So you wanted to see our freight floor …
9/11/10
This is an example of how cool the LX5’s special 16:9 mode
in conjunction with the wider-than-G11’s 24mm lens.
No other pocket camera could have captured this shot
like this.
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I’ve been really enjoying the almost barefoot experience this summer.
9/27/10
10/1/10
Don and God-beams
Click for my favorite photo in ADN’s windy-day gallery
Also shows flipped plane, floating on its floats,
can’t see mountains,
accelerated autumn-leaf falling …
While walking in the woods, I saw:
many trees down (headed for a safer area),
and fire trucks zooming to the airport,
perhaps to rescue the flipped plane.
Related article:
High winds cut power in Anchorage, Valley
Costco is offering a good tasting Merlot wine (made by Blackstone) at an inexpensive price with a hefty rebate, currently: $90/case (of 12) and $24 rebate (apparently unlimited until the offer expires on 11/30).
The wine seems consistently uncorrupted (so often bottles go bad), and has significant tannins, which I consider one of the unsung health benefits of deep red, Cabernet-style wines.
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Other items:
The really tasty frozen blueberries I enjoyed so much have been replaced by not so good ones, perhaps tasting badly from too many pesticides. My guess.
Pesticides are high in fluoride, by the way.
The new blueberries’ food value is probably close to nil: the good is countered by the bad. “If it doesn’t taste good it’s not good.”
Kettle Sea Salt potato chips are still good, made with good fats and no MSG. Watch for MSG in their other varieties, which is sometimes labeled as yeast extract.
Related, for the skeptics:
Moderate Alcohol Consumption In Middle Age Can Lower Cardiac Risk, Study Shows
Midnight – 9/16/10
Man-beams
1/2 second, hand-held LX5
9/1/10
I’ve been trying to find higher quality streaming music online, and little did I know it was right in front of me — at Pandora.
I thought what if Pandora offers higher quality music to subscribers. And wouldn’t you know, 192kbs instead of maybe 32 — a huge jump in audio sound! HUGE!!!
It’s unfathomable to me that they wouldn’t advertise this feature in plain sight for all to see. Perhaps the hip-hop bee-boppers don’t care. But when it comes to instrumentals it makes all the difference in the world! Now sounds can touch the heart!
For me, anyway, at $36/year ($3/month), this is a no-brainer. No ads. Way better sound. Unlimited listening (free users get only 40 hours).
Go for it!
Also, I’m putting up a link at this site to my Pandora profile, if you want to see what I’m listening to. I’m using all 100 “radio stations” though, which will become more refined in time — especially now that it sounds so much better!
Live in love
: )
For the first time, I decided to ask God for a longer list of what I should do. This is what I got.
7/21/10
1) “Take time to study.”
2) “Be afraid of no one.”
3) “Let them see your face.”
4) “Tell them the truth.”
5) “Write [a certain man] a letter.”
I never got to points 6-10, as I was so blown away, thinking about #5.
______
9/3/10
Dena’ina Center
Anchorage, Alaska
Related:
Glenn Beck deceives Anchorage Alaska —
$225 tickets to ‘meet and greet’ 9/11-families-hater
on 9/11
I thought I’d put this post together with these inspiring Charlie Waite videos in celebration of compact cameras, and to announce that I may be mostly departing from Canon compacts (my G11 and G10) in favor of the just-released Panasonic Lumix LX5.
Yesterday, I discovered this beautiful video in which Charlie Waite, one of the many photographers whom I’ve learned from, demonstrating what a joy it is to shoot this little gem; though, he says it won’t replace his Hasselblad, just like it won’t replace my Canon 5D Mark II.
“While it will never replace my other cameras,
I’ll certainly always have a space for a compact camera
at the ready in my pocket.”
– Charlie Waite, master of composition and light
Transcribed by myself from the last video, below
This is a promo that doesn’t feel like a promo, opening the eyes of the heart!
In 2022, the video is still up at Panasonic Middle East & Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN01bbjUqnM
Lumix LX5 getestet von Charlie Waite
panasonic | August 30, 2010
And here is Charlie shooting with a variety of compact cameras, including the LX3 (the LX5’s predecessor):
Charlie Waite ‘Travelling Light’ Trailer
environmentfilms | March 22, 2010
Were pleased to announce that Travelling Light, our brand new DVD presented by leading landscape photographer, Charlie Waite is now available and, not only that, but friends of Environment Films can enjoy a special discounted rate of £12.00.
