The Coffee House

[snowbear141 72]

MLW is finishing up a chocolate chip layer cake from the Momofuku Milk Bar cook book. The cake is in a thin shhet and you use a hoop to cut circles (like a cookie cutter), then layer in other stuff. There are pieces of cake between the circles that are for "testing."

Testing with two "dipping sauces" prove to be wonderful: Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum and Kahlua.

 

[Gary A.]

It’s been so rainy today


Trust the Roxy Fisher-dog by Wade, on Flickr

Ranger Roxy.

 

[Frank F.]

My birch tree in the backyard. Gonna get a pruning in spring. It's a beautiful tree. I took this this morning on my Samsung S8+. 15" of snow out there. @limr would be thrilled
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I love birch trees, period. They're gorgeous in all seasons due to that unique bark.

We've a river clump birch just off the patio:

Put that tree in 7-1/2 years ago, when it became clear the big ol' wild cherry tree that used to be there wasn't long for the world.

I'm going to get a bark macro when the light's right.

(Please 'scuse the angle. Unconsciously aligned the view-finder on the left-hand trunk.)

We had an even bigger one, that was once beautiful, in the front yard. Verkakte power company contractors destroyed it If they'd only trimmed it minimally, properly, it would have been fine and no threat to the wires. Finally, when they came out to trash it some more we forced them to take it down to the ground.

As an aside: As I was taking shots of the tree above it occurred to me the sky and snow were probably wreaking havoc on the evaluative metering. So I went to spot metering, zoomed-in on the tree's trunk, did an AE lock, zoomed-out & recomposed, then took the shot.

And Happy Birthday, @SquarePeg !

Phantastic picture!

 

[davidharmier60]

I wish you all a good night and a pleasant tomorrow.

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[jcdeboever]

Happy birthday @SquarePeg

 

[Cortian]

Phantastic picture!

Thanks, Frank!

 

[Gary A.]

Gary has finally finished culling and processing a theatre performance. Because he shot both the Dress Rehearsal and an actual performance, he ended up with more than 3,000+ images and culled the final images to 600+ images. Tomorrow some batch processing dropping the file size to internet size and Gary is finished. Gary is celebrating with a glass of vino.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary loves the Olympics.

 

[davidharmier60]

I thought the ice dancing was pretty good.
That Red fellow did a real nice ski board thing to get the gold. I clocked out at 3.5 hours to have breakfast. Probably not going to clock back in today.

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[davidharmier60]

I was right. Watching Drag Racing from Pomona.

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[Cortian]

Things I learned this morning, in trying to improve on yesterday's river clump birch tree photo...

The AE Lock button does nothing in full manual. (Duh)

Always remember to check the ISO. (800 in bright sunlight is sub-optimal--particularly for the shadowed areas.)

When you leave the drive in 2s delay, shutter presses become "inexplicably" slow.

Something I read somewhere likened a modern DSLR to taking photos with a game console. That it takes practice (and many errors) for operating it quickly and smoothly, getting the settings right on-the-fly, to become second nature.

Could be challenging. I was never very good at video games

 

[Cortian]

Another lesson learned: Buy a camera bag much bigger than you think you'll need.

I bought one I thought would hold my camera, with lens & strap, two additional lenses, batteries, charger, couple cables. Maybe enough room left over for a speedlight.

Ha!

The trouble began when my best friend of fifty years gifted me a nice Canon 70-300mm lens that was bigger-around than the 100-300mm non-IS lens I had. Then I bought Tamron's newest incarnation of their 90mm macro lens.

It don't all fit. And I don't even have the speedlight yet.

Oops!

So it'll be back to the camera store today to see if they'll let me exchange it for the bigger bag. (Hope so. Durn things are spendy!)

 

[waday]

When you leave the drive in 2s delay, shutter presses become "inexplicably" slow.

Just wait until you leave it in 10-second delay set to take multiple consecutive pictures...

Not that it ever happened to me on multiple occasions or anything.

 

[terri58 1]

Happy Monday, hosers! The rain has stopped, it's beginning to clear out and WOW is it warm around here. It's making the buds start to pop on the trees, and the jonquil shoots are everywhere.

Ready or not (and I'm not particularly ready), Spring is knocking on the door.

 

[vintagesnaps]

We had an early blast of spring last year, way too early... then back into the deep freeze! We're better off if spring holds off for awhile (especially those of us with allergies etc.) - no more early spring/long summer/late late fall as in grass cutting still going on at Thanksgiving! Although I will take the sunny day today!