If you have sex when you have tar ball, you might end up with a tar baby.

I'm still reeling from the way he described his girlfriend!!!

Seriously - great pics thar philthy.

thx guys! UT sorry bro dats jiss da wayz i call it! :D

IM? as usual - :lol2:

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That's a pretty good close-up. What kind of a camera was that taken with?

Pocket camera, Cannon PowerShot SD970IS ELPH

Have used this line of cameras for a long time now and they take great shots, they all have a macro-zoom and digital zoom. Reasonably priced and small enough to carry around which allows me to take more pics without lugging a bigger (albeit) a better quality camera.

Kewl pic.

That's the mother of all macros.

Maybe it's Mothra.

the untouched porcupine. I had to add a lot of light to this picture to find his face. It was originally just a single catchlight in a velvet pool.

awesome! me thinks me needs to save up for another lens. need a close up macro one.

Here's another taken the same day...

Not exactly food porn, but this is an example of dinner fare when we're at a group campsite. The crew was in charge of meals, and this night it was hamburgers. I got mine double meat, double cheese, mushrooms, grilled onions, the works on a toasted bun. When we camp, we're roughing it, but that does not mean deprivation.

wow. fuck.


wow.

The only thing wrong with that burger, is the same thing that's usually wrong w/other types of porn:

There's a pickle in there.

Otherwise::drool::yum:

Who did? Katydid!

Nice!

Oh, no she di'int!!

right camo, wrong place. so much like a leaf, so beautiful. very nice pic, spexx!

very nice indeed!

question....i need a good macro lens. where can i go for cheap? i know, they're expensive but i consider 500 cheap for such a lens. where do you shop for your camera fodder?

This is the view from my car going up my driveway! :)

poor you. your driveway? really? too f'n sweet!

Wow. I'm so jealous.

very lovely Nirvana. I hope that's a river, irrigation canal, _______ pond, and not a flood.

but it sure is purty. thanks for the nice picture.

Just think of shoveling it in the winter.

yard truck with a dozer blade

That is our acre pond the cows drink from and we have a loader tractor YAY! :)

puh. I wouldn't go anywhere till the snow melted.

That or I'd be too busy Ice skating

Beautiful view Nirvana! :thumb:

WowNirvana. You have that view and all I have is the old sewage lagoon. sigh

hey! i test snow melt panels!!

Yesterday I went with my son's cub scout den to a Civil War reenactment of the battle of Cedar Creek. I'd never been to one of these before. It was an interesting view of a culture I'd never seen before. These reenactors spend thousands of dollars to buy their own gear and costumes and they join the battle just for the experience. They don't get paid.

They buy reproductions of period tents and camp the whole weekend using only period camping gear (at least the stuff left out in the open. Maybe they had down sleeping bags and air mattresses inside the tents.)

There are vendors who have larger period tents set up off to the side, and they sell most of the stuff that the reenactors need. So you could just walk up to one of these events and buy everything you need to join in on the fun.

They started off the action with a little skirmish between two mounted groups. Not much gun fire, but lots of clanging sabers. Nobody "died" during this, because I guess they didn't want to fall off their horses.

Then the two armies marched on each other and just basically fired volleys at one another from a short distance. The Confederates did well during this part of it, and drove the Union soldiers back. More people "died," but seriously, I don't think it was historically accurate. Out of a couple hundred people shooting at each other over a distance of about 50 yards, only a dozen people died. This was cool to watch. They also had cannons behind the lines going off.

And they stopped the reenactment at this point. Today, they continue it, and I understand the Union will regroup and push the Rebels back again. But we're not going back out there to watch that.

Here, the Confederates are marching back to their camp after the battle.

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Judging from the license plates in the parking lot, I think these reenactors come from all over the East Coast, and once they have purchased all the gear, they probably participate in one reenactment after another, much like deadheads following the Dead around on tour.

excellent pics glatt! I'd love to see a reenactment. later today i'm going to the Wings Over Houston Airshow and should have plenty of pics of that later on....

glatt - great pics. I haven't seen a reenactment in decades. I gotta look around here and see whats up.

