Re: 1st Day of Spring in Eastern Massachusetts

That looks just like the frozen lakes I used to see driving around the Marlboro/Framingham area. Here's a shot for you from last weekend, to remind you of what you left behind: Jim Hemenway mused: > > John: > > I know what you mean... and I

RE: PESO: Godfrey

John, Do people always react this way when you take their picture? -Patsy Pat in SF > -Original Message- > From: John Celio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 10:47 PM > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: PESO: Godfrey > http://www.newpixel.net/special/godfr

Re: PESO: Godfrey

John Celio wrote: From the NorCal PDML meet earlier this month, during lunch at that ethiopian restaurant: http://www.newpixel.net/special/godfrey.html Everyone else has been posting stuff lately, so I thought I'd join in on the fun. (: Details: MX, Tri-X 400, K 50mm 1.2, exposure not recorded

Re: One from my first roll in the MX

G'day Peter Really nice. I'm kind of partial to this type of industrial abstract image. 20 years huh?...seems you haven't forgotten anything. Just like riding a bike :-) Dave S On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:13:36 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I joined this list after buying an

Re: SMC Pentax-FA 35mm f/2 V's Tamron 28-75mm XR Di

Here is a small gallery of shots taken with the FA35/2. It's a very nice lens and makes a great walkarounder on the istD. http://www.alphoto.com/recent/page1.htm On Mar 6, 2005, at 5:19 PM, John Whittingham wrote: All opinions much appreciated. I currently have an unhealthy interest in enabling m

PESO: Godfrey

From the NorCal PDML meet earlier this month, during lunch at that ethiopian restaurant: http://www.newpixel.net/special/godfrey.html Everyone else has been posting stuff lately, so I thought I'd join in on the fun. (: Details: MX, Tri-X 400, K 50mm 1.2, exposure not recorded. John Celio -- htt

Re: One from my first roll in the MX

I joined this list after buying an MX and std lens. Today I got back the negs and scans from a test roll of film. My first roll of mono film in 20 plus years. http://www.fotoweek.com/galleries/showimage.php?i=1206&c=511 Cool! I love abstract forms. What was that, a handrail? Doesn't matter, rea

RE: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem

Very nice, Jostein. You captured the atmosphere nicely. Boys like shooting - guns, cameras, whatever... Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Jostein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 20. marts 2005 21:55 Til: pentax-discuss@pdml.net

One from my first roll in the MX

I joined this list after buying an MX and std lens. Today I got back the negs and scans from a test roll of film. My first roll of mono film in 20 plus years. http://www.fotoweek.com/galleries/showimage.php?i=1206&c=511 Looks like it works :-) -- Peter Williams -

Re: My homemade LX grip

Jon M a écrit : After seeing a Grip B sell for over $40 on ebay, I decided to make my own grip. http://jon.beigetower.org/lxgrip/ Mine (plastic) http://perso.wanadoo.fr/krg/collection/lx.htm#grip Michel

My homemade LX grip

After seeing a Grip B sell for over $40 on ebay, I decided to make my own grip. http://jon.beigetower.org/lxgrip/ Carved it from a piece of red oak, stuck some scrap metal on the back so it'll connect to the lug on the LX, and voila! Looks better than a Grip B (or A), and cost me about 5-10 dolla

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:47:41PM -0500, frank theriault wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:25:57 -0500, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > My wife, for example, won't watch a B&W movie; > > Wow! That's a pretty extreme position to take. > > She can't watch Casablanca? To Kill a

Re: OT: Newfie History 101-was: Take the Knarf Quiz !!

frank theriault mused: > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:51:04 -0600, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > > I hope there are no Newfies on the list. > > > > If there are, they're lurking, and it's not in their nature to keep a > low profile... > Oh, they

Re: PESO Water on fire

Actually I've seen them ketch rigged in Narragansett Bay, (silly looking but...). Graywolf wrote: Don't bet, Peter. Trust me, don't bet on that! They might not laugh at you if you said it was two catboats, but you would still lose. I am not sure what it is, hence the question marks, but I am su

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

Casablanca has been restored for DVD. The original sound was nowhere near as good as that on DVD. If you want to see something really neat, rent "The Day The Earth Stood Still" and watch the Special Feature where they compare the original film with various restored incarnations. Shel > [Origi

Re: P67 fisheye specs

You'd have to find something with very thin standards. My B&J Orbit might _just_ be able to get the standards close enough to have the correct register distance. Once you get that squared away, there's the issue of a shutter. If someone's got an old beater Speed Graphic, it might be worth sacrifici

