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Hi Jim, kinda like drawing you can see it or you can’t, you can learn to draw but there’s a big difference between those that can and can’t see it. I’m sort of in the middle but I’m missing something some part it doesn’t completely come into focus but watching some artists who can is something...

Ok thank you for replying I had surgery this morning sucks getting old, so please excuse my lack of manners. So I try to go with non alcohol fuels but the marina when I asked them didn’t know or at least the guy manning the pump didn’t so I had to just assume they would use non alcohol fuels at...

Two stroke AVO, last fill up was the marina non alcohol fuel where fuel with alcohol was used it was followed with a treatment product to deal with alcohol. According to the service manual some small amount of alcohol is permissible but off the top of my head I don’t remember the exact amount...

Figured I’d give it a crank before dropping it off in dry storage and good news it fired right up, I only let it go a half second because no water but it fired!

I writing this ahead of knowing if I’ve fixed this or not, hopefully when I get the chance to put it in the water it fires up and I can go through all the steps outlined in the service manual I just purchased, like properly syncing the carbs, setting the idle screw, checking timing and spark...

The 2600 is a great Thats a great camera and I’m sure it will get you great images, I might be wrong but I think sensor size acts in a similar way as the eye piece diameter the larger sensor will get you a wider field of view with greatly added resolution there are online tools I think there is...

So far I’ve only been live stacking, I need to understand plan mode better and gain the ability to image the same object for multiple days or figure out how to do that in processing?

I’m ready to get some imaging time in if the weather would cooperate now that my back has healed enough I can lift the equipment to move it outside and back in when I’m done. I have a new main camera a 533mc cool with no amp glow and a deeper well and better guide camera my tracking is much...

eBay is a no go, but I think Facebook maybe in an outdoor group would as I know some groups that are for buying and selling conduct auctions? I’ll check and see if I can find something there?

Thank you for the heads up and link I made a donation. I’m sure all this is very stressful for Jerry and his. Family, maybe there is some way to offer my Redington Kit and waders in an online auction with the proceeds going to the go fund me account, possibly others would have things to donate...

The guy in the white smock is the crystal carver, we are raiding his garden outside the studio in what looks like a converted elementary school. He’s got dozens of students working in different rooms and galleries, this student now is running his own studio most all these studios have some...

Jerry, I have something you may want, I kind of promised someone here I’d give them a chance at it if I didn’t want it but I think they would understand and I’m willing to send it your way for a good cause. It’s not that I don’t like the kit but I live a long way from places I can use this and...

I built an imaging rig a couple years ago mostly ZWO with an ES 127 CF FCD100 APO and am slowly learning these images from my back yard in a Bortle 8 sky.

You have the eye of Chinese emperors, If a rock appeared porous with many holes penetrating all the way through and had a strangely contorted overall form, it was considered a highly valuable asset to the garden. Lake Tai near Suzhou produced the most prized rocks; the chemical composition of...

Everywhere in China there is incredible artwork it is humbling I’ve always been the big fish in a small pond my first time traveling around China meeting jade carvers and other ceramic artists I really understood what a small pond I’d really been swimming in. Everyone is extremely kind...

The Chinese guy I’m throwing with is a potter for this blue and white factory in Jingdezhen, China where they make these huge vases in sections assembling them semi dry and cementing the sections with clay slip. I was in China for the international ceramics expo. The lady standing next to me...

Did she ever offer to teach you?

And trying acrylic painting… mostly areas I’ve hunted gold one a river in China and my first try paintin my daughter

Your art has a wonderful feel proportion and color balanced with a quality your eye has developed through a natural gift very talented work.

I started making ceramics in high school and then college after breaking up my studio and giving away my big kilns I have after 5 years still not gotten back into it. I’ve gone through phases but always focused on throwing things as I could but switching from different firing types high fire...