O.T. Vacation pictures

[Ray]

Here are the best of my vacation pictures :

[url]http://www.pbase.com/carbone/new_brunswick__pei[/url]

Enjoy!

Ray

[Beth Haney]

Gorgeous, Ray!! Thank you for posting them. I've just gotta get there.

[Leen Koper]

Ray, I love your image 4208.
It displays so much quietness and peace of mind, I would love to be there, just sitting, chewing a straw and spending my time in idleness..., just only concentrating on nothing that seemed important before.

Leen

[Chuck Snyder]

Ray, wonderful photos!! Thanks for sharing with us!

Chuck

[Ray]

Beth and Chuck: Thanks :)

Chuck : I've used the "Save As.." instead of "Save for web", in order for you to see the EXIF data.
You once said that you liked it when people let this information available.

Leen : I did learn a few things that you told me :) There were moments when I looked at the
scenery, and did nothing then breath for long minutes. Observing, and "feeling" the place. New
Brunswick as much to offer for artists. Next year, we'll spend 10 days instead of just 5. I should
be able to get back some more beautifull pictures.

Ray

[JodiFrye]

Ray, now I'm homesick :( Not that I was born in PEI or NB but we sure did visit there alot when i was growing up. Great memories of N.S. as well. Little brother and myself swam with the jelly fish...we called them 'ignoramases'...they were the monsters and we didn't let them get us ! Wow, I want to cry. Life is great.

[Ray]

Jodi, being of French origin, I felt connected, like if Acadia was a lost continent. I felt a great
sadness when I walk along the shores, and remembered what was done to the citizens of New Brunswick
when the English decided it was time to get rid of them.

It's history now.

[Chuck Snyder]

Ray, thanks for the tip on saving as to preserve EXIF data - I didn't know
that could be done. Chuck

[Chuck Snyder]

Ray, of course you know of the migration of the Acadians to Louisiana in the
southern US some centuries ago....they intermarried with the people already
there and became "Cajuns". Fantastic dialect that they speak!

[Juergen D]

Ray,

Thanks for posting those beautiful pictures. I really like the sunsets,
especially #4126.

Juergen

[Leen Koper]

Chuck, not just only the dialect. It's the blues. ;-)
I love that Cajun music!

Leen

[Ray]

Of course I knew it. But they didn't do so willingly, they were forced to. That's the sad part.
And, instead of sending them to the province of Québec, where there were already several French
speaking citizen, they sent them in the other colonies. They feared that a too great number of
French people would end up in a revolution.

The Acadians of Canada now speak both French and English in the same time, but I believe it's
different from Cajun. I had a rough time understanding a lady at a local Tim Horton (coffee /
donuts / sandwich shop). She would graciously switch from French to Enligh and vice versa within
the same sentence. I was like... "ehhh.. what did you say?" At the end, I received a chicken salad
sandwich on a big whole weat bread (the ones I can't eat easily because of my braces), whereas I had
ordered a ham salad on white sliced bread (regular) sandwich. A soup was added, and I did not even
ordered it ;-)

Tastes good though. Rick had 1 and 1/2 sandwich, on that particular dinner (I couldn't eat it).

Life's little joy ;-)

Ray

[Chuck Snyder]

Leen, as they say in New Orleans, "You got dat right!"

[Ray]

Juergen, thanks :-) It's a pitty I couldn't shoot what was coming only minutes later. The sky was
cizored (sizored.. cisored?) with orange / red stripes over blue / dark grey clouds, showing a bit
of yellow. Unfortunately, on the highway, there's not always room to stop and shoot a picture.
Only later that evening, while my friend was driving, did I re-read the user's manual of my camera
and learned I could have actually shot it using the Sport mode of my cam... !

I tried it later and it works flawlessly! The camera will switch to ISO 400 (or 800), and permits
objects to be frozen even when shooting from a moving car, running at 125Kph (75Mph). It takes a
rapid focussing lense (which I have) and it's very easy. I learned to anticipate "wholes in trees"
to get a perfect view at some distant barns or objects 1.5 Km (1 mi) from the road!

Photography never ceases to amaze me ;-)

Ray

[Ray]

Lenn, and the Cajun food! Chicken à la Cajun is just delicious!

(unless you can't get to be understood and receive Fettucinnis Alfredo, equally good..!)

Ray

[Ray]

I'm sure, our teenagers will come up with "You got dot right" (with the Internet being the center of
their lives...)

;-)

[Chuck Snyder]

Ray, very good.....you are now into idiomatic English and puns....!!

[Juergen D]

Ray,

I think with the help of Elements you can put some more colors into it. I
would definitely give that a try.

Juergen

[Chuck Snyder]

Ray, here's a glossary of Cajun 'french/english' for you...

[url]http://www.artsci.lsu.edu/fai/Cajun/glossary.html[/url]

[Barbara Brundage]

Lovely photos, Ray. I've always wanted to go there.