tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44886871996712777892024-03-05T13:23:47.350-05:00poppimatnypoppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-33798625325483075732010-08-16T22:22:00.004-04:002010-08-18T06:35:20.639-04:00In Remembrance of Sue<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/u0yy16bkozvZajzqXLfxB_49qVYL5-k_O0tVNWfN1Xc?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_RoZfoDZlBnM/TGktqZSJV-I/AAAAAAAAB0g/RFyUJ5c9CnQ/s144/Sue1.jpg" /></a><br />Turn on speakers & Click in the box to start a slideshow on Picasapoppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-10472792760800610612009-08-20T12:54:00.001-04:002009-08-20T12:56:16.846-04:00August B'Days 2009<table style="width:194px;"><tr><td align="center" style="height:194px;background:url(http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/poppimatny/AugustBDays2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCLP6m5uQzeeXbw&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_RoZfoDZlBnM/So152KSNF0E/AAAAAAAABfI/2_2MTUfOC2M/s160-c/AugustBDays2009.jpg" width="160" height="160" style="margin:1px 0 0 4px;"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/poppimatny/AugustBDays2009?authkey=Gv1sRgCLP6m5uQzeeXbw&feat=embedwebsite" style="color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;">August B'Days 2009</a></td></tr></table>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-34177907645379911812009-07-03T12:45:00.001-04:002009-07-03T12:48:55.621-04:00Happy 4th of July!!<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/patminnyc/3680269435/" title="Red White & Blue by PatMinNYC, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3611/3680269435_c73c5b9010_m.jpg" width="240" height="161" alt="Red White & Blue" /></a><div><br /></div><div>One from the 2009 Flickr set</div>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-38316773588954545202009-04-01T09:44:00.001-04:002009-04-01T09:44:54.108-04:00Cows' farts can save the planet!! | Irish News | IrishCentral<a href=http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Fish-oils-reduces-cow-farts-42188022.html>Cows' farts can save the planet!! | Irish News | IrishCentral</a><br /><br />Posted using <a href="http://sharethis.com">ShareThis</a>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-14034808720068068792008-12-04T21:00:00.005-05:002008-12-04T21:18:38.868-05:00The Ugliest Santa in NYC<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFAM1SYLJlEF546SvZ_U3jm-zlMfLTNon2_Q_woHtmym9yTmJQvU2DTSambNEgKRJT52Z-XG8gG9Nl0wdpKB8Bup7KYZ3Y6AzyXcqliLyacw90tISiN3b4BvRjld3UPVZt51PAWvqohzo/s1600-h/IMGP2595.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFAM1SYLJlEF546SvZ_U3jm-zlMfLTNon2_Q_woHtmym9yTmJQvU2DTSambNEgKRJT52Z-XG8gG9Nl0wdpKB8Bup7KYZ3Y6AzyXcqliLyacw90tISiN3b4BvRjld3UPVZt51PAWvqohzo/s400/IMGP2595.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276124399082435586" /></a>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-65891974711731879132008-04-18T12:15:00.002-04:002008-04-18T12:17:34.477-04:00CLICK! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition<div class="click-widget-fb_wide" id="click-widget-noscript-content-3" style="WIDTH: 390px; HEIGHT: 270px"><a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/click/"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="Click!" src="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/click/widget/i/fb_wide/splash.jpg" /></a><a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/click/"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none" alt="A Crowd-Curated Exhibition" src="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/click/widget/i/fb_wide/info_bar.jpg" /></a> <div style="Z-INDEX: 1; FILTER: alpha(opacity=80); POSITION: relative; TOP: -113px; HEIGHT: 84px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(7,173,239); opacity: 0.8"><p style="PADDING-RIGHT: 3px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 18px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 4px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #fff; PADDING-TOP: 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,sans-serif">Open Call Begins March 1<br /><a style="COLOR: #fff; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/click/">http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/click/</a></p></div></div><script src="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/click/widget/bootstrap.js.php?instance_id=3" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><p><br /><br /><br />Last month photographers were asked, as part of the Click - Open Call sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum, to submit one photograph that considers Brooklyn's transformation and captures the "changing face(s) of Brooklyn." They welcomed a wide variety of visual interpretations of this topic. </p><p>I submitted one of my favorite shots from an ongoing project on Coney Island. They are now ready for you "the crowd" to view and evaluate the works that will become part of the formal museum show scheduled to open in June. </p><p>If you click on the lettering box in the image above it will point you to the official site that provides more details about the project concept and the evaluation process. In order to try and keep the evaluations honest no photographer's names are listed and the image order is totally random. There are some amazing images here! You are encouraged to look at them all and help rank them. Registration and verification is very easy and you can go back at any time before May 23rd (last day of evaluations) and pick-up where you left off so you do not have do it all in one sitting. I hope you will take the time to look at the images read the statements and be a part of this unique curatorial and exhibition concept.