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Month: May 2011

Video to appreciate your camera by — Michael W. Smith music inspired!!

The glory of God can be seen by what man can do too,
created in God’s image.

And these students chose Michael W. Smith’s music
to for the most part inspire their video.

Excellent!

– Jeff : )

Description from: petapixel.com…

Animation Showing How the Canon 10D and 24-85mm Lens are Assembled

This animation was created by students of the Engineering 128: Advanced Engineering Design Graphics course at UC Berkeley during the Spring 2008 semester. The first part shows a Canon 10D DSLR exploding into its individual parts, and then those parts coming together again to slowly rebuild the camera, while the second part does the same for a Canon 24-85mm lens. Pretty…impressive considering that it’s for an undergraduate course.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-HiBDLVzYw]UC Berkeley E128 Final Project – Canon 10D DSLR v2

Uploaded by on Jun 9, 2008

Canon 10D & 24-85mm F/3.5-4.5 Lens Animation
Version 2

Presented by:
Matthew Farrell
Michelle Pang
Michael Tom

University of California, Berkeley
Engineering 128
Advanced Engineering Design Graphics
Spring 2008

Software Used:
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0
SolidWorks 2005
Autodesk Viz 2008

Songs Used:
零 (零的自我分裂之歌) – Mars Soundtrack
Thy Word – Michael W. Smith
The Offering – Michael W. Smith
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Original Version 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lOJ1CFquzw

My Nephilim theory | John Prine’s “Some Humans Ain’t Human” video back up

I just explained my Nephilim theory at ONEcanhappen, which I’ve been considering for decades and explains a lot!

My theory on the Nephilim: When God told the Children of Israel to kill every man, woman and child in Canaan (the giants), there was this Genesis-6, demon-contaminated genetic problem again? Israel did not; and then there was intermarriage. This would explain why so many seem to be predisposed towards evil — and they become our leaders — even of churches?!!

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And the video for John Prine: “Some Humans Ain’t Human” — Austin City Limits again works, which I’ll put up also here:

Some humans ain’t human
Some people ain’t kind
You open up their hearts
And here’s what you’ll find

A few frozen pizzas
Some ice cubes with hair
A broken Popsicle
You don’t want to go there

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rwYiBdoWHE]

Or you’re feeling your freedom
and the world’s off your back

when that hot-shot from Texas
starts his own war in Iraq

Why I ONLY Shoot RAW — “Friends don’t let friends shoot JPEG” — Why throw all those pixels away? You may want them someday.

NOTE: many compact cameras don’t shoot in RAW anyway [these do], but they often come preset to a low quality setting. So people buy a 10 megapixel camera, and then literally throw away most of the pixels!

Here are reasons to at least consider shooting in the ‘highest quality’ JPEG mode, and perhaps even using only cameras that can shoot in RAW, which allows us to shoot in JPEG and RAW simultaneously, to keep the most amount of data for archiving (RAW) and a JPEG of practical size for everyday use.

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I thought I’d share this really well written, short piece on why non-professional photographers should consider shooting in RAW too.

Some may be thinking: ‘What are you talking about, Jeff?’ Basically:

RAW, is one type of file output from a DSLR or advanced camera that writes ALL DATA from the digital sensor to the memory card. Other file types are TIF and JPG. Most photographers start out shooting JPG [or JPEG] because they don’t know better or believe everything they read online.

Check out this really cool analogy from this article:

Think of it this way…from the days you used to shoot -FILM– of all things. When you had your photos processed at the lab what would you do with your negatives? Always keep them safely stored and filed, right? Of course! Well RAW files are your negatives and JPEG files are the 4×6 prints you would get at the same time. About 50% of the time they are fine, but many times the young kid who was clueless behind the print processor in the lab didn’t know how you liked your prints. Sometimes they were too dark, other times they should have corrected for the very bright flash and dark background.

