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Before we headed to Anchorage to eat Thanksgiving dinner at the home of my youngest son and his wife, my oldest son and I took a walk with his St. Bernard, Muzzy. We soon came upon this sign. It gave me two feelings - one of sadness for the dog and its people, and one of thankfulness, on this Thanksgiving Day, that Muzzy is in good health and plain sight.
My heart and best wishes go out to Caramel and her people.
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We walked up to the top of the hill behind the marsh, where a new, small, subdivision was recently built. There we found Bob and Samuel shoveling snow from their driveway.
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Later, in the afternoon, we drove into Anchorage and entered into the home of Rex and Stephanie. There we found Boxcar Bean resting on a chair.
You can find the story of how Boxcar Bean joined this family on my other blog.
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Boxcar Bean.
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Boxcar Bean, Melanie and Kalib on Thanksgiving Day, 2008. It is now 2:05 AM on the day after Thanksgiving. I plan to put some images up from the feast that we all shared, but first I must get some sleep and do a few other things once I get up. I will then post the pictures as quickly as I can.
ISO 800, 100 percent clip.
All of these images were shot with my new pocket camera, the Canon Powershot G10, successor to the G9 that I started shooting after my injury and that I have built most of this blog with. I often visit photo forums such as DPreview and the official word there and other places seems to be that the high ISO's on the Canon G10 are worthless - "unusable" is a word that keeps popping; that one should not even shoot a G10 above 1S0 200.
They said (and say) the same thing about the G9, but I often used it at high ISO's. So I have extended an invitation to some of those who don't believe you can shoot above 200 to come here and take a look and that is why I have pulled these two 100 percent clips from two of the above Boxcar Bean images.
Certainly, there is noise, just as there was grain in so many of the old films that I used to love, like black and white Tri-X and T-Max 3200, and certainly the high ISO images do not match the ones from the high end DSLR's, such as the Canon 1Ds III that I was shooting when I fell, but I find the high ISO's very usable. They allow G10 shooters to get images that they could never get if they stopped at ISO 200.
You can catch the mood, the feeling, the emotion, the action... it might not be so plastic smooth, but what the hell...
ISO 1600, 100 percent clip.