Are You The Cameraman?: September 2017

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Target store has the best Birthday cards

The best birthday card for a beer drinker:

Birthday card for a beer lover, complete with doozie and a fun song. Purchased at Target.

For a few years now I have been buying birthday cards at the Target store in Wateown, NY. Target has the best selection of cards. Today is my brother R's 61st birthday so I went Target to find the perfect card. It didn't take long. R likes his beer and this card was perfect. For $10.99 it came with a musical koozie, you know, those sleeves that go over your beer can or bottle to keep them colder longer. Press a button and a neat, fun beer song is played.

Play this video to hear the koozie song:

Monday, September 4, 2017

Sunset photo made with SONY a6000 camera and 500mm Minolta AF lens

Sunset, Chaumont, NY. Sony a6000 camera, Minolta 500mm f8 mirror lens iso3200, 1/250th sec. f8 photo by Gary Walts

I snapped this sunset photo in Chaumont, NY a few days ago. I took it with a SONY a6000 camera and a Minolta 500mm f8 auto focus mirror lens. I have owned the lens for many years. It is one of a number of great AF lenses I have for my Minolta AF film cameras. Since the digital era arrived I had not used any of those lenses. The company I worked for provided me with digital Nikon cameras & lenses so I never bothered with getting a Minolta or SONY digital body that would accommodate those lenses.

Sony makes 2 lines of cameras. One uses the Minolta lens mount so that all the old Minolta AF ;geneses can be used with them. The there series of cameras utilize Sony's E mount lenses. I have been torn about which camera to buy. I settled on the Sony a6000 E mount camera. I got a terrific buy on it. With it I purchased the LA-EA4 adapter that allows the use of the Minolta lenses on the E mount cameras. That is what I used to attach the 500mm lens to the a6000. I have been having pretty good results with it.

Sunday, September 3, 2017

Photos of 4th annual Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival, Clayton, NY September 2, 2017

My creation for the 4th annual Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival at Frink Park in Clayton, NY. Gary Walts photo

The 4th annual Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival in Clayton, NY took place yesterday, September 2, 2017. I was invited by organizer Karen Lago to be one of the artists who would be vying for a $100.00 prize. I was going to decline the invite because I really am not that much of an artist and I have never worked with chalk on a sidewalk before. However, I never got around to declining so the day arrived and I went on over. Turns out that I had great fun. I really enjoyed it and the weather was beautiful to. I drew a sunset or sunrise, however you wish to lookout it. Kenny Knapp took home the hundred dollar bill for his depiction of a river sunset.

Te Better Half's grand kids G & A had stayed over night Friday so they here with us Saturday morning, and went to the festival too. The event was open to kids of all ages, also with prizes.

The photos here were all snapped with an iPhone 6s.