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She got pied really well and then sneered "Is that all you got?!". So then she got sprayed with at least a dozen bottles of Champagne. Actually, I think Champagne helps cleanse the slimy feeling of whip cream.

She definitely knew there was more after the pies. I just don't think she knew exactly what that was...

Pictures have been posted for Carol Clay's 15,000th Jump and what was to be attempts at breaking the Virginia state record. Although we never quite got the number of people or all the aircraft that was needed, a good time was had by all. Organized by Roger Ponce, the group successfully completed a 50-way for Carol Clay's 15,000th freefall skydive and went on to complete a 54-way and a 73-way. Additionally, 38 skydivers set a new POPS Virginia state record.

There are many after hours pictures taken with my digital point-and-shoot and full camera image files, as always, are available for FREE download. Go find yourself and your friends, even Carol getting her Emerald Freefall Badge and Penta Ruby Wings. Only 10 people in the world are known to have accumulated at least 15,000 freefall jumps.

You will find all the event pictures from this link

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With great difficulty!

In all honesty, that shot is hard to do because it's a challenging manual exposure meaning I couldn't use auto anything from the camera. It involves tables and calculations and some educated guessing to make minor adjustment to some variables.

The exposure was more than one second during which I set up my flash to fire 4 times. Each flash in the frame is only 1/4 of the total output possible. With such a weak light, you need something reflective to help. You can see what I'm talking about by looking at the jumper's clothing and his canopy.

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I know I'm in some of those bigways, but it goes too fast for me to find myself

That's easy. Just right-click on the desktop and choose "Properties". Then select the "Screen Saver" tab. Then click the "Settings" button. From there you can change the duration each image is displayed from the default 7 seconds to something longer.

markharju was almost correct. I had linked to a web site 2 years ago that was about skydiving. Since then, that web site updated their home page to link to 1-800-SKYRIDE.

So I never actually linked to 1-800-SKYRIDE directly and I have now updated my text also.

Absolutely not. I hate SpyWare and I hate SPAM too.

My plain easy to read privacy policy:
http://vividviews.com/privacy

Basically I don't want your personal information and I don't want people to steal my stuff. (I give much of it away for free.)

I know it was a joke but I wanted to chime in anyway

Regarding advertising, I repeat that I am not trying to sell or trade anything with this screen saver. In fact, I've disabled the free user registration that's usually required for downloading my web site's content.

The watermark on each of my screen saver images is to protect them against image theft. Without a watermark, anyone can use them and claim them as their own. In fact, one of the very first images I put on the internet did not have a URL mark and I found it was used on one of the 1-800-SKYRIDE partner web sites. I had to go to great lengths to get it removed.

So PLEASE tell me where I have a link to 1-800-SKYRIDE. I certainly have never placed a link to them in any of my pages and if you've found one I definitely want to know where and how it got there.

One final thought. Sangiro himself suggested to me long ago that I should post in the forums when I add new pictures to my web site. I still have the saved email so I hardly think that giving away a free screen saver with my pictures watermarked for their protection qualifies as advertising. If it does then there would be no way for me to ever share my work freely with the skydiving community via these forums. Personally I think that would be a sad loss for everyone including anyone else who might want to share their passion.

Hopefully I've cleared up any misconceptions here.

Cheers!

[Edit: Wanted to add "including anyone else"]

Nikon N90s
Nikon D70
Nikon F100

Plus various filters, speed lights (flash heads), etc. If you want more details, you can find each image in the screen saver on my web site. From the image details page, click the CAMERA tab to see what camera was used, film type, shutter speed, etc. etc.

Huh. 71 downloads and nobody has had anything to say. I guess no news is good news

Anyone who knows me knows how much I like to share the images I create while skydiving. It's my passion.

Now I'm making a FREE screen saver available with 47 images from all diciplines. No unlock code is needed, all 47 images will display. There is no timeout and there are no limitations.

Free download - Skydiving Screen Saver

This is not a product for sale or trade. It's just a way of sharing some cool skydiving pictures. Enjoy!

Rather than clutter this thread, please contact me directly: http://vividviews.com/contact

Although I don't really know why this is happening, I'll try to help you. This doesn't seem to be a problem for other people.

