Hi John! Welcome to caedes. :)
-Alex

Welcome aboard. Be forewarned. You are in the company of a lot of eagles that let this old buzzard hang around. Thanks for liking my snapshots enough to want to follow my postings.

don

Thank you John, for commenting on "Frosty" I'm pleased you enjoyed it. ♥ Sandi♥

Thank´s John for the very kind words about "Moist View", greatly appreciated!

Hello John....Many thanks for taking the time to have a look at (HIGHLAND PONIES)and for your comments,they are very much appreciated....I hope your wife enjoyed the picture....Thanks again....All the best....Mick.

Thanks, John. I'm glad you liked the Rainbow Bee. :) Cindy

I live in Euless, TX. Since most people get the deer caught in the headlights look when I say this, I usually just say "DFW" since I'm about 5 miles west of 31L.

My main accesses to the world are AA and Delta. ;^)

Thank you kind sir...your comments to Moorland crossing are most appreciated! ..

Bob

Like you, I miss the eastern fall colors, but not the eastern traffic. Thank for the compliment.

All the things that were done in the film lab are now computerized functions inside the camera. If the work was critical, the photog would take a control exposure containing a 28% gray card. If true color were required, a color test card was included in an area that could be cropped out of the pictures.

The lab tech would read the control card image into a densitometer and dial up the correct color correction filter pack and use the readings to determine correct exposure.

For critical work, labs would buy large quantities of a job lot because the color rendition of color products varied with each job lot batch. When the emulsion batch number changed, test exposures were made and a basic color correction pack was built.

As you can see, a labor intensive process requiring specialized equipment, if you wanted true color. A fully corrected Kodacolor 8 x 10 print (or smaller) would run about about $100, and this was the cheap process. Dye transfer and carbro color process cost 2 and 4 times as much, respectively.

The cost of producing paper that was 100% radiation free was climbing as did the cost of silver drove Kodak to pursue alternatives.

20 years ago, Kodak, Canon, and Nikon made a commitment to digital photography that is really paying dividends today. Today's cameras have computers more powerful than those on board the lunar missions to process the images they download from the CCD chips and store on their memory cards. The down-side to this marvelous technology is that if some nut somewhere on our blue marble ever pops a nuke, all our archives and these electronic marvels will become nothing more than a paper weight in microseconds.

Actually, the sun wasn't conspiring over expose as much as I said. "No mas." I used a circular polarizer for the dramatic sky.

Thanks. These are some of my favorites shots. I picked the most trashed ones to learn with. I figure if I can conquer the software with these, things will only get better.

G'day John,
Thanks for adding me to your friends list, I hope I generate the occasional quality wallpaper for your enjoyment. :)
Peace,
Mikel.

G'day John,
Thanks for the comments on Industrial Sunset, much appreciated.
Mikel.

Hello John. Thank you for your comments and query about “Safe from the Storm”. There was a convenient street light behind me so no I didn’t drag the shutter as such :-)

Thanks John for commenting on my Iowa State Capitol picture. I spent close to a year in the capitol working as a Honeywell temperature control technician in the early 70’s.

Bob

Thanks I hope you enjoyed the warmth.

I'll be scanning some more Grand Gully stuff in the future. I bought postcards for the touristy things, and pulled the camera out of the pack for a few of a mesa about a half-mile down that caught my eye.

Hello John,
thanks for your comments on "Colours of the Night". Very appreciated,
Rob

Hi John, thank you for taking the time to comment on "The Lone Elk" and "Hungry Elk" Glad you liked them both. I will visit there often, hoping to get some Deer photos.

Thanks for the compliments.

I'm slowly migrating things off my HD to Flicker after I create CD backups. I'm running out of room for Astrophotos. After I get the astros cataloged, I'll start migrating them also. SBIG creates humongous files.

Later,

don

Thanks for your praise of Descent to Coconina. It may seem hard to believe, but should you go down Bright Angel Trail, someday, your Rebel will overshadow these snapshots. Eliminating the negative creates an image with the resolution of a medium of even large format camera of this time period. We've come a long way in a very short time.

d

G'day John,
The shutter drag was a side effect of the low light situation rather than a deliberate decision on my part, glad you liked it all the same.
Mikel.

Merry Christmas to you and yours, John

Hi, John.

I'm glad you like the pan strip. This one was a little awkward because I didn't shot it as a pan, but different shots from a small overlook. For the simplest job, use a tripod and about 30% overlap on each side. Most of my work was adjusting image size to get matching points.

Good luck, I know you have the ability. I can hardly wait to see your results.

don

Thanks for your comments on the Mayflower II. One day later and it would have been cold and rainy. Thank God, we had such a beautiful day.

I photographed this on 2007/10/23 1505edt, in Plymouth harbor.
This is part of the Plimouth Plantation, the living history museum near Plymouth, MA.

For your notebook: The sepia color formula used was: Red - 129, Green - 51, blue - 15.

Glad you liked it.

d

Yeah, it was a cool creek. :)
Mikel.

Hello John. Thank you for your comments about “Going Down to Dinner.” I have no idea what he ate but he was back in the air within 2 minutes.

You honor me too much. Guru, no. Pretty good technician--Yup!

Thanks for your comments on Ground Zero, John. I'm pleased at the difference Photoshop has made. It is almost like working in the darkroom.

Go for it. Push the envelope.

d

That was the emotion I felt when I saw the missile from the train on the way to Amsterdam. I made a note of the cities name so that we could get off the train and check it out a couple of days later.

The hypogeum also has excellent examples of Roman brick and the way it was employed in construction. Above ground, they would have been covered with those inch thick tiles with polished marble or limestone in such a manner you would think it was solid rock like the pyramids of Egypt.

I waited until Chris was grown and married before we went. I wouldn't think of depriving him of sacrificing so his appreciation will be heightend...OUCH. I bit my tongue.:-))

G'day John,
The roots rocks moss shot was hard to settle on, working out, in the field, what the good composition was. I think my grasp of composition, lines and balance and all that, needs lots of development before I can make the most of the really simple, undramatic shots like that one. Thanks for your encouraging feedback. :)
Mikel.

Thanks John, the patterns in the water are pretty cool I thought. :)
Mikel.

I agree. Arena was solid 4. Good technical merit, but little art value. This one is a weak 5, because it has more of a feel of being there, in a seat waiting for the games to being there.

Thanks for the good words,

don

Glad you liked the papal abode.. Can't you just see old Pope Julius storming up the path to kick Buonarroti's butt for not having his ceiling finished?

Thanks John for nice words on Green, Green Grass of Home. Sorry it made you so cold. Happy New Year.

Tick

Thanks for the note on Stormy Athens, it's greatly appreciated!

G'day John,
Right now those rocks are half a planet away and even when I'm in Mass they are at the other end of the state from where I normally stay. :) Long trip for some macros. lol. Thanks for the comments.
Mikel.

thanks for the commenton "Tides of Dash Point", John, im glad you liked it.

Hey! Thanks John for your continuous support on my portraits series. Very appreciated. Happy New Year!

Thanks, John.

Shot this with the Coolpix. I was traveling light that day. I knew the wife have lots of packages by the time we got back to the ship. The whole palace is incredible.

Hello John, thank you kindly for your comments about “Crested Grebe with chick”. They are greatly appreciated.

That was almost a quantum leap. The technical merit is there. The trick is finding the right subject and the approach to take it over the top. 80% is technique, the last 20% is chasing the bear.

It's called work with what you got, but after yesterdays comment about the arena, I thought I'd fire a warning shot.

When digitizing the first arena, the print slipped on the platen and I didn't catch it but a young man did. I was so busy working with the little imperfections that I didn't notice that the shot was crooked. :-/

The Coolpix was operating at max wide-field, so....

Glad you liked it. This would make a decent documentary photo, but little else, so I didn't want repeat my acknowledgement to many times.

Please read "Draconian Censorship" in the Discussion Board under Photography and express your opinion.

Thanks,

don

"Staring into your soul"

LOL.

Big rap for my first fractal. Thanks mate. Glad it had any impact at all! :)) It was fun to create, for sure.
Happy New Year and may you snap some images YOU love in 08.
Mikel.
ps, the "radiation" comment made me chuckle. :))

Thanks. Mathers Point and all the other features should blow your socks off as digital originals. Be sure to carry a UV and a skylight filter. The altitude is higher than you think.

Gotta go. Over and out.

"Flowing Silk", yeah, it does have that kind of texture. Wish I knew how to make a whole image that looked like that. lol.
Mikel.

Hi, John.

Thanks for your comments of Grafton State Park. Maine is a very scenic state. In this part of state, if you encountered more than one car in five minutes, it was considered to be traffic jam.

Good eye john I spotted the fog horn after the upload. Should have waited until after I slept.

Thanks,
Don

Gdansk was not what I expected of Poland. We crossed Poland in 1997 on our way to Minsk and Moscow. Most of the county appeared to be dirt poor. Farmers were using implements from the '30s. A lot has happened in the last ten years.

Hi John,
Thank you so much for commenting on "You've Got Mail." I appreciate it.
--Caroline

You, too, shall be old and high mileage one day. ;-)

Thanks. And thanks to the censors. This arose from one of those human paradoxes. Communism is supposed to be on the side of the laborer, but it took a labor revolt against a communist regime to achieve a level of equity for all working men in Poland. More than 3000 names are recorded at the memorial park.

Thank you for your comments about “Lady in Red” John. A couple of years ago I wouldn’t have known the difference between a Dragonfly and a Damselfly. When I photograph something new I try to find out what that fascinating creature is :-)

Thanks for the tip. I don't normally work in the macro arena. This was just the old zoom lens and waiting for the foam to disappear. The little critters have always fascinated me.

Ooops. Past my bedtime.

G'day John,
Glad you liked Warrior and Princess. :) Me just mucking around with fractals, I don't currently have the computing power to produce the renderings I'd ideally like.
Mikel.

John,
your comment on "Frosty Morning" is very encouraging and as always very appreciated.
Rob

Thanks, John. I'm glad you liked The Balsams. It was a pleasure to take the picture. There was a cool mountain spring right behind me. Picture and rest break, all in one.

