:eek:How the hell did they get that thing in the conference room??
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So. Fucking. Jealous. Right. Now.


Hate. You. Guys.

BigV has found a way to photograph acid trips.

Found a field of windmills not far from my flat in SW Wales. Funny but the sheep don't seem to mind the structures and the whirring of the big blades. Folks around here don't like them and it makes me wonder if they felt that way 200 or so years ago with the old style wind mills that ran the grain mills or pumped water.

Saturday I took my wife for a drive to the Brecon Beacons to do a whiskey tasting at the Penderyn distillery, the only one in Wales that produces quality single malt whiskey, gin and vodka! It was a great experience! :drunk:

We came upon this castle not far from our destination. Must have been a bugger for the invading forces to attack as it is way up on a steep mountain.

I hope there's an easier path on the back side

Been staying a few nights in the valley next to it (Ystradfellte). Didn't know about the distillery, or else ...

Beautiful stretch of country, lots and lots of waterfalls and peaty waters (good for the whiskey).

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Those are nice! I especially like the waterfall. Did you use a neutral density filter so you could get that long exposure?

Yes, glatt, the digital equivalent anyway. I don't know what the digital cameras do internally to simulate an ND filter.

I went a little wild with the saturation and contrast tools in post-editing.

I had to fix a few things as this was a through-the-windshield pic...

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beautiful Grav!

Thx!

Another rained out day in Wales so here I sit editing images from long ago. Taken in South Africa, the Taal Monument. Kind of a surreal setting.

Beautiful blue sky.

If I could see just a fraction of the world that you've seen, Chris, I would be happy!

[Cliff Clavin] Well technically, you have seen a fraction, albeit a small one, of the world he's seen.[/Cliff Clavin]

:lol: Touche!

[Cliff Clavin]Hey Carla, I have a potato that looks like Richard Milhouse Nixon.[/Cliff Clavin]

Carla: Big deal. Show me one that doesn't.

Two decent shots in one day! I was in the waterfall district of the Brecon Beacons in Wales and got a nice water fall shot even though the trees here are barely showing any leaves and it is still quite wintery. Then on my way out and back to my coastal flat I came upon this HUGE stone out in a field probably put there by aliens in space ships. This thing must have been 15 ft high and 8 x 2 ft across and weighed 15 tons or more. It was very bleak so I processed to B&W

Now we are up in Snowdonia for the 3 day weekend. Will someone explain what exactly is a BANK HOLIDAY?:neutral:

I thought the boulder was in the ocean!

Pretty light makes pretty colors at the Experience Music Project.
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Nice!

Finally at home in Houston after a month in Wales. I transferred my UK trip images from my travel hard drive to my desktop one and had 56GB of images, around 2400 in total.

Here is one of the last shots I took, I had just rounded a corner on a small rural road and came upon a heard of small breed horses and saw this foal standing close to the mother. Color wasn't great so I changed it to a sepia toned B&W.

Hey Chris, that's a(nother) nice OH LOOK A PONY!!!

Beautiful.

Ripley took this for me a little bit ago. Came up behind this awesome dog and her human in traffic. Guy said the dog had been riding for 6 years. I love her goggles.

FIFY.

Cookin' meth in a swamp, or whut?

that's actually a great picture. I love it. When I loaded the image, none of the junk in the foreground was visible. I could only see it when I scrolled down from the bucolic summer scene at the top. shocker!

I got that too.

Have you ever seen the movie Baraka?

I took a bike ride down a road that leads to the bay. I stopped to admire the view and this was the mess I walked into.


Thank you!:D

This one?

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I love it.

I hope that's something my local movie rental store (or maybe my library) will have. I just read the Wikipedia article about it, and it sounds interesting.

It is visually arresting. I also just finished the wiki article, it sounds about right. I don't have the video display capable of taking advantage of the new dvd/blu-ray release but it does sound tasty.

The comparisons to the Qatsi series are also apt. I have all three of them as well. They are powerful, moving experiences. I give them my highest recommendation.

Dang dude, jump on that there $300 old-tech plasma bandwagon!

Wikipedia quote (Re: "Baraka"):

Emphasis mine.

Does anyone have suitable equipment to view this or support the critic mentioned's argument?

I reckon anyone with a modern 1080p display could display the maximum quality of the blu-ray video. As for the audio, I think it would take a separate sound system integrated with the blu-ray player and display, though I'm much less fluent with the current specno-babble for the audio terms.

As for the extra super high resolution at which it was digitized from the original analog film, that's beyond the capabilities of anything outside a studio. There's no home theater displaying those kinds of resolution. But the article says it was reproduced on blu-ray with fancy audio. I have a blu-ray player (a PS3) but only antique televisions and none with discrete outboard audio.

I am *still* amazed by this film though.

Extremely few people would hear a difference between regular CD quality audio {44.1k/16 bit} and that super highDef audio, even on studio quality monitors.
Still, I applaud the effort.

I've only seen Baraka once, on TV, by chance. It started just after some other program I had been watching ended, and I just started watching ...

Should have had some kind of warning on it ... "this program may blow your feeble mind" or something.

4k definition (whatever the hell that means) TVs are just now being made available to the public. I imagine the prices are just stratospheric.


A quick (lazy) google shopping search comes up with a 4k video camera...$29,999.

You'll want to stay away from red.com if you are shocked by that sticker.

Stay away? W/an endorsement like that, I don't think I can, now.



ETA: Yikes.

About a week before Paul's surgery his lifelong friend, Tom, flew in to help out during the beginning stages of Paul's surgery. (wish i'd gotten the chance to fly his plane, a glass cockpit Grumman Tiger, reaaaaaaaly nice!)

They had gone to Paul's favorite cigar shop where Tom found this meerschaum hand carved sultan pipe from Turkey. I have to admit, it's a very pretty, well crafted pipe.

Today after i went to see Paul, who is making progress.....slowly but surely, i left the aftercare hospital and went by the cigar shop which was not even 3 minutes away and bought the sultan for Tom. i'm shipping it to him sometime on Monday.

my way of saying "Thanks". while he and his wife were here they were a tremendous help.

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That"s an amazing pipe. I would love to be able to carve that well.

Good thoughts for Paul. I hope he recuperates soon.

Good work by you man bringing it all together!! Atta-b0000y!

Beautiful meerschaum, nice move. :thumb:

someone once taught me that money is only substance. i may do with it as i please.

ty to you sir! :D

and ty glatt! :D

And you chose to do good, which is only one of the options.

Awesome pipe. Good on you. Glad to hear he is doing better.

Meershaum tip: Light carefully. It burns easily. I ruined mine. :(

true true! :thumb:

yeah that's what the guy at the shop had said. he also mentioned to not touch the bowl the first couple of times that it's smoked.

honestly though, i think it's going on display in his house or restaurant. not sure which.

and thanks w/the roommate. he's in for a long, long recovery.

Glad you said that. I forgot about the no touch. It will get stained with the oils from your hands/fingers. Display is the way to go.

I went to Puerto Rico with my wife for the wedding of her best friend's son. It was a big wedding and they had it covered with 2 photographers and a crew of video shooters so I just took pictures more for me, some of which I will put on a CD and send to the newly weds.

Anyway the reception was in a super dark room mostly lit with colored spot lights, neon like lights and candles. So I took a lot of pictures using my 85mm 1.2 lens and set the ISO way up to like 12,000!

So here are 2 examples of the shots I took and some blown up details just to show how amazing the Canon sensor in my camera is as well as the lens although the depth of field was very slim. I was impressed! :cool:

I'm envious.

My Panasonic gets tons of noise set at 400.

Other than that, it's a neat camera.

My God, those are spectacular. :eek:

outstanding!

Stunning photos!! You're inspiring me to get my camera out again. Wow. :notworthy:

Here is shot I took awhile back of a juvenile male elephant letting all hang out. Damn that thing is big! :eek:

COCK!