Worked with this young lady over the weekend. She's very funny, but I feel like she conjured her inner Lauren Bacall on this one!
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Worked with this young lady over the weekend. She's very funny, but I feel like she conjured her inner Lauren Bacall on this one!
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I've been going through old work lately. This is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I call it "Yosemite after the Storm"
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I’ve often thought about taking photos and making a catalog of unique trees that have crossed my path.
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that would be a fun project boss. Trees have their own vibe!
If that tree could talk, I bet it would have some stories to tell.Quote:
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Headed to Mobile tonight. Will have nothing to do for much of the day, so I may take my camera and tool around. It's a) not a good camera for regular photography, and b) I'm not a good photographer. But maybe there will be some things of interest.
Then again, I may stay on campus and just not see anything. But Mobile has some neat tree-lined streets and such. Been awhile since I've been down them, but they were pretty, best I recall.
Guys, if you want, I'll post some cell phone pics later. I arrived in Mobile Friday night, took out my camera to charge the battery, and the battery wouldn't take a charge. Light lit up red like it was charging, then blinked red after about 5-10 seconds. I left it there for a couple of hours, put it in the camera, and it had not charged (it still had one of 3 "bars" of charge, so it powers on, but it wasn't going to last long). I tried it the next morning, same result. "Googled" it and it said that the battery was bad--it has been about six months since i used it and the camera and battery are years-old, so I'm not shocked. I ordered a battery from Amazon--it's not an OEM, but it's an "Amazon's choice," so hopefully it will be ok, despite the inexpensive price, and will have it for next week.
Anyway, I took photos of my old middle school, my dilapidated old house in a neighborhood that is now scary to visit, and a beautiful, gorgeous, Spring Hill College campus, with magnificent old trees bent all kind of directions, marble statues throughout the grounds, the "Avenue of Oaks" that lines the soccer field (where my son was for 7 hours yesterday), St. Joseph Chapel, the Solidarity Chapel, the golf course on campus, and more. I don't remember if I ever have visited Spring Hill before yesterday, but I don't remember it.
Some of the oaks on the "Library Field" soccer side of the street.
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Trees were bent and curved all over campus. I don't know why. Hurricane Camille? Something else?
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The tree above was behind the soccer field, and this one is the back entrance to the soccer field. It was so low I wasn't sure my SUV would go under it.
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This is the walkway to the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, with a statue of the Virgin Mary looking out from a small cave. There were many "gifts" left there--a rosary, a cross, special intentions.
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Closer pics....
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Solidarity Chapel, built in 1850, located across from the Outlaw Recreation Center. Small school, the Spring Hill College women's basketball team was hosting Kentucky State women yesterday while I was there. Spring Hill won, 79-62. I saw part of the game from above the court, but didn't go in (hey, admission was $5!).
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Statues galore throughout campus.
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Statue of the Sacred Heart
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St. Aloysius Gonzaga
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Spring Hill College Jesuit Cemetery
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Rites of Passage Statue. I approached it from the side first, and just saw a naked woman statue first, then discovered it was man and woman on opposite sides through an arch.
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This is actually where Spring Hill College plays soccer. They are D2, ranked # 10 in the nation last year by one of the ranking services, and set a record for their all-time most wins. They call it Library Field--that building is not the library, but I guess it has a "library-look" to it. The small bleachers on the left is where the fans attend. The school has an enrollment of only about 1,400, so it's not a large facility.
This view is from the street, underneath the Oaks.
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This is the street adjacent to Library Field, Avenue of the Oaks. You can see why it is named thusly. (I am really sorry I didn't have my camera with me, although frankly, I take such poor photographs anyway I don't know that it would make a difference.)
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Entrance...I didn't get out of my car to take that, as evidenced by my side mirror in the way. Sigh.
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What a day it was. I'm a sucker for minor league baseball, and the Mobile Bay Bears, until they move, play here, at Hank Aaron Stadium. So of course, I had to get off the interstate to take a pic or two....
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great pics Darrell! I loved my time in Mobile. I could see myself going back at some point, but that's another thread. Hank Aaron Stadium was a lot of fun. Watched many games in there, inlcuding getting to see Roger Clemens in a rehab assignment against the Bay Bears. Lot's of good friends still live there too.
From a few months ago, taken with my phone in downtown Cincinnati.
