1/22/11
I thought, “Why not?”
(LX5 hand-held at right-arm’s length;
tough to not get some blur at 1/4 second)
Check out Rhydian:
All of My Rhydian Roberts posts
1/22/11
Power to the Peaceful!
From: dpreview.com
Just Posted: An update to our recent group test of the the Canon Powershot S95, Panasonic Lumix LX5 and Nikon Coolpix P7000. Following the release of firmware V1.1 for the Nikon P7000, claimed to reduce RAW write times, we have retested the P7000 and updated the review accordingly. Is the increase in operational speed enough to make the P7000 score higher against the Canon Powershot S95 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5? Read our updated review to find out.
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Just Posted: Our quick review of the Canon PowerShot G12 enthusiast compact. As the G12 didn’t arrive in time to be included in the high-end compact camera group test, we’ve now had a chance to put together in our quick review format that looks at the differences between its predecessor as well as competitors. Inheriting most of the core features of the G11, The G12 sees the addition of an EOS-style front control dial, Hybrid IS, multi-aspect ratio shooting and 720p HD video recording.
“Craftsmanship
should be used to enhance the work of art,
but not to show itself off.”
– Mark Dubovoy
Every once in awhile someone comes along who helps our hearts settle — who gives us an inner knowing, confirming that something we have felt strongly about really is worthwhile to pursue.
Have you felt the forces in this world that try to keep you from being as special as you were meant to be? You feel inside you should push for greatness, but the pressure is so strong and constant to not go higher, which would rattle the mediocre-is-plenty-good-enough atmosphere that tries to keep our standards just medium.
I thought I’d share this interview on my personal blog since Mark Dubovoy has been a breath-of-fresh-air inspiration to me that having a high standard of excellence is beautiful and is right! His love for precision … details … details … is the correct standard that feels so right to me. Excellence is the right goal — and it really is so satisfying and really is fun!
There is joy in a high standard. If peoples’ hearts don’t leap, why do it? Why be just another photographer? But that’s where the pressure wants to keep us.
Mark’s smile confirms that excellence is exciting! There’s joy in this journey. We need to protect our high standard — to not let dark forces make us feel badly at all about pursuing high goals.
Let’s live higher, to inspire others to live higher too!
We’re all special!
To be what we are called to be!
Jeff : )
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An important tip from Peter (at minute-42):
“The official recommendation is that you can leave the modern image stabilization/vibration reduction on a tripod, because it senses the tripod. It’s not true. Any longer exposure than 1/16th of a second, you get blur in the image because it pings.”
– Peter Urban
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtQM3kSJ0_8]Fine Art Photography Weekly -Episode15 – Technical Cameras with Mark Dubovoy
SmibsTV | January 14, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes
Peter visits Mark Dubovoy in Palo Alto to talk about his photography and the use of technical cameras for his landscape work.
1/14/11 – 10:50 AM
The floor sweeper stirred up some dust off of which
the low sun shines 4 beams of warm-colored light toward just below the camera.
2D can’t quite capture the 3D-seen effect,
but it’s still cool.
Significant tone tweaking was done digitally.
1/11/11
Ice sculpture on a frosty night
Downtown Anchorage, Alaska
I just got this email:
Latest DxOMark news – 12/01/2011 [should be 01/12/2011 – editor]
Today we are publishing new data for the Panasonic Lumix DMC LX5 sensor:
• To view full test results and scores for the Panasonic Lumix DMC LX5 click here;
The DxOMark team
www.dxomark.com
Since DxOMark had taken so long to test the LX5, having tested all of the other brands’ serious compacts long ago, I thought they had decided to stop testing the LX series. I kept checking periodically anyway, being very interested in how it compares to the Canons and its predecessor, the LX3.
I had always ruled out the LX3 anyway, because its lens didn’t have enough reach. Overall, I’ve been a pretty happy camper with the LX5. I love its 24mm width (the Canons are all 28mm) and its unique 3:2 and 16:9 feature that uses even more of the width of its Leica f/2.0 faster-than-Canons lens. (The Canons’ telephotos reach further, but I’m willing to trade that for the wider LX5 view.)
