MBOI find a stolen camera
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Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
My last name is pronounced hee-haw. -T On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:41 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: har as in bar, ley is in tree, emphasis on the first syllable (it's irritatingly easy to say like the motorcycle, but that might not ring a bell for everyone) i was born with a different name, Donaghy, which is an immigration office perversion of O'Donough, i think, so it may not matter how it is pronounced, but sometimes i wish i had it back here in my neighborhood there are streets named for Native American tribes; Galapago street is typically pronounced _gal_ uh *pay* go and Acoma is pronounced a (as in 'that') *coe* muh; i try to pronounce them right (i've been to Acoma Pueblo, but i've never been to the Galapagos) and it seems to creep people out ... so here's another question -- what does your name mean? i've been told that harley = hare + leigh ~= bunny meadow Hal Pin, Hall Pin, Hell Pin . . . all three variations are used by my relatives. My anti-Catholic grandmother used to say that it was a contraction of the Scottish (Protestant) McAlpine. I believe that Halpin is from the common Irish (Catholic) name Halpin which is thought to be derived from a mis-pronunciation of halfpenny. So my name has to do with money, albeit a very small quantity of money. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Jul 20, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Hunt Thanks, but how do we pronounce your last name? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Jul 20, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Ken Waller wrote: Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: OT How do you pronounce your name? Here's where someone makes a crack about endoscopes. That would be cheeky thing to do. Yes butt it would probably be funny Only semi. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Simple question difficult answer, if you know how to pronounce Antoinette, Toine should be easy. Twone maybe. My last name Kuiper is difficult. Sometimes I hear my name on Discovery and such if they have something about astronomy and the Kuiper belt, the place where comets come from. It's always pronounced as koiper which is wrong. The french pronounce it as Quipér which is also wrong. In dutch we pronounce it as kuiper :) Toine On 20 July 2011 23:57, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Subash wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:41:22 -0600 steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: har as in bar, ley is in tree, emphasis on the first syllable (it's irritatingly easy to say like the motorcycle, but that might not ring a bell for everyone) su as in 'full' and bash as in bar (the vowels). jey as in 'weigh' and an as in 'fun'. btw, harleys have been just been introduced here in india, a year or so back, the cheapest of which would cost me about three years' pay. the duties are exorbitant, so most of that goes to the government... If I were to sell American motorcycles there, I'd be very tempted to go for an Indian dealership. ... so here's another question -- what does your name mean? subash - one who has a good language/uses language well jeyan - the victorious Victorious in language? -- regards, subash -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Today's score of things Pentax and questions..
On Jul 20, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: Despite the scorching heat , I -had- to get out.. so I slowly crawled over to my favorite boutique the Salvation Army store across from the post office where I go to mail my ebay sales... This is what I got, for a total of $40. list of haulage deleted... Congratulations, that;s quite a find. I'm envious. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT How do you pronounce your name?
We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. Rumpelstiltskin -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT How do you pronounce your name?
We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. Rumpelstiltskin but my friends call me Tápiószentmárton Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Jul 21, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Bob W wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. Rumpelstiltskin but my friends call me Tápiószentmárton Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä. Both of them? -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT How do you pronounce your name?
We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. Rumpelstiltskin but my friends call me Tápiószentmárton Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä. Both of them? the other one calls me Bob. Can't think why. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Maritim is not pronounced, Tim should be easy. My last name on the other hand. Don't even try it. You will probably say something very dirty ;-) -- MaritimTim My private photo blog: http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ My photo class blog: http://z-fotokurs.blogspot.com/ To err is human to arr is pirate -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Larry Colen wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I find that people in most European/Western countries *except for the English-speaking ones* tend to get mine more or less right. Just pronounce all the letters without any diphtongation... And notice that the vovel sounds are like the open/long ones found in English. Did that make any sense at all? - Toralf I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Oh, I should have mentioned Bong (my spiel on Pedro is boring; you don't know me by that name anyway). It is pronounce bong and it doesn't really mean anything. I come from a country with door-bell names. Bang (usually a girl), Bong (usually a boy--a junior...more on that later), Bing (girl) and Beng (girl); there are Dang (girl), Dong (boy), Ding (boy again), Deng (girl) but no Dung (that could lead to poo jokes). But the latter is understated because we do have nicknames which means something else in another dialect (Epot is a short for April in Cebuano but means poo is Tagalog). Bong is a nickname for juniors (I'm Pedro Manayon Jr.); google the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and he has a son, Ferdinand Jr., who is known as Bong Bong. That is common in the Visayan region (my dad and the wife of Marcos came from that region); up north it is Jun. Doubling the name (Jun Jun) just adds to its cuteness factor. Yeah, we have no problem here with cute names--like I have a cousin named Baby Boy or Babes; I know folks named Cherry Pie and other names that you would have you teased out of American high schools. Our current president (Benigno Aquino III) goes by his nickname Noy-Noy which can mean little boy. His dad, martyred by Marcos was known as Ninoy... We also follow popular trends and personalities, so I know quite a number of ladies (my age) born in the early 1960s named Marilyn or for that matter Diana in the early 1980s. I wonder why? :-) Usually we are given really formal sounding names in our birth certificate (my name is Miguel Edward Z. Rodriguez, but you can call me 'Boy' for short...) but its rare that we move through life with it except to sign some formal or legal documents. We usually are known here for our cutesy nicknames which essentially should be our real names anyway... Bong :-) On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Jul 21, 2011, at 02:17 , Tim Øsleby wrote: Maritim is not pronounced, Tim should be easy. My last name on the other hand. Don't even try it. You will probably say something very dirty ;-) -- MaritimTim Oh! The old silent Maritim before the Tim. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com “ The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Kevan Olesen -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com wrote: We also follow popular trends and personalities, so I know quite a number of ladies (my age) born in the early 1960s named Marilyn or for that matter Diana in the early 1980s. I wonder why? :-) i was born in 1963 and in college, there were quite a few kennedys both in my batch and among junior batches... :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: MBOI find a stolen camera
If I enter my old K-7 serial number, I got a message that my Nikon D90 is stolen :-) Stig Vidar Hovland Fra: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] p#229; vegne av Eckehard Wegner [overpenta...@googlemail.com] Sendt: 21. juli 2011 08:34 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: MBOI find a stolen camera http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/ Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
GESO - The Boys of Summer
A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: MBOI find a stolen camera
That is because you're the Stig and when you order a K-5 from Nikon you'll actually get one =) 2011/7/21 SV Hovland pdml...@heime.org: If I enter my old K-7 serial number, I got a message that my Nikon D90 is stolen :-) Stig Vidar Hovland Fra: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [pdml-boun...@pdml.net] p#229; vegne av Eckehard Wegner [overpenta...@googlemail.com] Sendt: 21. juli 2011 08:34 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: MBOI find a stolen camera http://www.stolencamerafinder.com/ Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer
Excellent. Paul On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:15 AM, frank theriault wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer
On 11-07-21 8:15 AM, frank theriault wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank You caught some great moments there, Frank. My faves: #2, #3, #4. I love the puff of dust in the catcher's glove in that 3rd one. I can *hear* these shots. :-) -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
I'll delurk te-rra-'zzi-no 'te' like in 'ten' 'rra' the 'rr' sound like in 'wrong', 'a' sound like in 'ash' 'zzi' i sound like in 'hit' 'no' 'o' sound like in 'on' Italians usually get it right ;-) 'Fernando', like in the Abba song -I know most of you are old enough to know that one. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferand/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Dan rhymes with Ann. g Matyola is a Rusyn (Ruthenian) name, originally written in Cyrillic, and it is pronounced pretty much like it is spelled: Mat-ee-o-luh. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. You get extra points if you can pronounce my last name properly, and you're not from Holland, Belgium, or Germany. :-) -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PPG news...