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You guys are such liars. I know your phones are full of adult only selfies and pics of women you shot at the mall. ;)
Mine is full of furniture and household contents.
FWIW, I received my new camera battery in the mail yesterday. Dirt cheap, and for a few extra bucks it came with a battery charger that works in your house as well as your car.
So the first thing I did was try my old battery in it. Although my other charger wouldn't charge it, this one did. So now I have two. I'm glad I thought to change chargers, rather than just relying on what my Google searches told me.
One battery lasts a ridiculously long time, at least 400 photos, so I should be set now.
How are y'all getting them uploaded? I keep getting errors saying the file is too large.
What size is your photo?
There are 3 answers to your question, and it may depend on your answer to my question.
a) Your photo IS too large. The remedy for that is easy. Resize it. Here are instructions for a free and easy online resize thing that I have often used:
Go to www.picresize.com. You can follow the very easy online instructions there--it's a free online picture resizer (also allows limited cropping and such, too). Nice, easy and free.
Try something like 50% and it should work fine. Probably 25% would. NOTE--reducing the size of the photo 25% doesn't reduce the FILE size 25% -- it's usually MUCH greater than that. Something like 90%. Like, you can take a 500kb photo, set a 25% photo reduction, and it will produce a 50kb file. (Don't hold me to that math, but it's something crazy like that).
If your photo is something over 1MB, for example, it's too large.
b) If you ever want to do a "batch" of photos, let me know. I have a free resizing program that does them in batch mode. It works fantastic. I used to go to show choir competitions and take 200-300 photos. Then my daughter would want to see them online. Easy way to do it was to reduce the size with the batch program, then post them. I would keep the original copy, and save the resized photos to a "Reduced Size" photo file folder on my computer.
c) Sometimes the photos are not too large, but there's another "thing" that you're doing/not doing in posting. Somebody here figured it out once, and posted it. It wasn't me, and I don't remember what it was.
^Thanks Darrell--the photo is legitimately that big, so I'll try picresize.
Good, that fix is easy.
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So this is a pic I took in the most beautiful place I visited last year, and one of the most beautiful I've ever seen, Colmar, France, in the Alsace region. It's just a simple memorial to the WWII French resistance fighters in that area who gave their lives for their cause.
The plaque reads:
"To Our Martyrs Of Resistance 1940-1945
(Names of resistance martyrs)
This Plaque Was Inaugurated by General DeGaulle 1 August 1948"
I found it very touching that over 70 years after the end of the war, people still leave flowers at the memorial.
I'll post some other pics later.
Clemens vs the Bay Bears. That would have been one for the ages.Quote:
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Very cool, BEvans. And you're right, it is touching.Quote:
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Not my photo, and won't come out very well here, I'm sure--but had our preseason high school soccer meeting last night, and coincidentally, this morning the high school girls' soccer account posted this photo.
What I love about this is the commitment it shows. None of these girls will likely make any substantial money from soccer, although there may be a few that will get some college money from it. But all of them have the desire and commitment to be training this week before daybreak. Then they'll go to school. High school. They won state in 2012, 2014 and 2015, and were named national champions one of those years, but the last two years they have not won, and they are determined to fix that. Good luck to the girls (I don't have a daughter on that team, but still root for them. Go Eagles!)
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Go Eagles! I'm not a super soccer fan, but there are times it's fun to watch. I hope they do well.
In Vietnam right now, having fun in the chaos that is Saigon. This place is so vibrant and dynamic. It's photogenic in it's open strange crazy way. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6ecbf7c537.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d2822de7f9.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...a2ffe46aaa.jpg
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Vietnam seems amazing--and I like that you call it Saigon. I'd love to see a trip report/some photos when you get a chance.
S***, I'm still only in Saigon.
Everyone gets everything he wants.
Most South Vietnamese still call it Saigon for the most part. When I get back to the USA in a bit over a well I'll do a full report. Right now we are in the highlands of Vietnam in a small city that is the coffee and tea capitol of Vietnam. I've been going from caffeine buzz to caffeine buzz and I'm not even sensitive to caffeine! Here are a few more photos for anyone that cares.Quote:
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Some more photos from our day trip to Colmar, France last June:
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Love all of these pictures. Great thread idea.
Some awesome shots from everyone! Thanks for playing along!