I was staying in the cabin on the right here in 1989 during the king tides and on a full moon. 3 days later the Loma Prieta earthquake struck. This was the first thing I thought about this morning when I read they were happening this weekend.
Hey, did you get to the beach last weekend and see any big waves? I heard they got 80 feet at Mavericks and a surfer dude surfed it.
I was staying in the cabin on the right here in 1989 during the king tides and on a full moon. 3 days later the Loma Prieta earthquake struck. This was the first thing I thought about this morning when I read they were happening this weekend.
Hey, did you get to the beach last weekend and see any big waves? I heard they got 80 feet at Mavericks and a surfer dude surfed it.
My friends had their friends in Boston send some lobsters to him and we had a lobster fest that weekend. You have to bring everything you need because they are empty inside. Sleeping bags, utensils, etc, but hey who cares if you can have that view?
Happy holidays to you Olinda. Good seeing you again.
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they had 40 ft waves in sf but they did not coe into our big bay. They were big but I've seen bigger ones. maybe this weekend with the king tide...
I was staying in the cabin on the right here in 1989 during the king tides and on a full moon. 3 days later the Loma Prieta earthquake struck. This was the first thing I thought about this morning when I read they were happening this weekend.
Hey, did you get to the beach last weekend and see any big waves? I heard they got 80 feet at Mavericks and a surfer dude surfed it.
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I was hoping that you would have seen some huge waves to show us. Maybe next time there are some you'll catch them.
Check out this video of a guy surfing an 100 foot wave. Man can you imagine seeing this? Ooh I so want to go back to the ocean.
I read that there was an earthquake over seas somewhere after the king tides. I think there's a connection.
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they had 40 ft waves in sf but they did not coe into our big bay. They were big but I've seen bigger ones. maybe this weekend with the king tide...
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I've been to the zoo 5 times and the safari park 4 times. My granddaughters live in New York, but whenever they're in town a trip to the zoo or safari park is on the to do list. I don't have any recent photos of elephants or giraffes. I'll have to dig through my archives and find something from a few years ago.
Great pix B.R.! And yours too S.P. Love me some primates, Lemurs rule! Are the last ones Ibex or Barbary Sheep?
Here's a few...
This was last weekend, I have seen a few dead deer in fences they misjudged, probably at night and speed... thought this one was dead too. After I took the pic, it snorted as I got back in car. I grabbed my 8" vice grips and worked the hog fence enough to finally snap the key strand the hoof was hung up in. It fell to the ground and immediately took off like a rocket getting away. Amazingly all the legs were good to go.
Here is a spider I have not ID'd yet...
This is a Red Admiral
This is a Killdeer (which are a plover) - their call is their name,
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You're a hero for freeing the deer. I agree, Lemurs rule. The last shot are Nubian Ibex.
Hi all, Finally a pagan holiday I can get behind!
Great pix B.R.! And yours too S.P. Love me some primates, Lemurs rule! Are the last ones Ibex or Barbary Sheep?
Here's a few...
This was last weekend, I have seen a few dead deer in fences they misjudged, probably at night and speed... thought this one was dead too. After I took the pic, it snorted as I got back in car. I grabbed my 8" vice grips and worked the hog fence enough to finally snap the key strand the hoof was hung up in. It fell to the ground and immediately took off like a rocket getting away. Amazingly all the legs were good to go.
Here is a spider I have not ID'd yet...
This is a Red Admiral
This is a Killdeer (which are a plover) - their call is their name,
Thanks everyone for all the great posts all week!
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Then read SP's comment and saw what you did. Yay! Thanks for doing that. I'm sure that you saved its life. Great job. I hate seeing animals that are hurt...
Hi all, Finally a pagan holiday I can get behind!
Great pix B.R.! And yours too S.P. Love me some primates, Lemurs rule! Are the last ones Ibex or Barbary Sheep?
Here's a few...
This was last weekend, I have seen a few dead deer in fences they misjudged, probably at night and speed... thought this one was dead too. After I took the pic, it snorted as I got back in car. I grabbed my 8" vice grips and worked the hog fence enough to finally snap the key strand the hoof was hung up in. It fell to the ground and immediately took off like a rocket getting away. Amazingly all the legs were good to go.
