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Spanish Tall Ship - Juan_Sebastian_Elcano_104.JPG (0/1) - DCP_3535Sm.JPG (1/1)
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Attachment decoded: DCP_3535Sm.JPG Yes, much brighter and clearer. The river or canal is very calm. Does it ever get choppy, e.g., in a storm? Also, I don't recognize DCP in the camera's file name. What do you have? -- HP, aka Jerry "You've obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a ****!" |
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Spanish Tall Ship - Juan_Sebastian_Elcano_104.JPG (0/1) - DCP_3535Sm.JPG (1/1)
My Canon PowerShot A570 was not available so I used the old Kodak
DC280 just in case the ship departed this afternoon. I just took a few on the good one, but the visibility is terrilbe due to the smoke. HF On Sun, 18 May 2008 13:51:43 -0500, "HEMI - Powered" wrote: HiFlyer added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... Attachment decoded: DCP_3535Sm.JPG Yes, much brighter and clearer. The river or canal is very calm. Does it ever get choppy, e.g., in a storm? Also, I don't recognize DCP in the camera's file name. What do you have? |
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Spanish Tall Ship - Juan_Sebastian_Elcano_104.JPG (0/1) - DCP_3535Sm.JPG (0/1)
This our (combined) 44th home, five together. She's a service brat
and a military officer. I served 29 years. Of all the places, I like Miami best and it is my third time. I can deal with an occasional hurricane, with days of warning, but not earthquakes, tornados, and months of winter. I grew up in upstate NY HF On Sun, 18 May 2008 13:50:33 -0500, "HEMI - Powered" wrote: HiFlyer added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... HP, where are you located? Here's a better picture day in Miami. HF (Jerry) Troy, Michigan. That's in SE Michigan about 19 miles NNW of the Detroit River. If you are familar with the area, we are at Livernois and Square Lake Roads. The boundary of Detroit E-W is 8 Mile Road so I am 11 miles north of that but at a slant when looking as the crow flies all the way to the river, which runs roughly E-W in Downtown Detroit. When I first started at Chrysler Engineering in 1969, I was at their headquarters and engineering complex in Highland Park, Michigan and I move to the new Chrysler Technology Center in Auburn Hills, MI in 1992. So, I am very close to much of the neat stuff in SW MI but not at all close to anything scenic like you are, Kingfisher is, etc. But, we all have to choose wrt weather and the risk of weather, right? Have a great day, HF? |
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Spanish Tall Ship - Juan_Sebastian_Elcano_104.JPG (0/1)
HiFlyer added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
From our condo on the 41st floor of a building on Brickell Key, a small island in the financial district. We are about 1/2 mile from the ships. My 19 year old daughter is asleep and my really good digital and lens are in there where Dad's dare not go until noon. smile HF, you best apply the 6-P Principle he grin "Proper Planning Prevents **** Poor Performance", quoted by CIA assasin played by Robert Duvall in the movie "The Killer Elite". As an adjunct to lenses, I popped for not one, but TWO new cameras today! A Rebel Xsi for myself with the new 18-55mm kit lens to replace my Rebel XT and an 8mp Canon SD-1100 ultra-compact P & S for my wife in pink annodized "aluminum" plastic. She likes pink because she's a pig memorabilia collector. Now, gotta get off the couch and do some test drives prior to the June 5 WW@WD and June 7 CEMA HUGE Mopar car shows at Chrysler's Auburn Hills, MI complex The cruise shiop to the left is Freedom of the Seas (RCCL) the largest cruise ship in service right now. HF On Sun, 18 May 2008 09:33:37 -0500, "HEMI - Powered" wrote: HiFlyer added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... The Spanish tall ship, Juan Sebastiain Elcano, a four-masted, topsail schooner is in Miami for an R&R (liberty) and ceremonial visit. Note the provisions for square sails on the forward mast and fore-n-aft sails on the other three. They have rigged a canvas cover for the main and quarterdecks and have had receptions on board each night. It is rumored that the King of Spain (or maybe his son) was here one night. Miami has a huge Spanish presence. Even the Cuban population has ties to Spain. Many of the families in the 1960-62 flight from Castro's rise to power had only been in Cuba since they left Spain to escape the Civil War of the late 1930. They consider themselves more Spanish than Cuban. The pics are not as sharp as I'd like due to fires in the Everglades which are sending smoke over the city. And, my daughter has "borrowed" my best camera. I'll try again this afternoon with it. HiFlyer, where were you taking these pics? By the angle and distance and smoggy and greenish tint look, I'd guess inside a skyscraper or maybe some tower. Also, I'd guess it annoyed you not to have a long enough lens to nail those two great ships from whatever distance you were. I'd guesstimate maybe a mile or more. I imagine you've been to the Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine. I've never been a lover of Miami, but I sure do love the Castillo! Now, if I ever get off my dead ass and buy a dedicated slide scanner, maybe I can recover some of my thousands of 35mm slides into digital! -- HP, aka Jerry "If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck" |
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Spanish Tall Ship - Juan_Sebastian_Elcano_104.JPG (0/1) - DCP_3535Sm.JPG (0/1)
HiFlyer added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
