Pictures

[shutterbug]

Sometimes a scene or a piece of something hits you in just that way that makes you stop and take another look, or perhaps reflects a piece of a moment. Sometimes they are intangible and other times they are very real. Blah blah blah... Hey man here's a pic of one of those times! I figured I should drop it here since (as someone sort of mentioned) they don't really have anything to do with questions about or the act of 'tiling'. :D

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[Davestone]

You've got an eye for the filmworthy. I love taking pics...believe it or not, since i've never posted one...i've got an old Olympus om-1.I used to do a lot of macro. My wife knows nothing of photography, and yet she was on the beach when a seagull tried to get her sandwich, and caught a pic of it with the sun forming a fuzzy circle around it, with an instamatic i bought her, and it was one of the best pics i'd ever seen, which confirmed to me that God hates me! :bow: :)

[RandyL]

Hey Shuttebug............is it talent or is it that you have to much time on your hands............ :D :D :D ..Just kidding.....the pictures that you've posted lately are perfect picture for a persons website.... I see to many tile websites posting picutres..........which is good...but I think that a picture like you just posted is art on its own,......... that can be used to show a persons artistic talents....good work.....really! :)

[opiethetileman]

Maybe I should post a pic of me for you guys

[stefan]

hi shuttabug
I'm in process of buying a digital camera, was looking for a leica, what would you recommend?

[Hamilton]

I bought a Sony Cybershot 5.1 megapixel recently, it takes excellent photos
and will take a few lenses including a wide angle lense. I look forward to
getting the wide angle lense for those hard to photograph bathroom projects.
Price paid was $300 at Circuit City

[jgleason]

One of the better sites for digital camera reviews....

www.dcresource.com (http://www.dcresource.com/)

Extensive reviews including sample images taken with the camera being reviewed. Very helpful in deciding on a camera.

This is a good site too, here's a link to the review for the camera I have...

http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/panasonic/dmc_fz10-review/index.shtml

[flatfloor]

Opie and a lot of new and not so new members yor picture is wanted here.
http://johnbridge.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=371&highlight=photo+album

So Dave, you just gonna tell us about that photo? :)

[opiethetileman]

I got a new camera last week. tell me how to down size them so everyone can see the the great 9 finger opie

[jgleason]

How to resize your photos...

http://johnbridge.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=14926

[opiethetileman]

that site is not working

[flatfloor]

Try again Dan, I just went there using that link. If not use the search feature, search for Photo Album.

[John Bridge]

That page works, Dan. I think you hit the link with your missing finger. :)

[Davestone]

I can't find that stupid pic for the life of me,but i too just got a digi today, a nice polaroid,so i will take a few pics of the last two houses i just did....and spend two weeks trying to get them on here. :D

[Davy]

Get a little kid to help you, that's the easiest way. :)

[JTG]

Thank to Dave Misevich
These are the instructions that Dave sent me in Feb of 03 and I have keep the email. It is real easy. The problem is remembering from time to time. I can't and had to save.
Program you want to use to resize the photo for placement on the JB forum.
Most computers with Windows XP will download from the camera in a My Pictures file.
Chose the picture from the My Pictures file and give it a new name and save it with the new name. You will now see that this picture is in the file with two different names.
Double click on the picture you just renamed.
Useing the mouse select a box around the most important part of the picture.
Cropping out extra stuff is a great way to reduce the size of the pic.
Go to "Edit" (tool Bar) and choose "Crop Selection". Now reduce the size of the remaining picture. "Image", "Resizing/Resample". In the set new size box, set the larger of the two dimensions to around 400. Now do a "File", "Save as"and enter a new name (always keep the larger original) Before clicking the "Save" button, click the options button and reduce the "size quality" to some value like 70% and click "ok" Then save the file. Use file manager to check the size. If it's still too big, go back in Infanview and use "save as" again tnd reduce the save quality again. Keep doing this until you get the file size you want.

Hope that this helps one and all and maybe one of the official folks will add to library if it would help being there. Again thanks Dave

[Hamilton]

Arent computers fuuunnn :bang: What drives me nutz is when i spend
a week figerrin somethin out and i still doit wrong. a freind or family
member will come over and whip out what i was attempting in 20-30
seconds. Too much to learn. Ive spent quite a bit of time learning
this thing called the computer and its never enough. ive figured out
what i like to do and keep to that :) pictures are pretty simple, just make
sure you remember how ya did it last time! :yipee: that is once you
get it right the first time lol :bang:

[shutterbug]

Dave, isn't that just about the way it goes too! You're probably underestimating your own photos because you took them yourself.

Randy, Yeah, I have too much FREE TIME! And if I could stand up straight and stretch out my arms again I'd show ya how much! (Ugh, where's my spine?!?) Actually, I'm off work right now so I do have a lot of time. Some day I'll actually get all the photos organized too and put them on a site. Anybody wanna help?

I just happened to set the tiles in that sunlit spot, and on my next trip into the room took a double take and wahlah! There's other's of that stack of tiles of course. :D

Macro photos are great and they don't really take a lot of talent to do. It's mostly about a low aperture and a slow speed and of course a stable surface. But I also like weird stuff, and things that have hard angles. I have a friend who likes photography too and he's always ragging on me about my 'view' of things. I haven't had as much success with landscape photos though; they're not bad but not always great either.

Here's a 'self portrait' of sorts that I took yesterday in that same sunlit window. :dance:

[flatfloor]

Nice work, good eye. :)

[Davestone]

Ansel Adams has a photo of a graveyard with the sun going down, that i can stare at for hours,and i read that he was driving down a road..saw the graveyard...and told his son..stop the car we gotta hurry..and ran up the hill, and as soon as he got set up, snapped the pic, and two seconds later the sun dropped and the shot would have been lost. He spent days in the darkroom getting it right..and it's magnificent...........BUT MY WIFE AIN"T ANSEL ADAMS,and there's no good reason for her to have gotten that picture! :D :D :D But i'm not bitter!Where i grew up in Illinois,on a farm, there's a graveyard down the road where some graves are from the 1800s, and many graves have picures of the deceased from the 20s,and 30s,they're fascinating,i would love to have the ability to turn them into a haunting montague, of some sort.Kind of rambled there didn't i? :) Now that i got the digi, i'm going to take some pics myself..photography is a passion,but the digi has eclipsed me,and i'll have to catch up. :)

[Hamilton]

Heres some 18" Travertine for ya to look across. Was taken at eye level
with the camera butt up against a raw edge. Im not much of a photographer
although id like to get better i do know how click the button :)

[stefan]

hi jack
thanks for telling us it is 18" travertine, it looked to me like a turkey sandwich :)

[Davestone]

:D Still better than my first pics today,in fact i have to redo them. :)

[jd77]

Nice pics Shutterbug:D

Jack that looks like a bug is checking out your shop vac :)

Well this one's not a work of art but kind of interesting and tells a story.............

[Hamilton]

Crayon Dare by some freinds. 38 crayons :D sense of humor.... nah im just
stupid :yeah:

[Bill Vincent]

Sorry, Jack-- in spite of the crayons, I don't know that I'd call that art!! :D :D :D

To me, this is beauty, and there's even a caption to go along with it that comes from my saturday morning bass show commercials:

"Those who say you should never mix water and electricity....... have never been in a bass tournament!"

[tileguytodd]

Jack, i got a roll around tool box looks alot like that one your radio's on.I keep alot of Misc items in it.
Extra grinder and saw blades,wax rings,Teflon tape,Solder,flux,Lubricants,Caution tape ,painters,duct,Durock tape,Packs of Blades for utility knives and scrapers,screws,nails,toilet bolt sets, butterfly toggles, Disposable gloves, dust masks, anchors etc etc

What ya got in yours?? :)
Maybe i can learn something here :)

[Davestone]

Yeah, that tells a story,jd77...ya screwed up the stair treads. :D Bill,that pic says....i'm up too early...Jack,you need counseling...you know you're kids behind you are just gonna have to try that. :D I had one that went to the emergency room twice with legos in the throat,and one with a bean up his nose....i myself almost choked to death in a potato swallowing contest with my cousin. :yeah:

[Hamilton]

Ohh my son already tried it, commandeerd the digi camera and hired his
younger bro to snap the shot, i didnt find the photo until i was going
through the old camera, its got over 200 pics on the chip. when i found it
i about fell out of my chair laughing.