The one-hour film documents Charlie as he explores some of Southern Englands most charming locations, celebrating the landscape through his lens. Experimenting with a selection of popular digital cameras, Charlie proves that stunning images neednt be exclusive to larger cameras and that creativity and seeing is the key to successful photography.
Travelling Light is the first in a new series brought to you by Environment Films and Light and Land Publishing. Two more films, featuring different photographers will be available later this year.
Here are what seem to be more portions of this film:
Compact digital travel photography: colour and angles
Compact digital travel photography: choosing your subject
Compact digital travel photography: composition
Compact digital travel photography: portraits and perspective
Compact digital travel photography: editing and presentation
I was really hoping to fully stay with Canon, but the G12 doesn’t look like it’s going to be what I was looking for. I’ll really dread losing some of the long end reach, but the LX5 (Panasonic’s description) has a wider and faster lens, and is smaller.
It also has an aspect mode switch which isn’t at all a deal breaker for me, but will be great fun! This is a wonderful educational tool in which its unique sensor encourages shooters to choose the aspect ratio during shooting, instead of later, in the digital darkroom.
[Tech stuff, if you’re interested: the center of the sensor is actually wider than others, which results in 3:2 and 16:9 images that have more pixels. More of the lens is being used, so the field of view is also wider.
Here is a diagram of how the LX3 and now LX5 do it. I’m hoping that this new Leica lens doesn’t need as much barrel correction in software that the LX3’s lens needed, which actually lost 2MP in the process, which Panny actually lied about [we have to be so careful in these ‘wild world’ days]. I’m really hoping this new lens design corrected this problem, but I haven’t found a definitive answer so far.]
If there aren’t any disheartening surprises after it arrives in a few days, I’ll still be shooting the majority of my fine-art images (to be printed big) with the Canon 5D2, but I absolutely love shooting compact cameras, which can be so easily carried. Probably more than half of the images on this site were shot with the G10 and G11.
I’m also looking closely at the micro 4/3rds system. Such a camera would allow even wider angle and longer telephoto shooting, while having a bigger sensor that has bigger pixels. Perhaps someday….
Jeff : )
Related:
“When you make money at photography, you’re competing against the best photographers in the world. So your work needs to be as good.”
– Jim Zukkerman
Transcribed by Jeff Fenske from this Candid Frame interview
I was first introduced to country music while working in Billings, Montana for half a year in 1980, the spiritually darkest place I’ve ever lived. Almost everyone ate, drank and breathed country music. Now, it has spread like wildfire.
I consider country music to be one of the most significant destructive forces in America. We all know rock ‘n roll has its bad side, but country is far more deceptive. The same artist that sings hymns will sing about drunkeness and sexual immorality. And then they’ll be loudly pro-America and kill them all in Iraq: “God bless America.”
This is Satan at his best. Country music is a blight.
So I was surprised to hear this song this morning, while surfing the local radio channels.
Isn’t this how it should be? Why is this the exception and not the rule? Why do people listen to the garbage that is mostly country music? Most is so slick and deceptively black.
Forever & Ever Amen
Randy Travis
… I’m gonna love you forever, forever and ever amen
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men
If you wonder how long I’ll be faithful
I’ll be happy to tell you again
I’m gonna love you forever and ever, forever and ever amen
They say time takes it’s toll on a body
Makes the young girl’s brown hair turn grey
But honey, I don’t care, I aint in love with your hair
And if it all fell out well I’d love you anyway
They say time can play tricks on a memory
Make people forget things they knew
But it’s easy to see it’s happening to me
I’ve already forgotten every woman but you — oh baby
I couldn’t just let this get lost among the now 3000 posts at ToBeFree, so I thought I’d bring it over here too. This is just too cool!
I’m not overly optimistic about Ron Paul winning the next Presidential election though. The caption says The Time Has Come, but I think the time has come … and gone. We had our chance.
