Well, I've been back to work for almost three weeks now and, along with installing a new garden on our large balcony, this has raised my busy-ness level to a rather high point. I have one set of photos left from November in SoCal, so I thought I should drop by to post them. I definitely intend to get out shooting again once the garden is established and my wife and I can more fully streamline our COVID-19-impacted domestic routines (both my immune-compromised wife and I have more daily responsibilities than usual to keep our show on a safe road). The photos below were taken at a temple in Hollywood with the worthy assistance of the 28-50 f/3.5 Ai-s on my Fuji X-T2.
Ahh Jack... and six months from now it will likely be below freezing and you'll have a foot of snow on the ground...
I loved my visit to Missoula SIXTY-TWO years ago... and I'm sure its still lovely. Alas, I never had a reason to go back... as you did. Enjoy your summer my friend... and share some photos of that lovely setting. You can't let Doug have ALL the fun...
raboof wrote:
Here you go Curtis. This is after years of not playing much. I am just winging it. You can see the pain I felt since I lost all my finger calluses.
Im really impressed. What a nice guitar you have built,sounds really good too. I had my old guitar fixed a little while ago, I thought that would light a spark. But honestly, I haven't played very much. Perhaps I'll have some more time this summer during vacay.
Thanks for sharing Chuong!
Take care.
/Kristian
Curtis, your PO building looks like they bought a former Pizza Hut building
Commissary is like that, too, 40 people inside, same rules about bags, only the commissary also has baggers (who work for tips, only) but I bag my own groceries anyhow. I'm picky about how my groceries are arranged in the bags. Unfortunately, their produce is not the greatest... and prices are competitive on some things, but not on others. Pays to know your prices and what's on sale locally.
I see your Df is now working properly, YAY!
CGrindahl wrote:
97 degrees... Reagan weather but without the beach... I ventured out to make a trip to the post office...
George's lens is finally on its way home. THANKS George.
It was also an opportunity to test the Df... for some strange reason, the Preview button will NOT stop down the lens but now, when I depress the shutter button the lens DOES stop down. I tested it by looking into the lens as I depressed the shutter... then took it out into the bright afternoon light. The shot above was at f/2.8, which wasn't a serious test. Here is the shot I was attempting to take with the 5.8cm f/1.4 when I first noticed the overexposure. I shot this scene at f/11, f/8 and f/5.6 and none of the photos were overexposed. The camera did meter best at matrix metering. This was shot at f/5.6.
I wanted to share this photo both because it is where I do my grocery shopping but also to share with everyone what a shopping experience looks like when the store is taking the covid virus seriously. The store only permits 40 people to be in the store at one time. This is the ONLY entrance used. On the opposite side is the ONLY exit. People must wear masks to enter the store. We are spaced six feet apart in line and there is a station where hand sanitizers are available. There is a similar station at the exit. Shoppers are encouraged to maintain distance inside, but that can get a bit crazy in the produce department where folks are wandering from display table to display table. This store, Good Earth, sells ONLY organic produce. What they stock is generally beautiful as well.
They encourage shoppers to leave the store as soon as possible and to come back as seldom as possible. You can't bring your own bags, or coffee cup. They have clear plastic panels separating customers from checkout people. You can't use bulk food containers... instead you have to place your order and have someone else fill it for you. Whether all of this is absolutely necessary, the Good Earth has done it better than anyone else.
Yeah Florida is the third most populace state. Weather is horrible and if you love hot and humid you’ll be fine. Its never snowed here. It’s called the land of the newly wed and nearly dead so no sense coming.
Florida is a funny state. The east coast has people that came from the northeast. I-95 caused that. The west coast has people from the mid west. I-75 caused that. The northern part of the state is “southern.” The southern part is made up of “Yankees.
Now if you want to have a nice vacation come on down and spend money so we can keep our state income tax free. Orlando and the Mouse await you, but that’s really not Florida. The real people here hunt, fish, swim, scuba, hike, bike, boat, kayak and canoe or just lie on the beach. Car shows, air shows, gunshows, flea markets and even camera swaps. We didn’t have much of a Cv lockdown here and let the heat and humidity kill off them germs. I think it’s one of the freest states in the Union.
Ken Hill wrote:
Yeah Florida is the third most populace state. Weather is horrible and if you love hot and humid you’ll be fine. Its never snowed here. It’s called the land of the newly wed and nearly dead so no sense coming.
Florida is a funny state. The east coast has people that came from the northeast. I-95 caused that. The west coast has people from the mid west. I-75 caused that. The northern part of the state is “southern.” The southern part is made up of “Yankees.
Now if you want to have a nice vacation come on down and spend money so we can keep our state income tax free. Orlando and the Mouse await you, but that’s really not Florida. The real people here hunt, fish, swim, scuba, hike, bike, boat, kayak and canoe or just lie on the beach. Car shows, air shows, gunshows, flea markets and even camera swaps. We didn’t have much of a Cv lockdown here and let the heat and humidity kill off them germs. I think it’s one of the freest states in the Union. ...Show more →
Ken, you really should look at being a writer for the Florida Visitors Bureau. Perfect summary for their homepage
rafaelcasd wrote:
I would have loved to be born around 1850, in a Spanish empire hacienda, live to see smokeless powder, dynamite, internal combustion and the airplane. To have hunted Africa in the 1890s with a 8mm mauser and a .450 Nitro express. In today's world I would only do a photo Safari, back then it was different.
Raphael I often thought the same thoughts, that’s until i broke both legs six years ago. The titanium and techniques used to get me walking would have back when left me in a wheelchair or worse.
gbohannon wrote:
Ken, you really should look at being a writer for the Florida Visitors Bureau. Perfect summary for their homepage
George as a resident curmudgeon i don’t think I’d do well. Just made new reservations for the trip to Va. Hotel rates are very low, about 1/2 of whats normal.
We do a lot of traveling. Drove thru snow and ice in May and it was hot and humid at the same time elsewhere.
Love your description of Florida Ken. Though I've visited and have a sense at least of the East coast, your description of how Florida came to be as it is really fills things out.
Hot and humid will NEVER work for me... with heat I melt and am pretty much good for nothing. I can tolerate short spells of warm weather, which is good because the small community where I live is in one of the warm microclimates around the Bay. But I thrive in days like today in which the breezes have cooled things off just a bit. I slept peacefully in the gentle breeze coming through the window next to my bed. I'm smiling... all good.
I'm afraid I have to cancel our get together on Sunday... something folks likely have forgotten about anyway. Doug sent me a PM last evening asking about it and though I hadn't forgotten myself, I realized that time doesn't work for me right now. It all has to do with the Sunday morning farmers' market that Sue and I visited last weekend for the first time since October of last year. We'll be going every week and my presence is critical simply because I lug all the things she wants to buy... I'm her personal Sherpa...
Any of you is certainly free to host a gathering on Sunday if you wish of course. Or, if there is interest we could look for an alternative day or time. I know it is tricky with folks attending from other continents and it is also complicated because folks are heading back to work. I would say that Saturday at the same time could work for me... that would be 10:30 a.m. Pacific Coast, 1:30 p.m. East Coast (when Leighton is at his market) and 7:30 p.m. in Europe. I'll send an email to those who attended the last meeting since not everyone shows up regularly on this thread. Perhaps that one gathering is enough but if there is interest we can work it out.
Now it is time to go shopping for Sue... a minor shop given we'll be at the market on Sunday a.m.
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Ken did leave out some critical information
Things a lot of newbies don't think about
Such as
Mosquitos,Lovebugs,Pythons,alligators (during mating season) and Hurricanes
R
and most important Horrible drivers with license plates from the Northeast
They should be made to go home every 6 months like the Canadians
Reagan wrote:
^^^^^^^
Ken did leave out some critical information
Things a lot of newbies don't think about
Such as
Mosquitos,Lovebugs,Pythons,alligators (during mating season) and Hurricanes
R
and most important Horrible drivers with license plates from the Northeast
They should be made to go home every 6 months like the Canadians
CGrindahl wrote:
I'm afraid I have to cancel our get together on Sunday... something folks likely have forgotten about anyway. Doug sent me a PM last evening asking about it and though I hadn't forgotten myself, I realized that time doesn't work for me right now. It all has to do with the Sunday morning farmers' market that Sue and I visited last weekend for the first time since October of last year. We'll be going every week and my presence is critical simply because I lug all the things she wants to buy... I'm her personal Sherpa...
Any of you is certainly free to host a gathering on Sunday if you wish of course. Or, if there is interest we could look for an alternative day or time. I know it is tricky with folks attending from other continents and it is also complicated because folks are heading back to work. I would say that Saturday at the same time could work for me... that would be 10:30 a.m. Pacific Coast, 1:30 p.m. East Coast (when Leighton is at his market) and 7:30 p.m. in Europe. I'll send an email to those who attended the last meeting since not everyone shows up regularly on this thread. Perhaps that one gathering is enough but if there is interest we can work it out.
Now it is time to go shopping for Sue... a minor shop given we'll be at the market on Sunday a.m....Show more →
You got the models right. I called around before I sold the black one to see where it could be repaired. I might have called APS but I don’t remember now. I did send them a Coolpix A for repair once and they returned it because it was gray. So no, APS does not necessarily repair any gray camera.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Let me see if I have this right
The black one you had is the one that was the UK model,
The silver one you got from Reagan was a US one, correct?
APS will fix it, as long as they have parts for it. Give them a call, they do excellent work and fast turnaround times. I've never sent anything to Nikon.
How annoying, the EBAY seller surely got the shipping labels confused, instead of the mint 105mm with box and all that I bought for $74, he sent me this well used 85mm 1.8 that had sold for $150. (Glass on the 85mm is perfect and clean) Already contacted seller to initiate exchange somehow. I have been looking for a mint 105mm of that version for a long time, they are all well used. If he does not send me the 105mm, he is not getting the 85mm back!
I just went through my lens collection and as I open them up, I felt really fortunate to have this incredible collection(to me anyway).
It has been 10 years with this thread for me. That's such a long time. A 105mm f2.5 reminds me of Curtis. A 15mm f5.6 reminds me of Rafael and his wide angle shots(he posted an eBay link on here for the lens that I currently own). A 16mm f3.5 reminds me of John and Peter. A 28mm f2.8 reminds me of Phillipe. A 800mm reminds me of Jose. A 75-150mm reminds me of you know who. And a 28mm f2 reminds me of Ray.
