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Glad it was helpful. I should look at my shows and see if there is something I can put up from South Africa, in addition to "the Dance" and "African Flowers" that are already on Beechbrook.

You're welcome Lin. Up here syrup producers use a production of one litre of finished syrup per tap as an estimate for a "normal" year. The featured sugar bush has been in production for over 40 years. In 1998 a very bad 3 day freezing rain storm hit this bush, and many others in the area. A lot of trees had extensive damage but came back in a few years. As a result of the storm, and so much damage caused by downed limbs, all new collection lines and pipelines had to be installed.

Ken there are still a number of sugar bushes that still collect by bucket and sleigh. And still a good number of wood burning evaporators around as well. I have a friend (the person who is the beekeeper in the last AV) who has buckets on 12 of his maple trees around his house. He boils the sap down on his kitchen stove. Glad it brought back memories Jim

Eric: It is liquid sugar, but some research has a lot of good things to say about it read here

Following the Beekeeping AV recently posted on Beechbrook... Another re-working of a 35mm dual projector show from 13-14 years ago. Started out as a 14 minute AV and when digitized 9 years ago (at 800x600) three versions were produced: 14 min, 10 min and this 5 minute version. This is a 1440x1080 version with some updated images for changing technology. click here to download. Also available on You Tube here

Neat Lin !!!! I felt right at home with the snow. Glad you are keeping your hand in PTE

Lin: Retried it from your website and it came through this time (in splutters but it's here)

no go Tried copy-paste three times, and straight typing 3 times Guess I will have to give it a pass darn it

Thx Lin downloaded in about 7 seconds I copy and pasted the password, but it didn't accept it....

Hi Lin: I have tried three times to download the AV. Doesn't seem to want to cross the US/Canada border :rolleyes: It hangs up and just sits there after slowly downloading about half the file. Any thoughts? Thx Jim

Bill Hines is kindly hosting a "new" (14 minute) show of mine entitled Beekeeping. I say "new" as it is really one that I did 11-12 years ago as a 35mm two projector AV show. I converted it to digital in 2004 (?) as a 800x600 show. (That's all that projectors, computers and software could handle then) I have just re-worked it to 1440x1080. It is at: Here at Beechbrook It was also on YOU TUBE but I deleted it as they objected to the music being used without my having full permissions

Nice show !! Well executed. Scenes reminded me of here a few weeks ago, except we were still in late winter/early spring so we didn't have the trees in blossom !

Thank you for hosting Bill !! I also love the down in the dirt ones looking up too. Not always easy to do those, but the right angled viewfinder helps, maybe my next camera will have a rotating LCD viewer on the back like my point and shoot does.

Thanks Colin. I envy you having this "garden" so close to you. We tried growing them from seed here, but they didn't take. I found a nursery that will have them as annuals this year so I hope to plant a few in the front yard.

You know Ken, surprisingly I don't recall smelling the flowers ! They were nice to photograph - they close up each night and don't open until 9 or 10am, so you get to sleep in.

Bill Hines is kindly hosting "African Flowers" for me at Beechbrook Just under 6 minutes, 48mb Any and all comments welcome (preferably constructive :) )

Thanks Steve

Bill Hines kindly is hosting my AV "The Dance" at Beechbrook You can find the MP4 version at Any and all comments welcomed Thanks Jim Robertson

Morning Ralph (Although I guess it is afternoon over there) I did receive your kind note and replied to it. Hopefully it came through.

I sent you a note, but just in case it doesn't get there, here are some names to start with: As I mentioned keep an eye on "#africantuesday" and "#threatenedthursday" for more: Dick Whitlock Grobler du Preez Morkel Erasmus Dana Allen Anette Mossbacher Angelika Ritter Andy Biggs Christa Niederer Rudi van den Heever Gerry Van der Walt I hang out at https://plus.google.com/u/0/111546785894878927605/posts Hope that helps

Ralph: Thanks for putting in the link. Thanks for the comment re the excellent photography - you should have seen the shots that did not make it into the show, they would have made these look even better :) Ken: Thanks, and yes the Florida flamingos would have looked better, but then that would be cheating ! Lin: Thanks for compliments. And also thanks for putting some oil on the rusty brain of mine and advising how to remove the comments from some images. Normally I would have put the comments in via Photoshop to ensure that they all were lined up, but using the file name and the comments from Project Options was much quicker. Bert: Glad you had a chance to spend 4 weeks over there. The pics represented about 70% of the different birds we saw/photographed. Yes most photographers go for the "big game" as did we, but being bird photographers too, we kept out eyes out for the winged game as well. We were in Tanzania for slightly over a week and then several months later (long story) we were in South Africa for 6.5 weeks, 2.5 in Kruger and 2.5 in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park on the border with Botswana. Another week was in Namaqualand photographing spring flowers, and then finally a few days in Cape Town. So I suspect we had more chances to see birds than you did. If you want to see (or share some of your Africa shots) join us on Google Plus (G+). Keep an eye on African Tuesday and Threatened Thursday amongst others. I can give you some names of people on G+ who post VERY nice images from there. Thank you all Gentlemen

After a long hiatus, a new "AV" of mine was loaded yesterday on Beechbrook entitled "African Birds". The quotes around AV are meant to indicate that it is not a polished AV. It is a quick and dirty one that I prepared yesterday as a friend wanted to have a look at some of my bird shots from Africa. As it is not a show that I intend to present widely (likely the one showing) I went with the images as cropped for compositional purposes, rather than for AV. That means they are various sizes and the transitions are not optimal. Also one or two pictures would normally have not made it into a serious AV as their quality is lacking. Have a look if you would like to. Any and all comments, keeping in mind my comments above, are always welcome. Thanks Jim Robertson

Davegee: I think you posted and then deleted after you saw that what Lin suggested worked. Thanks for looking in and helping

Thanks Ken, Still have a copy of it ! Yes I do have more birds some of which is what the quick and dirty show is about

Thanks Lin That worked. ( Shows how rusty I am )