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We raised hogs in the 50's and the hog feed came in the printed cotton sacks. My mother made shirts for us boys that were considered "good" shirts which we wore to school; not to play in. That goes a long way back. Had forgotten that.

You can copy all your files to another drive and then put them back on your new system. Unfortunately, you cannot do that with your programs. You will have to re-install them. If you don't have the validation numbers and can't get them, you will have to purchase new ones.

If you are running Win 8.1 or 10, they both are UEFI based BIOS's. To boot from a CD or from a USB disk, you have to make two changes to your BIOS. This is for booting to LINUX. I have not tried this with a Windows OS on USB. Put your CD/DVD in the tray and close it, then boot the computer and access the BIOS while booting. When the BIOS screen comes up navigate to the Secure Boot option and disable it, hit F10 to save and reboot, accessing the BIOS again. This time go to the Boot Sequence option and you will see your CD/DVD or USB drive and you can make it the first bootable option. Again hit F10 to save and exit and then the computer will boot to the CD. When you are all finished and ready to boot to Windows again, you will have to re-access the BIOS and revert the changes you made; enable Secure Boot, re-boot and set Windows as the first bootable option if it isn't already.

I don't remember where right now, but it is in the menu settings. I think it was an option for magnification.

I have those features on my NEX 7. The zoom was a problem for me so I turned it off and now use focus peaking only. You can go into the menu and choose the peaking color; red, yellow or white. The focus peaking color will not show until you half press the shutter button to focus the shot.

I took your first picture and opened it in Lightroom. I applied a radial filter from the top of the picture and dragged it down to the falls. I then reduced the exposure a bit and reduced the temperature. It put some blue in the sky.

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Many years ago, I copied about 450 pages of a book I wrote, to create slides. I used frosted glass I got from a glass shop. There was no reflection.

More great photos from a great artist. Thanks.

I was there in 67 and 68, in SOG and PHOENIX. I know the bad politics and politicians who made everything difficult. Washington said after Vietnam that we had learned our lesson, and there would never be another one. Well, they didn't and there was; look at Iraq and Afghanistan. That is why we look back; by doing so we are supposed to learn the mistakes we made and not repeat them. Well, we learned, but they repeated them anyway.

This portrait is perfect. Nothing should be added or removed.

My primary cameras are the NEX7 and the A 77 M III. I bought the HX50V and liked it a lot but it lacks an EVF. I bought the HX400V, and although it his a bigger zoom, I did not like the picture quality nor the size; the 400V is almost as big as my NEX 7 and doesn't offer the same features. Both are up for sale and I just purchased the RX100 M III; this camera is super small and absolutely wonderful. Although it cost more than the other small ones, it is easy to use, easy to carry, extremely versatile, shoots RAW or jpeg, can be manually focused and produces excellent IQ. The extra money was well worth it.

In 1951, we got the first television in the neighborhood. It was a cabinet model with a screen of about that size, maybe a bit smaller. The only thing I remember watching on it was footage of Korean prisoners of war being moved somewhere.

I really like the truck, but would like to see a picture of the tractor in the background. I haven't seen one of those since the early 50's; a early model Ford converted into a tractor.

A percentage of firearm related homicides means nothing. If people want to kill, they kill. I even investigated one homicide in which the victim was stabbed to death with a fondue fork.