bobbelbob wrote:
I´m really trying to eat more and more plant based food, but I´m also having a hard time not eating the cheese . I´ve watched a whole lot of documetaries about the health and environmental benefits of eating plant based. I had no idea, but to produce one kg beef it takes about 10m3 water. I recommend you watch "Forks over knifes", it´s a really good documentary about the health benefits of eating plant based food
That is an excellent video. Interesting that those countries that consume the highest levels of meat, poultry and dairy are also the countries with the highest levels of heart disease and cancer. Scandinavian countries don't fair very well in this regard, but then neither do any of western countries eating what is called the Standard American Diet... SAD... I likely won't ever have another cheeseburger...
bobbelbob wrote:
Well, I´ve been working through some of the material from the trip. We spent two weeks on a little island, Gili Air, outside of Lombok, which is part of Indonesia. Then we spent another a bit more than a week on Bali which we flew to. I should start from the beginning...
The only way of getting a ride on Gili Air is to go by horse behind in a wagon. Felt very old fashioned but it worked out really well. The locals on the islands are using bicycle or electric driven motorbike. They are self reliant in electricity since they have their own solar cell park generating enough power. This means there are no loud vehicles or motors around making noise. The only noise were from tourist resorts blasting out music having partys on the beach all night Also, they were celebrating the muslim highlight Ramadan so there was quite some noise from the mosque and the minaretes.
Anyway here´s one of the "rides" from Gili Air.
Shot with 105mm f/2.5 ais.
The last three were shot during an awesome snorkelling trip. Wish I had some underwawter shots to share. It was truly magnificent to snorkel around sea turtles, corals and lots of fish...
CGrindahl wrote:
That is an excellent video. Interesting that those countries that consume the highest levels of meat, poultry and dairy are also the countries with the highest levels of heart disease and cancer. Scandinavian countries don't fair very well in this regard, but then neither do any of western countries eating what is called the Standard American Diet... SAD... I likely won't ever have another cheeseburger...
Yes, that was kind of the turning point for me. I´m probably not really going totally vegan or vegetarian. And the cheese burger is a hard one. But you can make a really good burger without animal products, but of course it´s nothing like the real thing...
I think 90% of my friends are vegan or vegetarian, some of them very athletic...
It probably won't go anywhere Chris and you'll likely have more time off in the future. Rinie told me a few days ago she still has TEN WEEKS of vacation on the books. I've been amazed at how generous companies and public agencies in Europe are in granting time off. I'm retired but during my working days I never had more than four weeks of vacation in a year. I did take one five week vacation to Europe but when I returned my boss said "that will NEVER happen again..."
CGrindahl wrote:
It probably won't go anywhere Chris and you'll likely have more time off in the future. Rinie told me a few days ago she still has TEN WEEKS of vacation on the books. I've been amazed at how generous companies and public agencies in Europe are in granting time off. I'm retired but during my working days I never had more than four weeks of vacation in a year. I did take one five week vacation to Europe but when I returned my boss said "that will NEVER happen again..."
You can start planning now...
I have a little more than 10 weeks per year. I have a contract for 36 hours per week, but I work 40 hours per week, so I have an extra 26 days per year up to the 25 days we normally have.
This year all days are already planned and we have still 2 holidays to go; last week of July we have a 4 year young little lady who stays with us and at the end of August we'll traveling 3 weeks in Uganda (Gorilla's).
Chris Dees wrote:
I have a little more than 10 weeks per year. I have a contract for 36 hours per week, but I work 40 hours per week, so I have an extra 26 days per year up to the 25 days we normally have.
This year all days are already planned and we have still 2 holidays to go; last week of July we have a 4 year young little lady who stays with us and at the end of August we'll traveling 3 weeks in Uganda (Gorilla's).
Sounds great Chris. I have 25 days every year as a standard but working 40h/week and every year there´s a few weeks extra depending on how much over time worked..
3 weeks in Uganda seems very interesting, I´m excited to see what lenses you´ll bring and the shots you take
We did a short weekend trip to the North of Holland (Friesland) and stays in the small town Bolsward.
There's a ruin of a church that was burned down in 1980 and they decided not to rebuild it but they cleaned everything up and place a glass roof on top of it. Very special place. When we arrived on Friday there was a wedding going on. The next day it was empty again.
It was an all MF-lens weekend.
Df, 20/3.5 UD, 28/4.0 PC, 35/1.4 N, 50/1.4 SC and 50-135/3.5 AI-S
A little island but pretty advanced in its energy and transport sense. Always great to hear how far flung lands are dealing with keeping up with civilizational progress while trying to avoid the negative consequences. Thanks for those tidbits Kristian. A century+ later, most of the world hasn't moved too far beyond the concepts in the early internal combustion engines. But then I don't want to get into the politics of all that
Sticking closer to the thread theme, just love the horse and buggy shot, the 105 2.5 results are always delicious!
saph wrote:
A little island but pretty advanced in its energy and transport sense. Always great to hear how far flung lands are dealing with keeping up with civilizational progress while trying to avoid the negative consequences. Thanks for those tidbits Kristian. A century+ later, most of the world hasn't moved too far beyond the concepts in the early internal combustion engines. But then I don't want to get into the politics of all that
Sticking closer to the thread theme, just love the horse and buggy shot, the 105 2.5 results are always delicious!
Thanks Samy.
I hear ya on that one. This island really was contrasty in that sense that the development of some of it stayed a hundred years back in time and some of it was just right in time
Chris Dees wrote:
We did a short weekend trip to the North of Holland (Friesland) and stays in the small town Bolsward.
There's a ruin of a church that was burned down in 1980 and they decided not to rebuild it but they cleaned everything up and place a glass roof on top of it. Very special place. When we arrived on Friday there was a wedding going on. The next day it was empty again.
