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dats a goot ting O, don’t ya get a bit dizzy hangin’ like that?
… or maybe it’s all those hookah fumes … 😉
how come that doesn’t give me a large version when I click on it????
One of the fish I posted a few weeks ago, just had babies.
Cigars all around, & cigar canisters for control freaks.
We posted one second apart … great timing! 😀
Can you post a pic for us? 🙂
This is the mom with the eggs above her back. They are wiggling in their egg sacs.
If you remember, I posted this same female next to a “Q”-tip, & the fish didn`t win the size cintest. I`ve now put them all in another tank & hopefully some will make it.
Ya, they are small. I follow their progress with a little flashlight to light up the cave, & use a large magnifyer to peer beyond the mom, who`s constantly fanning the eggs.
“For your flash of surprise at their size,
Two splashes of paint for your eyes.”
that’s a whole ‘nother world for sure!
Would they be the size of the head of a pin then…
Hard to gauge the magnification necessary to see this
Yes they are difficult to see when they wiggle free of the egg sac and are officially citizens. You`d hope to have small pins or at least pins with small heads, hence the name “pinhead”
I hope they make it too … 🙂
IMS, you had to set up a shelter for her….amazing shot!
My favorite fish in any of my tanks.
It`s a Marine Betta, or a Comet.
It`s defense posture is to enter a cave in the rocks, stop at the entrance with his tail out. He then flares like this shot & pretends he`s a large moray.
It`s surprising how many people wonder how long the eel is.
never seen one …how big is it?…
In the wild, they could be up to 8″, but I`ve had this one for years & at about 5″/6 ” I doubt if he`ll get bigger than this.
A lot of people think it`s not right to keep fish in a tank because of size limitations on their freedom. Most of the fish hobbyists keep would never stray farther than the distance inside a tank. A lot of the fish available these days are aquacultured, along with many corals. The more interest, we, as hobbyists, can arouse, the more people would want to see more done to preserve that which allows us to simply be alive. Our oceans. Thank you for your part in keeping them clean.
and is it underwater, or outside the glass?
Done anything more with the 3D images lately?
I usually shoot from directly against the glass, to eliminate the reflection from the flash.I have an underwater camera but I wouldn`t use it in my tanks. I constantly get attacked by some of the territorial fish & it usually startles me. A sudden surprise jerk from a completely harmless attack could cause me to smash into some corals & break them.
I use a plastic bag made of super clear material to shoot just below the surface but that`s about it. I`ll post a whole tank shot in a few mins. if you`re around.
different camera techniques in different setting are very interesting to me. I always learn something new, for example Olivia’s macro shots of flowers have opened up a whole new world… it would be similar with the aquatic environs, I suspect.
I`m using a Nikon 5400.
Here`s a shot of some of the crowd in the tank in the house.
How’s the late night crowd doing NDD and KH?
Just getting some late night planning for the next few days taken care of.
I`m following my brother`s progress accross the country from Montreal to Malibu. I haven`t seen him in about 15 yrs, so it`s a big deal. He spent most of his working life in Africa, & I even have an African nephew, who is in Japan & has been for a year. My brother was in Albuquerque on Sunday so I`ll see him in about 2 weeks. He`s seeing the country in a 33′ 5th wheel & has been sending pix from Pike`s Peak, Colorado Springs, ect.
I was recounting one of my cross country trips in the early 70`s along the same route except I was on one of my motocycles.
That`s what`s up, here.
That sounds great, plus you haven’t seen him in 15 year so it should be a wonderful reunion.
I always dreamed of getting one of those super large RVs and tourning the country. I can’t think of a better way to see it.
I was looking at your pictures earlier and as always you do some amazing work.
What’s up NDD?
Not still up, just woke up extremely early.
How have you been doing?
a shingling project for a friend, 76 year old, but cool guy, die-hard liberal.
Just finished it all tonight, in the rain, yet, with snow and cold temps predicted for tomorrow.
What are friends for? 🙂
I saw where dada said they were predicting snow for him. I think this weekend we’re supposed to get down to 38 F.
I keep praying for snow, but nothing.
Forgot to ask. Are you getting ready for the Fotofair?
I’ve got ten ready to go, just waiting for the final templates from Olivia
Yeah I’ve been taking a few pictures to try and get enough for the fair. I’m still at the stage where I wish my marcos wouldn’t turn out so blurry.
what I’ve done is just keep taking multiple shot, not like I’m wasting film, right, took me a while to get over that old thinking, so I may take 10 and get one good one out of that.
And then sometimes it turns out I’m actually too close, and that makes it blurry, you can always crop later, so I’ve learned to back off some, and still take several at different distances, so that might help if you ain’t already doing this
I think that’s my problem. I not used to doing the marcos and I get to close.