[Bill Vincent]

Dave-- I'll quote ANOTHER one of my favorite commercials:

"Why, after getting up at 6 am all week long would a man voluntarily get up at 4 am on saturday? (The camera cuts to a HOGG bass BLASTING a topwater bait)

Must be something in the water.


:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Steven Hauser]

Shutterbug,

You have a real knack for photos.

:)

[John Bridge]

Jack, Jack, what we're shootin' for here is photographic art, not pictures of art supplies stuffed up your nose. Get it right, man. ;)

JD, tell the story. Doesn't look like a fun one. :)

[Eric Philson]

Jack,

My mother warned me not to do stuff like that. WHAT IF ONE GETS STUCK IN THERE AND YOU CAN'T GET IT OUT?

[Hamilton]

Aww cmon guys i meant no harm, it was a dare. thought id attempt to get
a laugh. DONT TRY THIS AT HOME(Disclaimer) i am a trained stunt crayon
man.

[Davestone]

It's funny,Bill, i'm almost late for work everyday..and on Sat., and Sun. i'm up at five. :)

[shutterbug]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I'm going to be laughing about the crayon picture for a LONG TIME Jack! Yep, gotta watch that monkey see monkey do thing with the kids though. But heck looks like your having a FINE time. Question is... did they come out as easy as they went in? That's one smooth-as-a-baby's-bleep floor too!

JD, I think it's a wonderful portrayal of a tile layer. The dust gives it movement too. Is that you? What's with the rubber duckie though?

Don't know nuttin bout bass fishing though.

Thanks for the compliments guys, I'm certainly no Ansel Adams though. His work is brilliant. And yes, like most photographers they spend a lot of time in the dark room. I got an eye for something anyway... art or not! :)

I wanna see more photos; I think it's neat to see what other people's perspective is.

Here's one for ya...

:rofl:... crayons

[stefan]

you make a billboard out of this one, and I will place it in front of every HD :)
well done

[Bill Vincent]

Shutterbug-- If you don't mind, I'd like to steal that one from ya. There's another forum I go into called Gardenweb, where this site is very highly regarded, as is John and his book, and with your permission, I'd like to post this over there.

[shutterbug]

Be my guest! It's yours for the taking.

[jd77]

Jack, Jack, what we're shootin' for here is photographic art, not pictures of art supplies stuffed up your nose. Get it right, man. ;)

JD, tell the story. Doesn't look like a fun one. :)

JB - Jack's picture is art - just ask his kids:D

My picture is not art. That is my beloved stepson with the grinder. There was nothing wrong with the steps. We just made him take them out and grind everything down because he killed the duck. Our clients were not very happy about losing AFLAC Jr. so we told them we'd make him pay. It was an accident. We took him to a duck doctor but he turned out to be a quack. :bonk:

[Bill Vincent]

Thanks. :)

[shutterbug]

I dunno, JD. I can find art in it. It just needs a little help in the digi-darkroom to be more pleasing to they eye :)

[jd77]

Like this? :D

[shutterbug]

Hmm, looks like the oil painting effect :D

Actually I was thinking of a whole different perspective mostly since you've seen that photo over and over you need a new view. Like this... (hope you don't mind). The border draws you away from the outer distractions into the main subject. The main subject is not really so much your son as much as it what he's doing. I removed the shadow from the flower pot too and added a little light to direct your eye to his hands. Also cropped it so that the area I'm drawing attention to is on the "tic-tac-toe" grid.

I'm not a pro. Those are simple things I learned about in a book that helps the overall look of the picture.

Maybe you like, maybe you don't. Art is undefined.

[jd77]

Looks good. The b&w puts a new perspective on it. You can really see the guilt come through even with the dust mask.

He looks like someone who just killed a duck.

[tileguytodd]

Now if you could just mix that B&W with the tiling 123 and a caption like
If only i'd have known :D :D :D

[shutterbug]

Well, let's see I think these two will are real good starters :devil2:. I had to compress the files by quite a bit which does not yield very good quality pictures. The files are much larger because of the extra manipulating I did. I did a couple others with just the book in B&W and another of the same with the flames added. I also have a 'smoke' effect, but I really gotta get something else done today :)

[Hamilton]

Hey marni nice work. what program are using for your digital editing. ive had
the chance to use photo shop 7 on a trial dl basis and loved it. really fun to
play with. did you see my photo in the photo album with the joker smile? smudge
tool can be fun from time to time. i assume you layerd that together, where did
you find the nice trasnparent flames? or did you create those yourself?

[shutterbug]

That's one heck of a grin you got goin there! No, Jack actually I just now went through the photo album. I'm sure I pulled it up before, must not have been any pictures on the last page that day and I went on to something else. There's some pretty good reading in there as well as some very nice family photos and pichers of FISH! Not sure of which there are more! :D

There's so much stuff on this site, I usually find wandering thread to thread in the main forum which often leads me to one of the pros websites where I drool over some really NICE showers :). I check in at the pro's club now and again too and find some interesting tid bits like how to sharpen your saw blade and stuff. I like the small detail information that I find here and there. Sort of like tips and tricks that make the job go smoother and look better. And then of course there's the liberry!

Just ain't enough time in the day to read it all! Speaking of reading, John's book arrived yesterday! :yipee: :yipee:

I'm using Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7. Been using Jasc for a number of years now and I guess I'm kinda hooked on it. Would be nice to have Adobe Photo Shop, but I can't see forking out $700 for a picture program! The flames are an effect too like oil painting or chrome, but you have to select the area you want the effect to be on. So basically I just drew around the book and added the effect. The flames effect came with this newest (I think it's the newest) version of PS7; found it by accident of course cause I never read the "what's new" info. Sheesh, it would have taken me a week to try to draw in all those flames! Anyway, I like the rich colors in that flame one. :D

Have a nice day!

[Bill Vincent]

Shutterbug-- My wife has the adobe, and I've got the paint shop pro. Personally, I like the PSP better.

[Hamilton]

Heres a couple things i made with photoshop......

[shutterbug]

Nice work on those designs, Jack. That 2nd one appears to be a business card while the top one is kinda like letterhead or a topper for an invoice; I'm sure they are of equal importance! :D Nice even layout of the business card too. It's a wee dark with the dark letters. I like the letters and would lighten the card a hair to bring them out a bit more. And the other one is very nice work too! I'd have to assume that's your work in the background? Nice 'cool blue' lettering too.

Bill, well it's good to know that I'm not missing anything! I've used my brother's Adobe program a few times but it's ancient... like 8 years old at least so it didn't really do that much more than my program; and it did it a lot more confusingly too. I believe it had macros on it though which would be nice to have programmed effects there at my fingertips, but I've been playing with pics for a while now long now and can recreate them similiarly each time. Jasc gets a little better with each release and I'm certainly not disappointed with its performance. I'm curious why you have one of each program though. What's your wife do?

I made a Christmas card this year from one of my downtown photos. Of course I added some stuff and changed the entire thing to look hand drawn with pencil. It was still rather neat because it came from a photo though :)

Since we're talkin about programs anyone out there got a recommendation for a photo organizer program? Mine are in desperate need of catagories and key word searches and stuff. I just haven't looked into... just keep burning them to CD while trying to at least put them in folders... what a mess! :p

Happy tiling! Last day for me (this time). Then grout probably Tuesday. Seal 10 days after that I believe is the instruction... WHOO HOO!

[Bugman]

Marni, I've been following some of your threads and finally clicked on your website. Awesome!! :bow:

I love your dogs. I have a couple of dogs who appear to be good matches for your characters. :D

Wish I was as far along on my project as you are. :bang: :cry:

[opiethetileman]

Vern nice project you got there. I think the best picture is the dog looking for camel humps in the grout joints.

[John Bridge]

Very nice work, Marni. The book might seem anticlimactic. ;)

[Hamilton]

I ended up printing the cards on white card stock and the other photo
is a signature i originally made to use on the forums here. i used it for a day
or so and after realizing it was probably annoying i took it off my sig line :)

[shutterbug]

LOL, that would be kinda gaudy on the board, Jack :) Maybe somthin a little smaller.

Thanks on the compliments on the site... I have a LOT of free time right now and I physically can't due tile all day (because of injury) so I have to find time to fill in my day with other stuff.

YES, they are quite the characters, Clyde!

Nah, I have the book John. I'm not much of a reader though and find my mind wandering after a couple pages; or no offense, but I fall asleep. I'm on page 19! :yipee:

Ok, after that long speel about thinset on another post I'm ready to GO MIX for the last time on this project!

[Bill Vincent]

Shutterbug-- My wife has a business, mostly on line, of making over and creating her own fashions for collectors dolls, and on her sites she gets really creative with the way ahe displays them. She's always like adobe for its versatility. Me personally, like you said, I think it's confusing to use, unless you use it on a constant basis. The reason I have PSP is that it came already installed on my laptop.

[jgleason]

Hi Marni,

Give Jasc's Paint Shop Photo Album 5 a try. It's a pretty good photo/image organizer.

[shutterbug]

I'm such a procrastonator! I don't know why I just don't get the one that Jasc makes. I was looking at some reviews through consumerreports.com and wherenot a short time ago and was quite impressed by MS PictureIT's features. As I recall it was the feature that allowed you to assign a rating system for your pictures. Like a 1-5 star scale. I thought that would be cool since I have a lot of angles of the same thing or vertical and horizontals of same subject that even I might be able to make some sense from my 'collection'. Problem is that one day I'll like one of my photos and next day it's so-so. Guess it depends on what mood I'm in :crazy:.

But you're absolutely right! I should just get the Jasc program and start organizing! What could it hurt? It can be a gift to me for getting ALL the tile laid. YEAH!

Thanks, Joe.

Oh yeah, and I redid that poor boy that was in trouble for killing the duck. He looks much happier playing with me in the sand don't ya think?

[jd77]

Marni!!

Nice job with the duck slayer! I'm sure he will enjoy the picture.

Thanks for doing that :)

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Well, Here's the first whack at posting pics. I love taking pictures and there is never enough time to do all the things we want, but I get a chance from time to time. The night scene is a time-lapsed picture at about mindnight the last time we went camping "up north". The earth's rotation gives the stars their arcing path, while the North Star is clearly still in the upper right. The second pic is of an Indian head I carved the last time I went to my woodworking school.

[Davy]

Kurt, that Indian is awesome. I'm a rookie carver, I'll have to find my tileman I carved and see if I can post a picher. :)

[Bill Vincent]

Kurt-- Very nice pics! Let me ask you-- that night sky pic-- how long was the aperture open for that? I've got a Canon AE-1 that I've tried to do the same thing with a 2 second openning, and it wasn't even close.

BTW-- Thank you very much for your comments a couple of weeks ago. :)

[Tool Guy - Kg]

I have to give credit to my carving instructor "Jeff Phares" for teaching the daylights otta me. Before last October, I didn't know my arse from one of those carving pointed sharp thingies. That's my first real carving. Sure we studied and carved "study sticks" for a few days beforehand, but the the instructor was that good. The guy is a true cowboy, twang talkin' and all. He could put a picture in your head and show you how to break it down into a bunch of managable steps. Very fun time, very enjoyable and rewarding. Like so many other things you learn, you have new doors opening up all around you and you get the priveledge to look at the world a little deeper.

Edited to get Bill's question:
Bill, it was something like a 12-14 minute exposure 200 speed film (with a pretty small aperature). I wandered around while the shot was being taken so I don't remember exactly. The shutter is open as long as the button is depressed and I rigged up a piece of tape to hold it in - but the camera's internal penlight batteries were running low and would cause the shutter to close without me knowing. I suppose if you measure the degrees of arcing, you could take 360 degrees (full earth rotation) and devide it by whatever the arcs measure and you'd know what fraction of a day it was. I would try a 15 minute exposure and close the aperature almost all the way down (maybe 2 stops shy of the smallest opening you have) and see what that does. It would have to be awfully dark to take this shot. The sky has to be nearly black, or the picture will end up so light, it's reduculous.
And Bill...you're very welcome.

[Davy]

I've never taken any classes (and it shows), just grabed a piece of wood and a knife. I need to get back to it, I really enjoyed it. :)

[Bill Vincent]

Kurt-- I didn't realise you MADE that indian head-- I thought you BOUGHT it somewhere!! Man, that's GREAT!!

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Naw, I picked it up at 7-11 with a slurpie.

[Eric Philson]

Bill,

Your canon will do it. I've had an AE-1 program for 24 years. I did that same thing when I was a kid. Don't remember how I did it of course, but I do recall having done it.....or at least I think I recall having done it. :crazy:

[Davy]

Okay, here is my tileman, no laughing.

[Hamilton]

Heres some more photos.

[Davy]

Here's one I bought, looks like Chuck Norris to me. :)

[Hamilton]

Looks like hes playin pool to me :D

[Davy]

I never thought of that, guess he is though, see the grin? :D

[Bill Vincent]

Davy-- nice tileguy!! (He ain't real though-- ain't got enough thinset on him!! :D )

Jack-- I like the way ya bent them strips!! Whad'ja do-- heat em up? :D :D :D

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Davy, excellent. Did you just buy the "pool player" and use that as a way to self teach yourself?

Jack, I wouldn't normally consider running the base/cove on the wall like that outside of a wet area. That looks pretty sweet.

[Hamilton]

I suggested the slate base vs a wood base because i wasnt sure how a wood
base would look sitting on the irregular surface of slate. i imagined a terrible
caulk line where white base met the floor. everyone agreed it would look better
and we went forward with it.

[shutterbug]

Holy COW Kurt! That Indian is fanominal. How big is it, what kind of wood is it, and how long did it take to carve? Very cool.

And speaking of cool! So is the long exposure of the stars. WOW. Dang, here in the city I could never get something like that. There's way too much 'noise' at night to keep the lense open for much longer than 20 seconds :). You're using a traditional camera I assume? Very neat stuff. Thanks so much for sharing!

I must have missed that promo at the 7-11! Davy, what's your "pool player" made of? He looks so shiny. Is he modeled after you :D?

And of course Jack's work is always fanominal! Very nice! I'm assuming that's to be a pool table room?

Great stuff guys!

[Davy]

The tileman is made from Balsa wood, the pool player is made from pine.
I first seen the pool player at a local flea market. A man was there selling some of his carvings, some of his work was really neat and expensive. I watched him whittle on a piece of wood for a while and was amazed at how easy he made it look. He wanted 35 bucks for the pool player which I thought was too high. After I got home I wished I would have bought it. The next month the whittler was sick and not there but his wife was there selling his stuff. I asked her how much for the hippie, she said 25, so I bought it. He said the pool player/hippie took only 45 minutes to carve. :)

[Davy]

Here's a big grin. :)

[Dave the Tile Guy]

I was so upset about dropping my el-cheapo digital camera (Kodak CX4200)the other night (yes ruined it) that I went right onto ebay and bought myself a brand new one. Anyone have any reviews on the Minolta Dimage Z3? (http://kmpi.konicaminolta.us/eprise/main/kmpi/content/cam/cam_Product_Pages/DiMAGE_Z3) I bought that and its mate flash the minolta 2500d. Looking forward to getting it before we go to Vegas in two weeks.

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Hi Marni,

I love your pictures and creative ways to transform the ordinary into the extrodinary!

The Indian head is 8 3/8" tall. To get a perspective, you may notice my left paw holding it while my right paw is clicking the picture. It is made out of butternut wood. (Wood smells kinda good when cutting it) And it took about 2 days of interrupted carving time. I think it would take about 8 hours to make another one like that.

Yep, a traditional camera is what I use for anything cool. I had photography in the first year of high school and have stayed with a manual controlled camera ever since (2.2 decades). I have kids now, so sometimes I wish I had a more automated camera to capture the quick action that takes place, but really like the ability to do whatever you want with the manual. The new digital cameras have a bunch of neat features, but still prefer the film cameras.