I’ll still support genuine political freedom fighters, but I think now is the time to more than ever focus on getting real spiritual revival going: ‘Let Us Be ONE’ Prophecy Continues 10/8/08: “It’s TOO LATE to REVERSE what’s been done for MY MEN have been REJECTED … Now is the Time to OVERCOME and GET RIGHT With ALL … FREEeeeeeeeeeeeee———DOM at last … Your HEART will SWELL with LOVE and it will be EASY to REMAIN In Me when others are On The BOAT With You”
I have great respect for this man. “Blessed are the peacemakers….”
I think it’s time.
I was talking with a few friends at work a few days ago, when my lead suggested I do some YouTube videos for my blogs, discussing some of the things I would normally just write about.
He pointed out that people learn differently.
I’ve actually been thinking about this for awhile, but I replied honestly, I’ve never been much of a speaker. He said “you’re doing it right now.”
So no excuses. I should probably do it, and have fun doing it! I’d like to do at least some of them in the nature that surrounds us here in Alaska, maybe even during some still-photo shoots.
I have to figure out what to do for good audio, and then learn the software end of it. So I expect this will happen, hopefully sooner than later. I definitely have the bug.
Had the ‘Christian’ music industry not been so tight on copyright restrictions even for worship music, I would have sung and played with guitar, long ago, some songs to put on YouTube. I understand that many do it anyway, but this is why I haven’t.
I would appreciate your prayers to take on and do well in this new-for-me format.
Jeff : )
I just got a spam email entitled: “Your guide to successful adultery.”
No, I didn’t open it. But it’s kind of shocking to see how far America has fallen when spammers blatantly use biblical terms.
It reminds me of Luther’s Martin Luther: Sin Boldly — “No sin can separate us from Him, even if we were to kill or commit adultery thousands of times each day”
I also think of Coach Daubenmire: The Death of Shame, in which he says: “If it feels good, do it” has replaced “Thou shall not.”
We can do better!
jeff
I don’t know if the movie is worthwhile and wholesome,
but I appreciate what Julia said in the trailer for:
EAT PRAY LOVE
I want to go some place where I can marvel at something.
– Julia Roberts (in character)
Focus on what is marvelous!
Set your sights high!
Be at peace.
Philippians 4:4-8
Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice! Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
Cathy Giessel for State Senate
Cathy and Rich allowed me to live with their family
for a some months two decades ago.
8/18/10
Shot from the cheap seats (back section) with the little G11
: )
Anyone know what this is?
© Jeff Fenske
8/11/10
I didn’t know till later that this was a nationwide feed —
Meredith Vieira interviewing these two Stevens’ crash rescuers.
7/4/10
A two story display at the Hotel Alyeska, Girdwood, Alaska
In the ceiling is probably a fire sprinkler.
Wow, did I have a cool dream this morning!
I was in a white, narrow, barren hallway, unable to get out. It felt like I was imprisoned with others, stuck in this hopeless hallway.
There was an exit right behind me, a window, but it would normally be suicide to try to escape from it, as it was skyscraper-high above the ground.
Then this super confident guy came along. He asked me something about if I was sure I wanted to go out. Then he walked right by me, and out the window he went, humming overcoming phrases that I could clearly hear in the dream.
Right after the dream ended, I was already positive this was a dream from God that I needed to record. I tried to repeat the important ideas so I wouldn’t forget it, and so I could exercise my mind enough to fully wake myself up.
I think I remembered all of the important parts, except I forgot the words that he was singing, which I really regret. You’d probably be able to read them here had I just forced myself awake all at once, instead of doing the trying to remember thing while only half awake.
The overcoming, impossible-to-me thing that he did was to go out of the window without fear and grab a hanging something, and seemed to swing like Tarzan toward another to wherever he was going. There is no doubt in my mind that he would get there because there was no doubt in his mind. He was an in-God, full-of-faith-to-do-whatever, 100% confident man.
His forward momentum was unstoppable, yet he wasn’t power-over. He was relaxed and happy within. He exuded confidence, apparently fully believing that anything God called him to do God would enable him to do.
About what he was singing. I remember it wasn’t exactly positive confession, working it up: “I can do this.” “I won’t fall.” It also wasn’t flat-out, direct worship. It’s possible that it was a joy in the journey thing. He definitely was joyful and free, but I just can’t specifically recall what he was singing.
He was definitely fully in the faith zone — so alive, confident, no fear, full of joy and free!
