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The farmhouse was one of those with the wrap-around porch like the one I picture here, but bigger. Three stories. And my grandfather smoked a pipe and I remember liking the smell and knowing which rooms he used from the smell of them.
That wrap-around porch had two of those swinging benches, you know the ones you were supposed to sit on with your date at the end of the date. [:D] It had all the other accoutrements as well, like tables to play chess on. The magic of childhood.
Was the swing big enough to accommodate a cow?
No matter how bad a situation is, you can always make it worse. - Chris Hadfield : An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth
I was using the macro mode on the camera (Nikon L340) and it was mounted on a tripod and the lens was less than a foot away from the subject (to your movement suspicion, there may have been a slight breeze, but I could see the AF focus perfectly and keep going, couldn't get it to stop at perfect). It just can be devilishly hard to get that AF to work. About 15 years ago I had a beautiful Nikon camera (the kind that used film) and a nice set of lenses (that I lost in a burglary). My absolute favorite was a 50mm lens that could do macro zooms and the pictures were just amazing. But I could choose to focus manually and much of the time I did.
Was it a 55mm Micro Nikor? That was one of my father's go to lens for years. He gave me a 105mm Macro lens for my digital Nikon, but the telephoto is kind of nuts to use. I was taking pictures of detail on some antiques to list on Ebay and I had to put the camera on a tripod 5 feet away. From that distance I was getting pictures of a spot about the size of a US dime.
The farmhouse was one of those with the wrap-around porch like the one I picture here, but bigger. Three stories. And my grandfather smoked a pipe and I remember liking the smell and knowing which rooms he used from the smell of them.
That wrap-around porch had two of those swinging benches, you know the ones you were supposed to sit on with your date at the end of the date. [:D] It had all the other accoutrements as well, like tables to play chess on. The magic of childhood.
I was using the macro mode on the camera (Nikon L340) and it was mounted on a tripod and the lens was less than a foot away from the subject (to your movement suspicion, there may have been a slight breeze, but I could see the AF focus perfectly and keep going, couldn't get it to stop at perfect). It just can be devilishly hard to get that AF to work. About 15 years ago I had a beautiful Nikon camera (the kind that used film) and a nice set of lenses (that I lost in a burglary). My absolute favorite was a 50mm lens that could do macro zooms and the pictures were just amazing. But I could choose to focus manually and much of the time I did.
Was it a 55mm Micro Nikor? That was one of my father's go to lens for years. He gave me a 105mm Macro lens for my digital Nikon, but the telephoto is kind of nuts to use. I was taking pictures of detail on some antiques to list on Ebay and I had to put the camera on a tripod 5 feet away. From that distance I was getting pictures of a spot about the size of a US dime.
Bill
That sounds really familiar. I might still have some paperwork around on it (the burglar didn't get everything, after all). I also had a very good 35mm which I think came with the camera and I believe a 35/50/70 zoom lens or something like that, but I fell head over heels in love with that 50. I just couldn't believe the stuff I could do with it. Very quickly it wasn't the go-to lens, it was the only lens. I'm not sure I ever remembered what the other two were for.
Today, July 14th, 2016, a day which will live in birdfamy, I have heard and seen my first chickadees of the year. Now I don't know if they are Black-Capped Chickadees or Carolina Chickadees because I don't understand what the difference is. If you go to the Cornell site on this stuff, you will see that St. Louis is part of the borderline of the ranges of each; the black capped ones to the north and west and the Carolina to the south and east. St. Louis used to be in temperate zone 5, but because of a process of nature which some will deny is even happening (and by the way, nature doesn't give a flip what anyone thinks) we are now in temperate zone 6 and quickly headed to 7. Better get out of the way, Phoenix. Anyways, I am skeptical that there are two different species of chickadees here. Listen to their calls, they are the same.
Many of you may not be aware of the etymology of a word we use for a toilet. While he did not invent the flush toilet he did make various improvements to the technology.
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Watching the coverage of what happened in Baton Rouge, I saw what I thought was a helicopter that was a relic from the Korean war. Apparently not, I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZUutzp7sfE
Here in St. Louis, we are smack dab on the boundary line between the territories of the Black-Capped Chickadee and the Carolina Chickadee.
I'm going to have to call this one a Black-Capped Chickadee though they are terrifically difficult to distinguish, one from the other.
Looks malnourished. It has discovered an unlimited supply of sunflower seeds so that should be receding into the past.