That night picture was taken in Northern Wisconsin and nowhere near any city lights. A few months ago, I was taking some other pictures at night and my exposure time was up around 30 minutes. You wouldn't believe how bright the pictures are. They almost look like they were taken during the day. And they were taken at close to midnight, with no moonlight. It was dark. I mean real dark. I used 100 speed film with the aperature turn all the way down for 30 minutes and the intense blue color of the sky is something else. Experimenting at night is just like painting. You start with a dark, black picture, and you "paint" with light here and there until you have your picture painted. While the shutter is open, I take my flashbulb and "paint" a blast of light on something that I want to be highlighted. Sometimes I'll use the flash 10 or 20 times for one picture to light up a distant object. All these neat exerimental pictures were done with a traditional camera and I don't have a scanner to put them here, or I'd show ya all. The night picture I showed was developed at Walgreens so I got a CD with the pictures. But the quality is crappy. The resolution doesn't do it justice.

Jack, good thinking on the irregular caulk lines you might have had with traditional baseboard. How tall did you make them? 4 1/2"ish?? Did you do anything to ease the square top edge?

[Hamilton]

I made the base 6", nope didnt bullnose the edge.... no need really nor would
i want to try to bullnose slate.

[muskymike]

Why not Jack? Here's some that I bullnosed.

[tileguytodd]

Really Jack, Why not???
Ive Profiled lots of Slate including these 30.00 each water jetted deer tracks on this hearth

[shutterbug]

Awfully sweet camera, Dave (the tile guy)! I dropped my last one too and broke the lens; actually it fell off the top of a beer bottle at the bar trying to get a timed group photo... live and learn :D Cripeny look at the zoom on that thing! Anti-shake... very nice. Hey here's a wonderful resource (http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/minolta/dimage_z3-review/index.shtml) I just found that gives a great review of the camera. I don't recall that site being so indepth when I researched for the digicam I have now.

Yeah, I saw your fingers holding the Indian head up after I went back to take a closer look at it. It's still neat as heck no matter what size it is! Hmm, butternut wood. Sounds like it smells good ;) Did you finish it with anything?

Yep, I like to play in the digi-darkroom, but I also like some stuff just as it is. Here's a picture of a bunch of rental bikes at a resort. Nothing changed except for a little cropping. It's one of my favorite shots from that trip I also like the b&w one I shot, but it doesn't show the rust and sand.

[Hamilton]

I might try it sometime seein that you folks have. bullnose slate that is. :)

[John Bridge]

Jack, I'll stick up for you. I've never bullnosed slate either.

I will, though, now that I know that Mike and Todd do it. :D

[Tool Guy - Kg]

(Holding up right hand) I have never bullnosed slate either, I swear.

You know Jack, I was thinking the same as you and wouldn't consider bullnosing them. I think because of the shaling, I think that it wouldn't come out good, kinda like routing a chippy piece of wood with a router bit and you don't end up with a smooth edge. When I asked, I was thinking that maybe you knocked-off the corner to chamfer it a bit. But now that the others have chimed-in, we are now geniuses and will do it if we need to.

Marni, no finish on it yet. I'll be putting some concoction on it when I get around to it. Probably in 30 years when I retire (although the busiest people I know are retired.....how does that work?)

[Dave the Tile Guy]

Thanks Shutterbug! Yeah I just got the camera this afternoon. Had to even leave work early just to come home and play with it! I can't believe all the functions in this cam...almost like an SLR 'cept for the fixed lens...but an equivalent 420mm zoom! its amazing. I've been running around the house all night snapping photos...learning all the functions of the cam. Definately need to get the NiMh batteries for it though! I've got the external flash coming tomorrow. That will give me a flash distance of almost 90 feet!! lol As soon as I get the hang of it and get some good shots I will post them...until then...a certain camera is calling me!

[JTG]

How do you guy come up with all the time to get your pictures up on the forum. Here it is 10:00 PM I have just got down with desk work and should be heading off to bed.
I did get a couple pictures ready to upload.
The painting is the last watercolor that I completed and framed.
Gave it to my Mom for Xmas.
The sunflower showes of my green thumb. Look close at those knees.

[Hamilton]

Awsome waterpainting Jerry.... are you really 3 feet tall or is that one super
gigantic sunflower!? :D

[Tool Guy - Kg]

You know she loved gettin' that from you. Means a lot. Great job.

[tileguytodd]

Bullnosing Slate

Careful guys, as you know slate is soft and it may spoil ya ;)

Pick your pieces for bullnosing.Tight grained are of course best.I didnt want to state the obvious but,then again ;)
I always figure what i need in L/F and pick the best tightest pieces i can find and then sort for color.I was very particular on the pieces that were to be water jetted and then Bullnosed.Screwing up a water jetted Deco was not something i would have cared for as you can imagine :)

2x2 slate or tumbled Marble etc can be bullnosed for your shower floor curb wraps also if you are doing many of these.It Looks great ;)

[JTG]

Jack
Isn't that some kind of sunflower. Had to use the electric chain saw to cut it down at the end of the season. Enough seeds to feed ALL the little critters in the neighborhood.

[jgleason]

Dwarf sunflower from last Summer.

[Sonnie Layne]

Joe,
Alas!!! a sunflower (or anything yellow) that doesn't host thrips !!!!

Jerry,
Don't lissen to 'em. Your knees are great. They may not feel like much, but you've got 'em. Dance on, big guy. ;) Now for the sunflower...... did you have a permit to grow that thing so close to the fence? :)

I love to prowl this site. Wish I had more time. Then again,,, wish I had more work, too.

[shutterbug]

She sure is wearing that yellow proud! Mmmm, yellow flowers, fresh cut grass, light breezes, the way your face warms when you face the sun... Today's weather prediction... 1-2" of SNOW. Must be gettin cabin fever.

You have others like it Joe?

[jgleason]

Another flower...sorry all out of yellow. :)

[Hamilton]

Cant remember the name of this cactus but ill post it when it comes to me




Epiphyllum "Orchid Cactus" :yeah: :shades: :dunce: :D

[Bugman]

Here are a couple of non-tiling pichers I've taken. I love the passion vine flower, even though they are a common weed in South Carolina. The second picher is a closeup of water dripping from a moss covered ledge.

[shutterbug]

Interesting flowers! Jack did it take ya till 1AM to recall the name? :) I can't quite tell by the picture if that's one that I see in the stores here in MI or not and I don't know the name. Cacti are interesting... I like the needles.

Oooh, Clyde that purple is beautiful. Did you shoot that at night to get the dark background? I tried algae once, but it didn't turn out.

Ok, Ok, here's one I shot last summer of a Fiesta Daisy growing in my yard.
________________
Edited because I lied, those were ones I had CUT from the yard and were in a vase on the patio. My bad.

[Bugman]

Oooh, Clyde that purple is beautiful. Did you shoot that at night to get the dark background? I tried algae once, but it didn't turn out.


Both were taken with an Olympus OM-2, macro lens (50 mm, I think) and the Olympus twin flash. It was a really nice setup, but alas, I had to leave it behind when I retired. I really like trying to get shots of moss, lichens, algae, etc. Need to spend more time on that some day when I run out of projects to do around the house. :yeah:

[Hamilton]

The photo i posted of the epiphylum or orchid cactus is not a common
cactus in the US. i took a branch from a cactus my mother has growing.
you can literally cut a branch and wait 2-4 weeks before you put it in the
dirt and it will grow with a regular watering. There is an "Epi" society in san
diego. This flower is huge, im 6'2" tall and have large hands, if i put my hand
next to this flower it is larger. The photo was taken last year on my crumby
digi camera but ive noticed some new buds growing fast in the last couple
days. I also ran across a customer i did work for who had a white flower
epi and they gave me a branch. its in its infancy but in about a year or
so i will get nice big white flowers. Ill post a better photo of the new set
of flowers with my new camera. Great thread shutterbug i hope everyone
continues to join in this is cool. :)

if you want to see more epis you can do a google search ....
epiphylum, orchid cactus

[shutterbug]

Clyde, you'll have to get yourself another digi. Shoot the prices keep dropping and the megapixels keep going up! Yahoo!

Jack, you probably already know, but I figure I'd put a couple details here for anyone else interested. I looked up a couple pages about your epiphyllum or orchid cactus until I found one with some size detail. Woof, those are big. Found in the jungle from Mexico to northern South America, their flowers are 5"-8" across on average but can be as big as 15". And they hang from the trees and can reach a length of up to 200! That's a pretty hardy flower! Their colors vary depending on the environmental conditions.

