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Danpbphoto wrote:
I bet it was mouthwatering gud Douglas!
You have a "legged child" at home? They LOVE t-bone "bones"
Dan
We do have a small (18 lbs) Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, he lost all his teeth!
Found this clip on Youtube, it makes a grown man cry. These are the types of immigrants this country needs, not those who come here to bitch about everything in this country.
Douglas L wrote:
We do have a small (18 lbs) Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, he lost all his teeth!
Found this clip on Youtube, it makes a grown man cry. These are the types of immigrants this country needs, not those who come here to bitch about everything in this country.
THANK YOU for posting this Douglas!
I sponsored 2 South Vietnamese families in 1973.
They reside in Northern Virginia where there is a big Vietnamese community.
There ARE some grateful immigrants! My mother and her Italian family was one of many. But more recently..many are happy to live here!
Give your pup a hug for Uncle Dan please!
Dan
Dam, what a story and one hell of a boat ride for them.
We make parts and ship them to Pfeiffer Vacuum & Fab Solutions Viet Nam Co.,LTD in
Binh Duong Province.
Danpbphoto wrote:
THANK YOU for posting this Douglas!
I sponsored 2 South Vietnamese families in 1973.
They reside in Northern Virginia where there is a big Vietnamese community.
There ARE some grateful immigrants! My mother and her Italian family was one of many. But more recently..many are happy to live here!
Give your pup a hug for Uncle Dan please!
Dan
I think Vietnamese Americans are some of the most patriotic Americans around, much more so than many who were born here.
I think Vietnamese Americans are some of the most patriotic Americans around, much more so than many who were born here.
I live in Orange County, Calif. in an area near Little Saigon and I believe you're correct Douglas. The Vietnamese know what it's like to lose your country. I have heard many stories similar to the video including my next door neighbor and they love America.
When I lived in League City, my neighbors across the street were Vietnamese refugees who had escaped by boat near the end of the Vietnam War after the Americans withdrew. Despite a difficult start, he earned an engineering degree and became quite successful, and both he and his wife were determined to fully assimilate and help their two children succeed. He sometimes came over to talk while I worked on projects, and we became friendly. He told me the early years were especially hard for many Vietnamese refugees on the Texas Gulf Coast, particularly those who returned to fishing and shrimping. Local fishermen resented the newcomers, who worked longer hours and competed for a limited number of shrimp buyers in places like Seabrook and Kemah, creating serious tensions. For a time, even a Ku Klux Klan presence reappeared in the Pasadena area. Eventually, things improved as the seafood market expanded enough for everyone to make a living.
They are a humble and hard working people. I wonder what they must think, knowing what they know, when they see all the garbage going on in this great country. Did you see the NY police officers being pelted by snowballs yesterday, not in a playful way? Who in the hell would have ever thought that was a good thing to do? We have come off the rails. You aim your vehicle at a law enforcement officer in the midst of a crisis situation you should be prepared for one to the forehead, we have let this get way out of control.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
They are a humble and hard working people. I wonder what they must think, knowing what they know, when they see all the garbage going on in this great country. Did you see the NY police officers being pelted by snowballs yesterday, not in a playful way? Who in the hell would have ever thought that was a good thing to do? We have come off the rails. You aim your vehicle at a law enforcement officer in the midst of a crisis situation you should be prepared for one to the forehead, we have let this get way out of control....Show more →
That same "mindset" has finally hit the 'burbs of "The Swamp..."
A local County police were set upon by idiots!
Many immigrants come here for a "hand up not a hand out!"
One of thee proudest moments of my life was "standing" for the Vietnamese familes I sponsored when they obtained their US citizenship!
They proudly spoke the Pledge of Alligience loudly!! Hooorah!!!!
Douglas..YOU are an American of Asian ancestry. Just like I am an American of Italian and German ancestry.
We have enabled a different crowd over the last decade, they don't want to assimilate, they want us to assimilate. I'm an optimist but I am afraid we are whistling in the dark, we will eventually lose this battle.
Took a little 1.5 hour Texas drive to Hillsboro, TX to shoot Belton Boys Basketball vs West Mesquite. Well, the pesky little Mesquite Wranglers overcame the Belton Tigers to continue their trek to the state 5A boys basketball championship. The Belton Tigers gave all they had but came up 2 points short. This might be my last basketball game with the 24-105 Z and I will miss it. Love that lens.
(I increased the shutter speed because these guys were running hard and fast.)
Heck no, I will not part with it. I think this is my last basketball game this spring. I have two Senior Photoshoots with two more grandkids this spring. The 24-105 Z and the 50mm 1.2 are going to be used a lot for those photos! My two favorite lenses. For the newspaper, we have soccer, softball, baseball and track and field to finish out the rest of the school year. I may use it for some track and field events, but the 70-200 Z is probably a better choice.
Yesterday's incredible weather provided an opportunity to get a series of air to air's done in East Texas. I've been working on my air to air organization, a typical over the shoulder camera bag just doesn't work very well. I went to Competitive and played with a number of ThinkTank products, found one that works perfectly. The bag is a combination camera bag and backpack, it just fits between my feet in the helicopter and holds The Hasselblad/35-100E, two R5II bodies, a 24-105Z and a 70-200Z, along with batteries and variable ND filters. We were racing the light yesterday evening and I was swapping cameras like crazy, the whole system worked perfectly.
We landed, put the door back on the helicopter and headed back to McKinney. We were exhausted, but incredibly grateful for the Blessing of being able to do what we do...................
That’s a slight crop and the largest dimension is still over 11,000 . The camera is worth its weight in gold . Takes some technique to reign it in and manage it, but it’s well worth the effort. The continuous frame rate of 3.2 fps is a bit misleading because you jam up the buffer pretty quickly and you have to let it breathe .each time I use the camera my understanding and technique improves, last evening I just set it down after a burst and grabbed one of the R5II’s, then picked the Blad back up after it had moved all those pixels to the internal memory.
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I haven't looked at the Hasse specs until now. I am surprised it has a memory capacity of CFexpress Type B [512 GB Maximum]! I figured with all those pixels in every photo it would have an on board 1TB solid state hard disk similar to the Atomos.
The X2DII has 1TB of internal memory then it says a CF Express capacity of 512 but I loaded a 1TB CFE card the day it came in and I haven't had any problem with it . I haven't maxed it out yet, but I have gone past 512.
Nice one, Jim. With that full prop circle, you must have gone low in the shutter speed - how low can you comfortably go with that rig? Beautiful lighting in that one!
