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I used to design, build, and play with electric RC boats. Lake became infested with moss, which stopped that hobby. I'm into shooting now.
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Hunting and shooting are my main interests, but I dabble in fishing.
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This looks like a fun hobby
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Sounds like a good balance to me
Very cool. What's the Dobsonian?
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playing uber for my kids that don't have a dl yet.
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Good lord, this got really long.
I've dabbled in a few things but the two, besides shooting, hunting, and fishing are photography (film up to 8x10), Ham Radio (NE5U), and electronics, old restoration and new kits are attempts at being smarter than I am.
Photography has taken me a lot of places. Way too many to list here but here's a sample. The site is here and it'll scroll through some of the images -
https://wildlightimagingstudio.com/
There are a lot more ancestral sites photographed than is here. These are some of my favorites. These are all digital. I have scans of film but this post has already gotten too big.
Canyon de Chelly
Mummy Cave Ruin (can't easily get this view but it is visible from the rim)
Three Turkey House
Whitehouse Ruin. Ansel Adams shot this but his angle can't be reproduced, which is fine. There is a grove of trees where he set his camera up
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace
Death Valley Thunderbird Petroglyphs
Landscape. Maine was one of my favorite locations. I've been to Big Bend more times that I can remember. Death Valley was outstanding, The Outer Banks, in the winter, is awesome. I was on a lets photograph every lighthouse kick for a while (still am but no time),
Marshall Point Light
Pemaquid Point Light
A few lighthouses on the Outer Banks (OBX)
Yellowstone NP 2006 (winter no tourists)
Friendly puppy dog. This looks more dangerous than it was. I was using a 600mm f4 lens from inside my pickup.
Yote... hunting in the snow. I missed the pounce shot. There as a lady and her daughter parked on the side of the road watching it hunt. Her daughter had just graduated high school and it was their mother/daughter trip. The lady came running up to me and I thought... man this big lens works! (j/k). She asked if I would send her a photo of the wolf. I said where is it? She pointed at the yote. I told her what it was and I'd bet a whole quarter that she didn't believe me. I sent her the photo anyway.
YSNP 2012. March so a little early for peak tourist season. Not many in this folder.
Grand Teton NP 2009
GTNP 2012 Peak of tourist season. Can't recommend it.
Great Horned Owl family
Moose
Great Grey Owl. You can't tell from the photos but there were probably at least 50 photographers down by the "hunting end" of the owls back and forth flight path. I set up at the other end and got the flyby with a vole in it's talons. Rumor has it that the Vole didn't recover
Mom. This is 399. Very famous GTNP bear that recently got killed by a car. The driver didn't have a chance to swerve.
Here's one of the two cubs that were with her that day. The line of cars of the people that watched them stretched from the Willows to about 1/4 mile away. Maybe more.
I've dabbled in a few things but the two, besides shooting, hunting, and fishing are photography (film up to 8x10), Ham Radio (NE5U), and electronics, old restoration and new kits are attempts at being smarter than I am.
Photography has taken me a lot of places. Way too many to list here but here's a sample. The site is here and it'll scroll through some of the images -
https://wildlightimagingstudio.com/
There are a lot more ancestral sites photographed than is here. These are some of my favorites. These are all digital. I have scans of film but this post has already gotten too big.
Canyon de Chelly
Mummy Cave Ruin (can't easily get this view but it is visible from the rim)
Three Turkey House
Whitehouse Ruin. Ansel Adams shot this but his angle can't be reproduced, which is fine. There is a grove of trees where he set his camera up
Mesa Verde Cliff Palace
Death Valley Thunderbird Petroglyphs
Landscape. Maine was one of my favorite locations. I've been to Big Bend more times that I can remember. Death Valley was outstanding, The Outer Banks, in the winter, is awesome. I was on a lets photograph every lighthouse kick for a while (still am but no time),
Marshall Point Light
Pemaquid Point Light
A few lighthouses on the Outer Banks (OBX)
Yellowstone NP 2006 (winter no tourists)
Friendly puppy dog. This looks more dangerous than it was. I was using a 600mm f4 lens from inside my pickup.
