Comments on: Tripping a Frozen Sunset, pt.2

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:39:36 +0000

Aha! Well there you go, Karl … that pretty much sums up the numbers game! Reagan … history's greatest monster, but somehow still better than the Bushes. I know that doesn't make much sense, and I don't think it needs to :)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:31:50 +0000

Thanks, Kato. Without someone to enjoy them, there's not much point :)

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:31:26 +0000

Thanks, Man Over Board.

By: Karl W Klambauer

Karl W Klambauer — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:17:48 +0000

the number 66 is good luck in some chinese/japanese cultures. Yet the number '666' is bad luck for some people here.

Ditto with "13" .. some view it as good luck, while others don't and avoid it like the Plague. .. which still doesn't explain why bikers everywhere come on Friday the 13th to Port Dover, Ontario… :)

Infamous former President Ronald Reagan was born feb 13th..

By: Kato

Kato — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:46:47 +0000

Your pictures are once again, fantastically beautiful. I always look forward to your blog. Just wanted to put that out there.

So thanks.

By: Man Over Board

Man Over Board — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:26:48 +0000

Awesome shots, well done!!!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:45:42 +0000

Thanks, wngl. Glad you were able to finally comment (my apologies!)

Funny you should say that about the sun — I believe that it's literally a massive nuclear explosion. Unfortunately, the Japanese are among the best-equipped to deal with that kind of thing :(

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:29:57 +0000

Thanks, rws :) I also find Sony anything to be unnecessarily expensive. Their Vaio line, for example — seem like decent enough computers but for those specs you could probably buy something at half-price the proce. It's what I think of Apple too.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:27:51 +0000

Well, Mr. Stupid, I had my first "lens error" out there at the docks. She still recovered gracefully (the camera just reboots itself automatically), but this is literally the first problem I've had with any Canon camera. It's not that I hate Sonys, or any other brand for that matter, I just don't like the way they function. Also, the little pocket units are good for taking pictures of friends in front of stuff but push-button manual (the Canon has a job-wheel), is *way* too slow to capture stuff as it's happening.

By: wngl

wngl — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:05:40 +0000

Terrific photos! I especially like the blown out sunshine that closely resembles a nuclear detonation. Being that close to an actual atomic explosion would have of course been your last encounter and spared you the run-in with the shutterbugs from the East. Land of the Rising Sun, indeed.

By: rws

rws — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:24:42 +0000

i have to agree re: sony digital cameras — my experience with the one i had was not great. the camera was fine when it worked well, but it often had problems and the lovely folks at sony simply would not admit that it was a lemon and made me jump through hoops to get it fixed (which it never was).

btw, that image with the umbrellas is a beautiful capture. good work.

By: Mr. Stupid

Mr. Stupid — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:11:11 +0000

Hope those guys don't see you again the next time…:)

I am so looking forward to what happened to the three Japanese woman.

Sony's are really bad. I had one a few years back, which had trouble with the lens getting in. I had to manually push it in each time. "It was both manual control and Manual push back inside"…lol