Re: [lace-chat] Photos of Sunrise over Amman
That's a stunning photograph - what a special moment. In the UK we have an early morning tradition on 1st May - May Day. Morris Dancers all over the country get up before dawn and dance somewhere special to greet the May Day morning sun. Some years we haven't seen the sun at all, but every so often, as this year, we are treated to a gentle spring sunrise. My photos are only taken with my phone, but our morris side has other people's photos of dancing at dawn on Alderley Edge at www.powderkegs.co.uk Lesley Avital wrote: Twice a year the rising sun aligns with the twin towers of Amman, Jordan, some 70 km from where I live. A couple days ago I dragged myself out of bed and managed to photograph them just before 6 a.m. I tried this last August and it was okay, but this year was even better because the sun lined up directly behind the buildings. Interesting thing is that in the cropped photo you can see the cranes (the buildings are still under construction). This year I was able to use a DSLR camera (Canon Rebel XSi or 450D) and 250mm lens. http://apinnick.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/sunrise-over-amman-2010/ Here are the photos I took in August 2009, if you want to compare. I didn't have a long enough lens for my DSLR, so I used a Canon PowerShot S5 IS. http://apinnick.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/sunrise-over-amman/ Avital To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
[lace-chat] Photos of Sunrise over Amman
Twice a year the rising sun aligns with the twin towers of Amman, Jordan, some 70 km from where I live. A couple days ago I dragged myself out of bed and managed to photograph them just before 6 a.m. I tried this last August and it was okay, but this year was even better because the sun lined up directly behind the buildings. Interesting thing is that in the cropped photo you can see the cranes (the buildings are still under construction). This year I was able to use a DSLR camera (Canon Rebel XSi or 450D) and 250mm lens. http://apinnick.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/sunrise-over-amman-2010/ Here are the photos I took in August 2009, if you want to compare. I didn't have a long enough lens for my DSLR, so I used a Canon PowerShot S5 IS. http://apinnick.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/sunrise-over-amman/ Avital -- Blog: http://apinnick.wordpress.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to arachnemodera...@yahoo.com.
Re: [lace-chat] Photos of mola I bought at the arts & crafts fair
Hello Avital, your mola is very pretty. It looks very well made. It is funny, when I first read your message in Lace-chat I thought by myself, I wonder what mola is in lace - I had only known of it in patchwork and quilting. Then I remembered that you do patchwork, too. *smile* Anyway, I think your mola is well worth the price. Have a nice day, Martina in Germany On 24 Aug 2008 at 10:02, Avital wrote: > I've uploaded photos of the mola I bought at the Arts & Crafts > Fair > and a description of the process of dismantling the bag. It turned > out > to be quite a fine piece of needlework. The scale of the stitching > is > mind-boggling. I'm pretty nimble-fingered but I'm not sure I could > do > 32 chain stitches per inch! > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr/sets/72157606919855917/ > > > Avital > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Photos of mola I bought at the arts & crafts fair
I've uploaded photos of the mola I bought at the Arts & Crafts Fair and a description of the process of dismantling the bag. It turned out to be quite a fine piece of needlework. The scale of the stitching is mind-boggling. I'm pretty nimble-fingered but I'm not sure I could do 32 chain stitches per inch! http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr/sets/72157606919855917/ Avital To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Photos of London - camera
Lynne wrote: that can do 18x optical zoom but also macro for lace. So if anyone has any experience of a Fuji Finepix S8000fd (or even the very new S8100fd) I'd be very interested. > DH has this camera - his fifth! He's a very keen photographer of local wildlife, scenery and action shots (eg jetskiers in the harbour) but doesn't want to use an SLR. He says it's the best camera he has had. He says any lens with that range of zoom you get barrelling or convergence, but he feels it's minimal with this camera, and anything that is noticeable is easily corrected with Photoshop Elements. Anything he prints, is on A4 and he usually crops pictures before printing, so the resolution is impressive. He also adds that even hand-held at super-macro it's the steadiest camera he's used with no little blurring of the image, which would disappear with a tripod, so it would be ideal for close-ups of lace. Camera 3 was an expensive Cannon, but the sensor went on that after just over a year - apparently common with the model he had. So he wasn't impressed. Other than that he's has 2 Olympus and a Panasonic. I got his second Olympus camera as a hand-me down. I'm not complaining that it's a few years old now - it does everything I want it to. He says that's the best he's had photowise, but it was a pain to use because you had to keep going into the menu. He says, if you want, he'll take a picture of something you choose and send it privately so you can see what it's like, bearing in mind it will be a large file. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Photos of London
