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Telephoto Is For Cowards

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My musings about photography, mostly. Come to think of it. Telephoto Is For Cowards. Telephoto Is For Cowards. If your photographs aren't good enough, you aren't close enough. I have a few pet peeves on DPReview and other on-line camera fora. One of them is the question "Which is the best telephoto lens for candids? Photographers are going through all kinds of harassment nowadays. Taking a photo of a bridge is considered tantamount to planning to blow it up. One major reason for this is image. To be phot...

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Ceasefire!

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My musings about photography, mostly. Come to think of it. I breathe again. After over a thousand useless deaths, it's over. for now. Now don't fuck it up. Please? If by some odd chance you're in a position to do something and are reading this, specifically, this is what I think you should do:. If you can get to Hezbollah,. If you can get to the Israeli government,. If you can get to the Iranian government,. If you can get to a rich Western (European or American) government,. Bravo, ya Siniora. I hop...

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The Camel and the Eye of the Needle — Mark 10:23-27 | Irreducible Complexity

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Tales from the Theological Coal Face. Is this spam effective? November 9, 2010 · 3:25 pm. The Camel and the Eye of the Needle — Mark 10:23-27. They were even more amazed, asking each other “Then who has the ability to save themselves? 8221; Having watched this, Jesus said “Men lack the ability, but not God. For God has the ability to do all things.”. 8212; tr. mine. Photo: http:/ www.micreon.de/. This passage follows the story of the rich young man, who comes to Jesus to ask what he might do to inherit e...

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Verse Escape: Lapland's Summer

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Saturday, January 1, 2011. Lapland Landscape with Marsh Cotton,. Muonio, Lapland, 2010. In Lapland, all that grows blooms swiftly. Earth, grass, barley, and stunted birch. These matters I have often pondered. As I look upon lives of this folk. Why doth all that is fair with us wither. And that which is glorious die? Why have we so many madmen? Why so few who play on a lyre? Why do our men everywhere fall. Like hay – men of hope and men true,. Of aspiration, of heart, men all moulder. Eino Leino (1878&#82...

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Unloved Watches: Clockwork

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Time for clocks / to come out and play, / to dance while I sleep / cartwheeling on tiny hands, / round faces open, confiding. / In the morning whether / I watched or not / I’m one day / older. (Joy Ann Jones: Watching. Come to think of it. Monday, November 14, 2011. This is a copy of a post from my other blog,. Which is mostly about politics, Buddhism, social issues, and such. I decided to start a new one about watch-tinkering, since it's probably really boring for most people. I'm not that somebody yet&...

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Information Security for the Digital Photographer

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My musings about photography, mostly. Come to think of it. Information Security for the Digital Photographer. Information Security for the Digital Photographer. When you come across the term "information security," what springs to mind? Mishaps, Malice, and Disasters. Rm -rf *.java. Instead of what he intended,. Rm -rf *.class. Needless to say, he's extremely information-security conscious now, and our backup regimen is state of the art.). Mishaps - shit happens. Malice - doesn't apply to me, right?

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Raw Shooter Premium Field Report

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My musings about photography, mostly. Come to think of it. Raw Shooter Premium Field Report. Raw Shooter Premium Field Report. The program that originally sold me on RAW was CaptureOne DSLR,. I suddenly found myself using RSE a lot more often than CaptureOne LE - despite the fact that I had paid for the latter, twice over in fact, after having to buy after-market color profiles to correct pretty egregious errors in the color reproduction. When Raw Shooter Premium. The Raw Shooter Rationale. An EOS-10D fr...

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Cycling for Fun and Profit

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My musings about photography, mostly. Come to think of it. Cycling for Fun and Profit. Cycling for Fun and Profit. Beirut by Bike: For A Better Environment." Beirut is one place where it takes balls to bike - the traffic is not exactly friendly. Then again, if you know what you're doing, I bet you can really slice through the congestion. Bicycles - What Are They For? If you're like most people, your idea about cycling probably falls under one of the following categories:. Any really, really cheap bike.

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On Perceiving Brands

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My musings about photography, mostly. Come to think of it. The mind is a strange thing. We use stuff with different labels on it. We have good experiences with some of it, bad with others. Whether we like it or not, we hang these experiences on the peg conveniently provided by whatever's written on top. Tyre Cat," Tyre, Lebanon. Canon FD 50/1.4 SSC on Provia 100F. Pink Flamingoes," Camargue, France. Canon EF 90-300/4.5-5.6 USM on EOS-10D. This means that the 20 only just clears the full-frame hurdle: it'...