Anyone interested in an EF 300/2.8 L Series I with IS lens? I am going to put it on B&S shortly, Thinking $800 and I'll pay shipping. Comes with the Canon custom hard case and a Lightware cordura long lens case. My last EF lens, tack sharp, as expected.
Thanks Dan! The fracking company has sites coming up around the world and lots of them in the US so this should present some great imaging opportunities.
JIII is right here with me in my office as I edit away, he's doing ok but fades as the day rolls on. I'm on the back side of my cough, but barely. Nobody I'd rather catch it from.............
Hope you are having a good week so far.I'm battling a little upper respiratory thingy that JIII passed on to me, but the show must go on. A couple of days in the oil field over close to the New Mexico border was grueling, but extremely productive. I was up to my ears shooting for the client as they set up all their equipment to begin the fracking process, flew in, drove in, shot until about nine that night, back up at 4 am to get back to the site to shoot pre-dawn/dawn images. Every time I shoot petroleum workers I am impressed by their dedication and tireless work ethic, in largely a very hostile environment, they just get 'er dun whatever the situation and obstacles. Definitely gives you a new appreciation for a gallon of gas.
I didn't have much time to do it, but I saw a lot of stock possibilities that I can go back for when time allows, not that there is much money in stock anymore, but it's still worth picking up here and there. This is a good example as I rushed from one site to another location. Ray knows all about this I'm sure, this is the only way to grow crops/grazing pastures in the arid West Texas climate, it's what creates the green circles that you see on the landscape as you fly over.
Ray Swindle wrote:
The difference of underground irrigation and natural (depending on rain) is quite a lot. Natural irrigated cotton grows about 24-30 inches while the irrigated can grow up to 4-5 feet (according to the cotton picker who harvest cotton on my fields making for a much more productive yield).
Drayton McClain (previous owner of the Houston Astros and grocer supply baron here in Central Texas) has those irrigation sprayers for his hay fields. It is good to be rich. (Hay is the cheapest product here in Central Texas.)
Heh Ray!
Here in Mary-land, the framers on our Eastern Shore, where watermelons, cantalopes, strawberries, sweet corn, pumpkins. is flat and sandy. Those farmers use the driven sprinkler systems...that can afford them.
WE are in a drought condition here and have been. Our Western land is fruit(apples), sunflowers, milk, beef, hay, soy beans and , what we called in Iowa..."horse corn"-feed corn. I have not seen those above ground sprinklers over here.
Hay is inexpensive but not cheap.
"Darn man!".(Quote from some official-:mad..Washington thinks we are ALL rich! I just don't envision electric tractors, combines, balers.......
Happy harvesting Ray!!!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
Heh Ray!
Here in Mary-land, the framers on our Eastern Shore, where watermelons, cantalopes, strawberries, sweet corn, pumpkins. is flat and sandy. Those farmers use the driven sprinkler systems...that can afford them.
WE are in a drought condition here and have been. Our Western land is fruit(apples), sunflowers, milk, beef, hay, soy beans and , what we called in Iowa..."horse corn"-feed corn. I have not seen those above ground sprinklers over here.
Hay is inexpensive but not cheap.
"Darn man!".(Quote from some official-:mad..Washington thinks we are ALL rich! I just don't envision electric tractors, combines, balers.......
Happy harvesting Ray!!!
Dan
We have drought years whenever there is an El Niņo effect in the Pacific. When I bought the farm we were in the middle of a 15 year drought. Farmers still made money (unless the gov't jacks with oil prices, then they lose a lot) and very little was lost to weather, although the yield is reduced significantly. Last year's wheat crop on my place yielded 50%. Hay on the other hand gets scarce so the farmers bale their corn chaff. They have to blend corn in with it to feed the cattle. A large round bale can cost over $100 delivered. Our farmland is taxed according to expected yields and crop prices (productivity). Hay fields are taxed at a lower rate than planted crops.
I forgot about wheat Ray. Largest and most prolific grain in Maryland. Last year was great for my farming neighbors. But this year we have had very little rain for the Spring wheat and none for the summer wheat and soy beans if planted early. But it is a tad early yet. A few more weeks before I wake up to the sound of tractors!
Had a huge argument with my step daughter's step son who thinks farmers are subsidized too much!
He makes a 6 figure income and knows all if you get my drift.
Hope your season is plentiful and fruitful Ray!
Dan
Danpbphoto wrote:
I forgot about wheat Ray. Largest and most prolific grain in Maryland. Last year was great for my farming neighbors. But this year we have had very little rain for the Spring wheat and none for the summer wheat and soy beans if planted early. But it is a tad early yet. A few more weeks before I wake up to the sound of tractors!
Had a huge argument with my step daughter's step son who thinks farmers are subsidized too much!
He makes a 6 figure income and knows all if you get my drift.
Hope your season is plentiful and fruitful Ray!
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Apparently he is not familiar with the impact from fertilizer and fuel/oil plus maintaining farm equipment and product storage and deliver cost. He probably thinks they only work when they plant and harvest. If a farmer fertilizes 7000 acres, the cost could be as much as #300,000, and that expense is not subsidized. And that is only fertilizer, it doesn't include herbicide.
Ray Swindle wrote:
Apparently he is not familiar with the impact from fertilizer and fuel/oil plus maintaining farm equipment and product storage and deliver cost. He probably thinks they only work when they plant and harvest. If a farmer fertilizes 7000 acres, the cost could be as much as #300,000, and that expense is not subsidized. And that is only fertilizer, it doesn't include herbicide.
Oh don't I know Ray!
I live among farmers, both green and milk/beef. To get some spare "change" during the school year, I would offer my tractor trailer class licenses and pick up from the farmers cooler and haul milk to the MDVA Milk CoOp near Laurel(60miles) during the holidays so the married drivers could stay with their families.
5 blocks "down the road" in any direction, my small hometown...you were in beef and grain/vegatable farmers! Here I have a small mini mall but all my neighbors are farmers. Suzanne&I went to elementary school with the wife and Suzanne went on to high school with Mary Ann and Paul. We are still very close to them. But 1 property, right behind us, sold his property 500 acres, to a developer and we will be having a "Senior Living and Townhouse, Section 8 development being built soon. Townhouses are NOW the mandated house style here. Single family homes in agri-land are a "No-No"!
I love dirt on my hands!
Dan
Ray Swindle wrote:
...and now, as you told us, we have the 100-300 f: 2.8, er, um, well, it is announced:
I knew it Ray, but that lens doesn't tempt me in the least, might be a good one for your sports subjects though. I wasn't far off, the RF600/4 III shipped today.......... Now they need to hold off until mid-2024 to release the R1, I should be recovered by then!
Just got a text from my Canon guy telling me about the release of the RF 100-300.............. I told him not to call me for at least six months...........
Speaking of expenditures, my multi-million $$ pool project is progressing nicely! Going to love putting this presentation together, with footage from the original to the finished product, it will be spectacular!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I knew it Ray, but that lens doesn't tempt me in the least, might be a good one for your sports subjects though. I wasn't far off, the RF600/4 III shipped today.......... Now they need to hold off until mid-2024 to release the R1, I should be recovered by then!
Yes, that along with the 1.4 would be pretty perfect...if it wasn't for that $9500 thingy!
Don't quote me, but I think my RF lens collection is pretty complete, with the addition of the 600III. I'll most likely replace my tilt shifts when they release them, but I now have the best selection of lenses that I've ever had I think. Just need one or two more bodies when they release them next year and I'll be set.
