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A crisp high noon on Christmas Day. That's as high as the sun goes this time of year, and it's the first clear day we've had in a month or two. Merry Christmas!

I'll send a pm :yh:

Thank you will! You're already off to a great start, the focus is usually quite hard to nail when you're capturing water but you got it dead on. :beer: Haha thanks GSS, I'll try to keep this hidden from them, but at least it was a new bottle, nothing antique :) As for your phone, do you need to...

What kind of coating are you thinking about? I can't think of something that would have an effect on it... if anything couldn't a high polish finish help with thermal issues by reducing any like external heat and light absorption?

Thanks so much Andrew! I had my camera set to 1/4000 sec, probably f8 or something and base ISO (100) because using phone cameras has given me an allergy to photo noise. I had taken another broken bottle photo earlier that day but it was overcast and raining, so it was nothing too spectacular...

Oh sorry, I have a Nikon D3200, you got your wife an excellent camera :) Once the user can figure out all the features of the camera and how to use them, they can take excellent photos. It's all about knowing your camera and knowing your subject!

Thanks so much everybody! It really means a lot. As much as it hurt my high-res loving soul, I resized them all (by a factor of THIRTY SIX pixel wise!). Plus I added an album with the full res photos and some more. Oh I almost forgot to say, I also got one of my northern lights photos in the...

Thank you! Sorry again about that, I always have the forum in Responsive LPF theme so I forget resizing is a thing. I'll see if I can find an easy way to do it.

***WARNING***LARGE IMAGES*** Hey, haven't been around that often as I find I may be drifting from the hobby, I've kinda been settling into photography now. But no worries friends, I won't go far :) Here's some photos I've taken that I don't think I've shared here before: Here was my first try...

Aw yisss, love photos like those, great job. One of my neighbors did a similar thing but instead of a string, he attached two whisks at 12 and 6 o clock orientation on a cordless drill, stuffed them with steel wool and let er rip, haven't seen how they've turned out yet though. But I think I...

Is that a school board mandated thing, or just the parent's personal choice? Cause snow days and cold days or whatever were always refused by Edmonton Public School Boards, I'd me surprised if you guys up in Yellowknife would. We were however made to have indoor recesses if it was below a...

Holy smokes, that's like as hot as the hottest summer days around here! Last winter was so pathetic really, it was warmish but never got any of the things I kinda liked about winter, the meter of snow in one night that you gotta shovel in the morning, the -40°c with wind chill, when it's so...

Agreed Paul, weather's not doing too great up here, Only had a couple half-assed attempts at snowfall in the past week, but it's stuck around because it's been overcast every day too :/

Was gonna say lemon lime Gatorade, it's great on its own but my GOD is it so good after a long day of labour in the sun and you haven't quite realized how dehydrated you are... seriously who needs drugs when you have that :D

Agreed, but I think it's safe to say that will not be happening any time soon, especially at the price that warranted the start of this thread.

Often times there will be a Christmas-ish holiday discount with them, so if you want it now go ahead but there's probably a sale coming up near the end of the year.

I used to collect as well! Didn't do much hounding just buying and being in lapidary clubs. Looks like I'm young enough to still have my collection :D I may sell some of them though, I have at least a few grand that I could sell and put towards a mean laser, some camera equipment that I'd love...

You're rich! Rich, I tell you!

Yeah I agree, in the earlier years reds were the cheapest by far, and they still had a clear visible dot. Now that green lasers have become cheap they're more popular because they're the brightest per mW, and that's important when abiding by the <mW law

The lower powered 638s like the one I have actually have incredibly low divergence and a really tight beam! It's only when you get up to the 500+mW diodes where the beam becomes that nasty line shaped dot with the terrible long axis divergence.