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Post by helens on Jul 22, 2012 11:58:43 GMT -5
Interesting thread! Dee, that's a LOT of handcrafting!!! Besides making glass things, this is what actually got me STARTED on making glass things, COLLECTING glass bottles (which led to blending perfumes): www.zensoaps.com/perfumebottles.htm I need to talk to an auction house to clear out some of my overwhelming bottle collection so I can actually display some rocks INSIDE my house:P. |
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Post by geoff on Jul 22, 2012 13:48:33 GMT -5
Thanks everyone. The good black and white is shot with a 1960's Yashica D TLR. The crappy black and white is shot with a Holga. The really crappy black and white is shot with a home made camera. I develop all my own film and use a professional film scanner to put it on my computer. Some of the color shots were with my Yashica as well, but I send that film off to be developed.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 14:47:20 GMT -5
Ahhh, The good old days of photography and great cameras. I was shooting a Pentax 645 when I did the snake book. I did all my photography with that camera until I got real tired of carrying that thing. Camera and three lenses weighed around 8 pounds. I do not know how it is today but back then the book people wanted slides instead of negatives so I shot Kodacrome and sent that film off also. All the rest of it I did myself.
What size film do you use for your home made camera? We had to make a camera in one of my classes and that was a hoot. We used 4 X 5 film and turned out some real trash but a few did pretty good.
Jim
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Post by Fossilman on Jul 22, 2012 14:53:55 GMT -5
Awesome!!!
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Post by paulshiroma on Jul 22, 2012 15:38:30 GMT -5
Heya, Dee: Geocaching's a great way to get outdoors with the boyz but, interestingly, the "fun of the find" isn't the content - it's just in puzzling out where the geocache was hidden - and some of them are really well hidden  . Typically, we sign the log and check out who else has signed and when. Often you find logs dating years back. Most the contents in the caches are simple kid's give-away toys, batteries (for the GPSs), stickers, stuff like that. We leave the same although lately, we've been leaving some tumbled rocks for the next person. Sounds kinda funny but it's a lot of fun. Try it sometime! I think you'll like it. Paul Paul - I've been intrigued with geo-caching! Haven't tried it though. What's the most interesting or unusual thing you've found? |
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Post by paulshiroma on Jul 22, 2012 15:44:31 GMT -5
Hi Jim - nope, no license (no time LOL!). I live that "hobby/interest" vicariously through my cousin's husband and via museums, LOL! He's got a Yak-3 and, when we're up north visiting, I try and visit with them so I can look over his plane and see what he's working. My Dad and I have a great time at museums like Planes of Fame. Often he runs into other ex-military folks and they start talking shop. Interestingly, few of them have met a former B-36 "Peacemaker" bomber pilot so they always want to chat with my Dad . What planes did you work on? Paul Paul - Great family and aircraft pics. I was an aircraft hydraulics mechanic in the military and still have a bit of a love for planes. Do you have a license? Jim |
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 22, 2012 16:45:34 GMT -5
Jake- Yeah, but I wanna see the one with the flathead. Speedway motors used to sell Track-T kits fairly cheap. Have you ever road in any car that's been chopped and channeled? Keep in mind that not only are you lowering the roof, but your also raising the floor. Yep, knees in your chest! lol
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 17:25:09 GMT -5
Paul - The Navy and Marines both had the Grumman A6-A Intruder. It is the one that looks like a guppy with a large fiberglass nose and bug eyes and has a refueling snout sticking up out of the front. It was an all weather side by side two seat, two jet engine bomber. They may still be flying a few of them but I am not sure. They had the most sophisticated electronics at that time and most of it was stuck inside the big nose. They could do loft bombing with 85 percent accuracy.
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 22, 2012 19:59:30 GMT -5
The AE-6B (Prowler) is still in operation but I haven't actually seen one in years.
