macro at Aldridge Mill. Photos are © RMStringer Photography.

Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.0
Focal Length: 210 mm
ISO Speed: 100

The Movie Theater!

Jasper Texas

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First Bloom

Native Hibiscus.

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Monday, June 07, 2010

DSC02180

DSC02180, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

On the road to Boykin Springs in Angelina Forrest. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC02178

DSC02178, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

On the road to Boykin Springs in Angelina Forrest. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Sunday, June 06, 2010

Lake Sam Rayburn Texas

Boat and Jet-Ski Rentals

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Saturday, June 05, 2010

test

test on Blogger by droid eris

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Friday, June 04, 2010

DSC02157

DSC02157, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

On the road to Boykin Springs in Angelina Forrest. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/9.0
Focal Length: 90 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC02191

DSC02191, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

On the road to Boykin Springs in Angelina Forrest. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 100 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC02021

DSC02021, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Waterfalls at Boykin Springs using a Tiffen 0.9 ND Filter.

Exposure: 0.5
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01993

DSC01993, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Waterfalls at Boykin Springs using a Tiffen 0.9 ND Filter. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 1
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal Length: 26 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01937

DSC01937, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Waterfalls at Boykin Springs using a Tiffen 0.9 ND Filter. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 3.2
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal Length: 26 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Thursday, June 03, 2010

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Saturday Evening Sunset Rattlesnake Island

Lake Sam Rayburn Texas.

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The Lake

Taken on the way homw Sunday evening

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Sunday, May 30, 2010

Friday, May 28, 2010

DSC01290

DSC01290, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 3
Aperture: f/14.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01286

DSC01286, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 5
Aperture: f/14.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01369

DSC01369, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 24
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01367

DSC01367, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 7
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01365

DSC01365, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 20
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

DSC01376

DSC01376, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Wagner's Carnival in Jasper Texas. All photos © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 5
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Jasper Night 1.6

Jasper Night 1.6, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

First United Methodist Church

Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 3
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Jasper Night 1.5

Jasper Night 1.5, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

First United Methodist Church

Night Photography taken around Jasper using the Sony A500 DSLR.© RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 6
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

Jasper Night 1.4

Jasper Night 1.4, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

Jasper Night 1.3

Jasper Night 1.3, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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 Night 1.0, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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!!!

DSC01182, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

DSC01213

DSC01213, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

DSC01190

DSC01190, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

DSC01176

DSC01176, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

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

DSC01167

DSC01167, originally uploaded by RMStringer.

Night Photography taken at Lake Sam Rayburn Dam using the Sony Alpha 500DSLR. © RMStringer Photography

Exposure: 52
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 200

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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