[ratpack] Re: condom photo
- From: humminboid@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:41:10 +0000 (UTC)
Yeah, Ray, that's what I missed. Next year, I will be there earlier. C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Buck" <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:06:05 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain
Subject: [ratpack] Re: condom photo
Sorry, Mark. Your photos were great. While you were playin macro photographer
at one end, Larry and I were talking about the Brandon/Braden Miller orange
Stang and the other photo with it. This, unfortunately, is something that
happens when we have multiple items and multiple people checkin 'em out. Your
stuff certainly wasn't to be ignored, nor considered lower quality than anyone
else's.
The editing job is beautiful. I never knew that one could remove a condom so
easily. :) Cereally, you did what we talked about as being a real difficult
thing and that's matching the shade of orange and keeping the reflections
intact. Right on, bro! (As we used to say during the acid wars of one decade
or another.)
Since you didn't ask why I'm up in the middle of the night (like I gave ya a
chance, huh?) I'll just state that I didn't know it was possible to be so
damned sick without drinking. ImiGod! I haven't puked that hard since the
Jagermeister attack in 73...or was it the Ouzo of 1980? Who knows? I drank
enough for all of us...and more.
Let it suffice to say that apparently I have intestinal flu, just like several
other people have had...Larr, was that you? :) This has been a REEL
interesting winter and it ain't gonna even start for another 3.5 weeks. I've
already had upper respiratory flu, then the Meibomian Gland Dysfunction in my
eyes that I thought was getting better, but seemed to come back and bring
friends just as the stomach flu came galloping into my body yesterday.
Anyway, I feel much better after getting rid of everything I've eaten since
Desert Storm...in one way or another. I'm sipping Gatorade while I scan a
photo to include with this.
Ok. Got it. Lessee. The pack comes down the short chute between turns 5 and
6, about to take the green flag halfway down the main straight (drag strip.)
The Elva D/SR (or maybe C) was Brad Morgan. I think the 47 Spitfire was Ray
Evans and the Volvo was probably Fast Eddie Monahan...unless it was the blind
as a bat guy who put on Eddie's firesuit and helmet. I can't remember the
others. The Datsun wasn't mine. Mr. Alog prolly knows who they were. Was the
red Spitty Ron Christensen? He's still got his Speedwell Sprite and is the
announcer for World of Speed on the salt. He had been announcing all the
events, but he had prostate surgery in August (and I think I'M SICK?) so SCTA
brought someone else in to do the announcing for Speed Week and World Finals.
Dunno what the arrangements will be next year.
And Carl: You gotta come out on Saturday or Sunday nite for Speed Week. This
is what ya missed last year:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/Cruisin2009/20090808/090808.html
And Mark: I steered ya wrong on the event with the pinup chix. That was Rat
Fink's Car Show in Manti. On the left side of thumbnail photo:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/Cruisin2009/Welcome.html (3rd down on the
right) that's Jade Pinup...well, that's the name she uses. She gives me a
"crazy old man" hug whenever I see her. Her mother is her agent and is always
there to make sure nothing...uhhh...well, mama keeps an eye in her.
The one I thought you were talking about was the Rockabilly/Rat Rod show in
East Carbon (or Sunnyside) (formerly known as Dragerton.) It was hosted by Bo
Huff who seems to have a pretty good name as a kustomizer:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/Cruisin2009/20090711/090711.html Here he
is with the overall winner:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cruisin/Cruisin2009/20090711/2009%20Bo%20Huff%20%2001%20001r8_jpg.html
The chick on the event thumbnail is called "Kitten" She's actually a
sweetie....and all the folks involved there are really kool. I think they get
a kick out of an old man who really digs their cars. Kitten (or whatever her
name is) came to me as I was getting ready to leave. She was just about in
tears. Seems someone had sloshed tequila all over her Nikon. I took her back
to the Burb where we found some rags and water in the cooler and she proceeded
to give it a thorough cleaning. That was about the time that the 3rd of 4th
bottle of hard stuff got emptied and I figgered it was a good time to split.
Btw, I plan to skip the Moab car show this spring and go to Las Vegas for the
Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend, April 1-4. I better get to work on it if I
wanna get photog credentials. (Crossin my fingers on that one.)
http://www.vivalasvegas.net/
Yes, the other photo is me. Scary, ain't it? July 4, 1976. The 4th of July
was on a Sunday that year. But the Utah government decided that it would be
celebrated on Saturday the 3rd A local am DJ (Tom Barberi) organized the
"Bicentenial Peoples' Parade." I drove my 56 Ford Pickup and it was used as the
garbage truck. I'll scan a photo of that with my Sprite on a trailer behind
it. I'd just bought the Sprite in a basket and was bringing it home. But in
another post.
Last but not least, although I was gettin sicker by the moment, I finished my
overhaul of the www.target550.com website yesterday afternoon. Most of the
work was internal, getting rid of the never-ending repetitious css shit that
was used by Front Page to create it. It had some terrible compatibility
problems between Firefox and IE. (And Opera hates unclosed paragraph tags.)
Apparently Doc Freud checked it out last nite and I spose no news is good
news. Unless he's preparing a 75-page bitch sheet for me to fix. One
interesting sidelight on that one: I have carte blanche to do whatever I
want...as long as it works. The pan is to use it as a vehicle to generate
sponsorship for the liner and the team. I'm listed on the Crew page as being
responsible for the website. I don't have a bio page yet. I talked with Doc
and told him that I might give myself a rather whimsical bio. He said, "do
whatever ya want." I think I'll use the one about being kidnapped by suburban
coyotes until they dropped me on my head and left me for dead. Then the part
about being raised by a group of sentient sewer rats and my career as an
itinerant tree planter in the Sierra Madres (that actually happened) and then
as a vagabond COBOL/Pascal programmer and SCCA corner worker. That otta do it.
RtR
(It's been an interesting life...and maybe I otta get some sleep.)
At 06:54 PM 11/23/2009, you wrote:
Would you like it off the hood also
also guys, i never heard any comments about the photos i brought.
Michaels stole the show, my first time. Next time i'll bring something more
exciting.
Being new let me know about my photos, good or bad.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:37:45 -0700
Subject: [ratpack] Re: I was cruising...
From: mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sure I'll let you take a crack at it.
Thanks
Michael
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Mark Smith < muttley128@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
the product for enlarging photos to avoid pixelation is genuine fractals. there
is another one by alien skin the makers of eye candy. i have used genuine
fractals with acceptable results. i also use another technique i got from a
photoshop wow book that works very nice. i will hav e to find it as a wrote an
action and assigned a key combination to it. it increases the photo by 110
percent i belive using bicubic option in photoshop i can remove the condoms
from the car if you want to send me a copy of the photo. i am sure you can do
it mike but if you want editing help (anyone) i would be glad to help.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Wells
Sent: 11/22/2009 7:42:45 PM
To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ratpack] I was cruising...
I was cruising around the pbase website this morning and came across this site
and after some of the programs we saw yesterday I thought the rest of you would
like to see these pics.
http://www.pbase.com/fjbertram/watkins_glen&page=all
Enjoy
The Great Zamboni
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Michael Wells
MCWells Photography
mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx
801-850-7279
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Michael Wells
MCWells Photography
mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx
801-850-7279
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