Below is the list of people who want to use the lens, using their screen names. My intent is just to have each person enjoy the lens for about a month and post some of their photos here. Glen sent me a Fuji adapter. Will send the lens with a S to LTM, LTM to Z, and S to Fuji adapters.
Will PM each person sending my address and phone number, please respond with your mailing address and phone number. Andy is a trotamundos . so we will find out where he is when the time comes.
Will not do a blog, just want people to have it. At the end of the journey the lens will come to me, the participants will vote on who gets to keep it and I will send it to that person. The Fuji adapter will go back to Glen.
Below is the list of people who want to use the lens, using their screen names. My intent is just to have each person enjoy the lens for about a month and post some of their photos here. Glen sent me a Fuji adapter. Will send the lens with a S to LTM, LTM to Z, and S to Fuji adapters.
Will PM each person sending my address and phone number, please respond with your mailing address and phone number. Andy is a trotamundos . so we will find out where he is when the time comes.
Will not do a blog, just want people to have it. At the end of the journey the lens will come to me, the participants will vote on who gets to keep it and I will send it to that person. The Fuji adapter will go back to Glen.
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Thanks again for organizing this and providing a lens that will also be a prize, Rafael! I'm looking forward to following it as it travels, and getting to know it when it passes through my town.
Here are a few photos of a beach on the shore of Lake Superior from 2017, taken with the Fuji X-E2 that I bought for the trip, along with the 16 f/3.5 Ai fisheye. I'm enjoying this process of going through old photos and processing the ones I bypassed the first time through. It's also allowed me to free up space on my drives by deleting photos that aren't worth keeping. This is the only "consolidating" I expect to do in the foreseeable future!
Rafael, Good to hear you have recovered, and I'm sure the help you offered made it a bit brighter for those kids.
rafaelcasd wrote:
I am back, recouped from surgery and after spending the weekend volunteering for 1000 Smiles. This is a Rotary club sponsored clinic offering free care for cleft lip and palate for Mexican kids. Many surgeons dentists and nurses volunteer their time, from Mexico and the USA, One Doctor flies from Chicago to perform free surgery. I just make sandwiches and clean up.
Saturday is checkups and dental, Sunday is surgery, these are the Saturday volunteers, more surgeons from Socal come Sunday, including some expensive cosmetic surgeons to work for free.
James Markus wrote:
Sometimes photos say seemly unrelated things to people. This photo says dad to me. When I was a boy I thought he could do anything (he did make instruments for spaceships and commercial airliners) - like many boys that idolize their dad. As a family project we built a three story A-frame "cottage" near the tip of Michigan's pinky. (the Leelanau peninsula) He drafted the plans, ordered all the lumber, nails, screws, pipe, wire, outlets, switches, sockets, roofing, appliances - on and on and on. Some bits were beyond our ability - like clearing the land (heavily wooded), 150 dump truck loads of gravel, pouring footings, & cinder block foundation he farmed out to those with the experience and equipment - the rest we did. A couple flatbed semi-trucks showed up and slid these huge bundled piles of supplies on the gravel near the foundation. Block and tackle became this amazing tool to a boy like me. After framing the floor - he tied a rope to the heaviest crescent wrench he owned and threw it through the highest crotch of the biggest tree near the center-line of the cottage. We would pull bolted together & doubled 2x10 "A's" into a vertical position - every 6 or 7 feet another 40' set go up. My job was to tack them together with furring strips to temporarily hold them together. My brother John then would clad the exterior with 2x6 tongue and groove lumber. (It was way too strong)
The pump in this photo is identical to the one we used temporarily after digging our own well. We built a huge tripod of three straight cedars, and used both my brother Tom and John's cast iron weight sets to drive a 2.5" stainless steel pipe into the ground - again with a block and tackle at the tripod apex. Scrap lumber was fashioned into tool boxes like the ones in the photo, as well as framing squares for cutting repetitive angles that were identical. And these hastily fashioned implements lived on at my brothers cottage (tool boxes), and I still have the framing squares.
50mm f1.2 ais on the pump & tool boxes - cottage shots Nikon F with either the 35 or 50mm MF Nikkor by my dad
What a great story! Your dad is a talented man. I love that he passed down skills to you and your brother that you could use the rest of your life. Such great memories! Thanks for sharing.
rafaelcasd wrote:
I am back, recouped from surgery and after spending the weekend volunteering for 1000 Smiles. This is a Rotary club sponsored clinic offering free care for cleft lip and palate for Mexican kids. Many surgeons dentists and nurses volunteer their time, from Mexico and the USA, One Doctor flies from Chicago to perform free surgery. I just make sandwiches and clean up.
Saturday is checkups and dental, Sunday is surgery, these are the Saturday volunteers, more surgeons from Socal come Sunday, including some expensive cosmetic surgeons to work for free.
Ten hours between posts is long enough, so here are a few monochromes from the area around the northwest shore of Lake Superior in 2017, courtesy of the Fuji X-E2 and MFNG of uncertain focal length (the exif says 24mm, but it seems to say that for the majority of my cross-country trip photos, despite visible differences in angle of view).
