The OLDER Photographers' thread...

skygod44 wrote in post #11677928
Well, since you used exclamation marks and not question marks....
Yes, I know I've been gone.

From the outtakes of "Grumpier Old Men:

skygod44 wrote in post #11677928
Well, since you used exclamation marks and not question marks....
Yes, I know I've been gone.

Tragically, Skygod, there's been an awful lot of talk about the weather since you've been gone! We need a rev-up!

Roy Mathers wrote in post #11206338
It's also the name of the man who discovered X-Rays!

They have to invert itto read It's a negative I'm positive about this I read litho films for years. The eye and mind learns to read the reverse of the film halftone (photo with dots) .reverse (white) type.Ooops look at those ancient words, Film,Litho and negative Guess I'm old nearly 54.
Sam

your only as old as the girl you feel

number six wrote in post #11238620
Well, I'm old enough, but do I need a thread where Roger and I are the only ones trading insults? We can do that in PMs.

I had a pleasant encounter this morning. I'd finished my breakfast at a local restaurant and was preparing my bike for travel (take the lock off the brake disk, stow it, don helmet, etc.) when a guy called out "Sir, do you mind if I ask you something?"

- me: "Uhh, no..."
- him: "How old are you?"
- me (counting on fingers): "Sixty-eight."
- him: "Wow. And you're riding a sportbike!"
- me: "Yep. Been doing this for more than fifty years now."
- him: "I would have expected a cruiser."
- me: "I may be old, but I'm not slow!"
- him:

Made my day!

-js

Great fun to see all the cool bikes here with determined riders. My bike days ended with the lose of the left hand. From 72 Triumph Bonnie to 78 Honda 750K 4 in 96 Fun days along with my 66 Stang and 93 Camaro. Now the guy that had those toys drools for old Buick LeSabres and Centurys. I love to toss the camera gear in the backseat of a livingroom on wheels and floating off. These cars rarely see 65MPH I get a charge seeing the kids fly by on crotch rockets. Kinda glad I missed that scene. I wouldn't have made it out alive Stay in the wind guys and pick the bugs out of your teeth.

Jeeze, and I'm questioning getting another bicycle, something easer to ride, more stable than my not too fancy mountain/city off brand bicycle. I've been looking at some of the longer wheel based bikes from the Netherlands, there is a shop that sells them in my neighborhood, but they are very expensive and very heavy and I might have to sometimes carry it upstairs to my apartment.

Does anyone know if there are any lighter weight, possibly Japanese made versions of this style of bike available out there. I'm leaving right now to go look at bikes at another shop.

I truly love the motorhead congress here As I got into my mid 20s I went way over to slower transports.My dad always kept sailboats and raced them on Lake Erie. I didn't follow this path too much in my teens and 20s. My first marriage at 23 made me a sailor. I couldn't stand to be with this woman on weekends. The boat was always going to a race on Summer weekends. I decided to get involved and learn the ropes. I truely got the bug and learned how to win at it. If our boat wasn't in a big race I could move around from Toledo to Erie and get on a sailing hotrod. Yup a hull that can sail 15 MPH on the water is fast.Limber enough to deal with storms, things breaking,training crew and the competition. We raced another 25 years until my accident. By then my dad was tired as was the boat. She became a cruiser only. My dad is 91 and a retired film photographer. We couldn't afford to keep our 29 foot prize and sold her this past Fall. So I'm retired from that now. Just another chapter of life we give up with age and diminished ability.I love my first wife I wouldn't have the trophys today without her. We move on with bird photography.Keep what you can.
Sam

Do I need a AARP account to post here?

jetcode wrote in post #11689239
Do I need a AARP account to post here?

Yes. Just send your check for $1,000 to me, and I'll make sure you're enrolled as a full member!

^^ OR you sign up and send me the anual fee for an AARP account.

Jannie wrote in post #11688195
Jeeze, and I'm questioning getting another bicycle, something easer to ride, more stable than my not too fancy mountain/city off brand bicycle. I've been looking at some of the longer wheel based bikes from the Netherlands, there is a shop that sells them in my neighborhood, but they are very expensive and very heavy and I might have to sometimes carry it upstairs to my apartment.

Does anyone know if there are any lighter weight, possibly Japanese made versions of this style of bike available out there. I'm leaving right now to go look at bikes at another shop.

Now you're talking!!!

I've got two bicycles - one is a 20 year-old zinc/aluminium Scott USA Super Evolution mountain bike which I recently upgraded the gears on.
It's still a beauty, and attracts attention because I've looked after it, so nobody can guess its age....

