JWilsonphoto wrote:
DFW continues to get worse due to winds........... conga lines of 100+ miles are building. Sure glad I don't have to go anywhere, or come home.
Jim,
We are experiencing very high winds here also. 40-50mph gusts and I see a few of the commuter jets circling the airport for another try before landing.
Better to be safe than confront Mother Nature! She can be a real bixx some times!
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Congratulations Dan!
Thank you Jim!
I am particularly proud of the fact that as a Vietnam Veteran Wall of Faces volunteer for over 10-15 years I helped find a photo for every veteran that appears on the Wall.
It was very frustrating how many families had no pictures of their lost loved one. And especially many families, sons, daughters that had NO picture of their father!
Fox News contacted me through Heidi Zimmerman@Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and asked for a family to interview for a Memorial Day remberance. Here it is. I grew up with James yet I attended a different private highschool. But we played football against each other despite being very close friends in town. I lost many of my closet friends in this war! https://www.foxnews.com/video/5452882872001
I am NOT hearing any audio. I hope you can.... My bad..The "mute" was on in the video strip.
DFW wasn't the only ones struggling with the weather this past day or so. Winter storm Finn was a real one for sure. Dropped a solid 12 inches of the wet and heavy on us last night into this afternoon. Thank the Lord it was wet and heavy, the 20-30 w/Gusts to 45 from the NW would have really been a mess if the snow was a blowing.
Kinda nice to be back into winter and actually enjoyed shovelling today, the temps were right at freezing and the wind was block by the house so being outside was kinda nice!
Dan, thanks for all you do at Arlington National Cemetery and for the vets. Bless you kind Sir.
Indeed Dan, due to a deep streak of humility, we don't have a clue about the sacrifices our Buddy Dan B has made for the cause of freedom, God Bless him!
Anyone entertaining the idea of buying the new RF200-800? Rumor has it that one is on its way to me for evaluation. I'm skeptical, but it is enough of a hybrid that it might be worth a look. Entry fee is just about the same as the tax on an RF800/5.6
DanNehmer wrote:
DFW wasn't the only ones struggling with the weather this past day or so. Winter storm Finn was a real one for sure. Dropped a solid 12 inches of the wet and heavy on us last night into this afternoon. Thank the Lord it was wet and heavy, the 20-30 w/Gusts to 45 from the NW would have really been a mess if the snow was a blowing.
Kinda nice to be back into winter and actually enjoyed shovelling today, the temps were right at freezing and the wind was block by the house so being outside was kinda nice!
Dan, thanks for all you do at Arlington National Cemetery and for the vets. Bless you kind Sir. ...Show more →
Dan, living in Ft Dodge for 10 years snow was a "right of passage". I dont ever remember not having snow on the ground from late Nov. to end of March.
Also never remember schools being cancelled ,like here in the Mid-Atlantic, because of it or rain...whatever. And I had to walk to school and it was about 8-10 blocks away or more! And I had no shoes!!!! ...No just joking!
IT was a great way to make some money for a 7-10 yr old!. I loved ice skating all winter on the Des Moines river in Ft Dodge or sleding at the golf course or local park. "Snow forts"....ah the sweet memories of youth in Iowa!
Dad(Pharmacist) owned Iowa Medical Supply and he spent a week each month traveling all over Iowa delivering medicines and medical supplies to the real rural doctors.
Appreciate the kind words about honoring our vets. Especially VietNam. They, the Army, didn't prepare us for what we were to encounter when we got of the bus at SeaTac airport for home after 2 years "In Country"! It was disgraceful!
Stay safe and dont over do the shoveling Dan! I am 76 and anything over 3" I cant handle!
Dan2
I know I was certainly not prepared for the "receptions" I got (5/67) when returning, going from Travis AFB to the Airlines counter. Maybe I should have suspected given the things screamed at me as I was on my way to Travis from SFO (5/66) in my B.I.L.'s car.
The words I can sluff off - the little rocks and spit did PO me a bit.
At the end of Desert Storm, they had us Chaplains conduct unit level "Reunion" Classes to give heads up to folks that what they are returning to ain't what they left. Sadly, it wasn't difficult to realize that most of the folks paid no attention.
Did a lot of counselling at DSDS as folks had trouble communicating with folks back home.
The comments of "Why didn't you tell me?" were common at drills afterward.
