Merry Christmas, everyone. Yesterday, I received a painting from Paladian, remember him? It was a while ago that I paid him to paint another painting of a picture that I took when I was attached to the 82nd Abn Bde at Ft Bragg, NC. This picture had part of one of my risers and part of my chute. In the back ground are 8 other paratroopers with their open chutes that jumped out after me. I cannot tell you how beautiful this painting is. He even managed to capture three wispy clouds.
Today I made a tremendous advancement in photography method.
I almost said methodology, but frankly, that seems like the study of method and not simply method and sounds pretentious besides, so I dropped it because an hour earlier I heard a woman say "mutualistic" where mutual will do, I wondered what is "istic" about it? Dictionaries don't even define it, they just describe where it came from. It sounds like "somewhat," so again, what about a mutual relationship is "somewhat" or "in appearance" when it's actually mutual? It sounded pretentious.
A tremendous advancement in method. For me.
You see, I don't have a surface the height of the sensor when the camera is mounted on a tripod so I stacked two folding campaign tables and it makes for a rickety stick pagoda. Disaster in waiting, glass, television, klutz on the scene, clutter around an area, etc. so I looked for something official photographically that will hold the cell phone at the height of the camera and you can imagine the contraptions with clamps to fits varying width poles on the tripod and clamps for varying size phones and apparatuses with arms that bend or crank and knobs to position just so.
Then I realized the camera strap is adjustable with one of these little things that pinches a loop on the strap to adjust the length. I can use the spacer to to adjust the strap loop to hold the telephone tightly and securely hanging there right on the camera.
Howz about that?
Huh?
Brillo pad, eh?
C'mon. It's genie ass.
No additional cost whatsoever. No unwieldy contraptions that don't fit, don't work, or breaks. I read the reviews. Everything sucks. Except my idea of cramming the camera into the camera's own strap's own loop that YOU made by adjusting it to length, that's not even anything. It's not even a thing. It's a side thing that goes with strap adjustment and has nothing whatever to do with phones and here I am hacking this bitch like a pro, you should see me, woot! Who'd have thought of using empty space, using nothing, using something that's note even there to advantage?
Merry Christmas you guys. I hope you get and have gotten all you want this year and in your life. Be well, be merry, but most of all, be grateful for the Lord was born for us to rejoice. Merry Christmas.
There is a huge full moon out, and in St Louis we have bulky clouds moving across it at a pretty good clip, with the moon and the city lights we don't have many stars, but beautiful weather.
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Merry Christmas, everyone. Yesterday, I received a painting from Paladian, remember him? It was a while ago that I paid him to paint another painting of a picture that I took when I was attached to the 82nd Abn Bde at Ft Bragg, NC. This picture had part of one of my risers and part of my chute. In the back ground are 8 other paratroopers with their open chutes that jumped out after me. I cannot tell you how beautiful this painting is. He even managed to capture three wispy clouds.
What a wonderful Christmas present.
Merry Christmas everyone. I'm not much is a comment these days, but I enjoy the blog and the comments. Best to you all.
That's good news AllenS.
Merry Christmas to all here at Lem's Laboratory. Allen S - great news. Say Hi-- we miss him.
Sounds beautiful, Allen.
Merry Christmas, all. You are the best!
If you out there Palladian, Merry Christmas! We miss you.
Merry Christmas Lemmites. I love you all, even Troop and Titus, who have never been seen together. You do the math.
Thanks for the tunes. We're all on our way out to church, and this was perfect music to motivate my valet.
Today I made a tremendous advancement in photography method.
I almost said methodology, but frankly, that seems like the study of method and not simply method and sounds pretentious besides, so I dropped it because an hour earlier I heard a woman say "mutualistic" where mutual will do, I wondered what is "istic" about it? Dictionaries don't even define it, they just describe where it came from. It sounds like "somewhat," so again, what about a mutual relationship is "somewhat" or "in appearance" when it's actually mutual? It sounded pretentious.
A tremendous advancement in method. For me.
You see, I don't have a surface the height of the sensor when the camera is mounted on a tripod so I stacked two folding campaign tables and it makes for a rickety stick pagoda. Disaster in waiting, glass, television, klutz on the scene, clutter around an area, etc. so I looked for something official photographically that will hold the cell phone at the height of the camera and you can imagine the contraptions with clamps to fits varying width poles on the tripod and clamps for varying size phones and apparatuses with arms that bend or crank and knobs to position just so.
Then I realized the camera strap is adjustable with one of these little things that pinches a loop on the strap to adjust the length. I can use the spacer to to adjust the strap loop to hold the telephone tightly and securely hanging there right on the camera.
Howz about that?
Huh?
Brillo pad, eh?
C'mon. It's genie ass.
No additional cost whatsoever. No unwieldy contraptions that don't fit, don't work, or breaks. I read the reviews. Everything sucks. Except my idea of cramming the camera into the camera's own strap's own loop that YOU made by adjusting it to length, that's not even anything. It's not even a thing. It's a side thing that goes with strap adjustment and has nothing whatever to do with phones and here I am hacking this bitch like a pro, you should see me, woot! Who'd have thought of using empty space, using nothing, using something that's note even there to advantage?
Certainly not the camera pros.
And now I can put the tables away.
Merry Christmas you guys. I hope you get and have gotten all you want this year and in your life. Be well, be merry, but most of all, be grateful for the Lord was born for us to rejoice. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas everyone.
There is a huge full moon out, and in St Louis we have bulky clouds moving across it at a pretty good clip, with the moon and the city lights we don't have many stars, but beautiful weather.
Peace.
Merry Christmas to all. Allen, thanks for that heartwarming story. Palladian is in my prayers.
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