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Mar 15, 2024 20:52:43   #
I lived in Farmington, NM for 2.5 years and regret not exploring the Bisti while there. I will say that the photos folks are posting without the "painterly" editing are beautiful and they do bring back fond memories of living in Indian Country.
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Mar 12, 2024 15:36:11   #
Let’s have a little context here.

For all the British royals’ money and “power,” the royals can't seem to hire a good PR team or crisis manager. All we know so far is the surgery wasn’t for cancer (if that’s the truth). The smart money I’ve read about seems to think the surgery for endometriosis or for a GI issue like Crohn's disease. Whatever it is, neither of those or many other diagnoses are shameful and to continue the stonewalling not only stigmatizes whatever these illnesses are but also creates a huge credibility issue for the royals.

The royals have a huge PR machine, so I think those who think this was a nice family portrait for the UK’s Mother’s Day are naive. This photo is a direct consequence of the stonewalling. None of this would be an issue had Kate and William and their team had disclosed Kate’s diagnosis and the surgery.

Based on my own experience as a journalist, the above points lead me to conclude the PR operation is woefully incompetent. PR people for celebs and other newsworthy people know the standards for photojournalism. How could they, in good conscience, either let William and Kate release this photo or in their incompetence release it themselves.

If I come across as insensitive and unkind to the royals, let me make clear that on a human/humane level, I am sorry for her health problems and any pain or difficulty in her recovery. But the rest of the problems are self-inflicted. Further, if I were a member of their robust PR staff, I’d be wondering if I’d be getting any severance pay or, if so, how long could I last on it.

In short, the palace has been stupid.

As for as the ethics of the media in this fiasco, there are standards governing editing photographs. Those standards permit editing that doesn’t change the material content of the photo. The major wire services and ethical news outlets adhere to that standard. Others don’t adhere to any ethical standard. So while the upstream post on this thread quoted Thomas Jefferson as criticizing newspapers, here too context is important. For Jefferson himself joined with George Washington and John Adams in agreeing that an educated citizenry is the bulwark of democracy. I take from that we need critical thinking to properly ingest the media’s messages.
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Feb 24, 2024 10:20:40   #
Nice. I have great memories of the old Ski Train.
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Jan 29, 2024 10:25:21   #
I am please with Mozilla VPN, the same nonprofit that makes Firefox and other apps. They are highly rated on various sites. I would add I no longer run Windows; I am on a Linux machine, but it is a cross-platform app.
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Jan 22, 2024 15:42:22   #
I suspect without evidence that they want your photo metadata. I don't know what they can do with it, b ut this is Facebook and nothing from Meta and Zukerberg is to be trusted.
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Jan 21, 2024 19:17:02   #
I sold my GoldWing in 2005, so it's been a long time. I knew I forfeited some possibilities of certain shots by restricting my camera to the smallest one in my arsenal. Back then, it was an Olympus UZ-750 with a blazing 4 megapixels and a voracious appetite for AA batteries. If I still rode, I'd have my Canon PowerShot G-15 with me. It's an incredible camera. Technology today will get you a similar camera with better features. Now all that said, I didn't start with a Wing. For many years, I had smaller bikes. Again, if I still rode a big touring bike with the room, and knew it was a photo trip, I'd take my Nikon D5300 and one lens, the Tamron 18-400.

As for particular tips, I'd say that having all your gear and accessories with you in a way that you're not thinking about them while you're driving.

I never let anything compromise my safety, so if I saw something I wanted to shoot, I stopped and took the time I needed to do so. Even on a big touring bike, you're vulnerable.
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Jan 20, 2024 21:12:14   #
In the last “big” and long discussion, I was so angry about the objections to the post and the labeling the work “porn” that I used language so intemperate that the admin banned me from further posting on that thread. So. I am going to make a some points here.

1. It may be a radical view, but short of violence and gore, I support any depiction of nudity and sexuality without limits. Nor do I think it’s wrong to arouse prurient interest because in the long run “prurient interest” had survival value. If you have to think about how we make babies, that should help you understand the pleasure principle of sex. I am be two weeks shy of 79, but I love it.

2. The US is particularly puritan and yet pretty sexual; and, as it is with all inner conflicts, our society doesn’t know what to do with sex, sexuality, sensuality and art. Imperfect examples of our conflict over this was the MeToo movement that pitted the entitled members of the patriarchy against the women who finally and rightfully had enough of the patriarchy. Or, that men could sow their wild oats but women had to be virginal.

3. I admire the photographers who post to this section. Jim Tonnes clearly had a great 1970s era. Others too and I appreciate them sharing their work with us. Trust me, had I followed my bliss, as they say, I would have not remembered the 60s and would have probably had a Jim Tonnes 70s.

