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Frank, that reminds me of an ex-girlfriend: gorgeous, but oh-so-cold!

Here, half foot or so of fresh snow fell overnight. Here, it's clinging to the roof by the tips of its fingernails, so to speak:

It's really too bad the light wasn't a bit softer for the first shot -- the subject matter is great, and you did about as well as anybody could in that kind of light. I'd have fewer good shots of insects and such if I was female -- a white shirt can work nicely to diffuse or reflect light (or both)...

Hi Pat, Welcome. Seeing somebody join with that kind of credentials is just a bit intimidating, but I'm sure we'll get over it soon enough! Just be warned: David is one of those wild, uncontrollable Scots. You never know when things might erupt into sax and violins :lol: (or some sort of vintage ins...

Thank you Yildiz! Your tree shot is quite nice too (but I like your icicle even better!) I'm left wondering how many people (at least in the US) would expect, at the same time in January, to see a blanket of snow over Istanbul, and none visible at all in Colorado. I'm guessing that would surprise mo...

Nice job! I prefer the second a bit. I don't really care either way about the difference in color balance, but I find the craters close to the terminator in the second a bit more interesting. Both came out very nicely though.

Kind of grey and blah today:

The thing I find relevant is whether the particular SW is relying completely on the OS memory management or does its own. I believe it's pretty normal for a memory-intensive SW to do its own memory management. Essentially all software does memory management of its own. It'll have an allocator that ...

I think blaming Corel for WordPerfect's fall from popularity is a bit of a stretch. WordPerfect handled the transition from MS-DOS to Windows quite poorly. The initial release of WP for Windows was so slow and buggy that it was next to unusable. Then WordPerfect got sold a couple of times, to Novell...

Agorabasta: What he's claiming strikes me as about as relevant as the price of tea in China, as the old saying went. "Keith Z Leonard" strikes as mostly blowing smoke. What he's trying to blame is irrelevant, and a fair amount of the rest is just plain nonsense. In any case, it took me onl...

It looks to me like the difference you're seeing between LR and ASP (the "blocky subtexture" in LR) is really a result of some sort of adaptive noise reduction in ASP. In the 1:1 crop from ASP, I see a "smooth" appearance where there's a uniform area, but where there's a "se...

Those are nice -- how much do you bribe them to pose so nicely for you?

That is definitely a nice shot.

Pardon my asking, but what are you talking about? From the looks of things, they do their memory management with the standard library functions (malloc, free, etc.) that have remained unchanged for decades. Given the amount of C++ involved, quite a bit of it probably goes through new and delete (and...

Thanks -- I'm not sure if it really qualifies as a particularly good shot nearly as much as a lucky one. I just walked out a door, and there it was. About the only credit I could possibly take would be for holding the camera steady when I was a bit nervous. I generally like spiders, but this one was...

I guess if we're going to have a thread about spiders, I could add one more to the mix. This one had a body that must have been around 3 inches long, and a wing-span (so to speak) around 8 or 9 inches. Some things grow large in the Philippines! http://i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc452/jcoffin01/_DS...