Posted 2009-01-06 9:27 PM (#23259 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Sorry, no cute children to show. Just my girlfriend....

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Posted 2009-01-07 1:33 AM (#23266 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

This one of my best memories of returning to port; we were headed into Charleston for some extra "ammo". The boat? Skipjack of course, my qual boat.
I had forgotten all about it until computers, BBS, and scanners came in to being. Now it's on my computer and I still have the original taken with an old Kodak "point and click" camera.

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Posted 2009-01-07 5:51 AM (#23270 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Just had to do this.
My great-grand-daughter and me camping at Disney World last May.
Joe'the'Most

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Launcher Lary

Posted 2009-01-07 6:40 AM (#23272 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

maybe next time...

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Launcher Lary

Posted 2009-01-07 6:50 AM (#23273 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Great idea, oh senior MT (er I mean TM, you know that you and ol' McNulty look so much alike, at least on the computer, that it's so easy to confuse the two of you), anyway here are my grandbabies...

Billy Bob

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Posted 2009-01-07 7:20 AM (#23274 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

and my little girl, when she was two.. posing in the mirror - (she turned around just as I called out Hey Stephie...)

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Posted 2009-01-07 9:58 AM (#23278 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Tom, what a great idea. That was also a very nice shot. Here is one of my soon to be 14 year old when she was first starting to walk around.
Viejo

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Posted 2009-01-07 10:25 AM (#23279 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

This is my favorite picture of the Scorpion. I took it when we made our last stop in Holy Loch in 66.
viejo

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Posted 2009-01-07 1:29 PM (#23281 - in reply to #23273)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Boy, do you need glasses. The TM is a bearded one and I'm clean shaven, suave, and debonnaire. Here's my two Grandchildren.

Tom McNulty

Posted 2009-01-07 1:31 PM (#23282 - in reply to #23281)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Well that didn't work. Something about pictures being less than 100KB. I have to work on that one.

Posted 2009-01-07 1:35 PM (#23283 - in reply to #23253)

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Posts: 264

Location: Harrison, NJ

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Scanners & digital are currently the best way to to keep/archive your current & old photos.

Several of the photography magazines recommend either having your old photos scanned or scanning them yourself. The paper pics will deteriorate over time, even if kept in a scrapbook. The paper will interact with the plastic and the backing on the pages.

I'm in the process of scanning all of my old prints. I have some that go back to when I was on the Boats. Once I've scanned them, I'll save them on CDs (the current technology). At some later date, they'll have to be moved to some other type of media, as CDs will eventually become obsolete.

Here's another one I like. I'm a big fan of Black and white photography. You can do a lot an be creative with lighting, shadow and composition.

Let's keep this thread going. Perhaps we can all exchange ideas and tips.

Runner485

Posted 2009-01-07 1:42 PM (#23285 - in reply to #23279)

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Subject: Scorpion photo

Nice photo Viejo. I left pier 22 Sirago in Feb. of '64. Was Scorpion still home based in squadron 6 then?

Also, there was another nuc that looked like Scorpion that usta park at pier 22. I guess she was a Skipjack class too. I wondering if it was the Shark. Does anyone know if it was just a visiting boat or one that was attached to S6 too. This was in '63 early '64

At that time the nucs would tie up behind the Orion or outboard her. Never alongside the pigboats. They were always mysterious to me. One minute the pier was empty the next, there she was...I conned my way onto either the Shark or Scorpion one night. The topside watch let me below when I told him I wanted to swap movies. I got below and told the guys what we had, (which was crapola) he said forget it. Our s**t is better than your s**t. And to think I usta believe they got the best of the movies available..... Er, how the hell did I get off on this rant.

Edited by Runner485 2009-01-07 1:47 PM

Tom McNulty

Posted 2009-01-07 2:01 PM (#23288 - in reply to #23282)

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Subject: Let's try this again

A little Corel correction work and let's see if it works now.

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Posted 2009-01-07 2:32 PM (#23289 - in reply to #23253)

Old Salt

Posts: 264

Location: Harrison, NJ

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Tom,

Try joining a site such as flikr.com or photobucket. Then you can upload the pic to the site and "grab" it to paste it here on the BBS. That's what I do. Makes things a lot easier.