Cool.

[JTG]

Here is a Dahlia from my garden last summer.

I'm leaving for Bangkok, Thailand on Sunday. Going over to have my teeth fixed. Air fair is cheap and friends who lived over there for the past 8 years insist that the quality of care and facilities are top drawer.
With the cost of dental work here thru the roof I'm hoping to get the work done and still get in a little R & R.
I need a bridge, may more than one and crowns, fillings etc.
will have a report on the rebound and maybe some pictures of some really exotic flowers.
Wish me luck.
J

[Hamilton]

Yes you did do your homework :) my mother aquired hers from a house
my stepfather cleaned out. long story short it was hanging under an orange
tree in a basket. she didnt know what it was so i began searching the net
and never let up until i figured it out. yes they do grow in the jungles
and will grow up trees, tap roots in pockets and keep climbing. These cactus
look like a mix between a vine and a cactus. when my new blooms come in
ill post a clean photo of a bloom and the overall plant. :D

[Hamilton]

Travel safe jerry, good luck at the dentist. :)

[Tool Guy - Kg]

The little 'o Felker TM 75 finished this one up a couple hours ago.

[muskymike]

Very nice Kurt. :)

[shutterbug]

(whistle) That looks real nice Kurt. What is that? It looks like really long tiles? Marble? (Not a tiler... can you tell?)

Mmm, I love Dalias. I had some, but I didn't dig em up before winter a few years back and lost them. Have you seen those 'dinner plate' sized ones? Whew, those are big too.

I saw some snowdrops up in the front yard earlier today, but they weren't quite in the snow. We're suppose to get some snow tonight and I'll see if I can capture them in the morning.

Yikes, that's a long way to go for dental work. But if the quality is there and price is right ya know. We'll be waiting for some splendid exotic pics when you return!

Tee hee hee, I was looking through one of my discs of pictures and ran across this one. I always thought those birds should be saying something to each other!

Night all.

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Marni, I'm assuming they are tiling their "bird bath"?

Those big honkin' tiles are PITA 36 inch long stone tiles. They fit real good on a little saw that's 1/2 the size of the tiles. :yeah: Actually, the saw took em in stride. I was surprised at how well it handled them.

The best part about stone tiles is cutting a complicated piece, then having the thing fall apart in your hands as you are carrying it back to the wall. That's my favorite. :yipee:

[Hamilton]

Heres the update on my customers game room. went back today
and took glamour shots. Time will tell if i did a good job or not. theres
alot of weight on this floor :) Harley Heaven :D

[Bill Vincent]

I'd give up my boat for that pool table!!

Oh, and nice work Jack! :D

[Raymond S]

You like to play pool, Bill?

[jgleason]

Snowing all day today :-( Wishing it were Summer. For all you folksin the warmth already...

[JTG]

Here is a picture of the waterfront in Seattle today.
going to take them to Bangkok to help cool them off over there.
I see it has been 95 with the humidity right below that. This N'west boy will melt over there.

[muskymike]

Here's a shower I just finished with the TM 75.

[jgleason]

Nice looking shower Mike. Is that 2x2 on the floor? It looks bigger than that bit hard to tell from the photo. Wall tiles look like 6x6, I like the border with the diagonal tiles

[michaelhazuka]

Just a backsplash from the past.... :)

[muskymike]

Hi Joe, the floor is 3x3 and yes the walls are 6x6. The homeowner wanted tight grout lines. This is just one of three that I'm doing at this house.

[muskymike]

Very nice backsplash Mike! :bow:

[jgleason]

Doh! I should have known if the wall tiles were 6x6 that the floor was 3x3 (can see two tiles on the floor match the width of one wall tile.

Must be the cabin fever getting to me! I can't wait for some nice warm weather!

[shutterbug]

Those are some fine snowmen, Joe. Dang by the back yard looks like you're stuck up in the woods somewhere. No wonder you're getting cabing fever :D.

Managed to snap this one of the snowdrops this afternoon. I kept missing the sun since it was mostly overcast. But here's what I got. I'm not sure why it looks a little grainy and not very well focused. I tried using the "white metering" feature to gauge the snow which is all I can think of. I really wanted a different angle, but there's bridge construction stuff everywhere in my front yard. Yuk.

Shoot. Ya'll sure know how to put some tile down! :bow: I hope my shower turns out near that kind of quality. If I ever get the plans solidified. Made some progress on that after a visit to HD's design expo today. There's so much to take into consideration and a lot to know. You guys sure make it look easy!

[jgleason]

Hi Marni,

Well, it feels like we're way out in the woods! Reality - main road is 1/4 mile away then it's a 15 minute jaunt into Concord, the capitol of New Hampshire. Not that there's a lot there either!

If you look behind the snowmen you can see our pool, darn near buried in all the snow, looks like it'll be a while before it thaws out!

[shutterbug]

Woe, I see it now! Shovel it off and use it for an ice rink cause the groundhog definitely saw his shadow in your neck of the woods! :yeah:

[mark11755]

What is this "snow" I keep hearing about? It appears to be something like water from the ocean that is nearby here, but in some sort of "solid" state falling from the sky????????????? :) :) :)

[jgleason]

I'd be happy to ship you some Mark! We seem to have an ample supply of the white stuff this year.

Having spent 4 years of my childhood living in Guam, I often wish I was still there! Ahh well, NH isn't so bad...at least during the warmer months.

[shutterbug]

:tongue: >>>>>>>>smartie-pants<<<<<<<<< :tongue:

[shutterbug]

Angle still isn't what I really want :twitch: and I still had to blur the background thus blurred the stalks a bit too. But I like this one better with the morning sun

[John Bridge]

Mark,

We actually had snow here on Christmas Eve. Drifts up to 3/4 in.

Most folks kept their kids and pets in the house, of course. Thought the stuff was some sort of radioactive fallout.

:D

[jay f]

:tongue: Funny John,funny. :tongue:

[flatfloor]

John, Mark #@*&% both of you and the horses you rode in on. :D

[catamount]

Don't mind me. Just checking to see what my new avatar looks like in a post, with my name and all. O.K. - needs more tweaking. Carry on.

[flatfloor]

Since when can puddy tats join? :)

[catamount]

Since when can puddy tats join? :)
I reckon when Alex's enormous housecat took up residence! :)

[Hamilton]

Dont mess with me, i use kung f00, claw of cat style RAWR!! :tongue:

[Hamilton]

ruh roh raggy......
rockies doggle photo shoot :yeah:

[Bill Vincent]

Jack, that's classic!! :rofl: Looks like your buddy's havin a great time, too!! :)

I'd be happy to ship you some Mark! We seem to have an ample supply of the white stuff this year.

Joe-- Tell me about it!! WE have piles of snow so high right now here in town (Bridgton, Me.) they even had a report about it on the news-- seems 8' of snow is too high to see over to see if traffic's comin when you're pokin your nose out onto Rte. 302, and there've been a few accidents attributed to it. With the two storms last week, we had exactly 30" of snow last week-- 13" on tuesday, and another 17" on saturday. This is really starting to suck.

[RandyL]

I just bought a fujifilm E500 finepix camera. Anyone know if its a good camera? Its seems good. Came witha docking station, rechargable batteries, an extra 64mb card. Is working well so far. THink I'll take a pic of the big ford later tonight if I get home when its still light out.

[shutterbug]

Hee hee hee, Jack, that's quite a character ya got there! My doggies wouldn't sit that still even do that for a even for a Scooby Snack!!!

Randy, it all depends on what you want a camera for... here's a pretty informative review (http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/E500/E5A.HTM) on your camera. As the owner it might be informative, but I didn't read it all :D (it's long). Can't go too wrong with 4 megapixels... it's all the other bells and whistles that up the price. I'll bet it takes quality 4x6 and 5x7's and is certainly fit for uploading to the web. Never used a docking station so I don't know nuthin about it.

[jgleason]

Not a bad camera. I skimmed the review and looked carefully at the test shots. The optical zoom is a little low for my tastes (3.2x). If I can't have a digital SLR then I want something with a big zoom, like a 12x.

