Re: OT: Why It's Illegal to Take Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night

2022-07-02 Thread Larry Colen
> On Jul 1, 2022, at 10:28 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > > I have taken and published images of the Atomium, from our last trip to > Belgium, and the Eiffel Tower, both in daylight and at night. I also took > and published a short video of the light show. Let them chase me down. I hope you

Re: OT: Why It's Illegal to Take Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night

2022-07-02 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I like to think of myself as a skillful lawyer. I 'm at least good enough to fight them off for years. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 3:32 AM Larry Colen wrote: > > > > On Jul 1, 2022, at 10:28 PM, Daniel

Re: OT: Why It's Illegal to Take Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night

2022-07-02 Thread Bill
On Sat., Jul. 2, 2022, 2:01 p.m. Daniel J. Matyola, wrote: > I like to think of myself as a skillful lawyer. > I > 'm at least good enough to fight them off for years. > And this attitude of entitlement and disrespect is why so many places don't like American tourists. Just sayin. bill -- %(

Sudden problem with the viewing adjustments in LightRoom - any ideas?

2022-07-02 Thread Igor PDML-StR
Hi All! All of a sudden, I started having a problem in the old LightRoom (v5.x) on Windows (10): Any adjustments I make are not shown on the photograph shown in the middle of LR workspace. Also, it doesn't show any changes in the preview panel for sharpening and noise reduction (under "Detai

PESO: July Pug Reject

2022-07-02 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
When selecting my entry for the July PUG, I considered this image as an " Aerial": http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2022/7/3/flying-high K-5 IIs, smc DA 18-135hour mm F 3.5-5.6 ED AL [IF] DC WR Comments, criticisms, questions, and suggestions are invited and appreciated. Dan

Re: OT: Why It's Illegal to Take Photos of the Eiffel Tower at Night

2022-07-02 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Oh, come on, Bill. Give me a break. I took and published those images because there was no indication that it was improper to do so. There are no signs at either the Eiffel Tower or the Atomium stating that photographs are forbidden. They are more than happy to accept Euros from us crass America

Re: Last Call - July PUG

2022-07-02 Thread John Sessoms
Like Kermit the Frog says, "Time's fun when you're having flies!" On 6/30/2022 6:20 PM, Brian W wrote: Hi all I'll be closing submissions on Sunday evening 3 July - can half of 2022 be over already? :-( Theme: Aerial/From on High As usual submit here: http://pug.komkon.org/submit/ Full Sub