John Bay

Posted 2009-01-07 3:07 PM (#23290 - in reply to #23253)

Old Salt

Posts: 359

Location: Saco, Maine

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Early one cool May morning in 2007...

http://www.pbase.com/johnbay/image/107733144

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Stoops

Posted 2009-01-07 3:26 PM (#23292 - in reply to #23283)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1405

Location: Houston, TX (Best state in the US)

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Tom Conlon - 2009-01-07 1:35 PM

Scanners & digital are currently the best way to to keep/archive your current & old photos.

Several of the photography magazines recommend either having your old photos scanned or scanning them yourself. The paper pics will deteriorate over time, even if kept in a scrapbook. The paper will interact with the plastic and the backing on the pages.

I'm in the process of scanning all of my old prints. I have some that go back to when I was on the Boats. Once I've scanned them, I'll save them on CDs (the current technology). At some later date, they'll have to be moved to some other type of media, as CDs will eventually become obsolete.

Here's another one I like. I'm a big fan of Black and white photography. You can do a lot an be creative with lighting, shadow and composition.

Let's keep this thread going. Perhaps we can all exchange ideas and tips.

It has been mentioned on this board before, but a reminder wouldn't hurt. Even CD will crap out after a number of years....ask Beeghly about the failure rate. I have started copying the CDs I have burned every four years and I put the year it was reburned on the CD so I will know.

Yeah, I know, with the terrabyte network drives available now, I should probably set up two of them, one a mirror. Could be cheaper in the long run......I guess I ought to run the numbers.....

Posted 2009-01-07 6:04 PM (#23299 - in reply to #23285)

Senior Crew

Posts: 157

Location: Clarinda, IA

Subject: RE: Scorpion photo

Joe, I am pretty sure it was always assigned to COMSUBRON 6 and we had another 585 clss boat in the same squadron, but I'd have to do some looking to see which one. Maybe Doc Gardner can remember if it was his or not. I always felt the FBMS got first dabs on everything, but probably a nuc had some priority over a diesel on somethings. We did have some good movies. I had a friend at an FM Radio station over in Hampton and he made lots of tapes for us to play. Yeah we tied up to the Orion and they didn't like what we wore off the boat, how we walked, they seemed to think we should be saluting all kinds of things. We were always getting yelled at, so the Navy was nice and kept us out to see for 9 months in 66 just so we wouldn't get yelled at. LOL
Viejo

Posted 2009-01-08 1:43 AM (#23304 - in reply to #23299)

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Location: Foothills of the Ozarks

Subject: RE: Scorpion photo

viejo - 2009-01-07 9:04 PM

Joe, I am pretty sure it was always assigned to COMSUBRON 6 and we had another 585 clss boat in the same squadron, but I'd have to do some looking to see which one. Maybe Doc Gardner can remember if it was his or not. Viejo

I think Joe is right that it was Shark; During my time on Skipjack we were always at Squadron 10 in New London; Skipjack did get transferred to Norfolk later in the 60's but I was in Viet Nam by then and then to the Roosevelt SSBN 600

Palm Bay Ken

Posted 2009-01-08 11:53 AM (#23321 - in reply to #23270)

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Location: Palm Bay, Florida

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

"My great-grand-daughter and me camping at Disney World last May.
Joe'the'Most"
Boy, Joe... You must be older than dirt!

Here's my 3 great-grand-daughters and the little guy in the insert is my 4 month old great-grand-son. Finally, a boy!!

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Posted 2009-01-08 4:59 PM (#23335 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 892

Location: Palo Pinto County, Texas

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Our youngest grandaughter. Pic taken yesterday.
The Brat's youngest too.

iPOD

Posted 2009-01-08 5:32 PM (#23341 - in reply to #23321)

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Posts: 1247

Location: Rockingham Western Australia

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

He's got that "Hey Great Gramps I've just dumped in my Diapers and you get to sort it! " look on his dial

Posted 2009-01-08 7:06 PM (#23345 - in reply to #23266)

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Location: Kansas City Missouri

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

When Doc Gardner showed his, I had to show mine... The boat? Odax of course, my qual boat.

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Coyote

Posted 2009-01-08 8:47 PM (#23349 - in reply to #23345)

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Location: NE Florida

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

What's in that small dome just aft of the capstan, Ric? R/Coyote

steamboat

Posted 2009-01-09 5:13 AM (#23358 - in reply to #23349)

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Posts: 1814

Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

That's a dolphin sunning himself on deck, Coyote!
Steamboat sends

Flapper

Posted 2009-01-09 10:47 AM (#23369 - in reply to #23253)

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Posts: 1107

Location: Tucson AZ

Subject: This one's for BlackBeard!