I use a Canon PowerShot S5. It's a high-end point-and-shoot and takes very nice pictures but will let me do what I want. It has a good macro setting (about a centimeter from the lens) and a 12x optical zoom. It's 8 megapixels, sells for about $300 in the US (for UK, probably have to change the $ to a pound sign ). I'm very happy with it. Avital On 3/28/08, Lynne Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I ask what camera you use? I'm being tempted at the moment by a camera > that can do 18x optical zoom but also macro for lace. So if anyone has any > experience of a Fuji Finepix S8000fd (or even the very new S8100fd) I'd be > very interested. It's not a digital SLR but neither is it a compact but it > ticks most of my boxes. > > Thanks, > > Lynne > > Baldock, North Herts, UK > [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Photos I took
Hi, spiders, I got a new camera last week so that I could take a photography course at work. So far I've had one lesson, but it inspired me to drag my new camera out in the evenings. I took this one as an experiment in how light affects a camera at night. The light in this photo was orange and white but the camera brings out the blue and green tones of the fluorescent and mercury vapour lights. http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr/2148787266/ And here's one I took of the moon. It's not artistic at all, just a challenge to produce something that didn't look like a fuzzy pingpong ball. http://www.flickr.com/photos/spindexr/2138398939/ Avital To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] photos
David, what beautiful photos! Thank you so much for having shared them. Sylvie in Cherry Valley, shut down yesterday by a tremendous snow storm Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Photos of Ballarat
Thanks for the web site, David. Yes they are excellent photos of the marvellous buildings there. Ballarat was a gold mining town about 150 years ago, and the awesome buildings were built when money flowed freely, and no expence was spared. Pity there were not more photos of the Begonia Festival which is held there every year. That is a colourful feast for the eyes, too! Regards from Liz in Melbourne, Oz. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Photos of Ballarat
What absolutely wonderful pictures!! You have inspired me to beg my housemate's camera and get some pictures of the wonderful architecture here in Seattle. We really do have more cool buildings than just the Space Needle and I should take advantage of the fact that working here at the Pike Place Market I know of some of the really cool architecture that is here in the market that most people just walk past and don't bother to look up and see! Shere'e in Seattle, WA, USA On 11/30/06, David in Ballarat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Friends, If anyone would like to see some stunning photos of Ballarat, go to this newly set up website. http://people.aapt.net.au/~davidmorrison/album/index.html David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Photos of Ballarat
Dear Friends, If anyone would like to see some stunning photos of Ballarat, go to this newly set up website. http://people.aapt.net.au/~davidmorrison/album/index.html David in Ballarat To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] photos (was: hat on backwards)
It doesn't even have to be "fashion" which causes the young people to cringe
when they grow up. We have copious shots in the family album of our eldest son
at an age when he'd decided that his ears stuck out too far. So he grew his
shock of really blonde hair long to "hide" them. Of course, all that happened
was the hair stuck out over the ears, drew attention to them, and made them
look even bigger!!
*Now* (when he's 35!) I'm asked: "why didn't you make me get my haircut?"
What? *Making* Philip do anything at the age of 14 or 15 was near-nigh
impossibleoh! the selective "memory loss" of an adult child is wonderful -
now I find he's under the delusion that he was always sweetly reasonable and
co-operative!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- "Tamara P. Duvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday, Sep 8, 2003,
at 00:40 US/Eastern, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
>
> > What I always say is, "Take lots of pictures."
> >
> > :D
> >
> > In 20 years, whatever the style today, they'll be groaning, "I can't
> > BELIEVE you let me dress that way!"
>
> My Mother *tried* her best, but "let me" was never a part of my
> vocabulary...
>
> There's a photo of me, snapped by some amateur U-campus photographer
> (and I hope he rots in h... ) in the winter of '69... A really
> *big* fur hat (de rigeur at that moment in Poland), a really
> tightly-fitting winter coat (ditto) which ended about 6" above the knee
> (but still covered the skirt, if you please ), a pair of really high
> boots ("spoils" of the '68 UK summer), and a really fierce scowl on my
> face (no wonder; "below freezing" covers a multitude of temperatures
> ). The photo was displayed -- for full 4 weeks! -- near the main
> entrance to the U, in the "U-news", 50m-long, glassed-in show-case.