Here is a spider I have not ID'd yet...
This is a Red Admiral
This is a Killdeer (which are a plover) - their call is their name,
Thanks everyone for all the great posts all week!
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Good end to a scary picture. I have seen killdeers here. Was very exciting. Love the cute little hairy spider. I like wolf spiders and tarantulas in general. And the ones that make the traditional circle webs. I had tons of those in oh canada.
Hi all, Finally a pagan holiday I can get behind!
Great pix B.R.! And yours too S.P. Love me some primates, Lemurs rule! Are the last ones Ibex or Barbary Sheep?
Here's a few...
This was last weekend, I have seen a few dead deer in fences they misjudged, probably at night and speed... thought this one was dead too. After I took the pic, it snorted as I got back in car. I grabbed my 8" vice grips and worked the hog fence enough to finally snap the key strand the hoof was hung up in. It fell to the ground and immediately took off like a rocket getting away. Amazingly all the legs were good to go.
Here is a spider I have not ID'd yet...
This is a Red Admiral
This is a Killdeer (which are a plover) - their call is their name,
Thanks everyone for all the great posts all week!
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This shows how far back my love of roads and trails go. The first one was taken in the 80's and with film. I think there is more contrast with film that one doesn't get with digital in some cases.
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Those first two shots both have great leading lines.
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This utterly gorgeous 250 y.o. burr oak was toppled by a tornado Sept 20, 2018. This photo was taken 12/22/12 from the tombstone of the parents of Thorstein Veblen, author of The Theory of the Leisure Class—first published in 1899 and has not been out of print since.
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Did you use a filter for the flare or did it just work out this way?
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This utterly gorgeous 250 y.o. burr oak was toppled by a tornado Sept 20, 2018. This photo was taken 12/22/12 from the tombstone of the parents of Thorstein Veblen, author of The Theory of the Leisure Class—first published in 1899 and has not been out of print since.
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This was shot with a pretty simple point and shoot Canon PowerShot S 95. It had no way to over-ride the basic problems caused by shooting directly into the sun (you are not supposed to do this, you know) and the snow on the ground. Both conspired to overwhelm the light sensor. So I waited until the crotch of the tree blocked out some of the direct light. Golden hour winter light is really lovely so the wait was worth it though things were getting really cold.
I wish I could have shot it in RAW—so I could have brightened the foreground more effectively in post— but I didn't have enough camera with me. I shot a bunch of pictures during my wait but only this one turned out well. So even though I spent an hour fiddling with this in Photoshop, I decided that there was no practical way to improve on the JPEG that came out of the camera.
Needless to say, the Valley Grove preservation people were devastated by the loss of this tree. They decided to put an image if it on the Christmas card but they wanted something from winter. They asked me if I had something back in October. They had come up empty with their current contacts (even though there were hundreds of spring through fall pictures out there). And the only reason I had anything is because I had fallen in love with winter light watching Bergman's "The Best Intentions" (which has probably the most spectacular images of northern Sweden in winter). So they did that card. And now they want to make a fund-raising poster of it. That little S 95 had enough pixels so we can create a 16" x 24" at 150 dpi print ($45 on canvas from Costco).
And yes evening and morning light makes photos much better. Too many people aren't aware of the lighting conditions when they shoot photos and will shoot during the day. Guess it does depend on what you're shooting though.
I have tried getting the sun to flare many times and have maybe 5 photos that turned out. But then there's no more wasting rolls of film trying to get the perfect shot. I couldn't believe how liberating this was when I got my first digital.
#6.1 This was shot with a pretty simple point and shoot Canon PowerShot S 95. It had no way to over-ride the basic problems caused by shooting directly into the sun (you are not supposed to do this, you know) and the snow on the ground. Both conspired to overwhelm the light sensor. So I waited until the crotch of the tree blocked out some of the direct light. Golden hour winter light is really lovely so the wait was worth it though things were getting really cold.
I wish I could have shot it in RAW—so I could have brightened the foreground more effectively in post— but I didn't have enough camera with me. I shot a bunch of pictures during my wait but only this one turned out well. So even though I spent an hour fiddling with this in Photoshop, I decided that there was no practical way to improve on the JPEG that came out of the camera.
