Lindaru

Thanks, Richie! I have fun with those effects. Sadly, the in-laws plan on selling the place and moving closer to town (road closed in winter and 30 to 40 miles on snowmobile), so I am glad to have some memory of that.

Random Photography hopefully this one works Thanks, Ken . . . I went into a different part on the Google Drive and it allowed me to get "a shareable link", so hopefully this album will show up now.

I think I have just discovered that Google photos do not share individually due to the lack of *.jpg in the URL. Will share the link to the album and see if that works. I put one up that was the sepia cabin from 2001 taken with a Sony Mavica which is a nice starter camera. The one to the right was taken with my web cam Logitech C-510 as I was getting ready to start a Skype jam with some people in Canada. Interesting surreal effect I was not even trying for. Random Photography on Google Photos

Might I ask how you guys get images to show up here as images? When I use the "image" selection from the message typing area, the preview just shows a link. :idk

Rustic looking modern buildings (such as log cabins and sheds) look pretty awesome photographed in sepia. Makes you feel like you pulled out the old shoe box of grandparents' photographs. I got a kick out of doing that with the in-laws' cabin built in 1994. You would be surprised at how many people did not even notice the solar panels until I pointed them out.

Ooh! I had not set my camera to black and white. Would that be allowed in the post editing? I also have sepia and cyanotrope. Also reverse (negative) has also been one I have loved to play with in the past. I may use those on my indoor shots now that I have ten outdoor.

I chose ISO 400 (auto focus), no zoom. Already scouted seven of the pictures and took them a couple of hours ago. I think this is a great exercise in getting back to basics, "setting the shot" before you take it, using angles and your own body to line things up before you shoot. I am really enjoying this exercise and "walk back in time" as I have to admit that since having digital, it is tempting to take a bajillion shots to get that one and I think the planning ahead and making that one count is a great exercise that may actually play into other areas of creativity as well.

Wow. This sounds like a fun challenge. Time to get my Nikon out of its case. My memory card holds tons (no smaller one), but I will stick to the 20 picture limit. Will make sure it is charged up tomorrow morning and be ready to roll!

My bees. The larger one I have had for more than ten years, Bumbles, and Buzz we picked up this summer on the Oregon coast in one of those shops. The one pictured here is like our little one, but they look pretty much the same except Bumbles has gotten grayer over the years. Hmm. So it happens to bees, too?

Mesmerizing! I have two "wind mill bees" one larger than the other. It is fun to watch their wings spin.

[video:youtube] I will see your Metz and raise you one Railkid Station. Considering it is just two of them and they are young, I think they have a lot of potential. I featured two of their songs from another album on July 2nd on my World UFO Day radio show.

I want a mansion with walls covered in screens of nothing but you guys' photographic art work. Am I asking too much?

Bill . . . those are just "gawgeous"! Makes me wish I had enough money to go touring all of these cool places you guys photograph.

Richie . . . I clicked to see one and had to stay through many as I was mesmerized. What an eye you have for the beauty in what most people would take for granted.

Texas Tango . . . I loved that (and liked it on SoundCloud, too). Fabulous groove! Here is my newest (have not made a video yet, but just put it on SoundCloud). https://soundcloud.com/lindaruxq/rising-heat Made entirely on DrDrum and may be used in an upcoming film short if the director likes it. Thanks for listening!

Thanks, Nadroj!

@Eric . . . thanks for the warm welcome! Cult? I think we as musicians give off an aura of "something other" and that is a good thing. If we were rich, we would be "eccentric". As it is, people instantly know I am "a bit weird" and that is okay. I think we as a group tend to not be intimidated by expressing our uniqueness. We are free! @Joe . . . I have heard of that Lindaru before. When I chose my "user name" it was originally in 1998 when I joined a science fiction role playing game. My first and middle name are how I came up with that. Linda+Ruth-th=Lindaru . . . I was okay most places using that name until this other one came up and started grabbing up places on line. I decided to add a couple of letters to the end of it when I ran into that and now have a channel on You Tube called LindaruXQ (not letters that most people would use since they are not as popular). As for your $99 membership fee . . . called your distributor and they said it has been discontinued much in the same way the elevator passes for high school freshmen have been discontinued. @Scott . . . yes, I am a lot of places these days, You Tube, Sound Cloud, Spreaker . . . will private message you in a bit! I want to be a bit more established here before I begin "tooting my own synthesized horns" to the forums in general. Again, thanks, everyone!

Oddly enough, stuff I feel I cannot add key-board parts to are exactly what I have been listening to, but then that would be like a vacation for me . . . to sit back and rock out and let them do the rocking! AC/DC "Rock Or Bust" Fleshtones "Shadowline" Plimsouls "Everywhere At Once" Pearl Jam "Better Man" Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun" Collective Soul "Shine" Cracker "Low" Blue Murder "We All Fall Down" Asphalt Ballet "Soul Survive" I guess you can take the girl out of the eighties and nineties, but you can't take the eighties and nineties out of the girl.

I am in total awe of all of you guys here! I am 58 years old and got started in key-boarding at age 17 when I was an assistant for the church youth program, playing the Christmas songs on the piano for the pageants and when no one was looking, sneaking up to the big pipe organ and playing "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" on that. Boy did I get some strange looks! My first real key-board was in 1985 the Farfisa combo organ. $100 at a hock shop (had to borrow $50 from my Dad to buy it at the time, but paid him back the next week). Then onto the Arp Axxe (had two of them and slaved them together since the keys were messed up on one, followed by Arp Omni, these in the eighties. Had a Korg, too, but really did not do much with that. The patch chords were tough to memorize as to what went where for what sound. In 1986 wrote some comedy music with fellow band members, Jim Carrell and John Bantner (Jim and I divorced in 1988 and John crossed over 2011). I would say comedy is an equal part of who I am with music. Dropped out of it all until 1993 when I got my Roland E-16. Tinkered around a bunch with rock and grunge type stuff (Portland, Oregon, was a big place for that and I had an upstairs studio) with some of the local teen guys (how cool that my step-son thought I was cool for liking Nirvana and what not). A fellow comedian and I took courses so we could get producing licenses for television and did our own shows on Portland Cable Access 1995, 1996 and 1997. I provided the music for our shows as well as exchange music for the station's commercials and other programming so that we could get free editing room time as well as crew working for us (students getting credit towards their producing licenses). Moved from Portland to here where I live now, McCall, Idaho, in 1998. Pretty much idle in music as I got busy with other things. I started seriously getting back into music writing again in 2011. Not having access to my equipment from my upstairs studio, the quality of the music pieces I wrote are okay but have that "recorded live" rather than studio sound to them. Will have to see about redoing those one day. 2013 discovered "DrDrum" and have mostly been creating music on that. A whole different ball game from just putting your fingers to the keys. It has been quite a learning curve having to audition the instruments that only have instrument name and number as to what sounds they actually make, so writing music with this program takes a lot longer than just standing at the key-board, putting on the patch number I want, and letting it go while I work out the variations, chord progressions, melody, things to throw in over the top, so forth, but nonetheless, it is very enjoyable as I can add things in in unique ways. That fellow comedian and I linked back up last year and as of this year, we are doing our comedy and my music on internet radio. I get to write all of the music for our comedy segments, too. What fun and dang blast it all, I own it and not some television station! If you stayed with me this far, thanks for reading! I have been enjoying this forum today (joined yesterday) and glad to have met you! You guys are really a fun bunch!

Loved reading these . . . I know what you mean about the maternal in my case instinct. I have a Roland E-16 that is now 22 years old and it is like my child! Now I just have to worry that it is old enough to drink and buy lottery tickets.