***February 12, 2023 - February 18, 2023 Weekly Show, Tell, and Critique***

Bliss (and Nancy and I) thank all of you sincerely for the well-wishes. They worked!

Yeah, we were unlucky (this happened on my property where the dogs have run through the woods many thousands of times with no issues). This could have easily been fatal. It was the right decision to dig deep and pay the emergency vet. It does bug me how they get away with charging such outrageous prices - I'm sure people of lesser means watch their dogs die because they simply can't pay thousands of dollars for something that should cost hundreds. To be fair, the emergency vet did a great job with her. At the end of the day for me, this is what money is for - to provide for those you love - not to buy more "stuff".

Bliss is doing great this morning - seems to be 100% back to her normal energetic, happy, very talkative self - amazing after that major injury. The challenge now is going to be to keep her from running and jumping for two weeks.

Good morning, guys!! "Gute Mariya" in PA Dutch







Watching the morning deer from the "observation deck" area of the house - one of her favorite perches.







Let's go for a RUN, Boss!!!







I'm sure we are going to be listening to a LOT of complaints over the next two weeks!

Greg

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Happy to hear that Greg.

Don

Very good to hear this!!!!!

That's just GREAT, Greg!!! In the end you will Have Bliss and forget about the money it cost! Well a little anyway.

Birddogman said:

Bliss (and Nancy and I) thank all of you sincerely for the well-wishes. They worked!

Yeah, we were unlucky (this happened on my property where the dogs have run through the woods many thousands of times with no issues). This could have easily been fatal. It was the right decision to dig deep and pay the emergency vet. It does bug me how they get away with charging such outrageous prices - I'm sure people of lesser means watch their dogs die because they simply can't pay thousands of dollars for something that should cost hundreds. To be fair, the emergency vet did a great job with her. At the end of the day for me, this is what money is for - to provide for those you love - not to buy more "stuff".

Bliss is doing great this morning - seems to be 100% back to her normal energetic, happy, very talkative self - amazing after that major injury. The challenge now is going to be to keep her from running and jumping for two weeks.

Good morning, guys!! "Gute Mariya" in PA Dutch



Watching the morning deer from the "observation deck" area of the house - one of her favorite perches.



Let's go for a RUN, Boss!!!



I'm sure we are going to be listening to a LOT of complaints over the next two weeks!

Greg

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Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
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Using Rx10 IV at Present

Sorry to hear about the injury to Bliss but glad to know Bliss is well on the road to recovery.

Randy

RLBur said:

Sorry to hear about the injury to Bliss but glad to know Bliss is well on the road to recovery.

Randy

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Thank you, kindly, Randy. We love the little bugger.

Greg

Ontarian said:

Happy to hear that Greg.

Don

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Thanks!!

Taken by my wife with cellphone

Lookit my arm! Years ago I was called Popeye a lot

Now..Lost the muscles!


My daughter fishing with my help years ago


My son showing off while fishing years ago

--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
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Using Rx10 IV at Present

Danke!

Very true, Bill. What is money for, if not this?

Greg

Great memories! Thanks for posting, Bill.

Your post made me remember that I had an old pic somewhere of my daughter Erika and me fishing when she was little. We used to have a log cabin on Sherman's Creek in Perry County, PA, where I kept a little jonboat for fishing. No cellphones in those days - this would have been in the mid-70's

Here at the cabin when Erika was still a baby; and my late wife was pregnant with the late Colleen at the time. I was going to school then.



Here fishing with Erika a few years later.



With Erika and Colleen some years later.



Here with Erika (and Nancy) at a recent Thanksgiving. She's 49 years old now. How does that happen?



Yesterday was Colleen's birthday. She would have been 47.

Greg

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Check out my photos at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/137747053@N07/

Birddogman said:

Great memories! Thanks for posting, Bill.

Your post made me remember that I had an old pic somewhere of my daughter Erika and me fishing when she was little. We used to have a log cabin on Sherman's Creek in Perry County, PA, where I kept a little jonboat for fishing. No cellphones in those days - this would have been in the mid-70's

Here at the cabin when Erika was still a baby; and my late wife was pregnant with the late Colleen at the time. I was going to school then.



Here fishing with Erika a few years later.



With Erika and Colleen some years later.



Here with Erika (and Nancy) at a recent Thanksgiving. She's 49 years old now. How does that happen?



Yesterday was Colleen's birthday. She would have been 47.

Greg

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Yupper

Photo memories are Great , aren't they, Greg?

Sometimes I come across old videos that make me CRY!

--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

Nice memories Bill. I see you are holding his line so he won't catch a fish bigger than yours.

Don

Ontarian said:

Nice memories Bill. I see you are holding his her line so he won't catch a fish bigger than yours.

Don

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Actually I was holding the pole as it was too big for her!

Thanks for the kind reply Don

Birddogman said:

RBEmerson said:

[CHAINSAW!!]

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Welcome to the ST&C, Mr. Emerson! Yes, this thread was started some years ago to focus more on results (art, if you will) than only on gear, so non-Sony equipment is allowed. I do most of my photography with Sony cameras, during the upland seasons, but use Fuji quite a bit when I'm only doing photography and not trying to manage dogs in rugged country gun, etc. So, your Fuji images are welcome.

This thread has also developed a bit of a secondary purpose - for the participants here to get to know each other a bit, beyond just what gear we use.