The moon's orbital plane is tilted relative to our equator (just asearth's is, relative to the sun), so a full moon can rise anywhere fromthe SE to the NE. I live in the Catalina foothills area of Tucson, andthought if I drove a few miles north before sundown when the full moonrose in the NE I could get lucky as, in winter, the Santa Catalina Mountains glow withcolor in the early and late hours.

This shot was taken minutes beforesundown on Jan 21, 2008. By the time the moon was fully risen the evening colors on the mountains began to fade, so I caught the scene at its optimum in this shot. I submitted this shot to Arizona Highways photo contest last year.

That's Thimble Peak to the left of the rising moon; Thimble is near the upper reaches of the Sabino Canyon, a very popular hiking and rock climbing destination in Tucson.

jamitch

Posted 2009-01-09 3:08 PM (#23376 - in reply to #23349)

Mess cooking

Posts: 24

Location: Grove, Oklahoma

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

I would guess the small dome behind the capstain is a BQS sonar

Ralph Luther

Posted 2009-01-10 12:07 AM (#23391 - in reply to #23369)

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Subject: RE: This one's for BlackBeard!

On all my hundreds of trips to the "Left" Coast from here, Chasn, I've told my wife, that for near nothing west of Ft. Worth I see something different everytime. West Texas, Arizona and New Mexico have some of the most beautiful landscapes. The sunrises and sunsets are have some amazing color changes.

Posted 2009-01-10 1:10 PM (#23404 - in reply to #23369)

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Posts: 566

Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: This one's for BlackBeard!

Thanks Flapper, beautiful! It makes me homesick.

BB

Posted 2009-01-10 1:30 PM (#23407 - in reply to #23253)

Master and Commander

Posts: 2254

Location: Foothills of the Ozarks

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Finally found the one of my grandson when he was 7 years old that I really like;
obviously this whole picture thing throws me for a loop; you have to scroll over to the right to see him

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Posted 2009-01-10 4:40 PM (#23414 - in reply to #23335)

Crew

Posts: 98

Location: Lipan, TX

Subject: $$ Rabbit $$

Petrie, the prize winning rabbit brought $400.00 at the premium sale today. Boy was my daughter excited!

Don Gentry

Posted 2009-01-11 7:40 AM (#23429 - in reply to #23407)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Here ya go Doc...

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Posted 2009-01-11 7:46 AM (#23430 - in reply to #23429)

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Location: Foothills of the Ozarks

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Thanks Don; that's what I meant to do but couldn't figure it out. Now, if you take a puck to the noggin I'm still an expert in stitching you up.

Posted 2009-01-11 10:23 AM (#23440 - in reply to #23407)

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Posts: 2540

Location: Wappingers Falls, NY

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Doc...I did a bit of work on your photo...hope you approve.

OOOPS...I didn't go all the way down the thread...well, ya know
we were only trying to help...

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Posted 2009-01-11 10:31 AM (#23442 - in reply to #23430)

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Location: Wappingers Falls, NY

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

I think this is my favorite photo...besides all the ones I have of the kids.

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Posted 2009-01-11 10:34 AM (#23443 - in reply to #23440)

Master and Commander

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Location: Foothills of the Ozarks

Subject: Thanks Patty

Between you and Don my grandson is receiving all kinds of publicity. He's 14 now and over 6 feet tall; I may have to embarass him with that photo.

Posted 2009-01-11 10:41 AM (#23445 - in reply to #23443)

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Posts: 2540

Location: Wappingers Falls, NY

Subject: RE: Thanks Patty

You are welcome. I'm sure there will be just a bit of a "twinge"...our grandson just turned 15 in Dec...he's not 6 ft. tall...but he can look me in the eye, so he's getting there...and does the same thing when we drag out the "little guy" pictures.

Posted 2009-01-11 11:06 AM (#23446 - in reply to #23253)

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Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

This is from the convention-cruise last year.

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Posted 2009-01-11 11:12 AM (#23447 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

This is from the convention-cruise last year.

Damn, how do we delete a post?

