Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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That was interesting. Why did the crows get involved? Were they trying to provide close air support?
They harass all manner of predators just to be... crows.

It's how I get most of the coyotes and foxes here at the farm. I hear the crows erupt and, sure enough, there will be something walking the field pursued by crows! They also go after the owls with a vengeance. And any other raptors, for that matter.

Cheers,

Sirhr
 
Well, my brother is a record holder then. He was renting my house while I was over seas and pushed one of those extendable magnets you use for screws or whatever off the back of the washer and sure enough it landed on the slightly pulled out plug and tripped the breaker. Having said that I have changed zero plugs in my house ?

And the breaker did the job it was designed to do. ?
Thanks for the info.
Now I know of exactly one person this has happened to.
 
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That's what I thought based on the face shape and ears back. I've heard from professional trainers that those dogs are the tip of the spear in intelligence and intensity; the challenge is their both intelligent and intense at home too, constantly looking for a bad guy!

I thought about looking for a female malinois to breed my male Bouvier des Flandres to, to maybe get a better nose than the Bouvier but dial down the Malinois a bit.
 
View attachment 7291783Rescued this pretty girl yesterday. Her face was pretty torn up but looks to be healing nicely. I thought owning a Doberman was challenging, and she is proving be as much if not more. Smart as he'll, and super obedient!
You are correct on the level of energy and coverall drive. They are like a German shepherd on a constant sugar rush.
 
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View attachment 7291783Rescued this pretty girl yesterday. Her face was pretty torn up but looks to be healing nicely. I thought owning a Doberman was challenging, and she is proving be as much if not more. Smart as he'll, and super obedient!
She could be my little noodle brain's twin :ROFLMAO: You can find her in the "Man's Best Friend" thread
 
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That's what I thought based on the face shape and ears back. I've heard from professional trainers that those dogs are the tip of the spear in intelligence and intensity; the challenge is their both intelligent and intense at home too, constantly looking for a bad guy!

I thought about looking for a female malinois to breed my male Bouvier des Flandres to, to maybe get a better nose than the Bouvier but dial down the Malinois a bit.
You ever read WEB Griffin's Presidential agent series? There is a few bouvier des flandres in that series.
 
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Are you doing this with a calibrated tripod and software to stitch them together? Care you share your technique?

I have always been impressed with Peter Lik's work using a 1940's vintage film camera.
I have a good CF tripod by Gitzo that has a main shaft that's easy to plumb. On that I've got a simple 3-D head. One of these days I'll buy something like a Nodal Ninja. To reduce parallax, you want the entrance pupil of the lens aligned with the axis of rotation of the tripod/head combo. My setup gets pretty close due to the way my tripod mount is located.

So rather than a calibrated head, I overcompensate by rotating shot-to-shot and row-to-row by less than the maximum allowable amount. So I throw out billions of perfectly good pixels. This also helps with parallax avoidance.

You'll need to get to know your exposure metering foibles. Once you go beyond about a 90 degree panorama angle, shot-to-shot brightness and contrast variation can turn what was a beautiful lighting situation in your eye/mind into a boring, drab landscape. I tend to slightly underexpose, then make the difference up in post processing. Shadow/highlight and brightness/contrast controls are your friends.

I stitch using Photoshop. I'm still using CS-5. Good luck!
 
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