I have had no images either accepted or declined in the past two weeks, although a couple have been under review for about a month. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote: KX, LX, K-1000, ist D ann Saw some pass by :-) Bong -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
My sen? [My rhymes with high]? Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Mat Maessen tomatoe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. You get extra points if you can pronounce my last name properly, and you're not from Holland, Belgium, or Germany. :-) -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer
Very nice set. I especially like the one of the kid sliding into the base. Dan Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:15 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
De: Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Enviado: jueves 21 de julio de 2011 1:23 Asunto: Re: OT How do you pronounce your name? On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org wrote: - No, it's pronounced ee-gor! - But they told me it was eye-gor. - Well, the were wrong then, weren't they? :-) We must have encountered the same they... my real name is Pedro; its pronounced with a short e and o not paydraw. -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc Here is the right way to pronounce 'Pedro': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dcAxceqSe4feature=related ;-) (A very famous moment in Spain when Penelope Cruz announces the first Oscar award for Pedro Almodovar) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer
How fun! lovely little series, Frank I think I like the Pitcher picture the best (or maybe I just wnated to say that :-) ann On 7/21/2011 08:15, frank theriault wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Today's score of things Pentax and questions..
From: P. J. Alling On 7/20/2011 5:56 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: 3 Lenses: (In apparently fine shape and I tried it on my ist d ) SMC PENTAX FA 28-105 zoom f4-5.6. Auto focus works on my ist-d. BLACK There were three different versions of this lens in FA livery all available in bleak, a Power Zoom version, and a non power zoom version, both made by Pentax, and a Version made reputed to be made by Tamaron. All three had different optical formulas so you'll have to be a bit more specific. It is the same one as this : http://cgi.ebay.com/PENTAX-FA-28-105mm-f-4-5-6-Good-condition-/280710948091?pt=Camera_Lenseshash=item415bad24fb That's the power zoom version, it's supposed to be very nice optically, if a but heavy and it power zooms... NExt ... 50mm prime SMC Pentax FA 1.4 BLACK - this works on manual on the istD and kinda worked on auto focus but not properly ... apparently it works on later issues -- or some (a brief check on ebay) With operating manual from 1991. Let me know what you want for it... Let me do some more digging I guess you know this lens .. It's the same as all the Pentax 50mm f1.4 lenses but in FA livery, (Ok, so they were supposedly tweeked, and they have the best coatings Pentax put in the focal length). I've been looking for nice short portrait tele for the K20d that takes full advantage of the automation. The f1.4's aren't perfect but they're more than good enough. I find that I don't end up using the M50 f1.4 on the K20d, I used to use it a lot on the D and Ds. I'd like to have those two, but there's no way I can afford them right now. Don't even know if I'm going to be able to pay the rent come the first of the month. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3777 - Release Date: 07/20/11 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: My sen? [My rhymes with high]? Dan Matyola Nope. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Since I already tried to explain this to Boris prior to my visit to Israel, I'll just past what I told him at that time: Jaume is a Catalan name, that in Spanish is Jaime, James in English, Jacques in French, Giacomo in Italian...Actually, my offical name (as in Passport and Spanish ID) is Jaime, since Catalan was forbiden for official use when I was born (we had a dictatorship at that time), and I never bothered to change it. For some reason I always thought that English speakers would pronounce better Jaume than Jaime, since the J sounds as in James and for Jaime it sounds like in Javier Bardem. But it seems that the 'au' combination fools a lot and they never know how to approach to it. Jaime: Hi- met (without 't') Jaume: ZHOW-Muh Anyway, I found this website with audio exemples, much beter: http://www.forvo.com/word/jaime/ http://forvo.com/word/jaume/ As for Lahuerta, the h is not pronounced: La-where-tah Regards, Jaume De: Larry Colen l...@red4est.com Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Enviado: miércoles 20 de julio de 2011 23:57 Asunto: OT How do you pronounce your name? We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
It's Liza, with a Zee... SCNR, Ralf -- Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Pronounced John ... except by my Latino friends who pronounce it Hwan. And then there was that cute little French exchange student who sat behind me in English class my last year in High School. I can't even begin to reproduce the way she pronounced it, but it was MUSIC! Last name is pronounced Ses-ums; both short vowel sounds. But, ... as long as you don't call me late for dinner, etc. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3777 - Release Date: 07/20/11 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
I think it is worth mentioning that photojournalism can be SIMULTANEOUSLY exploitation and exposé. Seeing it only as one or the other is not seeing the whole picture. I think of the famous photo of the people falling from the collapsing fire escape of the burning building (one to their death). http://www.pigbird.com/images_press3.html The decision to take (and publish) that photo turned out to be a powerful motivator for changing the building codes regarding fire escapes in a great many cities. Photojournalism informs public opinion which in turn can drive public policy (in a functional world). One of our motives (or perhaps simply a side benefit) of turning our camera on the unfortunates is not to take advantage of their misfortune, but to help make others aware of it. Darren Addy Kearney, Nebraska -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
From: Toine Simple question difficult answer, if you know how to pronounce Antoinette, Toine should be easy. Twone maybe. My last name Kuiper is difficult. Sometimes I hear my name on Discovery and such if they have something about astronomy and the Kuiper belt, the place where comets come from. It's always pronounced as koiper which is wrong. The french pronounce it as Quip?r which is also wrong. In dutch we pronounce it as kuiper Toine The sound of the letter 'Q' perhaps? Like the old tech guy in the James Bond movies. Q-per. ? - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3777 - Release Date: 07/20/11 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:04 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: Q-per. ? I loved that old video game, with the orange guy with the big nose who hopped up and down the pyramid. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
On 11-07-20 12:36 PM, Bob W wrote: The greatest artists know how to create a distance from their subjects. I read his statement as being about street photographers, not about artists in general, although I may be wrong. Any given statement about what art is or what artists do will receive an immediate fusillade of protest challenge from everyone else who takes an interest in the subject, regardless of their actual grounding. No harm in that - it is only opinion and a pleasant way of passing time until we hear the scratching sound of the Reaper honing his scythe. In some ways this is what art is: a long argument about what art is. Every statement about the nature of art necessarily limits it, puts a boundary on it. In response, someone else will produce a work that refutes it, breaks the boundary, yet is still undeniably art. Trying to define art is like trying to pin quicksilver to the ceiling. I think he means something similar to the notion that every writer has a splinter of ice in the heart. That whatever situation you are involved in, however closely, there is still a part of you that is watching ironically from the shelter of a doorway, and laughing quietly at the foolishness of it all. I do think this is present in some of Maier's pictures, and I think it may be a necessary condition of great art, but not a sufficient condition. B Thank you for that, Bob. Your last point resonates deeply with me as I'm still struggling to break through the pretty snapshot ceiling. I needs spend more time in that doorway with my inner cynic. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
From: Bong Manayon Usually we are given really formal sounding names in our birth certificate (my name is Miguel Edward Z. Rodriguez, but you can call me 'Boy' for short...) but its rare that we move through life with it except to sign some formal or legal documents. We usually are known here for our cutesy nicknames which essentially should be our real names anyway... I do know someone from back where I grew up whose given name on his birth certificate is Boy, and that's the name he's always gone by. That's what the hospital fills in on the form until the parents decide on a name. Apparently his parents never did. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3777 - Release Date: 07/20/11 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