Of course, it all depends on what kind of pictures you plan on taking and all that.

No opinion on the docking station, I use a card reader. Pop the card out of the camera and into the reader, drag and drop the files from the card to the computer's hard drive. Nothing to it! :nod:

[shutterbug]

I get people ask me about the docking stations. Someone want to testify to liking them or disliking them? Are all docking stations also print stations? You've seen em the kind that print a 4x6 right from the docking station? I was never interested in them but wonder if people like that feature or not.

12x zoom is pretty hefty I assume you're talking all optical too! You ever use the digital zoom? I've taken a couple in full 8x optical plus the 4x digi-zoom that turned out half way decent after manipulation in the digi-darkroom but usually they're too grainy and blurry to use.

[jgleason]

12x, all optical! :D

My Current Digital Camera (http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/panasonic/dmc_fz10-review/index.shtml) . (Of course, I opted for black, not silver)

I have used the digital zoom too. Here's a series of shots. I was appr. 15' away. 1st image is at 3x optical, second at 12x optical, 3rd at 36x digital. Handheld, no retouching. Only thing I did was resize all images to 30% of the original size to fit on the forum. No cropping. I also saved as jpg at 40% compression.

[Marge]

Had to add a couple...not pro quality but from our backyard. And yes, those colors are real. Guess God had to give us something to look at so we wouldn't notice the scorpions and snakkes wandering around our feet.

Marge

[shutterbug]

Sweet Joe. Great clarity even at full digital zoom and still shoot with a small aperature while zoomed! Mine doesn't have the anti-shake on it; wish I'd known how sensitive it really was before buying it. If I were to get another camera I would definitely get that feature. Cool, comes with a lens hood too which comes in handy. Beats the piece of roofing paper I keep curled up in my case :D.

Ok, here's my test. I have to say I'm kinda of surprised that they are as clear as they are being taken with no tripod :). I did however use the flash which I normally don't do so it upped the speed from 1/6.6 of the no flash pic to 1/60 at no zoom and both max optical and digital at 1/125. To gauge the difference between them I had to switch to high resolution instead of max or best which is shot in RAW because I can't enable digital zoom with RAW capture, but they are pretty close for on screen comparison I think. The pictures were taken at a distance of about 10'. In JPG high format I resized to 23% of regular size and squished each by only 10%. Didn't crop them nor sharpen them (though they really need that). Original size is 2560x1920.

Here's no flash & no zoom, flash & no zoom, max optical zoom w/ flash, and max digital zoom w/ flash.

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I see Marge has put some pics up since I've been writing this novel! Ooooh, I love reflections! Hubby and are have a golf trip planned for out your way, Marge. Heading to Mesquite Nevada in late September. Ever heard of it? It's probably not even that close to you. That is going to be such eye-candy with all those textures of the red rocks!

[Marge]

Marni,

Mesquite may not be NYC but we know it well. You will enjoy your golf and your vistas! Bring lots of 128K memory cards. :)

And 7 irons are good snake repellants.....

Marge

[shutterbug]

:sick: :sick: :sick: :sick: :sick:
I'll use the 6 iron, never did like that club!

[Hobbit]

Nice camera Joe... :)

I recently purchased my first digital. Like you I was really swayed by the Leica glass. 12X optical is really at the edge of technology for a non SLR. The 35 mm equivalent is something like 35-450 mm, and F-2.8 all the way, end to end. And Image Stabilization as well. :)

I somehow managed to convince my darling wife that I needed the FZ-20, so I ended up with 5 mega pixel version in Black. All I can say, is that Leica lens is .....well, I don't know how to describe it! Nothing I have seen (digital) is even close to it. I am certain there are some other fine lenses out there, but nothing yet with optical range and features of this one.

I looked at many different models, but like my Nikon film cameras, it always came down to the lens.

If you can't afford a digital SLR---you really need to look at these models.

:) :)

[Hamilton]

just in case you were wondering if those were my sunglasses on rocky :)
no..no..
they are the real mcoy :)

[Charles P]

Jack dont tell me you actually went out and bought Rocky a pair of sunglasses please tell me your kids had something to do with that :rofl:
We got to get together so you can school me on this sony digital since it sounds like we have the same one :bow: getting the computer thing down but pictures :bang: still out of my train of thought,to much thinset dust in my brain.

[Hamilton]

I love my dog man, yes i admit, went to petsmart with the wife, we laughed
out loud when we saw the doggles. had to buy em right then an there :)
ill help ya with the camera anytime man. stop by or touch base while im
workin on your side of town, ill drop by :)
get the pm yet?

[jjwq8]

Jack, I will hate you if M ever looks in here. We have 11 dogs fercrissakes!:D

[shutterbug]

"When does necessity become desire?"

http://img79.exs.cx/img79/1496/transportationchallenge2bx.th.jpg (http://img79.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img79&image=transportationchallenge2bx.jpg&bgc=EE8822&fgc=FFFF11&bor=9922CC)

[Hamilton]

This is the nicest most favorite cat weve ever had in our family. Took her
to the vet today, had full kidney failure. Hate to see her go. We will always
love you hobie

[shutterbug]

Ohhhh, Jack. Sorry to hear.

[Roger3125]

I'm delighted to know we have many animal lovers in our group.

If some one favors dogs my neighbor is giving away her 4-month old puppie. He's a loving, playful dog great with kids and house broken. She claims the dog looks at her and that makes her feel alittle unsettled. If anyone interested in a new friend email me. He's really a cutie don't you think?

[Charles P]

Sorry to hear about hobie Jack.
Damn thats an ugly dog. :moon:

[muskymike]

Sorry to hear about your cat Jack. We have 14 in the house. I know how you feel. Each one of ours has its own personality. We have one that is diabetic and needs two shots of insulin a day. He was only suppose to live for 6 months, that was 4 years ago! It will be a very sad day when his time is up. He is our attack cat, Hank. He can even grout!

[flatfloor]

Dog has wierd eyes, looks a little like Michael Jackson poor thing. :)

[jjwq8]

speaking of whom when did he become a physical invalid? What's with all this turning up to court in his jammies?

[Hamilton]

Meh doggy misses his girlfriend hobie. he never gave her much "real" grief
but loved to sniff her. he knew where to draw the line, she had her way
of lettin him know when close was too close.

[jjwq8]

Colour me impressed.
How the hell do yall get your pets to sit still long enough to photograph?
Rest periods for the posse are measured in nano seconds :D

[bbcamp]

Well, Jeremy, if you had real dogs instead of long-haired rats... :D

[flatfloor]

Ooooooooooooooh fight, fight! :stick: :whip:

[Hamilton]

Heres a fireplace and some granite tile counters i did for meh mom :) working
on her front porch tomorrow. been prepping it for the last 2 days will begin
setting it in the morning.
The stove has a fan that blows the heat down under the subfloor. This was
an interesting challenge for me. i had never put together a self rimming stove.
most sit inside the edges of the tile. i had to get the cabinet height, cap rail
and mud height with granite within adjustable tolerances of the feet on the
stove.
ill have to post a closeup of the stove tomorrow, i noticed this photo doesnt
do any justice to what i described

[stefan]

here is a pic of a nother 12x12" shower floor and my little helper :)

[shutterbug]

Your little guy looks like he's eyeballin your work! And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

This is my doggie, Lefty. She loves to catch everything... including shovels full of snow! She's really old and still tries to catch tennis balls, but she has much better accuracy catchin the snow. :D

[jjwq8]

Jim I have no reason to start a fight with Bob. He is afterall the one with all the knowledge of and affinity for rats :D:D

[bbcamp]

Ouch?










:D

[opiethetileman]

Nice dogs i need to send some new one of the gaurd dog ill down size it today and try and post.

[Hamilton]

I finally got a chance to get out of the rat race and onto some good ole
beer drinkin an fishin on the colorado river with my wife kids- an my brothers
family. Been away since friday morning. Had a great time. Heres a shot of the
real London Bridge brought over and rebuilt on lake Havasu. :) Man it was
good to get away :yipee:


Oh yeah and heres a shot of the Capt(my bro) and the crew minus the photographer :D

[flatfloor]

Ummm....Jack? :uhh:

[shutterbug]

Don't know what these are called, but they come up here after the Snow Drops and about the same time as the Crocuses (Croci?? sp?).

