We are slowly ready...

New gadgets for photographing:
Gorillapod from Hong Kong (tripod with flexible legs)
SanDisk Compact Flash Extreme IV 4GB memory card from here (for lot of pictures and fast working with fast shooting)

The photo equipment is almost ready, go to photographing then!

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Sh*t!

I became the arch enemy in the family, again, because I wanted to help someone, again.
My pal Zoli fell in love with a Bowie knife, he wanted it anyhow, and he asked me to help him to order it. The website of the shop is still under construction, so I had to ask about costs by email. Meanwhile I watched (and asked) about another knife, too, but then I decided that I'll order it in another time, and I signed in the email that I want to order ONLY ONE of them now. My pal asked me every time that when it will arrive, he's waiting it very much.
Arrived today. BOTH knives. And I received from the family that "you always spoil your money". But please, I signed that I want to order JUST ONE of them...

Now I have to start the procedure how I'll get back the cost (and send back the knife).

Thanks...

I had a trip yesterday with my pal Zoli and his girlfriend. We went to the TV tower of Újudvar, and into the forest there. We took their two dogs with us, too and let them run as they just want. The weather was perfect, I like to go into the wild, so I'm glad that I could go away from the human noises into the silent of nature.
"Champions league" with friends from 18:00 to 19:00 like on every friday.
Then work in evening, tired, but full, I ate a lot, so I didn't take food with me.
The top of the tops came in morning, again, there wasn't anybody to come and change me. A collegue took off a free day, and the substitution haven't came (perhaps ill, again). But the truth is that it's not the first time. He didn't pick his phone up, so I was working until 10am today, too. It's annoying that I have to work 12 hours without knowing before, without any food, and that I have to order my collegue in for 10am because nobody cares us (my nice boss turned his phone off, of course).

I suppose that I'll go to work from 22 to 10am, again... That's sure that I'll take food with me...

Lunar eclipse

I confess that this dawn I hesitated about to go to photographing the lunar eclipse. Then I decided that yes. I prepaired for that, there wasn't long distance to go, (and I mentioned to lot of people) so I went down to the street.
Well, lunar eclipse for you (and for me).

Bumm!

The NRO-L21 spy satellite has been shot down from the Pearl Harbor-based Aegis cruiser, USS Lake Erie. To shot down a minivan sized object from a distance of 210kilometers that is travelling more than 17 000mph... that's something... Well, the operation was successful with a modified SM-3 rocket (that was like on the picture).
Time to cheer, or to bitch that even satellites are not in safe anymore. But I hope that the debris will reenter into the deeper atmosphere at a dark place, and there will be someone who will film it, or will take a photo of it.

Home

                                                                    (Photo: NASA)
The Atlantis arrived home from its STS-122 mission.
Welcome home!

NRO-L21,the satellite that will be shot down

A US spy satellite went out of order after its launch in 2006, and it is uncontrolled since that. The upper atmosphere makes drag effect, too, the satellite slowes down, and it can't stay on its track anymore. In this case they ignite the engine, boost it until it continues its way.
Now all of these are impossible, the L21 began unavoidable falling. When a minibus sized thing fall onto your head then it really ruins your day, and because of this the smarts decided to shoot it down. Maybe the smaller pieces will burn in the atmosphere, and won't fall on us in 100 pieces.
The russians see again that it is a final test of a newly developed rocket that is able to shoot down satellites.

Maybe. Maybe not.
Anyway, we went down to the back of our house to see the machine until we can see it. The result is up there as a 8 second picture.

Let's photographing...

... when photographing stars, or want close up pictures, then a remote shutter is highly recommended. From Hong Kong, wireless JJC RM-E1 shutter for much more cheaper than the original Olympus remote.

... and when macro, then +1, +2, +4, +10 macro lens, and then the microletters on the banknotes will fill the picture. Right from Lithuania.

Will need UV filter, polarizer lens, and a lens that I'll can take photos of the Sun with.
Oh, and memory card, and photo case that will hurt my wallet.

Egon & Dönci

"Grand joke!
to present the future
dirt chaos
desert
the Earth is over
no hope - only doublespeak
a bunch of poo
the sky is not a sock - cannot be darned
much profit - much pollution
more poverty - much suffering
the blighter fascist? - the rich democrat!
burning oil wells - vanished species
drugs - AIDS?
hey buddy - let's make a quick getaway
skipping out - nah get out!
to a more hospitable world - to Döncis' planet
butterflies are fluttering - frogs are croaking
let's live there - and destroy that as well
naughty boy!
tsk tsk tsk!"