The LX5 is so small and light, compared to the G11 (Canon’s S90 and S95 are even smaller, because their lenses are slower, because they’re smaller).
But I’ve noticed its IQ (image quality) of the LX5 to be slightly less in some ways than what I had got with the G11. And I really miss the Canons’ viewfinders, which allows zooming way into the image just shot.
Here are the LX5, LX3 and G11 compared, side by side. For some reason, DxOMark’s summary page often doesn’t appear to agree with what their charts show, if you look at them individually (click on the boxes above the cameras).
The individual charts show that the LX5 is better than the LX3 in every way. But the G11 (and the S90/95 and the G12) are usually better still, but not by as much.
The most incredible revelation from these findings, to me anyway, is how Canon’s latest entrees aren’t really improved over their previous models, and in some cases the older models’ results are better. So unless there is a new feature the G12 or the S95 have that you really need, there is no reason to upgrade. DxOMark’s figures could be off at times, though. But I don’t
And the G10 still stands as the compact resolution king — 15MP crammed into this ultra tiny sensor size. The G-series is now staying in the 10MP size, which is better for dynamic range and high ISO.
Darwin Wiggett has been the biggest proponent of the G11. It looks like he doesn’t see any reason to upgrade to the G12, and that he actually likes the Samsung EX1/TL500 better: Samsung EX1/TL500 Review – A Canon G11/G12 Killer? He has some very interesting comparison photos here, like the wide angle shot of his dog, 24mm verses 28mm — HUGE difference!!! This is what I’ve been talking about. 24mm width rocks.
Darwin shows how sharp the Samsung’s Schneider f/1.8 lens is too, considering that the Canon’s G10-12 lens is very good. But I just couldn’t handle the short reach of the 24-72mm lens. The LX5’s 24-90mm was a huge sacrifice for me, after using the 140mm reach of the G11’s 28-140mm range so often. I still miss it. I plan on switching to the 4/3rds system when the next generation comes out; though, this will be much bulkier.
So it’s nice to see that the LX5 stats are improved over the LX3s in every way. And the fact that the Canons’ sensors still outperform the LX5 pretty much across the board — though, not by a huge margin — doesn’t surprise me much. I’m sometimes finding the details in the LX5 to be more crunchy. But none of these cameras’ images can be made into large fine-art prints anyway. These are fun, take-it-with-you cameras that can’t take the place of a DSLR.
God bless!
Jeff : )
At the end of December, I was going to write this long post, which was to include the description of what I was planning to do at ONEcanhappen (so I can focus mostly on getting the prints ready for the exhibit in March), but I finally just did it at ONEcanhappen.
If you’re interested, I’ve been rocking lately, getting ‘er done!
Gonna see revival this year, I believe — The Third Great Awakening starting at Abbott Loop?
I still have a few things to write, like Paul’s elder’s qualifications revisited, and I want to share a dream I had many years ago about ONE happening at Abbott Loop.
Please pray that ONE happens at Abbott Loop. I just posted Max Lucado: A Citadel for All Christians —”In his last prayer Jesus prayed that you and I be one. … Could it be that unity is the key to reaching the world for Christ? If unity is the key to evangelism shouldn’t it have precedence in our prayers?”
Guess where I got that? From Brad Brisson’s 1/2/11 message that just now was downloadable from iTunes. You can also get it at ALCC’s site, hopefully soon. John 17 is mentioned about halfway through.
I’ve been saying this for decades!!! This is the whole theme of my ONEcanhappen site!
This made me feel really good.
It’s been a really rough, uphill battle, getting hardly any recognition….
I think we’re running around the last corner just about to cross the finish line — finally.
If you go to Abbott Loop or listen to their messages, don’t expect to feel the glory of God yet. The glory can’t come until this happens:
I believe it’s the lull before the storm. Abbott Loop has some unique and very special characteristics. They’ve seen God move before and it’s just not happening now.
They also have some leaders who have strong integrity in certain areas, like believing that the Bible really is the word of God, and it is right no matter what. And they will change to fit it when they are convinced….
