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I am not going to take long to reply to this, just my comments on some of your statements.

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"you want me and others to believe that you had no idea that you were not to modify the image of another without their expressed permission?"

I do not see anything about this in the rules: This is what I DO see:

- Do not post images owned/authored by others without their permission.

I did NOT post an image owned by others - I sent YOUR image back to YOU.

Making changes and sending back to the owner has been done many times by others. e.g. recovering images from very old photographs - I have done this, possibly twice.

Regarding making changes using Photoshop:

'sinatraman', the person looking after this "Christian Photography Group", had a photograph of a baptism, with an unwanted face by the side of the minister. I cleaned the head and background for him - and it was appreciated, not condemned along with a warning about breaking forum rules.

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Photoshop is not a program that one has and uses that is as uninformed as you claim to be. Put simply, if you can use Photoshop, you can figure out how to post your own topic and/or find the rules which are listed as the first item in just about every forum.

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I did not claim to be uninformed about Photoshop. I have been using it since the 1970's. but initially NOT for photographs. I used the layers capability back then for printed circuit boards.

Regarding "posting my own topic". Until recently, I only looked at the 'latest digest' and posted comments etc. to some. The baptismal photo from Sinatraman was one of them. I am not particulally interested in posting any new topic.

I am 'uninformed' about all the various groups because I have been quite happy to stay with the variety of topics in the 'latest digest'. I am not lying -- you can easily check the record and confirm this for yourself.

The 'Christian Photography group' is the first one that I thought I would like to join, but it is clear that I am not welcome. Your statement "You cheat, you steal, you lie," makes this very clear. What did I cheat at? What did I steal? What lies did I tell??

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re: "I didn't report your actions to the site admin.; however, be advised that I will now make the site admin. aware of your actions".

Please do - and at the same time perhaps you would request them to take me off the mailing list -- and also report it to sinatraman. This email from a 'Christian Photography Group' is the last straw.

p.s. I am not breaking this UHH rule:

"Threatening or hinting that you'll leave the forum unless I do something you want"

as I don't want you to do anything at all.

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HI,

I may have been a member 'long enough' but not long enough to know how to find the 'Christian Forum', except by chance.

I have not read the rules of this 'Christian forum' as I have not found them to read. I had no idea that I was hi-jacking anything and I apologize for using your picture. I thought the concept of changing a road into a lake or a water surface was interesting, and as I mentioned, it was a first attempt - certainly not advanced enough to include bugs.

Rev 22:1 does read "a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal"

I also apologize for leaving one of my photographs in the forum. I had no idea that it was something 'private'. It is one of my 'images' ( that does have a bug) - but with respect to 'starting my own topic/forum - I have no idea of how. At my age I find the structure of UHH rather confusing. I thought that this was a Christian Forum not a colosseum of people attacking each other.

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And the closer one looks into it, it is amazing how many use the intelligence God gave them to claim it all came together by random chance !!!!

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Hi Mooseeyes,

While no where near as artistic as your very nice picture, I had a play around with the water in your 'painted top' using Photoshop and came up with this first attempt at reflection in water.

Right now, I am looking for nice 'cloud/sky' formations to photograph to use as backgrounds.

God designed them for each other

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Hi magicray - my apologies: you are not the only one who has finger problems.

While I DID write:

"While you are correct, the word 'mute' does not fit" somehow the word 'not' got added. What I intended to write was:

"While you are correct, the word 'mute' does fit".

i.e. both 'moot' and 'mute' can be used, even though it gives a slightly different way of expressing what you were saying.

One of the problems with the editor on Mac OSX is that it tends to change a word and/or spelling to what it 'thinks' you should be using. Most of the time I catch these changes - sometimes I don't.

Perhaps I should avoid the 'General Chit-Chat (non-photography talk) and stick to an occasional comment in the Photography discussions'.

I did not read all your reply - however from the size, it seems that I have really upset you, so again my apologies - and perhaps it would be better if I leave UHH rather than cause you to.

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While you are correct, the word 'mute' does fit :-)

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British number plates belong to the vehicle - and among other things, gives the date: On the truck, the last letter is H and this identifies it as being licensed between August 1st 1969 and July 31st 1970.

This means that the photograph cannot be previous to Aug 1st 1969

The concept of a 'minimum wage' was to ensure that everyone could earn enough to live on. It probably was at one time, but has not kept up with inflation. A problem with the low minimum wage here in Canada is that in many cases, people living on welfare have a higher effective income than they would get from a 'minimum wage' job.

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A good idea. I have one warning, on a different project a container of these crystals began to smell - bacteria/fungus had started growing in it. It may not be a problem where you live but it is something to be aware of.

[quote=rpavich]Sometimes on this forum and elsewhere, people think that Christians are "better" than they are...i.e. that they think that they don't do wrong things. We know that nothing could be further from the truth...so I thought I'd post two quotes that I thought were relevant:

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1.) Quote:"...you contribute nothing to your salvation but the sin that made it necessary" (Charles Spurgeon)

2.) Quote: "If any man thinks ill of you do not be angry with him for you are worse than he thinks you to be...." (Charles Spurgeon)


Quotations, can sound 'good' but are often misleading.

Quote 1.) Salvation is an interactive process so we do have a part to play.

Read John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

While we contribute nothing to the payment for sin, we DO contribute in the sense of believing and accepting.

Quote 2.)

The first part: "If any man thinks ill of you do not be angry with him" is in line with the command Jesus gave that we forgive even our enemy.

The second part: " for you are worse than he thinks you to be." is NOT a valid reason. It is also illogical - making a decision based on what you THINK the other person believes.

When God asks us to love, there are no limiting conditions. We cannot say to God that we did not love XXX because YYYYYY

Hi Esther,
You can also find people in different places at the same time. This is one reason there so many people in the picture.
There are also people with legs but no bodies and bodies with no legs.

Hi, If the B-25 is anything like a Lancaster, there will be very little elbow room - and a lot of vibration. I would not dream of trying to change a lens - or having a bag by my feet. I agree with the others that a wide angle lens is best

I do recommend that you try and take some interior pictures while the B-25 is on the ground and does not have the engines running. ( before or after the show)

I am a senior in my late 70's. While your question is about the NEX-7, my experience with the NEX-5 may be pertinent:

In 2011 I bought a Sony NEX-5 because it was small and light. It took some very nice photographs, comparable with the Nikon my son had at that time. There were only two lens available - with the promise of a third some time in the future.

While it was a good 'point and shoot' camera, I was having problems wading through the menu's to find the settings I wanted to use. Henrys Camera has a camera show in Toronto every year that I go to with with my son. I went to the Sony Camera stand to ask some questions and get some help - but was told by their 'professional' that they could not really help me as it was a 'consumer level' camera. Hmmm

The following week I went back to the camera store and traded it in for a Nikon D5100. ( reason for choosing Nikon over Canon!! My son and I can share lens, flash etc. )

2004 to 2013 is not 100 years.

The opinion of a person who needs to protect them-self and a person who has 24 hour protection by fully armed guards, is liable to be different.