> That the photographer had no clue as to my identity (the caption was:
> "a focused student, on her way to class") and that it was but a small
> part of the "news" (hopefully, not many people eve noticed it) was a
> mercy... :)
>
> > The pictures will also be great for showing to their children.
>
> I retrieved the photo as soon as the display changed... Luckily for the
> photographer, I never disovered *his* identity, either... But I hid it
> from *everyone* -- my parents, my DH, my son -- none of them ever saw
> it. Didn't throw it away, though; like the "messed up" samples of
> laces, it reminds *me* of past mistakes, hopefully never to be
> repeated. It also teaches me humility, and forbearance towards other
> "young ones", equally misguided in their pursuit of "fitting"...
> -
> Tamara P Duvall
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Lexington, Virginia, USA
> Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
>
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[lace-chat] photos (was: hat on backwards)
On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 00:40 US/Eastern, Lynn Carpenter wrote:
What I always say is, "Take lots of pictures."
:D
In 20 years, whatever the style today, they'll be groaning, "I can't
BELIEVE you let me dress that way!"
My Mother *tried* her best, but "let me" was never a part of my
vocabulary...
There's a photo of me, snapped by some amateur U-campus photographer
(and I hope he rots in h... ) in the winter of '69... A really
*big* fur hat (de rigeur at that moment in Poland), a really
tightly-fitting winter coat (ditto) which ended about 6" above the knee
(but still covered the skirt, if you please ), a pair of really high
boots ("spoils" of the '68 UK summer), and a really fierce scowl on my
face (no wonder; "below freezing" covers a multitude of temperatures
). The photo was displayed -- for full 4 weeks! -- near the main
entrance to the U, in the "U-news", 50m-long, glassed-in show-case.
That the photographer had no clue as to my identity (the caption was:
"a focused student, on her way to class") and that it was but a small
part of the "news" (hopefully, not many people eve noticed it) was a
mercy... :)
The pictures will also be great for showing to their children.
I retrieved the photo as soon as the display changed... Luckily for the
photographer, I never disovered *his* identity, either... But I hid it
from *everyone* -- my parents, my DH, my son -- none of them ever saw
it. Didn't throw it away, though; like the "messed up" samples of
laces, it reminds *me* of past mistakes, hopefully never to be
repeated. It also teaches me humility, and forbearance towards other
"young ones", equally misguided in their pursuit of "fitting"...
-
Tamara P Duvall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lexington, Virginia, USA
Formerly of Warsaw, Poland
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[lace-chat] photos and blue-tack
Sorry, forgot to say I removed the blue-tack as soon as the photo-copies were done. Then the ancestor photos were put back into the filing cabinet (shoe-boxes). Blue-tack does leave a slight mark if left on for any length of time, also it can go hard. I use it for all sorts of things, including holding samples in place when photographing items for publication. At one time I used extension tubes on my old fashioned camera for close-ups of textiles, bead-work etc. But I dropped the rings and they have not worked properly since. So this means that instead of photographing things on my photo-copy-stand which holds the camera dead level and steady pointing downwards, I have to prop things upright and photo using the tripod and a tele-photo lens on macro which comes out just as well. I took the photos for the Romanian Point Lace book this way. Judge for yourselves if you have the opportunity. I write articles for the Beadworker's Guild Journal and when photographing beadwork, sometimes the blue-tack gets caught in the beadwork and has to be winkled out afterwards with a pin. I would love to know the unusual things that other people use blue-tack for. Angela In Worcestershire UK. Sunny days, chilly autumn evenings. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] photos
After our experience in January - keep copies of all your important photos somewhere else - maybe just the negatives or scan them into a computer and put them on a disc to safely store off site! Jenny Rees Canberra Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our kitchen went in last week! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] photos
My mom is the family genealogy nut. You'd think someone who has boxes of very old family photos with labels like "Mother" on them -- no date, no name, no indication of *whose* mother -- would label her own photos, but no. I'm one who obsessively labels my photographs with full names and dates. I don't want them to end up for sale like some in a horrible box I once saw in an antique store, labelled "Instant Ancestors", full of old tintypes. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
