Mountains
Mar 21, 2019 06:38:55 #
Welcome to a fellow New Englander. I originally from Boston.
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Mar 21, 2019 09:09:05 #
I find this system very difficult to use so far. I am still learning how to read replies to me. I got that "inbox" virus because I stupidly signed up for it, took me a while to figure out how to get it off my new computer. So photography is taking a back seat to my difficulties with this website.
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Mar 21, 2019 11:35:02 #
Go to a camera store put the camera in your hands see if it fits you. I learn a lot on utube you can to, will a way. When I was on the US highways for 10 I was not in to photography like I am now at 80. I would LOVE see in photos where you been photos and others on here would too. anGODbless
Mar 21, 2019 13:58:20 #
Mar 21, 2019 18:41:44 #
jack schade wrote:
Welcome to the forum.
Jack
Jack
I wish there was a camera store nearby but there isn't. Hunt's is 3 hours away. I bought a Casio camera there years ago. Abe's of Maine is in Linden NJ.
Mar 21, 2019 18:54:41 #
I have a lot of photos of Easter Island where I was in OCT. Nice place to visit. Nobody knows who did all the statues although the Polynesians say they had a hand in it. I doubt that.
Mar 22, 2019 15:33:44 #
Ishmael wrote:
I have a lot of photos of Easter Island where I was in OCT. Nice place to visit. Nobody knows who did all the statues although the Polynesians say they had a hand in it. I doubt that.
why doubt? there are no other credible theories -- the evidence supports Polynesian migration and construction
Mar 22, 2019 20:40:28 #
It's a long story. Our Polynesian guide would say that the Polynesians moved them and "fixed them up" he didn't say the Polynesians "carved" them. When the first Europeans discovered the island they said there were varying racial types, white, big with light or red hair as well as darker, smaller Polynesian type people. The "whites" were presumably the long ears whom the Polynesians defeated and killed in some kind of war presumably right after the Europeans first visited. There is a strong possibility (my words) that there were already people there when the Polynesians arrived maybe 1,000 years ago. My view is that the moai are thousands of years old and why the occupants would undertake to make 900+ of them is a mystery. The island is not lush, it is not that good for farming, water is not plentiful, so why these people who were just getting by would go to all this trouble is hard to comprehend.
Mar 23, 2019 00:34:57 #
Ishmael wrote:
It's a long story. Our Polynesian guide would say ... (show quote)
that's the classic argument from ignorance - "gee, I dont know how it happened, therefore it couldn't happen" - there's absolutely no evidence that anyone other than Polynesians created these monoliths; yet another denigration of the abilities of pre-Columbian cultures' -- no DNA or any other evidence of cultures there before the Polynesians; no mystery - it's a classic illustration of a people expanding beyond their ecological habitat
Mar 23, 2019 09:09:26 #
I find it curious that I'm discussing Easter Island on a photography venue. Your view is what I would call the "mainstream view." That these unsophisticated primitive people could have done all this elaborate work with simply basalt rocks to hammer with and that it was all done certainly within the last 1000 years by Polynesians who got out of their outrigger canoes and got to work. Then if you follow Jared Diamond, they cut down all the trees and ruined their environment and it's a lesson for all of us environmentalists. My conclusion, and I've visited there twice and seen everything the diligent tourist can find to look at and read several books about the place and many articles (that don't appear in the MSM) is that I don't know and nobody knows what really happened there. The Pacific islands are a fascinating subject, there are many old ruins on various islands but almost nothing approaching the scale of the moais on Easter Island. So why did this take place on a relatively barren and poor island where it is a lot of work to merely survive? As opposed to somewhere like Hawaii where conditions are so much better? You could be 100% right but all anyone can say with their ideas is that it could have happened this way and it can't be proven wrong either. In conclusion, I would say it's a great place for photography and my interest in photography was stimulated by me not being able to do justice to all these sights with my point and shoot camera.
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