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youtubearchive for November of 2007
Listening to Stars Under Moonlight on the Plains of San Agustin
Fort Photo posted a photo:
View it large on black! ;-)))
The night after the full moon I was thinking the Very Large Array might make an ideal subject to test long exposures on the D300. This image is a composite of three different exposures looking down the train tracks that are used to position the 27 independent radio antennae into position.
I have to say that the D300 is impressing me more all the time. Has anyone else noticed how chromatic aberrations seem to be incredibly limited on lenses that show them on other digital SLRs? Also, for long exposure night work, I think folks are going to love how clean the shadow areas and blacks are coming out. Previously the darks were always troublesome for me on my D70, particularly for night shots so this will be a huge improvement for me.
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #550
Ape Lad posted a photo:
Szu-Hsiung Tsao | Taiwan
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Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #544
Ape Lad posted a photo:
Sinter Klaus!
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Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #515
Ape Lad posted a photo:
Scannering: results
Here are some highlights from a crapload of pictures I just scanned. They’ll all be on the photo site in an album called “071115-Scanned” in a few minutes. They’ll be larger there, and will have comments.
But, like I said, highlights.
I call this one “Airport ’77” because we’re in an airport, and it’s 1977, not because of any big disaster that happened or was about to happen. Note the ashtray built into the table. Note the American ticket jacket in my dad’s pocket. Note how dressed up we are, just to fly. Dig my mom’s pants, man. Scariest part? This is not the only picture I have of her wearing those pants.
These next two are notable for only one reason. First, we have one my mother labeled “Summer 1977: Jeff 1, Elaine 3.”
I don’t know where we are here. From the look of it, we’re at In Thirty Years Parents Will Call This Place Death Park USA Park. I mean seriously. That child is ONE and he is in that situation. Nowadays, he’d be encased in plastic. I love shit like this.
The second one of this set isn’t labeled, but the processing stamp on the back says “Oct 79.” Notice anything?
Yeah, that’s right. It’s two years later (you can tell easily from looking at Jeff, if not at me), and I’m wearing the same shirt. It even fits a lot tighter than it did in 1977. I do not remember this shirt, but I must have loved it.
Lastly, and this is my whole point, we have what I consider one of the finest pictures ever taken of me ever in my life. My father demonstrated a gift when we were young for taking pictures of children correctly. He must have spent ten years kneeling in front of us with a camera. He got so close, and the light and focus were always so good. Go to the new album page on the photo site and you’ll see more examples. He was great at it.
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #504
Ape Lad posted a photo:
