I know, but I'm missing the taste now. Saw my first bottle of Pepsi for sale in a store, as well as my first McDonalds in Ireland, I was beginning to think neither of them had taken hold in this country.
I'm now back in my room after spending most of the day roaming.
saph wrote:
Plenty of diet Mountain Dew will be waiting for you when you get back Laura, enjoy the trip in the meanwhile
Once my eyes got adjusted after shooting last night I was really surprised how many satellites you could see! Also we saw the latest "train" of Starlink that were recently deployed.
Thanks for the tip on the stacking software. I have not used it much, but will take a crash course before I head back up in a couple weeks. Fingers crossed for clear skies. I have several things planned after just messing around last night. The family has 118 acres in a very rural area and if there is no moon there are only a few areas on the horizon that has any "city shine". There is one high point where it is open field with a good 360° view. Plan on setting up there.
graytrekker wrote:
Nice shot, George!
I don't want to sound like a "grumpy old man" (which, of course, I can be at times), but thanks to Elon Musk and the pandemic, we have loads of satellites in the night sky and younger folk in their Mercedes Sprinter van campers working remotely from national park campgrounds with their Starlinks.
It used to be that, at least in these parts, the busy times in the parks aligned with kids' summer vacations constrained by people having to work in-person at their place of employment - i.e., 4th of July through Labor Day. After that, the parks would empty out and us older, retired people would have the place more or less to ourselves. That's what I looked forward to as I got older. Boy, how things have changed!!!
I will say, though, that up here, one can still have reasonable peace and quiet in the parks (and not in the National Forest where people are shooting anything that moves right now) after the fall weather changes and a little snow falls. That clears out all the "beautiful people". So, I have invested in more cold(er) weather gear and I have enjoyed many fewer people during the last few trips to Glacier. However, something to "bare" in mind, the bears are more hungry at this time of year!
Cheers
Doug
PS - stacking with programs like Starry Landscape Stacker or Sequator does remove the satellites...Show more →
Laura, according to the forecast you should have great weather the next two days so you can exercise the DF. Enjoy your dinner and hope you can locate a diet Mountain Dew.
One World Trade Center, North Tower Memorial is behind.
serge07 wrote:
Laura, according to the forecast you should have great weather the next two days so you can exercise the DF. Enjoy your dinner and hope you can locate a diet Mountain Dew.
serge07 wrote:
Laura, according to the forecast you should have great weather the next two days so you can exercise the DF. Enjoy your dinner and hope you can locate a diet Mountain Dew.
leighton w wrote:
Welcome to "the club". However, I must warn you, you better not mind spending money on MF glass.
I guarantee you that you won't stop with one.
Ha! So true!
While I only have one MF Nikkor, I have a variety of other vintage glass, including Minolta, Konica, and third-party lenses... and I'm always on the lookout for more!
serge07 wrote:
Laura, according to the forecast you should have great weather the next two days so you can exercise the DF. Enjoy your dinner and hope you can locate a diet Mountain Dew.
Packing up at the moment, laundry and travel again. Book of Kells/Trinity College is now on the agenda. Then the dreadful part, having to get back on the plane Thursday and depart. The beauty here has really thrown me on an emotional upheaval.
While on the way to Limerick, as I was going thru Knock, the sign showed there was a shrine there in Knock, and something made me stop. Found out that on 21 Aug 1879, an apparition appeared on the church. Fifteen people gave witness to inquiries about the apparition., While there, I left intentions for my grandfather and husband, so that their names will be said in Ireland for the next year. I'm not a practicing Catholic, but at least their names will be said here for a year. You never really die until your name is never mentioned, is what I've heard.
serge07 wrote:
Laura, according to the forecast you should have great weather the next two days so you can exercise the DF. Enjoy your dinner and hope you can locate a diet Mountain Dew.
Now that Curtis is back, watch your wallet! He has that reputation to uphold, and he's so sneaky too!
ahinesdesign wrote:
Ha! So true!
While I only have one MF Nikkor, I have a variety of other vintage glass, including Minolta, Konica, and third-party lenses... and I'm always on the lookout for more!
I got an email from Google Photo telling me they have over 10,000 of my photos! They provided a link so I could see what they have. Old timers perhaps recall when Google bought a photo hosting website called "Picasa." I used that site for a great many years, but then they shut it down. Blessedly, the did not discard my images so links to early photos listed on this website were never broken. But I could not add new photos. That led me to Flickr which was being used by a number of folks on this thread. I mentioned that I culled photos from my Flickr account... losing about 3,000 photos so I could rid myself of the monthly fee for using the account. I'd been reviewing all of those commitments I'd made over times that amounted to a good size monthly outlay. I decided I wan't using Flickr enough to give them ten bucks a month.
Now Google is back, offering to automatically scrape ALL of photos and drop them in the cloud. I haven't read the small print but I thought I'd experiment to see if I can post photos from Google again. They gave me a link to a photo taken in 2016 with the Df and my favorite lens, the 55 f/1.2. S.C. AI. Here goes...
So the link is here but no photo. This clearly won't work... unless there is a work around. Any ideas? I know that Flickr provides BBC codes and apparently at one time Google had an extension that would do that... but it no longer is available. Perhaps I'll simply ignore Google's approach to me, always grateful that they didn't pull the plug on those early photos NO ONE is looking at any more...
Serge, I found something to tame the quench. Circle K has these frozen drinks, coke (YUCK) and then there were strawberry and raspberry, accidentally mixed in one cup.
serge07 wrote:
Laura, according to the forecast you should have great weather the next two days so you can exercise the DF. Enjoy your dinner and hope you can locate a diet Mountain Dew.