If you see the ONLINE status for my live support icon, we can chat live in real time from your browser

For each image detail page, there is a Toolbox in the right hand column. There you will find a "Bigger View" link which opens a larger version of the same image in a new window.

You get to the detail page by clicking on the thumbnail image. You can also navigate to the next and previous image from each image detail page.

111 Event pictures from Roger Ponce's 40 & 80-ways @ Cross Keys

Just wanted chime in and say that I purchased this camera and have put it through its paces in freefall. Bottom line: I LOVE this camera No problems with any type of "floating iris" issue as found on some other 3 chip cameras.

I also carved head down around someone while the sun was approx 45 degrees off the horizon so the camera had extreme backlight with the sun in the lens and with the sun behind the camera and all points in between. The autoexposure exceeded my expectations keeping well saturated colors while the sun was directly in front of the lens without darkening the shadow side of my subject. The exposure system also did a great job at maintaining a balanced image throughout the carve and did NOT "hunt" around by overexposing and then underexposing as some other video cameras I've used in the past.

The only complaint I have about the camera is the AV and LANC port are on the right side of the viewfinder (opposite the LCD) which makes them virtually inaccessible if you side mount the camera. I've found though that a Cam Eye II right angle LANC plug does just fit in the port with it side mounted for my setup but I have to unmount it to remove the plug. Your results may vary.

I can live without a firewire port on the camera. It's only available on the docking station.

I'm also impressed with the new BlackBox that Cookie Composites is manufacturing for this unit: http://www.cookiecomposites.com/proddetail.php?prod=1BB1000

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He has flown it in every oreintation and the picture quality is great.

Thanks for this info! I see you have "BlackBoxPC1000" listed on your site as "only weeks away". I hope that's soon 'cause I'm leaning towards buying one in the next 5-7 days.

Because Panasonic has been spending the last 3 years developing very affordable 3-chip cameras. PV-GS65 for $465

http://www.pricegrabber.com/p__Panasonic_PV_GS65_Mini_DV_Digital_Camcorder,__7317711/blsrt=1

Just to answer your question...

Okay, what is a "floating iris" problem???

Saw some other posts elsewhere. The problem looks like old 8mm tape flutter if I understand what I read correctly

I've heard nothing but problems regarding the PC-350 and changes in temperature/humidity during freefall such as the camera shutting off.

A friend of mine has put a dozen plus jumps on his PC-1000 including putting it through a big change in temperature. No problems, he loves the camera

One more thing, I saw some of his footage he shot of a tandem. I saw no issues with the picture except for improved color of course!

Will there be another San Carlos boogie in early 2005?

Not my fault! I came up with the name VividViews long before someone told me it was similar to another, well known web site.

Certain software like web site copiers etc get this message. You might also have your browser set to not send a user agent string, ie blank. If you tried to access my site around 9:11 pm EST tonight, then that's exactly what happened.

If you tried to access my site around 10:32 pm EST, then can you tell me the specifics of the browser, make, model, version, that sorta stuff? This would help me to help you gain access.

There's a couple of shots from the Swooo Boogie, some RW 4-way and some freefly. I haven't yet posted the digital point-and-shoot stuff from the evenings. I only offloaded that to my PC 30 minutes ago.

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The latest update includes posts made to the "Freefly", "RW / FF", "People & Places", "Fun Stuff" and "Experimental" categories. To quickly find just these new shots, login to the web site and click the "New Since" button in the upper right corner of the page.

I have also added one new wallpaper. Just visit the link below:
http://vividviews.com/wallpapers


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Did you know you can change the sorting order of the images in a category?

Simply scroll to the bottom of a category page and select either: Name, Date, Rating, Hits, Votes or Downloads from the drop down menu next to the word "Sort:". Click either the "Up" or "Down" radio buttons then click "Go".

Your sorting selection will apply to all categories and remain in effect for the duration of your visit. You can use this to sort by "Date" & "Down" to see newer pictures listed first.

That's http://vividviews.com/search.php?search_keywords=SD110_0410

I know I was looking at some of my web site traffic logs and found your post as the REFERER for several visitors. That's what drew me to this forum thread.

Thanks for posting the link!