But, I found It did no good to try to tell them that we had indeed had tried, with Power Points and paper.
It is a painful burden of deployed military.
Not sure how it is now that they have email, skype and better phone access.
That breaks my heart. What all of you endure, regardless of the conflict, is more than enough for any warrior and their loved ones to deal with. What you have to put up with once your home is adding insult to injury. I'd like to stick my head in the sand and say that it has all gotten much better, but it hasn't. Sure, you are greeted at the airport now but next comes the paperwork, the substandard healthcare, if you are able to get healthcare at all, it's criminal. The fact that someone who walked across the Rio Grande last night gets quicker and better healthcare than any of you who walked through hell is just unpalatable, but on and on it goes.
Been seeing some more details on what Canon might do this year and it looks like I might be saving some money. Now the rumor is that the R1 will be released sooner than the R5 sequels, and that it may not be much more than the R3 as far as megapixels. The thought seems to be that the 1 series has always been a sports camera and therefore does not need a huge sensor to clog up the speedy workflow that is characteristic of a sports shooter. I'll let the sports shooters vote with their dollars on that line of thinking. I can say, unequivocally, if it isn't 45MP or better, I'm out. The details will drip like a water torture over the next few months I'm sure, and I'll wait until there's more concrete evidence of the direction this is going to go, but right now I'm tempted to pick up another R5C and hold my horses on the rest.
Danpbphoto wrote:
Dan, living in Ft Dodge for 10 years snow was a "right of passage". I dont ever remember not having snow on the ground from late Nov. to end of March.
Also never remember schools being cancelled ,like here in the Mid-Atlantic, because of it or rain...whatever. And I had to walk to school and it was about 8-10 blocks away or more! And I had no shoes!!!! ...No just joking!
IT was a great way to make some money for a 7-10 yr old!. I loved ice skating all winter on the Des Moines river in Ft Dodge or sleding at the golf course or local park. "Snow forts"....ah the sweet memories of youth in Iowa!
Dad(Pharmacist) owned Iowa Medical Supply and he spent a week each month traveling all over Iowa delivering medicines and medical supplies to the real rural doctors.
Appreciate the kind words about honoring our vets. Especially VietNam. They, the Army, didn't prepare us for what we were to encounter when we got of the bus at SeaTac airport for home after 2 years "In Country"! It was disgraceful!
Stay safe and dont over do the shoveling Dan! I am 76 and anything over 3" I cant handle!
Dan2
Dan, a lot of schools here were cancelled yesterday due to the rain, and high wind. People said it could be dangerous for the kids who have to walk 1 or 2 miles.
Jim, I think the Canon 200-800 could be a very good lens for airshows if the image quality is there. From the limited number of online reviews I saw, it's pretty good. But everyone has different standard for "good". The price is attractive though. Canon surprised Sony/Nikon when their released the R5. I was dying for a high speed/high resolution camera. At the time Sony had either high speed (the A9) or high resolution (the A7RIV), but not both in one body. Then along came the A1 and the Nikon Z9 and Z8, which probably surprised Canon a bit. It's a never ending cycle.
Canon's RF lens, 100-500 L grade and the 200-800 not L grade are in the 2k range then the next jump is $9500 with nothing in between. I'm probably getting the 100-500 next but waiting to hear Jim's feedback on the 200-800. The EF 200-400 on here looks better every minute.
I think the 200-800 will be a pretty good lens for the investment. My pre- test guess is, the AF won't be as snappy as an RF/L product, sharpness will be more than acceptable. One thing to consider, not the lenses fault, is that the longer the focal length, the more sensitive it is to any atmospheric disturbance. When everything was just right my 800 EF was a killer lens, a little heat and wind and the imagery was garbage.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
I think the 200-800 will be a pretty good lens for the investment. My pre- test guess is, the AF won't be as snappy as an RF/L product, sharpness will be more than acceptable. One thing to consider, not the lenses fault, is that the longer the focal length, the more sensitive it is to any atmospheric disturbance. When everything was just right my 800 EF was a killer lens, a little heat and wind and the imagery was garbage.
So winter time and tripod, probably a good lens.
Summer time air shows with the heat, exhaust and hot runways, boooooo.