From: Mat Maessen On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: My sen? ?[My rhymes with high]? Dan Matyola Nope. Mason ... rhymes with the jar you drink moonshine out of. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3777 - Release Date: 07/20/11 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On 21/7/11, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed: but my friends call me Tápiószentmárton Äteritsiputeritsipuolilautatsijänkä. Yeah well, you were always a bit of a jänkä. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Ok, I'll play and I'll give the derivation the at the same time. All as in Albert or Allen, ing as the word ending. It is a made up name, but much older that Ellis Island. I've heard two different derivations. Either a modification of the name Allen, or a shortening of the name Allingworth. The first recording of the name is in New Haven Connecticut in sometime in the 1640's. The family ledgend has it that Roger being a good Puritan didn't want to be associated with his Church of England relatives. Personally I like to think he was an escaping horse thief, it's the romantic in me. On 7/20/2011 5:57 PM, Larry Colen wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer
WOW! Nice action, Frank. Timing and composition well done. Jack --- On Thu, 7/21/11, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: From: frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: GESO - The Boys of Summer To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011, 5:15 AM A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:22 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: My sen? ?[My rhymes with high]? Dan Matyola Nope. Mason ... rhymes with the jar you drink moonshine out of. Nope. Though since enough people pronounce it that way, I don't bother to correct them. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer
Those are some nice action shots. On 7/21/2011 8:15 AM, frank theriault wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
No Qper isn,t it. The K is pronounced like something like Qa more difficult is the UI part. No idea. Per is pronounced as per in english. Maybe Qper with the start of Q pronounced as Qa. Dutch must be a difficult language. Not to mentions the dialects which vary widely, in the past people had problems understanding each other. On Thursday, 21 July 2011, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: Toine Simple question difficult answer, if you know how to pronounce Antoinette, Toine should be easy. Twone maybe. My last name Kuiper is difficult. Sometimes I hear my name on Discovery and such if they have something about astronomy and the Kuiper belt, the place where comets come from. It's always pronounced as koiper which is wrong. The french pronounce it as Quip?r which is also wrong. In dutch we pronounce it as kuiper Toine The sound of the letter 'Q' perhaps? Like the old tech guy in the James Bond movies. Q-per. ? - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3777 - Release Date: 07/20/11 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer
Thumbs up! G On Thursday, July 21, 2011, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
- Original Message - From: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London] On 7/20/2011 11:57, Christine Aguila wrote: Writers establish what's called psychological distance between the work and the reader primarily through point of view (language itself can contribute to this)--1st, 2nd, 3rd person pov, and all the shades thereof. Through what photographic technique does a photographer minimize or maximize intellectual distance? Cheers, Christine Will that be on the next exam? :-) How many words do we have to submit? But seriously, I don't think anything is served by photographers, or any artists , for that matter, over intellectualzing their approach.. I agree one shouldn't *over intellectualize*, but some thought mightn't be bad for the exercise--writers, photographers, whatever should know what artistic techniques are at their disposal to create their work. Technique, seems to me, is the primary realm of the artist; understanding how technique is used to achieve some end and how that end is understood can--and often is--of concern to the artist, but it seems most certainly to be the primary realm of the critic. I got hammered by Gene Frankel for doing that in the acting days - getting involved in what the playright's intent was instead of using my humanity and instincts to identify with the character to bring her to life. write what you know was the mantra I grew up with... so it was the opposite of intellectual distance. I also considered /thought that street photography was basically photo-journalism but you do it for yourself, rather than on an assignment... where the distance fades away... you wouldn't be photographing something with which you had absolutely no gut connection, would you? Well, you can use your creative skills (whatever they are) to do a study on something you have great affinity for, but you can also use them to discover something you don't know anything about. The *write what you know* mantra is often early advice young fiction writers and poets get--a familiar starting point where *what they know* is allowed to mingle greatly with their imaginations to achieve and inform some creative end. But I wouldn't agree that the artist is forever stuck in that place--though it is true many, many artists never leave that place; it becomes their creative obsession. Cheers, Christine -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Peso: Garden of Blur
I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like this. Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/15174580_NVzVH#1394204051_PhPRRcS -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Kiss/truck
On 19/07/2011 7:52 AM, Darren Addy wrote: William's shot is a nice image, but it appears to me that it was taken in a museum, under fluorescent lights with a wallpaper background. It that IS where it is taken (or something similar), then this is understandable and a nice representation of what was there. If it wasn't taken there and was an outdoors illuminated shot in nature, then I think the tone/color balance/tone mapping probably misrepresents the original scene in a rather unsatisfying way. That was shot beside a fairly large creek in my favourite part of BC (Rosebery) right at dusk. The wallpaper background is the stream itself with the rocks just below the surface of the water. The combination of the extended exposure and that they are somewhat out of focus is what is fooling you into thinking it is something that it isn't. That is a combination of two exposures, one to get the bulk of the image, and one to get the mushroom, which was really dark. All I did was stack the main exposure over the brighter one and erase the layer to show the mushroom below it. There was no tone mapping, and it is an accurate representation of what was there, with the exception of using the double exposure to secure what the camera couldn't do in one. I should probably boost the gamma in the mushroom layer a bit, but it made a very nice print on my wall, and I'm pretty much done with the file so I probably won't. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Don't make an ass of yourself, Tim. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: My last name is pronounced hee-haw. -T On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: On Jul 20, 2011, at 11:33 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: On Jul 20, 2011, at 9:41 PM, steve harley p...@paper-ape.com wrote: har as in bar, ley is in tree, emphasis on the first syllable (it's irritatingly easy to say like the motorcycle, but that might not ring a bell for everyone) i was born with a different name, Donaghy, which is an immigration office perversion of O'Donough, i think, so it may not matter how it is pronounced, but sometimes i wish i had it back here in my neighborhood there are streets named for Native American tribes; Galapago street is typically pronounced _gal_ uh *pay* go and Acoma is pronounced a (as in 'that') *coe* muh; i try to pronounce them right (i've been to Acoma Pueblo, but i've never been to the Galapagos) and it seems to creep people out ... so here's another question -- what does your name mean? i've been told that harley = hare + leigh ~= bunny meadow Hal Pin, Hall Pin, Hell Pin . . . all three variations are used by my relatives. My anti-Catholic grandmother used to say that it was a contraction of the Scottish (Protestant) McAlpine. I believe that Halpin is from the common Irish (Catholic) name Halpin which is thought to be derived from a mis-pronunciation of halfpenny. So my name has to do with money, albeit a very small quantity of money. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Toine to...@repiuk.nl wrote: No Qper isn,t it. The K is pronounced like something like Qa more difficult is the UI part. No idea. Per is pronounced as per in english. Maybe Qper with the start of Q pronounced as Qa. Dutch must be a difficult language. Not to mentions the dialects which vary widely, in the past people had problems understanding each other. I don't think I've heard Kuiper pronounced by a native Dutch speaker, but I have heard Huygens. It seems to require the ability to sneeze at will. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
On 20/07/2011 8:27 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I paid the guy five bucks to take his photo. He wasn't being taken advantage of. He earned some money. That you paid him, and that perhaps Shel didn't pay his subject (though it's entirely possible that Shel bought him that coffee, and perhaps some food) is beside the point. The point was, since both were taken with permission, how is one more cruel than the other? If payment is the only reason, did you pay him the going rate for modelling? For that matter, would my TFCD studio work be considered cruel (not commenting on how I tend to butcher things, just the act of taking the images in the first place)? -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Toralf Lund wrote: Larry Colen wrote: We've got people from a wide range of cultures on this list, and there are a lot of folks with names that I can only guess at the pronunciation. Names which may be common in one culture are pretty rare in Central California. I find that people in most European/Western countries *except for the English-speaking ones* tend to get mine more or less right. Just pronounce all the letters without any diphtongation... And notice that the vovel sounds are like the open/long ones found in English. Actually, that's not quite accurate for the surname, where 'd' is silent, while the 'u' is like English oo or ou, but shorter... - T Did that make any sense at all? - Toralf I haven't heard much variation in the pronunciation of Larry, but the two common mistakes are to misread Colen as Cohen, or to pronounce it the way everyone but Colin Powell pronounces Colin. It's pronounced like Cohen, but with an L rather than an H: Koe-len. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
