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Re: Downtown Murals

oldmanlincoln — Mon, 03 May 2010 07:18:24 -0000

what a neat thing this is. the post is really interesting. murals used to be done here too in black and white.now some are done in color and are lifelike.

Re: The World Belongs To Them Too

oldmanlincoln — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:14:05 -0000

I think they are really neat birds. All birds do the same thing but in smaller number there is less mess.

Re: Persimmons

oldmanlincoln — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:37:16 -0000

I was like that for a long time and then just set the camera to take RAW as well as JPEG and now it take both at the same shutter click and I review the JPEGs and if I find one I like then I open it in RAW.

There are several others here who have gone to RAW after I posted several of my pictures and mentioned it was shot in RAW.

Abe

Abraham Lincoln
Brookville Daily Photo

Re: Persimmons

oldmanlincoln — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:50:57 -0000

I never have much luck with my dwarf Jonathan Apple Tree but this year it is loaded and I noticed one branch is almost touching the ground with fruit. I should prop it up but the fruit is never good enough to eat. It is like something is missing, namely the sugar, I think. Your photo is much better looking than anything I could take of our tree.

It is hard to get the details to come out in the light and dark photos. I can do it if i shoot in RAW or if I use Photoshop to get the details back. But it is hard to just set the camera and take the picture unless I set the camera one notch darker. That keeps the light areas with their details and the dark areas are just a bit darker.

Re: Barn Spider -- Part 1

oldmanlincoln — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:28:13 -0000

I have not had much luck finding spiders this year. I look almost every day. I do see webs of all kinds but never see the spiders. These are nice photographs, Marvin.

Re: Antlion (Glenurus gratus)

oldmanlincoln — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:19:06 -0000

I have had some dragonflies that look similar but not the same.

Nice photography.

I set for several hours the past couple of days taking photos of baby chipmunks peeking out at me. They are not babies but in diapers.

Re: "Cow Killer" Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis)

oldmanlincoln — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:29:41 -0000

I don't think I had ever seen this one, Marvin. Nice macro.

I worked a long time the other day trying to get a nice macro of a Progressive Bee fly. I got some that are OK but not thrillers.

I have been dealing with rheumatoid arthritis in my hands. The chemotherapy drug doesn't stop the pain so my typing is limited.

Re: Tomato Hornworm -- Not!

oldmanlincoln — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:19:28 -0000

I remember these. We used to pick them off tobacco when I was growing up. Sometimes farmers would offer a quarter to some kid if they would bite one into two pieces. I never saw any takers.

Re: Yellow Passionflower (Passiflora lutea)

oldmanlincoln — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:02:00 -0000

I have never seen this one in real life. It doesn't even look pretty.

Abraham Lincoln
—Brookville Daily Photo

Re: Searcy County Courthouse

oldmanlincoln — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:17:11 -0000

I think, Marvin, that this is the case in most counties around here except that the court houses are old and had enough money to keep up with the times. Thanks for the reply.

Abraham Lincoln
Brookville Daily Photo

Re: Searcy County Courthouse

oldmanlincoln — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:19:51 -0000

That could be a project you, and friends take on, making it beautiful. But the courthouse is not in an ideal location so it would have to be moved so benches, trees, sidewalks (it has no sidewalks) could be added. Maybe the powers that be think if they make it ugly enough the citizens will dig into their pocket books and finance a new court house.