3. Timmers has taken a lot of heat over the years and I will tell you flat out, he’s a great guy, generous with his knowledge and his talents. He hosted me and another photog to do a half-day shoot with Kat, but it went longer because we were all having such a good time. Kat and I “clicked” in a good way and to this day I wish I could have met VADA. There’s a private and personal backstory about why I couldn’t continue and it rests on me, not Tim. But I think of the shoot every day I am on UHH and wish it were otherwise.

So, I am going to stay subscribed to this section and support anyone who can post here. Yeah, some of the shots are more artistic than others; or better composed, or lighted or whatever. It brings this to mind:

"The Man In The Arena" – Teddy Roosevelt’s speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France -- April 23, 1910

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
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Jan 19, 2024 09:54:25   #
Nice. Indian Point is a sacred place for our family. We'll be down that way soon.
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Jan 14, 2024 10:37:48   #
I haven't lived in NM for 20 years and miss it. A lot. As soon as you cross the state line, the light changes. Stunning and mysterious. I see several New Mexicans are on this thread, so lean on them. But, you might consider looking at the Santa Fe New Mexican website. In the past, they covered the pilgrimage pretty well.

Buena suerte.
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Jan 13, 2024 22:06:05   #
Timmers wrote:
Me and Newsguygeorgeare buddies so this I hope will not fall on fallow ground.

All of the above is probably quite true, how would an idiot like the likes of me know any different. Tat said I use Photoshop and only Photoshop. Here it comes, I use Photoshop 7. Today I just post processed an image from out of the camera. Now, please, I'm definitely old school, so old school that I ignore light meters and never use auto focus or auto anything. You see I'm an artist ad I have no use for all the bells and whistles of 'modern' photographic processes. I do not chimp the screen on the back (I think it is broken on the Sony A7 body, and I shoot with Leica lenses that I focus with my eye and also use zone focus. Definitely old school.

So, here is my suggestion, before you 'buy' into a expensive Photoshop you might learn the basics on PS 7. It is out there on the net, free for down loading, but don't look at me for help, I have a nephew who holds my hand and is tech savvy who does this for the idiot boy, me.

I learned Photoshop early on with number 4, a year or so layer number 7 came out. After PS 7 it was all new bells and whistles and I didn't need it so I never bothered to go for all that new stuff. I told you, I'm the essential idiot, I just want to make great photographs, that is all, and so PS 7 works just fine for me.

Oh, incase your wounding, yes I have a version of Lightroom and some advanced PS (I don't remember the name or number it has), given to me by well meaning people that mu nephew puts on my computer just in case, but I have no interest, too much doing and it turns into wasting time and busy work. Definitely old school., and making great art!
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It's not falling on my ears being deaf. I still am old school on some things, too, relying on my years of film shooting experience for the digital world. That means I prefer as little post-processing as possible. But, I do like the current Creative Suite for several reasons. I can have it on my Windows 10 and my wife can use it on her Windows 11 laptop. And it gives me some helpful cloud storage which really helped in this operating transition.

I suspect in the long run, I'll be done with the subscription soon enough. As for the Topaz products, the one I really use the most is Gigapixel, which helps me revive so of those old digital imaged I shot on 1.4 and 4.0 megapixel cameras at the turn of the century.

Thanks for the shout out, Tim; and, give my best to Kat and VADA.
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Jan 13, 2024 09:47:56   #
Thanks for posting this. I've converted my main desktop computer to Ubuntu/Linux in a move to leave as much of the Micro$soft ecosystem behind. I am maintaining Adobe and Topaz on a Win10 laptop for now. Eventually, I'll be done with that, too, so this information is helpful.
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Jan 2, 2024 17:40:24   #
hdfilmnoir wrote:
Yes Acoma


Thought so. Thanks.
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Jan 1, 2024 14:41:14   #
Acoma?
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Dec 27, 2023 13:03:52   #
I have learned, sometimes the hard way, to always use the manufacturer's brand for (1) camera batteries and (2) HP ink cartridges.
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Dec 11, 2023 00:46:12   #
N3QS Aircraft Registration
Aircraft Summary
Summary
2003 SHANNON ARTHUR R QUICKIE
Fixed wing single engine
(1 seats / 1 engine)
Owner
SHANNON ARTHUR R
EDGEWATER , FL, US
(Individual)
Airworthiness Class
Experimental
Serial Number
18245599
Engine
AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG (Reciprocating)
Weight
Less than 12,500lbs
Speed
Not defined
Mode S Code
050616017 / A31C0F
Registration Details
Status
Assigned
Certificate Issue Date
2003-04-21
Airworthiness Date
2003-05-17
Last Action Date
2023-01-22
Expiration
2027-03-31
Registry Source
FAA

Registration History
Date Owner Location
02-Jun-2006 SHANNON ARTHUR R EDGEWATER FL
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