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Post by darkmoon on Jan 7, 2008 19:20:49 GMT -6
Blessings To All! I just wanted to mention the Turtle Island medicine Society for those who might not be aware of it. It was founded back in the late 1960's or very early 1970's I believe, and was formed to bring medicine men and women from all tribes together to help heal Mother Earth and bring peace to the land. We do this through conducting pipe ceremonies at sites of disaster and death, and by special seed ceremonies our member and guests conduct all over the world at places in need of healing. All these actions are done quietly and without fanfare, as we are working for the Earth and noit for personal glory. Indeed, we have ways of conducting a pipe ceremony in public that no one knows what we are doing and no one even notices (at such times we do not use our traditional pipes!). I am the current chief of the society, and would be happy to share out ways and thoughts with anyone sincerely interested. Peace
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Post by Lone4eagle on Jan 9, 2008 20:31:01 GMT -6
darkmoon, I got a new camera...SLR digital Canon EOS Rebel XTi. Got it a year ago in December. Added a 10x macro lens to the filter mount (which can be removed) of the camera's 28mm-200mm zoom lens. With this combo, can get good photos, up close just as I did with my other camera. You remember the time I stopped by at the museum to take some pipe photos? The time you had written an article for a pipe magazine and they wanted some photos to go with it. The pipe wasn't a Native one, but one from the collection of famous people. Took 3 sets of close ups, you gave me a set...the magazine used a photo on the cover. Well, with this camera don't need to buy any film, has a 1 GB high speed memory card. It gets over 200 images in a file format that uploads to the computer where processed into a 12.96 x 8.64 inch 300 ppi resolution picture. That is slightly larger than 8 x 12 inch print size photo at a 300 resolution. Magazines now usually want digital images submitted on CD with the 300 ppi resolution. This is standard for most publishers. This is a pic I have at MyTribalSpace.
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Post by darkmoon on Jan 14, 2008 19:35:43 GMT -6
I rember that time well. The pipe was the special one that President Gerald Ford gave me. The one-of-a-kind one presented to him that looks like a Masonic "Book of Knowledge", remember? It is one of the favorites in my pipe collection. You know, with that new camera, I should get you sometime to take some photos of some of the pieces in my collection of Marilyn Monroe's personal things. I have some of her jewelry, beaded purses, gloves and other things. Stay well my old friend!
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Post by Lone4eagle on Jan 15, 2008 19:04:35 GMT -6
Yeah, that was the pipe. You still do much writing for autographs? That one from Ronald Reagen with Nancy was really nice. I would like to maybe sometime take some photos. It is so hard to find things around here that are interesting enough to photograph. The problem is now getting time for myself to go places. You are such a long drive away. I used to have plenty of time to go visit. My parents in their seventies, had no idea they would demand so much time and attention at that age. I guess it is all part of getting older.
If you remember the old camera, it took a flash attachment on a 3 ft coiled flash cord. As I snapped photos the flash had to be moved around up close. This was because the flash up close allowed a smaller lens opening like f22. Macro photos should have an opening of f22 or smaller to be sharp enough for publishers.
The good news on my digital SLR Canon, it has settings that equal the old film cameras, with speeds of 100, 400, 800, 1600. If you manually set the lens opening, goes to f22 like the old camera. But it automatically sets the shutter speen. I've found that if the shutter speed is set manually, it picks automatically the lens opening. Now what is amazing, if I set the shutter speed to a 1/60 of a second and 1600 ASA (is like film speed but digital) it has f29, f32, f36 automatically selected on a normal sunny day. This means sharper macro photos without the need for flash on a flash cord up close. In fact, no flash at all is needed to get f36 out in sunlight, even during evening time. The old camera f22 was the most you could get with the old slow films.
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Post by darkmoon on Jan 16, 2008 19:21:50 GMT -6
The new camera sounds like a good one! Not sure what all that means (yeah, I am just another dittzy redhead!) but sure sounds impressive! I would love to get some of the things I have that belonged to Marilyn Monroe photographed (like her first wedding ring, lock of her hair, and some neat diamond earrings). Also get pics of some of my more interesting artifacts (have a nice collection of old trade beads and pre-Columbian items of several tribes). Well, maybe one of these days when we both have time.
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