I enjoy photography immensely. Somehow my passion rubbed off on my daughter who made it her profession about 16-17 years ago. I am not a pro like her but I know how to hold my own in creating good photographs. For example, I created all the photos that are shown in the header of Ramblin’ Dan. There are some basic things the camera tool must provide repeatedly and predictably, and that is to cleanly manage...
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My Sony NEX-5 Camera
The 2 year report: I purchased the Sony NEX-5 camera slightly over two years ago. I liked the design as it was very similar to the Sony camera I bought about 11 years ago when I went to Alaska on a work assignment. More history HERE. <Link> I liked the feel of the NEX camera body and lens very much when I first received the camera, it was like an old friend. But I became...
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It’s obvious I get a lot of enjoyment about playing around in Linux. I see I can use it in many ways that were not possible when I first got interested in what Linux could do. In those early days I just wanted something to run packet radio BBS for my ham station. A friend of mine Fred Sole WB8LVP got me into early Slackware distro’s (Slackware is still alive and kicking) as he was...
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I just put up a new photo gallery attached to RamblinDan. The URL is gallery.ramblindan.org. I had another gallery located at photo.tedatum.org (also a sub-domain of this blog’s URL) for many years but the spammers found out they could post comments so I had to make a change. No more comments. The old URL now links to the new. I created the original photo gallery just so I could post the pictures I took over...
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