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[bva]

fantastic shots!

[rhudeboye]

Great shots.

I recently got a new point and shoot digital cam and Im surprised at how fast the shutter works. I was able to get a clear pic of a wheel moving about 70mph, no blur what so ever. Yours also did a good job.

thanx for sharing.

[ds968]

spectacular pix !!


btw, re the last two shots : what is that ?

i was thinking it's either a mega meteor shower we all missed 'cause we went to sleep too early given all the wine tasting followed by the after-dinner tequila and whiskey or, you left your camera inside my engine and it captured the sparks the valves were making when the timing belt snapped ?

[mrmister]

After all you kids went to sleep, I went down to the beach to take some shots of the stars. I didn't get anything too amazing, but I wanted to try out the my new lens.

These are the stairs that go down to the beach. few minute exposure.



This is the beach with a long exposure so you see movement of the earth/stars in star trails. 5 minute exposure or so.



This is a 20 minute exposure with the camera pointed straight up at the sky. Lots of star trails, but you can see the light pollution from the 'city' in the bottom left of the picture.

[mrmister]

Rhudeboy- Yeah, cameras are pretty fast these days. I didn't set up a fast shutter speed, but I should have. This camera will do 1/8000 of a second. I have done even faster, 1/30,000 of a second with some flash tricks, but that is a different story.

[rxter]

Where did we eat breakfast on this trip? My kid is driving up there and I want to steer her to a great breakfast.

[flash]

hoover's

[Chris Vais]

Flash, are sure about that? Most of us stayed in Cambria, I thought, and had Sunday breakfast there rather than make the trip over to Hoovers, but perhaps I'm mistaken.

[94SilverCab]

Hoover's was 2011,
in 2009 we had breakfast in Half Moon Bay

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[flash]

oops - my bad - i had the wrong year. hard to keep them straight

[Bulti]

Lol, is that white whine at the breakfast table?

[ds968]

Lol, is that white whine at the breakfast table?

Must have been champagne but the place only has wine glasses . That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :-). Seriously, what the hell are we drinking and at what time of the day, because that sure looks like breakfast food on the plates . Was it brunch ?

[Bulti]

This could be a classified picture right in the open! You shouldn't be careless with incriminating stuff like that. :-)

[ds968]

So are you saying this would not be the time and place to admit that even some of the wine snobs in our group opted to buy screw top bottles because they're just so much easier to open..while driving.. ?

Edited by ds968, 19 February 2014 - 08:55 AM.

[Bulti]

Lol, you could call people who are sipping white wine at 8 in the morning 'snobs', we got a different word for those here ;-)

For some reason, I need to open a bottle right now, sooo thirsty...

[Chris Vais]

Champaign at brunch as I recall.

Speaking of sparkling wine, which is what we legally must call Champaign if it is not produced in Champaign, France, I recently had a bottle of Navarro Winery's sparkling Gewurtztraminer and it is a knockout. Not produced every year unfortunately, but when they do I'm buying a case. Well worth a try, but probably only available through the winery because of it's limited production.

Edited by Chris Vais, 19 February 2014 - 04:49 PM.

[flash]

lol - you do like those sweet wines, don't you?

yes, we were drinking bubbly. i think it then became mimosas

[Chris Vais]

Actually, the sparkling gewurtz was bone dry. I like serving an off dry white wine as a before dinner libation, such as a German riesling. Lower in alcohol so it preserve the dinner quests and their taste buds for the bigger main course wines.
Definitely, off topic now.

[flash]

lol - true enough

[Rap]

Flash what's up with the Paso info this year? Are you running late? Lol