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Hurry up Mr and get us some test results
Stock image sales have been steadily declining over the past decade. Shots that garnered hundreds, even thousands of dollars just a decade ago, sell for pennies on those dollars now. I've been a preferred Getty/iStock contributor for 20 years, a spot that is fairly difficult to get in spite of the lagging market. Stock sales for a big agency was one of those things that I said that I would never do...............and then did. Coming to grips with "renting" an image for a few dollars, often less than that, just offended me. I still sell stock images on a regular basis for pretty good rates to clients who approach me directly and that is consistent with my exclusivity contract with Getty, I just can't sell through any other agency.
Last week I had two clients approach me, both purchased around 100 business jet stock images for various uses (There's my back up R5C The perspective that finally got me to come to grips with the Getty business model was the fact that they have a 24/7 worldwide audience. Lot's of smaller agencies have tried to penetrate the market and compete with Getty, they just can't. Stock agencies, large and small have just been gobbled up or vanished completely and Getty remains the go to source for stock stills and video around the world. "Blackstock" was a big player in the 80's and 90's and when they sold one of my images it generally meant a check totaling several thousand dollars and up, it was a great time for stock sales, now gone forever. What killed it, and we all knew it at the time, was a handful of big deal photographers who were approached by the big agencies with a deal to sell their images for a dollar or two. Initially they balked and said "No!" The agencies came back to them with a new idea, they would pay them a few dollars for hundreds, even thousands of images at a whack. Photographers began to look at stock sales differently, simple images like trees, a traffic light, school kids in a crosswalk, could be bringing in hundreds/thousands of dollars, instead of sitting in a slide sheet in their archives. They bit and the stock market has never recovered. The lure of royalty checks coming in every month, albeit much smaller than the previous ones, but with virtually little effort on the part of the photographer, turned the corner for them. "Greed is good...........!" as Michael Douglas shouted in one of his movies.................and it was good for the stock agencies for sure, not so much for the artists.
Bill Gass wrote:
So winter time and tripod, probably a good lens.
Summer time air shows with the heat, exhaust and hot runways, boooooo.
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Hurry up Mr and get us some test results
Working on it as we speak Bill! Be back to you shortly. Don't let that lens keep you from buying the real gem, the RF100-500, you won't regret it. That lens should sell for double what it does! FYI, the 200-800 is made out of "unobtanium" for the foreseeable future, Canon is saying six months right now. I should have one within a couple of weeks.............
JIII has become a big fan of John Denver's music and is intrigued that he was a family friend. We were watching a documentary on JD's life a couple of evening's ago and, lo and behold several of my photographs of John showed up in the program. John called me to ask if he could use my images in his concert brochures and apparently the production company, posthumously, chose the same images. Sure miss him, he was a great guy and a lot of fun.
We spent the day flying and hanging out at Love Field, then went to his concert with him that evening.
Great Documentary Jim, love the parts of his father Lt. Col. Henry John Deutschendorf, Sr who flew the mighty B58 Hustler from Carswell AFB.
And the piece when he was with Jacques Cousteau, on board the Calypso hence the song.
Great music and story, except the ending of John what a shame.
Side note Jim, I wish the concert ticket prices were still the same.
Jan-Arie wrote:
Great Documentary Jim, love the parts of his father Lt. Col. Henry John Deutschendorf, Sr who flew the mighty B58 Hustler from Carswell AFB.
And the piece when he was with Jacques Cousteau, on board the Calypso hence the song.
Great music and story, except the ending of John what a shame.
Side note Jim, I wish the concert ticket prices were still the same.
My concert story (seems I always have a story, huh?):
Around 1992 my daughter asked me if she could go to a concert with U2 or some popular band. I asked her how much the tickets were. She told me they were $75 but she planned to pay for her ticket. I told her to go figure out how many hours she had to work at her Saturday job to pay for the ticket.
A few weeks later I asked her if she was going to the concert and she said "No, it's too expensive".
By comparison, in 1987 I would have had to work a little over one hour as a crew chief to pay for one of Jim's tickets.
Apparently, universities in the US have adopted the concert business plan. We were able to afford her 4 year college education in the 1990's without any debt, today, I couldn't afford my granddaughters first year of college without going into debt.
Rant over! The "feels like" temperature here in Central TX is 18° with gusts over 30 mph. Good weather to shoot a soccer game, thank goodness it's basketball tonight.
It was disgraceful!