So why do I spend so much time writing and researching when hardly anyone is reading my stuff, relatively speaking? WordPress put together my last year’s stats for ONEcanhappen: ONEcanhappen in review 2010. They didn’t do it for ToBeFree though.
Sooner or later certain people are going to see my site and really see. Then they’ll breath a sigh, and we’ll have revival.
That’s what I think.
If you’re reading from outside of Alaska, please root for us anyway. There shouldn’t be any competition in where will the revival start. The main thing is that it starts. And then it will spread like wildfire once people realize how we (or someone else) did it.
I should say one thing else about Abbott Loop’s really great-in-many-ways foundation. They use the NIV mainly now, and even sometimes The Message, yuck, yuck!! But they started with the King James. And we all have benefited from some great full-gospel teaching from a real, non-gutted Bible.
So stay tuned, and I’ll say what I can more often, I hope.
I was going to post this one, really long overview of what I’m up to, but then waited, and waited, until I now post this and hopefully some more mini ones to come.
I really should post more on this site. I’m pretty careful until things really get rocking at the Loop. But I could post other stuff, which I will … probably.
If anyone wants to help me open up more please comment. You can be anonymous. Don’t have to leave an email or anything. I can really use the help.
Rich is pretty much the only person who is helping me out on this site. Thank you, Rich.
We’re building the kingdom, you all. This is the real thing we’re working on here.
This is HUGE!
When ONE happens, you’ll see…. It will be totally clear.
Jeff : )
——
Snow Cap Winter Warmer is an awesome beer, and is absolutely a “get it while you can” item, sold only during winter months until it’s gone.
This doesn’t taste like a typical winter ale, which are often fairly bitter and sometimes even sweet.
I was surprised to discover that Snow Cap tastes somewhat like a porter. It’s probably made with at least some roasted barley, just the right amount, less than what a porter would have.
If I was Pyramid, I’d sell this year round, calling it something else. I think it’s a nearly perfect beer in the darker beer style, including having enough but not too much hops. Very balanced.
And for only about 1 dollar a bottle, it’s a really good deal. Comes in a case of 24.
Highly recommended!
jeff
P.S.: I just looked it up. I hadn’t recognized the chocolate, and it’s interesting that the chocolate is roasted.
From: pyramidbrew.com…
Deep mahogany in color, our full-bodied winter warmer is brewed in the spirit of British winter ales. Crafted with a flurry of roasted chocolate and caramel malts, and generously hopped, it delivers a smooth finish that makes this beer the perfect cold weather companion.
Original Gravity: 17.3
Alcohol by Volume: 7.0%
IBU: 47
Malts:
2-Row Barley, Caramel 80L, Chocolate Malt
Hops:
Nugget, Willamette, East Kent Goldings
Availability:
October – December
Pairings:
Shellfish, rich game and even rich chocolatey desserts
1/6/11
First Cornerman photo in new (old) building
to commemorate the first day wearing Delta uniforms.
Delta wouldn’t allow a union patch on Delta shirts,
so they only sent us pants
until a few days ago,
when the shirts arrived,
since we’re no longer union.
Most of us wore our NWA uniforms until this day,
of which most were gray.
My favorite black shirt was an earlier edition.
Self-portrait
LX5
1/5/11
Steve icebreaking
I updated Jeff’s Writings,
if you’re interested.
I threw out some of the chaff,
but many are still gems.
I changed some stuff up,
added my most recent faves —
as well as a few photos.
Big job —
but I hope you enjoy it.
I’ll try to again keep it updated.
God bless!
Jeff : )
1/2/11 10:01 AM
The south-facing garage windows were all pink —
first time I’ve seen that!
The thermometer reading 40 degrees,
water was standing on some of the ice,
reflecting these SUPER pinks!
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,300 times in 2010. That’s about 13 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 264 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 356 posts. There were 647 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 178mb. That’s about 2 pictures per day.
