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Scenes from the annual Snowplane festival in Tetonia, Idaho January 21, 2023. Snowplanes are vehicles that glide on the snow on a trio of skis, that move using propellers and engiens from planes or cars ; somewhere between a snowmobile and a plane.
Mounted a Simmons Prosport 4 x12 on Maria's EBR. Seems to work pretty well...... Maria fired this group at 100 yards using Wolf Performance 62 grain hollow points from the prone position.
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The spider (and it's shadow) in the enlarged inset image is also visible in the center of the larger image, if you look carefully.
This image came from my old Nikon D50 DSLR, with a low-end Nikon 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "G" lens mounted. The lens was at 300mm and wide open (f/5.6). I had the D50 at ISO800 under the cloudy sky to freeze squirrely motion. Exposure comp. was at +1 to get some detail in the shadows without blowing out the sky too much.
In the next image in my photostream, you can see that the as-shot image is terrible, with tons of chromatic aberration, too-dark shadows (despite a +1 exposure comp), soft details and quite a bit of noise.
Here you can see what a difference some post-processing can make with a poor image.
There is no built-in lens profile in Lightroom 5.4 for this lens, and I no longer own the lens. So the chromatic abberation correction settings were done manually, with a little vignetting reduction, too. I made no attempt to correct for other lens reality distortions. I wonder if a proper lens profile would have helped to further reduce the remaining chromatic aberration seen here. I maxed out the CA settings in Lightroom, including an eyedropper selection of the proper color ranges to confine the efforts to.
Enjoy your rights to bare arms.
Show your 2nd Amendment Support by reposting this or any other graphic announcing you are a proud gun owner.
The original "Wondernine". 18rd magazine from the factory.
I carried the old girl today because I was feeling nostalgic. That, and it was chilly so I could wear a windbreaker. Took this pic before she went back into the safe.
This is my favorite pistol. I always wanted one when I was a kid, so I came across a good deal 5 years or so ago and I bit.
The only downside is that parts are non-existant.
The Rifleman's Creed
"THIS IS MY RIFLE, THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE IS MINE. MY RIFLE IS MY BEST FRIEND. IT IS MY LIFE. I MUST MASTER IT AS I MASTER MY LIFE. WITHOUT ME IT IS USELESS, WITHOUT MY RIFLE I AM USELESS."
"I WILL FIRE MY RIFLE TRUE, I MUST SHOOT STRAIGHTER THAN MY ENEMY WHO IS TRYING TO KILL ME, I MUST SHOOT HIM BEFORE HE SHOOTS ME....I WILL. MY RIFLE AND MYSELF KNOW WHAT COUNTS IN WAR IS NOT THE ROUNDS WE FIRE, THE NOISE OF OUR BURST, NOR THE SMOKE WE MAKE. WE KNOW THAT IT IS HITS THAT COUNT. WE WILL HIT..."
"MY RIFLE IS EVEN AS I, BECAUSE IT IS MY LIFE. THUS I WILL LEARN IT AS A BROTHER, LEARN ITS WEAKNESSES, ITS STRENGTHS, ITS PARTS, ITS ACCESSORIES, ITS SIGHTS AND ITS BARREL. I WILL EVER GUARD IT AGAINST THE RAVAGES OF WEATHER AND DAMAGE. I WILL KEEP MY RIFLE CLEAN AND READY, EVEN AS I AM CLEAN AND READY. WE WILL BECOME PART OF EACH OTHER. WE WILL..."
"BEFORE GOD I SWEAR THIS CREED, MY RIFLE AND MYSELF ARE THE DEFENDERS OF MY COUNTRY, WE ARE THE MASTERS OF OUR ENEMY, WE ARE THE SAVIORS OF MY LIFE. SO BE IT, UNTIL THERE IS NO ENEMY BUT PEACE."
Sorry, I couldn't resist. Nothing screams 'battle rifle' like an M1.
This is a single-frame, unstacked image, taken with an inexpensive 10X "finite" microscope objective lens.
Depth of field is only about 11 microns, which is .00043 inches. Yikes. Stacked images made with this lens require the subject to be precisely moved between frames in increments of less than a half-thousandth of an inch!
The President's speech on the uniquely American tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School:
This afternoon, I spoke with Governor Malloy and FBI Director Mueller. I offered Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation, and made it clear he will have every single resource that he needs to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families.
We’ve endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would -- as a parent. And that was especially true today. I know there’s not a parent in America who doesn’t feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.
The majority of those who died today were children -- beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. They had their entire lives ahead of them -- birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own. Among the fallen were also teachers -- men and women who devoted their lives to helping our children fulfill their dreams.
So our hearts are broken today -- for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these little children, and for the families of the adults who were lost. Our hearts are broken for the parents of the survivors as well, for as blessed as they are to have their children home tonight, they know that their children’s innocence has been torn away from them too early, and there are no words that will ease their pain.
As a country, we have been through this too many times. Whether it’s an elementary school in Newtown, or a shopping mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin, or a movie theater in Aurora, or a street corner in Chicago -- these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our children. And we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.
This evening, Michelle and I will do what I know every parent in America will do, which is hug our children a little tighter and we’ll tell them that we love them, and we’ll remind each other how deeply we love one another. But there are families in Connecticut who cannot do that tonight. And they need all of us right now. In the hard days to come, that community needs us to be at our best as Americans. And I will do everything in my power as President to help.
Because while nothing can fill the space of a lost child or loved one, all of us can extend a hand to those in need -- to remind them that we are there for them, that we are praying for them, that the love they felt for those they lost endures not just in their memories but also in ours.
May God bless the memory of the victims and, in the words of Scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds.
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It is time to talk about firearms regulation.
By the way, the bumper sticker reads:
"I enjoy manipulating mechanical devices which propel small lead projectiles through space at high velocity"