Zichar wrote:
George: I was looking at a gooseneck kettle to start dabbling in pour over; I already have the V60 dripper and filters, seemed like a natural extension. I'm just less keen on buying equipment if my interest is waning. I'm on the opposite end - I rarely have hot coffee, since I'm in sunny Singapore. Local coffee (non third wave cafes) here is mainly robusta so there's a distinct kick to each cup. There's a positive to you posting that photo of your machine... it's got my lazy bum off the chair and made a batch of cold brew for tomorrow. I should take a photo of my equipment some day, just because.
Leighton: Oh not with the market anymore? Well, there's always new adventures How far are the antennas in that internet setup? It's sometimes quite fascinating (for a city slicker like me) how we view distance so differently. A more-than-30-minute drive is considered long distance for me... spoiled by the convenience of having everything within reach.
The main antenna on the mountain is around 7 miles as the crow flies to the antenna on the school house. I'm probably a 1/4 mile from the school house. If I had a clean line of sight to the mountain, I could receive it from there. The antenna on the school house is simply a repeater. I am very thankful for this as we had to have dial-up for years before they installed the system.
On December 24th Barb baked an amazing assortment of breads. Fig and Rosemary Focaccia, seeded rolls (Pepitas, Sunflower, Sesame & Poppy, Nigella, Sumac, Flax, and a special blend), plus Cardamon and Orange Croissants. Yum!
Wow Jim, those look delicious! Does Barb provide shipping?
James Markus wrote:
On December 24th Barb baked an amazing assortment of breads. Fig and Rosemary Focaccia, seeded rolls (Pepitas, Sunflower, Sesame & Poppy, Nigella, Sumac, Flax, and a special blend), plus Cardamon and Orange Croissants. Yum!
George,
Family get-togethers always seem to have way too much food. This was the first year we passed the baton to hosting Christmas dinner to one of the kids (a chef). We were suppose to bring "bread", but Barb did even more than these delicious morsels. I was determined to be good, and not get overly full. I succeeded, but lots of people were comatose near the end.
Jim
Season's greetings to all of you here on the internet's finest photography thread! Wow, this place has certainly been steaming along lately with all this magnificent Christmas'ish photography. Meanwhile, I'm still working through my autumn images, including the wee grouping below, which share the theme of "reflections in water" and are brought to you by the 5.8cm f/1.4 S.
Zichar wrote:
Omg you're here too Alan! Happy holidays
Oh yes, I still manage to sneak a few posts in from time to time Chin! Happy holidays! Hopefully the weather and having a flickr account should make sharing some manual focus Nikon shots again in the new year a bit easier!
James, the breads look delicious and certainly more elegant than anything I baked for Christmas.
Glad to see there are some other coffee folk here. I got going on coffee a bit during covid mania drinking coffee due to a spell of shift swapping and needing a bit of an extra boost for a few months working from 4PM to anywhere from 12-3AM. It's just kind of stuck around as it turns out I actually enjoy it and Nikki (my wife, not the lens ) enjoys a good latte and the coffee bar at work is free.
Summer: Cold brew or iced lattes, and I'll drink pour over (Chemex) on ice once it has cooled. On weekends only, I'll make something called a Whiskey Bent which uses chilled pour over coffee from roasted beans aged in used, dry whiskey barrels with a couple of homemade syrups. I also like iced Americano.
Spring/Fall: Hot pour over or hot lattes. I'll still drink something cold on the warmer/hotter days that are mixed in.
Winter: Mostly pour over hot, with hot latttes.
We buy our beans from a local shop that opened right behind the alley of our house many years back and has since moved into the bigger city. They whiskey aged coffee (not flavored as some places do) comes from a small outfit southwest of Fort Worth, TX. Our local shop focuses on light and medium roast single origins with a few blends plus they have a really versatile espresso blend and solid decaf bean. The head roaster there has a good relationship with distributors and travels to Columbia yearly to spend time directly with the famers. I grind all of my pour over beans in hand Hario ceramic burr grinder, and let the Breville Espresso maker handle the espresso beans. That was my Christmas gift for Nikki. We brew Chemex for all of our pour over and Ball half gallon jars for all of our cold brew. One of these days, I'll likely try a Kalita Wave Dripper as those are supposed to be the bees knees for single cup pour over and more easy to get consistent results than the well known Hario V60's.
I really love the technique of it all (just like developing film really but without the fixer!) and it's opened up some interesting relationships with the baristas at the shop and the ability to provide professional guidance to some that were pursuing and later completed engineering degrees. I also started a coffee share with one former manager who became something of a coffee snob about the same time I started drinking it.
The most interesting coffees I've had were one that manager brought (it tasted like bergamot and black tea) and a single origin blend from Columbia that tasted like Chocolate cake topped with raspberry tart. That manager also had the coffee that is chewed up by monkeys (not the one digested by civets) but I never tried that one.
