Sony Lounge Thread MKIII (All Sony cameras welcome)

Another from the Tree Tour. This was stop #2 of 3 for the afternoon.

Dreams Of Youth

Itsed65 wrote in post #19236954
Speaking of retirement...after 7 days and 3,200 miles across 14 states with two cars and two cats who don't enjoy traveling, I landed at my new home in Maine yesterday . Had coffee and a breakfast sandwich at Pemaquid Point this morning, about 20 minutes from my new home. My "new" home is over 200 years old, so I have plenty to keep me busy for years, but I also look forward to dabbling in Astro now that I live in an area with low light pollution. Just a phone pic for now as my POD doesn't arrive for a couple of weeks with all my computer gear. Great to see you back Robert!

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That's quite the nice-looking setup!

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #19236947
We're with Hughesnet
I put a down deposit on Elon's system but they never contacted me. I think they do a google map search of your address, and in
my case saw the tree cover surrounding me....the vast National Forest that I cannot thin.
HughesNet is really remarkable in that it exists and works.
It's just very pricy in my opinion.
So we allot so much time for surfing/forums and that's that.

There are only 4 people who live up here, Poof and I being 2 of them. So I can understand why no company wants to make the outlay for anything better.
But if one is patient an image can be uploaded.
We've learned that at 0200-0400 it is quite fast AND a much better rate dollar wise.
And my new sleep pattern after years of working graveyard is bedtime is 2100 and we've both up before 0500.
Funny how quickly I reset my pattern.
So I surf from 0600-0800 unless something present. Then clock in with the routine.
1. something for the house (this morning I vacuumed downstairs...did litter boxes, mopped the kitchen floor.
2. something for outside. I hauled more stone for the dry-creek bed (an image coming someday soon)
3. something for the mind, total was EDC Coda practice. Working on 'Ashokan Farewell'.
4. Coffey on the dock working a bierd feeder.
5. Did a little banking/moved a safety deposit box closer to the mountain (still 40 min's away).

and on and on and on.

It's good that you have Hughesnet at least. I like how you organize your day. It took me a year to train how to be retired. My plan is being a procrastinator. That way, I always have something to look forward to tomorrow.

I'm looking forward to hearing you play 'Ashokan Farewell' someday. So far, my favorite version is the haunting sounds of a violin playing it in Ken Burn's "Civil War". I've always wanted to learn the harmonica...but I have no musical talent whatsoever.

Itsed65 wrote in post #19236954
Speaking of retirement...after 7 days and 3,200 miles across 14 states with two cars and two cats who don't enjoy traveling, I landed at my new home in Maine yesterday . Had coffee and a breakfast sandwich at Pemaquid Point this morning, about 20 minutes from my new home. My "new" home is over 200 years old, so I have plenty to keep me busy for years, but I also look forward to dabbling in Astro now that I live in an area with low light pollution. Just a phone pic for now as my POD doesn't arrive for a couple of weeks with all my computer gear. Great to see you back Robert!

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Wow, what a change in scenery and climate. Looks like you still have an ocean view at least. Will it seem odd to view a sunrise over the ocean instead of a sunset?

I hope you enjoy your new home and I look forward to seeing your photos from the area soon.

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #19236926
I'm scrolling down revealing this page and this image appears. Poof's response 'How lovely!'

Thank you. I would have preferred mist to rain but nevermind....

Itsed65 wrote in post #19236954
Speaking of retirement...after 7 days and 3,200 miles across 14 states with two cars and two cats who don't enjoy traveling, I landed at my new home in Maine yesterday . Had coffee and a breakfast sandwich at Pemaquid Point this morning, about 20 minutes from my new home. My "new" home is over 200 years old, so I have plenty to keep me busy for years, but I also look forward to dabbling in Astro now that I live in an area with low light pollution. Just a phone pic for now as my POD doesn't arrive for a couple of weeks with all my computer gear. Great to see you back Robert!

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Awesome Ed and thank!
Congratulations on your retirement/exploration​/and settlement. An awesome awesome area.
We've backpacked on the AT in Maine, explored the lighthouses and lobster on the coast, camped on the many many lakes....just a treasure of
beauty in that state. AND your winters will be even more extreme than mine!

Explored. Guaranteed.

Currently my mastery level of the EDC Coda is 1st grade=cover your ears!

Kinda like Gene, I'll be shooting a lot from home.
Eventually we'll all have to have a 'passport' to go anywhere, even the local grocery.
Since Poof is a very recent cancer survivor we some misgivings on the vaccine...thus
shooting what I can where I am if that makes sense.

We are on a (for the south) a high altitude mountain valley, mostly comprised of the lake we live on.
There are two roads that go up from the closest 'real' road....then onto gravel for a mile to the house.
The two roads going up for a 7 mile circle and each climbs 1500-2000 feet. Along each road are countless
water features. A certain few are easily approachable...the majority though will take rope, belay, support. We'll
attack the harder ones over time. Here's one of the easy ones. It might remind Travis and others of the Smokies.
We even have a local bear who walks through the yard about every 3 nights. Not seen him, but his scat, and we know
when we strolls through because the 3 cats go nuts and hop from window sill to window sill. Poof emphatically made me
promise not to bait him in for a Flickr

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MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #19237090
Explored. Guaranteed.

We will have to see. I had one make it last week, #93 for me. And it did better than pretty much every image for the last two years, and was a complete surprise.

David Arbogast wrote in post #19237282

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I especially like the 'peek-a-boo' sun in the first image. The only thing missing is a ripple in the water caused by a fish feeding on the surface (says the former fisherman ).

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #19236932
Dang!!! Stunning portrait!!
Well up here at the new place we have hawks....but Broad-winged Hawks....and look very similar to your Buteo buteo.
It is one of my photography goals to image one
I've been scheming a hawk tower here but location is limited to just off the water. The fear is if I begin feeding them and the food falls down into the
water; well just the other day Poof and I were sitting on the dock and she points 2 feet off the dock in the water and asks what is that?'. My immediate reply
was 'BAD NEWS'.
We'd been feeding a flock of Canadian Geese all winter (with real good-for-them geese food). What Poof pointed out was a massive snapping turtle! aaaarrrrg. We immediately
stopped feeding the geese. We'll start back we are certain the turtles are back well under the mud/winter.
So maybe my hawk enticement here should also be in winter. That's when they could certainly use the assist up here.
More thoughts will develop over time now I have some time to engage these matters.

Thanks again Robert. Your post has had me googling..... Your broad winged is a buteo but a bit smaller than ours, good luck with however you decide to get the shots, looking forward to your results! I knew nothing of snapping turtles but now know they can give a pretty nasty bite if you're not careful. Are they a problem in the lake though if you're not swimmers?

They're ambush killers. This time of year we watch one gosling of a series disappear almost daily when they get too close to the bank. If a Canadian Goose couple
have 7 they're lucky if 1 or 2 make it.
The turtles one so large have no natural predictors save bears and a turtle is too much work for Yogi

For us playing around the dock, getting into the way, in and our of kayaks we have a technique that scares the turtles away if they are close. We take a pool noodle and slap it onto the
water. Done correctly and it sounds like a rifle shot...underwater to a turtle it must sound like a sonic boom.
I respect them that's for sure. The big ones can remove 3-4 toes and a chunk of the foot/the ones that are 1.5 feet across are just to be avoided.

A day in the life/winter's coming/2 hours me and the Husq.

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