Posts for: tommy2
May 17, 2019 07:24:33 #
For me it is the transportation choices. I especially liked the trains, their stations and the walking bridges to get over the nearest sets of tracks.
May 16, 2019 07:44:25 #
We do live in a diverse culture. Thank you for the reminder.
May 16, 2019 07:39:56 #
Wow, I am standing there too!
May 16, 2019 07:35:37 #
WessoJPEG wrote:
...I need to love more, Forgive me if you can...
YES! It is a humbling experience, congratulations on your new life. ENJOY!
May 13, 2019 13:42:47 #
Gravity will not be a friend when the new tiles are moved up onto the roof.
May 13, 2019 06:23:40 #
This thread is what I like about this forum.
Been wondering about some of this info but didn't know how to ask. Thank you!
Been wondering about some of this info but didn't know how to ask. Thank you!
May 12, 2019 09:41:59 #
Nikon unit seems like a very good addition to my "other brand" camera rig.
Hope the store will put it into a plain brown sack after purchase just like the Honda dealer does their proprietary brand cleaner/polish when a Harley driver buys some...
Hope the store will put it into a plain brown sack after purchase just like the Honda dealer does their proprietary brand cleaner/polish when a Harley driver buys some...
May 11, 2019 08:51:46 #
Very interesting concept.
Around this retirement facility the going trend is to donate the body to science. So upon death the family tells, with prior arrangements, the facility that wants the body "it's time" and they take care of everything and all expenses from that point on. All that the descendants then need to do is call up the cemetery where the headstone is located and have the date of death put on it. For some reason this remains the responsibility of the family - so they can have some closure.
Of course the whole "headstone" part can be skipped.
It was fun to buy a half dozen headstones in a package deal with custom engraving - cheaper too. Now that the remaining immediate family members have theirs in place more family members are getting together to buy another half dozen.
The reason for this process is most all relatives live in some place far away from the family cemetery. My spouse and I are the closest and it's still a five hour flight to get to the area and then more transportation to get to the hundred year old family gravesite. No one but us has been there in the last dozen or so years and that has been only every couple years or more. We've given everyone permission to find their own place of internment but for some reason everyone is holding on to that "family area" in a perpetual care cemetery. The city where its located has bought a hundred or more acres around the "family area" to establish a city cemetery and named it after our first relatives buried there.
There's room for several more generations of family members should they follow the trend.
Around this retirement facility the going trend is to donate the body to science. So upon death the family tells, with prior arrangements, the facility that wants the body "it's time" and they take care of everything and all expenses from that point on. All that the descendants then need to do is call up the cemetery where the headstone is located and have the date of death put on it. For some reason this remains the responsibility of the family - so they can have some closure.
Of course the whole "headstone" part can be skipped.
It was fun to buy a half dozen headstones in a package deal with custom engraving - cheaper too. Now that the remaining immediate family members have theirs in place more family members are getting together to buy another half dozen.
The reason for this process is most all relatives live in some place far away from the family cemetery. My spouse and I are the closest and it's still a five hour flight to get to the area and then more transportation to get to the hundred year old family gravesite. No one but us has been there in the last dozen or so years and that has been only every couple years or more. We've given everyone permission to find their own place of internment but for some reason everyone is holding on to that "family area" in a perpetual care cemetery. The city where its located has bought a hundred or more acres around the "family area" to establish a city cemetery and named it after our first relatives buried there.
There's room for several more generations of family members should they follow the trend.
May 10, 2019 12:09:39 #
May 10, 2019 07:37:21 #
I second most of the suggestions above and would like to emphasize my preferences too.
I do like the twist lock because of carrying it in my back-pack and the flip-locks seem to always hook on something when extracting it. Also Always use a tilt-only head on the tallest/cheapest monopod I can get (have less than $100 in the present rig).
I have virtually the same lens/camera combo you have - all 8 pounds worth.
I do like the twist lock because of carrying it in my back-pack and the flip-locks seem to always hook on something when extracting it. Also Always use a tilt-only head on the tallest/cheapest monopod I can get (have less than $100 in the present rig).
I have virtually the same lens/camera combo you have - all 8 pounds worth.
May 6, 2019 09:04:28 #
Hoo Boy, are there, doing that!
As a full time caregiver I had to adjust my fun activities to enjoying a hobby or two allowing me to stay close. So rekindled my enjoyment of photography and started taking music lessons at the local community college - about three blocks from our downtown apartment.
Downsizing to move into a more efficient place caused much of our possessions to be sold provided a little extra cash to buy into those hobbies. It took me almost four years to realize the plan would work and obtain equipment (had to be very selective) to follow those two adventures.
Now a little over a year into these hobbies I find them fulfilling and enjoyable for both of us. Can play a whole song plus ample learning exercises from memory on the concert guitar and capture nice images to view. Our facility took a group of us to the zoo last weekend and this weekend I'll go on a photoshoot myself with a group from the local camera shop. I'm looking forward to learning more about the equipment I've accumulated and how to best use it.
I do need to say I've read and reread the posts in the UHH macro section and have just about developed the confidence to go out into the building's landscaped terrace to look for live subjects to photograph.
Thanks UHH!
As a full time caregiver I had to adjust my fun activities to enjoying a hobby or two allowing me to stay close. So rekindled my enjoyment of photography and started taking music lessons at the local community college - about three blocks from our downtown apartment.
Downsizing to move into a more efficient place caused much of our possessions to be sold provided a little extra cash to buy into those hobbies. It took me almost four years to realize the plan would work and obtain equipment (had to be very selective) to follow those two adventures.
Now a little over a year into these hobbies I find them fulfilling and enjoyable for both of us. Can play a whole song plus ample learning exercises from memory on the concert guitar and capture nice images to view. Our facility took a group of us to the zoo last weekend and this weekend I'll go on a photoshoot myself with a group from the local camera shop. I'm looking forward to learning more about the equipment I've accumulated and how to best use it.
I do need to say I've read and reread the posts in the UHH macro section and have just about developed the confidence to go out into the building's landscaped terrace to look for live subjects to photograph.
Thanks UHH!
May 6, 2019 08:24:55 #
My title would be simply, "Mentor". Just look at Grasshopper there with his finger on the trigger intently searching for his prey!
May 4, 2019 08:22:12 #
Glad you posted the last two. I like the last best for content, story, etc.
May 2, 2019 14:01:28 #
MrBob wrote:
...Public service workers do not always get the credit they deserve...
Oh My Goodness! Obviously written by a REAL participant in the absolutely necessary job in the Public Service Worker world! You deserve a resounding Thank You from the everyday citizen right along with all military combat veterans!
May 2, 2019 12:28:01 #
Bypass Surgery on a live sanitary sewer trunk line. The left most green box contains a pump drawing the raw sewage from the line ahead of the surgical incision to move it with the help of an in-line booster pump (green box near center) further along (about a city block) to another access port in the original line. Dr. Michael DeBakey would be proud of the several 24 hour stormy day procedure! Congratulations to the work crew for not allowing any polluting material to spill into the beautiful Trinity River!
