The Evening Blues - 7-21-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 07/21/2017 - 12:22pm
The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Smiley Lewis
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features New Orleans singer and guitarist Smiley Lewis. Enjoy!
Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knockin'
News and Opinion
No news today, just photos and music. I'm sure that we can all use a break from the news. 
A Little Night Music
Smiley Lewis - Lillie Mae
Smiley Lewis - Bumpity Bump
Smiley Lewis - One Night Of Sin
Smiley Lewis - Blue Monday
Smiley Lewis - Shame Shame Shame
Smiley Lewis - Come on
Smiley Lewis - Big Mamou
Smiley Lewis - Tore Up
Smiley Lewis - Down The Road
Smiley Lewis - Down Yonder We Go Ballin'
Comments
evening folks...
have a great weekend! i'll catch up with you when i can.
Great macros Joe! It's not easy to capture a dragonfly
It takes a certain stillness to capture one in the perfect place at the tip of leaf.
To thine own self be true.
Afternoon joe...
Love the photos; a great weekend back at you and big thanks for another week's news and blues.
I second that Smiley7
Everyone have a good weekend.
Hasta el Lunes...
Well I do che ck in everyday...but you get the point.
I want a Pony!
Wow! Macro lens?
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Red is a very difficult color to photograph
It hard to produce texture and modeling in red. It must have something to do with the length of the light waves. The color of the light looks like New England.
Have a great weekend, joe.
Texture, modeling, and red light
That's exactly it. The shorter the wavelength -- the "bluer" the light -- the more detail the light can reveal. Radio waves kinda suck at small details; we can see distant stars with radio, but you need visible/ultraviolet/X/gamma radiation to discern planets. And with visible, you're more likely to see a planet-sized body with blue light than red. It is exactly the same here on Earth.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Posting pictures
Can anyone give me a short "idiots guide" to posting pics? I can't seem to figure this out.
Thanks.
It's just my opinion. It can't hurt you
posting pics
There's a button on the Posting toolbar (both Essays and Comments), the leftmost button. Click that button and a dialog box will come up. If your pic already has a URL address, i.e., it's in an online stash somewhere, you're essentially home at this point. Just put the URL of your pic in the space provided, supply resolution figures if you've got 'em, and click "OK".
If your pic file is local to your machine, click the "Browse" button next to the URL field. Another dialog box will open called "File Browser". In the top edge of this dialog there's a button labeled "Upload". Click it, follow the prompts, and after you've uploaded your image file the File Browser dialog should show the same file selected. Click the "Send To Editor" button, which will bring you back to the first dialog box. Supply any missing info you may have and click "OK".
Did that help??
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Good evening, joe and bluzerz!
Great photos and YES! we can use a break from the news, ugh!
Looking forward to the weekend - hoping for rain, which goes around us, day after day... sigh...
Enjoy your family, joe!
Have a beautiful Friday and weekend, everyone!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I got a perfect score on my post-surgery
cataract exam! I removed the left lens from my glasses, and my eye is viewing the world unassisted. Not great clarity, but according to the drs., it should improve by the day until I reach 20/20 at near, intermediate, and distance.
There is no guarantee I will not require glasses. Nevertheless, I chose the procedures that give the best chance of not requiring them, if all goes perfectly.
I still have the right eye to go, but I am half the way to the goal post.
It is stifling hot outdoors. I need a waiding pool or something.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
While we are sharing photos
Here is one from this afternoon in the main square park...
I want a Pony!
here, let me try:
I accomplished that by going to the address you linked; right clicking the picture, selecting "Copy Image Location", and pasting said location into the Insert/Edit Image dialog box for "Image URL".
I am a Firefox user.
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Fixed
I guess it's not good tp play with resizing.
I want a Pony!
Damn but that looks like so many other squares/parks
I've been to south of the border. Envious.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hmmm, hiccup and dupe. Fine. Everybody have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --