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I was in Shorin Ryu also when I was a teenager. I always loved martial arts and practised hard most of my teenage life. The place I learned that from was a guy in his 50's that had 2 sons around my age at the time that actively taught the classes. Their dad learned while he lived in Okinawa in the army (some branch) and they were very good. Best I've ever seen. I've forgotten the Kata by now mostly, but one really always was cool called Wansu Kata. I've never seen it done the way they taught it anywhere else and there students would win trophies a lot doing it. They also taught that kata should be done with high energy, not quite the graceful movements that some do and not the robotic like movements like in that video. Very good times, but I'm to old and getting up in the morning hurts to much to do that stuff now:-) Evan

My wife spent 5 months being very sick so I didn't get any. Oh and her tits hurt the whole time, but I just enjoyed pissing her off:-) Evan

This ain't columbusstreetracing.com so why can't some people learn to take it to the track? This ain't 10, 20, or 30 years ago. The public eye sees street racing through the eyes of Fast and Furious these days and the car scene is all but gone as a weekend hang out activity. IMO anyone street racing should be hung out to dry because these days there are just to many people who barely have any business driving (old ladies and such) that share the roads with everyone else. Evan

Most of the time when I'm filling up I see the button. I'm sure its law that all stations have at least a kill button somewhere. Most stations have one on the wall by the entrance. Evan

Here it is again after about 2 more hours of processing the levels and curves. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/2ndprocessed.jpg

I live about 25miles north of polaris right across the line in morrow county so I have reasonable dark skys for Ohio. The next time I take a crack at that galaxy I'll go for at least an hour worth of light data and probably end up with a very printable photo. The moons coming back around now so it messes everything up. Evan

Its shot using the cameras body and the telescope as the huge freaking lens. The only editing I did was basically increasing the brightness and decreasing the background noise. The details are I used 6 3minute frames then shot 3 3minute frames with the lens cap on to make what we call a dark frame. Then you subtract the dark frames from the actual pictures and what happens is all the noise from the cameras photo sensor getting hot gets erased. Evan

I just had one removed by oak creek dental. that place rocks and I can't remember shit from that weekend:-) Evan

Not a very good picture of galaxy M51, but I wasn't going for a long exposer. Only caught enough of the image to practice level/curves adjusting in PS. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/M51websized.jpg Evan

your 22, shot a dude a long time ago (I read that shot at age 10 with water pistol) and your saying you have a CCW now. Some how I hope someone that has shot someone when they were a kid can not get CCW. I'm a few years older than you and I can say that in my life I've met one person who's seriously killed someone in a fight when they were a teen and that person is a crack head, psychotic criminal and they can't even get a drivers lisence and are probably on parole forever. hehe sorry forgot this is the internet so I guess I have a CCW, my dick is 30", and my corolla is faster than what ever you drive:-) Evan

guys with CCW or that want CCW re-read your own comments in this thread and you'll kinda know what I meant when I said things like, "99% of people I know, I would not want carrying a gun around me or defending me with one" or "a lot of the CCW advocates that I know seem a little off in the head." Paraphrases, but you get the point. Especially re-read the first 2 pages of your own posts because from the third person they seem a little dangerous and I'm not sure that you'd be clear of the law for just firing because 3 guys are approaching you. Hehe of course most people even a drug crazed moron would have backed the fuck off if someone had a gun aimed at them. Guess I"m saying your worse off then a drug crazed moron. Oh and your lucky as shit so I'd play the lotto right now if I were you. Okay now that that is out of the way I'll give my opinion since this is the internet and thats what its here for:-) 1) Obviously the guy felt the need to be carrying a baton on his person at all times and have a gun in his car. I'm guessing he's either nuts and/or this isn't the first time he's felt threatened by your friend. 2) If he did something that warrants an ass whooping say caught him with your girl then whoop his ass hard or kill him then pay the debt to society and don't be a bitch by letting him just hit you with a stick. There now if you didn't think I"m nuts you know I am now:-) Evan

Haha McConnelsville, the judge there once attempted to get at the bailiffs side arm when our IT company told them a file was lost forever. He wasn't happy obviously. Evan

Those robots still creep me out. Evan

Ok I'll play. I'd take the MILF because the young one would be all dumb and bitchy about it and mom would likely be more fun and from her looks I'd say she'd try harder:-) Oh and I like boobies. Evan