BB

Edited by BlackBeard 2009-01-11 11:26 AM

Posted 2009-01-11 11:45 AM (#23448 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

From the Paiute fire near us last summer. Sierra Nevada's from our front yard.

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Posted 2009-01-11 12:14 PM (#23449 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

My grandaughter in one of her only quiet moments (terrible two's underway.)

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Posted 2009-01-11 12:25 PM (#23450 - in reply to #23253)

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Location: Clarinda, IA

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Heres anothe for Blackbeard. Tucson doesn't get clouds very often, but they are pretty at times. Looking west at the northern end of Tucson.
viejo

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Posted 2009-01-11 12:35 PM (#23451 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 566

Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

You guys are making it tough on me. I don't have another trip scheduled home until October...
Thanks!

Coyote

Posted 2009-01-11 5:06 PM (#23459 - in reply to #23376)

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Posts: 1013

Location: NE Florida

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

jamitch - 2009-01-09 5:08 PM

I would guess the small dome behind the capstain is a BQS sonar

You're right. Went off & verified it elsewhere - dome is for the AN/BQS-2 active sonar. I never had one of those things, which had a pretty bad reputation.

DBF
Coyote

http://www.usstusk.com/odax71-72.htm

Posted 2009-01-11 5:20 PM (#23461 - in reply to #23253)

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Posts: 3674

Location: Kansas City Missouri

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

More old Odax photos here.

whalen

Posted 2009-01-11 5:41 PM (#23463 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 606

Location: Citrus County FL

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Here's an up-close shot of WANDA, my 1917 Old Town Canoe (rigged for sail).

Wanda

Posted 2009-01-11 5:50 PM (#23465 - in reply to #23446)

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Posts: 2540

Location: Wappingers Falls, NY

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)...this is my fav from Cruise

I took so many on the Cruise, but I think this one shows how things are changing up there...the other one should be familiar to all you Seattle area folks...

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Posted 2009-01-12 6:27 AM (#23482 - in reply to #23461)

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Posts: 6180

Location: Summerville, SC

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Awww geeezz Gary, you must be trying to make me homesick for the 484 and the Gitmo Hilton. I was one of the original Plank Owners to the Gitmo Hilton. Sure had some good times there.

John Bay

Posted 2009-01-12 2:53 PM (#23501 - in reply to #23253)

Old Salt

Posts: 359

Location: Saco, Maine

Subject: Look closely- VERY closely!

One of my favorite railroad pictures!

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Posted 2009-01-12 3:37 PM (#23502 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 606

Location: Citrus County FL

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Winners in the Darwin Awards! The losers did it up on the rail and ended up as tiny toad frisbees.

(For POD: "Why don't we do it in the road?" "That's why!"

Park Dallis

Posted 2009-01-12 4:12 PM (#23504 - in reply to #23414)

Old Salt

Posts: 419

Location: Anchorage, Alaska

Subject: RE: $$ Rabbit $$

The Brat - 2009-01-10 3:40 PMPetrie, the prize winning rabbit brought $400.00 at the premium sale today. Boy was my daughter excited!

Man, that's some expensive hassenpfeffer!

Posted 2009-01-12 4:40 PM (#23505 - in reply to #23266)

Senior Crew

Posts: 157

Location: Clarinda, IA

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

I didn't take this one, but it is one of my favorites of my qual boat the Snook. I don't think too many other subs ever joined the Rebel Navy.
Viejo

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Posted 2009-01-12 10:42 PM (#23512 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 566

Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Hey Bill, Did the fairing behind the sail house a towed array or something else or was it just for hydrodynamics? Also I noticed on another post that you guys had the brow crossing over to the fairwater planes. Was that the SOP when you tied up?

Curious minds wanna know...

BB

steamboat

Posted 2009-01-13 7:46 AM (#23517 - in reply to #23505)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1814

Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Vieho, What a great pic of Snook flying the Confederate Navy jack!
I gotta take a copy to my next Sons of Confederate Veterans camp meeting. Can you give some of the details of the this historic event??
Steamboat sends

Launcher Lary

Posted 2009-01-13 7:49 AM (#23518 - in reply to #23517)

Senior Crew

Posts: 192

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

...duh, just what it appears bubba, bunch o' rednecks dun stole a boat for the weekend for a joy ride...geeze, buy 'em books, send 'em to school and they don't learn a thing...

heh heh heh

Billy Bob

steamboat

Posted 2009-01-13 8:00 AM (#23519 - in reply to #23518)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1814

Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Launcher Lary - 2009-01-13 7:49 AM

...duh, just what it appears bubba, bunch o' rednecks dun stole a boat for the weekend for a joy ride...geeze, buy 'em books, send 'em to school and they don't learn a thing...

heh heh heh

Billy Bob

THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN ! YEEE HAAAA! (Thats an abreviated Rebel yell, for all Ya'll Yankees that ain't heard the fearsome sound yet).

