That's twice in a row that you've (finally!) been right about something. OMFG!!!

Turning over a 'new' sorta leaf, Cheepftster???

Nice 'n crisp for a scanned neg, APL. But a freshly souped neg shouldn't be as prone to dust spotting as you described, should it? Maybe triple clean your scanner's platen then blower brush the neg as a final step before scanning?

Oh, 'n thanx for the shoutout. Next, I deviously plan on coaxing you into the realm of focus stacked landscapes....

Do a minuet, Cheepf? What do you take me for? Some 18th Century French dude in a powdered curly wig or something? Harrumphhhhh!

But a freestyle 21st Century Funky Minuet I might could muster if the right Alien Death Metal band was booked to play the Bach, and if I could crank my ISO up high enough to shoot a shot of myself dancin' with the devil in the pale moonlight without it getting all noisy or whatever. And, of course, if I didn't have to wear some scratchy wig.

It wasn't an addition, Mike. It was an inclusion. But silliness aside, who amongst us would not think to bring their dancing slippers with them when they venture out --regardless whether that be on this side of the tracks or on that-- into the Wilds behind Jackass Joes World of Jerky? I should think not!!! No one functionally rational, anyhow.

....out behind Jackass Joe's.

(No aliens were injured during the shooting of this image.)

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Now that is a very fine image.

Eh? Seems to me like YOU were who was out on safari. (See any elephants or leopards or wildebeasties down there in the Andes???)

Hah! Coming from Colorado, if you take the Crescent Junction exit it's impossible to miss Jackass Joe's. And as far as other stuff goes that lies a little north of I-70.... it's a whole 'nuther world to investigate.

After the stop at Jackass Joe's.... the sky above the Books became became black, drops of rain occasionally fell and that turned to graupel, and the backroad route beckoned. For my springtime weather preferences, it was nothing less than ideal. Though the skeletonized cow I found might've disagreed.

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New? Not hardly. Been under the (mildly deranged) auspices of Jackass Joe for years and years. And, 'do they have porcupine jerky??' O Heck Yesssss! Seven flavors thereof. There's Pteredacty Porcupine, there's Hot & Sour Porky-Jerky, there's Sizzlin' Hot Firecupine Jerky, there's Porcupine Mayonnaise Jerky (for the meek of heart, I suppose), there's..... oh, so many other varieties of porcupine jerky fit for discriminating tastes and epicurean palettes. And (I've been told, having never myself tested either the theory or the practice) every last one of them goes down great with a healthy swig outa that pint of Jack Daniels you've got stuffed in your back pocket.

Lost? Probably. But more likely you simply got abducted. Happens all the time, y'know....

....and you're not sure how you got there, be sure to strike back! Take the Crescent Junction exit off I-70, stop at Jackass Joe's World Of Jerky, and get yourself some fresh, tasty, road-kill Alien Jerky! (Jackass Joe sells other kinds of jerky, too --like 'Prime Rib Jerky', 'Antelope & Beaver Jerkey', 'Herky-Jerky' and more--, but none of those will give you quite the same sense of retribution you may feel is deserved after having been cruelly abducted, probed, and left someplace --Utah!!?!! O My Freaking HECK!!!-- you never dreamed you'd find yourself, feeling strangely sore and pleasantly disoriented.)

<edit:> This has NOT been a paid advertisement! I have no connection whatsoever to Joe, jackasses in general, nor am I acquainted with any (living, or alternately, any) road-kilt Aliens. That Joe freely gave me a deep discount on his 'Mild & Spicy UFO Bits Jerky' was merely a matter of him wanting to be friendly.

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Yes. Very fast indeed. Somewhere down in the micro-seconds. Because Periwinkles are known to be the 2nd fastest mollusk on the planet, and when one decides it wants to go, its already gone.

You have (and have presumably read?) "them all"? Most excellent! Though the Hobbit and the LOTR primes and offshoots are popular and whatnot, few are aware that Tolkien was first a scholar, second a Philologist, third a translator, and fourth an author.

Star Trek? Okay. I guess. But if you want the good stuff, I suggest you ferret out a copy of Tolkien's translation of _Beowulf_, then progress to his translation of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' (along with 'The Pearl' and/or 'Sir Orfreo' while you're about it), whose actual 13th C. author remains unknown, but whose works in the Northwest Midlands alliterative verse form (along with 'St. Erkenwald') are the absolute best of Medieval Literature. To the point that those works make Chaucer look like a cartoonist. Granted, there aren't any Death Stars in either Tolkien's or the Gawain Poet's works, but great literature is great literature.

Oh, and the Instagram pic is kinda cute, but I wish that whatever it is that's in the immediate foreground (a sword? some sort of pointy/stabby object?) was in focus.

Thanx, fumi. For having referenced Imogene's work too, right along with Weston's.