This our (combined) 44th home, five together. She's a service brat and a military officer. I served 29 years. My congrats to both of you for serving this great country for twin careers! If you'd like to say, what branches are you in? As for me, my military "career" was 20 months as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army. Basic at Ft. Dix, AIT at Ft. Sill, and duty with the 1st of the 81st Field Artillery in Neu Ulm Germany. The "1st of the 80-worst" was a Pershing tactical nuclear missile battalion, presumeably with the intent of nuking Warsaw Pact armored divisions should they try to overrun NATO. Damn glad we never had to launch! Now, My Gawd! 44 homes?! I have only had 4, counting my parents house, an apartment before my wife and I married, a house we built in Madison Heights, then the house we're in now in Troy. I suppose I could add 3 more for the Army. Again, it makes me so proud to be an American when I hear of people like you and your wife dedicating their lives to the defense of our freedom. Have either/both of you been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan? I'm not expert, please, but I'd SWAG that maybe 2/3 of the troop strength there is National Guard, but I'm sure that if either/both of you are Army, Marines, or Navy, your boots may well have been on the ground there, maybe 2 or 3 times now. I just heard last week that some state Guard units are now on their FOURTH tour! I won't comment at all about the war, except to say that I think that burning up our National Guard like that is foolhardy. I don't know what political heat President Bush would've taken if he'd reinstituted the draft as LBJ did for Viet Nam, but if he had, we at least would have been able to maintain a combat-ready force at home and would be far better able to cope with what the Guard is for, e.g., Katrina and the recent hurricanes. Of all the places, I like Miami best and it is my third time. I can deal with an occasional hurricane, with days of warning, but not earthquakes, tornados, and months of winter. I grew up in upstate NY I used to travel with my parent every summer across NY on the way to Worcester, MA to visit with my mother's family there and in Chepachet, RI with my father's family. In my early youth in the early 1950s, we went across the mountains over 2-lane roads, then the NY Thruway. I have been to Upstate NY once, and found it fascinating, but the touristy stuff is pretty far apart. If you're interested in things military at all, I can relate the "exploits" of my father who was a WWII Marine, and fought at Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima and is even pictured in Joe Rosenthal's "gung ho" group shot after the raising of the 2nd flag on Mt. Suribachi. I posted a series to honor him on his birthday on April 4, but only (I think) to a.b.p.wallpaper and wallpaper-duplicates. If you ARE interested and you'd like me to repost here, please give me a "Ping" here. On Sun, 18 May 2008 13:50:33 -0500, "HEMI - Powered" wrote: HiFlyer added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... HP, where are you located? Here's a better picture day in Miami. HF (Jerry) Troy, Michigan. That's in SE Michigan about 19 miles NNW of the Detroit River. If you are familar with the area, we are at Livernois and Square Lake Roads. The boundary of Detroit E-W is 8 Mile Road so I am 11 miles north of that but at a slant when looking as the crow flies all the way to the river, which runs roughly E-W in Downtown Detroit. When I first started at Chrysler Engineering in 1969, I was at their headquarters and engineering complex in Highland Park, Michigan and I move to the new Chrysler Technology Center in Auburn Hills, MI in 1992. So, I am very close to much of the neat stuff in SW MI but not at all close to anything scenic like you are, Kingfisher is, etc. But, we all have to choose wrt weather and the risk of weather, right? Have a great day, HF? -- HP, aka Jerry "If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck" |
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Spanish Tall Ship - Juan_Sebastian_Elcano_104.JPG (0/1) - DCP_3535Sm.JPG (1/1)
HiFlyer added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
My Canon PowerShot A570 was not available so I used the old Kodak DC280 just in case the ship departed this afternoon. PowerShots are the series of P & S cameras, aren't they, HF? Do they get up into the EVF range? See a comment I just made to an earlier one of yours. I just bought a PowerShot SD-1100 for my wife and a Rebel Xsi DSLR new toy for myself this afternoon. Thanks for the pics and the good stories! I just took a few on the good one, but the visibility is terrilbe due to the smoke. Smoke? As is smoke or as in smog? I've never stayed in Miami per se but did pass through Miami Beach a number of times and did some night spots back in January, 1970 just before my buddy and I got drafted, he in February that year and me in June. It IS a very nice area, especially if you like boaters. Back then, we were Lauderdale-bound and managed to see the old Queen Elizabeth when she was berthed as a floating museum at Port Everglades. Too bad the Japs managed to sink such a distinguished old lady towing her home. I may or may not have commented here that my main interest these days is car pictures, but buried in my basement are something like 5,000- 8,000 - I really don't know how many - 35mm slides I took with my still-working 1969 Nikon Photomic FTN. Lots were in the US before and after I was in the Army but the bulk are of Germany, Austria, London, and Paris while I was overseas. I almost bought a Nikon CoolScan 5000 3 years ago but dropped the idea because my health went south. I am still recovering and I have the itch to play with my Visa card again while she's still hot. Gotta to to www.nikonusa.com and see what the diff is for a CoolScan V at $600 vs. the CoolScan 5000 for $1100. I'm pretty sure I want the latter because it supports 4 slide/scan, an optional feeder, and Digital Ice to kill the noise caused by dust. If and when I ever acquire such a beast - or use Ritz Camera's scanning service at 75 cents/scan, I'll be able to post a LARGE number of ships, both civilian and military. Stay tuned! HF On Sun, 18 May 2008 13:51:43 -0500, "HEMI - Powered" wrote: HiFlyer added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... Attachment decoded: DCP_3535Sm.JPG Yes, much brighter and clearer. The river or canal is very calm. Does it ever get choppy, e.g., in a storm? Also, I don't recognize DCP in the camera's file name. What do you have? -- HP, aka Jerry "If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck" |