Steamboat sends

Jim M.

Posted 2009-01-13 8:19 AM (#23520 - in reply to #23519)

Great Sage of the Sea

Posts: 877

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

steamboat - 2009-01-13 8:00 AM

THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN ! YEEE HAAAA! Steamboat sends

Hey Steamboat..

UNION FOREVER

hehehehe

Posted 2009-01-13 10:02 AM (#23526 - in reply to #23512)

Senior Crew

Posts: 157

Location: Clarinda, IA

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Sean, that is part of the snorkel and diesel exhaust system. To see how it worked, go to: http://snook592.sail.to/ click on compartments and tanks, then under ships systems, click on snorkel.
I am not sure I remember all about line handling. We never were in that often to do it much, but I wonder if where you tied up made a difference. I know sometimes we would use tugs and sometime the SPM to manuver in and out. I think it may have depended on the skipper, but probably some on this board remember a lot more about that than I do. I only handled lines a few times on the Snook and doubt if I ever did on the Scorpion.
I'll tell you, yesterday on the USS Marlin, I was sure wishing we had drawings like these. There actually is a passway on the starboard side of the shaft that is too small for me to walk along, but there are several places outboard of panels that we'll have to get some kids to crawl into to get to things. So far we haven't been able to find any drawings of the compartments, tanks, or piping systems for the Mackerel class boats.
Bill

Posted 2009-01-14 4:04 PM (#23569 - in reply to #23253)

Old Salt

Posts: 264

Location: Harrison, NJ

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Here's one that I like. I'm a big fan of black & white photography.

Sometimes I think that you can do more with b/w than color. It's all in the composition and light and shadow.

Flapper

Posted 2009-01-14 5:09 PM (#23571 - in reply to #23512)

Master and Commander

Posts: 1107

Location: Tucson AZ

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

BlackBeard - 2009-01-12 11:42 PMHey Bill, Did the fairing behind the sail house a towed array or something else or was it just for hydrodynamics? Also I noticed on another post that you guys had the brow crossing over to the fairwater planes. Was that the SOP when you tied up?Curious minds wanna know...BB

Bill answered your first question; as to the second, Skipjacks (like all teardrop nukes except the boomers) had only 6 or 8 feet of free-board waterline to topsides, so if you moored to a pier that was 20 ft above water, a brow to the planes was a good alternative unless there was a sophisticated gangway from the pier. Otherwise returning liberty hounds would end up going over the side coming down a really steep brow!

Posted 2009-01-14 10:15 PM (#23574 - in reply to #23569)

Senior Crew

Posts: 157

Location: Clarinda, IA

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Tom, Ansel Adams would sure agree with you. It also teaches you a lot more about those three things you mentioned as there is nothing to cover up your mistakes. Here is a catus shell sitting outside a doctor's office west of Tucson. In color it doesn't standout and show, but in black and white, you can see I should have widened the focal area. Yours has much better detail. What I need to do is program my camera, so I can go back and forth easily between B & W and color, then shoot in B & W to set the shot.
Viejo

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Posted 2009-01-14 10:20 PM (#23575 - in reply to #23517)

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Location: Clarinda, IA

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Steamboat, I'll drop you an email with what I know about it. Got to protect the guilty(Grin)
Viejo

Posted 2009-01-14 11:06 PM (#23576 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

I irritate my wife all the time because I take so many pictures in B/W. I love it beyond all other photography and am a big fan of the master Mr. Adams. The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson (UofA) is the lucky recipient of most of his negatives -- he willed them. If you ever get the chance, it's worth a day-long visit (along with the Air museum, Desert museum, Boneyard at DM, etc...) From a purely entertainment value we ought to do a convention in the Old Pueblo. I know I'm going to stir up a hornets nest but some of us have wives and family that attend the conventions and want to do things other than the meetings. (Hey, I attend the meetings.)
My photos from the Alaska cruise are about 60% B/W, I'll cull some out and post them soon.