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 22, 2012 20:13:27 GMT -5
Jake- Yeah, but I wanna see the one with the flathead. Speedway motors used to sell Track-T kits fairly cheap. Have you ever road in any car that's been chopped and channeled? Keep in mind that not only are you lowering the roof, but your also raising the floor. Yep, knees in your chest! lol Yup, owned one, and have ridden in several. Picked up a chopped & channeled 31 coupe in California on the cheap. All of the body work had been done by Barris. The guy that owned the car was iin trouble with the law and needed money quick. That one was flathead powered. Also built a 23 Studebaker touring car that was channeled over boxed model A rails. Had an ARDUN converted Merc. Bored way oversized and sleeved, 1/4' stroker, roller cam and all the goodies. I've had a few toys in my younger days, but always wanted a track T. The listing on that T has been pulled. Guess someone beat me to it. Oh Well, I'll keep looking. |
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Post by Tonyterner on Jul 23, 2012 9:36:37 GMT -5
Before I started spending all my free time with rocks I spent it with wood. More specifically woodturning. I started that back in 1998 after some attempts at woodcarving. That was too slow of a process to hold my interest but woodturning lets you complete an item in only a few hours time. I also enjoy that its very much about hand to eye coordination. Right now my lathe is in storage while we try to find a bigger house. Its been nearly 2 years since I've had it set up. Here's some of what I made in the past. A little bowl out of kingwood  A ring holder  10" Square bowl out of ambrosia maple  Display bowl from maple root ball  A dyed blue hollow vessel  |
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Post by jakesrocks on Jul 23, 2012 9:46:47 GMT -5
Beautiful work Tony. That Kingwood bowl would make a fantastic sphere stand.
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Post by cpdad on Jul 23, 2012 11:14:00 GMT -5
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Post by Bluesky78987 on Jul 23, 2012 14:48:18 GMT -5
What fun to see everybody's other hobbies! Great thread. Ok, my turn. Photography: As a hobby only. My favorite is abstract macros using poppies and lupines, but since poppies only grow here for like 2 weeks a year, I do quite a bit of regular landscape work too and the odd kid or dog when a friend asks.     Scuba/Underwater photography I dive locally a whole bunch here in California, to Catalina, Anacapa, Canta Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel islands:     In that one, I'm the one shooting the video, not the other guy. Sorry for the gross breathing sounds, didn't edit them out (didn't edit that particular video at all, I don't think.) Not a very good video job, I was so excited by all the Sea Lions who came out to play with us! I like to dive and photograph in other places as well, such as Indonesia:   Snowboarding:  Also sometimes do a lot of hiking, if I have something to condition for. This one was Kearsarge Pass, in the eastern Sierras (out of the town of Independence). Trailhead is 9,000 ft, and I think the pass where we're standing is around 11,800 or something like that. I had to condition all summer for that hike, so I wouldn't embarrass myself trying to keep up with Shawn, who is a hiking machine. I think that is the most beautiful hike I've done that wasn't part of a backpack.  |
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Post by unclestu on Jul 23, 2012 18:03:28 GMT -5
When I am not playing in rock snot I collect antiques with my wife. Almosat as addictive as rocks. Here are some pictures of a gilded Sevres urn from France with bronze mounts from the mid 1800's.   This piece is pristine and signed and very rare in that it was not typical of Sevres in the choice of scene and the intricate jeweling (not seen in these pictures). Stu |
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 23, 2012 19:56:54 GMT -5
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Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 23, 2012 20:03:31 GMT -5
One more! ;D ... Here's a car that I restored for a buddy "years" ago and painted it in a field!!  Here's me doing the flames  |
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Post by paulshiroma on Jul 23, 2012 22:39:01 GMT -5
Stu - those antiques are really slick!
Susan - love the dive photos. Indonesia! Those are great pics of the reef and I love the photo of Kearsarge Pass. The Sierra's a such beautiful mountains. My Dad and I did a lot of backpacking in the eastern Sierra's when I was in high school.
This is such an interesting thread. Who'd a thunk? What great hobbies you all have!
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Post by paulshiroma on Jul 23, 2012 22:40:33 GMT -5
Tony, this is a slick piece ... I keep coming back to this one ;D Very, very nice, Sir! A little bowl out of kingwood |
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Post by Tonyterner on Jul 24, 2012 7:00:19 GMT -5
Thanks Jake and Paul. Jake I've actually turned a lot of wood spheres, about 130. I've been working on a collection of them from different woods. I have another 100 species waiting to be turned once the lathe is back up.
There are certainly a lot of talented people here. I've gotten to see Randy's fantastic paint jobs on vehicles in person, very impressive.
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. Typically, we sign the log and check out who else has signed and when. Often you find logs dating years back. Most the contents in the caches are simple kid's give-away toys, batteries (for the GPSs), stickers, stuff like that. We leave the same although lately, we've been leaving some tumbled rocks for the next person. 
