kevin powell
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Silly debate… but are there sub species within this species? I do not know but it is probably the case. I know more about trees and when I do a landscape design with my wide we hear this mess all the time. “I want an Acer palmatum, (Japanese maple).” 100’s of cultivars so we have to break out the books or ask better questions.
Is a Cutthroat a Cut? Oncorhynchus clarki
Lando is correct on the whenever they want if they want part. I have always had the let them do what they want and like sort of attitude myself. My parents were that way with me with everything except for art which they wanted to keep me away from as a career. Lot of good that did them. The introduction of the outdoors is what I look forward to the most. A child’s wonder is a wonderful thing. If she pics up the latin plant names like her mother, I’m in real trouble and I’m also scared when she gets old enough to get into my paints and art supplies.
I am thinking three is the magic age to start fishing but with bait… I know… I said bait. 5 to 7 before even thinking about a fly rod unless I could find the place where the fish are just crazy dumb and eating everything. AND OR introducing the fly rod with bread for the bream to make sure we catch something.
I was going to the lake and camping with my parents 3 months after I was born. Swimming by 2 and 1/2 – we have pictures of me jumping off the back of a boat. AND caught a 1lb 14 oz blue gill by the age of 4 (My grandfather was so proud he had it mounted… again I know but that was a different time). My parents also said that I had visited every state park in Georgia by the age of 5. I think that is how they kept it fun.
My Grandfather was a fishing fanatic but he always took the time to show the grandkids how to do everything. We always fished with grubs weighted, and on the bottom without a bobber, he said that taught us to feel the line and pay attention – I guess that is why I still cant figure out the whole indicator idea. He also taught us how to respect the stuff around us, so we were not running around beating everything down with a stick… And that a fishing rod was a fine piece of equipment that had to be taken care of.
I’m seeing the pattern of keeping it fun, interesting and having plenty to do. The State and national park system sounds like the ticket for just that – my parents will be proud because I stopped drive up camping in college. I have to get a coleman stove and lantern.
Going fishing is the fun….catching fish is a bonus – I like that. This is a great thread.
This is all great information and fun to see the kids fishing. I bought the Curtis Creek Manifesto last week as a coloring book for Amelia when she gets old enough to color – the text might be a little much for her but it would be fun to color. That should be fun for the whole family. My wife is getting into all of this as well. She is a native plant fanatic and raising our child in outdoors is extremely important to both of us.
Great thread. 🙂
Ben,
NAPP is a great organization but I am not presently not a member but I was up to last year. My boss doesnt see the need for the “trainer to be trained” and he will not pay for my membership. I know that I should want to grow and learn but I dropped my membership to prove a point to him – he should invest a little staff training (plus I was a little preoccupied this past year)
I have also been thinking about changing my career, but that is another story altogether. (unless you know someone in North Atlanta hiring)
I do believe that ALL Photoshop Professionals should be a member or have a member of NAPP on their team – It is some of the best money spent. If no NAPP – I can justify spending time on the IA board at work because of threads like this one. Thanks Everyone… Keep the good threads coming.
Cant do it.
Kind of like “how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop?” even the wise old owl can do it.
Great video.
I’d have to pick beauty. Those are the places that my wife enjoys the fishing and going with me. She is a horticulturalist so it helps to have all the stream side plants and native flora – That keeps her interested. Another reason this time of year is so great. Spring creeks and mountain streams have those little but colorful brooks and cuts. The sound and smell of water just gets me going.
Don’t get me wrong, I like to hook into a pig and I HAVE waded in manure to catch the that pig. But the time that I have out and away from the office is sanctuary time.
Looks awesome.
I use to live close to a cigar store and cigar boxes work great for lots of little stuff. I also buy coffee in a can, just because the can is so useful for paint brushes. A good friend uses baby food jars for just about everything he owns. (I’m working into that)
A.K. Best has a book about production fly tying (http://globalflyfisher.com/reviews/books/best1.htm)
It has been a while since I read it but I remember it being one of the best books for organization of a fly desk. I used A.K.’s same ideas for my art supplies. You all have probably discussed this book, but it can be used in a much broader way.Patrick’s way works also when you have the time.
🙂Dont worry…
When Amelia grips my finger, I make sure to get her thumb in the right place like holding a fly rod and she had her rod before I did. Here is a picture of her getting “Geared Up”!
Kids and fly fishing is a post that I have been thinking about. I want to learn as much as I can before we start.
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Cool!!! More control – Alt or Option Key on the MAC.
This is why I mentioned the something new everyday. This program… Man. I dream in Illustrator and InDesign but I dream “about” Photoshop
I went to an advanced photoshop class a couple of months ago and we went around the room and talked about our skill level within the program. We had to choose from advanced, intermediate and beginner. I chose intermediate when the guy came to me, then he asked how long I had been using the program. I said about 18 years. He replied “18 years and think of yourself as an intermediate user?”
I told him I learn something new about the program daily. When that learning curve changes from daily to weekly – The I would be an advanced intermediate user. Learning something new Monthly almost puts me in the advanced category. Yearly would almost be a Zen State.
Forums like this keep me in that intermediate state. I like that.
The Camera Raw way is really quick but it can screw up color if you do to much. That was why I thought this was a great Idea to have your way as a backup and for training my folks here.
In CS3, When you open a RGB Jpeg or Tif, select camera RAW instead of the usual
COOL. I love seeing how different people do the same ideas differently in photoshop. It just opens up another direction or option on how to do things.
The program is so deep. there is usually 3 ways to skin the same cat.
I would have opened up the details in Camera RAW then went from there. I do that color correction by eye because I’ve been doing it daily for so long – (I do not recommend doing it by eye – I also know MY computer better than most), then i would correct the curves mathematically with the dark, mid and white point.
This gives me a different direction to turn. And helps as a great training tool. Thanks
Nice trip. Sorry about the bad weather.
ALSO, Thanks for sharing and an extra thanks for the walk down memory lane. The last time I was in Steinhatchee was is 1999 when my grandfather passed and we sold his place – some of the memories turned sour from that.
All the pictures clicked the great memories. Bay scallops and the greek potato salad at Roy’s. Mowing ant hills on accident in the St Augustine lawn and the sand spurs. Catching sheapheads from the docks and flounder at the mouth of the river. I could go on and on. Memories since the day I was born. This board has really brought back some old memories this week. I could fill a book with the crazy fishing experiences that I had with my granddad.
I never encountered the buzzing rod but I have been on the flats and everyone in the boat had their hair stand on end. That happened on multiple occasions. That is a bad feeling.
Thanks again.
Pop refered to was my grand father. He had rather fish than eat.
My dad was more a bird hunter than a fisherman. He bought a llewelin setter the day I was born and taught me how to respect a shotgun at age 4 by showing what it feels like to shoot a 12 gauge while skeet shooting.
I think back and it is hard to believe I have made it this far. BUT now I have total respect for all of it.
near dead to not fish. dysentery makes you feel like your about to die so that counts.
True story… I was 12 and went on a trip to Florida to fish the flats with my Pop. We fished a couple of days and he started feeling extremely weak. I was 12 and did not know the whole story. He also had black stool. We fished another day and at the end of that day, Pop passed out on the floor. We drove to the hospital in Mayo and they told him to get back to Atlanta right away due to a peptic ulcer. At that point we drove back to the cabin in Steinhatchee. The next morning we did fish because we had to go get the boat anyway. Pop passed out again when we got back to the cabin. We had to get back to Atlanta and He was to weak to drive. I, 12 years of age drove, trailer in tow from Steinhatchee to Atlanta.