GroWeb wrote:
Ten hours between posts is long enough, so here are a few monochromes from the area around the northwest shore of Lake Superior in 2017, courtesy of the Fuji X-E2 and MFNG of uncertain focal length (the exif says 24mm, but it seems to say that for the majority of my cross-country trip photos, despite visible differences in angle of view).
That second shot appeals to me, but I'm not sure why. Perhaps the shapes, and the texture of that primary focus branch. nice capture and PP.
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James Markus wrote:
Sometimes photos say seemly unrelated things to people. This photo says dad to me. When I was a boy I thought he could do anything (he did make instruments for spaceships and commercial airliners) - like many boys that idolize their dad. As a family project we built a three story A-frame "cottage" near the tip of Michigan's pinky. (the Leelanau peninsula) He drafted the plans, ordered all the lumber, nails, screws, pipe, wire, outlets, switches, sockets, roofing, appliances - on and on and on. Some bits were beyond our ability - like clearing the land (heavily wooded), 150 dump truck loads of gravel, pouring footings, & cinder block foundation he farmed out to those with the experience and equipment - the rest we did. A couple flatbed semi-trucks showed up and slid these huge bundled piles of supplies on the gravel near the foundation. Block and tackle became this amazing tool to a boy like me. After framing the floor - he tied a rope to the heaviest crescent wrench he owned and threw it through the highest crotch of the biggest tree near the center-line of the cottage. We would pull bolted together & doubled 2x10 "A's" into a vertical position - every 6 or 7 feet another 40' set go up. My job was to tack them together with furring strips to temporarily hold them together. My brother John then would clad the exterior with 2x6 tongue and groove lumber. (It was way too strong)
The pump in this photo is identical to the one we used temporarily after digging our own well. We built a huge tripod of three straight cedars, and used both my brother Tom and John's cast iron weight sets to drive a 2.5" stainless steel pipe into the ground - again with a block and tackle at the tripod apex. Scrap lumber was fashioned into tool boxes like the ones in the photo, as well as framing squares for cutting repetitive angles that were identical. And these hastily fashioned implements lived on at my brothers cottage (tool boxes), and I still have the framing squares.
50mm f1.2 ais on the pump & tool boxes - cottage shots Nikon F with either the 35 or 50mm MF Nikkor by my dad
What a great story Jim! Do you still go back?
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rafaelcasd wrote:
I am back, recouped from surgery and after spending the weekend volunteering for 1000 Smiles. This is a Rotary club sponsored clinic offering free care for cleft lip and palate for Mexican kids. Many surgeons dentists and nurses volunteer their time, from Mexico and the USA, One Doctor flies from Chicago to perform free surgery. I just make sandwiches and clean up.
Saturday is checkups and dental, Sunday is surgery, these are the Saturday volunteers, more surgeons from Socal come Sunday, including some expensive cosmetic surgeons to work for free.
Great to hear on the recovery Rafael. I forgot that you took part in 1000smiles, a wonderful cause, with thousands of families you've managed to touch in some way by now I'm sure.
Patrick, welcome and hope to see lots more from the land of Flamenco.
Perseus, Benvenuto Cellini 1554:
That bronze statute was cast entirely from a single mold as opposed to sections which required joints. The polishing process alone took five years. Bronze was selected to differentiate from the several marble monuments which were already present at the time, including David. It is a stunning work of art.
Palazzo Vecchio (early 14th century) in the background. The tower offers great views assuming one is willing to take the approximate 400 step trek.
Serge, I.E. Perseus - That is an amazing casting! Did anyone ever make a statue of the other Gorgons, or their sibling parents Phorcys and Ceto? Or, the two snake haired sisters of Medusa - Sthenno and Euryale? Thanks for sharing the photos.
Jim
serge07 wrote:
Hi, everyone:
Rafael, great to hear that all is well.
Patrick, welcome and hope to see lots more from the land of Flamenco.
Perseus, Benvenuto Cellini 1554:
That bronze statute was cast entirely from a single mold as opposed to sections which required joints. The polishing process alone took five years. Bronze was selected to differentiate from the several marble monuments which were already present at the time, including David. It is a stunning work of art.
I haven't been up north since 2019 for a short visit. The A-frame was sold in the late 1970s to buy a lake front cottage nearby. Now that cottage is gone a couple years ago, and my connection to Leelanau.
Last photo of the A-frame was June of 2013 with either the 35mm f2 ai, or the 35mm f1.4 ais
pbraymond wrote:
What a great story Jim! Do you still go back?
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Add me please also Rafael, and glad to hear you are recovered from your surgery!
rafaelcasd wrote:
Back to Nikki's mother, Nippi.
Below is the list of people who want to use the lens, using their screen names. My intent is just to have each person enjoy the lens for about a month and post some of their photos here. Glen sent me a Fuji adapter. Will send the lens with a S to LTM, LTM to Z, and S to Fuji adapters.
Will PM each person sending my address and phone number, please respond with your mailing address and phone number. Andy is a trotamundos . so we will find out where he is when the time comes.
Will not do a blog, just want people to have it. At the end of the journey the lens will come to me, the participants will vote on who gets to keep it and I will send it to that person. The Fuji adapter will go back to Glen.
. so we will find out where he is when the time comes.
