Bored? ... got Broadband?

Larry L wrote:
The rivers are high and muddy, the pasture way too wet for my Spring tractor
work, and my wife is out of the country ... I got bored.

ROFF's Dave Mohnsen showed me how to make slideshows from my fishin'
pictures, and even add background music. So I grabbed a bunch of digitals
from last summer and some music I thought suits an elegant moderate action
rod, delicate presentations, and my much beloved flat springcreek waters and
made a slideshow.

It's a HUGE file ( 12MB) but if you have a fast connection and want to see
where I spend my summers and share, with me, some places I dearly love,
download it and run .... enjoy. I may do a much smaller, more
selective, version without music for the bandwidth impaired, later G

http://www.kimshew.com/flyfish/04slideshow.exe


Way cool, Larry! Thanks for sharing.

Russell

Love my broadband. That 12MB translates to about 30 seconds.

"Larry L" wrote


made a slideshow.

yes, you did; and a fine one, at that.

It's a HUGE file

damn straight. and i had to re-boot my computer to get out of it.

always amazes me when i see the other worldly appearance of where you
fish, compared to my home waters in the appalachians.

yfitons
wayno

"WamLm" wrote

.. btw...what is the music in the background?



Charlie Byrd

"Wayne Harrison" wrote


damn straight. and i had to re-boot my computer to get out of it.



sorry to hear that .... ESC works to go back to desktop on my machine ....
I've never used the program before and feared others might report
difficulties

"Russell D." wrote


Love my broadband. That 12MB translates to about 30 seconds.


I live in the last house on a dead end country road. The phone wires here
are so old that at one point about 200 yards up the road they actually go
through a tree over a foot deep ... it has grown around them. I stopped
to complain to a serviceman about cracks and pops and static a couple years
ago and he told me, "I've never seen wires with so many splices as on this
road." And, when I signed up at a local ISP and gave my address he
instantly said, " OH, well if you live out there we can't guarantee you good
service, we've had nothing but trouble in that area."

Sure, I'm gullible to the persuaders and ad men and will admit I often dream
of material items beyond my reach. But, I don't REALLY want a Boron
self-casting fly rod, or a truck with built-in satellite guidance systems
for the sense of direction impaired. I AM however, tired, of a bamboo
Internet connection G Took 90+ minutes to upload that file to my
server .... which it always amazes me is in Maryland in the heart of
'Netland.

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:42:06 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:


"Wayne Harrison" wrote


damn straight. and i had to re-boot my computer to get out of it.



sorry to hear that .... ESC works to go back to desktop on my machine ....
I've never used the program before and feared others might report
difficulties

ESC is probably something Wayno didn't try. g
--
Charlie...
http://www.chocphoto.com/ - photo galleries
http://www.chocphoto.com/roff

"Wayne Harrison" wrote


always amazes me when i see the other worldly appearance of where you
fish, compared to my home waters in the appalachians.



In the summer of 2000 my kid, wife, and I took a little over a month and did
a whirlwind tour of the country, mainly for the boy's sake ... for him to go
to D.C. and historical places.

I only fished a few days on the San Juan and some in Pennsylvania, but I can
remember seeing several creeks in the Great Smoky area that looked like
delightful places to stalk trout. And I went to Warrenton, Va. where my
father was raised and visited the exact spot on the Rappahannock(sp?) where
I caught my first remembered fish a summer I spent with my grandparents, my
grandfather as guide ... I guess I was 6 or 7.

I loved walking the LeTort, caught one small fish, met Charlie Fox's
daughter ( fishing history appeals to me, it's one of the reasons I fish
Yellowstone, too ) and wish I'd have had more time to enjoy Pennsylvania
fishing ... and to stop in the upper mid-west for the springcreeks there.

ANYWAY .... I, for one, wish you guys in the East would file more TR's.
Especially TRs emphasizing the nature of the Nature in your areas, I'd love
pictures and written impressions of areas I'll likely never or seldom visit.
I shot my first duck on the very headwaters of the Severn River in Md.
between Baltimore and D.C. and caught crabs off the dock ( I lived in
Severna Park at the time ) and was given my first fly rod by a friend from
Pennsylvania who fished tiny creeks wandering through small farms .... to ME
that is an amazing "other world," .... so much Nature in places you'd never
guess just driving through ...... as is, I'm sure, your Old North State
area .... share more, please

"Larry L" wrote in message
...
//snip//

http://www.kimshew.com/flyfish/04slideshow.exe


I enjoyed it so much that I did one for my nearby waters here in Missouri.
It includes some pictures I took over the last few years. I need to get back
out with my camera on one of these good spring days.

http://webpages.charter.net/rwpatton/moflyfish.htm

"Larry L" wrote in message
...
//snip// ANYWAY .... I, for one, wish you guys in the East would file more
TR's. Especially TRs emphasizing the nature of the Nature in your areas,
I'd love pictures and written impressions of areas I'll likely never or
seldom visit. I shot my first duck on the very headwaters of the Severn
River in Md. between Baltimore and D.C. and caught crabs off the dock ( I
lived in Severna Park at the time ) and was given my first fly rod by a
friend from Pennsylvania who fished tiny creeks wandering through small
farms .... to ME that is an amazing "other world," .... so much Nature in
places you'd never guess just driving through ...... as is, I'm sure, your
Old North State area .... share more, please

North Carolina streams (with apologies to any Roffians who might be
included):
http://webpages.charter.net/rwpatton.../ncstreams.htm

And Missouri:
http://webpages.charter.net/rwpatton.../moflyfish.htm

Bob

"Bob Patton" wrote

North Carolina streams (with apologies to any Roffians who might be
included):
http://webpages.charter.net/rwpatton.../ncstreams.htm

And Missouri:
http://webpages.charter.net/rwpatton.../moflyfish.htm



Bob,
Neither of those pages open in Foxfire, but the source code looks like it
should open a Windows Media File???

Before I try using IE can you tell me how big the files are, roughly? I
can get about 7 MB/hour and want some idea how long to wait before I assume
something is wrong G