Ekserb's picture thread

[vanessa65]

I'm somewhat envious of the new equipment you've ordered Ekserb! Sounds very impressive.

The [home made] stuff I use would probably not be well received in most photography circles.

Your avatar (which is extraordinary) reminds me of Saladin in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven". Have you been moonlighting??

Richard

 

[Ekserb]

I'm somewhat envious of the new equipment you've ordered Ekserb! Sounds very impressive.

The [home made] stuff I use would probably not be well received in most photography circles.

Your avatar (which is extraordinary) reminds me of Saladin in Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven". Have you been moonlighting??

Richard

Whatever you're using, it's working for you. Remember that Michelangelo could have painted the ceiling with a putty knife and it still would be a masterpiece.

I've never seen the movie. Should I?

 

[vanessa65]

Thank you. I'm pretty satisfied with the result I'm getting.

Yes, I recommend the movie. We are Ridley Scott fans. He (and his brother Tony) are directors in a class of their own. They each have a unique, though not dissimilar, style. The movie is a romp through the Holy Land, Crusades etc. It's visually stunning, as are most of his 'spectacles'.........Gladiator et al.

The actor who plays Saladin (Salladin, Saladdin ???) to my mind, steals the movie, even though his part is not a big one.

Richard

 

[Ekserb]

Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Blackhawk Down ... and now he's making a new Robin Hood with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett. (Alien is the best horror/scifi film ever made, possibly one of the best movies of all time.) I love Ridley Scott's work, though I like to think GI Jane was an accident.

I will look for Kingdom of Heaven.

 

[Ekserb]

Just a few new shots for today. I wasn't too inspired, but I felt I had to break in the new equipment.

One
Two

These next two will be no surprise to anyone who knows me through Facebook. After the photos I've posted there lately you had to know these were coming!

An Army of One 1
An Army of One 2

 

[gr8sparkle99]

Hi There!

Wow, I love your very artistic photos... Beautiful! How do you do it?

You have a wonderful hard body too! Very nice!!

Sparkle

 

[Ekserb]

Wow, I love your very artistic photos... Beautiful! How do you do it?

You have a wonderful hard body too! Very nice!!

Sparkle

Thank you! I have a studio in my home that I use for subjects from small still life to professional model portraits. Plus, my camera has all kinds of features that make it a bit easier to shoot self portraits.

And thank you again! I have enjoyed your thread as well. Your body is much harder than mine. Hehe.

 

[gr8sparkle99]

Thank you! I have a studio in my home that I use for subjects from small still life to professional model portraits. Plus, my camera has all kinds of features that make it a bit easier to shoot self portraits.

And thank you again! I have enjoyed your thread as well. Your body is much harder than mine. Hehe.

What kind of camera is it? Your pics are really awesome!! Yeah, I'd love to come into your studio....

 

[Ekserb]

What kind of camera is it? Your pics are really awesome!! Yeah, I'd love to come into your studio....

I've mentioned this before, but I have no idea where it is in the thread, so ...

It's a Konica Minolta Maxxum 7D digital SLR. This was nearly the last camera made under the KM brand before they sold their imaging division to Sony (the current Sony DSLRs are all compatible with the Minolta/KM lens lineup and vice versa). The camera is actually the weakest link in my gear —*the lenses I use are top of the line and I love them. Especially the one I was using for the latest photos. It's a 70-200 Minolta zoom from their "G" series of lenses. For those that know camera gear, the Sony/Minolta G lenses are similar to the Canon L series. Really well-made and the best glass available. Good lenses are not only sharper than normal glass, but they produce better color clarity and better contrast. Expensive, but worth it.

Lighting makes all the difference, too. I have two studio strobes with various attachments and modifiers and three different background rolls that I can use for different effects.

You'll see when you get here.

 

[vanessa65]

Just a few new shots for today. I wasn't too inspired, but I felt I had to break in the new equipment.

One
Two

These next two will be no surprise to anyone who knows me through Facebook. After the photos I've posted there lately you had to know these were coming!

An Army of One 1
An Army of One 2

Sensational new pics Ekserb ... I loved the lighting in the black and whites, and the "army" ones are really imaginative and the de-saturated effect is great ... nice subject too.

Vanessa

 

[monique1971]

These next two will be no surprise to anyone who knows me through Facebook. After the photos I've posted there lately you had to know these were coming!

An Army of One 1
An Army of One 2

These are SO YOU!

 

[Ekserb]

These are SO YOU!

Hehee! Yes they are!

 

[monique1971]

Guns and your junk in one shot. Classic Ekserb.

 

[tigerjen]

Just a few new shots for today. I wasn't too inspired, but I felt I had to break in the new equipment.

