The Coffee House

[SquarePeg37 8]

pretty sure I'm a 3

 

[limr31]

pretty sure I'm a 3

I started the day an 8, moved into a 5 in the afternoon, and am currently a 9.

 

[vintagesnaps]

I wanna know what's going on with #4?! I'm gonna wonder if anyone says that's the kind of day they had at work.

I'd be fine if Frank wanted to ask to have sports blocked besides hockey because, ya know, there is no sport but hockey.

 

[Frank F.]

Yesterday I went to the Botanical Gardens of the Bonn University to catch some fall colors with my Sinar, Schneider APO Digitar N°48 and the D850 as a Digital back.

I am absolutely stunned and blown away by the image quality the D850 has to offer. I shoot a whole tree and still get a macro like resolution of single leafs!

My only enemy yesterday was wind and subject movement in general, so I had to overshoot significantly and it is a PITA to sort through and throw out the shots destroyed by subject movement.

Yes, most of the shots are "good enogh" for most purposes, but my idea is to make them work as a whole AND as a 100% crop which means a lot more work, concentration, energy and time.

right click the image "view image" and zoom to 100% ... and think that this is significatly downscaled

 

[davidharmier60]

Hi ho hi ho it's off to work Dave goes.
No DSLR will be bought this week or next week or the week after.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

 

[Frank F.]

Hi ho hi ho it's off to work Dave goes.
No DSLR will be bought this week or next week or the week after.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk

First work. Then save. Then buy

 

[waday]

@SquarePeg, what's the theme this week? I'm excited!

 

[smoke665]

Avocado Ice Cream

Sorry, but I abhor Avocado anything. Guess it's one of those quirky individual things.

 

[Frank F.]

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Mary Lou just surprised Gary with this book. Who wants a Lime Sorbet ... Tropical Margarita Sorbet ... Walnut Ice Cream with Pomegranate... Avocado Ice Cream ... ?

Is it your birthday???

 

[Frank F.]

Sorry, Gary. George Springer is a fellow UConn alum and from CT. Gotta root for him. (I even might have clapped politely when he hit a dinger against the Sox the last time I was at Fenway...)

Springer played at UConn? I thought UConn only had female basketball ...

Hah! So sure...we have a few of those...the men's basketball team also has 4 banners of their own in Gampel Pavilion.

UConn usually fields pretty decent baseball teams, for a Northeast school anyways, and their hockey team has been competitive in Hockey East for the last few years. Field hockey and soccer have also won national championships in the last few years.

Not bad for a college campus that is literally in the middle of nowhere in CT. We can't ply recruits with warm weather and beaches and bikinis like some locales...

... you can almost reach out and touch the Hollywood sign from the USC campus, which is literally a Rose Garden away from the world's best known and revered sports venue, The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of two Olympic Summer Games and home to the Trojans.

For home games, the USC band, (the Spirit of Troy and the only college band which has played on a rock album, Fleetwood Mac's 'Tusk'), has a pregame concert on campus. After the concert the bands marches in formation through the Rose Garden to the Coliseum with SC's mascot (Traveler) leading the formation. A lot of pageantry for home games.

supershots. esp the first. Concert hall???

 

[Frank F.]

You don't know what happens on your favourite site???

You lost me Frank??????????????

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As if we didn't have enough to deal with. Adobe sends out a continuous stream of updates, now a new threat has popped up using that constant barrage to sucker you into clicking on it. A new cyberattack is causing mass disruption in Russia and Europe mainly confined to Russia, but the news this morning that it was being reported here as well.
The article stated "Pornhub" was attacked ... Gary's favorite site. There was a quiz at the bottom. Gary passed with:
"Your Score: 97%
History PhD!
Your skill in identifying famous historical figures is unmatched, and you probably have a PhD! Good job!"
While Gary may deserve a History PhD ... he most likely got a 'Dunce' virus from his random click.

What ist Pornhob?

Porn is obviously the abbreviation of Po-pc-orn, right?

So it has to do with Cinema and the movies?
Gary doesn't know for sure ... but he suspects it is a pornographic site filled with photos and videos of naked people.
You don't know what happens on your favourite site???

 

[SquarePeg37 8]

@SquarePeg, what's the theme this week? I'm excited!

Something to do with portraits but I haven’t narrowed it down yet. Feel free to PM any suggestions for challenges.

 

[Gary A.]

Avocado Ice Cream

Sorry, but I abhor Avocado anything. Guess it's one of those quirky individual things.

Good to know. Mental note to Gary, Don't send smoke any of your hand tended, creamy, mouthwatering avocados whence they ripen.

 

[Gary A.]

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Mary Lou just surprised Gary with this book. Who wants a Lime Sorbet ... Tropical Margarita Sorbet ... Walnut Ice Cream with Pomegranate... Avocado Ice Cream ... ?

Is it your birthday???

Nope, hence the surprise.

 

[jcdeboever]

@limr

My wifes the 4 and I am the 3