NightOwl Cat wrote:
Thanks Samy and George, I'm fine, never lost power even. I think the paper misspelled the street, if so, then it was less than half a mile from me, and I slept through it. My city doesn't have tornado sirens... unbelievably. One of my kids tried calling seven times, two of them sent text messages. I'd gotten in the habit of turning the ringer off on my phone when I go to sleep, as people that knew the former owner of the number are STILL trying to contact him, and they sent texts and call all hours. With my wacky work hours and sleep hours, I don't need that aggravation.
I had a hard time explaining to my son that this was a phone
All while we stood in line, 30mins wait, for a hole-in-the-wall ramen shop
It was our second time here, ranks as possibly one of the best tsukemen* I've had
*Cold noodles served with dipping sauce in a bowl. The sauce is concentrated ramen broth and this one had a unique bonito flavour amidst pork bone and even hints of yuzu.
I have one. Unfortunately, it goes off with every alert in the area, making it difficult to sleep at all. Yes, I know it's snowing out, you don't have to tell me there'll be an inch or two on the ground every 15 minutes during the night.... although with the storms in the area now for tonight and a few more nights this week, I may turn it back on...
But then again, I have slept through explosions before, too.
News is now reporting the first estimate of the tornadoes that came through as EF3's.
gbohannon wrote:
Good to hear Laura. But you may want to get one of those NOAA radios with S.A.M.E alerting
bobbelbob wrote:
That kind of knowledge is really handy in those situations. My friend hired a specialist when he was gonna dig out a pond on his moms property. Amongst a lot other things he needed some info on what plants to put there to make a good environment/habitat for a specicfic endangered salamander. It was a really cool project to follow. Next time I'm there I'll take a few shots!
/Kristian
I want a pond so bad, all it would take is a little concrete dam, but the problem is water, where can I get it?
Out and about with the Z6 + 20UD and 50/1.4 SC
Took a trip up to Port Douglas for markets at the "Crystalbrook Superyacht Marina" and lunch with my mum and wife. Mum is going back to the UK on Friday having been here for 6 months visiting and house/dog sitting while we were in India.
These are SOOC jpegs transferred to my phone and uploaded to Flickr.
So clearly, the thread needs more flowers and California is happy to provide them...
I shot a few with the 300 f/4.5 AI-s ED-IF which definitely thrives in this kind of photography. I was surprised to encounter the ladybug when I processed the image. I hadn't noted it when shooting...
And for something a little different, this shot with the 85 f/1.4 AI-s. There are these tiny boxes throughout Marin... with books one can take and return or not. I've tried to take photos of them in the past, but this is really the first one that does them justice...
Cool telephone mounted on a really cool wall, Chin. Laughed out loud when I read about explaining that to your son, I was on vacation with a middle schooler when we asked him to call for the ski shuttle from the pushbutton landline in the condo, he dialed the extension and then asked where the "send" button was :-)
That is the coolest free library box I've ever seen, Curtis.
For those still interested, my new computer build is up and running.
i5-9600K
Gigabyte Aorus Pro Wifi board (overkill for now)
32GB DRAM
and everything else from the old build.
Lightroom is now just somewhat slow as opposed to really slow. While I do notice a difference, I did not expect too much looking at the single threaded benchmark of the old CPU (i5-2500K) vs this CPU, but enough of a gain. I just could not bring myself to buy a refurb or used LGA 1155 motherboard just to reuse components that are 8 years old. While I never formally benchmarked LR, I feel an decent improvement in Preview Generation and Export, with less lag in moving form picture to picture, and changing settings in Develop mode for those considering a new build. All told, the best bang for the buck is probably still a refurb from d*ll, unless you manage to reuse the components over 3 or 4 builds.
Now that I have my LR computer back, an image to share, just to share. Nothing earth-shaking, though a museum that will celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the moon landing. The Armstrong Air and Space Museum. D700 w/25-50 AIS.
CGrindahl wrote:
And for something a little different, this shot with the 85 f/1.4 AI-s. There are these tiny boxes throughout Marin... with books one can take and return or not. I've tried to take photos of them in the past, but this is really the first one that does them justice...
The Little Library boxes are quite common in Portland too. Unfortunately, somebody torched one near my neighborhood. I just can't understand what satisfaction one gets out of such acts of vandalism.
pbraymond wrote:
Cool telephone mounted on a really cool wall, Chin. Laughed out loud when I read about explaining that to your son, I was on vacation with a middle schooler when we asked him to call for the ski shuttle from the pushbutton landline in the condo, he dialed the extension and then asked where the "send" button was :-)
That is the coolest free library box I've ever seen, Curtis.