ROFL On 21 July 2011 18:58, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Toine to...@repiuk.nl wrote: No Qper isn,t it. The K is pronounced like something like Qa more difficult is the UI part. No idea. Per is pronounced as per in english. Maybe Qper with the start of Q pronounced as Qa. Dutch must be a difficult language. Not to mentions the dialects which vary widely, in the past people had problems understanding each other. I don't think I've heard Kuiper pronounced by a native Dutch speaker, but I have heard Huygens. It seems to require the ability to sneeze at will. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
On 7/21/2011 12:45, Christine Aguila wrote: - Original Message - From: Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London] On 7/20/2011 11:57, Christine Aguila wrote: snip snip ann wrote: I also considered /thought that street photography was basically photo-journalism but you do it for yourself, rather than on an assignment... where the distance fades away... you wouldn't be photographing something with which you had absolutely no gut connection, would you? Christine replies Well, you can use your creative skills (whatever they are) to do a study on something you have great affinity for, but you can also use them to discover something you don't know anything about. Point taken. certainly exploring a strange place with a camera is something I've done often and is truly my favorite thing to do... But there is lots more good no visual art out there , especially in the written word, where the artist knows what he is writing about well rather than on something he has to book up on to write about. I'm putting this in the context of any artist wanting to publish, wanting to share the experiences with others. Forgive this odd example but it does make my point - On several different occasions and times the owners of Scrabble made special editions of the physical set over the years. two noteworthy ones were designed by artists who had never played the game and no serious player was ever consulted in the construction / re design. Had they done so, they could have made lots more money on the sets. The Franklin Mint set had gold metal tiles - The board was elaborate but still useable. However the tiles had the letters etched into the gold... this presented two problems, you couldn't see the letters from most angles but you could braille them... to photograph the set for advertising they had to blacken the letters. The current deluxe set did something even more stupid .. they changed the colors of the premium squares - to make them prettier. oy. The *write what you know* mantra is often early advice young fiction writers and poets get--a familiar starting point where *what they know* is allowed to mingle greatly with their imaginations to achieve and inform some creative end. But I wouldn't agree that the artist is forever stuck in that place--though it is true many, many artists never leave that place; it becomes their creative obsession. Cheers, Christine Well in the cases of some great artists , a magnificent obsession. You can evolve creatively without taking leaps and bounds away from what your gut responds to, don't you think? cheers back, ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
On 7/21/2011 12:59, William Robb wrote: On 20/07/2011 8:27 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I paid the guy five bucks to take his photo. He wasn't being taken advantage of. He earned some money. That you paid him, and that perhaps Shel didn't pay his subject (though it's entirely possible that Shel bought him that coffee, and perhaps some food) is beside the point. The point was, since both were taken with permission, how is one more cruel than the other? If payment is the only reason, did you pay him the going rate for modelling? For that matter, would my TFCD studio work be considered cruel (not commenting on how I tend to butcher things, just the act of taking the images in the first place)? Ok don't jump on Paul for what I said about Shel :-) I used cruel a bit losely... and personally. change Cruel to sneaky if you wish. But I just could never do either what Paul did or Shel did. ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer
A couple of really good ones in there. Dave On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:15 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
On 21/07/2011 11:36 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: On 7/21/2011 12:59, William Robb wrote: On 20/07/2011 8:27 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I paid the guy five bucks to take his photo. He wasn't being taken advantage of. He earned some money. That you paid him, and that perhaps Shel didn't pay his subject (though it's entirely possible that Shel bought him that coffee, and perhaps some food) is beside the point. The point was, since both were taken with permission, how is one more cruel than the other? If payment is the only reason, did you pay him the going rate for modelling? For that matter, would my TFCD studio work be considered cruel (not commenting on how I tend to butcher things, just the act of taking the images in the first place)? Ok don't jump on Paul for what I said about Shel :-) I used cruel a bit losely... and personally. change Cruel to sneaky if you wish. But I just could never do either what Paul did or Shel did. ann Sorry, not meaning to jump on anyone, but I am finding this to be an interesting discussion. Paul, if you want me to stop using your image as an example, I surely can search the web for another that will do as well. I realize that a lot of people see the type of image that Shel created as exploitative and cruel. I think often we see the photograph as a power thing, with the photographer taking unfair advantage of the underprivileged person. When I was travelling in the USA a number of years ago, I came across a young man on a pier in Oregon. Just him, his dog and a backpack. He was obviously down on his luck, and I paid him a few dollars to allow me to take some pictures of him and his dog. He freely admitted that he was going to spend the money on booze and tobacco, so I went and bought a bag of dog food for his Rottie as well. In this instance, the act of paying the subject wasn't going to help him out at all, and would more than likely just add to his plight. My point here is that paying the subject isn't necessarily a good thing, even if you get a warm feeling from doing it. Was Shel sneaky because he waited for the decisive moment to get the picture that would tell the story that he wanted to tell? Was Paul sneaky because he waited for the decisive moment to get the background just the way he wanted? How about any street image that shows the subject in less than stellar light? How do we alter the human condition for the better if we hide the parts of the condition that can be improved on from the light of day? -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO Natalie
Thats a great shot Dave On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Natalie was roped-in by her younger sister Iryna to assist with reflectors and such while we did Iryna's portrait, but we couldn't resist shooting Natalie too ... Flickr Fancy: http://goo.gl/U9pWl Flickr plain: http://goo.gl/0obNL K20D, DA* 50-135 @ 135mm, f/2.8, 1/250th, ISO 200. 40 white reflector camera-rt. Lightroom PP. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: Garden of Blur
Looking at the thumbnails in the vicinity.. I love the yellow bike and like the clouds.. I'm afraid I'n not so crazy about the gauzy attempt - it kinda looks like what it is.. photoshop. I've never been pleased with my attempts at it either... ann On 7/21/2011 12:45, Steven Desjardins wrote: I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like this. Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/15174580_NVzVH#1394204051_PhPRRcS -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