<br /></p>PatMinNYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16781566732988987904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-19018091441292917802008-04-04T15:32:00.002-04:002008-06-12T22:12:00.763-04:00Passion Play in Astoria<div align="center"><a href="https://poppimatny.photoshop.com/?wf=share&trackingid=BTAGC&galleryid=11a7acb566084d75b30be036d34f2464"><img src="http://api.photoshop.com/home_39e7bece87a9400890aed12fc298468b/adobe-px-thumbnails/24305bc391ca40c6bfb65e47cfd7401d/256.jpg" /><br />!passion play - Astoria</a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="left">Heard a loud commotion on my street on Friday the 21st so i grabbed my camera to get some shots of something you don't see too often. For a short while my street reminded me of a Central American village - thankfully, I did not see any real nails or blood and the only one being flagellated was not being hit very hard....</div>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-30524070525186833032008-03-29T12:38:00.001-04:002008-03-29T12:40:16.631-04:00Oh lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ...<div align="center"><a href="https://poppimatny.photoshop.com/?galleryid=05a44dddc75b470b9d300f9d0d99e321&wf=share&trackingid=BTAGC"><img src="http://api.photoshop.com/home_39e7bece87a9400890aed12fc298468b/adobe-px-thumbnails/a308af55fd994ae581f6db8a95a926e8/256.jpg" /><br />! Janis Joplin's Porsche</a></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">In the courtyard of The Whitney Museum at "Summer of Love" show in 2007</div>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-65199728002882116752008-01-06T13:06:00.000-05:002008-01-06T13:36:14.492-05:00"Nostalgia-Holiday Train"<span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span class="640031618-06012008">I<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >n celebration of</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > the holiday season, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" class="640031618-06012008" >the MTA of NYC linked up some vintage cars from their museum and ran them on </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >the 6 Avenue </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" class="640031618-06012008" >V </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >line between the Queens Plaza and Lower East Side 2 Av stations every Sunday in December</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" class="640031618-06012008" > last year. On 12/30/07 one of my neighbors and I joined a bunch of train buffs on the 10:45 out of Queens for a fun trip back down memory lane. Below is my collection of the images captured that morning in a dotPhoto slide show:</span></span></span><object id="show_193451" data="http://www.dotphoto.com/FlashTool/player.swf" allownetworking="internal" allowscriptaccess="never" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" align="middle" height="581" width="448"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"><param name="allowNetworking" value="internal"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="flashvars" value="Speed=l&KAS=1&partnerID=dotPhoto&SID=193451&password=nycRules"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dotphoto.com/FlashTool/player.swf"><embed src="http://www.dotphoto.com/FlashTool/player.swf" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="Speed=l&KAS=1&partnerID=dotPhoto&SID=193451&password=nycRules" name="dotPhotoPlayer" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" align="middle" height="581" width="448"></embed></object>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-8824136746184536552007-12-25T01:11:00.000-05:002007-12-25T02:24:14.192-05:00An Early Christmas Meal in Astoria<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Times New Roman;" >A hawk that I have seen flying around the area decided to drop in on us last Sunday morning 12/23/07 but was kind enough to bring his/her own food. It was early, <span class="140224406-25122007">overcast, raining </span>and the light was not great but I managed to grab a few shots with the only long lens I own from my kitchen window. We think it is a <span class="140224406-25122007">either a </span>red<span class="140224406-25122007">-</span>tail<span class="140224406-25122007"> or goshawk but don't know for sure so </span>if there are any bird watchers out there let us know.</span></span><br /><br /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fpoppimatny%2Falbumid%2F5147786069982778097%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-31442446447622343152007-08-26T12:05:00.000-04:002007-08-26T14:36:56.068-04:00In and around the hood<table style="WIDTH: 194px"><tbody><tr><td style="BACKGROUND: url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left 50%; HEIGHT: 194px" align="middle"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/poppimatny/AstoriaLIC"><img style="MARGIN: 1px 0px 0px 4px" height="160" src="http://lh6.google.com/poppimatny/RtGhukpDEWE/AAAAAAAAAzo/G7ys9zc5-Ws/s160-c/AstoriaLIC.jpg" width="160" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #4d4d4d; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/poppimatny/AstoriaLIC">Astoria/LI<wbr></wbr>C</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Downtown NYC is where I work and spend the bulk of my days but Astoria/<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">LIC</span> is where I live. Aside from the rich ethnic tapestry of this place there are some pretty amazing places in this part of Western Queens and a major part of the reason I like living here. Interspersed among my "city" shots there are always a few "neighborhood" shots generally captured on the way in or back from work. I will be dropping those shots into this collection as well as some other weekend rambles that don't necessarily fit in on some of the other <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">plog</span> themes.</p><p>Stop in now and then ...</p><p>The first two are recent shots of a neighbor's front yard that I grabbed on my way to work in the morning - it is one of my favorite front yards on the block.</p><p></p>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-52394614238655462562007-07-21T09:01:00.001-04:002007-07-21T09:18:57.796-04:00Rainbow over ChinaTownNear the tail end of my day on the 18<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">th</span> I grabbed this shot from my window.<br />Too bad they have put this anti-blast/<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">uv</span> film on them.<br /><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/poppimatny/ViewsFromMyWindow/photo?authkey=80i14x9eyPk#5089633799294600722"><img src="http://lh6.google.com/poppimatny/RqIC-XPGxhI/AAAAAAAAAmY/G3a8-SL-kpY/s400/IMGP0120.JPG" /></a>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-4763494506978435312007-07-09T22:05:00.000-04:002007-07-10T16:51:21.663-04:00<div align="left">Fireworks show on the East River - July 4th 2007</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><p><embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&captions=1&amp;amp;amp;amp;RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fpoppimatny%2Falbumid%2F5085287787879274945%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss%26authkey%3DFbkXFO3eVzY"></embed> </p><p>If the slide show does not run click on this pic:<br /><table style="WIDTH: 194px"><tbody><tr><td style="BACKGROUND: url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat left 50%; HEIGHT: 194px" align="middle"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/poppimatny/04July07?authkey=FbkXFO3eVzY"><img style="MARGIN: 1px 0px 0px 4px" height="160" src="http://lh3.google.com/poppimatny/RpKSTNEtGcE/AAAAAAAAAmE/gxjqErJAAFc/s160-c/04July07.jpg" width="160" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #4d4d4d; TEXT-DECORATION: none" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/poppimatny/04July07?authkey=FbkXFO3eVzY">04July07</a></td></tr></tbody></table></p>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-27354324825112522382007-07-01T10:32:00.000-04:002007-07-01T10:57:12.432-04:00Postcards from the road #3 & #4<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/pat.merino/Postcards/photo?authkey=EwJTLx0ZVRY#5081684353522552418"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/pat.merino/RoXE_uBfTmI/AAAAAAAAA8c/5mX2zeYynyM/s800/IMGP7921.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">Spent two fun filled days in Montreal - the fireworks show was across the river from our hotel in the suburb of Longueuil - a 20 minute metro ride away from downtown.</div><br /><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/pat.merino/Postcards/photo?authkey=EwJTLx0ZVRY#5081684443716865650"><img src="http://lh4.google.com/pat.merino/RoXFE-BfTnI/AAAAAAAAA8k/bBRcz0GURqU/s800/IMGP8182.JPG" /></a><br /><div align="center">The Montreal Jazz Fest kicked off on our last night in Montreal. Too bad we had to leave the next day ;-( ! </div>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-88165407849235230612007-06-27T08:20:00.000-04:002007-06-27T08:28:42.444-04:00Postcard From The Road # 2We stayed an extra day in NH and did a lake cruise to try and beat the heat.