One
Two

These next two will be no surprise to anyone who knows me through Facebook. After the photos I've posted there lately you had to know these were coming!

An Army of One 1
An Army of One 2

It's been a while since I dropped by.......love the new photos.......and your "army of one"
shots are wow! I didn't know you owned firearms?

Keep them coming


tigerjen

 

[Ekserb]

Guns and your junk in one shot. Classic Ekserb.

Hahahaha!

 

[Ekserb]

It's been a while since I dropped by.......love the new photos.......and your "army of one"
shots are wow! I didn't know you owned firearms?

Keep them coming


tigerjen

Until the election I had only two, but I wanted to get what I've long wanted before they are Obamanated.

The new President really should be congratulated for "stimulating" the firearms industry - the number of guns sold in the last few months has more than tripled the number sold during the same time last year. Ruger, Smith & Wesson, Glock, et al can hardly keep up with demand!

 

[tigerjen]

Until the election I had only two, but I wanted to get what I've long wanted before they are Obamanated.

The new President really should be congratulated for "stimulating" the firearms industry - the number of guns sold in the last few months has more than tripled the number sold during the same time last year. Ruger, Smith & Wesson, Glock, et al can hardly keep up with demand!

1. I meant "keep the *photos* coming

2. I am not a fan of guns, I"ll be honest.....I am sure you are very responsible when it comes
to firearms, but I get scared when I hear/read about kids and others who *should not* be
handling firearms, especially semi-automatics, etc. I believe that the Brady Bill never should
have expired. I have a feeling that you and I disagree on this matter, but regular folks should not
have Uzis and the like. I know some who do own a gun for protection, have child-proof locks
on it, etc. In my house we don't even have a weapon!

Okay off my soapbox for now......

 

[monique1971]

tigerjen, what are you doing?! Once you get Ekserb started on guns, there will be no end to the ranting.

 

[Ekserb]

tigerjen, what are you doing?! Once you get Ekserb started on guns, there will be no end to the ranting.

I'm at working and checking in from my iPhone. When I get to a real keyboard I'll be responding to the attack on our Second Amendment rights.

 

[Ekserb]

1. I meant "keep the *photos* coming

2. I am not a fan of guns, I"ll be honest.....I am sure you are very responsible when it comes
to firearms, but I get scared when I hear/read about kids and others who *should not* be
handling firearms, especially semi-automatics, etc. I believe that the Brady Bill never should
have expired. I have a feeling that you and I disagree on this matter, but regular folks should not
have Uzis and the like. I know some who do own a gun for protection, have child-proof locks
on it, etc. In my house we don't even have a weapon!

Okay off my soapbox for now......

I think the world would be a beautiful place if there were no firearms at all. The trouble is, the world is filled with guns. They are in the hands of the military, the police, and, if the liberal left has their way, those who live their lives outside the law.

Not one study in history has shown that making guns difficult or illegal to own prevents or even reduces violent crime. In fact, many studies can point to the exact opposite.

The Washington DC gun ban is an excellent example. For over 25 years the District of Columbia had a strict ban on all kinds of handguns and required the use of gun locks on all other firearms in the home, and for 25 years the crime statistics were among the highest in the country. Here again, not a single case study has been able to prove that the gun ban reduced crime. In the few years before the Supreme Court overturned the ban, the crime rate did drop a small amount, but no more so than the crime rate for the entire country dropped during the same period.

A lot of people think that the 2nd Amendment was written so people could carry a pistol for self defense against street crime or for home defense. While it is true that this is one of the benefits of a free state, the more likely opinion is that the amendment was intended to provide the people of this country with a means of defeating tyranny from within and without - that all of the rights of the people rest on the fact that an armed populace can and will rise up against government if that government starts taking away the other rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

I find it amusing that the people who lament loudest about the right to bear arms are the same people who were crying afoul during the past administration. They said Bush was trying to take away our freedoms as Americans; that he was trampling on the Constitution. Let's say they were right. Let's say he somehow managed to nullify the First, Fourth and Eighth Amendments. What would those people do? Write their Congressmen? Vote for a new President? What if the government declared a national state of emergency due to some perceived terrorist threat and then instituted martial law across the country? They could then just as easily cancel any elections and start making a few little changes to "the way things work."

These scenarios are ludicrous, right? Of course they are. And yet, this was what the left thought was going on during the Bush administration. And at the very same time they were plotting ways to take The People's only means of defense against tyranny, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Back to the laws: Florida has currently over 700,000 active concealed weapon permits. The safest place you can be in Florida is in a room full off permit holders with their guns. Statistically, you are less likely to be shot in that room than if you were in a room full of people who had no license and who also say they don't have a gun, because some of them are criminals and they are lying. (In fact, a criminal would call this a smorgasbord of victims, because he could indiscriminately target unarmed citizens with little to no threat of immediate counterattack.)

