Yes, imagination is a powerful thing. So is common sense. During that first clips I experienced on the North Side of San Antonio, location was 1604 and I-10, on the high hill just above Mc. Donna Brothers Quarry, I was renting the home on top of that hill.

So, your so correct, animals do not act any differently. With heavy leather gloves on picking up a completely docile 7 foot diamond back rattle snake and moving it away from where I was photographing the nude model that day(you know girls, there such a bother over snakes!). Stupid snake!

Here is the post in the nude forum:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-803690-1.html

During the first eclipse I worked with a model name Mary. I have to post this here as the other location for the fotum does not allow nudes.

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So, your so correct, animals do not act any differently. With heavy leather gloves on picking up a completely docile 7 foot diamond back rattle snake and moving it away from where I was photographing the nude model that day (you know girls, there such a bother over snakes!). Stupid snake!

So, I had to take the shoot into my studio indoors.

Mary, she does not like snakes.

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The last partial eclipse image of ground and sunshine showing the shadows from tree leaves acting to show the eclipse is seen below, this is at the time of maximum effect (shown by the reshaped shadows of the leaves), exposure was F11 160 ISO 800, around 4stopos BELOW BDE Basic Daylight Exposure (rule of 16 is another notation for BDE).

You may expect to experience larger loss of light during a full eclipse, but, the volume of light will change as the eclipse progresses.

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I'm in San Antonio, Texas. I've been through two of these here in SA TX.

Indeed animals will be effected, it's just human animals who are too dumb to get it.
Animals become docile. They go to ground, most will shelter under plant growth. Flying creatures will descend from the sky about two hours prior to totality, then for about two hours after. All the animals are docile and not aggressive. Insects go to ground before the birds. The world gets vary quiet.

Will it rain? Who knows, but the effect of the event will still happen. With a clear sky, on the ground expect a loss of 5 to 8 stops of light. Along with temperature predictions you will feel a much cooler to cold day, and the next day will be cooler as well. Weather predictions have no 'eclipse' factor, go figure.

If you look carefully at the shadows under plants, you can seethe effect of the eclipse above.

I asked my father about his driving a cab to put himself through medical school in the30's and was that good money back then. In a rare moment of honesty he told me he worked on the docks for one night then quit. His reason was that there were packs of wharf rats that were 80 to 100 pounds. The guy who was showing him around and told him there were rats bigger and pointed in a certain direction, told him to stay clear of that area and never go around anywhere alone. Seeing a pack of rats that big made up his mind to go drive a cab the next day. He was the sort of man that did not make things up.

I guess that makes sense to the money people and insurance places act more like banks all the time.

So, if all this data is available what is the problem with the owner having aces to this collected data? Why the need to keep data from the owner?

Gee, That is nice. Why would the manufacturer get involved with your property after the sale. Seems a bit odd.

Oh well, another idea that people don't like.

An interesting point.

Think about this one, now that vehicles come with backup cameras, why not install front and rear cameras with built in recording memory for all future vehicles? Insurance companies could then offer reductions to rates(even small rate reductions) as this would help level the playing field on who are bad drivers and who are the good drivers, even reduce insurance investigations and police involvements.

So funny! LOL!!! I stopped by one time, the guys I was with though I was nuts, one used his cell phone and told them "It is important! "Modern photographers!"

Any way, there are even more graves now, apparently its been there a long time!

Do not look at the sun through the lens! LOL!!!

Bruce, stop by, bring the little woman as well, she might fall in love with Ms. VADA if she was to meet her, she is so nice, could change things for her!

Guru?

This is Einstein, I was barley out of diapers when he died. In high school I met Dick Feynman, no math, I'm dyslexic, but a lot about color. Three years later with the founding of The Friends of Photography I met and worked with Ansel, Imogene and several others.

Then I played with Daddy's toys (see) Leica Summarex85cm f15 black paint, and made the portrait of Lexi in high school.

Some here like that some of us have meet giants, and can speak to that knowledge of the makers of our world, so what is your point?

Here is another fun fact; the guy (a Leica fan and Daddy Toys) who pushed through CPR and changed the world of medical practices, he was my father Joseph Paul Summa DDS, ACS (Doctor of Dental Surgery-Perio, American Collage of Surgeons).

Daddy's Leica toys, Leica Summarex85cm f15 black paint.

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Lexi, high school portrait made with Daddy's toy, Leica Summarex85cm f15 black paint, Leica IIIc, Kodak Tri-X.


Portrait of Me in my mid 40's by Arnold Newman (c. Arnold Newman estate) he used my Karden Bi 4X5 on Tri-X.

Resedit346 is not doing the tattle tail! LOL!!!

This is Ms. Crystal, She has been to my studio many times. She and VADA have had 'fun' here many times, (VADA thinks she is HOT!).

Crystal use to live in Austin TX but she went through cancer, almost died and is back, which is grand! She moved to the northern East Coast where she now calls home.

So, she is there with Kat (also a model) and we boys. Resedit346 has used my studio many times, especially with Kat.

After telling her story and tell us about it being so cold on the Eastern sea board I just couldn't help it, I just received the hat in a donation. It is quite old, has a tag identifying the supplier from New York furrier. So, I gave the hat to Crystal, I told her that Ms. VADA had been over and modeled it and that I would tell VADA that it is now on Crystal's head! LOL!!!

So, as is the usual with me, the eyes and teeth are brightened, and all catch lights removed but one (which was also enhanced), part of the boot looked bad in the image so I retouched that as well. Last, there was an area at the torso that needed smoothing. One issue that I stress to photographers is to learn anatomy so that corrections can be made post processing (one of the great advantages of digital over analogue photography). Finally, the make up can be adjusted easily in post, though Crystal is good at make up, she is no MUA (Liz Ashly is dynamite at make up and hair!).

Lastly, Kat and Crystal 'talked' photographers, three were outed and I concurred with all the girls had commented on. One photographer got it between the eyes who was known to me, another was sited for flaking, but I saved his rep by letting him off the hook as basically a scatter brain. In the world of nude women photography don't get a rep as a pervert or a flake. Always pay the model, even if it is not your fault ,it is how reputations are built. Reputation is everything for a photographer and the girls all talk to one another.

As reference, VADA and Jessica in the Cedar Closet; nothing like two models who 'know' and like each other!

VADA 'tweaking' Amber's (Jessica) attention.

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Amber(Jessica) decides to 'tweak' VADA back.
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CRITICAL!
Use 1/10shutter speed or greater or you will get a slight blurring from Earth's motion (Ansel Adams, Natural Light Photography, Basic Photo Book series).