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Mar 29, 2016 17:47:07   #
Slow the shutter down and pan so that the subject is sharp and the background is blurred.
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Mar 28, 2016 17:47:51   #
I figure you took it because you got a charge out of it.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:25:51   #
Looks like a pair of keepers.
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Mar 16, 2016 17:51:22   #
Please accept my condolences. As God told Paul, My grace is sufficient for you.
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Mar 16, 2016 17:41:01   #
I went to the page, but I couldn't find the list of things. Bummer.
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Mar 14, 2016 18:55:37   #
To understand this story you have to know that my name is Murray.

When my daughter was two she was out on the driveway behind the house on warm July afternoon and started shouting "BRO, bro" (Brother). My son was 10 and was "baby sitting" which meant that he was sitting under the tree reading a book and his job was to make sure she didn't on on the other side of the house where the highway was. (My wife was in the house taking care of what ever mothers take care of while husbands are away at work.)

He jumped up and ran over to see what was happening. My daughter pointed at the wall of the garage and a 'daddy long legs' was climbing up the wall. She was wearing a pair of shorts that barely covered her diaper and a sleeveless shirt. It might have been crawling on her, which doesn't hurt, but when they grab individual hairs on your arm or leg it feels funny.

My son explained that it was just a 'daddy long legs' and it didn't bite or sting or do anything else hazardous or hurtful. But she was all excited and didn't settle down.

Finally he picked her up and carried her over and put her in the tire swing and pushed her for a while. She wanted down and went to play in the sand box and my son went back to his book. He related all this to us at supper time.

A few days later, it was a Monday since my wife was doing the laundry. My daughter was standing by our back porch and calling "BRO bro" again. He jumped up and ran over to see what was going on, and my wife came around the end of the sheets she was hanging on the clothes line to see as well.

My daughter was just two so she hadn't quite got her mouth around all of the English language yet, so usually her "L"s came out more like "Y"s.

When my son got to where she was she pointed up over her head at a small critter climbing the back wall of the house and proudly announced "Murray Yong Yegs, Murray Yong Yegs"!

Not quite, but really close.
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Mar 2, 2016 17:30:03   #
Until recently most were limited to 15 - 20 MPH. But as farms get larger and fields farther apart the manufactures have increased the travel speed. I know some high clearance sprayers can get down the road at over 40 MPH.
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Feb 29, 2016 17:49:29   #
I hate it when people use big words just to make themselves sound perspicacious.(?)

I thought they were trying to sound sesquipedalian.!
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Feb 26, 2016 17:24:28   #
Wonderful shot
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Feb 25, 2016 19:20:17   #
Did you hear that Trump wants to ban the sale of shredded cheese? Yup. He wants to make America grate again.
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Feb 25, 2016 19:14:50   #
I was the photographer for my high school annual, more than 4 decades ago now. I used Tri-X Pan (Black & White) film and pushed it from 400 - about 1200 and took mostly indoor photos without a flash. I learned to hand hold a 100MM lens, well, a 50MM with a 2X adapter, at a 1/30 second exposure and get most of them to turn out. More were spoiled by subject movement that camera movement.

I had just taken my last photo on a role of film and rewound it into the cassette when the class dismissal bell rang and I gathered up all my stuff to go to my next class intending to swap rolls in the camera after I got to my next class. (Notice absence of actually installing the new role of film in this sequence of events.)

In my next class I was taking some pictures. Of course, back then film and processing and printing was comparatively expensive, although I did all my own darkroom work and loaded my own cassettes from 100' bulk roles to hold the cost down. I agreed to use my own film and print all the pictures that were desired for the annual, but then at the end of the year, all the negatives were mine to keep. Both the school and I thought we were getting the long end of the stick with this agreement.

One of my classmates complained about all the photos I was taking and another one chimed in that I didn't have any film in the camera. Oh my! That reminded me that I didn't have any film in the camera. I quickly confirmed that to myself by turning the rewind knob and it turned freely. OH Oh! It should have been tight if there was film in the camera. OOPPSS!!!!!!!

On a lark I confessed that I didn't have film in the camera and even opened the back of the camera and showed them that in fact the camera was empty. The class started and I had to put down my camera and pay attention to the teacher.

I vowed, to myself, never to make that mistake again, and I don't think I did. But, the benefit of my 'mistake' was that the next day everybody thought that my camera didn't have any film in it, when in fact it did.

So, about once every 6 weeks or so, I intentionally didn't put film in my camera and was just really obnoxious with it, getting right up in people's faces. When they guessed I didn't have film in the camera I'd put my finger to my lips, to indicate that it was a secret, and then open the back of the camera to show them it was empty.

After that, most people, most of the time, believed that I didn't have film in the camera and totally ignored me, or hammed it up for the camera, which was even better. In fact, I could show someone the empty camera and then load film into it, right in front of them, and they'd still think that it was empty.

Word however did get back to the adviser for the annual that I was taking pictures without film in the camera and he was concerned that I was not getting the pictures that they needed for the annual. I showed him the contact sheets of the pictures I had actually taken, and explained my ruse to him, and he was delighted with the results.

My ruse became folk lore that was passed from photographer to photographer down through the years. My parents moved out of town the summer after my freshman year in college so I lost most connections to my high school. Several years later I ran into a high school classmate who had a younger sibling still in my high school and he'd heard from the sibling that the annual photographers still spent most of time without film in their cameras.

The annual staff had to send in to the publisher the first 16 pages by Thanksgiving time and when the representative of the printer of the annual books came by the school after Christmas he asked the adviser how much the budget for the annual was increased. The adviser confessed that it had actually been reduced. He was astounded that we could afford all the professional pictures on a reduced budget. Nope, none of them were professional. Just a kid who carried a camera almost as much as he wore glasses and took lots of pictures. Now a days the analogy would be like kids carry a cell phone. I considered that if I got 1 good picture out of a roll of 36 it was a successful roll.

That plan for getting people to ignore me and my camera worked great for the last two years of high school and the two years of Jr. College where I was also a photographer for the annual.
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Jan 27, 2016 18:32:51   #
In my office it's "PEBAC".

Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair.
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Nov 27, 2015 16:57:06   #
That's easy to solve. Just rotate the tire until the good part is down.
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Sep 18, 2015 19:18:47   #
When I started they were made of aluminum and had screw on tops.
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Sep 18, 2015 18:19:11   #
I had several reels of Super 8 and several more of 16mm converted by Put it on Video in Des Moines, Iowa. They were backed up when I took my films in last spring, but got it all 3 lots done by the time the first lot was to be back. I was quite pleased with how they turned out. http://www.putitonvideo.net/
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