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Awesome! Now I wanna try that. Just gotta figure out how to get one of those trigger sets for my b-day or christmas. I plan on getting a set of macro extension tubes for myself for my birthday so that’s gonna have to wait a month or so I guess.

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You need to get one of those chimney things to light the briquettes and never taste fuel again.

“Briquettes?”

Our charcoal comes in “chunks” in 50lb bags a buddy of mine gets from somewhere. Mesquite wood real charcoal. 😀

That’s why I didn’t capitalize it. I knew some people prefer real wood charcoal. I have a hard time finding real stuff around here so use the plain old style “briquettes” Name brand only, the generic offerings never seem to burn no matter what I did to them.

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Orionid said “Welcome to xyz and pdq for bringing out their boobies, welcome back to abc and qrz, and grats to 1,2, and 3.” That sounds good to me.

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Lol. I feel for ya Rav. I did the same thing back before I had a decent camera but the “mountain lion” turned out to be a dirty as hell fox terrier. With collar. lol
Those wildlife shots with the remote system Rock!

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I refuse to even take pictures with a cell phone camera. My current cell doesn’t even have a camera. I got the second cheapest phone the store carried. I agree with Orionid on the grill debate. You need to get one of those chimney things to light the briquettes and never taste fuel again. And I don.’t use the grill when it gets real windy so have never had the ash covered food thing yet.

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Congrats to Kestrana and U-man. A whole lot of very cool pictures this week for sure!

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Well thank you both. It seems at best focus I am getting about 24 mm across. so that would be 1/4 life size? thats still a lot better than the 55 mm or so not using the loupe

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How do I figure out the ratio on my little Canon a560 point n shoot. The entries this week are all just about 1 inch across by 3/4 of an inch high. I held a jewelers loupe ( cheap three stackable lens dohicky ) up to the lens while the camera was in macro mode to achieve much more magnification than I can get otherwise.

8-25-2011 by lokisbong, on Flickr The dohicky I was talking about.

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You nailed the look I think. lol

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All three of my shots were taken within the last two hours or so when I had a minor revelation with a cheap jewelers loupe and my point n shoot Canon. I think I am getting about twice as close as I could do not using it. I had nothing even half as interesting in my archives.

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Very cool score.

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+1

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Moon is still blinding bright and its rather cloudy to top it off. I saw a few meteors but I don’t think I got even one on camera. Pointed the right direction even.

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Sooo ummm is limbo considered a sport? 😀

Limbo is rather physical but is any other form of dancing considered a sport?. Dancing is usually a production to please someone, not like in basketball where playing a game is to compete. But if there are competitions it should be ok in my book.

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Thanks guys. I will try to get back there soon at sunset but I think the sun sets more or less behind the mountain the abandoned mill is on. Now if I could get up early enough for sunrise the sun would be hitting them way more. I will definitely do the hdr thing with the trucks. ( note to self… don’t forget the tripod.) I need to get an off camera flash some day. I think I had a circular polarizing lens on that day but the sky really does get that dark blue some times. I love it here for looking at the sky day and night.

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