Another pointless thread
Posted 01/07/2010 - 10:21
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Well it's too hot here to think about photography, and going to get even hotter tomorrow.
We had a shower on Tuesday, conveniently timed for me walking the dogs. It lasted from when I started walking until just after I was back in the car, so 45 minutes or so, but that was the only rain I can remember for ages. It is very dry here.
I used an umbrella for the first time in several centuries on that walk. I hate umbrellas. I even managed to break the one I took with me
Saturday is my DIL's birthday, and in typical Dutch style we are all invited to go and sit around and drink coffee and eat cake - Saturday is due to be 30C and thundery, so that will be truly delightful. Not.
We had a shower on Tuesday, conveniently timed for me walking the dogs. It lasted from when I started walking until just after I was back in the car, so 45 minutes or so, but that was the only rain I can remember for ages. It is very dry here.
I used an umbrella for the first time in several centuries on that walk. I hate umbrellas. I even managed to break the one I took with me
Saturday is my DIL's birthday, and in typical Dutch style we are all invited to go and sit around and drink coffee and eat cake - Saturday is due to be 30C and thundery, so that will be truly delightful. Not.
Posted 01/07/2010 - 11:01
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Cooler and wetter here on Wirral - bit blowy too - munchkin and her two mums are coming up for a wedding so we get to play grandparents for the weekend - rah rah - she is also now OFFICIALLY a member of our family as the final adoption papers are signed today..................
Emma says once the social workers are out of the way the munchkin will get to live in a cupboard and have a part-time job going up chimneys !! I wonder where she got her sense of humour from ?
Since the "unfits" have embarrassed us in S.Africa I can only say - "come on Andy" for the weekend - at least he won`t have a whinging excuse if he loses like some Swiss player did !
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Tony
Emma says once the social workers are out of the way the munchkin will get to live in a cupboard and have a part-time job going up chimneys !! I wonder where she got her sense of humour from ?
Since the "unfits" have embarrassed us in S.Africa I can only say - "come on Andy" for the weekend - at least he won`t have a whinging excuse if he loses like some Swiss player did !
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Tony
K20D,*istD ( now a dedicated M42 digital ),K100D,MZ5N,P50,ME Super,Spotmatic 1000,Spotmatic,ESII,ES,H2.18-55 II,18-55,75-300 FAJ,35-80 FA,80-200 F,28-105 FA,Sigma 24-70 AF Aspherical,Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom , Praotor II 500 M42,Centon 500mm mirror,and a few Pentax M42 Taks,super-Taks,smc Taks,A and M lenses.Benbo trekker,7dayshop monopod and a Lowepro rucksack.
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
Posted 01/07/2010 - 11:04
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Oh and another thing .....................I see in today`s Telegraph that it actually isn`t "illegal" to photograph your own children at a sports day or school play after all - it is,as usual,just an excuse coined by ignorant/lazy/sad head teachers and the like for whatever reason they might have.
Tony
Tony
K20D,*istD ( now a dedicated M42 digital ),K100D,MZ5N,P50,ME Super,Spotmatic 1000,Spotmatic,ESII,ES,H2.18-55 II,18-55,75-300 FAJ,35-80 FA,80-200 F,28-105 FA,Sigma 24-70 AF Aspherical,Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom , Praotor II 500 M42,Centon 500mm mirror,and a few Pentax M42 Taks,super-Taks,smc Taks,A and M lenses.Benbo trekker,7dayshop monopod and a Lowepro rucksack.
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
Posted 01/07/2010 - 11:28
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I know of one K200d that's ben around Europe on at least two occasions.
Guess what?
It's going again today! See you in seventeen days or so guys and keep on snapping!
Guess what?
It's going again today! See you in seventeen days or so guys and keep on snapping!
Cheers, HG
K110+DA40, K200+DA35, K3 and a bag of lenses, bodies and other bits.
Mustn't forget the Zenits, or folders, or...
PPG entries.
K110+DA40, K200+DA35, K3 and a bag of lenses, bodies and other bits.
Mustn't forget the Zenits, or folders, or...
PPG entries.
Posted 01/07/2010 - 11:33
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Take care HG
Have a great time
Tony
Have a great time
Tony
K20D,*istD ( now a dedicated M42 digital ),K100D,MZ5N,P50,ME Super,Spotmatic 1000,Spotmatic,ESII,ES,H2.18-55 II,18-55,75-300 FAJ,35-80 FA,80-200 F,28-105 FA,Sigma 24-70 AF Aspherical,Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom , Praotor II 500 M42,Centon 500mm mirror,and a few Pentax M42 Taks,super-Taks,smc Taks,A and M lenses.Benbo trekker,7dayshop monopod and a Lowepro rucksack.
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
Posted 01/07/2010 - 11:55
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Have a great time HG.
Be sure to share some of your shots when you return!
Be sure to share some of your shots when you return!
If you can't say something nice about Pentax, you won't say anything at all.
Apparently.
Apparently.
Posted 01/07/2010 - 12:12
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Have a great time - I'd love to escape today
let the education continue
proud owner of a couple of cameras and a few bits and bobs
proud owner of a couple of cameras and a few bits and bobs
Posted 01/07/2010 - 13:19
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Back when I had a dog (spaniel) I would only wash it when its hair started to turn into dreadlocks
Tim
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MF - Vivitar CF 28/2.8, Tamron AD2 90/2.5, MTO 1000/11
Stuff - Metz 58 AF1, Cactus v4, Nikon SB24, Raynox 150, Sigma 1.4x TC, Sigma 2x TC, Kenko 2x macro TC, Redsnapper 283 tripod, iMac 27”, Macbook Pro 17”, iPad, iPhone 3G
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Feel free to edit any of my posted photos! If I post a photo for critique, I want brutal honesty. If you don't like it, please say so and tell me why!
AF - Pentax K5, Sigma 10-20/4-5.6, Tamron 17-50/2.8, Sigma 30/1.4, Sigma 70-200/2.8, Tamron 70-300/4-5.6
MF - Vivitar CF 28/2.8, Tamron AD2 90/2.5, MTO 1000/11
Stuff - Metz 58 AF1, Cactus v4, Nikon SB24, Raynox 150, Sigma 1.4x TC, Sigma 2x TC, Kenko 2x macro TC, Redsnapper 283 tripod, iMac 27”, Macbook Pro 17”, iPad, iPhone 3G
Flickr • Fluidr • PPG • Street • Portfolio site
Feel free to edit any of my posted photos! If I post a photo for critique, I want brutal honesty. If you don't like it, please say so and tell me why!
Posted 01/07/2010 - 13:31
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My daughter`s two boys - NO COMMENT
Tony
K20D,*istD ( now a dedicated M42 digital ),K100D,MZ5N,P50,ME Super,Spotmatic 1000,Spotmatic,ESII,ES,H2.18-55 II,18-55,75-300 FAJ,35-80 FA,80-200 F,28-105 FA,Sigma 24-70 AF Aspherical,Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom , Praotor II 500 M42,Centon 500mm mirror,and a few Pentax M42 Taks,super-Taks,smc Taks,A and M lenses.Benbo trekker,7dayshop monopod and a Lowepro rucksack.
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
Posted 01/07/2010 - 13:33
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Ummmmmm
let the education continue
proud owner of a couple of cameras and a few bits and bobs
proud owner of a couple of cameras and a few bits and bobs
Posted 01/07/2010 - 13:38
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Oh come on tech !!
It was posed especially !!
Bailey wouldn`t dream of getting his Teddy wet !!
Tony
It was posed especially !!
Bailey wouldn`t dream of getting his Teddy wet !!
Tony
K20D,*istD ( now a dedicated M42 digital ),K100D,MZ5N,P50,ME Super,Spotmatic 1000,Spotmatic,ESII,ES,H2.18-55 II,18-55,75-300 FAJ,35-80 FA,80-200 F,28-105 FA,Sigma 24-70 AF Aspherical,Sigma 28-300 Hyperzoom , Praotor II 500 M42,Centon 500mm mirror,and a few Pentax M42 Taks,super-Taks,smc Taks,A and M lenses.Benbo trekker,7dayshop monopod and a Lowepro rucksack.
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
I am now on Flickr which is nice !
Posted 01/07/2010 - 13:58
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We only have a shower. The smaller one gets the occasional shower, especially after she's found some nice smelly dead fish or poop to roll in, but the other one....
I tried once. He is a big dog - about the size of a Golden retriever, but heavier build. He went into the bathroom just fine, but when he realised I meant to get him on the shower he turned into Scooby Doo. He stuck a leg out at each side and refused to enter the shower. All four legs were desperately hanging on to the cubicle so he didn't have to go in.
It really was like a cartoon dog.
I gave up in the end - fighting a 35+kg hell-hound was just too much.
And that is a dog who will jump in any passing pond, puddle or mud pool he can find.
I shall take the dog shampoo with me next time it rains on a walk.
I tried once. He is a big dog - about the size of a Golden retriever, but heavier build. He went into the bathroom just fine, but when he realised I meant to get him on the shower he turned into Scooby Doo. He stuck a leg out at each side and refused to enter the shower. All four legs were desperately hanging on to the cubicle so he didn't have to go in.
It really was like a cartoon dog.
I gave up in the end - fighting a 35+kg hell-hound was just too much.
And that is a dog who will jump in any passing pond, puddle or mud pool he can find.
I shall take the dog shampoo with me next time it rains on a walk.
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I think it in general is the "forgotten" camera. Not that it deserves to be mind, as far as I can tell everyone who has one swears by it and they rarely crop up secondhand.
I'm exaggerating of course, but I definitely recall thinking to myself "...That was short-lived; it only came out yesterday!"
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