On 7/21/2011 14:05, William Robb wrote: On 21/07/2011 11:36 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: On 7/21/2011 12:59, William Robb wrote: On 20/07/2011 8:27 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I paid the guy five bucks to take his photo. He wasn't being taken advantage of. He earned some money. That you paid him, and that perhaps Shel didn't pay his subject (though it's entirely possible that Shel bought him that coffee, and perhaps some food) is beside the point. The point was, since both were taken with permission, how is one more cruel than the other? If payment is the only reason, did you pay him the going rate for modelling? For that matter, would my TFCD studio work be considered cruel (not commenting on how I tend to butcher things, just the act of taking the images in the first place)? Ok don't jump on Paul for what I said about Shel :-) I used cruel a bit losely... and personally. change Cruel to sneaky if you wish. But I just could never do either what Paul did or Shel did. ann Sorry, not meaning to jump on anyone, but I am finding this to be an interesting discussion. Paul, if you want me to stop using your image as an example, I surely can search the web for another that will do as well. I realize that a lot of people see the type of image that Shel created as exploitative and cruel. I think often we see the photograph as a power thing, with the photographer taking unfair advantage of the underprivileged person. When I was travelling in the USA a number of years ago, I came across a young man on a pier in Oregon. Just him, his dog and a backpack. He was obviously down on his luck, and I paid him a few dollars to allow me to take some pictures of him and his dog. He freely admitted that he was going to spend the money on booze and tobacco, so I went and bought a bag of dog food for his Rottie as well. In this instance, the act of paying the subject wasn't going to help him out at all, and would more than likely just add to his plight. My point here is that paying the subject isn't necessarily a good thing, even if you get a warm feeling from doing it. Was Shel sneaky because he waited for the decisive moment to get the picture that would tell the story that he wanted to tell? Was Paul sneaky because he waited for the decisive moment to get the background just the way he wanted? How about any street image that shows the subject in less than stellar light? How do we alter the human condition for the better if we hide the parts of the condition that can be improved on from the light of day? It's a bit of a conundrum... I stand by sneaky but that isn't always bad... I do sneaky whenever I take photos of people... using the fake I'm through taking pictures now technique, or the apparent aiming past the subject. And I dont say no one should shoot the downside of the human condition... and if someone besides Shel had taken the photo maybe I'd feel differently about it ;-) ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
re: Peso: Garden of Blur
From: Steven Desjardins I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like this. Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/15174580_NVzVH#1394204051_PhPRRcS Might be just a little too heavy on the blur. Back it off until that apparent halo around the flower goes away. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3777 - Release Date: 07/20/11 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: Garden of Blur
On 11-07-21 12:45 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like this. Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/15174580_NVzVH#1394204051_PhPRRcS Steve, I think that came out fairly well, but there's a light hazy white halo around that flower that looks out of place and rather gives away the photoshopping. But that's not too hard to fix. When you cut out the flower to isolate it off the layer you're going to blur, you probably left a transparent cutout where the flower was. When you blur the layer, the transparent hole acts like white and mixes in with the green shades to lighten them near the flower. So, after you cutout the flower, use the clone brush to duplicate some of the green background surrounding the cutout into the cutout area; basically create more background *behind* where the flower was. Then blur that whole layer and superimpose the flower back over it. The other thing you can do is use layer effects to darken the edges of the flower a little. I think it's worth another pass to improve on the effect to make it more real. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO Natalie
Thank you, Dave. -bmw On 11-07-21 2:05 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Thats a great shot Dave On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Bruce Walkerbruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: Natalie was roped-in by her younger sister Iryna to assist with reflectors and such while we did Iryna's portrait, but we couldn't resist shooting Natalie too ... Flickr Fancy: http://goo.gl/U9pWl Flickr plain: http://goo.gl/0obNL K20D, DA* 50-135 @ 135mm, f/2.8, 1/250th, ISO 200. 40 white reflector camera-rt. Lightroom PP. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: Garden of Blur
I'll try that. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-07-21 12:45 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like this. Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/15174580_NVzVH#1394204051_PhPRRcS Steve, I think that came out fairly well, but there's a light hazy white halo around that flower that looks out of place and rather gives away the photoshopping. But that's not too hard to fix. When you cut out the flower to isolate it off the layer you're going to blur, you probably left a transparent cutout where the flower was. When you blur the layer, the transparent hole acts like white and mixes in with the green shades to lighten them near the flower. So, after you cutout the flower, use the clone brush to duplicate some of the green background surrounding the cutout into the cutout area; basically create more background *behind* where the flower was. Then blur that whole layer and superimpose the flower back over it. The other thing you can do is use layer effects to darken the edges of the flower a little. I think it's worth another pass to improve on the effect to make it more real. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: GESO - The Boys of Summer
A nice set. How about 'The Little Boys of Summer as an alternate title? ;-) On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:15 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: A few photos from a Little League game from the other night: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/boys-of-summer.html Hope you enjoy. Comments always welcome. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
I have no problem with your referencing my photo, and I don't think Shel's photo is particularly cruel. Although I'm not fond of homeless pics in general. They're easy. Like shooting fish in a barrel -- or shooting cats curled up on a chair. No value judgement, but I've come to see pics of homeless as a waste of time. That being said I still like my SM Jesus pic, because I found him to be a unique individual in many ways. My subject actually did make more than a professional model would earn: $% for 2 minutes work translates to $150 per hour Not bad. And while this fellow lives on the street, he's a professional pan handler who owns the best corner in Santa Monica. He also seems to be rather intelligent, although angry. I suspect he earns in excess of 20K per year. He probably sleeps on the beach and gets fed both by the free feeds that a local charity group holds in the park on Ocean Avenue and by people exiting restaurants. (It's the custom in Santa Monica to request a to-go box then give it to one of the homeless outside the door.) Santa Monica is probably the best place in the world to live if one is homeless, and while it's a beautiful city. it probably boasts more homeless residents per square mile than any other in the U.S. If my wife kicks me out, I'm heading there. Paul On Jul 21, 2011, at 2:05 PM, William Robb wrote: On 21/07/2011 11:36 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: On 7/21/2011 12:59, William Robb wrote: On 20/07/2011 8:27 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: I paid the guy five bucks to take his photo. He wasn't being taken advantage of. He earned some money. That you paid him, and that perhaps Shel didn't pay his subject (though it's entirely possible that Shel bought him that coffee, and perhaps some food) is beside the point. The point was, since both were taken with permission, how is one more cruel than the other? If payment is the only reason, did you pay him the going rate for modelling? For that matter, would my TFCD studio work be considered cruel (not commenting on how I tend to butcher things, just the act of taking the images in the first place)? Ok don't jump on Paul for what I said about Shel :-) I used cruel a bit losely... and personally. change Cruel to sneaky if you wish. But I just could never do either what Paul did or Shel did. ann Sorry, not meaning to jump on anyone, but I am finding this to be an interesting discussion. Paul, if you want me to stop using your image as an example, I surely can search the web for another that will do as well. I realize that a lot of people see the type of image that Shel created as exploitative and cruel. I think often we see the photograph as a power thing, with the photographer taking unfair advantage of the underprivileged person. When I was travelling in the USA a number of years ago, I came across a young man on a pier in Oregon. Just him, his dog and a backpack. He was obviously down on his luck, and I paid him a few dollars to allow me to take some pictures of him and his dog. He freely admitted that he was going to spend the money on booze and tobacco, so I went and bought a bag of dog food for his Rottie as well. In this instance, the act of paying the subject wasn't going to help him out at all, and would more than likely just add to his plight. My point here is that paying the subject isn't necessarily a good thing, even if you get a warm feeling from doing it. Was Shel sneaky because he waited for the decisive moment to get the picture that would tell the story that he wanted to tell? Was Paul sneaky because he waited for the decisive moment to get the background just the way he wanted? How about any street image that shows the subject in less than stellar light? How do we alter the human condition for the better if we hide the parts of the condition that can be improved on from the light of day? -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Garden of Blur
Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? Very nice for most of the background, but the white 'ghosting' outlining the flower could use help IMO. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com Subject: Peso: Garden of Blur I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like this. Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/15174580_NVzVH#1394204051_PhPRRcS -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Today's score of things Pentax and questions..
