vulture1957 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I've been watching the "Newest Waymarks" tab lately. I keep seeing Medal of Honor Resting Places being posted by Don.Morfe from all over the place. I'm not saying he hasn't been traveling to cemeteries, but why would he wait to post them all at once? Looks to me like he has been surfing MoH sites and using pictures and locations from them to post waymarks. Quote Link to comment
+8Nuts MotherGoose Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I think his profile page pretty much explains it all. He has almost 20 years of accumulated photos and GPS coordinates being posted to other sites as well as Waymarking. Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I've been watching those MOH waymarks. Very nice that he can post all of those. It must have been a lot of work to track them down and visit them to take photos. Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 Below are the cameras and scanners used in the Waymarks on the first page which have exif info. There are 14 with exif info, 11 without, most, but not all, with only one pic. It's pretty safe to say that he has been using a Fuji Finepix S5700 camera and, earlier, an HP Scanjet 4070 to scan film pics. The items in bold below are outliers, taken with different cameras. The Canon was used in 2013, later than any of the Fuji pix; maybe he updated his camera. The CASIO seems strange to me; maybe an experiment of sorts. The lack of exif on 11 of the entries is likely explained by an earlier scanner which left no exif footprint. He's been on the hunt for at least nineteen years now. WOW!!! Gotta give him credit for perseverance!! I sincerely doubt that we have a case of armchair WMing here! I noticed on his profile that he's contributed a lot to www.hmdb.com. I've actually grabbed text from there when my shots had shadows or washed out text which wouldn't allow a good OCR result. Mebbe I've even used one of his! Keith Augustus Walley-Reisterstown, MD - Fuji Finepix S5700 - taken 2008 Allen Walker-Laredo, TX - Fuji Finepix S5700 - taken 2008Leroy H. Vokes-Fredericksburg, IA - Canon A700 - taken 2013 Andrew J. Weaher AKA Andrew J. Weaber-Phoenix, AZ - Sony Dsc650 - taken 2007 Charles A. Varnum-San Francisco, CA - HP Scanjet 4070 - scanned 2006 Frederick E. Toy-Lewiston, NY - HP Scanjet 4070 - scanned 2006 Wilbur N. Taylor-Minneapolis, MN - FUJIFILM FinePix S5700 - taken 2008 Richard L. Tea-Prescott, AZ - HP HP ScanJet 4070 - scanned 2005 Charles Taylor-Washington D.C. - FUJIFILM FinePix S5700 - taken 2011 Thomas Sullivan-East Orange, NJ - HP ScanJet 4070 - scanned 2006 Christian Steiner-Hot Springs, AR - FUJIFILM FinePix S5700 - taken 2010 Rudolph Stauffer-Washington D.C. - CASIO COMPUTER CO.,LTD. EX-H20G - taken 2011 Eben Stanley-Hillsboro, NM - HP ScanJet 4070 - scanned 2005 Emanuel Stance-Maxwell, NE - FUJIFILM FinePix S5700 - taken 2007 Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 It's a lot like hamquilter in the post office category. She photographed post offices many years before she started Waymarking! Little by little she goes thru them and posts waymarks. Quote Link to comment
+iconions Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 10 hours ago, vulture1957 said: I've been watching the "Newest Waymarks" tab lately. I keep seeing Medal of Honor Resting Places being posted by Don.Morfe from all over the place. I'm not saying he hasn't been traveling to cemeteries, but why would he wait to post them all at once? Looks to me like he has been surfing MoH sites and using pictures and locations from them to post waymarks. Hey guys, I'm the one approving all of these Medal of Honor waymarks. I was being VERY careful before I started approving these back in the day. I wouldn't risk my reputation as an officer approving these without checking these out first. I'm actually kinda upset that I missed some of these resting places when I was out on my vacations. I'm actually going back through a lot of my old pictures to see what waymarks I either missed or what new categories have come into existence since I took those pictures. It's actually been rather fruitful. Quote Link to comment
vulture1957 Posted June 20, 2018 Author Share Posted June 20, 2018 Great news from all o f you. I was completely wrong about this. And, if the poster reads this, Here is a public apology for besmirching your Waymarking. I don't do many waymarks from the past because I don't have a date for when I visited those places. And would have no idea of the geo coords before I started Waymarking. 1 Quote Link to comment
+8Nuts MotherGoose Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 A friend of mine loves photographing waterfalls. She has waterfall photos from all 50 States and several Countries. I've tried to convince her to Waymark them. She just says, "Maybe some day." Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 14 hours ago, Max and 99 said: It's a lot like hamquilter in the post office category. She photographed post offices many years before she started Waymarking! Little by little she goes thru them and posts waymarks. Yeah. She's done quite a few of those as WPAs, as well, some of which I've had the pleasure of approving. I initially had questions about those, too, but she explained the situation to me. 8 hours ago, iconions said: Hey guys, I'm the one approving all of these Medal of Honor waymarks. I was being VERY careful before I started approving these back in the day. I was going to mention that Don.Morfe has managed to keep you pretty busy of late!!! Keith Quote Link to comment
+iconions Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 4 hours ago, BK-Hunters said: Yeah. She's done quite a few of those as WPAs, as well, some of which I've had the pleasure of approving. I initially had questions about those, too, but she explained the situation to me. I was going to mention that Don.Morfe has managed to keep you pretty busy of late!!! Keith I've managed to approve a couple of waymarks of late... Quote Link to comment
+NW_history_buff Posted June 22, 2018 Share Posted June 22, 2018 Don.Morfe's Medal of Honor submissions are all legit. I've messaged him personally, since I'm an officer in the category. He stated it's been decades of picture-taking in the making. He took many before digital cameras came into being and has flatbed scanned many. Although some of his photos are of poor quality, I've been giving him the benefit of the doubt. It's good that we have Waymarking members looking out for each other! 1 Quote Link to comment
+iconions Posted June 23, 2018 Share Posted June 23, 2018 6 hours ago, NW_history_buff said: Don.Morfe's Medal of Honor submissions are all legit. I've messaged him personally, since I'm an officer in the category. He stated it's been decades of picture-taking in the making. He took many before digital cameras came into being and has flatbed scanned many. Although some of his photos are of poor quality, I've been giving him the benefit of the doubt. It's good that we have Waymarking members looking out for each other! Thanks for also doing the double-check on these - Don has these pictures on way too many websites not to have taken them himself. He also has graciously completed any rewrites or requirement cleanups I have asked for so I definitely have no problems with his submissions... Well, except for the fact that I missed some of these Medal of Honor resting places on some of my travels! Quote Link to comment
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