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Sep 11, 2015 17:47:49   #
I love the zip line at our church camp when I go up for Men's Retreat, although ours ends up going from one hill to another so you stay dry. I got 4 trips in this year. The highest was 13 trips between Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon a couple of years ago. There is no charge for anybody already registered as a camper. At 720' long it gives you a good ride. This past summer we had a quadriplegic missionary go for a ride. That was quite an exercise, but if he could do it anybody could.
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Aug 17, 2015 18:31:31   #
I was on a trip to Israel and the frame advance lever, YUP 35mm, stopped advancing. I shot the rest of the trip with a pocket camera that I took because it had a built in flash. I did get some photos from others on the trip when a longer lens was needed.

After I got home I took out the teeny tiny little screw that held the plastic cover on the lever and discovered that there was another teeny tiny screw that held the level on the post that turned and it was out, but it has been trapped in the cover. If I'd only have taken the cover off some night in the hotel room and looked while I was on the trip I could have used the camera for the rest of the trip. I didn't think to take a teeny tiny screw driver with me.
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Jul 23, 2015 18:20:48   #
As much as you can, you want the sun at your back, so it is shining on "your" side of the balloon. Your eyes will easily adjust to seeing colorful balloons lit from behind, but the camera will just see large dark sillouttes, or if the balloons are properly exposed everything else will be blown out.

That being said, the balloons will 'lay out' to inflate with the basket 'upwind' and the envelope downwind so the wind helps inflate the balloon once they lift the neck open. (And to keep the wind from blowing the envelope over the flame before the balloon is inflated enough to keep the flame away from the fabric.)

After lay out, once inflation starts, most of the activity is around the neck of the balloon so you want to be at a 30 to 60 degree angle from directly upwind of the balloon.

So you have to keep both the sun and wind in mind when you choose a location to shoot from.
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Jun 29, 2015 18:14:15   #
I've taken pictures at weddings and been part of the barrage of flashes that happen at specific points in time, and I did see one picture of mine that had someone else's flash it in. I took note of it because of its rarity. For a strobe picture the 'shutter' is 'open' for less than 1/100th of a second so the chances of multiple cameras making simultaneous exposres is slim, but possible. If he was doing avaialble light photography he may have been using 1/50th or even 1/30th of a second exposures, a comparative long time, but even so, you'd be really 'lucky' to 'ruin' one of his photos much less all of them. Were you the only person taking flash pictures?

That said, cooperation and coordination between the paid professionals is a good thing and that happens by communication.
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Jun 24, 2015 17:43:26   #
Hanible and Mark Twain caves
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May 27, 2015 18:37:21   #
Fasten the feeder so it won't rotate and then while you're shooting plug the ports directly in front of you and behind the feeder so they can only use the ports on the sides of the feeder. Then you'll get good profile shots.
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May 27, 2015 18:19:29   #
Here are a couple of places in Oslo to look up.
Vigeland's park. Wonderful statues and other sculptures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Vigeland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Vigeland

Holmenkollen. The Olympic sky jump is open as a tourist attraction during the summer. The view from the top is great, and it gives you a whole nother perspective on the Olympic sport we usually only see on TV. I have a whole lot more appreciation for those athletes now.

http://www.visitnorway.com/us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> http://www.visitnorway.com/us/

If you ask for them I'm sure the natives will point you in the right direction. Most everyone under the age of 60 will know at least some English. When we were there the 'trik' (Street car) was reliable and dependable for getting around. And a great way to meet people. Hop on, stare and or point at a map and sound lost, someone will likely come help you. If they don't ask someone you're near for help. Ask them what to see as well.

We were there in June and in Oslo it never did get 'dark'. Even after the sun went down. The 'golden hour' was well over two hours both going down and coming up, but the golden hours weren't far apart. Further north the golden hour is even longer as the sun never really sets. I don't know how far north you're going so it you might not be seeing it all night, and you’ll be farther from the summer solstice, but . . . I have some decent shots from just balancing my camera on a railing and tripping the shutter, even ‘long’ after sunset, and that was using ASA 200 or 400 film.

Of course the fjords along the coast will have lots of great scenery. If you can swing it, get up on the vieda, the high plains inland of the coastal mountains. Yes, we saw real live reindeer there. We started at Oslo, drove south around the southern end of Norway and up the west coast until we drove roughly straight east back to Oslo.

I took what I thought was an excessive amount of film (my last trip there wasn't all that recent) and used it all up, and ended up buying more while I was there. Every little burg we drove through seemed to have some place interesting to see or something interesting to do.

If you swim in the ocean, it will be chilly, and you’ll need someone watching out for jelly fish. They sting and that would be a distraction from your trip.

By the way, what’s wrong with lutefisk? It’s good if it’s prepared right. And over there you can get it prepared right, although it’s kind of out of season. It’s a winter food.
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May 15, 2015 18:38:01   #
Yup. That's the guy. Now if I can just remember it.
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May 15, 2015 18:17:43   #
I was listening to NPR on the way home last night and someone who was famous for writing a book on how to write well, and I neglected to remember his name, died. The quote from his book that stuck with me is "There isn't much to be said about a period, except that most writers don't get there soon enough."
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Mar 11, 2015 18:03:20   #
Open Office is also available for Linux.

Word doesn't install its own fonts. Fonts are installed on the computer and Word uses them, so if you get more fonts installed on your computer they will be available in Word.
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Oct 3, 2014 18:12:22   #
Someone did that in the driveway of one of my fields. I picked up all the stuff and found two pairs of pliers and 4 screw drivers all with a big ball of something, probably epoxy, on the ends of them. One below zero winter day I put the ball on the top of my vice and whacked it with a hammer and they all shattered. Two pairs of usable pliers and 3 usable screw drivers. The 4th one broke off the tip, but they were all Sears Craftsman tools, so I took it in and they replaced it at no charge. Can't beat that.
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Sep 17, 2014 11:27:59   #
warrior wrote:
Right click on photo file. Send to smart drive. Then put the smart drive in new computer.


OK, but I don't see how that deals with the information that is stored in the Picasa database and not stored in the photo.

Basically, as you suggested, I have a large external hard drive that I backup all my photos, and other things, on and keep it in a safe when not actually running the backup. When I lost my hard drive and rebuilt it I could restore the photos from the external drive, but I did not get back all the information that had been stored in the Picasa database.
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Sep 17, 2014 09:16:37   #
warrior wrote:
You can also use a high GB smart drive.


I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're suggesting I do. Could you please elaborate?

Thanks,
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Sep 16, 2014 19:10:58   #
I'll give that a try. I don't know why I couldn't find that.

Thanks,
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Sep 16, 2014 18:07:40   #
I have carefully backed up my photos (and other things) and when I had to rebuild my computer hard drive I wasn't too worried. I got everything back, except the information I'd entered into Picasa. I lost all my captions. I know picasa doesn't update the pictures files until they are exported, so all that information has to be kept somewhere. I need to add that location to what gets backed up, or get it restored if I'm already backing it up. Anybody know the name and location of the file(s)?
Thanks,
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