<br /><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/pat.merino/Postcards/photo?authkey=EwJTLx0ZVRY#5080715138317635154"><img src="http://lh5.google.com/pat.merino/RoJTf-BfTlI/AAAAAAAAA8A/CCCNcpJXGVs/s144/IMGP7796.JPG" /></a><br /><br />Two and half hours on Lake Winnipesaukee was a welcome relief ;-)PatMinNYChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16781566732988987904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-16563738949286419242007-06-26T07:27:00.000-04:002007-07-01T10:59:32.857-04:00Postcard From The Road #1Greetings from the road!<br /><br />Had a great weekend on The Cape. In NH today - may stay one more day, otherwise it's on to Montreal.<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/pat.merino/Postcards/photo?authkey=EwJTLx0ZVRY#5080208564424203106"><img src="http://lh4.google.com/image/pat.merino/RoCGxfNm22I/AAAAAAAAA7g/eWlQlhj2CdI/s144/IMGP7615.JPG" /></a></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-83713311651252490262007-06-19T21:46:00.000-04:002007-06-20T08:14:02.741-04:00Bonne Chance et ....<div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAfdnx-s3DMTw-RH5ecp2nKApFde9Rcs3Bxg4vgTIzXAWLGMXm7Yx7Er4foHXF0_odhxTwrL4nhb0EAFOuGDu46As9fkC2MAZo4Jr01uaEvu5YT8gTa0W68wAEhLE7LhrWJlu22jqh-7o/s1600-h/IMGP6018.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAfdnx-s3DMTw-RH5ecp2nKApFde9Rcs3Bxg4vgTIzXAWLGMXm7Yx7Er4foHXF0_odhxTwrL4nhb0EAFOuGDu46As9fkC2MAZo4Jr01uaEvu5YT8gTa0W68wAEhLE7LhrWJlu22jqh-7o/s320/IMGP6018.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Bonn Voyage - Bob !<br /></div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-25457752305325818392007-06-18T21:33:00.000-04:002007-06-18T21:44:15.441-04:00PickPocket<div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijPwmQgCtDSnl3kp7D2tLl6A3cWaAnf_mnVJ59qwKjL2O5T0jt6k3nqVuwzlaU2fLJZtiqgOumoEXlWgt6DjQrUe73DSiptrdxTBgb2qEWcXDjX4JCU3c7QwopRn44PXC7d1_2DPBLzMU/s1600-h/IMGP6579.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijPwmQgCtDSnl3kp7D2tLl6A3cWaAnf_mnVJ59qwKjL2O5T0jt6k3nqVuwzlaU2fLJZtiqgOumoEXlWgt6DjQrUe73DSiptrdxTBgb2qEWcXDjX4JCU3c7QwopRn44PXC7d1_2DPBLzMU/s160/IMGP6579.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />PickPocket</div><div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center">A Garcia for Father's Day with a pocket for a pick or maybe even a blunt ;-)</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: initial; moz-background-origin: initial; moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-43237469068800991602007-06-14T21:44:00.000-04:002007-06-14T22:15:03.875-04:00re: the butterfly shotsOne of my favorite places to visit in Aruba is a small but very productive butterfly farm between Eagle Beach and Palm Beach. If you go it will cost you $13 US but the ticket is good for the length of your stay. I went on two separate days. The butterflies are the most active in the morning and less active in the evening. As for equipment used I try to keep things simple. All the shots were hand-held (no tripod) at anywhere between 400 - 1250 ISO and the lens was a 50-200mm F4 Pentax zoom on a K10D body. Noise was cleaned up in Photoshop w/minor brightness & contrast corrections as needed. If you want to know the names you can go here:<br /><a href="http://www.thebutterflyfarm.com/">http://www.thebutterflyfarm.com/</a><br /><br />They have a nice photo gallery with the names. Without a doubt the one that impressed me the most was the Atlas.<br /><br />Thanks for all the questions - really!poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-17462731302987261432007-06-11T10:38:00.000-04:002007-06-11T12:43:43.492-04:00Aruba 07 - Small Format Slide Show<embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="288" height="192" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fpoppimatny%2Falbumid%2F5074530850178812849%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss%26authkey%3DvdKrZMxdiAQ"></embed><br /><br />This is a nice little feature that comes with Picasa Web Albums.poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-85857452325645308402007-06-10T23:14:00.000-04:002007-06-11T12:42:08.094-04:00Aruba 2007<div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/poppimatny/Aruba2007?authkey=vdKrZMxdiAQ"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjslglp3g55hLEHr5O6mG53cx1Rc1mHamc9xC2LlY2M1_yYeOuzWD-8vL5k-b9-PG1byBICu3iF3Q1T1aCQQ-dRrzcln1zHqmtWzlwjP6-qVxTLv8frr7W3uGMvshmEdhUO7N7dpbbiU7I/s320/IMGP4448.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Click on the picture to see the collection in larger format.</div><div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4488687199671277789.post-61014566702524516512007-06-10T21:31:00.000-04:002007-06-11T12:41:22.442-04:00GreetingsWelcome to the "poppimatny" blog. My Picasa and DotPhoto sites will be cross linked to one another by way of this blog and others that I have in the works. The first 2 posts are linked to one of my Picasa sites where I have uploaded a collection of images from our vacation to Aruba last month.poppimatnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06719398328793933837noreply@blogger.com3