© Jeff Fenske
8/4/10
The wands are awaiting the wingwalking
of this ferry flight (no passengers).
Our new (renovated old building) freight facility
is at the right side of this stone-faced building.
Alaska Air Cargo and Alaska’s hanger is on the right.
We used to transload three red tail 747F freighters here,
back in the 20th century.
Now we (Delta) just handle freight,
carried on the passenger planes.
Also, above the left wand, where we work, stands two people,
who look like bright dots in this jpeg:
my lead, Paul, has an orange vest;
my manager, Steve, is in blue.
I’ve stated in this blog that I’ve wanted to share some of my journey in trying to learn how to totally forgive everyone, all of the time. Today was a good example.
I was turning left at the stop light, right next to REI in Anchorage, where I was going to look at 29er mountain bikes.
I had to wait for the oncoming traffic to make the turn, but since I was first in line, I pulled partway into the street I was turning onto, as one vehicle is allowed to turn as the light changes from green to yellow, and even to red, if one has to wait that long.
Well I did have to. The last car coming my way may have even unsuccessfully tried to run the yellow light. So after he passed, I turned left from the two way road into the lane nearest me (the left lane) of the one-way.
As I turned, the motor cycle behind me leapfrogged around me (to my left in this single lane!), clearly intentionally running the red light — because he was behind me until the light turned red, fully in the road we were turning from.
I got mad. And I noticed that I was angry. Though, I didn’t say or think any bad words, nor did I silently wish anything evil towards him, I was just angry inside towards this guy who blatantly ignored the rule of law that is for our own safety, and so we can be a civil community.
But I realized it, recognizing that it’s wrong for me to get so upset. And it’s not my right to especially stay upset.
So I thought, I’m out of line here. I’m not supposed to withhold love towards a guy illegally leapfrogged me. It’s not my business to punish him in my heart by refusing to love.
I actually thought: it’s God’s job to deal with him, not mine.
And so I just let it go, dropped the bad feelings, and was going to hold the door open for the man who had also turned into REI — ahead of me : )
But he was about 25 feet behind me, so it would have seemed strange to hold the door that long….
But I did good, you all!
And I did buy a 29er. I may have even gotten a key lead as to something that will help my business!!!
This is just a tiny example, but it reminded me of a more serious situation I had encountered previously. And if I would have love that person no matter what just like I did this person….
Well, I’m sure I’ll have many more chances like this, and far more serious. And I hope to get my heart right even sooner next time, maybe not getting it out of kilter at all, from the get-go!
I’ve always liked REI. I’ve been a member since the ’70s.
Cheers!
Jeff : )
Related:
Friends,
I just shot the ultimate flower photo! I am so happy!!!
Now, this with the rest of my fairly extensive repertoire (which I’ve cautiously not posted yet), photography full-time is in sight!!
More details later. Thought I’d share my excitement.
Jeff
: )
Greetings,
This is my official announcement that I’m taking back this blog. I kind of loaned it out to my friends at what was NWA Cargo, Anchorage. I’ll leave all of these nostalgic photos up. Everyone is always welcome to visit and copy the photos as long as they’re not used for profit.
I’m going to try to now continue with what I first intended this blog to be.
My original idea was to actually share some of what I was up to personally, partly as an incentive to achieve some of my goals, like being able to forgive everyone from my entire heart, nonstop, fully.
Part of what happened is that I didn’t get any feedback on the forgiving thing — none. I was really kind of shocked, especially because none of my blogs require commenters giving any information at all. You can be totally anonymous if you’d like. The main thing for me is to get the feedback, which helps me progress. And I consider this stuff very important in order to be able to overcome in what really may be the “last days.”
We really may see the end of this country very soon. They’ve been hitting us from every possible angle for decades now. While the people were amusing themselves, the Satanically led globalists were systematically orchestrating the delusion, locking people into the matrix.
I spell this out in my ToBeFree site. I encourage people to look at what I’ve put thousands of hours into compiling, while it’s still available Chuck Baldwin: The Internet Must Remain Free — “Right now China, the government, can disconnect parts of its Internet in case of war and we need to have that here too,” Lieberman told CNN’s Candy Crowley. It’s pretty much all there. If you want to know what really happened, it’s there.
