Was a good week for photography here, as I had a day off part way through the week. Didn’t find much new in terms of location, but I did manage to find a decent spot to get the mountains.
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Ever so often, we have some cats who become our guests for a few days and then disappear, never to be seen again. Here is a tabby, whom we christened Puma. We adopted him for almost a month. Then he vanished. Haven’t seen him again. With so many street dogs around, we are left fearing the worst. We miss him dearly
The strays in the neighborhood
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Be water, my friend…
Before anyone asks:
Yes, it’s water. Waves meeting at right angles on the lake shore.
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So, the Viltrox 9mm landed today, used it to shoot a pic of the trackball I got a little while ago (Elecom HUGE). Banana for scale. This thing (the lens) can get ridiculously close.
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I like most nr 2, 6 and 14 
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Nice image, but it was not the photography that caught my eye so much as the subject.
Wow - this thing is enormous link
I’ve had an MX ERGO S by Logitech for some 3 years and have been very happy with it. I find using my thumb on the ball, index finger on left button, middle finger on scroll wheel and ring finger on right button works well. There’s also a sensitivity toggle button with activation LED right next to the ball allowing for easy switching.
All this sounds like a paid promotion, but I am genuinely just enthusiastic about this device. In my experience, the logitech ball is plenty big enough, despite digs by Elecom. My only gripe is I have a fairly large hand so am wondering about the HUGE.
Which brings me to my question: Is the Elecom, using the fingers for the ball as intuitive as the logitech? Have you (or anyone here) used both?
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The climate here has been pushing the onset of winter later and later. This year, the majority of trees have yet to turn color, but winter decided last weekend that it would be a good idea to stick its nose into things.
A spot where most of the trees actually have turned color…
Meanwhile, some dude thought it was a good plan to go out surfing solo as dusk settled in. No idea how the sailboat got there.
Anyone who thinks that these photos don’t have a consistent color palette is 100% correct!
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I also use an MX Ergo and am interested about the usability of a trackball with the other fingers. With the thumb it’s pretty great and I am very agile and precise with it, but I heard that using your other fingers can make it even more precise. I’ve spent my fair share of time around game controllers, so the thumb control is not too far away from using a joystick, it was a pretty fast adaptation coming from a regular ol’ mouse, and nowadays I can’t fathom why we stopped using trackballs, they are just so much better at everything except FPS which require flicks and other high speed manoeuvres.
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I can’t compare the two, really, as I’ve never extensively used a thumb ball, just mice or trackballs with thumb buttons and scroll wheels. Supposedly, using your thumb in the wide range of motion that way might cause more strain, but I suppose that in reality there’s a lot of “it depends” involved.
A finger ball (again, supposedly) gives you a bit more precision, both because of the way you use your hand with it, and because that ball is bigger, in some cases by a lot.
I think both finger and thumb balls will take some getting used to, but either is fine. I opted to go the finger ball route and it works for me.
Before this big beast I have used a 30 euro ProtoArc for about a year and a half, and decades ago I had a trackball that was closer to the square base of a Kensington, so I knew what I was getting into.
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Somehow I keep seeing an astronomical object, maybe a galaxy such as NGC 5128 (Centaurus A) due to the round-ish shape and “dark lane”: Poster: The Centaurus A Radio Galaxy | ESO
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Experimenting with my ring flash again. The subject is a (broken) hybrid detector from a high-tech Leica research microscope. Mostly the cooling fins.
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Went out with the 9mm today. Cold and gray, still had fun. Ended up in a church, of all places.
More pics with blatherings in Dutch on my blog.
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I really enjoy the look, and looking at, the image of the solitary tree. Great shot.
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Doom scrolling socials during U.S. hours before coming here and doing a double take on this line.
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Yeah, I’m gonna take the thing to office next Monday, just to say “I’m bringing my 9mm to work”. Almost having as much fun with the number as with the shooting. 
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