Needless to say, the Valley Grove preservation people were devastated by the loss of this tree. They decided to put an image if it on the Christmas card but they wanted something from winter. They asked me if I had something back in October. They had come up empty with their current contacts (even though there were hundreds of spring through fall pictures out there). And the only reason I had anything is because I had fallen in love with winter light watching Bergman's "The Best Intentions" (which has probably the most spectacular images of northern Sweden in winter). So they did that card. And now they want to make a fund-raising poster of it. That little S 95 had enough pixels so we can create a 16" x 24" at 150 dpi print ($45 on canvas from Costco).
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I fell in love with the subject of light when my dad showed up with a light meter in 1957 (yes this was before they got built into cameras.) I was only 8 at the time. Spent a LOT of time on this most fascinating subject since then. When I finally got it through my head that photography was simply an exercise in capturing light, my intellectual curiosity finally paid off. It helps when you already know the nature of the light you want to capture. While shooting outdoors still requires more patience than I usually have, indoor shooting with temperature controlled LED lighting and white balance adjustment built into most cameras has made most photography into a what-do-you-want exercise.
And yes evening and morning light makes photos much better. Too many people aren't aware of the lighting conditions when they shoot photos and will shoot during the day. Guess it does depend on what you're shooting though.
I have tried getting the sun to flare many times and have maybe 5 photos that turned out. But then there's no more wasting rolls of film trying to get the perfect shot. I couldn't believe how liberating this was when I got my first digital.
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But then just winged it and did okay. I now have a digital Minolta one that I could never figure out how to use.
I never got interested in portraits or wedding photography but did do a few. One of my jobs was doing portraits of the bosses and patients and got carte blanch to buy whatever I wanted. I bought a hassleblad and all the lightening equipment and did pretty good jobs. I took the camera to glacier park and got some nifty photos, but I thought it was more difficult than it needed to be so just used my own camera. I really didn't see that much difference in the photos.
Can you tell that my first photo is from film? I see differences with film and digital and I think some subjects look better with film.
Read a lot of Ansel Adams books on lighting and darkroom manipulation. Fantastic photographer!
#6.1.1.1 I fell in love with the subject of light when my dad showed up with a light meter in 1957 (yes this was before they got built into cameras.) I was only 8 at the time. Spent a LOT of time on this most fascinating subject since then. When I finally got it through my head that photography was simply an exercise in capturing light, my intellectual curiosity finally paid off. It helps when you already know the nature of the light you want to capture. While shooting outdoors still requires more patience than I usually have, indoor shooting with temperature controlled LED lighting and white balance adjustment built into most cameras has made most photography into a what-do-you-want exercise.
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I believe not having a Hasselblad was my father's biggest photographic disappointment in life. He was a BIG fan of Zeiss-Ikon lenses and owned several Saabs in part because of their connection to Sixten Sason. But no Hasselblad. He was certain that NASA had chosen correctly when they sent one on Apollo 11.
Yes, that picture looks like film. If I had to guess, I would guess Kodachrome.
And yes, my father loved to do nature photography so there were several Adams books in his library. I had to read one of them before he would let me into his darkroom (oh how I wish he had lived long enough to play with Photoshop). He once waited five days for the light he wanted in the Tetons. I can wait maybe 90 minutes. Maybe
But then just winged it and did okay. I now have a digital Minolta one that I could never figure out how to use.
I never got interested in portraits or wedding photography but did do a few. One of my jobs was doing portraits of the bosses and patients and got carte blanch to buy whatever I wanted. I bought a hassleblad and all the lightening equipment and did pretty good jobs. I took the camera to glacier park and got some nifty photos, but I thought it was more difficult than it needed to be so just used my own camera. I really didn't see that much difference in the photos.
Can you tell that my first photo is from film? I see differences with film and digital and I think some subjects look better with film.
Read a lot of Ansel Adams books on lighting and darkroom manipulation. Fantastic photographer!
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happy solstice everyone
Hi bollox...
Thanks for hosting.
Beautiful photos of snow and leaves. particularly like the red berries with the snow.
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Thank you magiamma
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Happy Solstice, magiamma
Hope everyone has fun plans for Xmas.