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

OTOH, last week I watched the latest DVD incarnation of Casablanca. It was gorgeous, picture quality and sound wise, so I guess it was not the recording media that was the problem. The local cable station here plays lots of old B&W movies, they are unwatchable no matter how you adjust the set. g

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

In the thirties and forties color was VERY expensive and complex to shoot, and B&W was used often for cost reasons, not for artiustic concerns. This was true to a lesser extent in the fifties and sixties. Shooting color in its early years requirted incredibly bright, hot, and expensive lighting, a

Re: Union Pacific Big Boy on the Move

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 18:20:06 -0800, Pat White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's one big locomotive! And heavy, too, at 1.2 million lbs. The > heaviest Diesel locomotive I'm familiar with is the GM SD-40, which weighs > 389,000 lbs when equipped with a V-16 General Motors 645E3 engine (645 cubic

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem

Hi! I'm hoping that this was a toy gun, but even if it was, given what we in North America are presented with on the news WRT violence and terrorism in Jerusalem and Israel, if kids are playing with guns, I find that very disquieting. Frank, I may be risking starting a flame here, but I hope the

Re: Union Pacific Big Boy on the Move

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:44:00 -0600, George Sinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last weekend I spent a few hours watching Union Pacific move an old Steam > Locomotive from Union Station to it's new home. The Big Boy is one of > several locomotives claiming to be the largest ever made. Next month

Re: PESO Water on fire

Ah ha, the type of boat junks were copied from (grin). graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" --- Francis wrote: At 02:13 AM 3/21/2005 +, you wrote: Judging by the almost vertical anchor chain, the tide has come up, and the bo

Re: PAW: Boys be Boys

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 05:55:25 +0200, Boris Liberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am lazy. So may be whenever Jostein posts an image from his trip I'll > post mine... I know, I *am* lazy... > > http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=177067 > > I thought b/w would work here... >

Re: PESO Water on fire

Don't bet, Peter. Trust me, don't bet on that! They might not laugh at you if you said it was two catboats, but you would still lose. I am not sure what it is, hence the question marks, but I am sure it is not a brace of catboats (cat boats have one mast and one sail by definition). graywolf htt

PAW: Boys be Boys

Hi! I am lazy. So may be whenever Jostein posts an image from his trip I'll post mine... I know, I *am* lazy... http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=177067 I thought b/w would work here... Thanks in advance for your comments. Boris

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem

Hi! Not a shooting style I'm familiar with. Any and all comments are most welcome. http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/cat/2213/display/2790694 Thanks for looking. Cool shot. Many things can be said about this one. I have a question to the honored community of PDML... Does anyone notice that two b

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:46:55 -0800, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In all honesty, Markus, I'm still learninmg about color film. To be honest with you, while there are many reasons that I shoot B&W (which I won't bore this list with right now), one reason is that I'm still learning a

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:33:49 -0500, Peter J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some later films, notably of the film noire genre of starting in the > late 30's into the mid 50's, eschewed color for artistic reasons. Certainly, even into the 70's and later, a very few films were shot in B&W, and

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:25:57 -0500, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My wife, for example, won't watch a B&W movie; Wow! That's a pretty extreme position to take. She can't watch Casablanca? To Kill a Mockingbird? Raging Bull? -frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -He

Re: PESO Water on fire

At 02:13 AM 3/21/2005 +, you wrote: Judging by the almost vertical anchor chain, the tide has come up, and the bow is being pulled down. This has caused the stern to rise and give the boat a rather strange appearance. John The perspective does make it a bit confusing but he had actually just

Re: PESO Water on fire

No it's definitely not a catboat. It's a regular Bermuda ketch with the booms taken off. Francis At 08:47 PM 3/20/2005 -0500, you wrote: I guess it does look like that, but if I were a betting man I'd say Catboat. Graywolf wrote: A ketch rigged junk graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot

Re: PESO -- You are what you eat.

The derogatorily term "turkey" is a corruption of "turnkey" and has to do with prison guards in merry old England and not birds. However your pun was understood. Now why is it can I never seem to remember anything useful? graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"

Re: PESO -- Portrait 1

Christopher Oliver wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:35:55AM -0500, Jim Hemenway wrote: H... a pretty girl. That may be the problem in that you forgot to focus on the eye closest to you. ;-) I've often heard this advice about focusing, but as far as closest eyes, I can't figure out ho

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:54:36 +0100, Jostein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not a shooting style I'm familiar with. > Any and all comments are most welcome. > > http://www.fotocommunity.com/pc/pc/cat/2213/display/2790694 > > Thanks for looking. > > Jostein > Hmmm... I don't know what others thin

Re: MX OUtlook Express Question

it shouldn't find any problems very often. NTFS is extremely reliable about these things. the file system will be valid and correct under a large number of crash conditions. that doesn't mean that applications can't screw things up on their own by being sloppy about keeping things transactional.

