Recent content by Clovishound

When your kids leave their Legos laying around for you to step on barefooted.

Another day at Magnolia. It was supposed to be a high in the 80s. They lied. Humidity was through the roof. I gave up trying to see through fogged up glasses about 10:30 and was packing up when I noticed the hood on my 180-600 was gone. I retraced my steps, all 2 miles, and found it about 100...

Alright, I've got to have a pulse. It's gotta be here somewhere. I know I'm not dead.

Congratulations.

Blame it on AI. Memory card prices have jumped considerably due to massive expansion of AI data centers. I'm sure it's affecting everything in the computer industry.

I'm currently using an HP 27mq. I believe it is 2560x1440. It's not the biggest out there, but seems to be adequate size wise for me. It beats the heck out of the laptop monitor, and allows more leeway in adjustment of color, tint etc. I've had it for a couple years now, and am very satisfied...

Despite a few upgrades, it was still an old school transport when they retired them. I retired when they started sending them to the boneyard rather than cross-train to the C-17 to get a few more years in.

That's a little bigger than the TF-33s on the C-141 I used to fly on as a loadmaster. Of course, we had 4 engines.

If you have the camera in manual focus mode, it will not autofocus regardless of whether you have the lens switch set to M/A or not. If you have the camera set to an autofocus mode, and the lens switched to M, it will not autofocus. The When in autofocus mode, the camera will autofocus when you...

The latest update to Lightroom has a generative expand feature now available. I believe it is something that has been available in PS for a while. I tried it out on this image I took in the backyard wildflower plot. I couldn't react fast enough to recompose when the incoming threat showed up. I...

Around here, they don't ripen until later in the fall. :rolleyes:

I put all my edited images on at least two separate portable hard drives. I'm not particularly a fan of hosting sites. I suppose they have their uses, but there are definite down sides.

Full disclosure, there were a ton I took that I wouldn't want anyone to see.

This is an image I took in my backyard wildflower plot earlier this year. I used my 180-600 handheld. It only has a limited amount of magnification, but does the job on larger insects, especially if you don't mind a little more environment than you normally get with a dedicated macro lens. Of...