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Happy solstice to you too snoopy
Big full moon tonight too. Woo hoo!!!
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Full moon means king tides
I was staying in the cabin on the right here in 1989 during the king tides and on a full moon. 3 days later the Loma Prieta earthquake struck. This was the first thing I thought about this morning when I read they were happening this weekend.
Hey, did you get to the beach last weekend and see any big waves? I heard they got 80 feet at Mavericks and a surfer dude surfed it.
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cabin
Oh man, snoopy, I could live there. My dream home. Lucky you to stay there. Happy holidays. OLinda
It was fun
My friends had their friends in Boston send some lobsters to him and we had a lobster fest that weekend. You have to bring everything you need because they are empty inside. Sleeping bags, utensils, etc, but hey who cares if you can have that view?
Happy holidays to you Olinda. Good seeing you again.
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snoopy the waves here were not so big
they had 40 ft waves in sf but they did not coe into our big bay. They were big but I've seen bigger ones. maybe this weekend with the king tide...
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That's too bad
I was hoping that you would have seen some huge waves to show us. Maybe next time there are some you'll catch them.
Check out this video of a guy surfing an 100 foot wave. Man can you imagine seeing this? Ooh I so want to go back to the ocean.
I read that there was an earthquake over seas somewhere after the king tides. I think there's a connection.
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Looks like skiing down a mountain
with an avalanche following just behind.
Cheers, BR
Thanks for Fri. night photos. Love both those shots.
A few from yesterdays stroll around the zoo.
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great series. that last shot is just stunning. great composition and colors.
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Thank you, Magiamma.
The Nubian Ibex in that last shot were doing a little head butting.
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Those horns are awesome
They must be heavy. It looks like they know how to use them. Edit
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Ring-tailed lemurs
are always a favourite
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I'm with you on that one, BR. I love the Lemurs.
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How often do you go to the zoo?
Are you taking your grand kids there? Love the Lemurs too. Any giraffes or elephants? They are my favorites.
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This year
I've been to the zoo 5 times and the safari park 4 times. My granddaughters live in New York, but whenever they're in town a trip to the zoo or safari park is on the to do list. I don't have any recent photos of elephants or giraffes. I'll have to dig through my archives and find something from a few years ago.
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the guy in the fourth photo needs a yellow vest ... :-) /nt
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to go with his raised fist ; ) n/t
Happy Solstice!
Hi all, Finally a pagan holiday I can get behind!
Great pix B.R.! And yours too S.P. Love me some primates, Lemurs rule! Are the last ones Ibex or Barbary Sheep?
Here's a few...
This was last weekend, I have seen a few dead deer in fences they misjudged, probably at night and speed... thought this one was dead too. After I took the pic, it snorted as I got back in car. I grabbed my 8" vice grips and worked the hog fence enough to finally snap the key strand the hoof was hung up in. It fell to the ground and immediately took off like a rocket getting away. Amazingly all the legs were good to go.
Here is a spider I have not ID'd yet...
This is a Red Admiral
This is a Killdeer (which are a plover) - their call is their name,
Thanks everyone for all the great posts all week!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Nice series, dystopian.
You're a hero for freeing the deer. I agree, Lemurs rule. The last shot are Nubian Ibex.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
I thought it was deceased and skipped it quickly
Then read SP's comment and saw what you did. Yay! Thanks for doing that. I'm sure that you saved its life. Great job. I hate seeing animals that are hurt...
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Thans for saving that deer
Good end to a scary picture. I have seen killdeers here. Was very exciting. Love the cute little hairy spider. I like wolf spiders and tarantulas in general. And the ones that make the traditional circle webs. I had tons of those in oh canada.
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'Tis the season
Early snow
Late snow
No snow
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Nice series, Snoopy.
Those first two shots both have great leading lines.
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Thanks
This shows how far back my love of roads and trails go. The first one was taken in the 80's and with film. I think there is more contrast with film that one doesn't get with digital in some cases.
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Hi snoopy
Sweet. No snow to you too.
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What? No comment about the pink pelican?
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Solstice at Valley Grove
This utterly gorgeous 250 y.o. burr oak was toppled by a tornado Sept 20, 2018. This photo was taken 12/22/12 from the tombstone of the parents of Thorstein Veblen, author of The Theory of the Leisure Class—first published in 1899 and has not been out of print since.
