Without Prejudice 3

[armand]

I am very envious (TURP next thursday...).

Good luck!

[armand]

old building

[Telecaster]

From today's trail walk: "Daddy Jess."

(BTW, today—first day of autumn—is tied with yesterday—last day of summer—for hottest day of the year (so far) in my locale. 91°F, which is a cooler-than-normal maximum yearly high temp. Mid/late September has been warmer than was mid/late August. This was also true of mid/late April compared with mid/late May. Bizarro!)

-Dave-

[muntanela]

Good luck!

Thank you! (but also the bladder doesn't "push"...)

[Rob C]

From today's trail walk: "Daddy Jess."

(BTW, today—first day of autumn—is tied with yesterday—last day of summer—for hottest day of the year (so far) in my locale. 91°F, which is a cooler-than-normal maximum yearly high temp. Mid/late September has been warmer than was mid/late August. This was also true of mid/late April compared with mid/late May. Bizarro!)

-Dave-

Fake news; political agenda designed to stop America being great again. (Many of us non-radical foreigners always thought it still was great - which just goes to show you!)

;-)

Rob

[Jeremy Roussak]

I am very envious (TURP next thursday...).

Best wishes. Mine, nearly 5 years ago, was dramatically beneficial and with no adverse effects.

Jeremy

[Telecaster]

Fake news; political agenda designed to stop America being great again.

Ya mean Daddy Jess isn't real?!    

-Dave-

[Rob C]

Ya mean Daddy Jess isn't real?!    

-Dave-

Can't swear about that either way, but Santa sure is: I inhabited him for two kids for several years and then my audience turned and mocked...

I took refuge in early nights after that. But I didn't sulk; I was brave about it.

Rob

[muntanela]

Best wishes. Mine, nearly 5 years ago, was dramatically beneficial and with no adverse effects.

Jeremy

Thank you Jeremy.

[Telecaster]

Can't swear about that either way, but Santa sure is: I inhabited him for two kids for several years and then my audience turned and mocked...

I took refuge in early nights after that. But I didn't sulk; I was brave about it.

My (coffee) drinking pal J used to be a Santa. During the holiday season he worked at malls and sometimes at parties in folks' homes. He had the flowing white hair & beard & general roly-poly-ness, which made him popular with kids 'cuz it was all legit. Then he got serious about keeping himself in decent health and lost a bunch of weight. Then his wife said, "You look ridiculous with your thin face and all that hair!" So snip-snip went the white stuff…and with it the Santa jobs. 

-Dave-

[armand]

balance

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Ah, I can dimly remember being able to rock-hop like that. It must have been some thirty or more years ago, alas.

Eric

[BobDavid]

Taken on the 1st day of Autumn

[Bruce Cox]

There was a big bug on my car this September.

[Telecaster]

On the subject of non-human creatures, I came across this chillax'd young fella during my afternoon trail walk.

[Edit: reprocessed the pic…got a little heavy-handed with the luminosity curve tool. Made it bigger too. And included a second pic in the same sequence.]

-Dave-

[32BT]

Rob

If i squint i see a desire to stop the inevitable...

[Rob C]

"If i squint i see a desire to stop the inevitable..." - Oscar

Funny thing: that was shot one evening with nice cross-sunlight; these days, the very last thing that I desire is sunshine. I have a wish to work in "almost raining" weather: cloudy, requiring lots of exposure that means I can use my too-high native ISO settings cameras and be able to get slow shutter speeds. Yes, I do have a variable ND filter, but in strong light it still forces me to stop far too far down in order to get slow shutters; f2 @ 1/15th would be cute. And no, I don't want to be doing this at night. Worse, using the thing rotated too far means that the image will have visible faults - according to Hoya. If there are to be faults, I rather I author them myself!

Rob

[Jeremy Roussak]

If there are to be faults, I rather I author them myself!

My thoughts exactly. And I'm damn good at doing it, I like to think. Often (usually) entirely unintentionally.

Jeremy

[Rob C]

My thoughts exactly. And I'm damn good at doing it, I like to think. Often (usually) entirely unintentionally.

Jeremy

That's the artist within! Can't control those mothers; they'll ruin you if you don't get really, really tough with 'em.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

That's the artist within! Can't control those mothers; they'll ruin you if you don't get really, really tough with 'em.

But often the faults are really the best photos.