The busiest day of the year was November 6th with 205 views. The most popular post that day was Captain’s View.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were tobefree.press, onecanhappen.com, en.wordpress.com, alphainventions.com, and WordPress Dashboard.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for jeff fenske, jeff fenske blog, jeff fenske anchorage, marie morin creme brulee, and costco creme brulee.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
1
Captain’s View March 2010
2 comments
2
Watch what can be done with a compact camera | The LX5 to replace my G11? September 2010
3
Costco’s Rebate on Blackstone’s Merlot, etc. September 2010
2 comments
4
Crème Brulée at Costco November 2010
5
Just After the Fog October 2009
12/30/10 3:00 PM
Don pulls the pin after disconnecting the towbar
on the taxiway behind Delta freight
12/30/10 2:11 PM
Waiting for de-icing so I can push my second 767,
having pushed my first, 3 hours earlier.
I adjusted the mirror for self-portrait action in these photos.
As of right now,
ToBeFree has 1/2 million hits.
Thanks, everyone!
I wish I could be more excited.
I’ve tried really hard to show what is really going on
in over 3,500 posts, so far,
but America is still going down.
However, there is a bright side,
and this is my main mission.
I expect a major spiritual revival,
the Third Great Awakening
to happen probably next year.
This will be a really big deal,
and is what my other site,
ONEcanhappen
is mostly about.
This is our only hope, right now —
other than slowing down Satan’s one-world government scheme
which is coming like a freight train.
But this is a huge hope!
When people are finally ONE with each other
and finally truly in Christ,
“then the world will know,”
Jesus said in John 17.
I can’t wait.
This will be a great day!
Then, whatever happens will be tough,
but it will be like water running off a duck’s back
for those who are truly in Christ –
even martyrdom
when we’re really filled with the Spirit.
“For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us,
even so our comfort also abounds through Christ” (2 Cor. 1).
Incidentally and importantly, the concept,
“In Christ” is clearly described by Paul in Romans 8:1b,
but not in Rupert Murdoch’s NIV –
New Illuminati Version
or many of the other new perVersions
(I’m not exaggerating. Bad doctrine
from bad translations has destroyed America!).
I recommend the NKJV or the WEB (World English Bible),
a royalty free, Textus Receptus based translation.
See
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures —
Narrow is the Way | Who are the Children of God?,
which has been online for 3 years;
it’s #1 if you type in “who goes to heaven” in Google;
and no one can refute it,
even though I’m offering $6,000 to anyone who can.
This truth is the biggest key to the revival happening really soon.
Let us be ONE in Christ!
Freeeeeeeeeeee———-dom!!!!!!!!!
Power to the peaceful!
Jeff Fenske
Here it is, Rich.
From: Yahoo News
Amazing Spectacle: Total Lunar Eclipse Monday Night
For a few hours on the night of Dec. 20 to Dec. 21, the attention of tens of millions of people will be drawn skyward, where the mottled, coppery globe of our moon will hang completely immersed in the long, tapering cone of shadow cast out into space by our Earth. If the weather is clear, favorably placed skywatchers will have a view of one of nature’s most beautiful spectacles: a total eclipse of the moon. …
Color and brightness in question
During totality, although the moon will be entirely immersed in the Earth’s shadow, it likely will not disappear from sight. Rather, it should appear to turn a coppery red color, a change caused by the Earth’s atmosphere bending or refracting sunlight into the shadow.
Since the Earth’s shadow is cone-shaped and extends out into space for about 844,000 miles (1,358,000 km), sunlight will be strained through a sort of “double sunset,” all around the rim of the Earth, into its shadow and then onto the moon.
However, because of the recent eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano last spring and the Merapi volcano in Indonesia in October, one and possibly even two clouds of ash and dust might be floating high above the Earth. As a result, the moon may appear darker than usual during this eclipse; during totality, parts of the moon might even become black and invisible.
A careful description of the colors seen on the totally eclipsed moon and their changes is valuable. The hues depend on the optical equipment used, usually appearing more vivid with the naked eye than in telescopes. The French astronomer Andre-Louis Danjon introduced the following five-point scale of lunar luminosity (“L”) to classify eclipses:
L = 0: Very dark eclipse, moon almost invisible, especially in mid-totality.