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Very nice
Did you use a filter for the flare or did it just work out this way?
Hope you will stop in next week with some more?
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No filter.
This was shot with a pretty simple point and shoot Canon PowerShot S 95. It had no way to over-ride the basic problems caused by shooting directly into the sun (you are not supposed to do this, you know) and the snow on the ground. Both conspired to overwhelm the light sensor. So I waited until the crotch of the tree blocked out some of the direct light. Golden hour winter light is really lovely so the wait was worth it though things were getting really cold.
I wish I could have shot it in RAW—so I could have brightened the foreground more effectively in post— but I didn't have enough camera with me. I shot a bunch of pictures during my wait but only this one turned out well. So even though I spent an hour fiddling with this in Photoshop, I decided that there was no practical way to improve on the JPEG that came out of the camera.
Needless to say, the Valley Grove preservation people were devastated by the loss of this tree. They decided to put an image if it on the Christmas card but they wanted something from winter. They asked me if I had something back in October. They had come up empty with their current contacts (even though there were hundreds of spring through fall pictures out there). And the only reason I had anything is because I had fallen in love with winter light watching Bergman's "The Best Intentions" (which has probably the most spectacular images of northern Sweden in winter). So they did that card. And now they want to make a fund-raising poster of it. That little S 95 had enough pixels so we can create a 16" x 24" at 150 dpi print ($45 on canvas from Costco).
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Wow. This is cool for you
And yes evening and morning light makes photos much better. Too many people aren't aware of the lighting conditions when they shoot photos and will shoot during the day. Guess it does depend on what you're shooting though.
I have tried getting the sun to flare many times and have maybe 5 photos that turned out. But then there's no more wasting rolls of film trying to get the perfect shot. I couldn't believe how liberating this was when I got my first digital.
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Capturing light
I fell in love with the subject of light when my dad showed up with a light meter in 1957 (yes this was before they got built into cameras.) I was only 8 at the time. Spent a LOT of time on this most fascinating subject since then. When I finally got it through my head that photography was simply an exercise in capturing light, my intellectual curiosity finally paid off. It helps when you already know the nature of the light you want to capture. While shooting outdoors still requires more patience than I usually have, indoor shooting with temperature controlled LED lighting and white balance adjustment built into most cameras has made most photography into a what-do-you-want exercise.
Climate change is a scientific, engineering, and economic problem. It is NOT a political problem so ignore the politicians.
I had an analog light meter I used for awhile
But then just winged it and did okay. I now have a digital Minolta one that I could never figure out how to use.
I never got interested in portraits or wedding photography but did do a few. One of my jobs was doing portraits of the bosses and patients and got carte blanch to buy whatever I wanted. I bought a hassleblad and all the lightening equipment and did pretty good jobs. I took the camera to glacier park and got some nifty photos, but I thought it was more difficult than it needed to be so just used my own camera. I really didn't see that much difference in the photos.
Can you tell that my first photo is from film? I see differences with film and digital and I think some subjects look better with film.
Read a lot of Ansel Adams books on lighting and darkroom manipulation. Fantastic photographer!
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Oh man, a Hasselblad!!
I believe not having a Hasselblad was my father's biggest photographic disappointment in life. He was a BIG fan of Zeiss-Ikon lenses and owned several Saabs in part because of their connection to Sixten Sason. But no Hasselblad. He was certain that NASA had chosen correctly when they sent one on Apollo 11.
Yes, that picture looks like film. If I had to guess, I would guess Kodachrome.
And yes, my father loved to do nature photography so there were several Adams books in his library. I had to read one of them before he would let me into his darkroom (oh how I wish he had lived long enough to play with Photoshop). He once waited five days for the light he wanted in the Tetons. I can wait maybe 90 minutes. Maybe
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Cheers Bollox,
and all the best to you and your crew.
The first photo is very mysterious and and perplexing. Is it last years discarded christmas tree, decorations and all?
It's a festive planter display
in the front garden.
Old christmas tree trunks find their way into the fireplace.
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Well, that makes sense now
Merry Christmas!
Redundant.......
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