Re: GESO: Kruger 1-4/08/2014

2014-08-08 Thread Bob W-PDML
What a fantastic gallery - including and especially the Official Large and Conspicuous Waterbird of the PDML. It looks like a fantastic trip, and well done for the half-marThon, that's an i pressive achievement and a good time. B On 8 Aug 2014, at 06:41, Alan C c...@lantic.net wrote: Last

Re: Oh no, not again.

2014-08-08 Thread Larry Colen
P.J. Alling wrote: On 8/6/2014 3:13 PM, Larry Colen wrote: There are a lot of things that I love about my Pentax gear, but reliability isn't one of them. It's almost like owning a FIAT with a viewfinder. Geez Larry, I beat the crap out of my cameras and I don't have the problems you do.

The Quest for the Holy Grail

2014-08-08 Thread Bob W-PDML
British police have been looking for the Holy Grail in a village pub. Nice work if you can get it. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11017773/Village-pub-raided-by-police-in-hunt-for-Holy-Grail.html They should have spoken to me first - shortly after passing through

Friday FS: DA 21/3.2

2014-08-08 Thread Boris Liberman
Anyone wants this lens? Notice, it is SMC, not HD coated one. If so, please contact me off the list. Boris -- 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

GESO: Kruger 1-4/08/2014

2014-08-08 Thread Alan C
Last weekend we trekked to Skukuza for the annual Half Marathon, travelling from Phalaborwa via Letaba, Satara Tshokwane to Lower Sabie Camp on the Friday (8 hours), to Skukuza back on the Saturday, to Letaba Camp on the Sunday (7 hours) home on the Monday (2 hours). This GESO is a selection

Re: GESO: Kruger 1-4/08/2014

2014-08-08 Thread Jack Davis
Enjoyed this set very much, Alan. J - Original Message - From: Alan C c...@lantic.net To: PDML pdml@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2014 10:40:59 PM Subject: GESO: Kruger 1-4/08/2014 Last weekend we trekked to Skukuza for the annual Half Marathon, travelling from Phalaborwa via

Re: PESO: Forest colours

2014-08-08 Thread Attila Boros
Thanks, Frank. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 5:05 AM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: That is beautiful! Cheers, frank On 7 August, 2014 4:28:51 PM EDT, Attila Boros attila.p...@gmail.com wrote: Re-editing an older photo: http://500px.com/photo/78981501/forest-colours-by-attila-boros

Re: PESO - Access

2014-08-08 Thread Attila Boros
I like the texture. On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 5:03 AM, knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: Don't know why this fascinated me: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2014/08/access.html?m=1 Drug flashback maybe? Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. Cheers, frank “Analysis kills spontaneity.” --

Re: PESO - Access

2014-08-08 Thread knarf
There's a hole lot of stuff going on, that's for sure! Thanks for the comment. Cheers frank On 7 August, 2014 10:50:33 PM EDT, Kenneth Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: I do, I think it's grate ! -Original Message- From: knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: PESO - Access Don't

Re: Blurb Discount Code

2014-08-08 Thread Paul
I just report 'em as I get 'em... -p On 8/7/2014 11:20 AM, P.J. Alling wrote: /instagram/ books On 8/7/2014 10:03 AM, Paul wrote: And a couple more... 15% off instagram books INSTAGRAM15 20% off other books CELEBRATE20 -p On 8/4/2014 7:04 PM, Brian Walters wrote: G'day all

Re: PESO watch the birdie

2014-08-08 Thread Bruce Walker
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/08/2014 7:46 AM, Bruce Walker wrote: Took a trip down to Bronte Harbour in Oakville on Monday to catch a new musician friend doing a solo matinee gig at a vegan cafe. I was lining up for a candid shot of his

Re: PESO - Access

2014-08-08 Thread Bruce Walker
Me too. Something fascinating about it. I dips me lid to you, Frank. :) On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Kenneth Waller kwal...@peoplepc.com wrote: I do, I think it's grate ! -Original Message- From: knarf knarftheria...@gmail.com Subject: PESO - Access Don't know why this

Re: PESO: Bored

2014-08-08 Thread Alan C
Yes, I know what you mean. Well caught, Dan. Alan C -Original Message- From: Daniel J. Matyola Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 4:46 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO: Bored You have to fight the traffic, park the car, walk across the fields to the Balloon Festival,

Re: PESO - Access

2014-08-08 Thread Alan C
That green stuff underneath? Alan C -Original Message- From: knarf Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 4:03 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: PESO - Access Don't know why this fascinated me: http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2014/08/access.html?m=1 Drug flashback maybe? Hope you

Re: PESO: Bored

2014-08-08 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Alan. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Alan C c...@lantic.net wrote: Yes, I know what you mean. Well caught, Dan. Alan C -Original Message- From: Daniel J. Matyola Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 4:46 PM To:

Re: PESO (non-Pentax): Selfie x2

2014-08-08 Thread Bruce Walker
Fun shot! On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Charles Robinson charl...@visi.com wrote: I spend the last 5 days in Twinsburg, Ohio for my annual Twins Days venture with my twin brother. The K5 performed flawlessly for days beside (and almost IN) the swimming pool, as well as an entire day

Re: Oh no, not again.

2014-08-08 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
the front e-dial barely works now despite efforts to clean it with contact cleaner. It will get better for a while and then revert back to registering turns in the wrong direction. Read: Becker 1492 (My K5 is beginning to exhibit this on occasion.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List

Re: Oh no, not again.

2014-08-08 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
LOL. No no. I blame myself of course. Still its no fun having gear break down after sinking money into it. Look at the abuse that metal film cameras and lenses could take. Those days of rugged cameras are kind of over sadly. The plastic zooms I doubt will last me 30 years, but the M50 1.7 I've

Re: GESO - Goldfinch

2014-08-08 Thread Bruce Walker
Goldfinches showing off how acrobatic they are. Well matched colours too. Nice! On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Mark C pdml-m...@charter.net wrote: http://www.markcassino.com/b2evolution/index.php/goldfinch I was going to go out shooting today but wound up staying around the house to get

Re: August PUG is up!

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 5/8/14, Brian Walters, discombobulated, unleashed: As usual, you'll find the gallery here: http://pug.komkon.org/ Really nice gallery - well done all. Dan Matyola's 'Whitehouse Diner' is excellent and does it for me. Brilliant pic, simple but totally honest and tells the story. --

Re: Camera for a 13-year old?

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 3/8/14, Brian Walters, discombobulated, unleashed: The Fujis are indeed wonderful cameras, so I'm told. I'm seriously considering buying one. But we aren't talking about a superannuated old fart on the wrong side of 65 here. John wants a camera for a modern young lady of the

Re: GESO

2014-08-08 Thread Steve Cottrell
On 5/8/14, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: Made a small, yes Cotty a small gallery of back yard jays etc http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2014-jays-cardinals/album/index.html Holy mackerel that's a Canadian 'small' ;-) nice job Dave -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__Broadcast,

Re: GESO

2014-08-08 Thread David J Brooks
told ya On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 5/8/14, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: Made a small, yes Cotty a small gallery of back yard jays etc http://www.caughtinmotion.com/2014-jays-cardinals/album/index.html Holy mackerel that's a

Re: Trouble with uploading books from LR 5.6. to Blurb

2014-08-08 Thread Boris Liberman
A brief follow up. After several attempts (each takes 2-3 hours, as my network connection is very asymmetrical - upstream is way slower than downstream) it finally worked. I had to disable the anti-virus and actually be active on the computer throughout most of the process... Got 25%

Re: Trouble with uploading books from LR 5.6. to Blurb

2014-08-08 Thread Stan Halpin
Glad to hear the update. You sounded pretty discouraged earlier - it would have been a shame for you to abandon the project out of frustration. stan On Aug 8, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Boris Liberman bori...@gmail.com wrote: A brief follow up. After several attempts (each takes 2-3 hours, as my

PESO Sign of the times.

2014-08-08 Thread P.J. Alling
A little something that caught my eye this afternoon, no reflection on the corporate Giant in the background, they actually make a scrumptious iced coffee, however the corporate giant reflected in the foreground seems to be holding their products together with reinforce packing tape, the

Re: Oh no, not again.

2014-08-08 Thread P.J. Alling
I think you just described the Epson RD-1... On 8/8/2014 10:27 AM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: LOL. No no. I blame myself of course. Still its no fun having gear break down after sinking money into it. Look at the abuse that metal film cameras and lenses could take. Those days of rugged cameras

GESO: Final (?) additions to my Michigan Upper Peninsula gallery

2014-08-08 Thread Stan Halpin
I've added another 6-8 images, selected from among my favorites from the workshop I've been participating in this week. I did some rearranging of images in the gallery. The basic link is: http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p735513422 Image #25, roughly the start of the newer images, is at:

Re: GESO: Final (?) additions to my Michigan Upper Peninsula gallery

2014-08-08 Thread Bob W-PDML
A phalanx of phalacrocorax! On 8 Aug 2014, at 20:04, Stan Halpin s...@stans-photography.info wrote: I've added another 6-8 images, selected from among my favorites from the workshop I've been participating in this week. I did some rearranging of images in the gallery. The basic link

Re: August PUG is up!

2014-08-08 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Thanks, Steve! Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Steve Cottrell co...@seeingeye.tv wrote: On 5/8/14, Brian Walters, discombobulated, unleashed: As usual, you'll find the gallery here: http://pug.komkon.org/ Really nice gallery -

Re: Trouble with uploading books from LR 5.6. to Blurb

2014-08-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Good to hear it! I have similar problem with my work: Uploading is very slow when I'm working from home and the server sometimes gives up before all the data is done transferring. In the office with the exact same laptop, the upload runs about 30x faster and without errors. Godfrey On

RE: GESO: Kruger 1-4/08/2014

2014-08-08 Thread John Coyle
Super stuff Alan. John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Alan C Sent: Friday, 8 August 2014 8:28 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: GESO: Kruger 1-4/08/2014 Last weekend we trekked to Skukuza for the annual Half

Re: Oh no, not again.

2014-08-08 Thread Larry Colen
As I understand it, he described the Digital Hasselblads. They'll even work with film backs. At least as they were described in the comparison between the 645D, 645Z, blad and 800E. P.J. Alling wrote: I think you just described the Epson RD-1... On 8/8/2014 10:27 AM, Collin Brendemuehl

major OT

2014-08-08 Thread David J Brooks
Lads and Laddies i have a big problem Lucy my youngest cat loves to jump up on my desk and play. Unfortunately she hit some keys and now my fire fox browser has become full screen, i have lost my bottom icons (mac ) FF is full screnn and i have no idea how to get back to regular screen Any help

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread Bill
On 08/08/2014 6:04 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Lads and Laddies i have a big problem Lucy my youngest cat loves to jump up on my desk and play. Unfortunately she hit some keys and now my fire fox browser has become full screen, i have lost my bottom icons (mac ) FF is full screnn and i have no

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/08/2014 6:04 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Lads and Laddies i have a big problem Lucy my youngest cat loves to jump up on my desk and play. Unfortunately she hit some keys and now my fire fox browser has become full

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread Paul
Hit the F11 key... -p On 8/8/2014 7:04 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Lads and Laddies i have a big problem Lucy my youngest cat loves to jump up on my desk and play. Unfortunately she hit some keys and now my fire fox browser has become full screen, i have lost my bottom icons (mac ) FF is full

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread David J Brooks
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Paul pentax1...@gmail.com wrote: Hit the F11 key... Mac key board i do not see an F11 key Dave -p On 8/8/2014 7:04 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Lads and Laddies i have a big problem Lucy my youngest cat loves to jump up on my desk and play. Unfortunately

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread David J Brooks
Ok found a restore button. and i can get FF to minimize. However i have no idea how to get to finder, desktop etc. I'm at my wits end i have on line bills to pay asap. Dave On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:59 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Paul

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread P.J. Alling
If it was a windows machine I'd say hit F!! but I'm not sure about a Mac. On 8/8/2014 8:04 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Lads and Laddies i have a big problem Lucy my youngest cat loves to jump up on my desk and play. Unfortunately she hit some keys and now my fire fox browser has become full

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread Stan Halpin
Esc key? Hover the cursor near the screen top edge? Click near the top edge? RE Paul's F11 suggestion - on my MacbookPro, the decrease-volume button is also labeled F11. Try that key while holding down the fn key or cntrl or option or cmmd? stan On Aug 8, 2014, at 8:04 PM, David J Brooks

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Sorenson
Do you have a key labeled Fn, maybe on the lower left or right? And in the top row one with a symbol to reduce the sound volume? Holding down the Fn key should make that act like an F11. -p Sent from my iPad On Aug 8, 2014, at 7:59 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri,

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread Kenneth Waller
Or hit the cat.. -Original Message- From: Paul pentax1...@gmail.com Subject: Re: major OT Hit the F11 key... -p On 8/8/2014 7:04 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Lads and Laddies i have a big problem Lucy my youngest cat loves to jump up on my desk and play. Unfortunately she hit

Re: Oh no, not again.

2014-08-08 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
Well, I know Cotty liked his R-D1, but I tried one and found it a pretty clunky pit of kit to work with. I have a nice Hasselblad V setup (500CM body and two lenses, plus the SWC). A CFV39 back would work quite nicely with the 500CM body and the prices are beginning to approach the

Re: major OT

2014-08-08 Thread Jim Lee
On 8/8/14, 5:04 PM, David J Brooks wrote: Lads and Laddies i have a big problem Lucy my youngest cat loves to jump up on my desk and play. Unfortunately she hit some keys and now my fire fox browser has become full screen, i have lost my bottom icons (mac ) FF is full screnn and i have no

PESO: Bluebird of Happiness

2014-08-08 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
The bluebird of happiness flew up my, ah, nose. G For decades, I had kept a number of bird feeders in our back yard, as many as eight at a time. For much of that time, I recorded my visitors under a program run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. I really enjoyed watching the birds enjoying my