Random thoughts and finds...

Is that one of the frozen waterfall playraw-s?

Sometimes the play raw images and showcase ones leave me singing ‘It’s a Wonderful world’ ; I spare a thought for those it isn’t

I made the mistake of telling the subject I poke people in the eye on the screen to get the M50 eye auto focus going

If you can work around its limitations it’s good value for money

Technical quality for value for money is not one of the strong points of the RX100 or at least the recent model

There are some advantages

a quiet mechanical leaf shutter

less imposing on the subject matter getting good relaxed spontaneous pictures

It’s good to be in the small format group; not many other options for one inch square

fast to use

forgiving high depth of field

I can at last join the dental discussion

I think the dentist has got one over me for giving me a 2:30 appointment for tooth ache:

tooth hurty

It’s a fairly long-standing joke between us

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No… it is the same location, but from a couple weeks back after it had thawed a bit.
Print came out complete… Not perfect, but I was very happy with it.


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me :point_up_2:

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Ouch :sob:

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How to make huge edits which nobody can oversee is described here:

:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :rofl:

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Shameless self-promotion :joy::joy: (joke)

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Random event of the day: I had to stop my dog from eating dirt today. Again. More proof that long ago dogs split from wolves in an evolutionary rupture known as the Great Hunter-Beggar Divide.

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Saw this in the news last week:

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Great photos. A part of me would’ve liked this to be filmed instead, especially for being such a rare event.

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Last observed four years ago:

It is amazing how people find a political framing for the story. Cf

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I’m teaching a friend’s five-year-old how to read the time, but I’m starting to lose patience…

“No! Look! It’s easy! The first hand is the hour hand, the second hand is the minute hand, and the third hand is the second hand!”

I mean… how is that even remotely confusing? :wink: :laughing:

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Somebody did a whole sketch on this. It just might have been an Irish comedian called Dave Allen? (1936-2005)

And you’re quite sure that it is not the minute hand that is the second hand?? – OK, then, it might in reality normally be the longest, but just for the sake of it … :wink:

But basically it is the same with right and left – it’s just so easy:
The right hand is where the thumb sits at left (-- while the right palm … )

Who uses analogue clocks anyway? :raised_hand:

Also (Taraxacum officinale - Wikipedia):

The common dandelion is well known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of many silver-tufted fruit that disperse in the wind. These balls are called “clocks” in both British and American English.

We have a few around the house, mostly to go with decor. Yes, we have a French Provincial water closet in the house, talk to My Wife about that… :crazy_face:

My statement about all that is to set my truck clock to display 24-hour time. So there. :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Well in Ontario Canada, if you want to renew your driver’s license and you’re over eighty, you have to prove that you can still see and prove you are still mentally competent by drawing an analogue clock indicating 9 minutes to 2 (or something like that). No second hand though.

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How can you do that, then, because the second hand is the minute hand! :wink:

What do you mean our hand?

That is an AI image!

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