BB

Posted 2009-01-15 11:53 AM (#23581 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Country living

Here's a picture of my grandson Matt collecting fishing worms. Our house is obscured by the old chicken coop. Our grandson is now 23 and 6'2'' at 275#.
Picture taken about 1989 in North Branch, New York.
Yes New York has a lot of beautiful country.
Joe'the'Most

Posted 2009-01-15 11:54 AM (#23582 - in reply to #23581)

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Subject: RE: Country living

Forgot the picture.

Posted 2009-01-15 11:56 AM (#23583 - in reply to #23581)

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Subject: RE: Country living

Forget the picture. Can't get it small enough.
Joe'the'Most

Posted 2009-01-15 12:12 PM (#23584 - in reply to #23583)

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Subject: RE: Country living

Joe, I have a free program called pixresizer that works well for making smaller pixel sizes. Also converts many formats to jpeg.
Can find it here at: http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm
Viejo

Posted 2009-01-15 4:16 PM (#23595 - in reply to #23574)

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Location: Harrison, NJ

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Bill,

You mentioned focal length, etc. & composition. I had to learn the relationship between shutter speed and f-stops the hard way.

My first 35mm camera was a Yashica that I bought for $125 at the Navy Exchange in Rota, Spain. It had through the lens "match needle" metering and it was a joy to use. Later it got doused with salt water and the meter never worked again. However, the camera soldiered on for several years after. I did a *lot* of experimenting with speed, f-stops, focus, composition, etc. Burned up a lot of film, too.

I've long since moved to digital, but I still like to use the manual settings on my Nikon. The great thing about digital is that I can see the results immediatly. I can also shoot a lot of pics and select the ones that I really want to use.

Here's another B&W for your enjoyment.

iPOD

Posted 2009-01-15 6:10 PM (#23601 - in reply to #23576)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

I just irritate my wife!!!

Posted 2009-01-15 7:53 PM (#23603 - in reply to #23595)

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Location: Clarinda, IA

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Tom, you are right. My first camera was a Richoh, then I had a Yashica, which is what I used to take the picture of the Scorpion in Scotland. I got used to taking so many portrait types and having fixed long length lens with 2.8 and lower speeds, that I have to stop and think about making sure that sometimes I need everything in focus. Also I miss the speed of some of my older lenses. I also liked the fact that on the older lenses, I could look on the lens and tell about how much would be in focus. Digital does a lot and is much more convenient, but I still haven't gotten a feel for it yet. I shoot most stuff in aperture preferred on all my cameras but am still trying to get used to the slower lenses and how even in long lengths some things are still in focus with the digital lens. I bought my Sony A-100 on purpose so I could use my old minolta lenses, then had to learn that they aren't the same lens in a digital camera. But it is fun and I just need to get out and shoot more. Maybe when the temperature is above zero again. I also liked the needles and then the little circle that would come and go as you got in focus. The way I learned about speeds and f stops was from an old Peterson book and it explained that you needed so much light to make a picture, so you could have a little light, small fstop number, for a longer time, or a lot of light, bigger fstop number, for a shorter time and of course the smaller fstop number made your focal distance less. I also learned to shoot in front as what was behind was more in focus and so still would be if I focused to the front. Some of this seems to apply, but it doesn't always come out like I think when shooting with a digital. But as you said, you look and then take it over again. And by the way nice picture I like the white around the grey.
Bill

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Posted 2009-01-16 11:24 AM (#23623 - in reply to #23253)

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Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

My first camera was a Pentax Spotmatic f. I still have it and a great set of Takumar lenses. I bought the Canon Rebel right before the convention cruise and just love it. I really like being able to set up all the B/W settings (including filter settings) on one selection so I can quickly switch between color or B/W, as I did on many of the glacier photos.

BB

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Posted 2009-01-16 8:39 PM (#23635 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

It took me a while to locate and scan a photo from my qual boat, a statue of Ralph that the crew paid homage to daily.