[derpbag]

Marni, That's a wonderful shot. I call them squill, but I think the botanical name is scilla. When they're naturalized, the effect is . . . well, look halfway down this page http://www.obhs.net/1b.html .

[John Bridge]

That's an interesting page, Barb. Are you involved in that project? :)

Beautiful shot, Marni. :)

[derpbag]

No, John, I found it with a Google image search. I wanted to be sure it was squill, because I'd never looked at my squill from a nose length away. Can't focus that close anymore.

[John Bridge]

And so you're telling me I read that author's life story for nothing? ;)

It's still pretty interesting. :D

[shutterbug]

:eek: That's a lot of squill! I love those blanket pictures like that! The biggest patch I have is only about 12"x12". Must be cause I keep splitting them so I get a splash of color here and there in early spring. Yeah, actually got dirt IN my lens shooting the squill and the crocuses. I was :sick:!!! The lens wouldn't extend and there was grinding sound. Fortunately several (and I mean several!) hard taps around the lens knocked all the dirt out and it operates fine again. Whew!

Here's a couple thumbnails of the Crocus picher and another of sprouting tiger lillies:
http://img240.exs.cx/img240/3341/johnslillies9be.th.jpg (http://img240.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img240&image=johnslillies9be.jpg&bgc=EE8822&fgc=FFFF11&bor=9922CC)

http://img240.exs.cx/img240/5761/crocus04070520105jr.th.jpg (http://img240.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img240&image=crocus04070520105jr.jpg&bgc=EE8822&fgc=FFFF11&bor=9922CC)

:yeah: BEER TIME! Gotta run!

[Hamilton]

Heres a new yellow flower i planted this last weekend after i got home
from lake havasu. Also included is a full shot of my epiphylum in mid bud.
should be blooming in a week or 2. There is a young white flowered epi in the
pot to the right that is almost a year old. With epi's you can take a cut
branch and lay it out to dry for 2 weeks or so and replant it and it will still
grow strong. If anyone is interested in having a clip from the big epi send
me a pm and ill mail you a branch. Its a very sturdy plant but takes a couple
years to produce the enormous flowers ill be posting again in a couple weeks.
This time photos will be taken on my new 5 mp digi camera. :)

[shutterbug]

That yellow flower looks similiar to the tiger lillies I have around here. Is it a lilly variety? I like yellow flowers :) Shoot Jack, I'm not sure what I'm looking for in the big Epi plant picher. Are the buds the little reddish colored things that are growing near the end of the leaf? Like the one I see on the second leaf from the top on the left side?

Your new 5 megepixel is on the way? Ahh, can't wait to see what kind of shot you come up with for your prized Epi...

Will the plant survive indoors in a cold climate?

[Hamilton]

They(epi's) like to be root bound with indirect sunlight so im sure indoors
would be fine. The photos i posted are from the the 5 mp but im still learning
how to get nice shots. My wife says the yellow flower is some kinda of lilly.
I tossed the tag and forget what it is lol :) The buds are the little red things
coming off the leaves here and there. Ive counted 16 in all but you probably
cant see them all.

[shutterbug]

Oh oops, sorry didn't know that was the 5 banger camera. For the close up shots you might try setting your dial or button or menu (what ever you have) to the flower picture; almost every digi camera has a flower on it :) That might help, but it also might slow the shutter speed and cause blur. YOu'll figger it out.

Shoot. 16 buds. I remember how big the flowers are so you better weight that plant down so it doesn't fall off the sill when the blooms burst out!

[Hamilton]

Ahh thanx for the tip marni i can use all i can get :yeah: does shutter speed
effect the photo? and of course being a man i never botherd reading the "entire"
booklet for my camera(just where to put the batteries) do newer digital cameras
have shutterspeed control? my camera is the newest sony cybershot 5.1.
been really happy with it so far, looking forward to buying a wide angle lense
and one of them super zoomer lenses. :)

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Marni or anyone else familiar with digital cameras,
Does anyone know of a camera that either has a wide angle lens built into it or one that can be attached? I went to the local Worst-Buy and seems that the only chance of getting wide angle abilities is to buy a mongo-expensive camera.

[Hamilton]

kurt my sony cybershot 5.1 mp was only 300 bucks and it accepts attachable
lenses. i dont have any links sorry but you can prolly look it up or check it
out at your local comp store. :)

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Thanks, Jack

I'll check that out.

[shutterbug]

Musta missed this post before. I dont really know that much about diffrentr cameras, but like Jack said, theres ones out there that wont cost you a months salry to buy. As thr digi market grows so do your choices -like everything else that becomes popular.

Heres a wide angle article (http://www.realtor.org/rmomag.NSF/pages/techwatch200410182?OpenDocument) that lists some mfgrs offeriung wide angle that I found through google. I'll have to look at those cameras in that link I just refered to allso to learn a bit about built in wide angle features. ZR==Remenber to keep in mind when looking at a camera that the add on lenses will require you ti purchase both a converter ring as well as the lens itself. Im sure that the two together will run you at at least $125 and probably more. Sometimes you can purchase the camera with additional optional packages that will include some or all of zoom, wide-angle, the converter ring, lens hood... ti name a few off the top of my head.

pardon my type-o's :crazy:

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Thanks for the article, Marni. Good to know manufacturers are on their way to making more options for wide-angle lenses.

I have a wide-angle lens from a seriously old digital camera. It was so old, you actually stuck a floppy disk in there! :D I'm not kidding. And the resolution was so "craptacular" (stole that one from Shaughnn :yeah: )that a floppy could hold about 50 pictures. I gave the camera away, but kept the lens. I'm gonna go check out that camera Jack has and see what else is available.

[shutterbug]

OMG, a FLOPPY?!? :eek: Well, I guess technology had to start somewhere. I remember booting computers using a 5 1/4 floppy and there was no such thing as a hard drive!

[John Bridge]

Kurt,

I bet that old camera was a Sony. Reason I think I know is that I've still got mine. Resolution is 640 which isn't bad unless you want to print something larger than a postage stamp. :) I loved that camera. Still do. When it was new it cost over a thousand dollars, and that was a real thousand dollars back then. ;)

The floppies were really handy though. Pop 'em in the computer and you had your pics. You could just leave them stored on the floppy.

[jgleason]

Hey John,

That would be a Sony Mavica camera I believe. Great camera at the time. resolution was about 1/2 Megapixel or so. Perfect size for posting online!

[Tool Guy - Kg]

YEP! It was a sony. You're right, anything bigger than a postage stamp and she started getting fuzzy. I love hearing the floppy spinning around for a few seconds after you shoot a picture while it is being transeferred to the disk. Now that I think of it, I remember seeing this camera at Office Depot less than a year ago. It was still $299, if you can believe that.

The cool thing is that screw-on wide angle lens fits my camcorder. Makes it much easier to record job details. Don't use the camcorder much anymore. But when you have a big remodel and a ton of details, you can narrate and shoot pictures simultaniously. Handy later on when putting a bid together.

[John Bridge]

Mavica is correct, but Sony still uses that brand. :)

Many of the pictures on my real web site were shot with that camera. Some of them you can tell it. ;)

[shutterbug]

This week's parade of colors...

http://img245.echo.cx/img245/6311/crocuspost20184sd.th.jpg (http://img245.echo.cx/my.php?image=crocuspost20184sd.jpg)

http://img245.echo.cx/img245/9124/daffodilpost20547lg.th.jpg (http://img245.echo.cx/my.php?image=daffodilpost20547lg.jpg)

http://img245.echo.cx/img245/3254/peripost20664zp.th.jpg (http://img245.echo.cx/my.php?image=peripost20664zp.jpg)

http://img245.echo.cx/img245/7110/tulipbacksidepost20697bb.th.jpg (http://img245.echo.cx/my.php?image=tulipbacksidepost20697bb.jpg)

[shutterbug]

Well, Mother Nature did her thing and brought us SNOW on April 24. The (hopefully) last winter blast isn't quite over with and I'm hoping we continue to NOT get the estimated snowfall prediction.

