Multidroplet water lens insect macros - ping Troy Piggens / Bret

Annika1980 wrote:
On May 17, 4:17 pm, Alan Browne
wrote:
http://photo.net/photodb/photo.tcl?photo_id=6687694

Consider the gauntlet slammed down hard.

Yes, but did he use filters?

Not sure, wasn't punography though.




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In rec.photo.digital.slr-systems tony cooper wrote:
On Mon, 18 May 2009 14:15:14 +1000, Troy Piggins
wrote:

* tony cooper wrote :
On Mon, 18 May 2009 13:22:47 +1000, Troy Piggins
wrote:

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his work.

I've seen him post macro shots of mould growing on food from the
fridge, dewdrops in spider webs, even everday toothbrush
bristles. He can make them all look unusual and colourful.

One of the things I like about him is that he fabricates a lot of his
own stuff. His monopod is a bean pole. His flash diffuser is a Coke
can cut up and duct taped. Anyone who incorporates duct tape into his
photographic equipment array is my kind of guy.

Yeah, have you seen his flash bracket? It's all DIY too. Very
ghetto, but very effective.

Interesting use of "ghetto", Troy. There must be a different meaning
of "ghetto" in the UK than we are used to here in the US. "Ghetto",
to us, refers to something African-American and inner city in nature.

Gold teeth are ghetto. This is ghetto:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...3/fav-0014.jpg

Baggy pants, pants with the waist so low that the underwear is
exposed, hooded sweatshirts, corn rows, hip hop music, rap music, and
gangsta rap are all ghetto. (Keep in mind that "pants" in the US are
"trousers" and not y-fronts)

"DIY" we understand the same as you do.

A ghetto was originally the poor restricted quarter of a European city
in which Jews lived. The Nazis intensified the meaning by making them
urban prisons of such deliberately poor conditions that many died
there. In British and international English it has become generalised
to mean a poor urban area in which some disadvantaged minority is
trapped by some combination of poverty, discrimination, and law. As an
adjective describing things it has come to mean the kind of cheap DIY
bodgery employed by people with minimal resources such as ghetto
inhabitants.

In US English it has become associated with inner city African-American
fashion.

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Chris Malcolm

"Chris Malcolm" wrote in message


[...]

A ghetto was originally the poor restricted quarter of a European city
in which Jews lived.

The first ghettos as we know them, Ghetto Nuovo and Ghetto Vecchio, were in
the old foundry districts in Venice. "Ghetto" in Italian originally meant
"foundry" (from "gettare", "to pour").

Although the Venetians forced a handful of the Jews in their city into the
Ghetto Nuovo in 1516 and many more into the Ghetto Vecchio in 1541, they had
long practiced enforced segregation. As far back a 1314 they had forced the
Germans in the city into a large building called the Fondaco dei Tedeshi
("factory of the Germans"), initially to ensure they paid their taxes, and
later for fear of the spread of the Reformation. Greeks, Turks and other
ethnic groups were also segregated. Were it not for the particular and
particularly tragic history of European Jewry we might well today be talking
about "fondacos" in English instead of ghettos.

DRS wrote:
"Chris Malcolm" wrote in message


[...]

A ghetto was originally the poor restricted quarter of a European city
in which Jews lived.

The first ghettos as we know them, Ghetto Nuovo and Ghetto Vecchio, were in
the old foundry districts in Venice. "Ghetto" in Italian originally meant
"foundry" (from "gettare", "to pour").

Although the Venetians forced a handful of the Jews in their city into the
Ghetto Nuovo in 1516 and many more into the Ghetto Vecchio in 1541, they had
long practiced enforced segregation.


Whence "The Merchant of Venice"

Now could somebody invoke the 4 letter "N" word and get us back to
photography?

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On 2009-05-18 08:22:40 -0700, Alan Browne
said:

DRS wrote:
"Chris Malcolm" wrote in message


[...]

A ghetto was originally the poor restricted quarter of a European city
in which Jews lived.

The first ghettos as we know them, Ghetto Nuovo and Ghetto Vecchio,
were in the old foundry districts in Venice. "Ghetto" in Italian
originally meant "foundry" (from "gettare", "to pour").

Although the Venetians forced a handful of the Jews in their city into
the Ghetto Nuovo in 1516 and many more into the Ghetto Vecchio in 1541,
they had long practiced enforced segregation.


Whence "The Merchant of Venice"

Now could somebody invoke the 4 letter "N" word and get us back to photography?

NIKON!

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Savageduck

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DRS wrote:
"Chris Malcolm" wrote in message


[...]

A ghetto was originally the poor restricted quarter of a European
city in which Jews lived.

The first ghettos as we know them, Ghetto Nuovo and Ghetto Vecchio,
were in the old foundry districts in Venice. "Ghetto" in Italian
originally meant "foundry" (from "gettare", "to pour").

Although the Venetians forced a handful of the Jews in their city
into the Ghetto Nuovo in 1516 and many more into the Ghetto Vecchio
in 1541, they had long practiced enforced segregation.

Whence "The Merchant of Venice"

Now could somebody invoke the 4 letter "N" word and get us back to
photography?

Wouldn't you rather talk about Obama, restored Fords or tax returns instead?

John A. wrote:
On Sun, 17 May 2009 16:17:28 -0400, Alan Browne
wrote:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo.tcl?photo_id=6687694

Consider the gauntlet slammed down hard.

An excellent shot, but I'm a little disappointed. From the subject I
was expecting a shot taken with a series of water drops used as
lenses.

Look again (eyes).


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DRS wrote:
"Alan Browne" wrote in message

DRS wrote:
"Chris Malcolm" wrote in message


[...]

A ghetto was originally the poor restricted quarter of a European
city in which Jews lived.
The first ghettos as we know them, Ghetto Nuovo and Ghetto Vecchio,
were in the old foundry districts in Venice. "Ghetto" in Italian
originally meant "foundry" (from "gettare", "to pour").

Although the Venetians forced a handful of the Jews in their city
into the Ghetto Nuovo in 1516 and many more into the Ghetto Vecchio
in 1541, they had long practiced enforced segregation.
Whence "The Merchant of Venice"

Now could somebody invoke the 4 letter "N" word and get us back to
photography?

Wouldn't you rather talk about Obama, restored Fords or tax returns instead?

Of course. The Quebec government goofed on my return and charged income
based on my son's trust fund earnings (the fund has my Soc. Ins. #, not
his). I was quite pleased when a 10 minute phone call to them cleared
the issue up and a 2nd cheque is in the mail to cover that charge. It
appears the gov't gets an electronic feed from the investment co. But
odd that the feds did not do the same thing. Perhaps their computer saw
the "IN TRUST" in the investment title and the QC government's s/w did
not. Odd. (Electronic filing has its shortcomings, documentation wise).

How'd you do? Going to photo gear with your refund or do you have to
chuck out?

Nothing to say about Ford I guess, and Obama's in another thread.

Where are your insect macros?

Got an idea for the filter SI mandate?

(Reach for the pressure relief valve now...).

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