David Johnson K7DMJ

Shaded meadow with yellow wildflowers. A sunlit mountain ridge is in the background. Yashica MAT 124 with Kodak Portra 160, f/11, 1/500 sec

Wildflowers along the trail to Catherine Pass from the Alta ski area, Utah.

I shot this with the Yashica camera my wife bought at a garage sale years ago as an ornament. It works great. I need to work on my selection of exposure settings.

#Utah #photography #Yashica #KodakPortra #wildflowers

Depends a bit what you are into. For instance, I do Summits On The Air, where I hike to mountaintops, set up my radio and talk to people all over the place. Sometimes I contact people sitting on other summits. Sometimes in other countries. It's not for everyone.

Nice photos. I've been meaning to hike in the La Sal Mountains for a while. I do a ham radio activity called Summits On The Air and there's some summits up there I'd like to "activate". What's the access to the trailheads like? Do you need a high clearance vehicle?

It happens. Pull it apart and soak it in water. It will be fine. Sucks, though.

I found out the cause of the streaks: the lab hadn't wiped the negatives properly after taking them out of the chemicals and the residue had dried on. They cleaned them and rescanned for me and, voila, streak-free images. Happy.

A bristlecone pine with a mountain in the background

Rugged mountain scenery, with aspen and pine trees in the foreground

An alpine meadow, with aspen and pine and a mountain in the background.

Bright pink flowers growing beside a small streem, with trees in the background

I took my Dad's old Canon FTb 35mm film camera from about 1978 on a trip to Great Basin National Park, Nevada. It still takes nice photos.

Sunny 16 rule says that I should have used f5.6 1/60" on this overcast day with 50 ISO film. f11 is 2 stops from f5.6, so shutter speed would have to be 2 stops slower than 1/60" (i.e. 1/15"). By this reasoning, my 1/250" shutter speed is way, way too fast. But I don't think it was. Something wrong.

timber mining headframe with a mountainside in the background and a light shaded brick winder building to the right

I took this #photo of a headframe near Eureka UT using a #Yashica MAT 124 twin-lens reflex camera on 120 format film (Ilford PAN F 50). First outing with camera. Exposure settings were f11 1/250" and I think that was a little overexposed, so I pulled it back a bit in Lightroom. What do people think?

That is good to know. I live in Belgium for part of the year and often go on trips. I should visit Saxonia.

We took a quick break from work today to drive over to the Imperial Sand Dunes near Brawley CA. Scenes from Return of the Jedi were filmed here.

I do my best to tune these people out. Reading their drivel isn't good for my blood pressure.

I found out a while ago that there are PSK31 operators in the US who come on at a specific time each week. I wish I could remember what it is. I've never seen any PSK31 signals while I've been living in Belgium.

I've never managed to get 4 or more QSOs on VHF simplex from a SOTA summit. I think you were lucky!

Canterbury Cathedral was well worth visiting. We'd spent yesterday in Oxford with old friends, after catching the Eurostar from Brussels the night before. Train travel, along with everything else, is expensive in the UK. But not having to deal with parking, etc makes it worthwhile.

The image shows a charming European village scene with traditional Alsatian architecture. On the left, there's a half-timbered building with green shutters and colorful flower decorations on the window boxes, labeled "Hostellerie du Château." In the center, a narrow, older stone building with a steep roof stands, topped with a large stork's nest. To the right, a small red stone church or chapel with arched windows and a statue above the entrance is visible. The foreground is paved with cobblestones, and a stone stairway leads up to the chapel. The sky is clear and blue, enhancing the picturesque, peaceful atmosphere.

A smiling person stands beneath a stone archway of an old castle or fortification made from reddish-brown stones. They are wearing sunglasses, a blue shirt, beige capri pants, and sneakers, with a small bag slung over the shoulder. Behind them, the path leads to a partially visible stone tower and low stone walls. The sky is clear and blue, and the surrounding area is open and sunlit, evoking a warm, historical atmosphere.

