tommy2 wrote:
Well, I'll try to be succinct and reasonably general with my answers (IMHO and in no particular order) to your post included above.
First and foremost I also think your photo is an outstanding photograph as others have said. Second, I don't question responses that don't specifically point to one part of a thread or another. I accept them as a response to my submission since I started the thread. Third - a very important one to me - is I don't respond in like kind to derogatory comments. I take the high road and move on to better comments; however, I don't have a problem calling a spade a spade. Fourth is the photo I referred to as being outstanding (green flash with ship silhouette in the frame) is a text book example! There are very few photos of that caliber in the scientific community. There are very scholarly scientists who write and publish papers on the phenomena of green flashes and that photo is better than most included in those papers!
In conclusion I'd like to say thank you for starting this thread and allowing others to participate in a discussion of the primary subject - green flashes. This is a photography forum and injecting a little scientific info seems to me to be a good thing. However it is your thread and you can do as you please with it so delete, if possible on this forum, anything you don't want to be here. I've learned from experience to just forget about anything not pleasant in my way of being.
Please be assured my homiletics professor at seminary would say that I could write an hour long sermon delving into the level of anguish you have written into your post that I am responding to in this thread.
Thank you, Tommy2
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Very interesting response. If the objective was to confuse me, you have succeeded. Not a problem though, a little confusion from time to time can be a constructive thing.
One point though, the conversation was not about the Green flash. Someone asked me if I saw a Green flash; don't know if they were sincere or baiting me, but I explained myself and the photo an replied, no.
I don't know if my responses showed any level of pain I was or am in. Having or even participating in conversations here shouldn't be painful, although sometimes it sure does seem that way.
You may have, or not, noticed I don't use the word thread to describe what's done here. I worked in information technology most of my adult life and to me, thread, represents something to do with data, and I just find that so darn impersonal. I prefer, conversation. As human beings we converse with each other. It's not like data passing between computers and programs. Programs don't share, they do only what they are told to do, usually.
So, did you graduate seminary? We're you ordained?
I use to belong to, well I guess I still do, an ELCA Lutheran Church that we don't attend as often as we use to. I guess I'm still a member because they keep depositing the check my computer sends them weekly. We pretty much stopped attending after they changed pastors and also when certain members made it quite clear it was their Church and there was some sort of psudo hierarchy in the membership. Apparently both pastors traveled some distance from home to church. One pastor traveled from his home in the western suburbs to his church in the inner city. The other traveled from one end of the county to the other. The intercounty traveler was assigned to a new church near his home town. The intercity traveler was assigned to replace the other pastor thus cutting his commute from over an hour to just minutes. It made perfect sense except for the part where the retired business executive decided the timing was perfect for him to fill some imagined void in the governance of the church. Pastoral politics, who woulda thought...?!
There is a question in there, somewhere. Oh yeah; did you learn the difference between preaching and teaching? The pastor who was transferred to his side of the county was a remarkable preacher. His sermons were interesting and captivating and weren't at all, preachy. This was a man who had a gift, the art of communication. Interesting fact, becoming a Lutheran minister had been his life long dream, and his second career. The other guy was ok. He's been a minister for many years and to be honest, I feel some of the passion was gone. It's almost like he forgot the job was more about teaching. Oh well, things change.
Anyway, I like taking pictures and photographs. I like cameras, have since I was a teenager a long time ago. I like good conversation. I may not be as intellectual as many but I'm not a total maroon. I like gear. May not be able to afford the best or even what I really want, but that has never stopped me from reading. Gotta go, things to do that can't be put off until later.