Re: Union Pacific Big Boy on the Move

Replying to several - First, thanks for the compliments. I had a lot of fun with this one. On the videos - I changed the gallery format to one that may be a bit more friendly to videos. In this format, Smugmug (the host for my photo site) has a few hints under the videos. The best bet, if you

Re: PESO -- Portrait 1

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 10:35:55AM -0500, Jim Hemenway wrote: > H... a pretty girl. That may be the problem in that you forgot to > focus on the eye closest to you. ;-) I've often heard this advice about focusing, but as far as closest eyes, I can't figure out how to get a lens to focus just

Re: PESO Water on fire

Very nice... -- Best regards, Bruce Sunday, March 20, 2005, 3:54:22 PM, you wrote: F> Another boat pic F> I was trying halfheartedly to frame the sunset when this friend of ours F> sailed onto the scene. F> From that point on I was franticly running up and down the beach snapping F> away. :)

Re: PESO: The splendour and the misery of Berlin

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:17:58 +0100, Markus Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Frank > I understand your rules well but for me, one important thing is missing: > > ---> You not only take a photograph, you publish it later by showing it at > least here. <-- > > That is, of course not a prob

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

Just because someone extols the virtues of tonality does not mean that the subject is not paramount in their eyes. What do you mean "at the time they were made?" B&W films are still made. You are mistaken about B&W movies. Citizen Kane, for example, was made in what, 1941 or so? Watch that movi

Re: OT: MX OUtlook Express Question

Hello Mark, Sorry to hear of your troubles. After two or three times of OE losing my mail, I gave up on it. It was the best thing I could have done. I ended up using The Bat, partly due to an interface that is quite similar to OE. I think I was stubborn enough to get zapped three times before

Re: PESO October Roses featuring the url

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:35:53 -0800, David Volkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Color (unedited): > http://www.nwracephoto.com/colorIMGP8199.jpg > I've forgotten what settings I used to convert the raw so it looks alot > warmer to me than it did when I first converted it. > Black and White: > http:/

Re: PESO -- You are what you eat.

Very nice shot - those guys are incredibly hard to stalk, so good work getting within shooting range! - MCC - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, MI www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - From: "Peter J. Alli

Re: PAW PESO - Coffee Royalty

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 06:37:52 -0800, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one's for Jens. There was another pic with some people in it, so here > it is, by request: > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/royal-01+.html > Shel, You better stick to photography! -frank -- "Sharp

Re: MX OUtlook Express Question

I'm sending this again because the OE spell check mangled it. (One would think that the NTFS would be in the Microsoft spell check dictionary, but n.) OE may well have been running in the background when the system crashed last night - I don't remember. It usually runs in the backgro

Re: PAW PESO - Coffee Royalty

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:32:08 -0800, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It just caught my eye, and since I'm trying to work a little more in color > taken at a breakfast place I sometimes visit. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~my-pics/royal-01.html > > Shel > I like the framing. I

Re: MX OUtlook Express Question

OE may well have been running in the background when the system crashed last night - I don't remember. It usually runs in the background and I usually don't leave the PC on all night. I'm using NTSC and did both disk check on reboot, and then rebooted to safe mode / command prompt and ran CHKDS

Re: PESO Water on fire

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:54:22 -0800, Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another boat pic > > I was trying halfheartedly to frame the sunset when this friend of ours > sailed onto the scene. > From that point on I was franticly running up and down the beach snapping > away. :) > http://www.photos

Re: OT: Newfie History 101-was: Take the Knarf Quiz !!

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:51:04 -0600, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > I hope there are no Newfies on the list. > If there are, they're lurking, and it's not in their nature to keep a low profile... -frank Geez, I used three homonyms in the same sente

Re: Weekend WTB. ;)

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:32:46 +, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you could have saved yourself the trouble. I've had it put online so > everyone can refer to it: http://tinyurl.com/4ehm2. > > Sorry about all the coffee stains. Of course, now we'll have to kill you. -frank -- "Sharpn

Re: MX OUtlook Express Question

And Mark should really start ***backing up*** his email files and the *.wab Windows Adress book too or if he switches to Outlook, the *.pst files and of course the rest. greetings Markus You are right and I have absolutely no excuse. The whole reason why the files are in an easily accessible

RE: Test of MS Outlook

Never mind. It passed. > -Original Message- > From: Patsy Kong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 6:49 PM > To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net > Subject: Test of MS Outlook > > Pass or Fail? > > -Patsy > Pat in SF >

Re: P67 fisheye specs

- Original Message - From: "Mishka" Subject: Re: P67 fisheye specs tonight i've been playing with a speed graphic and an arsat fisheye. it seems it would make a nice full frame 4x5 fisheye, except (1) the lenshade has to be filed off and (2) the bed shows in the picture. P67 seems more p

Re: OT: Newfie History 101-was: Take the Knarf Quiz !!

- Original Message - From: "frank theriault" Subject: Re: OT: Newfie History 101-was: Take the Knarf Quiz !! I'm glad there are no Newfies on this list. :-) I hope there are no Newfies on the list. b...

Test of MS Outlook

Pass or Fail? -Patsy Pat in SF

Re: PAW: Lee and Tim, Blowing

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:14:13 -0500, Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > General comment, Frank. > > BTW, do you still wear that white wig when checking out the list? Nah, just the bunny ears, and even then not so often as I used to. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -He

Re: OT: Newfie History 101-was: Take the Knarf Quiz !!

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:27:21 -0600, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Keith Whaley" > Subject: Re: OT: Newfie History 101-was: Take the Knarf Quiz !! > > > > > Listen, Frank... SOMEone's throwing their chewing gum all over the > > sidewalks up there

Re: P67 fisheye specs

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:15:17 -0500, Mishka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tonight i've been playing with a speed graphic and an arsat fisheye. > it seems it would make a nice full frame 4x5 fisheye, except > (1) the lenshade has to be filed off and > (2) the bed shows in the picture. > P67 seems more

RE: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

Among color negative films Portra NC is quite neutral. > In all honesty, Markus, I'm still learninmg about color film. I sorta like > Fuji Superior for being neutral (not Reala), and Sensia and Provia seem > OK, but not having tried many films, my opinion has little value. There > were some ni

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

Some later films, notably of the film noire genre of starting in the late 30's into the mid 50's, eschewed color for artistic reasons. John Francis wrote: There was a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek there. But it's by no means uncommon to hear people going on about the rich tones in the print,

Re: Union Pacific Big Boy on the Move

That's one big locomotive! And heavy, too, at 1.2 million lbs. The heaviest Diesel locomotive I'm familiar with is the GM SD-40, which weighs 389,000 lbs when equipped with a V-16 General Motors 645E3 engine (645 cubic inches per cylinder, for a total of 10,320 cubic inches, or around 169 lit

Re: P67 fisheye specs

tonight i've been playing with a speed graphic and an arsat fisheye. it seems it would make a nice full frame 4x5 fisheye, except (1) the lenshade has to be filed off and (2) the bed shows in the picture. P67 seems more promising since it does not have the shade and its coverage should be pretty

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

There was a certain amount of tongue-in-cheek there. But it's by no means uncommon to hear people going on about the rich tones in the print, etc., etc., and ignoring the actual subject. With B&W movies, though, there are often other factors at work. Movies shot in B&W used equipment without the

Re: PESO -- You are what you eat.

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into the engines of 747's. Don Sanderson wrote: I got it! There's a sign over my desk at work that says: "It's hard to fly with the eagles, when you work with a bunch of turkeys" No one seems to appreciate it much, perhaps its location? Don ;-) -

Re: PESO Water on fire

Judging by the almost vertical anchor chain, the tide has come up, and the bow is being pulled down. This has caused the stern to rise and give the boat a rather strange appearance. John On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:47:20 -0500, Peter J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess it does look lik

Re: MX OUtlook Express Question

the email program has its faults. other programs are better in many ways, but they take a little more effort to install and make work. Microsoft has made a lot of money by appearing as the path of least resistance. i think an export program that can read and make backups of OE mail folders witho

RE: PESO -- You are what you eat.

I got it! There's a sign over my desk at work that says: "It's hard to fly with the eagles, when you work with a bunch of turkeys" No one seems to appreciate it much, perhaps its location? Don ;-) > -Original Message- > From: Peter J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March

Re: PESO -- You are what you eat.