ToBeFree also encourages us to live like free men and women no matter what. And ONEcanhappen takes it to another level, into freedom from the dark side within.
Many have been caught up in the Matrix. Many have succumbed to temptations and the so many deceptions. But it’s never too late to get out! And get out we must!
We may very well soon see the day (everything is in place) in which we’ll have to decide whether we’ll take the chip (which apparently also involves agreeing to worship the evil one), or we won’t be able to buy and sell, and the Bible says we’ll lose our heads.
Are you ready to be a martyr for Christ, losing your head so you can save your soul? Are you spiritually strong enough to do whatever it takes to keep your salvation. Many need to commit now: “I will never take the mark. I will obey.” Some need to step up: “Where do I sign up? I will follow you, Jesus, no matter what.”
It’s time to get serious. They’re talking about taking away the internet. Why don’t they just keep their secure data off of the net, I ask? But it’s Problem > Reaction > Solution. They create the problem, so we react and let them bring in their solution. They can’t allow us to have free discourse among ourselves globally. We might defeat their plans otherwise. Too many people are waking up to their devices. They need to pull the plug. And the compromised politicians will pass it into law, totally unconstitutionally.
We’re letting it happen, and who could think it could happen this fast?
“America’s Getting Jacked” is one of my categories at ToBeFree. Look at all the ways we’re getting jacked:
GMO food
fluoridated water (which lowers IQ and pacifies)
tainted and too many vaccines
fake pandemics
lies everywhere
intentionally leaving the border open (Bush absolutely intentionally did it too. It’s all at ToBeFree);
the propaganda — Fox News — the tremendous media bias — putting down 9/11 truthers as unpatriotic
TOTAL 9/11 truth blackout (very significant. Had they not, we’d probably still be free)
intentional destruction of the dollar
the corporate $$$bailouts$$$
unreported globalization meetings
buying and turning the Christian record companies
pushing only sub-Biblical ‘Christianity
record companies and the radio pushing the worst music in all genres, including country, pop, rock and rap, with sex, drugs, power over men who are all stupid, even hate the major themes
globalist wars they got US to fight (which take out regimes that would oppose the one-world government)
CIA torture, assassinations, drug running (also proven at ToBeFree)
really-naked body scanners starting at the airports
cooking figures to use the global warming exaggeration to get the global carbon tax
using Sarah Palin to try to get their not-really-mavericks in
partial nudity all over regular TV
conveniently accessible porn
drug companies pushing $$$drugs$$$ that usually don’t cure disease and kill hundreds of thousands of Americans every year, while they’re trying to regulate natural vitamins minerals and herbs which actually do cure many diseases (but they’ll prosecute if you use the word ‘cure.’ Ask fearless Kevin Trudeau)
they make spanking one’s children almost illegal
Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11, BP oil disaster, illegal immigration, flu pandemic, etc.: “You never want to let a serious crisis go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel
use of fear: “Be fearful, everyone, so we can implement our police state”
President Bush unconstitutionally recording all phone conversations and emails
Jay Rockefeller, Lieberman and Obama on turning off the internet as we know it
taking over the Tea Parties
the Glenn Beck/Fox News deception
pushing sports and celebrities as diversions
lower wages through inflation and no pay raises
loss of jobs
NAFTA, GATT etc. encouraging exportation of jobs
no tariffs
not letting 3rd party candidates into Presidential debates
the media (including ‘Fair and Balanced’ Fox) poisoning people against Ron Paul in 2008
etc.. [What did I leave out?]
All of this stuff is intentional, and the sad part is that most people aren’t waking up until it’s now too late to reverse what’s coming.
We still may be able to slow it down. I’m still no slouch, you all. I haven’t stopped posting about what’s going on. My main motivation, now, at ToBeFree is to help people see what’s going on. But we can still have an effect on the speed of the decline, I believe.
We don’t have much time to get our act together. And maybe, if we do, God will even spare us from some of what is to come.
I don’t believe the pre-trib rapture can be proven biblically, but if there is one, certainly, only those people who are right with God and all people will go. And maybe God will bless our local communities if we come together and are truly ONE [the main theme at ONEcanhappen], no more excuses and procrastinating. We don’t have much time.
“Failure to prepare is preparing to fail,” John Wooden.