March 12, 2008

Wednesday

I've been bouncing back and forth recently between playing Limit Hold 'Em (LHE), Full-Ring No Limit Hold 'Em (NLHE), and 6-max NLHE and seem to be losing focus. I like all three games, as they each have their own merit, but by playing all three I'm seeing a lot of variance now. I think I need to pick one and stick with it and hopefully it'll be soon. I've been talking to NeonBlack about this and he's given me some good advice on Full-ring if I decide to go back to that game, so thanks for that, Neon. Good luck on the felt and may the good cards hit your hand.


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Yesterday My daughter was excited to pick the first flower from the phlox plant on our deck and I wanted to get some shots of it with the Raynox lens before it wilted. This is a sign that warmer days will reamin constant, since this perrennial is usually the first to bloom down here. The first shot is kind of close up to show scale. That is whodat's thumb in the top left of the frame. These are all full framed, uncropped shots.

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This second one is shot with full 4x optical zoom and 12x digital zoom to get closer.

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The third one is taken with 21x digital zoom. The Canon S3IS is capable of 48x digital zoom, but this photographer isn't steady enough to get a good shot. Yet. Hope you enjoy these and leave a comment if you like.

5 comments:

david mcmahon said...

Love the clarity of the first shot, but the last one is a great view.

John said...

Thanks, David. I was trying to get in as deep as possible, but shooting at that magnification isn't a natural thing yet. I'll keep practicing to make these better. Thanks for visiting..

-whodat

Anonymous said...

john, great pictures!

I wasn't very good, but I took photography in school for 5 years, and my wife majored in it in High school. So I can definitely appreciate what you are doing with that camera. (we both went to performing arts schools, not regular high schools... i majored in Woodwind instruments and played the sax for 7 years)

Anyways, about your post with poker, i think you should def find 1 thing.. i used to bounce around a lot and it ate up my bankroll pretty good. I don't see a problem with playing something different every once in awhile, but you need to have 1 main game to focus most of your attention on.

Full ring? ugh! lol, jk, whatever works.

Alex said...

Those pics look great.

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