A striking stone pavilion with a weathered, ancient appearance stands on the edge of a rocky outcrop overlooking a vast, forested valley. The structure, made of large stone pillars and slabs, resembles a classical temple ruin. Bare trees frame the left side of the image, while the right opens up to a sweeping view of rolling green hills and distant plains under a clear, vibrant blue sky. The bright sunlight enhances the textures of the stone and the natural landscape, creating a dramatic and serene scene.

A Renaissance masterpiece, the Astronomical Clock is a result of the combined work of artists, mathematicians and technicians. Swiss clockmakers, sculptors, painters and automaton designers all worked together to produce this superb attraction. The current mechanism dates from 1842. The main attraction of the clock is its animated figures which come out to delight the public every day at half past noon. During this performance, visitors are treated to views of the different ages of life, personified by a child, a teenager, an adult and an old man, who all parade past Death. Higher up, the apostles have their own parade, before Christ. Their journey is accompanied by the beating of wings and the sound of a large cock crowing. In front of the Clock visitors can admire the huge Pillar of Angels which offers a highly original representation of the Last Judgment.

We spent four days in the Alsace region of France, staying at the Sanctuaire du Mont Sainte-Odile. When I wasn't doing SOTA activations (a ham radio activity involving hiking to mountaintops and contacting other operators), we visited Eguisheim and Strasbourg. Great trip.

We decided to drive up to Antwerp to have lunch and visit the Cathedral of Our Lady, which has a magnificent collection of art.

Mechelen is a less touristy alternative to Ghent and Bruges. The market on a Saturday morning is a lot of fun; a mix of tasty food and cheap stuff.

#Belgium #Mechelen

If the US illegally invades a EU member state's territory, can the EU sanction leadership of the US administration and oligarchs connected with them, just like happened to Putin and his cronies? Asking for a friend.

#greenland

David Johnson (@RealDaveJohnson@pixelfed.social) I rode my Trek Domaine from my house in Saint-Vaast to Binche this afternoon. The weather was typical of Belgium: overcast and cold. I met some friendly livestock along the way, enjoyed walking around...

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I was there for six weeks. Most of it in an isolated camp in the Gobi Desert. Nearest town Gervantes. Had some contact with locals in our area, of which there weren't many.

Given the poor sanitation in Mongolian exploration camps, I count myself lucky to have only got an attack of diarrhea while I was there. I was vaccinated for rabies, amongst other things, and I'd been warned about bubonic plague. But nobody said anything about filovirus.

There's plenty of better and more interesting places to travel during the Canadian winter than the southern US. I wouldn't have bothered in the first place.

I don't know who Sandrea is, but that would have been a nasty way to go. I picked up a copy of The Hot Zone in Beijing on my way to Mongolia the first time. Probably not the best book to be reading in one's ger at night.

did a lot of hiking, had the bus ride from Hell between the Chinese border and Ulaan Baatar via Dalanzadgad, and experienced the culture.
#midlifeadventure (4/4)

Here's me (wearing the keffiya) in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, training a local operator on EM data acquisition with an antiquated GDP-32 multi-function receiver. Probably one of the toughest jobs I've ever done. (2/4)

A few years ago, I spent a few days in the Aleutian Islands, evaluating a gold exploration project with some colleagues. Great adventure. We stayed on the main island, where the fishing village and airstrip were located, and traveled by helicopter to the project area on the neighboring island.

Cool. North Queensland can be interesting in January. It's the Wet Season. You can get amazing thunderstorms. Sometimes cyclones. Hope you like hot, steamy weather. We lived in Brisbane for a few years. Love it.

Where are you planning to visit? Some parts are better to visit at certain times of the year. For example, the Top End is usually awash for most of the summer. That can be spectacular, but makes travel problematic at times. Tasmania is very cold and wet in the winter (and in the summer!).

That's alright. When Quebecois shows played on the television in France, they used to put French subtitles on them.

Canadians love that shit. It's exactly what they did in the War of 1812. And they aren't ever going to let Americans forget it, either.