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Photo of the Day December 2021

For as much as the jays like to hang around and be obnoxious, they have actually been really hard to photograph lately. They fall victim to the hawks fairly often, so any sign of danger sends them deep into the bushes. This time, I guess hunger won out for this one.
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On a whim I bought a film camera and lens combo on ebay last week for $35 and it arrived this morning before I was even out of bed. I really only wanted the lens, and the camera was marked as-is because it didn't have any batteries for metering. I added in batteries and I think the whole thing actually works. I probably actually bought the wrong lens than the one I really wanted (there are eleventy billion fujinon 55mm lenses), but it's a fun experiment regardless. I have to find some adapters to use this with my Z series, but in the meantime I put on some extension tubes to sort of protect the sensor and just held the lens to my camera (so basically freelensed, but I didn't try for light leaks). I like the fall off I am getting here, but that will change a bit when the lens is the proper distance from the sensor.
 
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Today cold has touched new low limits in South BC/Vancouver , even for hummingbirds it's becoming a survival problem. It should last for one week..needed to come up with a plan.
I'm trying my best to not give them popsicles-nectar, because there are no flowers like the ones in dmccombs beautiful photo.
I built a warmer feeder using a 15W bulb underneath inside an aluminum container. Lot of adjusting but it seems to work, for now.
It was so cold that Mr.Ferrari TR let me go pretty closer
 
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Slartibart said:
Well, Affinity Photo opens .x3f files from my Sigma DP0 Quattro even on my iPad. And Sigma themselves provide a
Photoshop compatible plug-in.
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I have heard about Affinity Photo, have not tried it. Staying with Lightroom currently.

The Photoshop plug-in I have tried. However Photoshop will not save to DNG, only Tiff, Jpeg. Those formats can be generated with Sigma Photo Pro. Photoshop also outputs large size files.

I tried Photoshop > Tiff > Lightroom > DNG - however the quality degrades.

I should have started out with DNG originally, hindsight. But I got caught up in the raw file vs. DNG debate online.

Wanting to keep the workflow consistent and simple, and DNG seems to be the path. Not to be a naysayer, I do appreciate your input.

The dpO, that is a wide lens.
 
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On a whim I bought a film camera and lens combo on ebay last week for $35 and it arrived this morning before I was even out of bed. I really only wanted the lens, and the camera was marked as-is because it didn't have any batteries for metering. I added in batteries and I think the whole thing actually works. I probably actually bought the wrong lens than the one I really wanted (there are eleventy billion fujinon 55mm lenses), but it's a fun experiment regardless. I have to find some adapters to use this with my Z series, but in the meantime I put on some extension tubes to sort of protect the sensor and just held the lens to my camera (so basically freelensed, but I didn't try for light leaks). I like the fall off I am getting here, but that will change a bit when the lens is the proper distance from the sensor.
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That is a lovely dog. Reminds I miss our dog, an Australian Cattle Dog (white, with black).
 
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Steven-iphone said:
That is a lovely dog. Reminds I miss our dog, an Australian Cattle Dog (white, with black).
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thank you! she is half lab and half rough collie (allegedly; we met her mother, but she was only 40 pounds, so I'm not sure she was a full lab like we were led to believe). most people first assume she is a lab, but her long snout throws everyone off. ? But Halley is just under 70 pounds, so there's big dog in her genes somewhere!
 
mollyc said:
thank you! she is half lab and half rough collie (allegedly; we met her mother, but she was only 40 pounds, so I'm not sure she was a full lab like we were led to believe). most people first assume she is a lab, but her long snout throws everyone off. ? But Halley is just under 70 pounds, so there's big dog in her genes somewhere!
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I’d suspect having a bit of a mix in there could help with health and longevity. Seems like pure breeds (dogs, cats, etc) have particular health issues specific to their breed, or at least that’s what the owners seem to say. Mixing up the water in that gene pool seems to help. Take our part-Siamese cat that is now 19 years old and continues to floor the vet when they do blood work on her. She definitely has her issues, but she’d be roughly 90 in human years, so I think that’s mostly just age at this point. In all those years, she still hasn’t figured out that artificial Christmas trees are not good to eat. :D
 
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dmccombs said:
I didn't know the boy scouts were so twisted. Maybe it was just your local group leaders? I hope that wasn't typical behavior throughout...
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Others have said the same thing, or similar. I'm sure some weren't that bad, but it basically enforced bullies and torturing other kids. One left the camp out after the first night. The bullies reveled in it. They loved it. The leaders were largely silent. Yeah, it was sad. One of the bullies tried to teach me how to swim by holding their foot on my head underwater. It was a caustic environment.
 
Allyance said:
I have a hard time taking out the kitchen trash, my guy attacks the red bag ties! He love to chew on any plastic bag, doesn't eat them, just love to chew on them.

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I had two Russian Blue cats who loved to chase just about anything, up and down the hall, at 3 in the morning I'd find chunks of wood, wads of tissues, rolled balls of foil, Christmas tree ornaments, you name it. And everything was 'perforated'. Crazy. It's amazing what you can get used to. The 'hall hockey' happened just about every night. *shrug* It was a big time sports moment. They even trapped a mouse in the hall, and the snarling got me out of bed. The poor thing was cornered, bleeding, and actually look relieved that I had gotten up to see what was going on. It was too perforated to survive, so I broke its neck, and flushed it. One cat watched it swirl down the toilet. But I do really miss cats owning me. I love to serve. They are the world's number one hedonists! I wish I could ahve lived like my male cat. Seriously... :D:D:D:D
 
Steven-iphone said:
Then you would have no thumbs to drive a car.

I saw a sign on the roadway, description and color pics. Missing cat with 6-toes.
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I don't think a cat you find on the street will let you count its toes.
Maybe from the six scratches on your hand ?
 
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I don't think a cat you find on the street will let you count its toes.
Maybe from the six scratches on your hand
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That is probably true. The picture of the cat on the missing sign did clearly show one leg with an extra toe.

Plus, the cat is an big male orange tabby - an easy identifier.
 
stillcrazyman said:
Yesterday's photo had a Heron in it. Looks like the same place though.
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no, I meant this one. ?

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Photo of the Day December 2021

Christmas Day outing...(Escaped the crowds while they were opening presents.) By noon, as we were leaving, the parking lot was almost full.
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(I don't actually care if it's a repeat, but rather that he ought to get his money's worth out of his one photo a day and share a different one if it's the same! ? )
 
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