The mere presence of a gun is often enough to subdue criminal intent, which is why you rarely hear on the news about people using their 2nd Amendment rights to ward off an attacker before a crime takes place. How often have you seen an interview with a young, single woman relating how she pulled out a revolver and the would-be rapist turned tail and ran away? And yet, that was a crime avoided and possibly a life saved because she was able to legally carry a means of self defense that puts her on equal footing with any criminal element. The anti-gun lobbyists like to say that if their measures could lead to saving a single life than it's worth it. In response I ask: What about the lives saved by having a gun?

School shootings and mass killings will never be stopped by more gun laws because those crimes are committed by people who are breaking the laws we already have. The only thing that happens when guns are made illegal is that those willing to break the laws are able to have guns. Those people who act responsibly and live within the limits of the law become sheep, waiting to be victims of the outlaws of society.

"I think you're in the wrong house."
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[briansmith98]

I think the world would be a beautiful place if there were no firearms at all. The trouble is, the world is filled with guns. They are in the hands of the military, the police, and, if the liberal left has their way, those who live their lives outside the law.

......

School shootings and mass killings will never be stopped by more gun laws because those crimes are committed by people who are breaking the laws we already have. The only thing that happens when guns are made illegal is that those willing to break the laws are able to have guns. Those people who act responsibly and live within the limits of the law become sheep, waiting to be victims of the outlaws of society.

I've knocked heads with you before in other places here, and I know you are man enough to not care too much about what others think. What ever I've disagreed with you about before, I've always respected that you are your own man. :handshake:

That being made clear, I could not agree with you more on this issue. I appreciate your eloquence and clarity in presenting this view, beyond self-defense, but also to the defense of liberty if such a need should arise.

I had to laugh chortle (and I'm sorry) at the crossdraw vest and the drop-leg platform with your dick hanging. Fingers on triggers w/o a target in the sight picture? It's OK because the loaded chamber indicator is down . You are a dangerous guy, even naked... But that's just in fun... Truth be known, I've thought about taking similar shots, but just couldn't bring myself to do it

Banter and trivia aside, the point in writing is to thank you and agree with you for advocating the right to protect ourselves and our country from criminals, both common and tyrannic.

Thanks again...

 

[Ekserb]

I've knocked heads with you before in other places here, and I know you are man enough to not care too much about what others think. What ever I've disagreed with you about before, I've always respected that you are your own man. :handshake:

That being made clear, I could not agree with you more on this issue. I appreciate your eloquence and clarity in presenting this view, beyond self-defense, but also to the defense of liberty if such a need should arise.

I had to laugh chortle (and I'm sorry) at the crossdraw vest and the drop-leg platform with your dick hanging. Fingers on triggers w/o a target in the sight picture? It's OK because the loaded chamber indicator is down . You are a dangerous guy, even naked... But that's just in fun... Truth be known, I've thought about taking similar shots, but just couldn't bring myself to do it

Banter and trivia aside, the point in writing is to thank you and agree with you for advocating the right to protect ourselves and our country from criminals, both common and tyrannic.

Thanks again...

Sadly, my rant on this site will fall on mostly deaf ears - I have met very few gun enthusiasts on Lit.

 

[gr8sparkle99]

Hello

Aside from all the arguing about guns...

those pictures are SO incredibly erotic, artistic, and fantastic they belong in an art gallery or museum. The pictures posted here on lit in the am pics section, for the most part, don't come close in quality or composition to any of Ekserb's.

It's nice to see what excellent quality pictures look like here in this thread...

 

[Ekserb]

Aside from all the arguing about guns...

those pictures are SO incredibly erotic, artistic, and fantastic they belong in an art gallery or museum. The pictures posted here on lit in the am pics section, for the most part, don't come close in quality or composition to any of Ekserb's.

It's nice to see what excellent quality pictures look like here in this thread...

Aww, shucks.

 

[tigerjen]

Aside from all the arguing about guns...

those pictures are SO incredibly erotic, artistic, and fantastic they belong in an art gallery or museum. The pictures posted here on lit in the am pics section, for the most part, don't come close in quality or composition to any of Ekserb's.

It's nice to see what excellent quality pictures look like here in this thread...

I've told Ekserb on a few occasions that his photos ought to be in a coffee table type of
book, especially the black and white ones.....its amazing how the black and white film
is a lot more dramatic than color film at times......

The photography exhibit at an art gallery or museum is a wonderful idea also!