Really nice perspective shot. Thanks.

I really don't think that the floor heights are different from lower to higher. Hard to tell for sure without a full face on photo of building from ground. As an architect, I believe what you are looking at are external louvers, acting as sun screen. Look at the brown louvered section and you see white horizontal bands behind them. I think that this marks the actual floor levels behind the screens.

Larry

This is another photo taken in 1965 in a church on the left bank in Paris. It was taken on slide film and scanned recently to my computer. It is a shot that has always interested me. "Devotion".

Assuming this is still "open" topic, I am posting an old(er) photo. Taken with a Nikon film camera (F)? and scanned slide.
This is the famed Calder (Sr.) fountain in Philadelphia's Logan Square (really a traffic circle) in summer. It is a grand place for kids to cool off in the water.

Thanks for the Packard photos. My wife and I go to the Bach music festival at Lehigh every year and I have tried several times to get a good photo but with the glass case and flocks of people usually there at these events, I have had trouble getting a shot that I liked. You have succeeded...I have not.

I can only report the statement by the neighbor who brought the animals to my dad. He did own a riding mower and we believed his story.
Larry

Thanks, I appreciate your comments.
Larry

All photos taken with Nikon p610 point & shoot. Birds in thorn tree shot with extended lens setting from 30 feet away. Cannot use all my bigger [and older] Nikons and telephoto lenses due to arthritis in neck and shoulders. I do like my little p160!!!!
All comments welcome.
Larry

Steve,

I need you to come and tell my neighbors' cats that they are supposed to cover up their feces.....they don't seem to know the rules!!!!!!
Larry


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I received this last week and passed it on to friends because I think it a great philosophy and truth. However, received a reply from one friend to indicate that according to Scopes it is not true...at least it is not Jobs comments. Too bad, but still great advice!!!
Larry

Hi
I find that with digital I am somewhat lax in my setup before shooting. I am usually pretty good at composing a shot, but if in a hurry to catch something before it disappears, I will shoot with the idea that I can edit all or part of my picture to suit. Plus...delete doesn't cost me anything. I do not describe myself as anything more than a better than average amateur!
Larry

My parents gained a reputation for salvaging birds fallen or thrown out [birds do not care to raise deformed or otherwise imperfect progeny] and some other baby animals. This happened quite a few years ago. A neighbor ran his riding mower over a squirrel nest and killed mom squirrel and all but two babes. He, of course, brought the two to my father. One was not saved but the other was eye-dropper fed, weaned to food and kept in a cage until it was felt to be big enough to release. The cage was put outside behind the house and a couple of days later, left with the door open. At first the animal hardly went more than a few yards out, but eventually took off and was gone. Several weeks later, when my father and I were working outside a squirrel came thru the grass and stopped about 20 feet from us. My father [intuition?] decided to sit down in the grass and then the squirrel came up to him and stayed for about two or three minutes before disappearing again [permanently]. Lucky for me, I had my camera ....

Larry

Steve,
I agree. I gained so much pleasure when reviewing and sorting old slides with the idea of gifting it to an entity that would utilize them, that I really didn't resent the huge amount of time and effort to organize the stuff. There is something magical to go back and review all the places you have been and the things that you have seen....!
Larry

I am 85; a retired architect and have a huge slide collection of art, landscape design, architecture and the like. About 95% of my slides were identified by subject, but no specific photo info such as camera used, aperture, etc. I sorted my slide collection by country, city, and gave 11,000 of them to Drexel University's Architectural department. They put a value of 10 cents per slide on the collection and decided that they would digitize a selected number. This would be a long term process since it would be done by student helpers when the university could find funds. Not too favorable to me and so they agreed to return the slides to me as they finished with the ones they would sort out and use. [I may be dead by the time this happens!!].
I have no idea what to do with them if they do come back. No one in my family is remotely interested.

I have digitized all the old snapshots I have regarding family; past and present, and when the process of identifying everyone and everything is complete, I intend to make separate CD's of pictures of my family and my wife's family to distribute to members.

I'll look foreword to reading others intentions about what happens to their collections.
Larry

I am really sorry to hear that you can no longer photograph inside. I was stationed in Germany during the Korean [and cold war] era and managed to visit and photograph the interiors. Very Wagnerish, Lohengrin (sp?) murals and furnishings. I have loaned my archive slides to Drexel University for their selection of images to digitize. If/and/when I get them back, I will try to remember to find these and will put them up here for possible interest.
Larry

I was given a "Squirrel prof" peanut feeder that seems to work. I has the feeding tube and an overlay mesh cover which slides down from the weight of the squirrel to close the feeding openings. The animals have tried very hard for some time and now apparently have given up. One thing that surprised me is that Starlings are smart enough to use beaks to flip up the mesh tube and grab a peanut before is closes completely!