James Markus wrote:
On December 24th Barb baked an amazing assortment of breads. Fig and Rosemary Focaccia, seeded rolls (Pepitas, Sunflower, Sesame & Poppy, Nigella, Sumac, Flax, and a special blend), plus Cardamon and Orange Croissants. Yum!
You have a whole bakery there, James. So much goodness.
Ken Hill wrote:
Merry Christmas from frosty Florida! With temps in the 20's and cold everywhere it has to make for a Merry Christmas for there is the only warmth.
To quote Raphael, For those that don't celebrate Christmas I hope the day brings you the joy it brings us. Enjoy the day.
Samy that is one regal looking cat. Laura FINALLY a selfie. .Leighton I'm glad the heat issue is solved. George the Hassy in front of the tree is fantastic. Andy the reflective photo of the lake made me sign in under an asumed name to give it a 2nd like. What a phantastic shot !!!!
The first sunset is from LBK
The last sunset is from Munising, Michigan and it reflects the norther sunsets that don't appear as warm as the ones we enjoy here.!
The tree is from Disney's Vero Beach Resort, so are the Oranges. The Chapel and Manger are from St. Leos Abbey, a college as well as a Benedictine Monastery. ...Show more →
This home has outstanding Christmas decorations, including Santa Claus. That is the Holiday spirit!
Went for a little walk about to excess the damage from the last ice storm. You can't tell from this photo, but I bet I have several weeks of picking up branches. And when I say branches, I mean ones big enough to pull with the tractor to the burn pile. I tried to take pics of them, but I couldn't get the perspective right.
More from Candy Cane Lane, these with a D800 and the 20mm 2.8 ais. Meant to to take the D810 and grabbed the wrong camera, but for image quality the D800 is nearly the same. These were walkaround photos for fun, no monopod for closing lens down.
I was disappointed at the 20mm 2.8 making the point lights into 'butterflies' in the corners, stopping it to f/4 and bringing the corners into better focus takes care of it, but I lost many a good photo before I realized this.
All in all I was more pleased with using the 85mm at a distance, rather than the 20mm up close, this was a surprise to me. The IBIS worked really nice with the Z6 and 85mm.
Today I learned something about astrophysics that relates to infrared photography in an unexpected way. I was reading the New York Times when I came across an article titled, "The Webb Telescope is Just Getting Started," which contained the following information:
The telescope … was launched on Christmas one year ago… on a mission to observe the universe in wavelengths no human eye can see. … "How did galaxies get so old so fast?" asked Adam Riess, a Nobel Physics laureate and cosmologist ... Exploring that province … is the goal of several international collaborations ... Webb's infrared vision is fundamental to these efforts. As the universe expands, galaxies and other distant celestial objects are speeding away from Earth so fast that their light has been stretched and shifted to invisible, infrared wavelengths.
It seems to me that this means the images we have been seeing from this magnificent invention have been---to some unknown extent---false colour infrared images coming from a full spectrum camera (please see the example below, along with its caption). So all of a sudden, I'm feeling like I'm in very good company with my false colour infrared photos!
And stemming from this mood, here are a few more such images (plus a B&W conversion) from October in various Vancouver Island locations. Please see the captions for the lenses used.
I have been enjoying your journey into false color.
On your Webb telescope comment - the array uses multiple narrowband IR filters to capture diferent spectra and then the data is heavily processed to shift IR wavelengths into visible. Webb Telescope image manipulation masterclass here:
Looks like you can download the worked files too. Have fun?
Colin
GroWeb wrote:
Today I learned something about astrophysics that relates to infrared photography in an unexpected way. I was reading the New York Times when I came across an article titled, "The Webb Telescope is Just Getting Started," which contained the following information:
The telescope … was launched on Christmas one year ago… on a mission to observe the universe in wavelengths no human eye can see. … "How did galaxies get so old so fast?" asked Adam Riess, a Nobel Physics laureate and cosmologist ... Exploring that province … is the goal of several international collaborations ... Webb's infrared vision is fundamental to these efforts. As the universe expands, galaxies and other distant celestial objects are speeding away from Earth so fast that their light has been stretched and shifted to invisible, infrared wavelengths.
It seems to me that this means the images we have been seeing from this magnificent invention have been---to some unknown extent---false colour infrared images coming from a full spectrum camera (please see the example below, along with its caption). So all of a sudden, I'm feeling like I'm in very good company with my false colour infrared photos!
And stemming from this mood, here are a few more such images (plus a B&W conversion) from October in various Vancouver Island locations. Please see the captions for the lenses used....Show more →
Walking the backalleys means you get a glimpse of the madhouse of dinner/supper service
And when it gets late, you get to watch back of the house start dumping remnants into drains, gather round for a quick smoke, dig into late night supper and what I would describe as cleaning crockery by dipping into the East River...
This was by far one of the cleanest establishments I encountered that night
Food must taste awful...
How far are the antennas in that internet setup? It's sometimes quite fascinating (for a city slicker like me) how we view distance so differently. A more-than-30-minute drive is considered long distance for me... spoiled by the convenience of having everything within reach.
