Logs last...

Simple Technology lasts and lasts and lasts...

Logs last...

A great many of these structures were built by men with absolutely NO formal education! Back then, you learned from those folks who knew how to do it and who Were Doing it. No classroom, no book...

Real knowledge and skills come from Doing something. Sure, you can learn a lot about something, but until You Do it, it's semi-useless knowledge. Read how to tie a fishing knot and then put the book aside, closed, and then try to tie that knot. Once you've tied it a few times, it becomes, YOUR knowledge and your skill level can then go up from there. We've Gotta Do things in life! Don't spend your life on a couch or in an easy chair. Well, that's one of my motto's anyway. :-)

I would love to see some kind of plan, where say, a group of poor folks build a handful of these older type structures out in the back 40 somewhere, on free Government owned land or a remote section of a vast park, just to prove it can all still be done...

Cheers!

lb

Blog much? :-)

It seems that I've gotten myself hooked on blogs now. I may have to re-think this if the workload gets much bigger than it is now. :-) Then again, the way I see it anyway is, You can Never have Too much Google recognition. :-)




Have You ever tried Your hand at Blogging? Have You ever used a Journal to keep notes in? What about keeping a scrap book of photos?

Well, if You want to compare blogging to anything, it would be that. Adding pictures from Your scrap book, to your diary/journal entry and then adding a music clip or You Tube video You like. Then calling Your creation, a blog, with a real URL just like a website. That, is pretty neat stuff to this normally, fairly old-school, writer. :-) I myself am living proof that Anyone can actually do this stuff. That means You too, my readers. :-) You too can construct a nice blog with just a little effort on your part.

Anyway, go have a peek @ this one and see what You think...

Even more Bloggin'...

lb

Variety Photography To-day...

Roaming day...

You've probably heard the term before but I like to use it a lot, so now you're hearing it (well, seeing it actually) again, right here. Variety Is the Spice of Life! The more great subject matter, within reason of course, that you get in front of your camera lens, the better you'll become at composing your pictures. More subjects = Better Pictures.

October Maple

Specializing is great, but, Variety is Never boring! :-)

I put a little variety in my shoot the other day as You can see here. From the leaves falling and losing their beautiful fall colors, to a hidden little bottle dump, deep in the woods. Next, a few Canada Geese shot close up, and then, some Artistically created, Stone Men in the river and finally, a parting shot of the Blog Photog...

Enjoy!

Fall Yellows

Sugar Maple

Hidden bottle dump

a croaked Coke...

Hidden In The Woods...

Is He Lookin' At Us?

a Wadin' Canada...

Stone Men

River Art

Rock Village

some Kool Stone Animals

See Ya!

There's more pics over on my other Blog at Bloggin' with Larry if you want to have a look at those too...

Thanx for popping in to-day!

lb

Through my eyes, this week...

An Ottawa Valley Panorama...

The Ottawa River Valley...

A Punch Buggy 4 You! :-)

A sweet little original VW Bug!

Some ad work...

LarryB @ Your Service...

...and there you have it.

Cheers,

lb

Some Cool Caps for the Outdoors...

Caps are Cool headgear...

Caps have been in Style, as they say, for maybe only forty or fifty years now, but they are rooted in American Baseball and have been getting only More popular every year since those good ol' Hardball days of yore.

The Fishing world grabbed on to the ball cap style pretty quick in the late 60's, especially whenever and wherever, Ray Scott's BassMaster's World Class Fishing events, took place! Ray himself set the western folks buzzin' with his Cool Ten gallon Stetsons to draw a lot of attention for his new Fishing troupe of Pros. All those Pro's back then, like Rick Clunn, Al Lindner, Tom Mann, Roland Martin, Bill Dance, Ken Cook, Billy Westmorland, Big Jim Rogers and his good buddy, John Powell and hundreds of others, were all sportin' those Re-done Ball Caps at those B.A.S.S. tourneys, because a lot of them where Baseball fans and also loved to fish.