BUT BOY(!) it's uncomfortable on the wrists, due to the riding position.

So.....last year I bought a fantastic folding bicycle here.
It has only has a handfull of gears, but it weighs in at a "mere" 8kgs (17.6lbs) and folds down to fit inside a shoulder bag which can go on a train or in the boot (trunk) of my car easily enough.

But, though I bought it over here, it's a "Dahon" from over there!!!!!!
All the Japanese versions were FAR too expensive!

My hubby and I have matching mountain bikes (and the crowd goes aweeee) thought I shove that in before the likes of a few men do and they know who they are LOL!
This old gal had to replace the seat with one of those comfy gel seats. Makes a big difference when riding for a few hrs down some of the trails we go on while camping. Don't really worry about the weight of it because we have a ramp for our truck to load the bikes.

QueenChatty wrote in post #11691118
My hubby and I have matching mountain bikes (and the crowd goes aweeee) thought I shove that in before the likes of a few men do and they know who they are LOL!
This old gal had to replace the seat with one of those comfy gel seats. Makes a big difference when riding for a few hrs down some of the trails we go on while camping. Don't really worry about the weight of it because we have a ramp for our truck to load the bikes.

Makes me ever so happy that I have 5 cars for the two of us. I really liked my bike when in grade school, but once I discovered motorized transportation, the love of a pedal-powered device just faded away. I get enough exercise without needing a bike!

Remember the pond photos I posted? When I enlarged the pond 3 years ago, I moved 40,000 pounds of stone (that's 20 TONS) myself by hand in a four-week period. Yep, one at a time as there's no other way to do it! The weight isn't estimated. That's how much stone I purchased by the ton! (Yes, I saw it weighed as well).

When I put a new roof on my house, I moved 9,000 pounds of shingles and pounded 14,000 nails by hand. The shingles were easy to calculate as I knew the weight and how many squares of shingles I bought. I figured 4 nails per shingle times the number of shingles used.

Bicycle for exercise? I don't NEED no STINKING bicycle!

redjamesg wrote in post #11689268
^^ OR you sign up and send me the anual fee for an AARP account.

I got a special deal when I joined for free.

I'm CHEATING too, as I'm not even RETIRED!

richardfox wrote in post #11691228
Makes me ever so happy that I have 5 cars for the two of us. I really liked my bike when in grade school, but once I discovered motorized transportation, the love of a pedal-powered device just faded away. I get enough exercise without needing a bike!

Remember the pond photos I posted? When I enlarged the pond 3 years ago, I moved 40,000 pounds of stone (that's 20 TONS) myself by hand in a four-week period. Yep, one at a time as there's no other way to do it! The weight isn't estimated. That's how much stone I purchased by the ton! (Yes, I saw it weighed as well).

When I put a new roof on my house, I moved 9,000 pounds of shingles and pounded 14,000 nails by hand. The shingles were easy to calculate as I knew the weight and how many squares of shingles I bought. I figured 4 nails per shingle times the number of shingles used.

Bicycle for exercise? I don't NEED no STINKING bicycle!

Ever worked on a farm doing hay? I grew up working summers on the family farm (Uncle lives on it and runs the operation) and my Uncle and I did all the haying by ourselves. We have a New Holland automatic bale wagon that picks up the bales from the field and stacks them on the wagon itself. And then unloads them one at a time. Quite the invention, saves a lot of time. But you still have to take the bales from the wagon and put them on the elevator and then stack them in the haymow by hand. Great, saves a ton of lifting you would think... well major drawback is that the bales need to be packed really tight compared to normal so the wagon will actually work properly. Most hay bales that are handled the traditional way weigh about 40-60 pounds each. Ours weigh 80 pounds if the hay is nice and dry and not the tough, weedy stuff. The nasty stuff can get up to 100 pounds per bale. Anyways, having the wagon means that only two people are needed to do all the work - one on the ground and one in the mow. This means that each person moves every single bale. No sharing the work between 6 people like normal. So when I add up how many loads we would normally do each day and figure in how much each bale weighs.... 16 tons (32,000 pounds) of hay a day. Moved by hand. 6 days a week. So 96 tons of hay a week. And being that each of us would have to move every bale, that's not a shared load, that's individually. Oh, and if you're not familiar with haying, each bale has two strings wrapped around it that hold it together. We pick these bales up by the strings, so all the weight is carried by just my fingers.

And you know, haying is my absolute most favorite job in the world.