Yes, the power zoom FA28-105 is a great quality lens. I almost gave up shooting with the PZ-1 and FA29-80 power zoom, it was so bad. I reverted to the Super Program instead of the PZ-1. Years later, I got my hands on the 28-105 and it was as good as the other was bad. Not well recognized, but an excellent lens. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:21 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: P. J. Alling On 7/20/2011 5:56 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: 3 Lenses: (In apparently fine shape and I tried it on my ist d ) SMC PENTAX FA 28-105 zoom f4-5.6. Auto focus works on my ist-d. BLACK There were three different versions of this lens in FA livery all available in bleak, a Power Zoom version, and a non power zoom version, both made by Pentax, and a Version made reputed to be made by Tamaron. All three had different optical formulas so you'll have to be a bit more specific. It is the same one as this : http://cgi.ebay.com/PENTAX-FA-28-105mm-f-4-5-6-Good-condition-/280710948091?pt=Camera_Lenseshash=item415bad24fb That's the power zoom version, it's supposed to be very nice optically, if a but heavy and it power zooms... NExt ... 50mm prime SMC Pentax FA 1.4 BLACK - this works on manual on the istD and kinda worked on auto focus but not properly ... apparently it works on later issues -- or some (a brief check on ebay) With operating manual from 1991. Let me know what you want for it... Let me do some more digging I guess you know this lens .. It's the same as all the Pentax 50mm f1.4 lenses but in FA livery, (Ok, so they were supposedly tweeked, and they have the best coatings Pentax put in the focal length). I've been looking for nice short portrait tele for the K20d that takes full advantage of the automation. The f1.4's aren't perfect but they're more than good enough. I find that I don't end up using the M50 f1.4 on the K20d, I used to use it a lot on the D and Ds. I'd like to have those two, but there's no way I can afford them right now. Don't even know if I'm going to be able to pay the rent come the first of the month. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3777 - Release Date: 07/20/11 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Kiss/truck
Bill, I like it the way it is. Nice image! Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:48 AM, William Robb anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/07/2011 7:52 AM, Darren Addy wrote: William's shot is a nice image, but it appears to me that it was taken in a museum, under fluorescent lights with a wallpaper background. It that IS where it is taken (or something similar), then this is understandable and a nice representation of what was there. If it wasn't taken there and was an outdoors illuminated shot in nature, then I think the tone/color balance/tone mapping probably misrepresents the original scene in a rather unsatisfying way. That was shot beside a fairly large creek in my favourite part of BC (Rosebery) right at dusk. The wallpaper background is the stream itself with the rocks just below the surface of the water. The combination of the extended exposure and that they are somewhat out of focus is what is fooling you into thinking it is something that it isn't. That is a combination of two exposures, one to get the bulk of the image, and one to get the mushroom, which was really dark. All I did was stack the main exposure over the brighter one and erase the layer to show the mushroom below it. There was no tone mapping, and it is an accurate representation of what was there, with the exception of using the double exposure to secure what the camera couldn't do in one. I should probably boost the gamma in the mushroom layer a bit, but it made a very nice print on my wall, and I'm pretty much done with the file so I probably won't. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Mat Maessen wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:22 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: My sen? ?[My rhymes with high]? Dan Matyola Nope. Mason ... rhymes with the jar you drink moonshine out of. Nope. Though since enough people pronounce it that way, I don't bother to correct them. Hmmm... Perhaps the ae is pronounced almost like the e, but leaning somewhat toward the Norwegian æ... (That would be the same e as in Sessoms, I guess.) Oh, and perhaps you swallow that e at least partly. - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
May see en On Jul 21, 2011, at 07:23 , Mat Maessen wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: My sen? [My rhymes with high]? Dan Matyola Nope. It's not that life is too short, it's that you're dead for so long.. — Anon Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO - Florid Fred
Everyone who knows Fred says that while he's a bit flamboyant, his florid personality is pleasing. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=13816532 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Toralf Lund tor...@toralf.net wrote: Hmmm... Perhaps the ae is pronounced almost like the e, but leaning somewhat toward the Norwegian æ... (That would be the same e as in Sessoms, I guess.) Oh, and perhaps you swallow that e at least partly. That's about as close to correct as you can get without actually saying it. Kind of a swallowed a, like when you're at the doctor's office, and he tells you to say A while he pushes your tongue down with a depressor. :-) The Dutch have this odd obsession with double vowels... :-) -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO: How hot IS it?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028562@N04/5962115412/in/photostream I trust you know how the punchline goes. Hope everyone beset by the heatwave is keeping cool! :) -c -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
Bulent is in fact written as Bülent (hope the second letter can appear on your screen with two dots above it) and that is pronounced as below: Bü: Bue ( as in vue) lent : as in land ending with a t. My surname Celasun is counterintuitive for most English speaking persons; perhaps you should just forget about it :) BÜlent - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bulentcelasun 2011/7/21 Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com: May see en On Jul 21, 2011, at 07:23 , Mat Maessen wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Daniel J. Matyola danmaty...@gmail.com wrote: My sen? [My rhymes with high]? Dan Matyola Nope. It's not that life is too short, it's that you're dead for so long.. — Anon Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Florid Fred
Ha! I did a spit-take on that one! :) -c On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Paul Stenquist pnstenqu...@comcast.net wrote: Everyone who knows Fred says that while he's a bit flamboyant, his florid personality is pleasing. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=13816532 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Today's score of things Pentax and questions..