The Headgear fashion had hit the Fishing World then and there and it would grow like Wildfire in the next three or four decades. This "Cap" thing has even cross-pollinated and caps are showing up in Music studios, Movies, Kids clothing departments and everywhere else it seems.

During the present decade, through much daily observation on my part, in many different areas, I could almost say that nearly Everyone, everywhere I go, wears ball style caps as their main headgear when going out anywhere, these days. :-)

Wow, Talk about Ray Scott being a real Trend Setter, with his ten gallon hat, his fishing dream and ALL those Bassin' Pro's wearing those Cool caps with lure names on them from their sponsors :-) Ray, my man, just Look what you've done! Awesome.


I Love the Bill on this particular John Deere Cap. It's a little longer than any old standard bill cap length. That extra length, coupled with my Rapala Polaroids, creates an unbeatable, totally shielded, fish-seeing area around my eyes, where by I can peer through any and all glare off the waters I'm fishing. No stray light gettin' in there any time soon... :-)


Nice Pattern Too


Good ol' John Deere

A Cool Cap to pack anywhere...

Presenting the...

Crushed and folded, Nike to go cap...


Nike Crushed

Seconds later,

Nike Ready!


What Caps do You wear? Do any of them have longer bills? Can you crush and uncrush any of them? I'm diggin' this light nylon-ey type feel to this Nike as well. Weighs Zip. :-)

later,

lb

More Outdoorsy stuff here...

Walleye Slide...

Canadian Made Walleyes...

This picture is all Canadian stuff. I've been doin' a lot of experimental work, as I like to call it, with my sweet little point & shoot lately. Since the day I brought it home, I've been thrilled with it's performance. I haven't even used half of it's features yet but the ones I have used work flawlessly.

Many years ago I used to shoot weddings and nature photography with a Pentax SP 500, and after that, a Minolta Maxxum 7000. So when it was time recently for me to finally go digital with my camera life, I naturally started looking at what Pentax or Minolta had to offer. Well, I never got as far as even looking at the Minolta lineup. Nope. Of the many models that Pentax was offering, I chose a mid-range unit to match my budget, seeing as I live now, on a Trucker's paycheck. :-)

Well, I really don't know and I certainly don't care, what great features, all of the more expensive jobbies have over this little boy that I've got. This camera has been up to the challenge every single time I've fired his shutter. In case You are interested in digi-cams, this is the Optio model, numbered E30. I shelled out a paltry $150 CDN for this puppy and he has already paid for himself easily.

The lure in the picture above, if you didn't recognize it already, has been around Canadian walleye waters now for 3 or four generations of Canadian fisherman. I'd guess that Millions of pounds of Walleye have been caught on this killer lure over the years, although that would be pretty hard to gauge. :-) If you fish Walleyes, you Need this awesome lure. It's called, plain & simply, the Canadian Wiggler. Built in Canada to catch Canadian Walleyes originally, it Will catch them Anywhere!

This slide was shot about 30 years ago and hasn't seen the light of day since then. I sat it on my natural light table with the Wiggler and let this cool little E30 work it's magic. My old Pentax would have had a fit trying to take this shot. :-) The coin is an old Canadian ten cent piece which I use to show size relations for lots of my studio picture taking. The original Walleye slide was recorded in the evening and you can see the "Eyes" just a glowin' there because of the use of a necessary flash.

I think I'm onto something here with this, "shootin' slides" experiment thingy. It opens up a potential Gold Mine of recorded images for the future. I've got @ least a thousand old 35 mm slides from my previous Outdoorsy days, sitting on shelves, just Dying to be shared.

Something else...

I've also been re-shooting, old photographs lately too, which I talk a little about in my other blog over here at More Bloggin'... where there is also another Pentaxed (my expression) slide to view. So go take a peek if you've got a few spare moments to spend with me to-day...

Keep the rubber side down,

lb