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Got this gun a couple of months ago. I think it would be perfect for concealed carry or locked away in a bedroom drawer for home defense. It was found in storage at my mother's house and belonged to my grandfather. It is a top break revolver with original pearl grips. The gun is in working condition.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
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.
Out practicing with my handguns. I was fortunate to connect with a great land owner in NOVA through "Outdoor Access" and got to spend two afternoons shooting steel. What an absolute blast. No pun intended😊
Wilson NC/USA - "What I would like to see is a full nullification of any bill passed by the federal government infringing on the Second Amendment," ( Clark ) says. (Photo by Gray Whitley)
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.