So why, now that you are shooting digital, do you toss away your negatives (RAW files) and settle for only the 4×6 prints (JPEG files)? Would you ever make a 20×30 or 30×40 print from a tiny 4×6 print that was poorly printed in the first place? Never! Heck no! So why do you settle for JPEG files that are tossing more data than you keep while the camera is converting it from RAW?

Friends don’t let friends shoot JPEG.

So maybe most of your photos are just for the memories, and you’ll never want to display them in the highest quality. But what if you shoot an image that is flat out gorgeous, or for some other reason you’d like to print it bigger to hang it on your wall someday, but all you have saved into your memory card is a low-quality JPEG?

There are two issues here. Are your photos saved only as JPEGs, and what resolution size is selected in the camera’s menu?

Many compact cameras actually don’t shoot in RAW at all, so shooting in RAW may not even be a possibility unless you buy a RAW-capable camera, which I always make sure I do. Then you can shoot in RAW and JPEG at the same time, called RAW + JPEG. And JPEGs can be as large or small as you’d like. Small is great for sending in emails, for example. But then you always have the RAW file if you need to make (or have someone make for you) a larger JPEG — or the best possible image that you could get from the uncompressed RAW file.

Since memory is so cheap these days, why not just get a bigger memory card and shoot in RAW + JPEG? This will slow down download times though. And the “write times” (time it takes to record the image into the card during shooting) can be longer in many cameras too.

The highest quality, archival RAW files aren’t practical for most people to get their everyday images from, because they require editing in software to look good (like film negatives required specific tweaking) — whereas the JPEGs are ready to go, having already added the standard adjustments, like saturation, contrast, white balance, sharpening, etc.

So you have the best of both worlds if you shoot in both RAW and JPEG, with the few limitations I show above.

Shooting in the highest res JPEG is also far better than leaving it in low-res, if you want a higher quality or bigger print someday. But these generally should probably be downsized in a computer program to put on the net or sent in an email.

Personally, I shoot in RAW only, no JPEGs at all, from which I can always make a JPEG. But for the shooter who wants to do as little as possible in the computer and still have a best quality, archive copy, shooting in RAW + small JPEG may be ideal.

And if you only shoot in JPEG, increasing the resolution to maximum may not be quite as good as RAW for getting the best larger print someday, but it’s many times better than throwing away all of those pixels by compressing in the smallest size.

And what if you want to crop, print or put on the web just part of the picture? This can only be effectively done from the larger file sizes.

The larger JPEGs really are too big to be sent to friends in an email, so they would need post-processing to make them email/web-ready.

Small JPEG + RAW may be the best solution for keeping the negative and the small print (in terms of the illustration above).

Why throw all those pixels away? You may want them someday.

HeartQuotes: Nature

“Look deep into nature,
and then you will understand everything better.

– Albert Einstein

Click for the 2:1-pano waterfall version

With Mom

5/17/11

Newborn

Anchorage, Alaska

Spire

5/11/11

Triad

5/11/11

Code Pink

5/11/11

War & Peace

5/11/11

Big Pharma

5/11/11

Boeing 767

Greater Things?? “We should be ashamed” (I just heard)

William Seymour, 1909:
Next Revival Will Come in About 100 Years —
It’s Due!

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Greater things are still to come
And greater things are still to be
done in this City

4/22/11

Church of Anchorage
Citywide
Good Friday Service,
West High School

I balled.

This is so disgusting!

Jesus heart is so broken
and we act like everything is okay —
not getting right with our neighbor:
“Once saved always saved.”

We should have had revival/
real Christianity happening
long ago in this city.

This is an inexcusable, major tragedy.

The ‘pastors’ should be down on their knees,
crying out for mercy,
confessing their sin —
apologizing.

Greater things
should have already been done
in this city.

We should be leading the world.
Instead it’s business as usual —
as America crumbles before our eyes.

Related:

The Remedy for James-3 Cursing & Partysville in Today’s Church is James 4

Paul’s Elders’ qualifications revisited: What does ‘BLAMELESS’ mean? — Most pastors are biblically disqualified

Can ‘Christians’ use Paul’s “Forgetting the things which are behind…I press on” statement as an excuse to not get right with those they’ve hurt? Paul also said: “I also practice ALWAYS having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.”

Asbury Revival, 1970: “‘Dr. Kinlaw, I am a liar. Now what do I do?’ … Three days later, she came to me radiant, and she said, ‘Dr. Kinlaw, I’m free!’”

The Welsh Revival of 1904-05 by J. Edwin Orr: A Countrywide Asbury-like REVIVAL! The 4 Points: #1 Confess any known sin, and put any wrong done to man right again. #2 Put away any doubtful habit. #3 Obey the Spirit promptly. #4 Confess your faith publicly.

“Let Us Be ONE” (A Prophecy — 2001-02, 2008)

Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?


[real art history] Ansel Adams gave up on color photography because printing in that day was too dificult to master. The only person who could routinely produce fine-art quality color prints was Christopher Burkett.

From: Jeff Fenske

There is a common misnomer that black and white printing is somehow more artistic, because this is the format that Ansel Adams and most of the classic fine-art photographers chose.

But Miles Hecker describes in this interview that Ansel Adams and most of the other fine-art photographers gave up on color printing because the process was too difficult to master until digital printing came on the scene.

The only exception that Hecker knows of is Christopher Burkett, of whom he says this:

“In his era, the only person that I knew that could routinely produce fine-art quality, color prints was Christopher Burkett. … He managed to do it and became a legend.

But literally, before the era of digital printing, he’s the only person I can think of that was capable of pulling it off. He must have prayed hard and had secrets unknown to all of us, because he did it.”

Hecker also points out that in the early days, color prints had a much lower archival life, which is no longer the case with modern pigment inks.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvRsYOnBLQ]#37 Fine Art Photography Weekly: Pentax 645D Review with Miles Hecker

Uploaded by on May 3, 2011

Guest, Miles Hecker shares with Peter his insights into the new Pentax 645D and some images. They talk about Miles’ background in photography and his new project ‘The Teton Photoguide’.

[priorities] Fine-art color photography legend, Christopher Burkett: Many contemporary photographs seem filled with negativity and warped, but THE PURPOSE OF MY PHOTOGRAPHY is to provide a glimpse into that clear and brilliant world of light and power!

From: christopherburkett.com…

Artist Statement

The world untouched and undefiled by man is one of indescribable beauty and wonder: a world filled with light and peace. The miracle of life unfolds before our eyes, and is seen in the tapestry of creation. All of our world, each living cell, every stone and drop of water, even the air and light around us, reflects and mirrors the glory and presence of the Creator and calls us to respond with wonder and praise.

Photography is an expression of the world we live in, and of what we see and experience. Many contemporary photographs seem filled with negativity and warped, malignant things. That these negative things and perceptions exist now for a time in the world with us is indisputable, but I feel strongly that there is no need to give life and strength to them. Too often, attempting to represent the sacred in nature is maligned as being naive or simplistic, and is said to be unchallenging and visually unsophisticated. This need not be so.

The purpose of my photography is to provide a brief, if somewhat veiled, glimpse into that clear and brilliant world of light and power. To the extent that these photographs help show that way, is the extent to which these images succeed.

Related:

[real art history] Ansel Adams gave up on color photography because printing in that day was too dificult to master. The only person who could routinely produce fine-art quality color prints was Christopher Burkett.

Australian photographer Ken Duncan on LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY: “I’m trying to show THE BEAUTY OF GOD’S CREATION and TO BRING PEACE into people’s lives” — “IT’S GOING TO BE MUCH BIGGER, because the more we go down this path of bureaucracy people are wanting peace” — “I’VE LEARNED TO LISTEN to that little voice”


Support Infowars; help wake up Americans “THERE IS POISON IN THE TAP WATER”: Fluoride In The Tap Water – Blue Shirt

NOTE: The white shirt does not have this great info on the back.

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgnk8-YS95E]Fluoride In The Tap Water – Blue Shirt

Uploaded by on May 17, 2011

The majority of Americans believe the government lie that drinking fluoride is good for them without evening questioning it. Wake them up with this informative blue t-shirt.

The front of the blue t-shirt conveys all the dangers of adding fluoride to the drinking water in one very simple, yet powerful symbol: a skull within a droplet of water. The front also has the phrase “THERE IS POISON IN THE TAP WATER” to succinctly explain the image. Our website infowars.com is also on the front and back.

The back also has the skull/droplet of water image and explains the dangers with a powerful list stating that fluoride is:

An industrial waste added to the drinking water by our government for the purpose of medication.
More toxic than lead.
The active ingredient in many pesticides.
Linked to increases in bone cancer, brain damage & lower IQs.

Wear this great shirt and do your part to wake up those around you to the dangers of adding fluoride to the water supply.

Get yours today at
http://www.infowarsshop.com/Fluoride-In-The-Tap-Water–Blue-Shirt_p_453.html

From Infowars (help support Alex Jones): Fluoride In The Tap Water T-Shirt — Spread the word: “Anchorage Mayor/councilmen, STOP poisoning our pristine water with toxic waste that lowers IQs, passifies citizens, and makes human beings sick!!”

I may get a ‘9/11 = inside job’ cap too [entire 9/11 Truth category at ToBeFree], but I would be careful where I would wear it. Some Republicans who watch Fox News and listen to Rush Limbaugh (but not Alex Jones) might freak! [I just updated my collection of Fox News illustrations: [updated] FOX News Illustrated: “We Spin, We Decide” — Because Sometimes You Can’t Handle the Truth]

Whereas this shirt rocks and is so pertinent that it can be worn freely. Let the world see!

Help wake up America and free Anchorage from this rat poison, which it literally is!

It’s unconscionable what they’ve done to Alaska’s pristine water. The only way to get this toxic waste out is to take all of the other good minerals out too!

Our media won’t discuss it, but we can.

Fenske’s Rant! | Fluoride in Water Linked to Lower IQ in Children — In addition to this study, and the 23 other IQ studies, there have been over 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage

We need everyone’s minds razor sharp during these difficult days ahead.

Help your neighbor; spread the word!

Freedom!

Jeff : )

NOTE: The white shirt does not have this great info on the back.

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From: infowars

Fluoride In The Tap Water – Blue Shirt

Description
The majority of Americans believe the government lie that drinking fluoride is good for them without evening questioning it. Wake them up with this informative blue t-shirt.The front of the blue t-shirt conveys all the dangers of adding fluoride to the drinking water in one very simple, yet powerful symbol: a skull within a droplet of water. The front also has the phrase “THERE IS POISON IN THE TAP WATER” to succinctly explain the image. Our website infowars.com is also on the front and back.The back also has the skull/droplet of water image and explains the dangers with a powerful liststating that fluoride is:

  • An industrial waste added to the drinking water by our government for the purpose of medication.
  • More toxic than lead.
  • The active ingredient in many pesticides.
  • Linked to increases in bone cancer, brain damage & lower IQs.

Wear this great shirt and do your part to wake up those around you to the dangers of adding fluoride to the water supply.

Get it Here

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oImNjBi_REc]

Jeff’s Writings updated

I just added my latest writings and select transcriptions to

Jeff’s Writings

I’ve also added some significant links and videos to:

Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures —
Narrow is the Way |
Who are the Children of God?

…which no one can refute
and collect the $6000.

It seems there is not much time left
to get our act together
so we can be safe.

ONE can happen!

We need to spread the LIGHT around!