It was an all MF-lens weekend.
Df, 20/3.5 UD, 28/4.0 PC, 35/1.4 N, 50/1.4 SC and 50-135/3.5 AI-S
Wow! What an exciting way to retrofit an old church. Very dramatic treatment. I love how churches that were constructed with the best technology of the day can be re-imagined using the best technology of today. Love the photos Chris. I'm just putting gear together for a trip to visit my family in Minnesota and, of course, will be taking the Df and three manual focus lenses... all of which fit in a the same small camera bag I took to the Netherlands for my visit in 2010. That was my first adventure with these lenses and I packed FIVE of them in the bag with a D700. But three will be fine for my few days in Minneapolis. It is really nice to carry a small kit. It is small enough I'll put it in the bottom of my carry-on suitcase... one less thing to handle.
bobbelbob wrote:
Sounds great Chris. I have 25 days every year as a standard but working 40h/week and every year there´s a few weeks extra depending on how much over time worked..
3 weeks in Uganda seems very interesting, I´m excited to see what lenses you´ll bring and the shots you take
Thanks Kristian.
It will be an all AF-lens trip.
D810 + D500, 24-120/4.0G, 70-200/4.0G, 200-500/5.6E
24/1.4G, 58/1.4G, 105/1.4E, 300PF + 1.4x TC III
It fits in a ThankTank Acceleration. I'm not sure if I'll take the grips
It's a roundtrip of 3 weeks with (walking) safaris, boat-trips, birding, Chimpansee and Gorilla treks and hiking trips
We travel with the 4 of us and have our own Toyota Land-cruiser with driver/guide.
In the National Parks we'll have local guides.
Just to touch briefly on the discussion of diet: I've been "lacto-ovo-vegetarian" since 1991 (Air Canada called me this on a boarding pass in the early '90's, so I looked it up--it means that I eat eggs, dairy, and plant products; I just call it a meatless diet), and I have not missed meat at all. However, I do understand those who would miss things like cheeseburgers, chicken wings, lobster, or bacon. So, in my near-total ignorance of nutritional science, I always recommend a "proper-eatarian" diet, wherein one eats whatever s/he deems proper for himself/herself. I have found this to be a politically wise approach!
And while we're on politically sensitive topics, I have been considering the purchase of a more up-to-date Fuji body to use with my MFNG. I find the focus peaking on the X-E2 to be extremely helpful, especially with the fastest lenses at wide-open apertures. I have ordered a focal reducer, and I am strongly considering the X-T20 for its 24MP sensor and other improved functionality over the X-E2. At retail in Canada, it is $1000 cheaper than either the X-T2 that Leighton and Reagan love so much, or the X-Pro2 that George has been using. I don't expect it to replace my D800E, because none of the Fuji mirrorless bodies seems to be able to quite match the D800E's superb output. However, the Fujis are much smaller and lighter, plus they have the immensely helpful focus peaking (at 59 years of age, my eyesight is gradually worsening). I expect to find the Fuji especially useful for travel photography, street scenes, festivals, and family occasions. I also figure I could include a Fuji body in my bag with a long lens on it for times when I might run into wildlife (deer and interesting birds are everywhere around here). Its aps-c sensor and silent electronic shutter would be very conducive to capturing such subjects. I'll keep you all apprised of my progress on this. If any of you have used the X-T20 with MFNG, please let me know your thoughts.
I have finally transferred all my cross-Canada travel photos to my desktop, which is my main photo workstation, and there are quite a few images in there that I have not yet posted because I wanted to process them on something better than my cell phone. So I'll be sprinkling them in amongst photos I have taken and will take since I arrived at my destination, here on Vancouver Island. The set below were taken in a park on the north side of Lake Superior as we traveled through Northern Ontario. All were shot with MFNG on my Fuji X-E2 and processed through Lightroom CC and Silver Efex Pro 2.
One of the falls at Letchworth. I was amazed at the drop from I-90 down I-390 to get down here. A "wow that's deep" sort of reaction to how low you could see the road dip.
Chris Dees wrote:
We did a short weekend trip to the North of Holland (Friesland) and stays in the small town Bolsward.
There's a ruin of a church that was burned down in 1980 and they decided not to rebuild it but they cleaned everything up and place a glass roof on top of it. Very special place. When we arrived on Friday there was a wedding going on. The next day it was empty again.
It was an all MF-lens weekend.
Df, 20/3.5 UD, 28/4.0 PC, 35/1.4 N, 50/1.4 SC and 50-135/3.5 AI-S
Nice series Chris. Very creative reuse/rehabilitation of the church. The cost to rebuild the original roof would have been prohibitive.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
One of the falls at Letchworth. I was amazed at the drop from I-90 down I-390 to get down here. A "wow that's deep" sort of reaction to how low you could see the road dip.
Nice Laura. Looks like you had great weather the day you visited. Very different from winter when the ice buildup from the water mist if extremely thick along where you were standing.
Chris Dees wrote:
I have a little more than 10 weeks per year. I have a contract for 36 hours per week, but I work 40 hours per week, so I have an extra 26 days per year up to the 25 days we normally have.
This year all days are already planned and we have still 2 holidays to go; last week of July we have a 4 year young little lady who stays with us and at the end of August we'll traveling 3 weeks in Uganda (Gorilla's).
I do 40 hours per week, sometimes twice per week No comp time here.
Even within the same company, policy varies greatly for my co-workers in Europe. More weeks for them for the same length of service time.
. I´ve watched a whole lot of documetaries about the health and environmental benefits of eating plant based. I had no idea, but to produce one kg beef it takes about 10m3 water. I recommend you watch "Forks over knifes", it´s a really good documentary about the health benefits of eating plant based food 
