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I do. Just make sure you don't over-oil them.

These kinds of things run naturally in his family. :bert:

good idea Damn it's gonna be warm oh well...it's only a day trip

I don't think Al will be there that weekend. Last trip (cleanup) he told me he had a pretty busy schedule the next couple months and I don't think it involved any more dune trips where he'd be vending out there.

nice...or we can take my truck together Aaron.

Sweet I'll take you up on that. Fo sho...let's make a day trip out of it. We can use my truck and your lil trailer. ...and I should be able to make it over to the hill and back with it without snapping my driveline off too. bonus! doh! sorry

hahaaaa

cool stuff, thanks for sharin Nick. Was it very packed or no? Seems fairly empty there.

I don't know who looks more nervous.

http://www.moparsatthestrip.com/2007/home.shtml Anyone going? I was thinking of maybe heading out there.

It's funny, the only time I have to really mess around with the camera is mostly at night during the week. Am I learning backwards? lol So last night went out and got some night light shots again. This time I experimented with full manual mode and got better results. Here I got a pic of the Luxor. I probably went a little longer than needed on the exposure (20 seconds), but it turned out pretty decent other than the super bright lights of some of the hotels. 20 sec, f8, ISO 100 I have to get a better tripod. I don't trust the one I have 100% so I am on super-gaurd when I have the camera and lens mounted up. That and I couldn't keep it perfrectly level either. Lights of the LV Strip. Taken at 13 sec, f8, ISO 100 and one of the LV Paris Eiffel tower taken at 1/4 sec, f4, ISO 400 Tell me what you think of them and feel free to critique the hell out of them. That is the only way I will learn to take any better pics.

I don't have pics right now, but mine are held in with large anti-tamper torx screws. Still not 100% theft proof, but what is?

oh my god! come on!!! sorry Charity, skyz' spelling has derailed this thread. :blonde: Let's try and get it back on track shall we.

or at spelling either.

He spelled it like that on purpose. derrrrrr!!!

I don't think I'm gonna make it, Mark. I'll keep you guys posted though.

Sweet! Good luck, Aaron. I'll try and make it just to spectate and take some pics again. Man, I better buy an EZ up before then. :ah:

That's funny because I did exactly what you said for the sunrise pic. I put it on AV and went as big as I could (which was 3.5 using my 28-135 lens). As for action shots I haven't taken it off the sports setting until now. However, I am ready to choose my own shutter setting pretty soon for that and fine tune it from there like using AI servo mode and continuous mode just like the sport setting uses for fast action. We'll talk more about that later though. I haven't messed with full M mode yet, but I am getting closer and closer to using it and experimenting with it. Getting familiar with TV and AV have been enough to learn so far. :dumbass: lol Neutral Density Filters...hmm now that you mention it Rob I have heard quite a bit about those as well. Are they as cheap as say the UV or haze filters? Might be worth it just to give it a try!

Pat I am only against the fence around the entire perimeter. Fences in the critical areas was the original plan until now. Now they want to fence the whole place off according the this grant request. Supposedly this new fence will be constructed along the legal riding boundary via GPS coords. "The final boundary alignment is identified with GPS, a level and transit." According to the grant it's not where the border is gonna be that's my problem. Closing the whole place off with a fence is rediculous in my eyes. The BLM has not even made any reasonable amount of effort to protect these areas yet other than a few small hard to see carcinite stakes which get very easily broken or damaged. In many TRT meetings we suggested metal signs and even cable and post fencing IN THESE AREAS only. Riders have no idea they are out of bounds until it's too late. You can't blame them either. There is aboslutley no signage in those areas telling them they are out of bounds. I'm not asking or telling anyone to jump on any bandwagons. I was, more so, just informing everyone how the BLM seems to want to go overboard with a fence around the whole place and to think about that before supporting it. That could be used as a tool later on by anti-access groups. All they'd have to do is get a petition filed and close that small opening at the entrance between the fence opening. I think the original plan should be put in place. Put up a couple stretches of cable and post IN THE CRITICAL AREAS. I'm not sure how or why, all of a sudden, that got turned into a grant for an entire perimeter fence.

oh helllzzz yiah! Funny chit and great job as usual Bob. SO damn true too! OGP with alheizmers forgetting his rail....:dumbass: I think that was the best part of all.

You aren't the first one to ask. Time for the rest of you guys to start getting creative and make your own episodes since Bob doesn't seem to be very creative latley! :dumbass:

Yeah I didn't expect much from the sunset pic. I pulled over and shot it out the window of my truck on the side of the road so my expectations were lpretty ow. I didn't have too much time to sit and mess with the settings much. I just quickly picked a shutter speed and snapped it. I hear what you are saying though about the low light & aperature. With the sunrise pic, I actually had the aperature fully open when I took that one and also focused it manually instead of on auto. It's funny. Sunset pics used to be the easiest for me to take. Now, they are the hardest. :dumbass: It's kinda hard to get a super sharp sunset pic without a tripod. Ever since I got the 50D and got more into this, I seem to have upped my standards of what I think a good picture really is.

6 degrees of timing at 6,000 rpm?.....what's wrong with that? Damn David, almost 500 HP to the wheels. Not too shabby! :dumbass: I have heard nothing but good about CBM. Congrats man. I bet you are stoked to take that bad boy out. Make sure to get plenty of pics out there of it. Have fun and be safe.

As I get more and more into this new hobby of mine, I find myself searching the internet for loads of information. I'm like a sponge lately when it comes to lenses, techniques, composition, etc. Mike330R, 80grit & RUn2it have all been a ton of help along the way. So Rob (80grit) had pretty much the same idea as I did a while back to start a thread for a place to talk cameras and share photos. I think this will be a good place to share pics and learn along the way with the other duner/ camera gurus out there. This morning I saw a nice sunrise from my driveway and grabbed my camera to see if I could do any good with it. Then the other day I tried for a sunset pic of black mountain. It came out ok, but not 100% in focus. Slowly but surely I'm learnin this shizz, but that's the fun of it.