Looks super cool. :D

Awesome pics glatt.

We had a little demo at the Soldiers and Soldiering conference, put on by a couple of reenactors (not sure, but I think they're from the 33rd Foot). Fascinating stuff.

A lot of what we know about uniforms and marching ephemera, we know because of the re-enactment community. Formal, and informal historians who work through experimental history and try to reconstruct, from fragmentary evidence and the odd throw away line in a memoir, the backpacks, and blankets, and uniforms as they'd have been used. There are people who've spent 25-30 years trying to piece together exactly what the back pack was like for a foot soldier in the latter stages of the Peninsula war for instance.

Great pictures glatt! I really enjoyed seeing them. Thanks! :)

I went to a re-enactment of the Battle of Franklin-Nashville, on the original battlefield. At that time it was said to be one of the larger re-enactments til that time, about 25,000 participants. There was a company of re-enactors, I think they were all from Texas, who were stunt-men/extras for the movies. They would roll off their horses at full gallop, the horses dropped like they'd been shot, too. They put on a hell of a show. Interestingly, when the riders fell/got shot, the horses stopped almost in their last steps, and stayed rooted to that spot, till their rider got up and came and got them. All of them did this, every one.

Also, these guys (all the re-enactors) are hard core. At the one I went to, there was literally white canvas tents by the thousands. Root beer brewed on site, 1860s style. :yum: Kept the bottle.

I have all this on Sony 8mm videotape. Yeah, I know, great decision. $1000 well-wasted.

There were also black re-enactors. Something I'd never thought about. There were soldiers, servants, maids. A surprising number of them, in fact.

Yesterday Bob, my roommate and I went to the Wings over Houston airshow. here are a few pics and some of these planes i'd posted before in another thread from the flight museum that they live at currently. i'll post a few more pictures later on. but for now here's several...

they also did pyrotechnics too which was pretty cool....

here are a couple vids from the show too.....

i wasn't too impressed with the auto focus while taking movies with the 3100. it kept getting confused and not focusing correctly. pretty much the vids here that i posted were the only ones worth a darn out of the many that i took.

Awesome pics.

This weekend.
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very nice V. What was the exposure time on that?

Where is that? Look like it's take from a bluff overlooking a mountain lodge.

Looks like you got some pinholes in your, oh wait. Never mind. Very cool.

Confederates in the Attic is a phenomenal book about modern day Civil War reenactors, and how the war is still very much alive in the minds of many people on the east coast and in the south. Short read, but very interesting stuff.

:tumb: I was going to recommend this very book! You beat me to it. It was a wonderful and interesting read. Part Travellog, part finger-on-the-pulse of the Re-enactor underground and a taste (al be it not an assessment of) the South in modern times. An eye opener. A must read.....

i too would like to know the settings. my night shots ssssSSSSSUUUUCK. me needs help/suggestions. i know slow everything down in low light but i think i'm not using the correct combinations. been practicing on go karts at night but they're all blurry or over exposed or something. take your pick. er pic. i mean pick. :p:

Thanks guys. :)

I don't have an easy EXIF exporter, so here's the manual transcription:

exposure 15s
aperture 2.97
f number f/2.8
iso 1600

There was plenty of exposure, I could have stepped down the iso or the exposure, but the conditions for examining the photo were quite poor, as you can imagine. I made a copy and this is the edited copy, I added a lot of black as the original has an unpretty amount of noise.

I also took a shot straight up and got a lovely view of the Milky Way, though there's lots of noise in that one too.

plt--Night shots are h-a-r-d. Keep at it, they're very rewarding and your camera has much more technological horsepower than mine does. When you learn how to drive it, you're gonna love it.

Very nice, BigV! For your Milky Way shots, try lowering the ISO to 800. It should reduce the noise. Your settings are about what I use for my astro photography. The photo you posted is VERY clear for an ISO of 1600. I'm good at 800, but they get noisy above that.

Night/low light shots + moving subject + no flash = teh aggravation.