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Posted 2009-01-17 6:11 AM (#23640 - in reply to #23253)

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Location: Clarinda, IA

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

These are my grandkids with the Scorpion Memorial in NN. Every year their grandmother takes them out for a new photo. It is a wonderful way to see how they are growing and she is teaching them about the Scorpion and other things about our subs.
Viejo

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Posted 2009-01-17 7:42 AM (#23642 - in reply to #23640)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Of the pix I wanted to post this is the only one I could get small enough and it's still 100kb.
It's my wife, Jan, waving and her sister standing on a little bridge I made over the stream in my back yard in Callicoon Center, N.Y..
Joe'the'Most

Posted 2009-01-17 7:48 AM (#23643 - in reply to #23642)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Still won't work even after using a pix reduction program.
Joe'the'Most

Posted 2009-01-17 8:31 AM (#23645 - in reply to #23640)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Thanks Veijo,
Downloaded a new program and I think it's going to work.
Here goes.
This is a picture of my grandson, who is now 23, at the age of 4. He was collecting fishing worms in a recently cut corn field just down from our house which view is blocked by the old chicken coop in Calicoon Center, NY.
Joe'the'Most

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Blue from West Oz

Posted 2009-01-17 12:48 PM (#23650 - in reply to #23253)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

This photo, of me, is the one I like the most.....yeah pretty vain I suppose to have one of myself but memories of a younger day.

Taken in Vancouver, 1985, age 22. about a month after initially meeting Kathy. The submarine is HMAS OXLEY.

I have shown this photo to a few fellow prison officers and most don't recognise me. Comments from the females have been..."you're friend looks cute" to "wow you were hot" ( my reply is, "I still am" lol )

Let's see if this works....

http://news.webshots.com/photo/2608749460101900417zshuDq

Then there is this one of Pamela taken 2-3 years ago now....down at Rockingham Foreshore.....a right little poser she is. Garden Island ( HMAS STIRLING ) in the background ......

http://family.webshots.com/photo/2170392160101900417WCpLfj

Blue *_*

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Posted 2009-01-17 2:29 PM (#23654 - in reply to #23253)

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Location: Harrison, NJ

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Here's one that 's a little different. I shot it in the Hackensack (NJ) Meadows. The area is a tidal marsh conected to the Hudson River. It's also a major migratory bird area. It's part of the Eastern flyway and a resting area for many species of birds.

The shot is along the shoreline area. The foot prints are of some of the birds.

I like shooting "texture" pics. This is a pretty good example of texture.

PaulR

Posted 2009-01-17 2:30 PM (#23655 - in reply to #23654)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Great Blue Heron, is my guess.

Edited by PaulR 2009-01-17 2:31 PM

Posted 2009-01-17 9:49 PM (#23663 - in reply to #23253)

Great Sage of the Sea

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Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Blue, If I may be honest, No you weren't hot and I never knew that unicorns still existed!

Ahhh... my best memories of OZ. Garden Island, Rockingham, and HMAS Stirling - great places! We beat the Aussies at Darts, they beat us at baseball, makes no sense. But we tied at drinking!

iPOD

Posted 2009-01-19 5:05 AM (#23691 - in reply to #23650)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Blue from West Oz - 2009-01-18 2:48 AM

This photo, of me, is the one I like the most.....yeah pretty vain I suppose to have one of myself but memories of a younger day.

Taken in Vancouver, 1985, age 22. about a month after initially meeting Kathy. The submarine is HMAS OXLEY.

Blue *_*

Uhh Blue you having a Senior moment or what??

The Submarine is HMAS ONSLOW you know the one we sailed to Canada and back in 1985, duhh sometimes!!!!!!

Ralph Luther

Posted 2009-01-19 9:43 AM (#23696 - in reply to #23691)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

Come on,POD, give the Choirboy a break--- his mind is fogged over with Cupid.

Blue from West Oz

Posted 2009-01-19 12:31 PM (#23698 - in reply to #23691)

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Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

iPOD - 2009-01-19 7:05 PM
Uhh Blue you having a Senior moment or what??

The Submarine is HMAS ONSLOW you know the one we sailed to Canada and back in 1985, duhh sometimes!!!!!!

Just making sure you are paying attention to what I have to say. Good to see you are not asleep on watch....for a change.

Best

Blue *_*

Posted 2009-01-19 8:25 PM (#23703 - in reply to #23253)

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Location: Clarinda, IA

Subject: RE: Favorite Pictures (NSR)

I have a program that will put different frames around pictures. Kind of fun to do sometimes. This is looking up the street that I live on.
Viejo

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