L = 1: Dark eclipse, gray or brownish coloration, details distinguishable only with difficulty.
L = 2: Deep red or rust-colored eclipse, with a very dark central part in the shadow, and outer edge of the umbra relatively bright.
L = 3: Brick red eclipse, usually with a bright or yellow rim to the shadow.
L = 4: Very bright copper-red or orange eclipse, with a bluish very bright shadow rim.
Examine the moon at mid-totality and also near the beginning and end of totality to get an impression of both the inner and outer umbra. In noting an L observation, state the time and optical means (naked eye, binoculars or telescope) that is used. We invite readers to e-mail their Danjon estimate for this eclipse (along with any pictures they’d like to share) to cmoskowitz-at-SPACE.com.
At mid-totality, from rural locations far from city lights, the darkness of the sky is impressive. Faint stars and the Milky Way will appear, and the surrounding landscape will take on a somber hue. As totality ends, the eastern edge of the moon begins to emerge from the umbra, and the sequence of events repeats in reverse order until the spectacle is over.
In Last Night, this is where I was saying I should have shot my photos from:
In hindsight, I probably could have totally avoided the clouds
shooting instead near Flattop Mountain —
getting an interesting landscape shot up there as well,
but the forecast was clouds,
so I was surprised to even see the moon at all.
And I didn’t know this would be such a long event,
taking over 2 hours —
much different than a solar eclipse.
These are the clouds that rained on my party,
a little less than half way through the eclipse
I normally don’t rant, but in Anchorage, Alaska we have this pristine water (from Eklutna Lake and well water) that we’re paying almost $100 per family to get. Yet they dump this toxic waste chemical into it which has been proven many years ago to not only dumb us down, but causes many other health problems as well.
And the only way to get fluoride out is to remove all of the other beneficial minerals as well.
Our leaders don’t seem to care; though, they know about it.
There is basically a local media blackout on the subject, which I’ve discussed before. Compare the Anchorage Daily News fluoride articles to those in Juneau’s Empire Builder newspapers, for example.
This is just so disgusting! How long will the people put up with actual poison (not even food grade fluoride)…
Here it is:
How many more hundreds of studies do we need?
I think I’m a pretty patient guy, but I’ve reported on this for over 10 years. I think it’s time to rant when we’re Americans won’t stand up for even our own mental health, being done to us in the name of “decreasing tooth decay,” which is mostly a sham, disproven decades ago.
And now they’re saying we don’t need very much Vitamin D, skewing the studies to do so, which I’ve also shown at ToBeFree — when a lack of vitamin D was probably our major tooth decay source!
It’s just disgusting. Come on everyone. We need to get this mind numbing, psych drug out of our water!
It’s literally part of what is taking the fight out of people so we lay down and put up with even the naked body scanners — which won’t just be in airports, by the way!
And we ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
The Devil is playing us like a fiddle.
jeff 🙁
12/20/10 • 10:21 PM
Mom took this shot of me shooting the photos below —
her idea.
She did a great job hand-holding the 1.3 second exposure,
which was my fault.
I handed her the LX5, only conservatively increasing the ISO,
which is my style.
But I should have opened the aperture all the way up too,
utilizing its f/2.0 capability.
[For really observant camera buffs,
I’m not using the tripod collar because I loaned this lens to a friend
who doesn’t have a RRS quick release mount,
and I hadn’t screwed back on the adapter.
It wasn’t necessary, though.
Perhaps it was the extreme angle.
The 5D2 was rock steady
even with the extenders.]
12/20/10 • 10:00 PM
About 15 minutes into the lunar eclipse
12/20/10 • 10:41 PM
About an hour into the eclipse,
here it is nearly full.
We’re looking at the moon almost entirely shadowed by the Earth!
I had thought that the red color was mostly from the streetlight-lit clouds that rolled in,
but Rich commented below on how this is how it appeared even cloudless,
which I see is the case in these photos.
Perhaps even though the moon wasn’t throwing much light,
it was still reddening the clouds, along with the city’s light pollution,
which is generally more yellow/orange than red.
