Let's Look Over Thayer
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I have no words. Only sadness. RIP Geo-K9-Betsy
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Question: What's so wrong about Geocaching newbies?
Answer: No personal images in their Profile Gallery.
If they aren't going to write more than "TFTC" in their logs, why should we expect photographs?
Perhaps we should count our blessings that they were able to spell "TFTC" correctly...
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Hmm, and hardly anybody remarks about my Forum posts.
Oh, I get it...these are all forum posts...
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The days of well composed and properly post-processed images will soon be a thing of the past for the general public.
For the record, Harmon said the same thing when the Kodak Brownie came out...
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Hey James,
There's some openings aboard tall-ship H.M.S. Bounty
you might be interested in. Lot's of rope thingies
aboard the Bounty for you to pull on.
Just so you know,
Harmon
I'm afraid that HMS Bounty is no more -- so there are no more rope thingies to pull on.
14 crew were rescued (including a former member of our crew at the Maritime Museum.) Two remain missing.
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This just in ...
James of LLOT surely gets around.
For some reason I can't figure out a LLOT photo is most-often used when I'm
experimenting with Photoshop techniques.
Probably LLOT photos are the most abuse-worthy...
By the way, have you noticed that the horizontal center strip of the image (both the sky/trees and the rock itself) are evocative of Mandelbrot sets?
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This just in ...
James of LLOT surely gets around.
Hmmm...As I recall, you had used Photoshop to remove the guy in the background with the red shirt. It's seems that he was just hiding...
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Jodi! come back ...
Pa needs you and Ma wants you, I know she does.
Seems like I've seen that kid somewhere before...on a milk carton maybe...?
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Photographically speaking you should remove the
distraction of that other guy in the red tee.
That's always the problem, isn't it? If I had been the one taking the photo, I would have waited until the Red T-shirt guy was out of the scene. But when you hand off your camera to someone else, you never get quite the photo that you envisioned in your own mind.
(Thanks for the vanishing act...)
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Note to Self: Of course LLOT has probablyh been there a dozen times.
Funny you should mention that...here's LLOT pushing Krishna's Butterball up the hill. I haven't been there a dozen of times, but I did visit Mahabalipuram in September 2004.
The place is famous for its stone carvings. Perhaps this will tickle Harmon's photo-editing neurons.
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Hey! Hey! I said counter-clockwise.
Note to Self: Like marriage ... y' gotta wait twenty minutes for a response, if at all.
Righty-tighty. Lefty-loosey.
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Citroen with wine will make you cry.
Ah yes, the Citroen "deaux cheaveaux" (two horses). Officially, the designation is Citroen 2CV which means "deux chevaux-vapeur" or two horsepower. But that's a little misleading since this is "fiscal (tax) horsepower" and refers to a French law on taxing engine size. The actual output was a whopping 9hp.
The design was intended to be an umbrella on wheels capable of carrying two farmers and 50kg of potatoes to market. Another design criteria is that it be able to carry a basket of eggs across a plowed field without breakage.
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By the way, this was the very first PUD-cake event ... baked by PQmommy.
Ain't she th' sweetest thang?
Now she's off to the big city to become a famous chef. But we can say that we knew her when she baked PUD-cake in San Diego.
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"If he had stuck by the way, I would have lent him a heezie, the dirty scoundrel, as willing as ever I pitched a boddle."
Honestly, how can the OED fail on "heezie" and "boddle?"
Probably because the OED is, almost by definition, an English dictionary and those words are not English but rather Scottish. May I recommend the Dictionary of the Scots Language?
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Note two James: How y' like my desktop image?
Harmon, you seem to be coming up in the world. That's quite a change from the ol' homestead.
Note: Harmon didn't say it, so I will. Honk if you know where it is. (Hopefully your answer will not be wholly rude.)
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Some Alabama dude has been seen in CA.
This just in ...
My gosh, the father of the "This just in ..." is in
town and on the trail. How did I miss out? O yeah,
Jeep or FJ t' qualify, I get it.
Good on you guys for hooking East Mesa into the Noble
Canyon area. That's been on my list to do for some
time.
How nice it is to see the ol' boy from Alabama return
to San Diego. From the photos it seems that you still
have a full set of front teeth ... don't that set you
apart from others when y' venture into th' 'bama
piney-woods?
Flatulent Fathers, yeppur, Alabama through and through.
So it goes,
Sweet ol' Harmon
Note to Self: Of course I had t' fix their friggin photo.
Yes it was good to be back in SD but the visit was way too short. I don't remember that lady in the skirt with us on the hike.
You too? I was thinkin' the same thing...
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Note to Self: Rule of thirds and proper lighting dang it!
I posted my picture. You don't think I was going to make it easy for ya, did you?
Note two Self: Enhanced by setting white-point, increasing clarity, contrast, and sharpness and then
using screened layer-blend mode on shadowed face and body and once again just for eyes. Anything
is possible with Adobe Lightroom 4 and Photoshop CS6. Of course it would have helped a bit to shoot
the photo with a Nikon DS800 with James facing toward a setting sun at the moment when his shadow
was twice his hight; you know, when shadow was fourteen-feet long more or less.
Seems like Photoshop has a "5 o'clock shadow" Filter...
How come the bonnie lass doesn't have her face in the sun? I mean, apart from the fact that they don't have any sun there...
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This just in ...
Got Duck Tape?
Not sure why everyone is using this leopard cammo tape lately but the caches are much more easily spotted...
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On the bonnie, bonnie banks of the San Dieguito Lagoon...
Sorry, no piggies or bagpipes for ya...and I got a license for them un-bunched stockings.
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If I knew how to alter pics like you do I would love to fix up a few of yours haha.
The cool thing (OK, one of the cool things) about Ol' Harmon is that he is more than willing to teach people to fight back. There are a number of PhotoShop lessons contained in this thread (though it can be a pain to search them out...)
And he isn't too careful to keep from leaving incriminating photos (or photos that can be made to be incriminating) of himself from falling into the hands of others...
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OMG!
After all these years I've finally got a following.
Maybe you should be on Twitter. #PoorOlHarman
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The Clodhopper Saga
THOSE boots were made for walkin'???? Really?
Another part of the event that I must have missed...sigh...
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Not sure about The Thirsty Lasses ... that's got
a pitfall or two with regard to rhyming.
Cam an, Harmon! Gie it laldy. Failing means yer playin!
Ye ne'er been feert ta' step in whaur angels fear to tread.
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You'd think those guys would be smart enough not to stand in the middle of the road.
I have no words. Only sadness. 
The San Diego Thread
in West and Southwest
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Wow!
This just goes to show how thoroughly the San Diego geocaching community has shifted over to FaceBook. There was a time when "The San Diego Thread" was the most prolific and active thread in all of the Geocaching Forums. And on top of that, there were several other San Diego specific threads (*** This Just In*** San Diego County Cache Critters, Yrium's Geocacher Trading Cards, San Diego Banter. San Diego Whiners Thread, San Diego Congratulations Thread, etc.). At one point, there were so many SD Threads that the Forum Moderator shut some of them down because San Diego was dominating the West and Southwest Forum.
Now it's nothing but tumbleweeds and crickets...