P. J. Alling wrote: On 7/20/2011 5:56 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: [ ... ] NExt ... 50mm prime SMC Pentax FA 1.4 BLACK - this works on manual on the istD and kinda worked on auto focus but not properly ... apparently it works on later issues -- or some (a brief check on ebay) With operating manual from 1991. Let me know what you want for it... Let me do some more digging :-) I guess you know this lens .. It's the same as all the Pentax 50mm f1.4 lenses but in FA livery, (Ok, so they were supposedly tweeked, and they have the best coatings Pentax put in the focal length). I've been looking for nice short portrait tele for the K20d that takes full advantage of the automation. The f1.4's aren't perfect but they're more than good enough. I find that I don't end up using the M50 f1.4 on the K20d, I used to use it a lot on the D and Ds. It's still a current lens, too: http://www.adorama.com/PX5014AFA.html That price is about 2.5 times as high as when I bought mine new, when was it, 3 or 4 years ago? Around that time used specimens would typically fetch a lot more than the new price on eBay because everyone thought it was discontinued, and hard to find... - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Peso: Garden of Blur
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Steven Desjardins drd1...@gmail.com wrote: I'll try that. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Bruce Walker bruce.wal...@gmail.com wrote: On 11-07-21 12:45 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: I took this shot with the Pentax A50 1.7 on a Lumix G2 body. I like the sharpness and contrast of the flower but the background was too busy. It was easy to select the flower and then gaussian blur the background? I'm not big on heavy manipulation but I kind of like this. Any suggestions of my primitive blurring technique? http://drd1135.smugmug.com/Photography/pdml/15174580_NVzVH#1394204051_PhPRRcS Steve, I think that came out fairly well, but there's a light hazy white halo around that flower that looks out of place and rather gives away the photoshopping. But that's not too hard to fix. When you cut out the flower to isolate it off the layer you're going to blur, you probably left a transparent cutout where the flower was. When you blur the layer, the transparent hole acts like white and mixes in with the green shades to lighten them near the flower. So, after you cutout the flower, use the clone brush to duplicate some of the green background surrounding the cutout into the cutout area; basically create more background *behind* where the flower was. Then blur that whole layer and superimpose the flower back over it. The other thing you can do is use layer effects to darken the edges of the flower a little. I think it's worth another pass to improve on the effect to make it more real. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: How hot IS it?
On 21/07/2011 2:04 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028562@N04/5962115412/in/photostream I trust you know how the punchline goes. Hope everyone beset by the heatwave is keeping cool! My dog was doing that in the wet sand beside our house a couple of days ago when it was 43ºC with the humidity factored in. Our heatwave seems to have broken, at least briefly, and we are only 22ºC today. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
William is a pretty standard pronunciation, but in typical Scots fashion, the last name gets mispronounced by non Gaelic speakers. It's pronounced MacFarlane. If you want to get closer though, drop the second B and insert an H instead. The H is pronounced slightly breathily as an exhalation. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: Today's score of things Pentax and questions..
the same lens is $90 less at BH. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) Join the CD PLAYER DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Toralf Lund Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 4:11 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Today's score of things Pentax and questions.. P. J. Alling wrote: On 7/20/2011 5:56 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: [ ... ] NExt ... 50mm prime SMC Pentax FA 1.4 BLACK - this works on manual on the istD and kinda worked on auto focus but not properly ... apparently it works on later issues -- or some (a brief check on ebay) With operating manual from 1991. Let me know what you want for it... Let me do some more digging :-) I guess you know this lens .. It's the same as all the Pentax 50mm f1.4 lenses but in FA livery, (Ok, so they were supposedly tweeked, and they have the best coatings Pentax put in the focal length). I've been looking for nice short portrait tele for the K20d that takes full advantage of the automation. The f1.4's aren't perfect but they're more than good enough. I find that I don't end up using the M50 f1.4 on the K20d, I used to use it a lot on the D and Ds. It's still a current lens, too: http://www.adorama.com/PX5014AFA.html That price is about 2.5 times as high as when I bought mine new, when was it, 3 or 4 years ago? Around that time used specimens would typically fetch a lot more than the new price on eBay because everyone thought it was discontinued, and hard to find... - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
How do we alter the human condition for the better if we hide the parts of the condition that can be improved on from the light of day? William Robb Has the human condition improved since the invention of photography or worsened? Not making a correlation at all. Just food for thought. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Florid Fred
That;s a great street shot, Paul! love it ann On 7/21/2011 15:57, Paul Stenquist wrote: Everyone who knows Fred says that while he's a bit flamboyant, his florid personality is pleasing. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=13816532 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
On 21/07/2011 2:27 PM, Tom C wrote: Has the human condition improved since the invention of photography or worsened? Not making a correlation at all. Just food for thought. Better, I think. We seem to live longer if allowed the opportunity to do so. Of course, we have also found much more efficient ways to kill each other as well. Neither of which has anything to do with photography. However, I believe the FSA and photographers like Dorothea Lange may have influenced things somewhat towards helping the indigent during the depression with her documentary photography, certainly the photojournalism that documented the Vietnam war had a lot to do with turning the tide of opinion in America against that war and helped to end it. I suspect that the photographs taken of Nazi death camps and the victims within had a lot to do with the formation of an independent Jewish state (whether this has helped the human condition overall is debatable, but certainly it has influenced it). A few examples, anyway. Sometimes it takes being slapped in the face by imagery of suffering to make people realize that the world isn't all cute little puppies cavorting in verdant fields under white fluffy clouds. And sometimes that imagery gets them off their asses and makes them work towards making things better. And sometimes, they just get used in philosophical discussions by people who are blessed to never know what it feels like to be shit on by an angry God who doesn't give a damn about whether you live or freeze to death in the dark. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Today's score of things Pentax and questions..
I already have a first dibs on this from a list member to whom I offered mine for less than that . friends price. I haven't even had a chance to do the photos of the equipment yet but that's partly because it is just too hot here even with my ac's full blast. I melt at a lower temperature than most ann On 7/21/2011 16:25, J.C. O'Connell wrote: the same lens is $90 less at BH. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) Join the CD PLAYER DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Toralf Lund Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 4:11 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Today's score of things Pentax and questions.. P. J. Alling wrote: On 7/20/2011 5:56 PM, Ann Sanfedele wrote: [ ... ] NExt ... 50mm prime SMC Pentax FA 1.4 BLACK - this works on manual on the istD and kinda worked on auto focus but not properly ... apparently it works on later issues -- or some (a brief check on ebay) With operating manual from 1991. Let me know what you want for it... Let me do some more digging :-) I guess you know this lens .. It's the same as all the Pentax 50mm f1.4 lenses but in FA livery, (Ok, so they were supposedly tweeked, and they have the best coatings Pentax put in the focal length). I've been looking for nice short portrait tele for the K20d that takes full advantage of the automation. The f1.4's aren't perfect but they're more than good enough. I find that I don't end up using the M50 f1.4 on the K20d, I used to use it a lot on the D and Ds. It's still a current lens, too: http://www.adorama.com/PX5014AFA.html That price is about 2.5 times as high as when I bought mine new, when was it, 3 or 4 years ago? Around that time used specimens would typically fetch a lot more than the new price on eBay because everyone thought it was discontinued, and hard to find... - Toralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: How hot IS it?
Oh dear -- the last time I saw a squirrel lying on the ground like that he was, alas, already dead. Hope your little guy survives ann On 7/21/2011 16:04, Christine Nielsen wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028562@N04/5962115412/in/photostream I trust you know how the punchline goes. Hope everyone beset by the heatwave is keeping cool! :) -c -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
On 7/21/2011 16:27, Tom C wrote: How do we alter the human condition for the better if we hide the parts of the condition that can be improved on from the light of day? William Robb Has the human condition improved since the invention of photography or worsened? Not making a correlation at all. Just food for thought. Plus ca changes ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
Tom, I do think photography has helped with our vision of distant situations. It's easy to see the rung on the ladder just above us, and the one just below us. But it's harder to see many rungs below where things are more desperate. We tend to organize our lives to avoid confronting these situations. Photography helps bring the situations into our comfortable little bubble and give us a chance to look carefully at what we try to avoid. Sometimes it even moves us to action. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Tom C caka...@gmail.com wrote: How do we alter the human condition for the better if we hide the parts of the condition that can be improved on from the light of day? William Robb Has the human condition improved since the invention of photography or worsened? Not making a correlation at all. Just food for thought. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Kiss/truck
On 21/07/2011 1:40 PM, Bob Sullivan wrote: Bill, I like it the way it is. Nice image! Thanks Bob. I appreciate that. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Distance [was Re: V. Maier exhibition in London]
Are talking on average or in small populations? More importantly is the question weather Photography really had any effect, or if it was just coincidental. On 7/21/2011 4:27 PM, Tom C wrote: How do we alter the human condition for the better if we hide the parts of the condition that can be improved on from the light of day? William Robb Has the human condition improved since the invention of photography or worsened? Not making a correlation at all. Just food for thought. -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: How hot IS it?
I saw a squirrel in a similar pose on a very hot day on a branch about 6 feet up a tree. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me at the time. On 7/21/2011 4:04 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote:v http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028562@N04/5962115412/in/photostream I trust you know how the punchline goes. Hope everyone beset by the heatwave is keeping cool! :) -c -- Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! --Marvin the Martian. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Kiss/truck
Yuck... to me it looks like generic urban acid... effect for effect's sake IMO well at least it seems to polarize... 2011/7/18 Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com: I normally hate HDR, but wow: https://plus.google.com/106289562822644692555/posts/L5Di5wanKvA -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On Jul 20, 2011, at 17:49 , Joseph McAllister wrote: Joseph J. McAllister Joe Sef Jay Mack Allister I'd like to modify my pronunciation a bit, though I'm sure most all of you have heard the pronunciation in Bobby Gentry's 1967 Ode To Billie Joe and the fateful plunge he took from the Tallahatchie bridge.** Or the French version which eliminates Billie Joe altogether, substituting Marie-Jeanne Guillaume jumping from the Pont de la Garonne. Or the Swedish Jon Andreas visa.* Historicallly, the name McAllister was written Mac Alister, an Anglicisation of the Gaelic MacAlasdair meaning son of Alasdair, referring to Alasdair Mòr, son of Domhnall, founder of Clan Donald. Alasdair Mòr and his nephew Alasdair Og went their separate ways, Alasdair Og then heading over to Northern Ireland and going by the name McDonald, while Alasdair Mòr settled eventually in Kintyre as the founder of the clan Mac Alasdair. Much of this is conjecture, as little of written history exists from the period 1100 to 1500 as regards the clan. Enough though to spark many disputes over who, where, and how the clan's origins are attributed. And many books written with points and proof a half dozen ways. The British Crown took it all away when they decreed in the early 1600 that clans, as they were structured, with Kings of their own, were illegal, and must pledge fealty to King James III, or have their lands taken by the Crown. Buncha BS that is. Still willing to fight for our lands, if we could find a large country to back us up, like the USA! You may substitute a 't' for the 'd' in Alasdair. My spell checker does. In the articles and books I've read, they use either way. In modern usage, there are over 40 spellings of the name these days. *** I'd therefor like to make a minor change to my last name's pronunciation: Joe Sef Jay Mack `Al lister ( J. refers to my mothers maiden name, Jones) The typewriter, and now computer keyboards, have taken away the written contraction of MacAllister I grew up using, that my father taught me, and he his. That is M superscript c underscored with a wavy equals sign, or an equals sign turned vertical, then capitol A and so forth. I can create it in a well featured word processor, though unable to in plain text. More subjugation of the clan by the man! Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. * Wikipedia ** Lyrics: It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat And Mama hollered out the back door y'all remember to wipe your feet And then she said I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night? I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge And Mama said to me Child, what's happened to your appetite? I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge *** SEPTS of the Clan: Alastair, Alexander, Alison, Alistair,Allison, Alister, MacAlasdair, MacAlaster, MacAlester,MacAlister, MacAllister, MacAllister, McAlister, McAlester, McAllister, McCallister, McCollister, McLister, Sanders, Saunders NAMES ASSOCIATED WITH THE CLAN: ALISTER ALLISTER ALESTER ALISTAIR ALLASTER ALLISTAIR ALLESTER ALLASDAIR ALASDAIR ALASTER ALASTAIR MACCALLASTER MACALSHONER MACCALISTER MACALISTAIR MACALASTER MACALLESTER MACALLESTAR MACALASDAIR MACALLASTER MACALESTAR MACALESTER
Re: PESO: How hot IS it?
AH! That feels goood! Jack --- On Thu, 7/21/11, Christine Nielsen ch...@inielsen.net wrote: From: Christine Nielsen ch...@inielsen.net Subject: PESO: How hot IS it? To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011, 1:04 PM http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028562@N04/5962115412/in/photostream I trust you know how the punchline goes. Hope everyone beset by the heatwave is keeping cool! :) -c -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO - Florid Fred
On 11-07-21 3:57 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: Everyone who knows Fred says that while he's a bit flamboyant, his florid personality is pleasing. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=13816532 Well I hope somebody keeps him well watered for the next few days or he'll totally wilt. Thanks for the laugh, Paul! -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO: How hot IS it?
On 11-07-21 4:13 PM, William Robb wrote: On 21/07/2011 2:04 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23028562@N04/5962115412/in/photostream I trust you know how the punchline goes. Hope everyone beset by the heatwave is keeping cool! My dog was doing that in the wet sand beside our house a couple of days ago when it was 43ºC with the humidity factored in. Our heatwave seems to have broken, at least briefly, and we are only 22ºC today. Funny shot, Christine. The squirrels like to do that up in our neighbor's Maple tree. They straddle a branch with their legs dangling. One of these days I'll attach the little-used DA50-200 and see if I can grab 'em. Bill, in Toronto it has hit 37C (99F) today with a humidex of 48 (feels like 118F). All our daylilies are popping open at once and going kaflooey. We sprayed water into our Russian Olive tree to try and cool off a cardinal who is sitting on eggs in there. Dunno if they'll make it. Temps are supposed to ease overnight tonight. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT How do you pronounce your name?
On 2011-07-21 15:42 , Joseph McAllister wrote: The typewriter, and now computer keyboards, have taken away the written contraction of MacAllister I grew up using, that my father taught me, and he his. That is M superscript c underscored with a wavy equals sign, or an equals sign turned vertical, then capitol A and so forth. I can create it in a well featured word processor, though unable to in plain text. this is plain text, but i can't predict what font(s) your email reader will use for it: M≈ͨAllister this uses the unicode characters almost equal to and combining latin small letter c; on a Mac at least, when displayed with fonts that dothe only font i have with both characters and good proportions and spacing was Marker Felt! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: PESO - Florid Fred
Let Fred know to be careful of the hummingbirds. ___ You can see my latest captures by visiting my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jt-johnson/ -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Paul Stenquist Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:58 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - Florid Fred Everyone who knows Fred says that while he's a bit flamboyant, his florid personality is pleasing. http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=13816532 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