: )

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(((Stereo)))[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Ggzuv5EZw]Rhydian – The Prayer

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The Prayer :

(Carol Bayer Sager and David Foster)

I pray you’ll be our eyes, and watch us where we go
And help us to be wise in times when we don’t know
Let this be our prayer, when we lose our way
Lead us to the place; guide us with your grace
To a place where we’ll be safe

I pray we ‘ll find your light, and hold it in our hearts
When stars go out each night,
Remind us where you are
Let this be our prayer, when shadows fill our day
Help us find a place; guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we’ll be safe

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Interview & Performance (audio left channel only)[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyV2mluMbik]The Prayer sung by Rhydian also interviewed by Aled Jones on Songs of Praise VTS 01 1 xvid 009

Australian photographer Ken Duncan on LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY: “I’m trying to show THE BEAUTY OF GOD’S CREATION and TO BRING PEACE into people’s lives” — “IT’S GOING TO BE MUCH BIGGER, because the more we go down this path of bureaucracy people are wanting peace” — “I’VE LEARNED TO LISTEN to that little voice”

KenDuncan.com

Ken Duncan

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from Episode #36 of Fine Art Photography Weekly: Ken Duncan

Award winning artist, Ken Duncan is one of the worlds most popular and successful photographers and we are pleased to feature the artist and his work in Episode 36 of Fine Art Photography Weekly. Ken is a master landscape photographer with a preference for the ‘panoramic’ format; Ken feels this format is more consistent with the way we see the world. Despite this preference, Ken dabbles in a multitude of formats and is always pushing the edge of innovation and technology. Ken is Australian and has become famous for his Limited Edition Photographic Art in Australian and around the world.

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“I love landscape. It does something to you. I believe, for me, I’m trying to show the beauty of God’s creation and to bring peace into people’s lives. There’s just something about landscape.

It just helps you sort of chill out a bit. You may have had a bad day. And you know, the news is just like a joke. If it’s not Bin Laden who’s going to get you it’s the global financial crisis. And then there’s some other flu. It’s like ‘give me a break.’

So I think we need a bit more peace. And when I go out to nature and look at the beauty of creation I just realize there is something bigger than us. And thank God for that, because if it was up to politicians we’d be in serious trouble.”

“That was my heart, to really try to promote photography as an art form.”

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[The Host] “I think landscape photography and the art of displaying — or the medium of landscape photography as art on the wall has by a long shot  not reached its potential.”

[Ken Duncan] “It’s going to be much bigger, because the more we go down this path of bureaucracy people are wanting peace. This world is very stressful, and people are doing it tough out there, you know? And so I believe that we have a job to get out there and bring as much in.”

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“I’m an average photographer with a great God. … I’ve learned to listen to that little voice.”

Related:

Ken Duncan (Photographer): “WHEN WE SEE THE BEAUTY of CREATION it’ll just GIVE US a bit of PEACE in our very busy lives” | “The HARDEST PART about photography…”

Photographer Ken Duncan: Christmas in Australia — “It’s the season for forgiving”

Ken Duncan Photo: “Tears for a Nation”—God is grieved by the terrible division between black & white

Ken Duncan: Why I call this photo “Piercing the Darkness” — “It’s like God revealing His glory … There is hope even in the darkest moments!” | And why Ken prints BIG!

Ken Duncan: Why I call this photo “Piercing the Darkness” — “It’s like God revealing His glory … There is hope even in the darkest moments!” | And why Ken prints BIG!

Ken Duncan’s prices have become outrageous — out of the reach of most people. But I’ve always greatly appreciated his perspective on photographing to reveal God’s glory, and then print BIG to greatly affect a room!

…which is what I’m trying to do.

jeff

3-minute video presentation

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The Print:
Piercing the Darkness
starting at $1900

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“It’s like God revealing His glory.”

Have it BIG as you can get it,
cause you’ll just fall into it.”

“Hopefully what it will convey to you:
there is hope even in the darkest moments.”

– Ken Duncan

Transcribed by Jeff Fenske

Related:

Australian photographer Ken Duncan on LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY: “I’m trying to show THE BEAUTY OF GOD’S CREATION and TO BRING PEACE into people’s lives” — “IT’S GOING TO BE MUCH BIGGER, because the more we go down this path of bureaucracy people are wanting peace” — “I’VE LEARNED TO LISTEN to that little voice”

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