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Month: March 2012

[2-minute KTUU News video] My photo-buddy, The Roadside Photographer Maxine Vehlow & the woman pets a moose – Anchorage, Alaska

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Maxine on Facebook

[1-minute video] Seals Kiss After Being Freed — Excited to get back to the ocean the couple kissed on the beach before hitting the waves!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7v7nFNo1kA]Seals Kiss After Being Freed

Uploaded by  on Jun 14, 2011

The Pacific Marine Mammal Center released two seal pups at Laguna Beach on Saturday after they were rescued and rehabbed. Excited to get back to the ocean the couple kissed on the beach before hitting the waves.

Olympus micro 4/3rds mirrorless cameras hit the sweet spot for fun and performance | Fuji F770EXR / F775EXR compact camera zooms from 25-500mm (35mm FOV equivalent)!!

I wrote this, today, on my Facebook page.

For those interested, the 5D3 (5D Mark III) is close to the ultimate camera for making big prints and shooting in low light, etc. and etc.. The big pixels in this big sensor are great for the ultimate image quality in low light, and for pulling out shadow detail. But a full-frame (35mm) sensor camera is fairly big and heavy, especially because the lenses have to be bigger and heavier. It’s not a practical camera for the average, even-serious shooter, and it’s really not fun to carry around doing street shooting.

For really fun and more flexible shooting, I think it’s hard to beat the cameras I talk about below. I just wrote this to help one of my Facebook friends decide which camera to get. He was talking about getting an SLR, but I suggested this instead. And the compact camera I talk about at the end, the Fuji F770EXR / F775EXR is probably going to be phenomenal, zooming from a really useful wide angle 25mm (FOV equivalent) to a bird-shooting 500mm, super telephoto http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/f/finepix_f770exr

It’s not quite out yet. I’m also waiting to see if the lens is sharp enough for what I would use it for. I try to have a compact camera with me at all times. This could be a winner!

But first, the advantages of micro-4/3rds mirrorless cameras for serious and fun shooting:

I would probably recommend Olympus micro-4/3rds sensor cameras. They are amazing, and more compact and portable than the Canon Rebel, for example. There are also many lens options from fisheye and super wide angle to super telephoto, and everything is small and lightweight for traveling around the world with a world traveler like you.

Panasonic also makes M43 cameras, but they don’t have a stabilized sensor, so the lenses have to be stabilized. The wide angle lenses aren’t stabilized, which I think is still essential for use without a tripod.

Olympus just came out with the E-M5, which is top of the line, and a bit bigger and heavier than the E-P3 (and 2 even smaller models), which came out last August. But it’s still relatively small. You could go with that now, or wait until the E-P3 upgrade. We’re waiting for it to get the super-duper new sensor that the E-M5 has.

These are not SLRs, but the E-M5 has a digital viewfinder and an LCD screen. You’d probably be a very happy camper. The mirror box on SLRs require the lenses to be bigger, and the 4:3 format is more useful overall than the 3:2 of the Canon or Nikon SLRs. And it adds weight and size too.

And being that the sensor is smaller, the size of the lenses are smaller due to that too. My E-P3 with 4 incredible lenses fit in a small fanny pack and it only weighs 3 pounds, total, which is so nice! Most would carry less lenses, so the kit would be even smaller and lighter.

http://www.43rumors.com is a great site regarding what is currently happening in M43.

And http://www.four-thirds.org/en/microft/index.html is a great overview of M43. This site also has a great M43 lens chart with lens summaries.

M43 is an open system that different manufacturers make products for, which brings in competition and a big variety of lenses.

One thing to watch out for: micro-4/3rds is different than standard 4/3rds sensor cameras and lenses, which are generally much bigger. Make sure it says micro, or has the ‘M’ before the 4/3rds.

This is the perfect camera for taking quality photos, unless you need the ultimate in image quality. But then you’re talking bigger bucks and bigger gear that is much harder to hall around.

For the ultimate small camera that has just one lens, I’ve been looking at this Fuji F770EXR / F775EXR which will have a 25-500mm (FOV equivalent) zoom lens: http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/f/finepix_f770exr

I think this is going to rock and is supposed to be coming out really soon.

The Oly will be better in low light, and have slightly better image quality. And you can get fisheye and super-wide lenses for the Oly.

God bless!

[Overcoming-to-the-MAX video!!!] Riverdance (Eurovision Song Contest 1994 Dublin) — Imagine if we were all united Bravehearts defeating the Devil in holiness!!!

Kicking demon butt — together!!!!!!!

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The original Riverdance performance in Dublin has been such a thrill for me. Yesterday, a Facebook friend, David Hayes, shared with me an earlier version, for which he said: ”

~“This is the first time ‘Riverdance’ hit the screens. They were the Musical Act during a Break in the Eurovision. That years’ Eurovision was held in Ireland because we won it the year previously.

I wrote David back, stating:

“David, thanks A TON for sharing and explaining. I’ve searched a number of times for Riverdance videos on YouTube, but have somehow missed this. And this also has the power and feel of the full production in Dublin that I’m familiar with.

