April 8th will bring a near total eclipse in my area . Everybody is getting eclipse glasses to view it. What are the safety rules for shooting the eclipse?

I am interested in this book. How would you prefer the payment?

I can't remember when I didn't have a beard and/or a mustache. My Aunt Kaye always said "A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt". If shaving takes about 5 minutes per day, I now have 30 hours per year to do something else with. Not only that, but, if I go bald, I can turn my head upside down, How cool is that?

I have stayed away from Temu in spite of their many ads with super low prices. I just didn't want to have to download their app just to see what they had. So after the last "update" to my Galaxy S10+, I find that Samsung has added the Temu app to my phone along with 5 others that I have no use for. WTH?

Yes it was. It's a wheat beer.

Found this at our local beer depot. I bought a 4 pack hoping it will make me a better photographer.

Go to Amazon and take a look at Meidase . I bought a 32 mp camera for $67.00 last year.

I just looked at a bunch of photos from my Samsung Galaxy S10+. If I look at properties on these pictures, the focal length shows either 1.3mm or 4.3mm. Seeing as the phone is a bit over 8mm thick, I would have to believe that any pictures taken with zoom would have to be pixel manipulation. Don't get me wrong, the pictures I took look great, but I don't see myself doing BIF with a long lens on a cellphone anytime in the immediate future.

Outstanding shot

I still have my Sony Mavica FD92 camera with a whopping 1.6 MP according to the sticker on the camera body, but DPReview says it was 1MP. This camera was a replacement for my older Mavica which was stolen. MSRP at the time was $999.00. I'm sure that I didn't pay that much. It shoots on memory stick or floppy disk, I also have a Sony 'Doubler" that screws onto the lens that doubles the camera's 16 power zoom. Several years ago, I posted three pictures of the same Iris flower on Facebook. One was taken with my Mavica at 1.6MP, one taken with my Nikon P80 at 10 MP and one taken with my Nikon D3400 at 24.2 MP. I didn't say which picture was with which camera. At the photo sizes used on FB, the pictures all looked about the same. Nobody guessed which shot was taken with the largest MP count. That Mavica camera is still functioning today and I still have three batteries that hold a charge.

Beautiful picture. I believe that to be a Spicebush Swallowtail rather than a Black Swallowtail

I set up four trail cameras over road kill deer carcasses in the cornfield behind my house every winter. I sometimes add a fifth camera set to take a still shot every 10 seconds during all daylight hours. That camera will show me if eagles are visiting the site. Sometimes coyotes drag the carcass a few feet so then my other four cameras may miss pictures due to the relatively small area of the motion sensor when cameras are set close to the target. Negatives are mainly that all camera settings are automatic and in some cases, the mp count is not as high as I'd like. This past year I bought a 32mp trail camera for 67 dollars. This coming winter it will join the "herd". I set four cameras as anything pointing mainly east will wash out in morning photographs and the two facing basically west will do the same in the evening.

Barred Owl

My D7200 changes automatically. It's a Menu setting. Same thing on my D7100 and my D3400.

And the true lunacy comes when you buy tires. My pickup truck runs LT265/70 R17 tires. Now both sides get to play.LT as in Light Truck. 265 which is the tire section width in millimeters (10.433 inches), / 70 meaning the sidewall heights are 70% of the tire width, (7.30 inches), R stands for radial, and 17 is the diameter of the rim in inches. There. We now have a composite definition that will keep both sides happy (and most people will just read the manual to see what tire size their car needs)