I took these the other night but did not process these until today. Still more to come from that night. Raining here today! These are all in camera focus stacks so there is evidence of some ghosting visible if you look for it!
Andrew
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I took these the other night but did not process these until today. Still more to come from that night. Raining here today! These are all in camera focus stacks so there is evidence of some ghosting visible if you look for it!
Andrew
Lovely pictures, Andrew. I like the peachy color of the last two.
I just got back from an orchid show, and still downloading hundreds from focus stacking. Orchids aren't my favorite flower, but I'm desperate for cytoplasm. 😓 Rich
After the rain stopped today Rich I assembled a tow behind (the tractor) fertilizer spreader. Not for organic fertilizer because, well you know why. The son that lives with us works for Scotts Canada. They get damaged bags of some goods and some left over for reasons unknown to me and he is allowed to bring some home. For about 44 years I have had a spreader that you pushed by hand. My wife usually does the spreading while I assist with the loading of it into the spreader. The property has a significant hill between the front and the back parts so this will make the work easier. Of course nothing comes put together so I had to do the assembly. Made in the U.S. and not China, thus parts available should it wear out before I pack it in. I could feel something click in the lower back several times while bent over. That likely explains all the back issues since the accident.
Orchids are not my favourite either as you know Rich but I am hoping you will do something interesting with them. I took some images at an indoor show years ago, all orchids, but the camera I had then was not up to the task. Now that the noise reduction software is better perhaps I should see if I still have them.
Andrew
I did OK with the orchids, but after that I drove around Eureka until I found two early azaleas in bloom. I got some very satisfying pictures of those. And, I like azaleas much better than orchids.
As you know, I have had back problems since my cervical fusion in 1971. I can put up with the pain, except when it disrupts sleep. A couple of months ago I had pain in left knee which was waking me in the night. This comes and goes. The back pain is constant. I rolled up a towel into a tube about 3 inches in diameter and put it beneath my leg between knee and ankle. This helped the knee pain and stopped the back pain while lying down. The knee has settled back down but I'm still using the pad under the left leg and having little back pain while sleeping until I roll off the pad while asleep. The pain wakes me and I put the pad back and go back to sleep. Oh, the leg bone's connected to the hip bone and the hip bone's connected to the back bone and so on. You never know. YMMV.
You make your wife push the spreader? You are a cad, Andrew. I imagine you made her pay for the towed spreader, and I also imagine that she was happy to do so. Your bragging of female exploitation made me think of this picture. The one with the big load is a girl. Rich
I remember that image Rich! Still disturbing after time passed.
My wife wants to apply the fertilizer Rich! Me, not so much! It makes the grass grow. That means work for me!!!! Read into that what you wish! 😍 Now I will have to teach her (again) how to drive the tractor so she can make more work for me!
True to form, people that make stuff that requires assembly underestimate the time required to assemble. Also, the images they include in the 'quick guide' are too small to see clearly what is going on. I had to redo a couple of steps because I did not see the image clearly enough. Also had to leave out one washer because the parts would not fit together otherwise. Great stuff!
I hope it works well! It think I should try your something under the leg thing. My wife is still using a pillow under the leg after the knee surgeries. I had to do that as well after mine. My back hurts when I try to sleep on it. Sometimes during the night I end up on it. When I wake up in that position it does not hurt. If I lie on long enough while awake the pain disappears as well. I really should try the pillow under the legs again to see how that works out. I would like to get an image of the back done to see what is going on. The tens machines used in physio seemed to help so I could buy one and try it. With the 'popping' I have been feeling I suspect a fusion of vertebrate may be necessary but I hope I am wrong.
I wonder what type of fish the fisherpeople in your image might be hoping to catch. You can catch yellow perch, smallmouth bass, sunfish, and on occasion other fish from piers along the shore in Lake Erie. Lots of other fish in the lake as well but generally not going to be caught from a pier.
The payment comes out of joint account Rich, along with the payment for a longarm quilting machine and frame last Thursday! That was a big chunk of change! Maybe I should get a big white! If I thought I would use it enough to justify the cost I would get one.
Andrew
Lovely flower photos Andrew.
