Kiwi - GKPE - New and Improved General Ramblings (5)

Flick wrote in post #6230886
Just as a little comment ,

I'd like to say a huge thanks to you guys for your comments and kind words lately. I had been feeling really down and really rather disheartened with my photography lately. After the photoshoot in the Abandoned house , it's really given me the boost I've needed just talking to some of you.

So , with heart felt sincerity ...

Thank you.

Geez, Flick... you have better pics than I do... you get out and take pics more than I do... you even have a web-site... don't be too hard on yourself. Photography is like life... it has cycles... you just have to go with it...

Can you imagine how bummed Dave would have been if he sold all his gear when he first moved to NZ in December

Good on ya for hanging on!

dgcorner wrote in post #6230819
Very cool pic Serra... Can't say the same about the kid's name... I've always believed that giving your child a proper name is a life-long gift... but that's just me...

Interesting... Briahna ( said Bree-arna) or Brianna is quite a popular name

Evening all

Great work with the ligths Sarah and a Happy Birthday to Moppie the Mod

This is a interesting test:

I got a 20 on a uncalibrated monitor in a bright room. Probably better in a dimmly lit area.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=562640

I got 7 on an uncalibrated LCD nice to know my 'eyes' are fairly close

lil_miss wrote in post #6231103
I got 7 on an uncalibrated LCD nice to know my 'eyes' are fairly close

Dam young eyes

lil_miss wrote in post #6231045
Interesting... Briahna ( said Bree-arna) or Brianna is quite a popular name

Ok... I don't think the spelling works... Brianna I can relate to!

Mevunky wrote in post #6230486
And Dave's favorite quote, "im about to pull the trigger on a 50mm 1.4 lens, any thoughts"

*Blind fury*

The phrase itself doesn't bother me, I just find it a bit stupid, what it signifies and it's blanket use does. If you can't say the word 'N a z i' on here without it being censored due to it being culturally insensitive (fair point I guess if you're playing it safe, though I suspect anyone or most cultures actually involved with those goings on are largely past it now) then how can you be allowed to throw away the phrase "pulling the trigger" about buying something when its routes are blatantly linked to gun crime and the dumbing down of its existance, particularly when it seems to be banded about largely by the occupants of a country who's heavy death toll due to guns seems linked heavily with the ignorance to them.

Drives me nuts.

Flick wrote in post #6230886
Just as a little comment ,

I'd like to say a huge thanks to you guys for your comments and kind words lately. I had been feeling really down and really rather disheartened with my photography lately. After the photoshoot in the Abandoned house , it's really given me the boost I've needed just talking to some of you.

So , with heart felt sincerity ...

Thank you.

Dude, seriously. I know exactly why you get down about stuff and photography, fairly well documented my own issues with that, but I say it again, your stuff though still developing at a fair rate of knots is very, very good. I feel hugely endebted to you and Phloss for the shoot the other weekend, and appreciate it loads.

I'm glad that we as a bunch can help, and personally, whether you ever use it or not, I offer the extension of that out further and further.

dgcorner wrote in post #6231031
Can you imagine how bummed Dave would have been if he sold all his gear when he first moved to NZ in December

Financially solvent?

Mark Vuleta wrote in post #6231094
This is a interesting test:

I got a 20 on a uncalibrated monitor in a bright room. Probably better in a dimmly lit area.

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=562640

26 on an uncalibrated screen in a dim room after 6hrs sleep in the last 48.

Not too happy about that actually!

manipula wrote in post #6231171
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Drives me nuts.

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So does a steering wheel on the front of your trousers, according to the joke page

Heya Dave

::John:: wrote in post #6231223
So does a steering wheel on the front of your trousers, according to the joke page

Heya Dave

Hey John.

Oh, and HB to Moppie too by the looks of it!

Yeah - it appears that way

I was just eating some cake in the mod dining room.

Did the jammy sod get ice cream too?

um - no

I was there a bit early


and there wasn't going to be any left by the time he came on duty - so we washed up all the dishes and made it look like there wasn't any ice cream...

manipula wrote in post #6231171
*Blind fury*

The phrase itself doesn't bother me, I just find it a bit stupid, what it signifies and it's blanket use does. If you can't say the word 'N a z i' on here without it being censored due to it being culturally insensitive (fair point I guess if you're playing it safe, though I suspect anyone or most cultures actually involved with those goings on are largely past it now) then how can you be allowed to throw away the phrase "pulling the trigger" about buying something when its routes are blatantly linked to gun crime and the dumbing down of its existance, particularly when it seems to be banded about largely by the occupants of a country who's heavy death toll due to guns seems linked heavily with the ignorance to them.

Drives me nuts.

Have you ever considered the possibility that you might be over thinking somethings to the point of absurdity?

manipula wrote in post #6231230
Oh, and HB to Moppie too by the looks of it!

Caught.

I walked into work today and got a big "happy birthday", the one of the fulfillment team started whistling the tune under his breath when I walked into the warehouse. At about 2 a large bunch of flowers showed up from Amanda, then work puts on an afternoon tea for everyone's birthday, so that was the start of the chips and cake, and just got back from a very good dinner with my parents which involved lots of good Indian and more cake.

Now I find a forum filled with virtual cake (and apparently there was ice cream ).


So far not a bad birth day really, definitely a good way to celebrate being 21 +/- the odd decade.

Cheers guys