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[Animosity]: 172 Pose Pack- Pose 4 (head lifted)
[Animosity]: Upper Arm Tribal Tattoo
[Animosity] Mainstore: Teleport
On the website you find another new article about shooting with the Leica Q2 camera. "Leica Q2 - it is that good!"
I am not a fanboy of any brand. I use a camera as a tool in order to get the results that I want. And this camera is delivering exactly what I want. Here is a short article about this experience.
www.chris-r-photography.net/blog/2021/4/29/the-leica-q2-i...
The Edridge Road Community Health Centre in Croydon.
This image is for Richard RichardK2020 a Flickr friend who along with myself is a bit of a fanboy for Olympus gear. Quite some time ago he mentioned to me just how highly he rated the 45mm f1.2 Pro lens. I already had the 25mm Pro lens and I knew how good that was but to buy the 45mm, well, lets just say they do not come cheap. Well by hook and by crook I managed to acquire one about a month back. And Richard, you were right all along, it is superb. So this is the first image I've posted with the 45. There will be more, that I'm sure of.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Hey guys and guysettes! ☆⌒(≧▽° )
Today is the day I fell in love once again. This time it's not a fire-extinguisher but the cats from Maru-Kado and the new hair from Dura! It's a Beanie-hair that comes with a long hair version and a short her version. Each version has two different style options and of course a mirrored version is included as well! The beanie hat is color change with five different colors available. My oh my, someone's been busy! You can find this hair at the Man Cave Event. It is opening today, on the 17th of January. Brace yourself, dear Gentlelords and gentleladies, for a quite noticeable amount of lag and pure awesomeness.
Before we continue with the credits, I want to thank Chiaki-sensei for her amazingly hard work on this hair and for her continuous support. I'm amazed by how many options she included to this one and the level of detail but especially the overall style is stunning. Hit my aesthetic right on the spot! I can't even imagine how much time and work she put into this release. Thank you for your stunning work!
Also a biiiig thanks to Voice Zane for passing me their new release at Equal10! I was playing their gacha when they suddenly messaged me and passed me the fatpack! I'm touched by such generosity and kindness. I want to include their release in this picture and have the chance to say 'thank you!' - This backdrop is amazing!
Last but not least - this is looong overdue - I want to thank my Idol-sensei: U10-kun! You are a big inspiration to me. Thank you for always sharing your releases and work with me. I feel incredibly honored by your kindness! I'm a big fanboy of your work. These cats are SO ADORABLE!!!
I hope you enjoy this blog post and wish you a great start into this weekend! ♡ See you at the Man Cave event! (o´∀`o)
- Credits -
Eyes: Somnus - Rinnegan Eyes
Piercings: {-Maru Kado-} - Nostril
Hands: [ContraptioN] - L'Aiguilleur Prosthetic Arm @Fameshed
Band-aid: -[TWC]- - Bansoukou Smiley
Lollipop: -[TWC]- - Sweet lolli
Choker: -[TWC]- - Not a Saint -Neck-
Necklace 1: [Gild] - leather necklace
Nacklace 2: ::Gabriel:: - Juzu necklace
Jacket: //Ascend// - Defender Jacket
Pants: REPRESENT - Berzerk Cargo
Boots: Lapointe & BastChild - Swear Havoc Ops Boots @TMD
Decoration:
Cats: {-Maru Kado-} - Cat Gacha 2
Backdrop: [VOZ] - Chun Feng Lane - RARE @Equal10
Vending Machine: [VOZ] - Graffiti Vending Machine @Equal10
Aus aktuellem Anlaß zeige ich gleich nochmal einen Negativscan: Am vergangenen Wochenende wurde eine der neuen Skoda-Garnituren von einer altlackierten 232 durchs Naabtal überführt. Regelrecht wie Fanboys begleitete eine illustre Truppe von Eisenbahnfans diesen Zug über den Laufweg von Eger bis Regensburg. Ihnen sei diese Aufnahme von der 232 690 in Hiltersdorf gewidmet. :-)
Ferosh Summer Creative Issue 2018
PS. The issue is NSFW, and you may have to sign in to view it.
Please do,it is an amazing creative issue that explores the spectrum of love in SL.
Fans of military aviation all have their favorite units, and I openly confess to being a bit of a fanboy when it comes to the Search and Rescue unit at MCAS Unit. These marines and sailors are often the difference between life and death for military personnel, law enforcement, and civilians who get seriously injured in the unforgiving desert within a 150-mile radius of Yuma.
I treat it as an honor to be able to tell the story of any military unit and what they do, but I'm especially excited to have had the opportunity to write about Yuma SAR in the most recent issue of AirForces Monthly magazine: airforcesmonthly.keypublishing.com/the-magazine/view-issu...