That rafting looks like fun. I have never done it. I get all the "white water" (and more!) that I can handle when sailing off-shore in my small boat.

Greg

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Thanks for the welcome.

For laughs and grins, I went back to some more stuff I shot with the X-S1. I wish I could blame the deficiencies on using JPEG instead of RAW format, but ...um... not quite.

I used PL6 to crop and mildly tweak the catboat, and the Sultana. The water below the bow of the Nellie Crockett, a Chesapeake Bay "buy boat", is heavily retouched, to remove a piling. It's amazing how well PL6handled the job!

I used Topaz AI Sharpen AI to add some crunch to the PL6 results. Even though it's not heavily cropped, the Sultana simply wouldn't really crispen as I'd hoped for.

Overall, while the X-S1 was easier to live with, compared to the DSC-RX10 Mk IV (particularly the menus), the results are disappointing when held next to the RX10.




Selina II - St. Michaels, Maryland




Nellie Crockett - Solomons Island, Maryland




Sultana - Choptank River, Cambridge, Maryland

White water? How about our (now former) Baba 35, One With The Wind, beating to windward (1st reef and the genny brought in to 110%) in the Exumas, Bahamas? The camera was a Fuji FinePix S8200 (me have a thing for bridge cameras? Really?). PL6 for better contrast and color tweaks, Sharpen AI for crunch.


One With The Wind - Exumas, Bahamas

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Some days I amaze even me.
Some days I put my car keys in the fridge.

Birddogman said:

Bliss (and Nancy and I) thank all of you sincerely for the well-wishes. They worked!

Yeah, we were unlucky (this happened on my property where the dogs have run through the woods many thousands of times with no issues). This could have easily been fatal. It was the right decision to dig deep and pay the emergency vet. It does bug me how they get away with charging such outrageous prices - I'm sure people of lesser means watch their dogs die because they simply can't pay thousands of dollars for something that should cost hundreds. To be fair, the emergency vet did a great job with her. At the end of the day for me, this is what money is for - to provide for those you love - not to buy more "stuff".

Bliss is doing great this morning - seems to be 100% back to her normal energetic, happy, very talkative self - amazing after that major injury. The challenge now is going to be to keep her from running and jumping for two weeks.

Good morning, guys!! "Gute Mariya" in PA Dutch



Watching the morning deer from the "observation deck" area of the house - one of her favorite perches.



Let's go for a RUN, Boss!!!



I'm sure we are going to be listening to a LOT of complaints over the next two weeks!

Greg

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I’m so relieved that Bliss is on the mend! Her complaints will get louder the more she feels better. Time will pass by fast, Bliss! You’ll be out running again soon.

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Courtney

Bill Borne said:

Taken by my wife with cellphone

Lookit my arm! Years ago I was called Popeye a lot

Now..Lost the muscles!


My daughter fishing with my help years ago


My son showing off while fishing years ago

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Oh wow, your kids were cute! Time flies, doesn’t it? I think your son is my age. I remember going fishing growing up!

--
Courtney

Birddogman said:

Great memories! Thanks for posting, Bill.

Your post made me remember that I had an old pic somewhere of my daughter Erika and me fishing when she was little. We used to have a log cabin on Sherman's Creek in Perry County, PA, where I kept a little jonboat for fishing. No cellphones in those days - this would have been in the mid-70's

Here at the cabin when Erika was still a baby; and my late wife was pregnant with the late Colleen at the time. I was going to school then.



Here fishing with Erika a few years later.



With Erika and Colleen some years later.



Here with Erika (and Nancy) at a recent Thanksgiving. She's 49 years old now. How does that happen?



Yesterday was Colleen's birthday. She would have been 47.

Greg

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These are great photos, Greg, and wonderful memories. Was Erika born in 1973? My sister would have been 50 this coming June. She was 47 when she died, born in 1973.

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Courtney

Evenstar606 said:

Bill Borne said:

Taken by my wife with cellphone

Lookit my arm! Years ago I was called Popeye a lot

Now..Lost the muscles!


My daughter fishing with my help years ago


My son showing off while fishing years ago

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Oh wow, your kids were cute! Time flies, doesn’t it? I think your son is my age. I remember going fishing growing up!

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Chris was born in 1985 and Lissa in 1987. We were married in 1976. Col had a abortion in 1977. I did not want kids for a long time afraid it would change her affection for me till she finally changed my attitude! So glad she changed it.

--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

Bill Borne said:

Evenstar606 said:

Bill Borne said:

Taken by my wife with cellphone

Lookit my arm! Years ago I was called Popeye a lot

Now..Lost the muscles!


My daughter fishing with my help years ago


My son showing off while fishing years ago

Click to expand...

Oh wow, your kids were cute! Time flies, doesn’t it? I think your son is my age. I remember going fishing growing up!

Click to expand...

Chris was born in 1985 and Lissa in 1987. We were married in 1976. Col had a abortion in 1977. I did not want kids for a long time afraid it would change her affection for me till she finally changed my attitude! So glad she changed it.

--
Bill
"Life's Too Short to Worry about the BS!"
So I Choose my Battles
Click for Wild Man's Photos
Using Rx10 IV at Present

Click to expand...

I was born in 1986, so I’m in between them! My parents married in 1968. My mom already had a son from a teen pregnancy at 16, and dad had a daughter at 16 also. They had three children together, and two died in 2020. Mom will be 75 this year, and dad 74. My surviving siblings (brothers) are 58 and 47.

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Courtney