Ain’t that a wonderful thing about digital. Take as many as you want and not worry about film.
i used to think I had to fill the whole screen with the subject, but they were all blurred, so I backed off some and then they started coming out OK.
No film is my favorite thing about the digitals. That and being able to store and email at will.
I don’t think I would have really gotten into taking pictures unless they was digital. I used to hate to turn in a roll of 36 and over half of them wouldn’t come out. Plus I really got into playing with the photos using Paint Shop. I brought back a lot of old scanned photos that way.
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s. Breezy. Northwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
You lucky dog.
I’m just waiting for long pants weather. :~)
is not unheard of, but it’s generally in late Oct. I’m thinking we’ll have nice weather through all of Nov if the first snow is this early
Lets head down to the left bottom so we don’t bust the margins.
hope you’re over the troubles I read about a while back.
Slowly we’re getting there. I’ve been looking forward to Nov./Dec. just for that. 🙂
Yes it promises to be a good time. I`ve got a plane rented so I can fly him around to get an aerial view of my world. I rent a plane with a pilot friend
& get to do the flying. It`s pretty cheap at $50.00/hr.
If we fly to Catalina, an island off of southern California, it takes an hour. We can park the plane & go tripping around the island. The return flight can be a little longer, but having the plane for 8 hrs only amounts to about 2 hrs. of flying time so it costs about $100.00 for my friend & I & my brother & his wife. The same trip by express boat would end up being at least twice as much while taking a lot longer & not being able to control where you want to go. I`m sure we`ll have a great time.
Anyway I`mm outta here.
Goodnight to you & any other night owls or good day to early worms.
out
first cigar I ever smoked was cuban, brought in by my Sen from ND, thence to his chief of staff here in Fargo, thence to me, ha;)
had to go find one of my fav pics….
control clik to enlarge
that’s when I asked if that was at Tulage’s…. ha;)
full of character
Yeah, that works … 🙂
how’s life been goin’ for ya Manny
just crazy as always at work. Planning on enjoying myself greatly this coming weekend at the Great Tucson Beer Festival, however 😀
Howboutyew?
linkage, not sure about music. We just had Fall Crawl last weekend with 25 stages and 100 bands, that was great
animal I’ll be roping is a pony keg that day O:)
And here I vuss lookin’ forward to seein’ that on youtube…
just finished a shingling project for a friend, so the ol’ bod is unhappy, but after 3 shots of tequila it’s starting to come around
just stay away from the worm if you are thinking about being productive anytime within the next month.
when down the drain, and no vurm in this tequila, vee don’t get the really good stuff up here, unless you’re willing to donate an arm and leg both…
BEWARE!…could lead to unintended consequences
only flaw is they don’t say nothing about what to do if anything should last for 4 hours… or more…
So what? no danger of Chesteritis??? Can’t believe they’d have neglected that aspect!!!!
just when I was starting to get interested…
some assistance from someone of the “fairer” gender…there may be a cure…:{)
All eight of our cats wish you much success in breeding fish and the offer to fish sit anytime you’re going out of town.
Don’t be a Gringo. 😉
But do stock up on Tequllia, as the Blue Agave crops are crashing due to fungal and bacterial infections.
care to share any stories from your party days in the Land of Enchantment? 😉
My New Mexico days were pretty tame, what with getting up at 4am to tend to the goats before getting to work at a quarter to eight in the morning.
Pero, yo soy de California del sur. And Tiajuana close enough for frequent trips – for margaretas, salsa (muy caliente), and illegal fireworks.
hey, thanks for the tip, been forgetting to add tequila to the survival stash, how could that be, serious discrepancy there, I’d say.
Is the sun shining there?
Today’s high is supposed to be 27C/80F. Which is a temperature usually not seen here until mid-summer. Actually, it’s a tad overcast at the moment.
Here’s this morning’s moonset.
Not as good as the last two I’m afraid.
That’s beautiful … the colour is amazing
do you have to crank up the asa for those…I haaven’t had much success w/ night shots w/ the dig yet…used to film and haven’t quite figured it out
I set asa to 1600. Then I use photoshop to simulate a polarizer to get just a bit more sharpness.
I haven’t been above 800 asa…but have some nice shots under the lights at a concert…but I was changing so much on the fly experiementing I’m not sure what the setings were…guess I need to look at the exif data and make some notes…photoshop and I are not on very good terms…powerfull program, but the learning curve is a vertical wall so far.
we’re expecting our first killer frost tomorrow, normally it’s Sept 12-20th. So 2-3 weeks behind average.
Currently; 34 °F / 1 °C Overcast
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s. Breezy. Northwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.
We don’t normally get snow until Oct 31 or later. This won’t last. When it comes this early we usually get very nice warm weather into late Nov
did you go to Drinking Liberally tonight?
im’ here now, but left a comment above
Saw it and left a comment also.
I think during family gatherings, out of 50-60 pictures I will get maybe 9 or 10 that are keepers. I love digital. 🙂
went to recent comments, and see I posted above again… oh well, after 6 shots tequila tonight, I’ve got some excuse, eh?
I just did the same thing and I haven’t had any tequila. 🙂
and generally people shots, even if they’re outdoors. And if I use the “sports” setting it freezes the action good enough, but then the whole picture is quite a lot darker.
I’d like a setting half way inbetween. I’m really hoping I can upgrade soon from the Nikon 3200 and go to the Nikon d 70, like Olivia has.
Heck I wish I could take pictures a tenth as good as Olivia.
I wonder sometimes if she’s really aware of just how good she is.
I see lots of photos at art fairs, street fairs, etc, and no one comes close to her quality of art work.
I don’t think she does, and I know what you mean by the quality of her work.
Meant to ask. Are you on DSL or dial up right now?
so I’m on cable, about as fast as it gets here.
I haven’t been at the farm for a while due to working on this shingling project.
I was going to say if you were on dial-up, I would open a new cafe, but since it’s DSL, I let this one run for awhile.
but I’m fine with this one
and O has given me some clues how to do basic stuff, like crop, and how to put the copyright thing, but other than that, I’m a real neophyte…not to be confused with neo… anything else:)
I’ve been doing my pictures on Paint Shop Pro since the late 90’s so I have a lot of the stuff down. But there is still a lot of things I don’t understand. I guess I’m too slackerly to delve farther into it. 🙂
well, it seems I just learn what I need to know to do what I want to do. When it comes to technology today… there’s just no end of stuff to learn… so I figure why waste time on stuff if it’s not applyling to what one wants to do.
That’s pretty much the same with me. I figure if I need it, I’ll learn it at that time.
One of my problems too is when I’ve felt like I’ve learned a program, I loose interest in it. I might not go back to it for a long time and then some of the stuff I learned, I have to re-learn.
I’ve got to do something a lot for it to stick.
I had some fun trying to do the panel photos, like O’s got for her Thanksgiving photo on the blog. I tried that flickr toys mosaic… but I think my panorama photo was way too long for the height, so it didn’t work out well, but fun trying anyway, and learned some new tricks, so maybe the next panorama will be better
I used to have a panorama program that did a pretty good job, but with the new computer I don’t have anything for that and I can’t find any free programs, so I’m going to have to figure out something else.
That’s an idea, to ask Olivia how she did her panels.
here
then pick Mosaic Maker, then pick, thin verticle frames, and label your four photos 1,2,3,4 so when you pick them they’re in order..
O’s better at working ya through the process than me, but here’s the info anyway.
Thanks NDD. I’ve got it bookmarked so I can play around with it later.
looks like lots of interesting programs to play with on that site.
Say, have you had normal fall weather there this year?
Not really. It has been warmer than usual and we haven’t had near the rain fall we usually get. I’m still waiting until the end of hurricane season to see what happens.
What about you?
well, the whole damn summer was exceptionally dry. Then late Aug, early Sept that rains started. So the lawn at the farm looked as green as spring time a week ago, after having been dormant, and very white looking all summer.
But the weird thing is some plants are confused and acting like spring. Some flowers at my friend, Art’s place, and some folks are saying the rhubarb was growing again, like in the spring. So that’s unusual.
And the first killing frost is predicted for tomorrow, and historically it’s been Sept 12-20th. So that’s a few weeks behind normal.
Snow tomorrow will put an end to all that, but I’m thinking we’ll have nice weather to the end of Nov
I can remember around Dec/Jan we would have some very cold weather and maybe a few flurries. The last couple of years though I could wear shorts during Xmas it was so warm.
I’ve got some shots of the pond out back and it’s down about 6-8 feet this summer. FMom said in the 30 years she has lived here, she’s never seen it that low.
Me thinks global warming has hit my little piece of earth.
comes on. I should probably call it a night. Ha! Been good talkin with ya, I’ll probably be back at BT more now that summer is over… I sort of took a hiatus… So I should be seein’ ya more regularly from now on.
Yeah I’ve got to get to doing some stuff.
Good talking to you too NDD.
See ya later.
yeah, Fargo has had 5-6 winters in a row of what I call Denver winters. According to how I remember Denver in the early seventies.
Last winter there were only a few days with below zero temps, 4,5,6,7?, and the below zero temps were only like -2, -5, not -10, -20, -30F like usual. So there’s not much doubt in my mind about global warming… and An Invconvenient Truth solidified my thoughts too.