* The Weekly Image Thread 22 07 29 #705 *

Great pictures, Rich.  Nothing is more fun than flying in a small airplane.  Rich

dt27348 wrote:

I think I would be a little bit wary of flying in a plane with only one engine and no parachutes Rich.😃

Looks like fun and some great views from the plane.

No reason for you to be afraid. Your kilt will work as a parachute. 🤗

dt27348 wrote:

On the contrary, the kilt would end up over my head exposing my nether regions. Oh, the embarrassment.

Silly! Obviously you need to hold the kilt out! You'll be like a giant flying squirrel soaring down in gentle spirals.🤗

And the world will finally know the answer to the eternal question. 😄

Good that you had nice weather for your walk Dave.  A lovely view in the first.  Flats in the background for the boaters and perhaps retired crowd.  A beautiful serene scene in the second.  You need a bench there to sit and enjoy it, as long as it is not feeding season!  The forecast here is rain, rain and more rain.  Ten day forecast shows no reprieve but that could change at a whim.

Andrew

Snuffagaga looks like a lovely place. That's some root ball! The castle looks quite manageable and the location is splendid. Is there an elevator though?

Back in 72- 73 I lived in northern Ontario in a tourist town (summer months only).  A lot of people flew into fishing or hunting camps by float plane.  Two years after we left, a young man that I had taught (a really pleasant lad) was killed in the crash of a small plane.  I had talked to him the summer after we left when we went back to visit some friends we had made there.  I don't know what type of plane Harvey but that left a lasting effect in my mind, perhaps irrationally, but never the less, that effect remains still!

Andrew

A lovely day, Dave. I like the last one best. I wish we had some of your excess rain as we burn again this summer. The current fires are a long way from here, 100 miles NE.

You should consider a castle with a moat for Charlotte. That's because a moat can work both ways. I'd include alligators, and a perimeter of thistles, too.       Rich

I've been experimenting with color temperature with my new light.  It adjusts from 2500° K. to 8500.  If you are not constrained by reality the effect of varying the light temperature is entertaining.  I am experimenting in low light so the effect of my light is more pronounced.

All of these with MZ 12-100 and the LCD constant light.  Most are focus stacked, which is much easier with constant light than with flash.

Pretty and pungent.

A sad old geriatric rose.

This one's a hospital rose with windows behind.  I stuffed in a sky.

That's all.  Rich

Looks good. How to you handle the light panel? Do you bring some kind of tripod or do you just handhold it and handle the camera with one hand?

I've bought a little light too. Not as potent as yours, but stronger than the ones I bought earlier and good enough to lighten shadows in daylight. It was on sale and cost next to nothing and will do for learning.

All nicely done Rich.  The fourth is a real beauty!!!  A lot of plants on sale here now.  Perhaps I should go looking for some roses for another try.  Also, some more day lilies might be in order but we could split some stands and repopulate some areas where the daffodils grow in 'spring'.  Not sure how that would work out but the daffodils bloom before the day lilies are very big so it might work out.

The dahlias we planted must have been 'miniatures' because they are not very large.  They are annuals here unless we dig them up and take them inside for over wintering.

Shamefully I have never really used the light I bought other than the one time.  I charged it up about a week ago but I have been busy with some physical labour cleaning up some areas inside and out and have not much energy left for other things when I am 'spent'.

Newfoundland is getting closer.  I don't want to get my hopes up to much as a significant number of flights have been cancelled here by various air lines.  Also, there is always the possibility of getting the vid!  We are looking forward to it though so I hope it happens.  50 years this year so something special is in order.

Andrew

I don't want to hand hold the light, Charlotte.  Old shoulders get sore.  The light came with a tiny ball head which locks into the shoe and threads into the light frame on both the long sides or the short sides.  I've been using it above the shoe.  For very close work the lens shadows some of the light, so I got an articulating arm 19 cm long which puts the light at the end of the lens.  The light is 8x16 cm.  I just got the arm and extra ball joints today and just finished putting it together.  It looks like something from a 1950s science fiction movie.  I need low light to try it and the fog has quit.  I'll have to wait until tomorrow evening.  Rich

Thanks, Andrew.  Yellow, pink and red, that rose is striking every year.  I was at the garden store to shoot koi on Tuesday and got some flowers there, too.

Day lilies make great subjects for pictures.  I was in a rut when the flowers started blooming.  I decided to learn more about artificial light photography outdoors.  I made it complicated with new equipment on purpose.  I don't want my brain ossifying due to disuse in old age.  I'll make a picture of my new rig (it will make you laugh) with a 7.5 inch articulating arm from the shoe to the end of the 12-100 holding the light.  This will prevent shadows from the lens when up close....according to my precise calculations. 

I sure hope you make it to Newfoundland, too.  It will be nice for you two to celebrate half a century.  And I look forward to the pictures and ribald stories of your libertine adventures.      Rich