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El Diablo

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  1. Livestock shows today are not what I remember from when I was in school.
  2. Finished Rhino Ranch and started Texasville. Much better reader. The tenor of both Rhino and this one are a good bit different from Last Picture Show, imo. They're good books but a bit more silliness.
  3. Had to scroll back up but yep, it does. Pretty cool shots, all of them. I really like the perspective in the rusty truck shot.
  4. I've got a planted tank, where's MY chix??
  5. Hope you like tobacco and tobacco farms. j/k I spent 5 years in a little town 30 minutes north of Durham and loved it.
  6. That rectumfrying antenna sounds hot.
  7. Conversation from Monday, long discussion on copyrights. The TL;DR - without registration you may as well pack sand if someone else uses your image.
  8. Great shots Swayze. That Mulke/Godzilla shot needs to show up on the bball forum at some point.
  9. An unfortunate confluence of puberty and the debut of "Charlie's Angels".
  10. I've been doing the audio books and started McMurtry's Rhino Ranch this week and goddammit the reader sucks ass, I can barely stand to listen to the fuckstick. I may have to bail on this one even though I like the storyline. Furk.
  11. Are either one of the posters in the thread title still around?
  12. Finished "Leaving Cheyenne" last night. Really liked it, probably my favorite McMurtry novel now though by the end I tired of his writing style. I think it's the 3rd one I've read this summer and it began to wear on me. Great story teller though and if you're from Texas and know farm and/or ranch folks it's easy to settle into. 5 stars, Joe Bob Diablo says check it out. Not a Texas book but since he ended up dying in Austin I'll throw in my recent Michener read here too... "Tales of The South Pacific". I started it once 15 or so years ago but had never finished it for whatever reason. Made it all the way thru this time and a lot of the descriptions of the islands reminded me of my time in the Navy and hitting ports in the Pacific tropics. Good times, no war.
  13. Nice with the shot between the box cars. @DougO we had some interesting clouds up my way this morning to the east as the sun was coming up. Kind of interested to see what sort of weather comes with them today. The conversations with Cornicello featured a DFW photographer yesterday, JB Sallee. Worth a watch imo.
  14. Spent several months just offshore of Beirut in the 80's ferrying supplies into the port. Place was wrecked then and smelled of raw sewage.
  15. Pretty sure there are buckouts on the weekends somewhere around Belton. I'd check them out around here if I could, I think they'd make for great photo ops. They're well suited for B&W, I think because it's such a throwback activity.
  16. Horse shows are done again for a good while, last one was this weekend. It was the Texas Senior Pro Rodeo circuit event. No bareback or bull riding, just roping and barrels. They had it in the shitty show pavilion and I got frustrated and went nuts with the ISO. Also the lighting has a cast and the color is horribad so I saved them all as B&W to try and hide some of the shittiness. Some of the pictures probably wouldn't be too bad if not for it being indoors. Cowgirl making money the hard way.
  17. Holy shit, this guy takes his editing to 10. No really, 10 channels. @Patricio Swayze judging from the looks of some of your images you may find this interesting if you don't already know of it. This is the Cornicello conversation from yesterday. Mind. Blown.
  18. Yeah, I learned this long ago. I shoot in RAW now and once I get a chance to look thru what I've taken I'll use the Nikon NX-D software to create a lossless .jpg of the images I like and might want to mess with. I then take those into a folder and further convert them using IVIEW64 into a file size that works for whatever like uploading on here. But I still have the large Nikon file to work from plus the RAW files. I'm not shooting anything that has any real value so if I do fuck up and delete or write over something it's no big loss but I do try to practice as though they're worth something. I'll keep in mind what you said about saving works in progress. I'm just now starting to explore actual editing/image manipulation and I'm still finding layers a bit of a challenge to understand and navigate. All takes time and effort.
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