Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

I sent a PM to Bruce but just to update ya guys, here some more imnfo.

Liz Ashely needs to leave Houston and do either San Antonio or the OTHERS (Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth) as tyhe path is through us and not boring Houston! Can say for sure but she will be on some location for the event (she has to be!). So, I'm working that angel.

Another model, Patti (Patti Cum Cakes) is in London and she said she will need to visit the states, family, but I'm ttying to get her to spring for San Antonio.

As the water 'thing' goes, I have loads of garden hose, I put in FOUR (yes 4), cold AND HOT water spigots to the garden (Yep, no fooling around for me!). So kiddy pools, a ground pool (5X8 foot size), a deep metal cattle watering tank (3X5 foot), and loads of such water holding devices. I use the hot water to blend with the cold water supply so the water will be just right. Bubbles courses of Dawn Liquid Kitchen detergent (great soaping bubbles and the garden plants think it is fertilizer with a big gulp!).

With Patti here there will be some naughty alternative stuff.

Now VADA is a for sure! That means on the food side loads of fresh cold water melon! That girl lives to eat water melon. Besides water melon, she likes it warm, and being necked and WATER.

Then there is Ms. Kat, vary naughty and great friends with Ms. VADA. Kat is a modern internet model doing as much alternative style modeling as she can, like, "From the apartment landing above, looking down past the pencil cactus clusters, as she suns herself on the garden bench". Or "Getting direction from another traveling model as Kat and VADA do another style fun naughty session".

It is so much fun when several women get together and do modeling. But they got to be comfy with their modeling skills, no room for armatures! Not if you want great images. Rarely does a photographer get this sort of opportunity and it is important to just go what ever direction these actress want to take the event, just sit back and let the creativity leap out and know your camera craft as well as they know modeling craft!

Like in the image, "Getting direction from another traveling model, as Kat and VADA do another style fun naughty session."

Last is Ms. Starena (my pet name for Serena). Serena probably has more stage presence than many Hollywood first ladies! I have witnessed this woman take over a work shop of fifteen photographers and play each one and have them eating out of her hand like a lioness. She has the right stuff, period. And when she is finished, she comes out of a trance like effect and remembers nothing of what she has just done. The other models around her are blown away and want her to mentor them. I watched her take control of Zozobra* in Santa Fe New Mexico where she was the single fire dance performer, spinning poi into giant circles of flame, doing fire dance before 40,000 people, transform her magic, and drop much of the audience quiet, as a 50 foot tall effigy burned into a firry death. There is Starena (Serena) in Arizona (the arid zone), she just hast to come for the eclipse.

Look I'm evil, I play to their mortality, the next full eclipse will be about 25 years from now in the US and it will slid through Tex-ass again, so why not now when you can still move around in the buff and get a load of 'Hubba-Hubbas!

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zozobra

VADA. Water melon, she likes it warm, and being necked and WATER, at the same time!

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Patti, stripper heals and her flogger at her last workshop. Yes all the white boy photographers were shocked, but the cacophony of shutters told a different tail (get it, TAIL! LOL!!!).

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Kat 50's pin up/cheese cake style.

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Kat, from the apartment landing above, looking down past the pencil cactus clusters, as she suns herself on the garden bench.

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Getting direction from another traveling model as Kat and VADA do another style fun naughty session.


Serena (Starena): ultra model, musician, dancer, doctor.


Zozobra_Dusk-By-R.-Valdez-2007.

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Zozobra full sun light, shows the scale of the sculpture.


Zozobra when it burns after sun set, burning away the city's bad energy.

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Heyyyyy Tim, yea a bit of time has passed since I replied but I have lost interest for the most part in UHH, I do read daily this topic and chit chat but for the most part, lost interest.
Let me share some pics of what I did this past annular eclipse from my patio. Yea I made my own solar filters.

The Nikon has the screw on filter I applied the solar filter sheeting on, you will see this on down.

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I sat on the bucket but the crack in it is so the water from the potted plant can drain out, you can see it on the left.

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This is screw on filter to fit my 80-400mm lends.

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This is how I secured the solar filter sheet to the lens, no glue at all used.

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This is other filter attachment I made for the Nikon lens, it jsut slips over the sun shade as you can see.

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This is the one I made for the Lumix FZ300, this is a fitting before fianl gluing and paint. it zooms to 600mm.

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Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Well, it looks like your having fun, and that is just what a project can get you. Your all set for the big one coming up soon. I saw these back some time ago when you posted them at the time of the past eclipse. I look forward to seeing the outcome of your investigation of the soon to be event. Good hunting there my photon junky buddy! LOL!!!

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Thanks Tim, right now I have a lot to deal with so I cannot commit to anything but running down there to hang out this coming April sure sounds like fun.