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April 11, 2011
April 10, 2011
Galaxy For Sale!
Hi all!
I find myself needing to upgrade my Flickr account to pro and having no moneys to do it, so I will sell some lucky person this shot for the low low price of a 2-year Flickr membership! That's right, roughly $60 at today's exchange rate will get you this beautiful picture to do with what you will!!
Included is the original Canon CR-2 file, for those High-Res Requirements, and I can deliver to you a ready-to-print High res version as well, should you desire it.
Please contact me for more details!
I find myself needing to upgrade my Flickr account to pro and having no moneys to do it, so I will sell some lucky person this shot for the low low price of a 2-year Flickr membership! That's right, roughly $60 at today's exchange rate will get you this beautiful picture to do with what you will!!
Included is the original Canon CR-2 file, for those High-Res Requirements, and I can deliver to you a ready-to-print High res version as well, should you desire it.
Please contact me for more details!
As promised
One more photo, from out at Scandretts, or at least as far out at Scandretts as we could get :)
It's of Bill plying the craft. Totally accidental shot here, we only had the one tripod between us, so wee took it in turns to shoot, as Sesame St and our mothers had taught us about sharing, and this was from me putting the camera on the ground and just firing off a bunch of shots, much like the stack there.
Am looking for new things to do with the photos nowadays, have some ideas, but all feedback/suggestions would be appreciated. Stand by for Bills pics when he's finished post-producing them.
It's of Bill plying the craft. Totally accidental shot here, we only had the one tripod between us, so wee took it in turns to shoot, as Sesame St and our mothers had taught us about sharing, and this was from me putting the camera on the ground and just firing off a bunch of shots, much like the stack there.
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The boys are back in town
Well back in the countryside anyways. Bill and I went out a-shooting tonight at Scandretts ... it's a nice spot, will do more there ... anyways, short of it is, I tried my hand at stacking ... here's 34 images, stabilised and stacked. More photos coming tomorrow .. it's late and I'm still sick.
Also, if you visit this on Flickr, you will see that this shot has a CC (Creative Commons) licence, meaning you can go nuts with it :D
April 9, 2011
Quietly tiptoes in ....
Hello? Anyone here?
I don't know why I stopped updating this, but here's some shots, taken tonight. Things have changed a little down here, I got a smart smartphone, so I can actually geotag my shots now ... as soon as I work out how to use it.
No news on a 5D as yet, even though my Bank is VERY keen to lend me money, so far am resisting that one.
I will try to post more and more here, and to "gently encourage" gfkBill to. I want to come back, really!
I don't know why I stopped updating this, but here's some shots, taken tonight. Things have changed a little down here, I got a smart smartphone, so I can actually geotag my shots now ... as soon as I work out how to use it.
No news on a 5D as yet, even though my Bank is VERY keen to lend me money, so far am resisting that one.
I will try to post more and more here, and to "gently encourage" gfkBill to. I want to come back, really!
December 26, 2010
Progress... Sort Of
Wow, so we suck at this blogging thing lately, ValHallen and I. And I use "lately" loosely. So time for an update on "The Beast". I'll add pictures tomorrow.
We tried to clean the badly-tarnished silver on the primary mirror, but soap flakes don't do much to turn tarnished silver back into regular silver - who knew? Somewhere my fellow blogger has pictures of this epic fail, but safe to say it became clear a strip and recoat was in order. I called ValHallen, he put me onto Andrew at Astronz in Auckland, who put me onto a girl in Napier, who put me in touch with a guy in Palmy who could help me out. So Valhallen dropped the mirror off in Palmerston North, and a week later it came back, looking MUCH improved, and much more aluminiumy.
I'd included the secondary too as that was in a similar state. That did not come back (cue "Last Post"), having been inspected and declared a waste of space. Literally - it was too big, and too square. Should be elliptical, and smaller. So back to Andrew at Astronz, and a new secondary quickly arrived, much prettier and more suitable looking.
So I was all set to finally start trying to put it all together this morning. Christmas out of the way, on holiday, got all the bits, weather looking good, let's go! Said excitement lasted about as long as it took me to hold the mounting bracket near the new secondary. The bracket was just the right size... for the previous, oversized, square mirror. It also has 4 support bolt holes, should have three to ensure an undeformed mirror when adjusting.
Bugger. So now I need to find someone to cut it down, 4mm steel being b%^&dy tough and beyond my meager tool kit.
They say adversity builds character. I'm gonna be a heck of a guy when this is over.
We tried to clean the badly-tarnished silver on the primary mirror, but soap flakes don't do much to turn tarnished silver back into regular silver - who knew? Somewhere my fellow blogger has pictures of this epic fail, but safe to say it became clear a strip and recoat was in order. I called ValHallen, he put me onto Andrew at Astronz in Auckland, who put me onto a girl in Napier, who put me in touch with a guy in Palmy who could help me out. So Valhallen dropped the mirror off in Palmerston North, and a week later it came back, looking MUCH improved, and much more aluminiumy.
I'd included the secondary too as that was in a similar state. That did not come back (cue "Last Post"), having been inspected and declared a waste of space. Literally - it was too big, and too square. Should be elliptical, and smaller. So back to Andrew at Astronz, and a new secondary quickly arrived, much prettier and more suitable looking.
So I was all set to finally start trying to put it all together this morning. Christmas out of the way, on holiday, got all the bits, weather looking good, let's go! Said excitement lasted about as long as it took me to hold the mounting bracket near the new secondary. The bracket was just the right size... for the previous, oversized, square mirror. It also has 4 support bolt holes, should have three to ensure an undeformed mirror when adjusting.
Bugger. So now I need to find someone to cut it down, 4mm steel being b%^&dy tough and beyond my meager tool kit.
They say adversity builds character. I'm gonna be a heck of a guy when this is over.
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