The line, “Now we know each salesman paid four dollars - 3 X $4.00 = $12.00” is incorrect. They paid $5.00 each - 3 X $5.00 = $15.00. The clerk has $10.00, the salesmen have $3.00 and the bellhop has $2.00. ($10.00 + $3.00 + $2.00 = $15.00)

I collect. restore and use old 35mm cameras. I do not have a Minolta XG-M in my collection so I would love to have and restore it.

So what? More interesting is the fact you find this tidbit so fascinating you felt compelled to share it with us. You really think anyone honestly gives a damn? There’s a hell of a lot more important things going on than whether or not this poor woman will talk to Trump.

The tickets are free - same as they are at the Woodstock Nature Conservancy.

“Climate change” an appallingly stupid euphemism. The climate is always changing. The environmentalists are the real climate-change “deniers” because they basically want global temperatures to maintain absolute static relative to 1970—not coincidentally the point at which environmentalists first began paying any attention to the issue.

Earth's climate may be the single most complex thing we've ever studied. Tens of thousands, possibly millions, of variables, all interacting in countless ways including countless feedback loops. Utterly unknown upper-atmosphere processes. Equally unknown oceanographic effects. And the climate "scientists" want to pretend all that damn-near-infinite complexity doesn't exist and claim it's all about CO2.

Very nice, Lorima. You certainly have an eye for taking beautiful photos.

"Should Americans need further proof of the absurdity of our federal government, they need look no further than the decision by the Food and Drug Administration to regulate added sugars in food products.

This same government has spent billions of dollars subsidizing domestic sugar production. Thus, the government seeks, simultaneously, to curb and promote sugar consumption.

Perhaps this discontinuity is a blessing in disguise. Were the federal government capable of unity of purpose, American liberty would be in even greater jeopardy."

Kyle H, Wilkins -- WSJ - 6/2/16

Si vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war.

I wouldn’t call that price gouging. If a consumer is willing to pay a certain price, then he is not being gouged. If he’s not willing, then can look for a substitute or do without. If consumers are willing to pay a certain price, then the price is not above the market. If they aren’t willing to pay that price, then the supplier won’t charge the price. It’s called the Law of Supply and Demand.

The exif also shows you used spot metering, manual exposure and manual white balance. Any reason why for this photo? Like everyone else, I have no idea what caused the browning in the upper left corner.

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Here is the website I used for the free trial. https://www.projects-software.com/sharpen

[quote=Base_fiddle]DavidJon, when you ran the photos through, did you have to make any keystroke adjustments or did the program automatically make the adjustments.

No, I didn't make any adjustments. I just let the program do it automatically to see if it was smarter than me. Apparently it is. I'll be fiddling around with in the next few days just to see what all the bells and whistles do. By the way, if you don't want to install it as a plug in, there is a button you can click to open the final image in an external program.

I downloaded the free Trial version a couple of days ago. Haven’t had much of a chance to test it out but I did run about 10 or 12 photos through it. A couple showed a striking improvement over the original. The others maybe less so to the eye. At the bottom right of the screen are two boxes that show the pixel cluster before and after. On some photos you can definitely see how Projects sharpened the pixels. For 20 bucks I’ll probably buy it.

Nice capture, Lorima. When you gotta eat, you gotta eat!

Nice use of negative space. Thanks for posting.