Back to work, Shoot the moon and crazys

We I have finally gone back to work...sort of. I worked a full week this week, but probably won't next week. We are waiting on materials, but once here, we should be good for awhile. After having more than 5 months off this year, it almost feels funny working a full week.

I got a chance to do show photo work tonight. Thought I would try and learn how to photo the moon. It's not as easy as it would seem, Many, many bad photos later ( like 70-80 ) I finally got one that I liked. Here is the one I like the best...

Taken with the Nikon D50 and 70-300mm Nikor ED lens

I worked in Berkley, Ca. this last week. What and eye opener that city is. They drive like maniacs, and also act like them too. I'm really WAY out of my element there to say the least. Luckily, I spend most of my time there either on the job, or at the motel.

The highlight of the week was getting flipped off by some crazy bull-dyke. A wonderful place indeed!

Thank You and a Question

Thank you veterans for all you do. Godspeed....

Question of the day?

At what point does Liberalism become Socialism?

A slow weekend, pictures and cash in the news

It's been a slow weekend. Not much going on. The weather was bad on Saturday, so not much to do. I did drive down to Corning and visited with David which was nice. Don't get down that way all the much to visit. Last night we had thunder and lightning and rain.



Today, Sunday, the weather was beautiful! I got a chance to drive the Cobra and do some tuning on it. It runs great now that I have the new mass air sensor on it. Soon I can go wide open throttle with it and see what it will really do!



I had taken some photos of the kid next door practicing Mototcross. Wanted to try the shutter priority mode on the Nikon D50. I learned a few things, but the pictures didn't come out too well. Never the less, if you do some post production editing, and apply some suitable filters via ThumbsPlus, you can get some cool abstract pieces. This is the one that I liked. Sort of different from the same old stuff.

In the news... (submitted by Billy Haynes)

Seems a contractor found some old cash in a wall, and it has turned into a crazy story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081108/ap_on_re_us/house_hidden_money

Fishing, weather and hard drive

Got a chance to head out to the lake today. The weather was great. Nice and sunny. The fishing was good also. Not stunning, but well worth it. We ended up with 6 trout and 1 bass in the boat, and lost almost that many. Any day on the lake is better than one in the house. Here is a photo of my buddy JP and the big fish of the day. 18", 2lb-6oz. Shasta Lake rainbow trout.

Here is the big fish for me today. Not nearly the size of JP's fish...

And of course, the obligatory Mt. Shasta shot. Peeking from behind the lesser hills of the lake.

I didn't have the Nikon D50 today. I shot these with the Sanyo CG6 that goes with me when I'm fishing and hunting. It's a perfect camera for what I use it for. And I don't have to worry about taking the Nikon and hurting it.

Tonight, while going to get my camera in the other room, I managed to get my Maxtor 500 gig USB external hard drive's cord wrapped around my my big foot and pulled the drive down to the floor with sufficient force to be felt on the richter scale. I thought for sure it was a gonner. Brand new drive (with tons of files on it) lost. I plugged the USB wire back into it and into the notebook's USB port. To my surprise, the drive booted up and indexed the files and I was able to access it. I guess drive technology, at least as far as durability, has come a long way.

Old Glory, PT 658 and fishing

While up in Redding today, I managed to get some photos of the large flag near Interstate 5. I have always wanted to take some photos of it, and now that I have the D50....Here is one of the shots I took today.

A big thanks to all our vetrans for keeping her flying!

I was sent the link to this video from a friend today. Interesting story. Took these guys 15 years to rebuild her. Amazing!

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-7693407296698216570&hl=en&fs=true

Hope to get out for a couple of hours and do some fishing. I need to get out and have some fun and maybe get this whole election thing out of my head for awhile. With luck, we may have some good fishing photos here tomorrow.

Hmmm

Not much for today. Still reeling from the election results. Still can't imagine that the American people would actually elect a non-military person in war time. Not to mention all the other crap that that went on with him during the election. Maybe I'll get used to it, but I wouldn't bet on it..

Still no work on the Cobra. Bad weather is keeping me from finishing the tune and water/meth injection on it. It needs front brakes, but until I get back to work, that 's a no go.

I shut off my satellite radio a couple of days ago. I miss it already. Not that big a deal. I'll get it back when works pick up. Went 47 years without it before! :)

I was thinking of sending out some photos to get printed, but last time I sent them to Walmart, the 8x10's I had done looked like crap. The smaller 4x6's looked okay, but on the 8x10's, the color was all wrong. I printed out an 8x10 here at home that came out much better than what Walmart did. I don't have a large format printer any longer, so that is about the biggest I can go. While the print looked good from the new HP OfficeJet J6480, I was not that impressed with the Kodak high gloss premium photo paper that I used. It looks good if you view the photo straight on, but at any angle, the paper looks lumpy. I have some HP paper, as well as some Epson photo paper and some Jet Print Matte photo paper. I also have some Georgia Pacific matte photo paper that is 46lb and is really nice, I just haven't tried it yet either.

If any of you have some suggestions on paper you have used that has worked good for you, please let me know. I"m printing high quality color digital photos on it. I would also like to do some black and white work here soon.

So now what?

44 years ago, this puss bag knew the eventuality of it all. Today, 44 years later, the socialists have pulled the wool over enough people's eyes to get into power. It's a sad day for this country...


The Socialist Party candidate for President for the United States, Norman Thomas, said this in a 1944 speech:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened."