OK - Title - 'Found in Shoebox in the Attic'

OK, they were wrong, and the USPS was on the ball, got it today. Will try it at the spring Rail Fest at Orange Empire Railway Museum this weekend, can't operate anything because I am on a crutch from blowing out my left knee last month, so I'll show up, help at what I can, and play photographer. Guess living less than 10 miles from MOVO helped on the quick delivery thing.

Yeah, I have. And they are still nit pickers, you have to look at the photo very large and hunt to find the wires, which are on the edge and do not detract in any significant way from the overall image. Nit Pickers are Infidels, Death to the Infidels. (always wanted to say that, almost kept a straight face while typing, did choke a little.)

I like both also, the clear one as a photo, the other as a daydream inducer. You can't really tell where the road goes. I immediately thought Tolkien's poem 'The Road", first version, the second from the last book needs and "Inn" for the end of the journey.

I still have two Sensorex bodies stored away in back room, one with broken shutter dial also some lenses. Last time I checked the other one still worked fine. (I used them until 2002 when I got my first digital.) Got first one at PX outside Tokyo in 67 when on R&R from Nam. Second in LA in 70's because I wanted to carry one with color and one with B&W. Shop told me that I was getting the last Miranda they were ever going to have because the owners (in US?) and workers in Japan were all reaching retirement at about the same time. No one wanted to take over and run the company so they had sold all assets, patents etc. to someone else (who?) Don't know if it is true, but sounded good.

Sandisk sends out e-mails about factory refurbs every so often,got one last week. Bought two a few months ago and they work just fine.

What are the f stops, France has a lot of churches and old buildings you might want indoor shots of.

Hmm! Evil thought to suggest to all those who don't have or believe in the "budget gene".

How long would it take to develop a budget gene if someone tried to talk you into a medium format digital and bag full of lenses?

Why worry about the wires, only a nit picker would even notice them. (on a large view on a big monitor) I know, you know they are there so they stick out like a sore thumb.

I posted my own 5 minute redo of the original. Lens correction to get barn vertical and greened up the grass (western Kentucky farm background, yellow grass offends me)

Hope you don't mind, I did a lenses correction and greened up the pasture in LR5

Find a group of trees or a building that looks good against the sky. Or get someone to pose and shoot from a low angle. ?!?

Rule of gun handling 'There is no such thing as an unloaded gun until you have personally checked it.' Next rule, 'Keep your finger off the trigger unless actually firing.' and 'Never point a gun at anything you aren't willing/planning to shoot.' (I think that would include your own foot!?!?

Family needs come first, keeping youngest in college next, a little extra for family next, and last comes toys. I'll save for something if I get a little extra from time to time. My 6D and its lenses and accessories were from a year and a half of back payment(s) from VA. It will probably be a while before I get anything else major. Maybe sell some of my other toys.

That spot goes on the thing I want in focus. Also, having learned on manual I tend to take at least one manual focus of something I consider important. And when the auto focus can't make up it's tiny electronic mind I go with manual.

Being familiar with quail back east as a kid I would say that not only did you not want the males head to be lost in the leafy background but if you had tried to get lower it would have likely been a photo of the place two quail used to be. Oh yeah, I love the shot and at least on my monitor it is Very Sharp.