YEEHAW! Hell they ain't that bad and yeah probably a dad/uncle/brother thing going on, but who cares its normal in the part of WV that my wifes family is from. Evan

When I was growing up in southern ohio we used to live right on the path of the national guards C-130's out of wood county, wv. Sometimes they'd fill our picture window with the haul of those beasts as they rattled everything at probably 500-1000ft. I'm not sure why they would fly that ridiculously low in an aircraft that size, but I've never heard of one hitting anything so its probably practice. We also had a huey do an emergency landing behind our house in a field when I was 10 or 12. That was cool watching them work on it and then finally coming to pick it up with one of those old school double prop heavy lifting helicopters (not the chinook sp? but the other one dedicated for lifting.) Evan

That would be fun. I learn much better by doing than reading and I've been wanting to play with some downtown pictures. I saw a nice one from were I judged to be on the waterfront probably with the camera mans back near the center or far north end of veterans memorial. It had the bridge, santa maria and of course the buildings done very nicely. Another nice angle could be the upper floors of OSU east hospital. I'm there working on equipment a lot and look out the windows. Would be neat to get on the roof and shoot a night scene maybe with a rising moon properly exposed and layered into the shot. it would at least make the scene interesting since a daylight shot from that distance/direction might show to much columbus ghetto. Evan

yeah 40d. well it was one of those things were I was sitting there doing nothing and they came up but I'll take the advice. 1/160th would be cool. I gotta take this thing on a shooting trip. wife won't let me:-( It was against a very black storm cloud and I was shooting toward sun though it was behind cloud. Evan

Nope up north on I-71 near Marengo (exit 140) Evan

I had 3 of these fly over a few minutes ago while I was sitting in lawn chair with my camera in my lap watching the storms. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/blackhawk.jpg It was pretty dark, but I touched up the levels a bit in photoshop. First time I've tried sport shooting mode on anything thats actually fast. Evan

Hehe photobucket pwned my beautiful stormy sky shot and it actually helped my deep space one look better. Blah go figure. BTW the tiny star in the middle of that ring is the remaining neutron star from the explosion that caused the ring of debris. Evan

Here's a couple things I was able to shoot today/night with my new set up as well. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/IMG_0368.jpg M57 - Ring Nebula 6 30second frames stacked and processed in photoshop not great, but you should have seen the fog bank I was shooting through. http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/EWhytsell/M57firstprocess.jpg

If you want to do a simple automated picture of a flower or other close up subject turn your dial to portrait. It will do a simple "macro" type of setting for your shot. You can also turn the dial to "P" and it will adjust everything for you and you should also be able to select some of the features that "auto" won't allow. This is a quick way of getting the camera to do more things without having to worry about all the full manual things. Also you can mess with any setting you want on the camera and it will return to its default position after you turn it off/on. Well most settings that matter anyway. Evan

If that camera is anything like the S2 then you have a really good macro mode, super macro mode (you can touch the flower on the glass and still focus) and a very good video recording ability. Evan

I love it so far. I gotta learn a lot though since its my first true DSLR. As far as daytime stuff I got a 28-135mm IS lens for most things. The deal came with a 70-300mm lens also, but its very basic. I'm thinking of getting maybe the 50mm F1.8 or 1.4 lens for lower light and some wide angle space stuff, but since the cameras primary purpose is astrophotography this is the main lens I'll be using. http://www.celestron.com/c2/images/files/product/91020-XLT_c8acg5xlt_mid.gif Its a 2032mm F10 telescope with a 206mm primary mirror. Mines similar looking, but its old enough that its glass was hand ground so the quality is far better than the one pictured (unless it was a good day on the assembly line.) When I get real serious I'll get a modification kit for the 40D that will eliminate the hydrogen alpha filters. Then I'll have to also install a white balance filter for doing daytime stuff though. So far Nikon hasn't made a DSLR with a signal to noise ratio as low as canon so nearly 90% of space shots are using canons so you get a lot of resources and info on the subject. By low S/N ratio I'm talking about running the cameras shutter open on an object for over 3 minutes per frame and doing several hours of frames in that manner then combining them with stacking software into one very detailed image. Even the canon CMOS is smoking by the time your done and some people have even built massive cooling systems to freeze the CMOS to -40F while shooting. Canon took notice of what people were doing with there cameras and even made a Canon 20Da for a short time that had the features astronomers wanted. Evan