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Dana Lynn Loesch, aka Dana Loesch, is a talk radio host and spokesperson for the National Rifle Association.
This caricature of Dana Loesch was adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Gage Skidmores's Flickr photostream.
5/3/2013 - HOUSTON - Texas Governor Rick Perry is introduced at the 2013 NRA Leadership Forum with a video displaying his marksmanship before speaking to the audience and reaffirming Texas' commitment to promoting freedom, personal responsibility and the Constitution, including the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
for more information: governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/18457/
Tribulus terrestris lies in the foreground. This weed is a notorious bicycle tire popper.
"Like many weedy species, this plant has many common names, including bindii, bullhead, burra gokharu, caltrop, cat's head, devil's eyelashes, devil's thorn, devil's weed, goathead, puncturevine, and tackweed."
--via Wikipedia
My "shaved" Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens was set at minimum focusing distance and f/22 to keep most of the foreground in the DOF (or near it).
Cropped.
Ruger, K10/22-TBBZ is Maria's new baby. Fancy 20" bull barrel and all, the jury is still out weather this shoots any better than her regular, barrel banded, stainless 10/22. We've tried Federal, Remington (Golden bullet), Winchester (target), Eley (target and club), Wolf (match), CCI (sv). CCI SV turned in the best 10 shot group at 100 yards of 2 inches. This is only a little better, if at all, than our other (cheaper) 10/22's with cheaper ammo. Only been out with it 3 times so we'll keep trying. O and I wrote to Ruger and they responded "The accuracy of this model is 1" at 50 yards. Has the firearm been cleaned? Are you using open sights or scope?" Well, if we had known it would only shoot 2 MOA we would have probably have bought something else. Also they ask questions in the response and you can not respond to the email as in "Please note: This e-mail is sent from a notification-only address that cannot accept incoming e-mail. Please do not reply to this message." And Finally the moron who wrote this asks the question "Are you using open sights or scope?"..... the rifle DOESN'T COME WITH OPEN SIGHTS. I ain't to happy about this.....
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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.
As you can see, 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.
In the previous image in my photostream, you'll see what a difference some post-processing can make with a poor image.
Not too noisy!
$25 eBay lens, diaphragm stuck wide open.
Check out the next image in my photostream for an unstacked, noisy version of this starfield.
Nikon D600 DSLR on tripod
Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 manual focus F-mount lens, set to infinity stop and shot wide open.
ISO 12,800 and 2 second exposure to minimize star trailing while capturing some fainter stars.
I shot 31 "light" frames, and a forgotten number of "dark" frames, all stacked together with Deep Sky Stacker to hide hot pixels and reduce quantum noise.
Shot in Big Valley, California, on a concrete slab next to our largest hot tub. Big Valley has dark skies, and plays host to the Golden State Star Party (GSSP) each year, about three miles from our Ranch.
Deep Sky Stacker:
deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html
Golden State Star Party: