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RTR, I have one of the small ones and hate it. My beast is the best thing ever. It's been the best investment I've made this year, my lighting is so much easier and much prettier. Ohhhh, the kid's session was shot mainly with my manual focus 35mm 2.0 that is non AIS and won't meter. I think I'm goi...

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My friend, female, was an Oregon State beaver!

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I'm glad that the meds are working. Years ago, I watched a training video on how to work with dogs with separation anxiety. It's been awhile, so I don't remember everything, but it seems they recommended a long process of you going out and leaving the dog, but coming back before the dog got upset. S...

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I know you said warm, and it shouldn't be too chilly in September, so maybe think about Banff, Alberta. Not terribly far, but still across the border and simply gorgeous.

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Lovely VLF! I love the silhouette one too. I feel like the little boy's session may have been some work ...lol. The boy was actually very well behaved! It was his 1st birthday party. We just got a 24x36 softbox and I've been using that for all my in home lifestyle stuff. It's a beast to carry aroun...

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Lovely VLF! I love the silhouette one too. I feel like the little boy's session may have been some work ...lol.

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RTR, I would crop the photo because, IMO, it needs to be tighter anyway to emphasis the little girl and the texture of the mane. Problem solved by omission ;) ETA, though sometimes with flares, I actually bring them out and just roll with it. https://fuzzywunkle.smugmug.com/photos/i-p8qcvsM/1/M/i-p...

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Love it! Your husband needs to friend my friend who is into astrophotography. (Psst VLF, he sells stuff) Here are some of his photos: http://www.toddhargisphotography.com/Na ... /i-QD24ZSk

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Thanks! I was thinking of changing the color of the sun spots so that they wouldn't be green, but leaving them. I have some closer up shots already, so I was trying to keep this one just a little more zoomed out. I'll have to play with it a bit as it's not very flattering of the horses neck either, ...

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Last night we had shrimp gumbo, the night before that it was potato soup, and before that chili. Today it's leftovers!

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I've seen him in concert a few times and I don't even like country music, so yeah, his concerts are pretty darn good. He did a television special a few years back and it was awesome too. It basically told the story of his life and how he ended up where he is now. He sang tons of music from all genre...

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A general question on shooting pictures when one is 'out in public'. I get that if I pay to attend something (event, zoo, botanic gardens, etc) that I need to read/review their photography policy so I know what I can and can't take photos of and what I can do with those photos (usually just no comm...

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I just realized a few days ago that I may be liking some of my own posts on Facebook. What happens is that I post photos on my photography page, and the people who those photos are of share the photo on their personal page. I see the share on my personal page and like it, thinking that it likes it o...

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What other people think of your choices is going to become so irrelevant to you, you cannot even begin to imagine how little they will matter. So just, do it, all of it, everything, until your heart is content. Oh, and your roommate was so wrong. You can talk to everyone and be nice to everyone and ...

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My parents both drank buttermilk. It is a Southern thing, I am told, as you are supposed to soak cornbread in buttermilk and eat it, then drink the milk. I never fell for that though. I can't even smell buttermilk without my stomach churning. Now cornbread, yum! I don't even know what soda bread is,...

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I really want to like crockpot cooking, but I think I must be doing something wrong. I can't stand meat cooked in the crockpot. It's just awful in flavor and texture. Whatever I put in the crockpot with the meat always has a good taste, but the meat is just blah and I can't get past the texture of i...

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We have Charlotte's Saddlery in the Houston area, and there is a Dover now. I'm not sure where you will be in Houston, so I don't know if either of those would be accessible to you though. I believe Charlotte's does consignments. There are tons of great museums and galleries in Houston, if that is y...

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That sounds horrible but you also made it hilarious. I shudder to think of the elderly who don't have a younger person to advocate for them...in our crazy systems. I'm hoping some young DDBBer will help me when I get old! My SO is 12 years younger, so I'm hoping he sticks around long enough. :P

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Oh goodness Boots, that sounds awful. The whole circular argument thing really gets me. I don't know if they are just that stupid, or they think that we are just that stupid to keep following them around and around. I guess they hope we will just eventually give up. You guys probably remember my mas...

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Borrowlenses has a good reputation. I will say though, that just recently, someone on one of the photo-groups received a lens with 2 large cracks in the lens glass from them. They were cracks that could not be missed if anyone actually looked at the lens, and the renter said that the way the lens wa...

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Tarlo, with 3 kids in the house it's probably the tumble dryer. We had one who when she left, left about 6 months worth of actual bagged trash stinking in the driveway. The neighbors were complaining. This was an upscale suburban neighborhood. We had to rent a dumpster to get rid of it. I leave the...

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Has anyone watched the trailer for this? It's Ron Howard's adaptation of Moby Dick with Chris Hemsworth (I think that's his name, Thor). I saw the trailer last night and was kind of stuck in front of the television watching it, just couldn't move away. I think I may go to the movies and watch it if ...

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Anyway, I am thinking of getting a mirrorless camera. Any opinions on the Sony a6000? These pics are from a recent trip to Yosemite. I don't have photoshop - just a bit of editing in Office 2010. I couldn't get the files small enough (how small do they need to be??) so I stuck them in photobucket h...

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Moutaineer wrote:For facebookers, just upload the pic to facebook and save it from there. Facebook resizes it correctly automatically...

To be fair, if you are going to upload it to Facebook, you could just link it. Linking seems much easier for me for some reason.

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It doesn't sound like it would work, but I've had chili and coleslaw for my last 3 meals and it's very good. I just plop the coleslaw right on top of the chili and eat them together, and then make some vanilla pudding for dessert. The cajun thing to do is to put potato salad in your gumbo like you ...

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I do not get trick or treaters where I live now, but when I lived in another house across town, I would get scores of kids. I had to leave my mother and brother manning the candy table while I drove to the store to buy more candy. When I returned, our driveway was full of cars and I had to park on t...

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I have four flashes, with triggers, a ring light, and a video light. Most of the time I shoot with one speedlight, held by a person, with a white umbrella. I love, love, love nighttime photography! I have to resize *everything* I post here, but I'll try to dig up some outdoor, speedlight shots. Wha...

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After my dismal showing the year before, I only planted tomatoes and lettuce this year. The lettuce was an experiment that was planted it in a bag of potting soil. The tomatoes did ok, but the squirrels got them, again. The lettuce produced like crazy and I just noticed this morning that I have lett...

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Gosh, I couldn't even tell you what most people's message says, including my own. I just hang up when it goes to voicemail and I never listen to my own voicemail, not that I ever have any because everyone knows to just text or I will call them back.

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Most of our tenants are good. One is a little iffy, but they do typically pay by the end of their grace period, just never ahead of time or on the due date. We have one who is generally 2 months behind and we really need to start the eviction process on them as when they do pay, it's either with a b...

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Well rats. Picmonkey requires Flash. Neither Windows nor Flash is supported on iPad. My laptop is a company owned asset so I'm limited to only my iPad for personal use. I'll keep searching. Oh crud, I wasn't thinking about that! Can you just use iphoto on your ipad? I don't have my ipad here at wor...

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Sweet baby J, did I have one heck of a photoshoot yesterday. It was pouring rain and had been for a while, so it was just about dark outside all day long. I had taken a video light and a flash with triggers, so I think were ok. Looking at some of the photos last night, I couldn't really put my finge...

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The threshold seems to be fairly low. I believe I had to make the last photo I attached <200kb, like 175ish maybe?

You can use something like picmonkey for free to resize. It will even allow simple corrections for free.

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Oh, I want chickens too . . . not possible where we are right now, but I'm hoping to be able to have them at our next place (a/k/a the retirement house). How do you all manage to keep your chooks safe? I know that everything loves chicken, and it seems like you need a Fort Knox of a henhouse to saf...

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PaulaO wrote:RTR, do you now have 2 Haffie mares??????

LOL! No, but it was a close call.

Yes OTP, how is that sweet pony settling in?

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I completely forgot about this thread until I went home for lunch today and the dogs started munching leaves while I was out in the yard. Thanks for the links!!

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Tis the season for fresh pumpkin too! Last year I bought a small pumpkin for my JRT. He played with it for a while, chasing it around the yard. Then we cut it open and he ate some fresh pumpkin. He loved it!!

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LOL! These are great.

No photo. I took one for the SO and that was bad enough. =P

I love the Snow White with props.

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You don't need a roo at all, unless you want babies, and even then you can buy fertile eggs. I enjoyed all of my roos, save one that was an ambusher. The one good thing about the roo is that if something comes after your hens, he will take the brunt of it, typically, and they can sometimes hold off ...

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I love Easter Eggers, which a lot of sellers mistakenly call Americanas, for the blue and green eggs. Most of the ones I had were fantastic layers. They also come in great colors and typically have a "beard". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Egger Orpingtons are great layers and good h...

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It must be an age thing as my 44 year old self took one look and squeed with delight. We're in good company. I scribed at a dressage show a few weeks ago, and the judge was squeeing right along with me every time a pony/hony trotted up our center line. And there were quite a few, many ridden by adu...

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I arrived at work today, saw my reflection in the office door, and thought to myself "Good Lord, I look like a pirate". It's not even dress like a pirate day or anything. I then asked someone if I looked like I was dressed as a pirate and they said yes.... I sent a photo to the SO and he s...

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I had a soaking tub, I couldn't fit in it and took a 50 gal tank of hot water and it still wasn't warm enough... (ignoring that it didn't even have jets). My 2 cents... Not a soaking tub, but jacuzzi tubs now come with heaters to help combat this issue. Some people choose not to purchase the heater...

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I believe Janet is an official (TD?), so she can probably shed some light on the rule change. If you are referring to me, I am not an official - or a TD. I don't even compete any more, so I am afraid I can't help with the legality - I just want to try one. Ah, I thought Janet from COTH was a TD and...

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I will try as well. November is a bad month because my SO will be here for 2 weeks and we generally spend that time eating!! Luckily, most of it is seafood, so I can probably get away with eating fairly healthy. My main goal will be to rein my carb habit back in. I probably still each much fewer car...

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Sigh, one of Tamra's (sp) lovely girls no doubt. She's lovely.

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It must be an age thing as my 44 year old self took one look and squeed with delight.

I have been getting the bug too and I've noticed that many of the ponies for an adult that I've see that I liked were either Haffies or part Haffie. Grats on the sweet girl!

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Nice job and beautiful horse! What is her breeding?

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I've been told that moose are extremely unpredictable. My friend in Edmonton said that a moose can be walking around a parking lot just doing what moose do, then it will suddenly start attacking cars. Basically, you know when the switch is going to flip and they are going to come after you.

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I think you can do it with Windows Photo Viewer. Once you have the photo open, just click the drop down menu and choose "make a copy", then you can save it and rename the file. If you want to just move all of them at one time, you can select them all from the USB stick, then hit copy, and ...

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