Good to see you still make the EM1.2 work for a living. I let my EM1.3 rest for over a year before bringing it back into service when I got the OM1. Now it lives with the 12-100, the OM1 the 100-400, and I grab the camera with the lens I want rather than changing lenses all the time. Much more convenient.
Good to see u out again Andrew the flowers are beautiful lovely colures but they do require a lot of work constant back pain can have a habit of getting u down and if ur health service is like ours u have little chance of seeing ur GP 🙂
Spring comes to Canada ... good to see flowers from your region ....
This site is proving to be a good place for photography ..... but I'm having problems remembering where I've been and where I haven't stopped by .. Might help if the original poster of each post was made obvious ... I sometimes still tend to mistakenly associate the avatar with that original poster ...
WhyNot
Multiple thanks to all!
Jim, the EM1ii sits in the drawer of the nightstand with the 12 - 40 f/2.8 usually attached. I could have used the 60 mm macro for a couple of shots I tried but it was not mounted so stayed in the drawer. The OM-1 is in a camera bag on the floor of the bedroom with the 12 - 100 attatched now that hockey season has ended. Otherwise it would have the 40 - 150 f/2.8. I did end up using the 12 - 100 for the games at the championship weekend where I had to shoot through glass from ice level. The noise levels were high though as I had to shoot at ISO3200 and even then the exposure was less than it should have been but that is the limit I have set for auto iso.
Paul, gardens do require a lot of work. I don't do much in them other than general clean up. My wife does most of the weeding but for some larger varieties I help out. I suspect our medical services and yours are quite similar. If I want an appointment with our GP it is usually at least a three week wait. Anything urgent and you need to find a walk in clinic you can get into or visit the emergency room at the hospital and wait for hours.
WN, I agree that the avatar showing for the thread should show the OP and not the most recent poster. The latter has some advantages but it is easier to identify the thread OP if their avatar shows up!
They are carrying crab pots, Andrew. And a bucket, likely with something very disgusting in it to attract the crabs.
When rebuilding a drive train for a car, any bits left over are called adding lightness.
Oops! Did your leg just come off in my hand?
I just had a look at a long arm quilting machine. By Golly, that's quite a rig. You sure wouldn't want to leave out a washer when assembling one of those. Rich
Now that you tell me again, I think you told me before Rich, about the crab pots. Well I tried the pillows and things under the legs last night but it did not help. Last night was not bad though so maybe I should try again when I am thinking about getting the oxy out of the drawer. I have some left over from seven years ago. Little risk of addiction because I only take it when the pain becomes too much to sleep at all.
The long arm quilter is quite the space sucking up contraption. I was supposed to build a sewing room in the basement but that came crashing to a halt after the car accident. I may try again this summer. I don't have to work all day on it but have the luxury of work for a while then come back to it when able. The frame of the quilting machine is ten feet long and about four feet wide. A guy will come to the house and set it up, included in the price of the machine. That works for me! I will post some images of the repurposed living room afterward.
Andrew
One of my walking buddies wife just got a long arm quilter this past weekend.
He said it's 12' long and will do a 2' wide section of quilt at a time.
Sure glad my wife was a hand-stitch only quilting snob!
Sounds like a really big machine Jim. Ours only has a 10 ft frame and a sixteen inch throat. I have seen some on the internet that have up to 30 in throats. Also the twelve footers. It is bad enough to spend $20 000 on the machine and frame but those people that do the computerized stitching get to drop another $20 000 on top of that for that function. The smaller machines on 10 ft frames you might only be in for $$32 000. Those are in Canadian dollars so a third less in U.S. currency. Not inexpensive! There was an older lady at the quilting guild my wife belongs to that did hand stitched quilts with amazing patterns. They were lovely to look at. With the custom computerized quilting it seems to have become an overly done thing from my perspective. It then becomes less about the work the person did making the quilt and more about the stitching. I am generally not a big fan when they go nuts with that stuff. I have pictures from last Thursday when we attended a quilt show in St. Marys after going to the quilting store in Ingersoll where she purchased the long arm and frame.
Yes, be thankful for hand quilting! Much less expensive!
Andrew