The clouds are a main reason for this photo’s lack of sharpness.
But this is also a much longer exposure,
as the moon is much darker,
so the movement of the moon blurs the photo even more.
I don’t have a motorized tracker gizmo
as Alaska isn’t a great place to view celestial bodies in the heavens,
being too low in elevation, among other things.
In hindsight, I probably could have totally avoided the clouds
shooting instead near Flattop Mountain —
getting an interesting landscape shot up there as well,
but the forecast was clouds,
so I was surprised to even see the moon at all.
And I didn’t know this would be such a long event,
taking over 2 hours —
much different than a solar eclipse.
Related:
Some did shoot the moon from Flattop’s base
10/29/10
Again,
3 of the 4 rows of our digital darkroom/classroom
at Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara, studying
The Fine Art of Digital Printing
My workstation was at the far left of the second row.
I decided to post another lab photo to highlight Ming.
In the red shirt, he’s an amazing hands-on instructor,
reminding me very much of the Food Buddha,
if you’ve seen him on TV.
They both have a quick mind, incredible energy,
are smart and so friendly!
This is a 1.3 second photo (hand-held LX5),
so there is some serious blurring going on.
If you look carefully,
you can see a shoe and a leg on the bottom-right,
where someone was standing.
The even closer blur is instructor
John Paul Caponigro walking by.
Related:
12/12/10 – 11 AM
(an hour after sunrise,
facing north)
The garage door windows throw pairs of spotlights
on the forklift, the scale and the wall
when the sun is so low in the sky,
9 days before winter solstice.
Official sunrise and sunset:
10:06 AM | 3:41 PM
Contrast and blacks tweaked for emphasis
12/18/10
Inside the cover reads:
____ __, 1974
To Jeff on your
17th birthday with
Love Mom & Dad
* * *
The sticker was put on in the ’70s too.
See the heart in the ‘o’ in God?
* * *
In Acts, reading on my own
how full of joy Paul and Silas handled their imprisonment,
it was in this book I was convinced Christianity is the true religion.
And by reading this book in high school
was when I dedicated my life to Him.
Though I loved the NIV’s readability,
and I discovered Life through it,
I don’t really consider the NIV a real Bible anymore.
It’s dangerous, and is misleading many
because of the numerous texts they changed and/or deleted,
like Romans 8:1b!
Thankfully, they didn’t change Hebrews 10:26-39
which I found as a senior,
trying to see if eternal security was valid or not.
“Hebrews 10:26” was my theme song during my last year in high school,
and Hebrews 10:26-39 is one of the cornerstones in my
Who-Goes-To-Heaven Scriptures — Narrow is the Way |
Who are the Children of God?
article that has been posted for almost a year.
But I couldn’t have written it
had I used Rupert Murdoch’s NIV.
I’m offering $6,000 to anyone who can refute it.
And no one can.
This single doctrine may be the key to us
seeing the 3rd Great Awakening happen before our eyes
here in Anchorage.
I love this book because of how it affected my life.
but it’s really diabolical,
and has destroyed the lives of many.
I recommend reading Textus Receptus based translations
like the NKJV or the Word English Bible,
which is what I use mostly online,
because it’s royalty free,
unlike the NKJV.
: )
Related:
And this is a great NKJV audio Bible:
The King James (KJV) is also accurate, but it’s unnecessarily hard to read, now that we have faithful modern versions. I have only found a few problematic inaccuracies in the NKJV. The World English Bible is also excellent.
Power to the peaceful!
12/12/10
Still using the Taylor (diesel forklift)
to handle China Air pallets
I just had the delight of watching Fine Art Photography Weekly’s interview with 8 x 10 format, fine art photographer, Rodney Lough, Jr, whose galleries I discussed here: The Most Beautiful Fine Art Gallery in the World?
I took some notes from this interview.
At about minute 19, Rodney discusses one of his goals, which is somewhat similar to mine.
For me, ultimately, I would like to help people break free from the all-encompassing electronics the sheetrock walls and into the awareness that God is the source of all beauty. We can trust Him! There is Hope!