Yote... hunting in the snow. I missed the pounce shot. There as a lady and her daughter parked on the side of the road watching it hunt. Her daughter had just graduated high school and it was their mother/daughter trip. The lady came running up to me and I thought... man this big lens works! (j/k). She asked if I would send her a photo of the wolf. I said where is it? She pointed at the yote. I told her what it was and I'd bet a whole quarter that she didn't believe me. I sent her the photo anyway.
YSNP 2012. March so a little early for peak tourist season. Not many in this folder.
Grand Teton NP 2009
GTNP 2012 Peak of tourist season. Can't recommend it.
Great Horned Owl family
Moose
Great Grey Owl. You can't tell from the photos but there were probably at least 50 photographers down by the "hunting end" of the owls back and forth flight path. I set up at the other end and got the flyby with a vole in it's talons. Rumor has it that the Vole didn't recover
Mom. This is 399. Very famous GTNP bear that recently got killed by a car. The driver didn't have a chance to swerve.
Here's one of the two cubs that were with her that day. The line of cars of the people that watched them stretched from the Willows to about 1/4 mile away. Maybe more.
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Here's an old Silvertone Model 1484 guitar amp. It was a tad dirty when I got it. I still have some minor things to finish up. It cleaned up nicely.
I had to remove everything to clean the chassis but it came out nice.
This is an old Fender Bandmaster that I restored. I don't have many photos of this one for some reason.
I have some Fender Tweed style clones built from kits and kits waiting for me to build them. I like working on guitar amps. Simple to work on and it's nice to hear them sing when you're done.
On the newer side of things this is a low dropout solar charge controller. The left board uses surface mount components and the right board uses through hole. It's not my design but the board layout is mine.
There are over 100 project folders on my computer and each folder has one or more projects documented in it.
And last (not really, I have a lot more but this is way too long as it is)
A little astronomy but not with a telescope. All of these are with my 600 f4 and even the sun images are cropped.
Each of these were color corrected differently.
This is Jupiter, it's moons, and Saturn at conjunction.
Can't leave the moon out
Skinny moon. These are hard to find and see.
Harvest Moon
And one from Terlingua. Sometimes, if there's no moon, the skies are so dark and the Milky Way is so bright you can see your shadow. I've spent a lot of hours out there doing time lapse and nightscapes. The light on the cross came from a buddy of mines covered flashlight. In portrait photography we'd call that a hair light
I had to remove everything to clean the chassis but it came out nice.
This is an old Fender Bandmaster that I restored. I don't have many photos of this one for some reason.
I have some Fender Tweed style clones built from kits and kits waiting for me to build them. I like working on guitar amps. Simple to work on and it's nice to hear them sing when you're done.
On the newer side of things this is a low dropout solar charge controller. The left board uses surface mount components and the right board uses through hole. It's not my design but the board layout is mine.
There are over 100 project folders on my computer and each folder has one or more projects documented in it.
And last (not really, I have a lot more but this is way too long as it is)
A little astronomy but not with a telescope. All of these are with my 600 f4 and even the sun images are cropped.
Each of these were color corrected differently.
This is Jupiter, it's moons, and Saturn at conjunction.
Can't leave the moon out
Skinny moon. These are hard to find and see.
Harvest Moon
And one from Terlingua. Sometimes, if there's no moon, the skies are so dark and the Milky Way is so bright you can see your shadow. I've spent a lot of hours out there doing time lapse and nightscapes. The light on the cross came from a buddy of mines covered flashlight. In portrait photography we'd call that a hair light
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I think I saw our flag on that harvest moon !
Wendell Reich
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Pilot, don’t fly much these days, but looking at a couple Super Cubs at the moment. Want to get back into it.
Used to love to fly fish for saltwater and freshwater fish, stuff outside the usual trout.
I love to build stuff. Steel or wood, whatever. Like the challenge of designing and construction. I just completed this safari seat for the ranch truck last week.
Used to love to fly fish for saltwater and freshwater fish, stuff outside the usual trout.
I love to build stuff. Steel or wood, whatever. Like the challenge of designing and construction. I just completed this safari seat for the ranch truck last week.
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Sounds similar. I almost got my instrument rating. We had one more flight to get ready for the check ride. The instructor got his airline gig and left a week before we were supposed to fly. His replacement... probably the worst instructor I've ever flown with, finally got his CFII but there was no way I could fly with him. I like flying (myself not commercial) and I loved flying on the gauges.
