Traveled to the Eastern Coast of Bonaire in the ABC Islands
Harsh winds ,desert and strong surf is all thats there
Africa is the next land mass going east
All the cities,resorts and beaches are on the western side of these islands
It was strictly dirt roads once we left the city
Reagan wrote:
Traveled to the Eastern Coast of Bonaire in the ABC Islands
Harsh winds ,desert and strong surf is all thats there
Africa is the next land mass going east
All the cities,resorts and beaches are on the western side of these islands
It was strictly dirt roads once we left the city
Reagan
Love the Unimog! Have a buddy that has one of these all tricked out for the Apocalypse... He won't let me take any pics of it though, very hush-hush about it.
Thanks for playing with us Chin. Doubtless you and Kevin are the youngsters in our midst... which is fantastic.
Haha I have no idea what I was thinking .. probably one of the adults tricked me into posing that way
I think Chuong is in his early 40s as well, he replied previously about this
Aaaannndd I just bought the 24/2 AI from some seller in Japan as an umm present to myself. The condition seemed pristine and he was willing to lower his price, so Merry Christmas to me! Looking at the serial number and comparing it with photosynthesis, it's definitely older than I am...
Work may be sending me to Vegas for a week or two in March. Maybe I'll get a chance to give it a whirl then.
Some not so wide shots from day 2 of our Sierra hike. One going up, one coming down from Donohue Pass. Monochrome just seemed best with these high contrast images. Both with the 20mm f/3.5 AIS (or AI, I really don't know for sure). Probably the last time I took this lens along, because even though it is very compact and has a great field of view, the sharpness at infinity was again a hit and miss thing. The D810 just increases the problem. I really need a sharp 20mm that is a generation or two ahead of this lens, even if it weighs a few ounces more.
This is actually a 2 frame Nik Tools HDR shot, with some ghosting in the moving subject. Still came out alright given I hand held the shots and changed exposure manually. I like the increased sun burst effect that was magnified because the camera tilted between frames.
pburke wrote:
Some not so wide shots from day 2 of our Sierra hike. One going up, one coming down from Donohue Pass. Monochrome just seemed best with these high contrast images. Both with the 20mm f/3.5 AIS (or AI, I really don't know for sure). Probably the last time I took this lens along, because even though it is very compact and has a great field of view, the sharpness at infinity was again a hit and miss thing. The D810 just increases the problem. I really need a sharp 20mm that is a generation or two ahead of this lens, even if it weighs a few ounces more.
This is actually a 2 frame Nik Tools HDR shot, with some ghosting in the moving subject. Still came out alright given I hand held the shots and changed exposure manually. I like the increased sun burst effect that was magnified because the camera tilted between frames.
Oosty wrote:
Nervous moment - 22 August 1968 aged 24
"Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose
We'd fight and never lose
Those were the days, oh yes those were the days..."
Those Were the Days 1968
The old adage "why is youth wasted on the young?" comes to mind.
Me in 1967. graduating from college at age 25. It took me awhile.
kwoodard wrote:
I just turned 44. I will have to look and see if I have any pics of me when I was younger. I think mom has all of those.
Eventually Kevin, you'll want to digitize old photos. This might be a good time to do so. 25 years ago would have been around the time you graduated from high school. How about a high school portrait? Inquiring minds want to know what a teenage version of Kevin looked like...
Peter O, you definitely have the look of a businessman on a golf outing. Contrast that will my bushy years as a public administrator... both a difference in profession and location. I grew my beard when I was a cost analyst/management trainee with Ford Motor Company. That was about a year and a half after graduating from college and during the height of the war in Vietnam. Needless to say at that time and location my beard was cause for consternation. My boss, the controller at the assembly plant where I worked, had production control staff take a photo of me with my recently grown beard and sent it to Dearborn. He said it was to prove to his superiors that he had someone working for him with a beard. I certainly was an anomaly in that environment. It probably made sense that when it came time for my training program to send me to Dearborn I left and headed to Europe instead. Those were the days...
Curtis, by the look of that pic I get the feeling that youth may not have been a waste, but maybe a trifle misspent!
At the time of the pic with Ernie Els I was both a friend and a client of the bank that sponsored the tournament and was delighted to be invited to join the foursome. Both the other men in the shot had top jobs in the bank and my pal (extreme left) was the host which is why I got the nod.
I've worn a beard 3 times in my life - once when I sailed from Cape Town to Rio (24 days) at age 52, another a couple of years later and this year after having a couple of solar keratoses removed with liquid nitrogen, which made me chary of shaving for a while. I just don't like the itch and actually look forward to shaving every day - apart from the sun "spots" i have an easy skin and not too heavy a beard. I do like the look of a beard on some people and it suits you perfectly!
My kids also tell me that with a beard I look as if my head is upside down!!
Kids say the darndest things. I can imagine that observation.
I first grew my beard in 1968 when my brief cold coincided with the Thanksgiving break. I was at work standing at a urinal when my boss stepped to the one next to me and noted my rather pathetic beard for the first time. His eyes widened and a short while later he asked for that photo. I've never removed that beard though a few years ago I board a beard trimmer that has made taming it much easier. I've never had a problem with itching, so no reason to shave. I HATE shaving, though I trim my neck and cheeks.
I won't say anything about a misspent youth simply because so much of it is very embarrassing... crazy things for sure at a time of life where we think we're immortal...
Curtis, we were there in the Summer of Love, 1967, the Summer of the moon landing 1969, we were rad and groovy, true nature children riding the flower bus, love was free and nothing could harm us.......it was outtasight!!!
We were in the Bay Area, me at CAL where everyone was cool, would you really trade it for being 20 years old today?