G'day John,
Thanks for the comments on Sun Kissed. The soft edges are a result of a diffusion filter, to express the glow the seed heads had to the naked eye which was lost somewhat when I took the photo. :)
Peace,
Mikel.
ps Thanks also for the comment on Malvern Hills. :)

G'day John,
I took delivery of a 22 inch screen and a two drive high speed computer, sadly the screen was faulty out of the box (Not the companies fault._ and they left one of the hard drives out (Definitely their fault.) and installed the operating system so badly I couldn't fix it myself, (Amazingly incompetent>) so back to the factory and now I twiddle my thumbs waiting for my new toy to return to me in proper functioning order. I'm looking forward to having a computer that actually can cope with my digital imaging demands, both power wise and image wise. Currently using a 330hrtz old laptop, definitely time for an upgrade. LOL.
Mikel.

Thank you kind Sir for your comments about “Quizzical Wren”. They are greatly appreciated.

Tell your bride thanks. Just goes to show you that even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then. Tell she made an old man happy.

Thanks, John.

Can you imagine that gorge in the spring melt? Almost worth a plane ticket to find out.

I really had fun playing with the two flares before I squeezed this one off.

Thanks. The water was pretty cold, but only up to my knees, but those granite boulders said "Shoot me"

Yes,apparently,the stamen is bent,thanks much for viewing "Hibiscus" and commenting,appreciated.

Thanks very much for your comments on York Art Gallery :-)

This is one of those times that I wished that the monopod wasn't
back in the hotel room. The place where I was steadiest is not the spot I wanted to shoot from. Even though I was steadier, the sparkles of the water are all a little egg-shaped.

Try Dry Helmen Stot kinda fast. Bayern (or Bavaria), pronounced Buy-urn) is my favorite place in the world. I left my appendix in Stuttgart in 1951 and go back to visit it every chance I get.

My wife is a Mannheimer from the western end of the Necker River. That almost makes her Bayerischer.

If you go to Bayern, wait until the last half of September so you may experience the magic of Oktoberfest. Spend the last few days of Oktoberfest in some place like Garmisch-Partenkirchen, so you may celebrate with the farmers and thier families in the way of Old Germany.

It will be the memory of a lifetime, I promise you.

This old scarecrow idolized Ray Bolger -- the scarecrow in The_Wizard_of_Oz.

Thanks much for the comment on "Castle of Trevarez",appreciated.

Thanks for you comments on Twin Lights State Park, John. I value your opinion highly.

Lush desolation is a most accurate terminology. Even the plants are rugged along this coastline.

Take care and God bless,

don

I’m glad you like “Totality” John, and appreciate your comments about it. Thank you.

G'day John,
No, different tree, same shoot. :) One more, this last one has a quite different symmetry to it.
Mikel.

Right you are. I burned in the opposite side until hints of gray started coming through on the opposite side. I thought about using unsharp masking but that would have a negative impact on the camera side of the pond. The s-pattern would have turned a little muddy. That is a good technique to employ in high contrast ratio with tiny details.

Thank you for your comments about “The Coal Loader” John. I enjoy making that kind of photo.

Never again has had a lasting influence on me.

Thanks. Dresden is another fantastic city. Like SPB, it was level in WWII. Now it sports centuries old restorations in modern colors and some very nice modern stuff.

Maine has its craggy shoreline, and San Diego has the SDSU campus, and Palomar is only a couple of hours away

Thanks for the comments John.
:)

I hope your wife enjoys “Feeding the Kids” as much as my wife did John :-) Thank you for the kind feedback.

Thanks much for commenting on "White Camellia",appreciated.

Hi John, glad you enjoyed my photo "Another red belly" Found that one in my archives. Thank you for the comment.

Thanks much for the comment on "Dusk colors",it's appreciated.

just wanted to thank you for commenting on the picture :-)

Thank you for the comment on my Eagle photo "Feeling Proud" I am very proud that it got a c-index of 98. I even made it my new avatar, or icon thingy. I appreciate your continued support on my photos.

Hey John,
Glad you liked the spiky fractal.

Thanks for commenting on "Evo in the Park" even though it "wasn't your thing." :) I appreciate it.

I appreciated your encouraging comment on "twenty to nine". I am glad you liked the picture.
Rob

Thanks much for stopping by "Waves" and commenting,appreciated.

Thanks for taking the time to comment on "Seagulls",it's appreciated.

G'day John,
Thanks for the comment on the Brindabellas. :)
And on the Early Bird.

The comment on "Quiet beach" is appreciated,thanks much.

G'day John,
Yeah, a little cream with breakfast goes a long way. :)

The comment on "Lone and little house" is appreciated,thanks for the visit.

Thanks for commenting on "View of the ocean",it's really nice of you.

Hi John, thank you for the nice comment on my bee photo. I took that last Spring while sitting in my chair on my back deck. I used my Canon 100mm macro lens which I had to sell, but I am going to buy another one this spring. I want to turn my attention to flowers and insects while still posting a bird photo or two.