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8 Weeks in the Caucasus and Eastern/Central Europe (LARGE post)
Hello everyone, I have not posted here for a while, but that's because I was travelling in the Caucasus and Eastern/Central Europe. Here are some details of the trip: I just returned from an 8 week trip to the Caucasus and Eastern/Central Europe. I started the trip by flying into Baku, Azerbaijan. From there I went south… -
Bangladesh - Chittagong Hill Tracts
I want to start by thanking everybody for the wonderful comments on my other posts. I'm very glad that my photos and posts have such a great audience Here is a series from another part of Bangladesh that I visited: The Chittagong Hill Tracts are located in south-eastern Bangladesh, near the borders of Myanmar (Burma) and… -
Artistic nudes are banned in smugmug
Hi: I am smugmug client and I have a site, http://fotosmontt.com, where perhaps less than 2% of my pictures (that are almost 5.000) contain some degree of nudes; concretely, artistic nudes In spite of the fact that when hiring the service, and until today's day, I have not still seen the rule that prohibits the artistic… -
New toy and the story behind it
Recently, I've been wanting to get away from all the automation and other helpful features of modern cameras. One can, of course, simply turn most of it off, but as long as it's there, I tend to get lazy and start using it. So I started shooting with manual-focus lenses. Then I started favoring film over digital, partly… -
>>> jeffreaux2, People Photo Challenge #2 winner
jeffreaux2 won the people photo challenge #2: High Key. I asked him to answer a few questions, and this is what he told me: WHO ARE YOU? Hello, I am 42 years old and my name is Jeffrey Mann. I live on the outskirts of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My wife and I will celebrated 24 years of marriage in May, and we are the proud… -
Linear Accelerator - Troublemint Peak
Lately I feel like climbing is event, a great organizing of mind and strength just to get to the crag. Its that time of year when its just a little to cold to rock climb but and a bit to warm to ski. Although that depends entirely on where you are, which is why Amos Swanson and I decided to head into the Mint Peaks,… -
Re: (Camera Related) Software issue?
When you boot up from the Win7 disk (the only way to use the upgrade disk), you will eventually be presented with a screen that offer you two choices:* Upgrade Install - This route "replaces" all the Vista O/S code and drivers and other stuff with the Win7 version. Different people have different levels of success going… -
Re: Configuring ETTL Flash-Fill with Canon 1DMII and Speedlite 430EX
David, My understanding of the EOS system flash, with the camera body in Manual Mode, the Flash in ETTL, and high speed synch enabled - is that the exposure for background will be determined entirely your choice of aperture and shutter speed, and that the subject in the forground will be exposed properly by the flash -… -
Re: >>> DSS Challenge #5 (Primary or Pastel): Feedback Thread
Page 5... 41 - jeffmeyers - Consider the lilies - "He's having a go at the flowers now!" (sorry, bad Monty Python The Life of Brian reference)... This is an excellent flower entry. Red and yellow right up front with green stems and blue (evening sky?) leaking through in the background. The lighting on the flower is nice,… -
Re: Landscapes of Philippines
Yes. You'll hear a lot of different opinions of the Philippines. I went there with very low expectations. My wife is Filipina... well, she was born in the US but both her parents are from there. She had visited the Philippines as a child and had very bad memories of the place so that is what I based my expectations on. Boy…
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