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Bouler added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
The Spanish tall ship, Juan Sebastiain Elcano, a four-masted, topsail schooner is in Miami for an R&R (liberty) and ceremonial visit. Note the provisions for square sails on the forward mast and fore-n-aft sails on the other three. They have rigged a canvas cover for the main and quarterdecks and have had receptions on board each night. It is rumored that the King of Spain (or maybe his son) was here one night. Miami has a huge Spanish presence. Even the Cuban population has ties to Spain. Many of the families in the 1960-62 flight from Castro's rise to power had only been in Cuba since they left Spain to escape the Civil War of the late 1930. They consider themselves more Spanish than Cuban. The pics are not as sharp as I'd like due to fires in the Everglades which are sending smoke over the city. And, my daughter has "borrowed" my best camera. I'll try again this afternoon with it. Here he is at full sail HiFlyer Looks like a 4-masted schooner with a metal hull. If it is Spanish Navy, it must be for the same purpose as the American Coast Guard training true "tall ship", the Eagle, pics attached. -- HP, aka Jerry "If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck" |
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"HEMI-Powered" schreef in bericht ... The pics are not as sharp as I'd like due to fires in the Everglades which are sending smoke over the city. And, my daughter has "borrowed" my best camera. I'll try again this afternoon with it. Here he is at full sail HiFlyer Looks like a 4-masted schooner with a metal hull. If it is Spanish Navy, it must be for the same purpose as the American Coast Guard training true "tall ship", the Eagle, pics attached. She has indeed a steel hull like The Eagle. Here a nice little movie of the Juan Sebastian Elcano on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIn-O7piw4Q -- Greetings Bouler (The Netherlands) |
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Bouler added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
Here he is at full sail HiFlyer Looks like a 4-masted schooner with a metal hull. If it is Spanish Navy, it must be for the same purpose as the American Coast Guard training true "tall ship", the Eagle, pics attached. She has indeed a steel hull like The Eagle. Here a nice little movie of the Juan Sebastian Elcano on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIn-O7piw4Q As you know, Bouler, I'm not a fool and I don't lead with my chin wrt facts or things I assert. So, I either can be reasonably sure by just looking often, I can and do do some Googling if my comments might turn out to be embarrassing if I'm really wrong. Thus, I was Ivory Soap Pure sure that the Juan is steel-hulled, just as I correctly nailed the same thing in a number of your reposts for me when I first docked in this here deep water port. As for YouTube, never touch the stuff! Most people know I have an information security background that's pretty extensive and I also have a MAJOR committment of time and energy to everything digital and techie, so I already KNOW that YouTube is a really juicy place for the bad guys to plant nasties in the videos, and do other not-so-nice things such as grap IPs for future compromise attempts, maybe snag an E-mail addy from them stupid enough to post in the clear, etc. And, ALL of the dangers are an order of magnitude higher - maybe 2 orders of magnitude or even more - if one is running on ANY HTTP system vs. NNTP. -- HP, aka Jerry "If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck" |
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"HEMI-Powered" schreef in bericht ... Bouler added these comments in the current discussion du jour ... Here he is at full sail HiFlyer Looks like a 4-masted schooner with a metal hull. If it is Spanish Navy, it must be for the same purpose as the American Coast Guard training true "tall ship", the Eagle, pics attached. She has indeed a steel hull like The Eagle. Here a nice little movie of the Juan Sebastian Elcano on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIn-O7piw4Q As you know, Bouler, I'm not a fool and I don't lead with my chin wrt facts or things I assert. So, I either can be reasonably sure by just looking often, I can and do do some Googling if my comments might turn out to be embarrassing if I'm really wrong. Thus, I was Ivory Soap Pure sure that the Juan is steel-hulled, just as I correctly nailed the same thing in a number of your reposts for me when I first docked in this here deep water port. As for YouTube, never touch the stuff! Most people know I have an information security background that's pretty extensive and I also have a MAJOR committment of time and energy to everything digital and techie, so I already KNOW that YouTube is a really juicy place for the bad guys to plant nasties in the videos, and do other not-so-nice things such as grap IPs for future compromise attempts, maybe snag an E-mail addy from them stupid enough to post in the clear, etc. And, ALL of the dangers are an order of magnitude higher - maybe 2 orders of magnitude or even more - if one is running on ANY HTTP system vs. NNTP. Well I liked the movie with information of the ship. -- Greetings Bouler (The Netherlands) |
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