While I'm not happy seeing my poor Daffodils freeze and wither before thier time, this late blanket of snow made an interesting backdrop for a couple pictures. (I'd have spent more time out there but froze my tootsies off :)). Anyway, I came up with this keeper which I think looks kinda neat.

[looks like I lost some definition in the compression :crap:]

[Bugman]

Marni, absolutely beautiful. :bow:

I saw on the weather that you got dumped on. We may get close to freezing tonight.

[shutterbug]

Thanks Clyde! Looks like we scooted by without any big accumulation. That's one of the nice things about being close to downtown... the couple extra degrees warmth keeps some of the snow away. :) All we got was about 1" of Slurpie consistancy accumulation on the grass, decks, roofs but hardly any on the cement. Guess we lucked out! Daffodils weren't so lucky, but maybe the 50+ weather today will help.

[Bugman]

Here are a couple of pictures of spring wild flowers in South Carolina. We visited a waterfall about 45 minutes from home and I spotted these along the trail.

[Hamilton]

Heres my latest shot (and best i can do) of my orchid cactus in bloom
this spring. I have a hard time getting everything in focus so heres the
best i can get out of my camera without a stand and lenses. This flower
is bigger then my hand , fingers extended.

[Raymond S]

My youngest graduated from high school Friday night (with Honors), and I thought I would show a few pics from after the ceremony and dinner.

[Raymond S]

This one is for Rob Z. Fried shrimp and stuffed potato. Come on down and get some.

[opiethetileman]

Raymond you think u so damn funny on showin us real food. You bum. Wish your daughter well. And Jack how did you get the handle bucket abuser is there a state staute for abuse or hot line 1 800 bck tkllr

[Hamilton]

Dan when you were gone last week i got slapped around a bit for confessing
my lack of love for buckets. I guess i got handed what i deserved lol! :D
Raymond do you have twins? 2 of those girls really look alike

[John Bridge]

She is gorgeous, Raymond. Of course you know that. :)

My twin boys will graduate this month. Don't know how honorable it'll be, but they made it. :D

[Raymond S]

Thank you John, we are very, very proud. She will be attending college this fall on a softball/academic scholarship. She just has to weigh all the offers and decide where she wants to go.

Jack, not twins, 19 months apart, but even they get confused when looking at their own pictures.

[Hamilton]

I just thought you all might like to see my new hat. A very affectionate
JB forum user mailed this to me. While i am in no way officially affiliated
with Felker/Target i am indeed a religious user of their tilesaws. As well
i would like to remind folks of our disclaimer (http://www.johnbridge.com/vbulletin/faq.php?).
Please keep in mind that i am a trained professional. Do not attempt this
at home. ;)

Happy Holidays everyone. Remember if youre gonne enjoy the new year the way we are, stay home.
Dont Drink and Drive. :)

[Bill Vincent]

I showed my wife those pics an' she says I can't play wif you no mauh!! :eek:

[opiethetileman]

Jack I think I can trump ya with cigars in my mouth.

[doitright]

Hi Jack :jack:

My wife said she doesn't find the same things as humorous as I do either. She just said goofy! I said yep, and continued laughing. :lol1:

Hi Dan :)

Bring it on! Put cigars where your mouth is! :yeah:

[Hamilton]

Dan all i gotta say is Bring it Bro :tup1:


Simulpost :o

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Yeah, Dan....we've been waiting since last year. :stick:

[muskymike]

Good one Jack!! :tup1: :lol1: :jack: :bow: :clap1:

[Marge]

Opie,

Monica Lewinsky might be a little "stiff" competition for ya.......

Did I just say that??? :x:

[Tool Guy - Kg]

:eek:





Marge, this is a family site!!! :D

[Marge]

Sorry, my bad...

OK, not sorry. :lol1:

Happy New Year all!!!

[Hamilton]

It was a mouthful :lol1:

[Bill Vincent]

Or in Monica's case, a DRESS ful! :eek:

[opiethetileman]

Ok fine just fer you Marge I will put on my thong and get some stoogie togther. do you like a yellow thong or the lacy pink one. :whip:

[Hamilton]

Still waitin for pics Danny :drevil: Cmon dude, you can doit :tup2: Hell
i make a complete ass out of myself im sure you can too :D

[muskymike]

Don't think I wanna to see that Jack. :shake:

[Bill Vincent]

Still waitin for pics Danny Cmon dude, you can doit Hell
i make a complete ass out of myself im sure you can too

That's okay-- the mental picture was bad enough!! :eek:

[opiethetileman]

Maybe my new borad outfit. jack I am getting to old to make a arse of myself theese days

[GraniteGirl]

You really do not have one like this, do you? Does it come in hot pink with a fur trim too? :jack:

http://www.jaunted.com/files/3/borat_cannes_2.jpg

[Hamilton]

jack I am getting to old to make a arse of myself theese days
Huh, i guess i should do a reality check because youre younger than me.
Please dont tell me its time to grow up either, im not done having fun yet :yeah:

[Mike2]

Nah Adriana. Doesn't look like it has fur trim. :lol1:

[GraniteGirl]

AAAAAARRRRRGGGG!!!!!

Now my eyes hurt! :bonk:

The fur trim would have been the saving grace

[muskymike]

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :rofl: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[Tool Guy - Kg]

Oh, boy. There goes the neighborhood. :rolleyes:

[opiethetileman]

Ok Well thats it now I am goona get one and post it live. My wife just came in she said I was looking at porn again till she saw the screen. Yo Jack i be older than you I do belive.HEy I might come to coverings packin that suit next year and model it at daves party

[Hamilton]

Dan youre way too sexy for that bannana hammock :tup1: :moon: :whip:

[dgunnels]

It burns, it burns.

[Marge]

Jack, I hate to admit this, but that new hat of yours is mighty balancing, aesthetically speaking, obviously not mentally. Now, have you considered a matching thong of your own? :rofl:

[Hamilton]

I dont wear thongs. Pretty sure danny dont neither. Mikey likes to see
people innem so with what you done brought to mind dont be so surprized
iffen i appear here in a pic even the poparazzi couldnt snag :jack:

[JTG]

If your memory is not to short. Remember when Mikey got me?
JTG

[Jerry L A Tile]

Too bad there's not one of those smileys that looks like he's throwing up or I'd use him. :eek: :yeah:

[Trask]

Dear God....why do all of our attemps to make cultured and artistic things eventually degenerate into fart toot butt hair jokes and wrongly framed thong pics...anyone else notice the real shutterbugs have left the room? And it's just us common folk swilling bad beer out of cans :jack: :yummy: :moon: :D


well here's the pants of another common man as they lay where they fell at the end of another day

[jjwq8]

In a hurry to get into his thong?:D

[Trask]

There could be that :lol2:

[John Bridge]

Jerry, how did Mike ever get you to pose for that shot?

;)

[dgunnels]

Isn't it obvious, he was detained by the lovlies just long enough for a photo op.

[flatfloor]

Will this do? http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/wuerg/vomit-smiley-011.gif

[dgunnels]

EEEWWWwwwww.

[JTG]

Cold wet windy day. What better way to spend the afternoon than at JB's favorite Ale House, The Pacific Inn?
Shaughnn and Jerry The Tile Guy chowing down.
:tup1:
JTG

[opiethetileman]

or is that tile mastic boy 1 and 2. lol good pic jerry unlce opie has sent ya a package.

[John Bridge]

You guys really know how to hurt a guy, and Patti's not happy about it either. :(
Even looks like you might have a Mack 'n Jack in front of you there. Just get all that crappy weather cleared up before we get up there in June. :)

[dcousins]

i thought this was the weirdest picture and I didn't see it posted. Sorry in advance. :wtf:

http://img214.echo.cx/img214/7823/komischhostedbydrawapigd3fm.jpg

[lou432]

Looks to me like some SERIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Inbreeding.
Thats gota be some sort of weird artwork????

NOPE!!!! It`s Aliens!!!!!!!!!!!

[JTG]

John
You can tell your Patti to just look at the picture and drool. It is all empty calories until she gets back up here and has to eat in person and not think about how good it was by looking at the picture of Shaughnn and I enjoying those fish&chips. :yeah:
JTG

[Hamilton]

Looks like a good time guys :tup1: