Recent content by Len Philpot

I don't have a larger scale shot (all close up) but I've since learned they are hackberry trees and this is a normal thing with them. That's how their bark grows. Thanks!

For some reason* the third color image really evoked a half-forgotten but strong memory of some of the album artwork from "Tommy" by The Who. I don't have the album (anymore) and I can't find the image online. But I seem to recall there are two illustrations of a building (possibly an amusement...

Everything appears to work properly, although the film type "reminder" disc is a bit stiff to turn. I'm guessing this one was manufactured for export as the distance scale on the lens is in feet, not meters. There's a label inside the film well: A little easier to read in altered monochrome...

My wife and I spent the weekend in a small Arkansas town. She wanted to look through a local flea market and I found this for $30. I bought it out of curiosity, because I don't have a roll of film to my name (and even less current knowledge of where to get film processed, color much less B&W)...

Well, like it was pointed out, nothing he's got he really needs! 🙃

Cat's foot or iron claw? :cool:

TBH, I think the shot has potential but the blurry spots make me blink my eyes. I know it would be an extreme crop but I wonder how it would look with something like this? Then again, that would seriously alter the character of the image and much of the blue sky would be lost. Hmm... I've...

Well, as a 37 year amateur astronomer and life-long northern hemisphere resident, I still have to admit I thought, "That looks like some constellation I'm supposed to know, maybe Perseus?" ... but still I had to confirm it!! :)

The third image is a nice capture of Perseus rising (over the pub?).

And now for some not-in-the-slightest-artistic cellphone snaps... Here's my exciting life (NOT!) I went out to the garage and caught my daughter's adopted outside stray tomcat, Diesel, napping on my truck hood / bonnet. His brother Petrol was apparently out roaming somewhere. I didn't have the...

Your setup is like mine but mirrored -- My laptop is on the left, 24" monitor on the right, with a corner desk (although my desk is older, probably cheaper and definitely more beat-up). Two CR-Vs? We were a purely Honda family for the better part of 20 years and have had at least one for 35. But...

I can empathize to a small degree. When I had cancer surgery on my tongue four years ago I had a trach and a feeding tube. They had to replace the feeding tube twice within three days after I vomited it up (that happens when a nurse dumps too much water into a stomach that's been basically empty...

Been there, done that: Forty years of two occupational areas (first graphic design then IT) in which I had a slight passing interest at best, which the professional context quickly and totally excised. Part of that is my doing, since I can be very compartmental -- Highly interested in one...

Thanks! I suspect as much as anything, it proves my assertion that no one owned a mirror in the '70s ... :p

Hide the children, secure the pets, alert the neighbors, 'cause this is gonna be scary. A cellphone snap of a frame my mother pasted together YEARS ago from film snapshots of me and my birthday cakes taken over the years: Ages 1, 2, 4-6 (top row), 7-11 (middle row) and 14-18 (bottom row). Years...