The past few weeks have been busy but busy in a new way compared to life over the past few years. We’ve had company. Yes, friends from home and abroad have come to spend some time. For me, this is a good thing. I could very easily slip off into the ether never to be seen again, so socializing is both fun and necessary. In the middle moments, I’ve been able to get out a little bit. One moto ride, one lecture at a university, one short birding adventure in my yard, and lots and lots of time in the office. I did order a new camera, cause that’s what gear freaks do, and I have yet to add my upgraded parts to the Himi, but I promise those are coming soon. Winter is fast approaching.
Adventure: Visual Diary #012
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Love this series Dan! As for tourists: We have a thing called locals summer here at the Jersey Shore. It’s starts the day after Labor Day. All the beaches, boardwalks, and roads are clear again and we can enjoy the seaside in peace. One restaurant even has a locals summer menu!
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Same. Freedom….
Tourism, the poisoned chalice.
Some regions can’t do with it, but can’t do without it. It ruins everything it touches, but feeds, just, the mouths that toil within it, even as it distorts prices, creates seasonal employment, and denies the local people the chances of buying a house or an apartment in their own town or city. Throw in the black economy and dirty money, and even the once honestly comfortable find themselves swimming ever lower down the pond as they fail to compete with the charlatans and rogues for whom money is simply something that’s pulled out as required from the overflowing box underneath the bed.
It will most certainly end in tears; if not through greed, then through the dramatic mess that is global warming. Drought and illegal drilling for water are already causing accelerated desertification in much of southern mainland Spain. Say adios, Europe, to cereals, fruit, tomatoes, peppers and inexpensive wines. As one prescient British Prime Minister once said, lo those many years ago: you never had it so good.
I have yet to meet a climate denier in Spain; in Britain and the US they seem to abound.
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I’m surrounded by climate deniers, election deniers, truth deniers, etc. It’s normal here now. Which brings me to your point about climate. The good news? When the end comes it will come FAST.
Osmo 3 ?
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Nope…..think 1980s newspaper days.
Q&A:
In one of the latest videos you mentioned that a full-frame will render specific pictures better than the c-mos on the XV.
I would much like to get some explaining on that phenomenon.
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It’s about isolation of layers based on depth of field. It’s not about color its about distance and separation.