What the upper tenthousend eats?

I just can hope that this, and this much.
Yesterday I went to the annual program of Farkas Ferenc Music and Art School titled"Bohémbál" (thanks to the wife of my collegue Tamás, Évi).
The menu:

Duck livermousse with pistachio, greensalad, and toast (about a spoonful mouse with two tiny silces of toast and with a dandeliaon-kind of thing named salad)

Pork stew (I didn't try, I can eat that here at home, too)

Sauger roll with spinach (I don't know if it was really sauger, but it was good although it was with string bean that I don't like)

Magyaróvár fried chicken stuffed with ham-mushroom-cheese mix (I couldn't find the mushroom in it, it was like Cordon bleu of chicken)

Rice with green spices, and bacon (it was something very different thing)

Potato puree with onion (No.1)

Mixed salad, and pickles from Vecsés (means: every kind of mowed grass from the field with balsamic vinegar. Real HOT sour paprika, instead, A+)

Rákóczi túrós (tiny dry fragile cake)

No, I don't want to be rude, the food was really tasty, but you couldn't be full with it, personally I prefer a "big 18" from the Robinson. So, this is what they eat.
By the way, the happening was really good with great cabaret show, good music, and expensive drinks. Ehh, I'm rude, again.
I arrived home at 2:15, so it was REALLY GOOD.

No,I don't skip it

Introducing the Force India F1 team (ex-Spyker F1, Midland F1 before it, and Jordan before it), and their car VJM01. The team will recieve high attention from me because my favourite pilot drives for them. The car is (poorly) uniform- white, it would be better look with more gold, and dark silver. The front wing is the widely used Renault-wing, the other parts came from the last year Spyker car. The engine is Ferrari in this year, too, and they say that there's potential in the team.
I can say only: FORZA FISICO!

five minutes astronomy

I don't have to go to work today, at last, so I picked my photocam up with the tripod, and I went down to the next of the house to shoot some astronomy photos. There will be needed to change some settings, but I could take some interesting pictures for the first time, too.

Here:



Pleiades (M45)


Bottom side of Orion

Let it be...

The thing is an Olympus E-410 with two "wurst stuffers" the smaller is 14-42mm, the bigger 40-150mm (we can see my dear old Kodak EasyShare CX4230 could 36-108mm). There were reasons for change it, first of all (the most important) is although my Kodak is still working but it's dieing that is not a miracle after more than 10220 pictures. I thank for it that I love to photographing, but slowly I started to want than 3x optical zoom, I wanted night pictures, and I wanted if the lightning pictures weren't up to only my reflex, wanted hundred kind of settings. So, the will has born, and now I own this machine. From now it's up to only my fantasy.

I do start it...

New morning with new eye

That's all, briefly... :D

Jean Michel Jarre:Oxygene–Live In Your Living Room

Yesterday Gr4ss made me able to see/hear the newest Jean Michel Jarre DVD, Oxygene-Live in your living room. The opinion has been created in me until today.
Long time ago I heared the Oxygene, Magnetic fields (that I still have on bakelite disk). I was about 10 years old, so it's not hard to believe that they didn't make any sense of me. Then I started to like the instrumental music in the 90's, Vangelis, Jarre, and Oldfield came in. Until the end of the decade I accepted, and started to love their art, and started to like such kind of music. I remember when I've seen the concert in Barcelona on the TV, I felt: I have to see this once. Poorly it's still just a plan, I still couldn't see. But maybe I will can.
The biggest bumm for me was the concert in China DVD with its blade sharp picture recorded with HD cams, and the 5.1 sound that is like I have never heared in music. Then the album Aero came with its fully audio tracks. This was -if we don't see the lack of video- the perfect album with perfect sound, and the brilliant interludes between titles. With Téo & Téa we could hear the new Jarre style that is not like in the old titles.
And now the Oxygene–Live In Your Living Room. The expectation was big according to the latest, I couldn't wait for can hear/see, and can enjoy the well known tunes. And what was I get? A couple of ramshackle people is turning some potetntiometers for hours, the Jarre show is nowhere, the old tunes are overeffected, and the 5.1 sound is under every critics. If I had to tell everything about it, the BORING, and DISAPPOINTMENT.

I'm sorry, I was expecting more...

But I sill like the Jarre-kind of music on the same way, the concert in China is still the best musical DVD that I've ever seen, and I look forward to the coming issues with full confidence.