Rodney definitely doesn’t go quite that far. His stated goal is much more subtle, even calling the Creator, “Mother Nature” (Rodney is a Mormon). He talks about trying to help people get beyond the ‘concrete’ and experience the ‘grass’ — beautifully lit, I might add — from what I’ve read of his philosphy elsewhere.
I also like what he says about his style, which he sums up with this statement:
“I walk around and I just keep my eyes open, and then something goes ‘HAAAAAA! That’s amazing!’ And it just stops me dead in my tracks.
I don’t know why I have that talent. I can’t say. I think we’re all given different gifts. Some people make a great apple pie. Some people are great gardeners, and I walk around in the woods going ‘HAAAAAA! That’s amazing!'”
And here is Rodney Lough, Jr. on photographers telling the truth:
“I think when you die, there’s an up-escalator and a down-escalator. I’d really like to be on the up-escalator.
So lying about something like “Oh, that moon was there in front of that big tree.” …
Some tech info for those so inclined:
He gets 1.6-1.8 GB scans from his drumscanned 8 x 10 inch positives.
He would like to print larger, but he’s limited by paper size. He prints with LightJet on Fuji crystal archive flex, which limits him to print no bigger than 50 inches by 10 feet.
His only filter is a graduated 2-stop neutral density.
Cheers,
Jeff : )
[Originally posted on 12/4. Updated on 12/11]
I just posted Vitamin D: Food & Nutrition Board Betrays Millions and Institute of Medicine Report on Vitamin D is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong at ToBeFree. Recommended vitamin D3 amounts are given there and Dr. Mercola: How Much Vitamin D?.
The lying, deceit and love of money is outrageous in the US. Dark forces really have taken over. But they don’t have to take over us!
Opt out! “I will not go through the naked body scanner!” All 65+ of my Naked Body Scanners posts at ToBeFree
And opt into vitamin D, the SUNSHINE vitamin!
Dr. Ellenburg sells Liqui-D3 vitamin D drops in his clinic in Anchorage: Dr. Ellenburg Center for Natural Medicine. You don’t need to be a patient, but call first, to make sure it’s in stock. I keep mine refrigerated. You won’t find a deal like this at a health food store, that I know of anyway.
A 1 oz. bottle was $22, the last time I bought one. It lasts a long time. I take 3 drops a day in winter, as I weigh over 200 pounds and this is what was recommended for me by Dr. Ellenburg. It’s good to see a N.D., not a M.D.. Naturopathic doctors study as many years as Big Pharma M.D.s, but they study natural medicine instead of drugs. M.D.s know almost nothing about nutrition, except that there is little money to be made there. “The love of money” really is a huge factor driving the massive medical disinformation that is part of what is destroying America.
Back to Liqui-D3, each drop is 2,000 iu.. This is a very inexpensive way to get what our bodies need, considering the true data and our total lack of Vitamin D giving rays right now. The sun isn’t high enough in the sky.
But the stats show that most people are deficient in the lower 48 too, especially in winter in the northern latitudes — and for those who simply don’t get enough sunshine elsewhere.
And wearing burkas don’t help either: Burkas Cause Major Vitamin D Deficiency & Hence Breast Cancer?
High quality vitamin D can also be purchased in health food stores or online, such as The Vitamin Shoppe. They’re currently offering Carlson Vitamin D (2000 iu., 120 caps) for $4.65.
Power to the peaceful!
Jeff
Related:
All 260+ of my Health posts at ToBeFree which contain many more articles about vitamin D, etc.
3:30 am 1/2/09
Blue Room
Joshua typing in ramp conditions:
“USE CAUTION ON NW …”
1/7/09
Freight floor sink icicle in our 2001-10 warehouse
I can show this now that we have great heat
having moved back to our old facility.
Some bid the freight floor so they wouldn’t have to freeze outside,
but maybe it’s worse freezing inside!
The contractor bought used, obsolete, foreign made heaters
for which some parts weren’t even available.
The love of money realized.