“At minute-5:40 is where I can’t keep from crying. Imagine if we were all united Bravehearts defeating the Devil in holiness!!!

‘ONE’ can happen!!!!!!! [‘ONE’ is Jesus’ heart-cry in John 17]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Mc03_rlWo]Riverdance (Eurovision Song Contest 1994 Dublin)

Uploaded by  on Aug 9, 2006

This is the amazing Riverdance performing as the Interval Act at Eurovision 1994, featuring the phenomenal Michael Flatley and Jean Butler and featuring the superb vocal talents of Anúna.

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Here is the same performance with extra footage and commentary:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mC0rWgUqTc]Eurovision 1994 Interval Act – Riverdance

Uploaded by  on Jul 21, 2010

[video] Riverdance Finale!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CdO9WnL0OE]Riverdance Finale

Uploaded by  on Sep 19, 2007

[ audio ] Margaret Becker: Immigrant’s Daughter

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9M0KWY4sOU]Margaret Becker – Immigrant’s Daughter.wmv

Uploaded by  on Feb 27, 2010

Margaret Becker’s Immigrant’s Daughter from her 1990 album of the same name.

‎9 Moose-On-a-Roof PHOTOS

9 Moose-on-Roof PHOTOS from Anchorage Daily News

A moose calf took a stroll up a large pile of snow and found itself on top of a garage roof in Anchorage, Alaska. After browsing on high branches and causing stress to its mother and the neighbors, it came off and was reunited with its mother.

[video] Duran Duran: Ordinary World — I’ve been humming this song lately. I decided to find out why…

I’ve been humming this song lately. I decided to find out why.

“There’s an ordinary world, somehow, I have yet to find”:

And i don’t cry for yesterday
There’s an ordinary world
Somehow i have to find
And as i try to make my way
To the ordinary world
I will learn to survive

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‘ONE’ can happen!
Jesus’ John-17 heart-cry!

May we be ‘ONE’ in Christ!
Then the world will know —
FREEeeeeeeeeee———–DOM!!!!!!!!!!!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlQdAHaP5TY]

1/22/12 Northern Lights photos: Fairbanks, Alaska

The last five northern lights shots in this 91-photo slide-show are AWESOME!

http://www.adn.com/2012/01/24/2280672/reader-submitted-2012-aurora-borealis.html#id=2281129&view=large_view

[adorable 1-minute video!] Cat HUGS Baby Kitten Having Vivid Dream!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzgpeLFf4z4]Cat Hugs Baby Kitten Having Nightmare

Uploaded by  on May 27, 2011

Kitten is having night mare. Cat comforts it. …

I just posted this on Facebook regarding Ron Paul’s visit to Anchorage yesterday, and voting tomorrow

My Facebook page

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Sorry for so many post today, everyone.

Ron Paul just visited Alaska yesterday, and for those who don’t know, I’ve been following him for many years. I have almost 800 Ron Paul posts on my ToBeFree blog. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me.

And tomorrow is a big day for those of us who will be voting. I do believe the chances of Ron winning the nomination are very small. But I also believe strongly in doing the right thing — to never ever again vote for evil — so our consciences will be clean, not having supported what some of these other candidates will surely do.

It’s better not to vote at all than to vote for someone will keep the international bankster system going, which is destroying our economy, along with these reverse-Christian wars. The US military is knocking off one by one the countries who would oppose the one-world government and the international banking system.

And all three of these other candidates will keep the police state accelerating, continuing all kinds of unconstitutional measures that is part of the globalist agenda. Only Ron Paul would obey the Constitution, which is the rule of law. These other guys are rogues. They’ll put their hand on the Bible and swear to uphold the Constitution and then do the opposite, over and over.

Who would Jesus vote for? Warmongers? Police state implementers? International bankster facilitators?

Or someone who would stand up to this corrupt system even if it costs him his life?

His name is Ron Paul — the only man of integrity running — which is why he just got an endorsement from Joe Miller (via his wife) — who knows America is standing on her last leg, and these other three will just continue the collapse, big spending it into the ground.

Power to the peaceful.

Grace to the humble!

The main thing is to never vote for evil again — or we’re partly responsible for what they will do.

A Momma and Her Cub: Remarkable demonstration of DISCIPLINE that ENDS WITH A HUG

Remarkable demonstration of DISCIPLINE that ENDS WITH A HUG:

First, the mother glares angrily at her son as he stands a few feet away looking guilty and sheepish.

Within seconds he is backed into a corner with a terrified expression as she roars her disapproval.

Shortly afterwards he finds himself airborne after she seizes him by the scruff of the neck and propels him from side to side. [appropriate for a bear but not a child, obviously – editor]

However, the fierce encounter at Simferopol Zoo in the Ukraine comes to a peaceful conclusion when Mummy, who weighs the best part of 550lb, gently hugs him to her chest to reassure him that all is forgiven.

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