For those still interested, my new computer build is up and running.
i5-9600K
Gigabyte Aorus Pro Wifi board (overkill for now)
32GB DRAM
and everything else from the old build.
Lightroom is now just somewhat slow as opposed to really slow. While I do notice a difference, I did not expect too much looking at the single threaded benchmark of the old CPU (i5-2500K) vs this CPU, but enough of a gain. I just could not bring myself to buy a refurb or used LGA 1155 motherboard just to reuse components that are 8 years old. While I never formally benchmarked LR, I feel an decent improvement in Preview Generation and Export, with less lag in moving form picture to picture, and changing settings in Develop mode for those considering a new build. All told, the best bang for the buck is probably still a refurb from d*ll, unless you manage to reuse the components over 3 or 4 builds....Show more →
Dug out my ancient weather radio and got it reconfigured. The weather issues are still ripe around here to generate some more today, and given my sound sleeping habits... it might wake me up. Current tally of tornadoes in the area keeps going up, I've seen reports of 17 so far. Now if my son will just leave it on so it will alert me.....
Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Wilmington OH
500 AM EDT Thu May 30 2019
KYZ097>100-OHZ064-065-073-074-079>082-088-310900-
Bracken-Robertson-Mason-Lewis-Pickaway-Fairfield-Ross-Hocking-Brown-
Highland-Adams-Pike-Scioto-
500 AM EDT Thu May 30 2019
This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Northeast Kentucky, Northern
Kentucky, Central Ohio, South Central Ohio and Southwest Ohio.
.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.
An isolated strong to severe storm in addition to heavy rain will be
possible this afternoon. Damaging winds, large hail, and an isolated
weak tornado will be possible, along with localized flooding of low-
lying and poorly drained areas.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday.
There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
Spotter activation may be needed.
gbohannon wrote:
Good to hear Laura. But you may want to get one of those NOAA radios with S.A.M.E alerting
leighton w wrote:
Do you have LR installed on a SSD?
Yep, on an SSD (program, Cache, and catalog - the actual Nikon NEFs are on a regular hard drive (likely my next strategy change - current pictures on an SSD, completed pictures moved to traditional hard drives)). I suppose speed is relative, I'm waiting 5-8 seconds (Nikon D800 14-bit loseless compressed NEFs) for a picture to fully form in the develop module when scrolling from one picture to the next (without a 1:1 preview already generated). When the motherboard was going bad LR would sometimes just stop responding for about 10 seconds (in addition to the 5-8 seconds) for a couple or three weeks before the MB died. From what I've read this is about the norm for LR, though I'm still on ver 5.7.x.
Chris Dees wrote:
On our way back we got lost and stumbled over an enormous local market.
We were the only tourists.
Definitely local, always fun to visit these places. It's interesting to see how just about the entire animal is "harvested" for consumption in some manner. As the old saying goes, "fire kills everything" so cook it all up good!
pbraymond wrote:
Yep, on an SSD (program, Cache, and catalog - the actual Nikon NEFs are on a regular hard drive (likely my next strategy change - current pictures on an SSD, completed pictures moved to traditional hard drives)). I suppose speed is relative, I'm waiting 5-8 seconds (Nikon D800 14-bit loseless compressed NEFs) for a picture to fully form in the develop module when scrolling from one picture to the next (without a 1:1 preview already generated). When the motherboard was going bad LR would sometimes just stop responding for about 10 seconds (in addition to the 5-8 seconds) for a couple or three weeks before the MB died. From what I've read this is about the norm for LR, though I'm still on ver 5.7.x....Show more →
Because of what appears to problems with the LaCie SSD I'd been using both as a boot drive and repository for recent Nikon photos I've had to reconfigure things. I'm now booting from an internal 7200 rpm SATA drive. All of my software applications are on the boot drive. Although I have an internal partition reserved for Nikon photos I decided to use the SSD for those photos and the Lightroom catalogue. I'll keep the photos backed up but I want to see whether the SSD can handle these rather simple transactions. Clearly, the drive was not handling operating system activities.
What I'm finding is the iMac runs fine though the latest Mac OS, Mojave, is not happy with Adobe CS 6 and regularly complains with note that I need to fix the problems... which are only fixable by moving to the cloud, which I will not do. Lightroom, Photoshop and InDesign are running and with reasonable speed, so I'm content for the moment. I did upgrade to Lightroom 6 when Leighton told us we could still buy stand alone copies of that software. Buying it as an upgrade was not overly expensive.
Maintaining the digital darkroom definitely takes some attention and often an investment as well. I'm hoping that what I have will keep me for the next few years. I trust you'll find your was as well Ray.