11/27/10
Leads Steve and Carson
Extreme wide-angle lens
creates the widening effect
in this actually fairly small room
e.g.: the elongated microwave on the left
In continuing my discussion of the latest and greatest compact cameras, DxOMark has lab tests for all but the LX5. If you click here, you’ll see sensor data for the Nikon P7000, the Canon S95 and the Panasonic LX3 (LX5 data still isn’t out).
Nikon has always amazed me in how much they lag behind Canon in their compact Coolpix cameras, but they are catching up. I was kind of thrilled about this model because the lens reaches out so far, 200mm; though, wide-angle is more important to me than telephoto, so I went with the LX5.
On the starting page, the data for the Nikon looks like a let down. I had hoped for better, but when you look at all of the charts (clicking on the boxes above), that stats are not that much different than the Canon, and far above the LX3 (LX5 scores aren’t out yet and should do much better), so these are still very respectable results. But if you’re looking to get the most stunning color possible, Nikon is still not the way to go.
This Nikon is especially worth considering for those who really want to reach out and touch someone with their 28-200mm lens, 60 millimeters longer than the Canon G12. If you’d like to go wider, it also has a wide-angle adapter, but that’s another thing to carry around, and fiddle with if there isn’t much time to get a shot off — and it’s something like $200. The Nikon’s shot recovery time is slower, if that’s a factor for you.
If we punch in the Canon G12 instead of the LX3, its stats are really close to the S95, because I’m almost certain they use the same sensor. The main difference in image quality between the two Canons come from the different lenses. The G12’s much larger 28-140mm is probably the main reason some of the G12 shots look slightly better than the S95’s in the DPReview test I mentioned earlier.
it will be interesting to see how the LX5 compares once the data is out.
The previously mentioned and awesome Marie Morin crème brûlée is back in stock at least at the Dimond Costco in Anchorage. And I did find out from the clerk that it is a new addition to this store, which I had thought; though, some stores in the lower 48 had this tremendous delight for years.
Ground bison has jumped up in price from $14.99 to $22.99. Yikes! I’m glad I stocked up while I could, but this really quite the price hike, just like that!
Got them while I could: Moose Creek cotton-flannel lined jeans – $18.99
I’ve been waiting for Costco to get more, but they just don’t seem to be. There are only about 1 dozen pairs left, and they’re all 40 and 42 waist sizes. I bought 5 while I could in autumn, and will probably wear these every day this winter and next. I just love them, not being a big fan of long underwear unless absolutely necessary.
I’m surprised they’re not getting more in stock, since it’s only November, but if I see more I’ll let you know. They’re made in Cambodia by the way, and they’re fairly loose fitting and run a tad short in length.
Hershey’s Extra Dark Chocolate Assortment
Thankfully, they dropped the probably almost-void-of-nutrition milk chocolate pieces, so I thought I’d try them again. But these seem to have less of the rich dark chocolate that the previous ones had, and they are just too sweet to be extraordinarily healthy.
They don’t taste like “Wow!” — more like “Yuck.” Maybe they’re not made with the more unrefined, true dark chocolate. Or worse, maybe they’re made with the new GMO chocolate. I hope not. See:Chocolate’s Getting Jacked: 70% of World’s Raw Chocolate Soon To Be Genetically Modified. Not recommended.
The current brand of frozen blueberries — blahsville
Not worth getting. The antioxidant capability can’t be much, because their flavor is really blah. They don’t have a strong chemical flavor (pesticides?) like a previous brand. The brand before the chemical tasting brand was excellent, though. That’s how things roll at Costco. A lot of it is up to the buyers and how low the sellers are willing to go.
Organic frozen kernel corn — good!
I recommend the frozen kernel corn they’ve had for awhile now — grown in Oregon, organic, and tasty! Don’t overcook (it’s already cooked) or you’ll spoil the good-for-you corn oil. Good with some freshly cracked pepper.
That’s all for now, except, by the way, don’t go through the naked body scanners. Why not is thoroughly explained in my posts on this subject at ToBeFree. Click on the Naked Body Scanners topic in the Categories pull-down menu.
Power to the peaceful!
Jeff : )