Friday, March 31, 2017

Well - I moved back to Florida so I couldn't find any lambs to say buh-bye to March with. This lil' sweetie pie will have to do for now.


Well - I moved back to Florida so I couldn't find any lambs to say buh-bye to March with. This lil' sweetie pie will have to do for now.
PS - Who wants to pick a challenge or upload a cover pic for April ?

Thursday, March 30, 2017

If a polygamist has already married nine times then will his next marriage mean he is decimated ?

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Why do all my photographer friends post with the hashtag (#)wordlessonwednesday ? I've never learned a single word from those shares.

#wordlessonwednesday


#wordlessonwednesday

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Weather you like trains or not - this is a fantastic picture.


Weather you like trains or not - this is a fantastic picture.

Originally shared by trekky60

CSX: An Auto train, northbound, is passing thru Dalton GA.
Photo: ©GN-photography 3/2017

Monday, March 27, 2017

Photographers Fb vs Google+

Photographers Fb vs Google+
How I Learned to Love Photography I used to snap a few pictures with my phone. I'd post them on Facebook and they were sometimes funny or often showed some interesting thing I'd found or was involved with. It was mainly a social activity and I never even th...

Happy #circleshapesmonday everybody !


Happy #circleshapesmonday everybody !
Circle Shapes Monday

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Whoa !!!

Whoa !!!
When did they start showing pictures in the comment threads ?

Remember when there were so many daily themes you had to follow a page that listed all the current ones ? Every day had bunches of them for cats and dogs and goats and stairs and chairs and gosh - just too many to name.


Remember when there were so many daily themes you had to follow a page that listed all the current ones ? Every day had bunches of them for cats and dogs and goats and stairs and chairs and gosh - just too many to name.
I still post to a few and one of my favorites is #rustysunday which is curated by Gary Posner and archived on the RustySunday page. He's an awesome photographer and everyone should go check out his work.
This is my new toy/project. I started riding about the time this bike was made and I swear, it's old and worn and pretty sad looking and still in better shape than I am.
'71 Honda CL175 !

Friday, March 17, 2017

Attention Saint Patrick by Murray Leinster on LibriVox

Attention Saint Patrick by Murray Leinster on LibriVox

Here's a short read listen for your St. Patricks Day commute. It's a 45 minute sci-fi story about a planet that has been colonized by the Irish. So to all my real and honorary Irishmen ~ Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh!
http://ia600201.us.archive.org/32/items/short_scifi_028_0910_librivox/attentionsaintpatrick_leinster_gam_64kb.mp3

Thursday, March 16, 2017

This looks interesting...

This looks interesting...

Originally shared by Esther Schindler

For my friends in New Jersey: Vintage Computer Festival East is coming up soon (March 31-April 2): Three keynotes from Dr. Tom Perera (an Enigma machine expert), Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup (inventor of C++), and Bill Degnan (leading a panel discussion about the 40th anniversary of appliance computing).


http://vcfed.org/wp/festivals/vintage-computer-festival-east/

Monday, March 13, 2017

#circleshapesmonday Circle Shapes Monday


#circleshapesmonday Circle Shapes Monday
This is a far far better thing than the mural back from whence I came...
The Circle Theater - On "The Circle" in downtown Sebring.
(my new home town)

Good morning

Good morning
I got an sms on my phone asking me to download something. Was that from you ? I am always suspicious these days of unexpected d/l requests.

Sunday, March 12, 2017

Life is like a roller coaster sometimes except that the uphill parts go by too fast and the downhill ones last forever.

Sorry I haven't been around lately. Real life has been a bit messy, but settling down now (I hope)


Sorry I haven't been around lately. Real life has been a bit messy, but settling down now (I hope)
This popped up in FB memories today...
comments welcome
It's hard to believe this was only a year ago.
I was out playing with my new (to me) camera and took a dozen or so shots of this. I was loving the long lens and the bean bag that my soon to be ex-wife had made for me.
I had new eyes, a new camera and some new processing skills. It didn't take long to fiddle with some sliders and then I decided to get "artsy" with it. I was feeling pretty good about this and life in general when my phone rang.
It was "Officer Obie"* from the TTU police dept. Well, we had a nice chat about why I was taking all the pictures of the university facilities and it turned out that he too was a shutter bug. I was pretty impressed at how little time it took to get from my license tag to my cell phone number and he was pretty impressed with this picture I sent him.

* - (not his real name) just an obscure Arlo Guthrie reference...

Tuesday, March 7, 2017

I'm getting settled in at my new home. This looks like a good place to relax and reflect. I think it was good that I waited so long to get married. Maybe it was good that we didn't wait too much longer to split up.


I'm getting settled in at my new home. This looks like a good place to relax and reflect. I think it was good that I waited so long to get married. Maybe it was good that we didn't wait too much longer to split up.

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Hey you photography or philosophy nerds -

Hey you photography or philosophy nerds -
How about a book about photography that's not about shooting them or even really about seeing them, but more about thinking about them ? It's a tough 119 pages and not probably interesting to most folks but go ahead and take a peek if you dare.
https://archive.org/stream/BarthesRolandCameraLucidaReflectionsOnPhotography/Barthes_Roland_Camera_Lucida_Reflections_on_Photography

Saturday, March 4, 2017