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Here they call it Topping a live oak to get a certain shape and look..which properly done does make them look good..but in the wrong hands it is a crime against nature..poor sods..nary a limb to sprout leaves from
Past,present and future
Thanks for sharing your adventures!
This forum will be a touchstone someday in the future ..where you had gone and how far, from where and when
A Canterbery tales sort of snapshot in time.
The tales of ...of.....?
Go to where your name is written
Go...
Somewhere Else.
Not some door
Nor address
But in your place among the stars
Where the wild winds call your name
The world knows your name
Its the music in your head
The beat in your heart
The time in your steps...
Where you will swirl around the floor...
Me? I traveled 25 years or so on my version
The difference is i came home a stranger. Stranger to my home,family and place where I grew up.
I dont fit in
People dont understand my world views,vision and how i look at life.
The traveled ones understand me
They have seen,felt and lived away from...
As a short term portable solution when i transfer photos to and from my Ipad is thumb drives
Solid state and easily portable
A set of SDXC cards of suitible size is more to my liking and trust factor.
Camino folks would have kittens if I took a medium format camera that can create files up to 1.5 to 3 gigs....each,and would seemingly fill a terrabyte hard drive in 100 or so photos.
Its how my artistic mind works..
Its good for the soul
Its fulfilling in about 3 ways
My S23 will do for...
Thats my problem, i live/love to capture special moments of light
Crepuscular rays inside buildings
Shades of gold
Singular things lit up by a stray ray
Sunsets...
My eye is forever roving for special compositions,moments and juxtapositions
Its how i remember things hence the need to carry...
Sorry for the literary licence,it was more concerned with a persons thoughts going back to a place and time unexpectedly..or..fondly to the same..and 2k!!!!
I used up! A 60D..all done, wore that poor thing out...
my 5dII? Poor thing just didnt know what hit it..wore that out too.
The bands must be shy..I tell them Pink Floyd and a few other guys..you can see them..on stage....playing! and that its brilliant!
Yup..my band buddys dont believe in stage lighting
I shoot Charity events in venues with low lights and high iso..ugh
Looking at a D850/D5 or 6 to get that high iso clarity
Did it make a difference in your short term, long term and lifetime?
Did it change your soul..or chain it forevermore to some dusty track in Spain
Are you in the ever present because of it, or are you still back..there....
Kit bag has a 1.8/1.4 prime in it, a 70-200 2.8 with a full frame body.
Ready for any dark interiors to a point without having to raise the iso too awfull much.
The 70-200 makes excellent portraiture in not so good light for same reason .
I cut my teeth in low light and enjoy the moody stuff...
It was dark with clouds and rain here in Tx.
In the path of totality, it got nite dark..with clouds according to newsies.
Best of luck up north and east!
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