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Random Photo thread

dorkburger said:
Nice job on capuring the Bee.
As far as my "mastery" of low light - its more like increasing my odds by taking many shots - and leaving the camera on full auto.
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Thanks. The bee isn't completely sharp, but I think he was moving on me.

Many shots, yes, me too. But you really are getting a handle on low light.
 
I like the capture of that bee; you must have either been very lucky at seeing him or very patient. Either way, maybe it's time to bring up that retirement conversation again HAHAHHAHA

Charmayne bought a real camera this weekend and so I figured we'd go to downtown Miamisburg for some pictures. This mural was just completed by a Centerville native who has painted several in Europe and Mexico. Sadly, a bucket truck was still in front of it so I couldn't get better shots:

From near to far - Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Carrie Fisher, and John Wayne

New Miamisburg Mural by Scott Baker, on Flickr

John Wayne Miamisburg Mural by Scott Baker, on Flickr
 
cowboyup3371 said:
I like the capture of that bee; you must have either been very lucky at seeing him or very patient. Either way, maybe it's time to bring up that retirement conversation again HAHAHHAHA

Charmayne bought a real camera this weekend and so I figured we'd go to downtown Miamisburg for some pictures. This mural was just completed by a Centerville native who has painted several in Europe and Mexico. Sadly, a bucket truck was still in front of it so I couldn't get better shots:

From near to far - Charlie Chaplin, Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Carrie Fisher, and John Wayne
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Those murals are very cool, and nicely shot....Thanks...

As for the bees, there were funny. If I stayed about 12" away, they didn't care. If I moved in to about 6-8" they started buzzing me.
I wasn't worried about being stung, but they wouldn't stay still. So I set the focus at about 6" and pushed the camera in until the focus assist lite up, and snapped.
Buzzz.....back out. Push in, snap....buzzz, pull out. Anyway, got 15 photos or so that way, and two were OK enough to save.

Fun!

Here is the other:

Cone Flowers by R John Thieda, on Flickr
 
DSC02912 by T, on Flickr

I've been browsing thru and organizing photos, because I've got 10s of thousands of them. This is Fort Rock, the earliest human habitation in North America was found in a cave nearby, you can see where water from the ancient lake smoothed off the shore line
 
Big T said:
DSC02912 by T, on Flickr

I've been browsing thru and organizing photos, because I've got 10s of thousands of them. This is Fort Rock, the earliest human habitation in North America was found in a cave nearby, you can see where water from the ancient lake smoothed off the shore line
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Very cool. Is that anywhere near Summer Lake/Paisley area? I was reading about some pre-colvis caves (15,000 years ago approx) in that area. They're secured by concrete and iron now but always wanted to go and poke around that area.
 
Sandy said:
Very cool. Is that anywhere near Summer Lake/Paisley area? I was reading about some pre-colvis caves (15,000 years ago approx) in that area. They're secured by concrete and iron now but always wanted to go and poke around that area.
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Yeah, there's actually a town called Fort Rock on the way to Summer Lake. It's right by the rock. BTW, this is just the SE corner of it. It's a big circle
Check out the Oregon Outback Scenic Byway. It will take you to Crack In The Ground, which is just a few miles NE of Christmas Valley

DSC03299 by T, on Flickr
 
LOL.....Somebody is looking at my Flickr stuff today...Never had this many views in one day....

 
Yes, two actually. View is from the side. The boards are arranged in a V shape so they can be viewed from each direction of the curved road with the open end facing the camera. There was some cool light play in the fog, but once again, depending on what device I review them on the image brightness varies. Still not able to set up the computer (weak excuse based on lack of desire) for editing programs. I may try some in camera editing to see how that works. Getting it right at the time of exposure is my main goal though.
 
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dorkburger said:
Yes, two actually. View is from the side. The boards are arranged in a V shape so they can be viewed from each direction of the curved road with the open end facing the camera. There was some cool light play in the fog, but once again, depending on what device I review them on the image brightness varies. Still not able to set up the computer (weak excuse based on lack of desire) for editing programs. I may try some in camera editing to see how that works. Getting it right at the time of exposure is my main goal though.
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Thank you for the explanation Glen. I really like how that looks no matter what device I look at it on.
 
Baatfam said:
Man....Big T, that's a big country. Nice!
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Yeah Bob, most of Oregon is pretty young, geologically speaking.
You can see the layers of lava flows in those pics
The volcanoes spread lava in every direction, many flows reached the Pacific Ocean, over 100 miles away. The relentless Pacific Ocean chewed away at the flows, and it ends up with the famous haystack rocks and stuff like this

DSC03113 by T, on Flickr

Needle Rock, Cape Blanco
Cape Blanco was thought to be the farthest west point in the 48, but as navigation improved, it was found that Cape Flattery in WA was actually a bit farther west

For those of you wondering about technical stuff, most of these were shot with a 12 MP Lumix snap camera. Others, with a similar Sony
 
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