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chuckm
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| Anonymous Guy wrote: | | Little Egret walking the plank.......... |
Would someone please tell me why Guy isn't scooping up tonnes of awards for his photos?
| Lamma-Gung wrote: | | Returning home on the sunset ferry, as seen through a salt-smudged window... |
Holy smokes! . L-G, that's an awfully nice yacht you've got there! Looks fast, comfortable, and able to outrun the harbour police with little effort. Does it have broadband and a helicopter pad?
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Anonymous Guy
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Thanks Chuckm........ long way to go before I get there........ although one of my bugs pics did win a minor competition a couple of months ago.
But back to the snaps........... a couple of HKKF ferries broke down the other day, so a few lamma residents made alternative arrangements.....
Not sure how long it took him to get to Central.
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Yogesh
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| Anonymous Guy wrote: | | Not sure how long it took him to get to Central. |
It would be easier to land in Wah Fu and take the M49 bus  |
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Lamma-Gung
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:41 am Post subject: Broadband helicopter |
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| chuckm wrote: | L-G, that's an awfully nice yacht you've got there!
Does it have broadband and a helicopter pad? |
Yes, of course! Even the helicopter has broadband as well! How else would I beam down the photos I just took from the helicopter directly into my blog?
I wouldn't go anywhere - not even to the toilet - without broadband!
In fact, I only moved to Lamma shortly after they finally got broadband here. Crazy but true...
Did you also know that my Broadband helicopter can be remote-controlled and take pictures of anything on the ground via my remote control? Don't believe me? Here's a photo to prove it! Yours Truly, shot from my remote-controlled broadband helicopter hovering above the ferry pier. Really, that's me, waving!
Unfortunately, the camera's zoom isn't good enough, as the helicopter has to stay 500 ft above the surface, avoiding too much noise pollution on the ground.
My private yacht was just arriving at the ferry pier as well, but was cropped from the photo, unfortunately...
Plus, my photo of the helicopter shot while it was shooting ME!
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chuckm
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| Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: Broadband helicopter |
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| Lamma-Gung wrote: | | L-G, waving at his private, remote-controlled, full-size helicopter taking a picture of himself. |
Uh-oh! From that great distance you look suspiciously like a dear friend of mine in Nova Scotia ... a rather, shall we say, 'robust' Estonian lady with a heart of gold and significant culinary skills (used to great effect each 24th February, celebrating Estonia Day ... please don't ask about the vodka hangovers).
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| Nice photo indeed, L-G. What's that pile of gravel for by the way? |
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Lamma-Gung
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F-X
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: Re: Children on Gravel Hill |
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| Lamma-Gung wrote: | One of my recent favourite shots, *almost* B/W...
I love the sky and the backlighting... |
Hmmm, that looks like fun. I'm gonna try that early tomorrow morning when no one's looking. |
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Alan
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| Lamma-Gung wrote: | | They bring these materials into the harbour on a ship almost as long as the harbour is wide |
Ah yes. They used this barge to deliver gravel to Hung Shing Yeh about 1996 to build the new beach facilities. In the process they dumped tons of gravel on the beach and in the water and it's been like the Kowloon reclamation ever since. (The soft sand at PSB is what HSY used to be like.) |
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Anonymous Guy
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Another sunset shot - should get you running for yr face mask.........
21/11/2005
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Birdface
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| This is a great shot - looks like a Japanese minimalist abstract painting. |
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Lamma-Gung
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Yes, like a painting, almost too perfect to be a photo...
If it really is an unretouched photo, then it's a fantastic shot!
Must be almost maximal optical zoom. 300mm lens?
Somebody will want this as an Avatar... Insomniac, maybe?
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| Lamma-Gung wrote: | Yes, like a painting, almost too perfect to be a photo...
If it really is an unretouched photo, then it's a fantastic shot!
Must be almost maximal optical zoom. 300mm lens? |
Thanks......, is virtually untouched except for removing a dust speck in the sun caused from my CCD.
Was the 300mm but cropped for composition. Taken from the Pagoda by MST.
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| Anonymous Guy wrote: | | [a dust speck in the sun caused from my CCD. |
Would that actually be a sunspot? Look at www.spaceweather.com
From the same website:
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Anonymous Guy
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You know Yogesh...... you may be right it was positioned & looked just like "823". I just assumed my ccd was dirty.
Anyway I'll plead poetic licence coz it looks better without. 
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mo
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| why some ppls pics so big? how to put bigger pics? |
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Guy MIller
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Nice images Mo.
Looks like you are reducing the size of the images to come under the 100kb allowance per image.
Just before you reduce the actual size..........
Open icon w/Paint.
Save
Close
Image byte size will be reduced hugely....... probably well below 100kb.
Then just reduce the actual size to suit the forum - somwhere between 500-650mm across the horizontal (that way people don't need to scroll across each time to read text - a mistake I have often made  )
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