I am a big fanboy of sea stacks. These isolated outcrops of vertical rocks speak to my lunacy. I can almost hear them wail a hymn to evade pain as their eroding resilience stands up to the ocean's constant and often violent hammering. Most have no face (some though do), but they all have stories. Some speak of the sunsets they have witnessed, while others narrate attrition imposed by rip tides of time. These sea stack tales float like mist in the salty sea breeze; if you care, you could easily pluck out a few for your soul.
I have photographed many sea stacks, some famous and others beautiful. There are many more sea stacks I would like to visit; some are far, some very far. But closer to home, in Bandon, Oregon, I had the privilege of meeting many sea stacks (above) that stood tall together, without a damn concern for the outcome of time.
Woah mamma this makes the EL fanboy in me come alive. While ending up here was by no means my plan, waking up late and decided to try for this shot ended up being the best decision I've made recently. I had been waiting here for roughly 2 hours after getting less than accurate info that the train either arrived already or was extremely close. Right as I started to walk to my car to figure out what I wanted to do, I heard the ever so familiar rattle of an EMD in the distance. Luck would have it that my pocket of sun was barely hanging on, so by the time I got back to my car I had a banger in my pocket.
CP 7016 leads an 8-114 (previously 2-230) through the curve on the approach to Lovekin with one of the nearby farms providing the backdrop. Far be it from me to fanboy over a corporation, but as both KCS and CPKC become more common up here I have to admit it's cool to see the original beaver shield logo still plying home rails.
Matteo loves watching The Voice!
Thanks to all for viewing, faving and/or commenting! Much appreciated! L
Happy Caturday!
Oisín and I turn into fanboys. This was taken after we opened for the Chieftains at Marymoor Park in Seattle.
Since the b&n fanboys seem to be out in force this evening making insane comments like how stripes and green and black junk look better than warbonnets, I figured it was time to dig one out of the archives and remind the young folks of how great the ATSF is.
ATSF 844 rolling up on the south end of Saginaw, TX with a mixed bag of intermodal and automotive business.
Sure looks better than any orange/black or piss brick yellow crap we have today. I'd chase a clean set of warbonnets from KC all the way to California.
Howdy! xD
Here's an alternative, more artsy angle of my MOC 'In the Fields of Lothal' from Star Wars Rebels. That thing blew up, and is like, my third most popular post. I always get a chuckle at what posts get the views; like when my '100 Followers!' post got on the explore page. -_-
Anywaaay, I felt like posting this pretty different shot. I try to keep my page free from clutter, so I may end up privatizing this later, bur here it is for the time being. I would also like to mention that in my original post, I said the white Loth-cat didn't appear until season 4. . .I was so freaking wrong. I even vaguely knew I was wrong as I typed it, I was just too lazy to check. It first appears in the season 2 episode (I can't remember the name, and guess what? I'm too lazy to check, lol) where Ryder Azadi first shows up. Well, I got that mistake off my fanboy conscience.
So, uh.. yeah. I don't know what I'm saying anymore. Leave a comment if you feel like it. Thanks for looking. :)
"Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you." Ephesians 4:32
"We are the willing, led by the unknowing, doing the impossible for the ungrateful, and have been doing so much with so little for so long that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."
McMaster University, Faculty of Engineering, Class of 2020.
I was an engineer once. I like that I can fix things however...
This is a little teaser for my next moc.
Credit to Alessandro for taking this epic picture at Bricking Bavaria!
This upcoming moc is one of the first builds featured in my Wrathnyr project. Drop a comment if you want to know more!
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A 40 minute walk to the site, and my main camera had no battery. In another bag!! The start of a tour and not the sort of problem I'm used to, but I had a back up and a couple of pocket cameras including the S7000 that I picked up for the price of a turkey. I work with a Pentax K3 for its weather proofing, robust build and compatibility with M39, M42 and PK - they just live for ever and go through storm and waterfall without the slightest problem. A small stumble and the Nikon was broken - perhaps it was intended for places with carpets and cushions? Pentax pocket cameras are not stronger.
For this shot, I exposed for the sky and then for the inside and patched the two by hand.
There is lots of anticipation and web news round two new flagship Pentax cameras: K3 iii for apsc and the K1 mark iii for full frame. I may stay with the K3 iii for price and the reason that with apsc there is a percentage of cropping from vintage lenses, and as I need to use a range of wide lenses, the exterior 'vintage' aberrations tend to be trimmed.
Recent Pentax news has often been forwarded by the staff that invent and design the cameras, and there has been criticism of them being under the par of the dynamic and cool Elon Musk and less sexy than ... whatever ('the public just wants to buy into an image' being an idea promoted by one Pentax critic). Personally I like to see the people who are working on inventing cameras. The new spec. and respected standards interest me. Pentax don't do much to publicise, so I'll say a word from my point of view.
Being able to dial the aperture to the EXIF when shooting in manual will be very useful when bracketing stacks or comps; improvements around the pentaprism are utterly thrilling and this will be strong territory for Pentax cameras when contrasted with other brands. The improvement in the video will also be greatly welcomed - myself included. Astro tracking and AI both adding potential answers for specific shots. Burst rates and focus points and cross phases don't concern me as I do everything in manual and only shoot vintage glass. By and large Pentax are regarded as having among the best landscape cameras available and the improvements in these areas will let many respond to more moments - landscape and then wildlife; studio shots with water and mist; street photography in rain, sport with drizzle, macro in dew, coast with spray, cars with splat... You still have to look after and clean a camera, but these are the go to extremes for an everyday top end Pentax. One thing that was mentioned by a Pentax Ricoh executive was that Pentax would not rush to beat every camera for details of spec: the most focus points, highest ISO and so on. I like this, knowing that their innovations (such as in-camera stabilisation), when they do come, are vastly useful and a spirit of quick competition may cut corners. We want solid Pentax cameras that keep up the good work of recent years - not failing rushed overkill. The executive then likened this business model to the car maker Alpha Romeo - 'you buy the car because it is a lifestyle, not because it is perfect'. Here I disagree. Alpha Romeo cars looked great - Pentax cameras look like cameras with big prisms, serious grips ... and buttons and hatches. They've had cool colours in the past, but ... so what. Alpha Romeo cars break down all the time and take in water; Pentax cameras are probably the toughest waterproof cameras on the market, and apart from some work around glitches in some models (A to M), they are very reliable. I like other cameras: Sony, Canon, Panasonic and I love vintage Nikkor glass, but I choose and need cameras from the K3 to K1 end of the Pentax range whilst still being amazed by the features of the K50. I would like all camera companies to survive and hope that more people will learn to go through life looking with the mind and eyes of a camera and not the mentality of a phone. A last point to make, is that when discussing Pentax, some commentators cruise around the subject with their windows down and their music in full blast and suffix their analysis with sly phrase like "everyone but the diehard Pentax fanboys". There is something slightly irrational about being a fan. Working with Pentax is a decision like any other.
And if I could recommend two things to the hard working researchers of Pentax it would be to trust your judgements about the camera market and mirrorless, and to sell the final cameras with a flush PKA to M42 adapter with a mini DVD film showing newcomers how to use it. The Pentax lens set is from Limited to M42, and from Takumar to Pentax M, and that is a real story for a modern and strong camera.
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Though there was no obvious connection in what I was doing, with what he had done. I guess I was an inept fanboy, not sure of what to do with what he was passing forward. But then 'Infrathin' allows for anything. It is all-forgiving. And why wouldn't infinity absorb everything? But, this was a lesson I hadn't learnt yet.
It was NYC in 1990. Marcel had been dead since 1968, but he was still always there. I was smitten. I liked his non-judgement, that not allowing 'taste' to intervene.
It was just as well, really.
Either way, I loved his 'Infrathin' and his (and Man Ray's) 'Dust Breeding'. I still do. Those two expressions alone were enough to generate 'Hope' through a life chaotically lived.
This was, and is, more than enough.
He was also Rrose Selavy, another miracle.
We all, apparently and eventually, get to choose the video it seems.
I have an exhibition opening in Dublin this evening, just 3 pieces in a group show. I will not be there, but I hope it goes well.
The titles of my three pieces are:
1: ‘The Sodomy Piece’,
2: ‘ Níl aon tinteán mar do thinteán féin,
3: ‘Is minic a bhris béal duine a shrón’
Translations, from the Gaelic, of numbers 2 and 3:
2: There's no fireside like your own fireside (An Irish version of 'There's no place like home').
3: It's often a man's mouth will break his nose.
I don't know why I even make these posts. All I do is say I watched something and then have a small paragraph about how I liked it and I like most movies I watch. (Except for TFA, but that's a different story.)
So, what I will say, is that this has inspired the Star Wars fanboy in me. So you can probably expect a crew in the future.
A cool caterpillar that I only became familiar with two years ago, the end of October into early November is when they can be found on Goldenrod on the Blakeley battlefield...and I lucked up and spotted this one only a few yards from where I parked the other day!
This is my (dangerous) solution to wanting to watch Arrested Development while driving. Hook the headphone jack into the car, and then set the iPod video on the dashboard. It's surprisingly watch-able (and dangerous!), in fact this photo doesn't do this high tech in-car solution justice.
Call me a Voigtlander Fanboy ... this was taken with the 65mm APO on my Z5 wide open. This is probably my favorite Voigtlander yes it is a bit of a chunk but, it integrates nicely on the Z while not autofocus pulling focus is not much of a problem. As you can see it is sharp enough but, renders very nicely IMO.
I've had my MacBook Pro for two weeks and I'm totally turning into a fanboy ( yeah Ben... keep laughing mate :P ). So when I heard last night that the new upgrade for OS X called Snow Leopard will be released on Friday, I just knew that I had to post one of these photos to celebrate :)
Details:
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mk II
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM and Canon Extender EF 2x II
Exposure: 1/320 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 385mm
ISO Speed: 2000
Accessories: N/A
Date and Time: 05 July 2009 09.36am
For the US Army!
Now I know this comes way out of left field from my typical DC pieces, but I just got back from seeing the Winter Soldier (after first watching Cap 1 the night before) and felt inspired to do a little fanboy-ing.
I may be all for DC, but Marvel always knows it's way into my heart. (If you haven't seen cap 2, I don't even know why you're waiting. It's so good!)
With Nikon DSLR and AF-S 18-35mm f3.5-4.5 G.
The recent Nikon double recall on their newly released Z8 really showed the ugly side of Nikon fanboyism as they came out in full force to deflect and distort facts. No other camera brand users even come close with such ridiculous cultish behavior.
Some Z8 buyers in many cases had to send in their cameras twice, 1st for the lens mount fault and then after getting their cameras back had to send it in again for the straps lug problem. Nikon has had their fair share of faulty products over the years but the most egregious case was for the shutter mechanism leaking oil onto the sensor in their budget model D600. Nikon kept totally mum until a class action lawsuit was successfully filed where the affected buyers got a new D610 as replacement.
1) Nikon shills in typical fashion tried to downplay the matter claiming that both problems affect only very few units until people tried keying in a range of serial numbers on Nikon’s Z8 recall webpage revealing that practically all units sold were impacted.
2) Nikon shills bent over backwards with their mental gymnastics claiming that their cameras though involved in the recall are all working just fine and that Nikon issued the recall nonetheless as an abundance of caution. The fact that there’s no problem now does not mean the problems already acknowledged by Nikon won’t develop later and the serial numbers involved in the recall have a very wide range hence it’s not a limited batch problem. Future buyers of used Z8 will do well to check if the camera was in fact affected and if so, already sent in for the fix.
3) Nikon brand apologists tried to deflect the reputational damage by claiming that other camera brands also made faulty cameras or that cars have had more recalls than cameras. Fact is, the recall is on a $4,000 premium camera and not a budget model that was released merely a month before and not one, but 2 faults involving rather low tech basic parts were revealed resulting in many buyers having to send in their cameras twice for servicing. Can’t help but wonder what other faults remain undiscovered for the Z8.
4) Nikon shills claimed that they are not affected by the strap lugs failure because they don’t use them nevermind the fact that there are many others who do. Worse still they even claimed that it’s the other brands’ fanbois that are breaking the Z8 on purpose just to discredit Nikon! IMO this strap lugs fault is the bigger of the 2 problems as this points to a potential design flaw, what exactly did Nikon change in the design of this basic part in the Z8? A straps lug failure can result in both your camera and mounted lens dropping thus sending both smashing on impact with the ground.
5) In typical Nikon shills extreme brand apologism, they blame users for the strap lugs fault, just as they pushed the blame for peeling grips in the Z6 and Z7 to users’ uncut fingernails.
6) Amazingly these Nikon fanbois shills even attacked Nikon fanbois rumor site for posting about these Z8 faults, such is the ugliness of Nikon brand apologism. All said, one has to give credit where credit is due, the owner of the Nikon rumors site did well to warn users of the Z8 faults early on and stood up to the onslaught of extreme Nikon fanbois apologism from the worst Nikon shills.
I was very positive on the Z8 but it would appear that Nikon might have cut corners to arrive at its attractive price. The straps lug problem is likely a design flaw. It’s best to hold off buying this camera for a while in case there are other issues yet to be discovered and until it’s clear what kind of fix has been applied to the strap lugs problem. At any rate, I’ve said many times in the past that it’s best to buy a newly launched camera 6 months after its original release for any potential problems to reveal themselves.
This Z8 double recall episode is certainly disappointing, just as Nikon appeared to have made a major step forward with the Z8, they took 2 steps backwards.