My strange sense of humor is all. Due to an accident of history this native American Bird is called a Turkey. A term of derision in American English, due to the domesticated variety of turkey's supposed stupidity, is to call someone a "Turkey", Then there is the statement in the true but not

RE: MX OUtlook Express Question

Hi Herb >running chkdsk would not have >>detected Mark's problem. agreed, but chkdsk still helps avoiding other file system problems. Windows only checks after a crash. Only more than **one** backup generation or "maybe" a more robust email program would have helped here. greetings Markus >

RE: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

In all honesty, Markus, I'm still learninmg about color film. I sorta like Fuji Superior for being neutral (not Reala), and Sensia and Provia seem OK, but not having tried many films, my opinion has little value. There were some nice color films, like Kodak Ektar and Supra 100 that seemed pretty

Re: Peso Water on fire

> Once again proving that knowledge, technique, and a good eye are what is > needed to create a great image. I'd include opportunity! Kenneth Waller - Original Message - From: "Butch Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 8:18 PM Subject: RE: Peso Water on fire

Re: MX OUtlook Express Question

on every crash, Windows always checks for errors at the next reboot. NTFS is a journaling file system and so is inherently more robust against crashes, but only as compared to FAT32. at boot time, a journaling file system only needs to verify make sure that the last journal record is valid or t

Re: 1st Day of Spring in Eastern Massachusetts

Nice shot, I'm a sucker for this kind of picture if it's well done... Jim Hemenway wrote: About 10 miles NE of Boston http://www.hemenway.com/1stDayofSpring-05/pages/TwistedTree.htm isDS with 43mm Limited -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks th

RE: PESO -- You are what you eat.

Hi Peter a lovely picture but I do not understand the meaning of title here... How does it look uncropped? greetings Markus > >>Well enough of the people pictures for now. >> >>http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_yawye.html >> >>Technical data: >>Pentax *ist-D iso 400 1/400sec >>smc PENTA

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

Gotta laugh at that (not at you, John) for so often the comment made about B&W photography is that it allows the viewer to concentrate on the subject without the distraction of color. When watching some movies on DVD, I turn off the color. Shel > [Original Message] > From: John Francis > > M

RE: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

Hi Shel I agree with you and wrote it in one of my last emails that most of the first prints I receive today look oversaturated for me. BTW, which color film seems to be the most "honest" regarding "color fidelity" for you then? I'm sure **I** did not *absolutely* need a computer to make good phot

Re: PESO Water on fire

I guess it does look like that, but if I were a betting man I'd say Catboat. Graywolf wrote: A ketch rigged junk graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" --- Francis wrote: Another boat pic I was trying halfheartedly to frame the su

Re: PESO Water on fire

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:54:22 -0800, Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another boat pic Very nas. This belongs in a vacation brochure or magazine. It made me want to go sailing at sunset. I'm also agreeing with David on this one. > -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com

Re: Union Pacific Big Boy on the Move

George, I agree with Pat, great documentary. I still remember begging to go to the roundhouse as a 4 year old and see the steam engines. True comment on your 36 pages, I went thru them all! Regards, Bob S. On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:48:46 -0800 (PST), Pat K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > George, > >

RE: Paw: Trumpeter Swans for Markus

Hi Dave I really can't help you with a negative comment :-( the swan picture is just too nice! greetings Markus > >>> >>> Comments welcome. I'll take negative AND positive comments. >>> Dave(sent in his PUG just now)Brooks >>> >

Re: PAW PESO - Coffee Royalty

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:33:27 -0800, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I redid the pic. Maybe it's better now. The boards were too dark. I didn't see the original, but this one has plenty of detail in the boards. I particularly like the green umbrella trying to poke through the top. >

Re: OT: Newfie History 101-was: Take the Knarf Quiz !!

- Original Message - From: "Keith Whaley" Subject: Re: OT: Newfie History 101-was: Take the Knarf Quiz !! Listen, Frank... SOMEone's throwing their chewing gum all over the sidewalks up there, now who IS it? I told you they had some pretty disgusting habits. William Robb

PESO -- You are what you eat.

Well enough of the people pictures for now. http://www.mindspring.com/~webster26/PESO_--_yawye.html Technical data: Pentax *ist-D iso 400 1/400sec smc PENTAX-FA 28-200mm f3.8~5.6 @ 200mm f9.0 As usual comments are appreciated but may be totally ignored. -- I can understand why mankind hasn't given

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 05:05:50PM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > We will not come to agreement on this. Nope. People are different. My wife, for example, won't watch a B&W movie; the absence of colour really interferes with her ability to concentrate on the subject. I don't go quite that

Re: Union Pacific Big Boy on the Move

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:44:00 -0600, George Sinos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last weekend I spent a few hours watching Union Pacific move an old Steam > Locomotive from Union Station to it's new home. The Big Boy is one of > several locomotives claiming to be the largest ever made. Next month

RE: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

Every photo you see here has been "processed on a computer" and even the color pics have been "adjusted". Is there really so great a difference between adding a hint of tone to a B&W photo and adding saturation to color, or enhancing certain areas of a photograph? Or is a hint of sepia any diffe

Re: PESO foggy harbour

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 22:26:37 -0800, Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good evening every one! > I developed my first batch of slides yesterday! (a hundred and fifty > dollars! @#^&% ) > Here is one of the best ones (in my opinion). > http://www.photosynth.ca/photo/f/boat&sea-gulls.html Wonderful

RE: MX OUtlook Express Question

Hi Herb It's more a matter of never checking the file system for errors than the type (NTFS or FAT32) in my experience. (if you want to do it now: --> Start --> run --> (chkdsk c: /f) say "y"es, do it after a restart under NT/W2K/XP) and that Outlook Express starts corrupting its DBX if the file

RE: Peso Water on fire

Gorgeous shot Once again proving that knowledge, technique, and a good eye are what is needed to create a great image. Not necessarily the most expensive equipment. I could see that as a shot for a vacation brochure. Where was that taken? Butch

Re: MX OUtlook Express Question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] mused: > > 3. Most people don't have the time or the storage capacity for a complete > backup. It's not a good thing, but it's a fact of life for many. Leaving my image files and audio files out of the equation, everything else on the data partition of our main household compu

Re: PESO October Roses featuring the url

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:27:32 -0800, David Volkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I humbly introduce my first PESO. Well done. I like it. > > This was taken way back in October and I finally got around to working > on it this last week. > Camera Info: > Pentax *ist D > Pentax 28-70mm F/4 @ 65mm F/7.

P67 fisheye specs

Mishka writes: > Does anyone here know the physical dimensions of the p67 fisheye? > Specifically, the mount diameter, the length and the weight? > > Thanks, > Mishka > Not sure if anyone replied, as I'm reading the archive nowadays. According to the B&H website, the lens weighs 920g, 73mm lo

Re: Paw: Trumpeter Swans for Markus

I like it! On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:18:54 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hummm. I see Paul S. and Markus's comments in the archives but not on the > email. > > Oh well,thanks Paul and Markus for the comments. > > Oh and here is the Swan shot.:-) > > http://www.c

Re: PAW: My Baby Girl

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 06:17:30 -0800, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > You have a lovely daughter, although she looks a little uncomfortable in > this situation. Agreed, and agreed. You've got yourself a lovely model. > > As a portrait, however, this is far from your best w

Re: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

I did a Q&D convert to B&W, and, to my eye, it looks better than in color. But then, I learned to shoot and process B&W, I generally "see" in B&W, and in many instances find color to be a clutter and a distraction in photographs. I like B&W movies as well. Why? Well color photographs ~may~ be m

RE: PESO: "Gotcha" - Jerusalem, and a little rant

Well said, I'm with you here... Beside (maybe) tilting a bit I would not change anything in Josteins picture, certainly not the colors. It is already very good. Do we really have to "process" every photo on the computer nowadays? greetings Markus >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: PESO: The splendour and the misery of Berlin

On 21 Mar 2005 at 0:17, Markus Maurer wrote: > ---> You not only take a photograph, you publish it later by showing it at > least here. <-- The concept of publishing via web display seems to be a legally gray area at the moment especially given that it's a medium without boarders so disputan

Re: MX OUtlook Express Question

are you running Windows 2K, XP, or some other version of Windows and was OE running when the system crashed? NTFS is very resistant to problems like this. if you are running a version of Windows that supports it, NTFS is more reliable than FAT32, although a touch slower sometimes. that's not to

Re: OT: Newfie History 101-was: Take the Knarf Quiz !!

frank theriault wrote: On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:30:50 -0500, Scott Loveless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:01:51 -0500, frank theriault Kinda like the geese, eh? Yes, but even Newfies don't crap all over our parks and sidewalks. -frank Listen, Frank... SOMEone's throwing their c

Re: PESO Water on fire

A ketch rigged junk graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" --- Francis wrote: Another boat pic I was trying halfheartedly to frame the sunset when this friend of ours sailed onto the scene. From that point on I was franticly run

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