pitchers tuck by buddy don: tiz a cloudy day

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: jes a nuther mornin in amurka

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mizry of buddy don: anchovies?

Anchovies

Another migraine
Decreed confinement in bed —
Angry helplessness —
But when I realized the cause,
Anchovies, I slept deeply.

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waka of budouadana: Poised

Poised

Poised on the slick edge
Of the steep migrainous slope,
I seek my balance,
Fighting the fierce gravity
Of painful oblivion.

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waka of budouadana: Moment

Moment

Only this moment
Makes up all we have of life —
Our past made richer,
Our future much more hopeful,
By how well we live in it.

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: lil ezekiel at two months

tiz oft sed that a child changes rite befor yer verr eyes. tiz even more dramatick ifn ye dont see the child moren once a week, even less ifn yer havin migraines (mine lacks to cum on saturdy mornin most of all).

innywho, yesterdy wuz the last chants fer jack to meet ezekiel ere he gits on the plane fer prague, witch he will do that this evenin. so twuz that all wuz gatherd over at isaiahs, witch by everbidy i mean jack, loretta n paddy.

heres a pitcher of the lil feller in paddys arms, witch he luvs the camera n aint skeerd of nobidy a'holdin im, mayaph on a counta i wuz takin his pitcher before he wuz one hour ole n that day everbidy n thar bruther had to hold im fer a bit.



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pitchers tuck by buddy don: nuther purty sunrise

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: new perspecktiv on the sunrise

as everbidy knows, technallgy makes it possibull to see thangs that ye couldnt see befor or even to look at the hole world in a differnt way once ye git to knowin bout them new possibilties. so tiz with hdr. ever whar i go i see new possibilties.

but thays a lil moren that. here lately they finishd up a bildin n opened up the walkway in frunt of it to whar tiz easy to walk a lil futher down on the waterfrunt (we live rite on the hudson river). so that made it a lot shorter to walk futher downtown to take sum pitchers.

so thays two new ways i gut to look at thangs ...

a new 'how': hdr, wich ye kin do by takin a series of pitchers, each time changin the shutter speed a lil n then later on lettin photoshop work five or six of em over till they turns into one.

a new 'whar': futher downtown.

otherwise, twuz purty much the same ole same ole ...

'whut': the man hattan skyline with lots of puffy clouds hangin round everwhar but not rite on the horizon, witch that makes it possibull fer the risin sun to shine on em frum below.

'when': that time of a mornin whar thays jes a lil sugjestchun of a glow near the east horizon. this mornin twuz about 5:15 with a 6:13 sunrise.

'why': on a counta makin thangs changes yer perspectiv.



this here is a shot i never wooda made ifn twernt fer hdr ...




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pomes of buddy don: The Great War Hero

The Great War Hero

How could he be expected to recall
How many houses his wife bought for him?
He is the great war hero, after all,
Whose memory, with age, begins to dim.

And how could he remember which great team —
The Packers? Or the Steelers? — Do we care?
The point is he had undergone extreme
Enhanced interrogation over there!

And isn’t everyone pretty confused
Concerning Shia, Sunni, and Iran?
It’s just a talking point the poor man used —
At least he thought to bring his Lieberman!

His inconsistent views? Oh, what a bore:
That flip-flop stuff is so two thousand four!

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: big sky over new york city

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: too minny pitchers to fool with!

ever since fletch larnt me how to do this hdr stuff, i bin takin more pitchers than ye could shake a stick at. fack is, i caint keep up with em all. tuther saturdy me n miz bd went by the brooklyn botanick garden after ackupunkchur (whut a blessin! kills the migraine ever time, tho it mite come back on the walk to the subway). corse i couldnt reesist seein how sum hdrs wood look frum thar. heres a few of em ...





one of the best thangs bout this hdr stuff is how it makes ye notiss thays other thangs wurthy of pitchers. used to be i woodnt hardly be innerested in the native flora part of the garden on a counta twuz verr hard to git pitchers that wudnt close up shots of flowers n such. but with the hdr, ye kin git a grove of trees to look kindly lack it looks to yer eye whenever yer thar in persun ...





finely thays sum magick that kin happen. as ye know ifn ye visit this here blog verr often, i luv to take pitchers of folks in thar native habitat a'doin thangs without pozin or thankin bout no camra. as we wuz walkin out of the park, i spied this yung lady ritin in a book, witch she wuz sittin so still i could git off a few shots to make this hdr



i also know i gut to do sumthin bout the monitor on the computer on a counta my pitchers cums out too dark even tho they look jes fine on the screen. tiz also a fack that lookin at em with inny screen definishun lowern say 1280 by 1024 makes em look bad. my pallgies fer that.

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: cuple hdrs that dint wurk lack i hoped

one of the thangs i bleev i will git one of these daze is a good pitcher of the moon agin eethur the skyline of man hattan or a bildin or sumthin. thang is, ye caint hardly bleev how brite the moon is. i tried gittin it on the furst shot, but even tho i putt the settin to whar one of the pitchers dint have nuthin but the moon, it still wudnt whut i wonted. thays also the fack that the moon seems to move verr fast on a counta the earth a'turnin ...



thisn wuz a lil complicated by the street lamp in the upper rite side ...


i real eyes that these here pitchers aint suckcessfull, but tiz importunt to see whut wurks n whut dont on a counta the best way to larn it to take as minny chantses n pitchers as ye kin.

nuther thang i need to do is to calibrate my monitor on a counta whenever i print sumthin, tiz way too dark. same thang with these here pitchers: thar all rite when i see em here, but at wurk thar way too dark. i reckun the same is probly true fer yall.

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: nuther beeyootifull mornin

best thang bout migraines is how when ye aint a'havin one, tiz a beeyootifull day. tiz also nice whenever ye gut a beeyootifull sunrise a'wakin ye up.

that hdr stuff gut me to take a shot frum a differnt place than i generly wood ...


as ye kin see, my shadder is a'wavin at ye in a pitcher usin a verr wide angle, witch thats whut makes it look lack the horizon is curved ...


this here is the best i ever dun with that new yorker sine, witch tiz hard to git innythang ceptn a big ole red blur frum it, witch ifn ye click on it to make it big, ye kin see whut i mean ...


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pitchers tuck by buddy don: sunrises over man hattan

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eggstream mizry of buddy don: caint brake the curse

this has bin a verr hard summer. used to be i dint have no migraines once sprang time cum around. this year, thar a curse i caint brake.

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: hdr vs reglar pitcher

i luv that hdr stuff, but it dont wurk fer everthang. on saturdy me n miz bd will be in brooklyn fer ackupunkchur, witch after that tiz a trip to the garden, whar we plan to spend a lil time in the native flora part of the park on a counta dont nobidy hardly ever goes thar n thays jes the kinda dappled lite ye need fer a good hdr.

ye mite could thank the mornin sunrise wood be a good candidate n whenever the clouds gits jes rite, i speck thats the case. this mornin me n miz bd gut out to the waterfrutn in time fer civil twilite. whilst she dun her tai chi, i tuck a slew of pitchers. heres a cuple of em, one hdr, tuther jes a plane pitcher, not necessarly in that order.





seems to me lack ye dont gain much in this case with hdr on a counta ye lose a lot of the color even ifn ye do git more thangs visibull. i caint hardly wait to try this at the garden. i am also a'hopin to find them sacred lotuses doin thar thang.

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waka of budouadana: Start

this lil waka here wuz writ after a good friend of mine tole me bout his daddy bildin a exter room on his house. he wood cum home of a evenin lack innybidy, wore plum out frum a day of hard wurk. after dinner, in sted of watchin the tee vee, he wood tell his wife he wonted to go out to the room he wuz a'bildin n 'drive one nail.' twuz easy a nuff fer im to git up to do that. once he wuz thar with his tools on, seem lack he wood wurk till twuz time fer bed. corse, he finished that thar room all by hisself (he mite coulda got a bit of hep along the way, but he dun most of the wurk without it).

Start

The project too vast
To complete in a mere day,
I hated to start,
So I said, “I’ll drive one nail,”
And in no time, it was done.

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: catchin the sunrise

Sunrise

To catch the sunrise
You must brave dead black darkness
And wait patiently
Through morning’s civil twilight,
Hoping for clouds and colors.

as ye kin planely see, thay wuz clouds but not much in the way of colors this mornin ...



by the way, i gut wurd frum red molly that them pitchers i putt up yesterdy dint wurk fer a while in the mornin, but i found the problem (or i thank i did). thankee, red!

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pitchers tuck by buddy don: furst attempts at hdr

ever since i cummenced to understandin that hdr stuff thanks to fletch talkin bout his larnin on the subjeck, i bin trine to git sum good eggsamples of it. heres my furst efferts, witch thar all a'usin photoshop to make em hdr, witch fletch menchuns photomatix as bein better n lackly tiz, only it costs bout a hunnert bucks n i dun alreddy have photoshop.

part of the problem is ye gut to have a subjeck that aint movin n that purty rare. even so, heres three shots of the waterfrunt on a day we wuz blessd by one of the mos beeyootifull clouds ever i seen:







them furst three above wuz all dun usin auto-bracketin with the aperture set n the shutter speed changin. each hdr cums from three camra raws.

after i figgerd out that auto-braketin aint the best method, i tried usin manual settins, settin the aperture n takin a series of shots whar i changed the shutter speed frum lowest that wood wurk to highest (based on whut the camra wuz a'tellin me). heres a cuple of them i tuck up in fort tryon park ...

this furstn aint the mos innerestin shot, but it has the mix of lite that lets ye test yer hdr, witch its good fer makin it so everthang in the pitcher seems to have a nuff lite, doin fer the pitchers whut the eye duz on its own ... that the george washington bridge in the distunts ...


heres a lil purtier shot, witch twuz hard to find shots whar thay wudnt lots of movement ...


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waka of budouadana: Clash

Clash

Competing forces
Clashing over trivia
Bring down great empires
Through mere misunderstandings
Of words, intentions, beliefs.

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revues of buddy don: fletch n that thar hdr method

as ye probly know by now, i luv pitchers. i have larnt a trick or two bout em n hope to larn more. one of the thangs that poplar now is hdr, witch thats a short way to say hi dynamick range. ifn tiz dun rite, ye have pitchers that looks lack the real worl on a counta how our eyes is so much bettern the verr bes camra lenses ever made.

i couldnt seem to ken thisn tho till i saw whut fletch had larnt to do. sumhow his eggsplainayshuns git thru to me, not that i have dun a sangle one of them thangs that satisfies me ... yet.

meanwhile, take a gander at whut fletch has dun! ye kin jes foller the lank above to git thar, but make shore ye look at these beeyooties:

• palm trees on a wurdless windsdy
  
• lighthouse park (dont know how he gut them clouds to cooperate!)
  
• n the one that cunvinced me (n fletch too, seems lack) that this stuff is wurth larnin, brotherton cabin!

thays all wurthy of a gander, so git on over thar n treat yer eyes n yer spirit.

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waka of budouadana: Buried

Buried

Though buried alive
Underneath heavy brown earth,
I am not afraid:
It is but germination,
My old form becoming new.

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pomes of buddy don: Decreasing Demand

Decreasing Demand

Your businessmen don’t like efficiency
Since it just cuts down customer need —
Covertly they cheer a deficiency
For giving them cover to satisfy greed.

They're all quite sure it’s a grand waste of time
To limit demand for oil and such —
Instead they would like to pump more of the grime
To sell at a price that’s not quite too much.

To them conservation is just a big joke —
They need to make fun of those who believe
That reducing demand just might provoke
Curtailment of costs good sense could achieve.

It’s just like their drug war, a thing of supply —
Decreasing demand "costs too much" to apply.

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pinions of buddy don: shootin frum the hip

in a comment to this here post, fletch ast a questchun that deesurves a anser:

Nice pics. I noticed that they seem to be taken from waist level. Do you have the camera strapped to your belt, shoot from the hip, or are you just a short person? I'm always afraid of getting punched when taking pics of unsuspecting people and wonder if your camera is hidden. You might have mentioned this in a previous post but I can't remember now. Hope you are feeling better.

as ye mite have notissd, i luv to take pitchers of folks when they aint pozin. ifn they see ye pointin a camra at em, thar lackly to ack out or even to hide thar faces. tiz thar rite, n ifn i bleeve sumbidy dont wont thar pitchet tuck (within reason), then i dont take it.

thang is, ifn a bidy cums out in publick, thar in whut is known as the publick domain, n so longs i dont make claims bout em lackin one product over a nuthern, then i kin take n use thar pitchers as art. i am also lucky that i live in a place whar thays mosly tursts on the streets n innywhar ye look, thays a passle of folk takin pitchers, makin it easy to fit in. thays sum places ye kin point the camra rite at folk with no trubles, but puttin it up to yer eye is a ded giveaway.

since i dont wont em to know n then poze, i tend to shoot frum the hip. i have practissd it a minny a time by now. twuz a lot easier with the last camra i had, a canon rebel xt, witch wuz lite n easy to cuntrol.

whenever i moved up to a canon eos 5d, i give tuther camra to my son tony sos he could take lots of pitchers of our new grandson ezekiel. the new one aint near as easy to use. it caint use the image stablizayshun lenses, the camras a lot heavier, n tiz much harder to cuntrol. tuck me a while to larn it.

now i wurk it by havin a monopod on it most everwhar i go. i set it to a size that makes it almost lack a good walkin stick. then i sumtimes pause, look around at thangs (not whar the camras pointed, witch i have larnt how to frame a pitcher purty good without lookin thru the vue finder), n snap pitchers thats generly speakin not whar i am a'lookin.

as a reesult, thays a minny a shot tuck frum the hip. as fer my height, tiz jes a shade under 6 feet, so i caint say i am all that short.

thankee fer astin, fletch! i am trine to larn that hdr process ye bin a'usin n feel lack i gut more frum yer site than innywhar else i dun looked, tho i caint satisfy myself with em yet ...

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waka of budouadana: Procrastination

Procrastination

Put off for a day
Viewing of cherry blossoms,
Basking in warm sun,
Savoring the first fall fruits:
You will still feel winter's wrath.

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