As most of you may know my car went on the fritz last week.
Well I already had an appointment to have the oil changed before heading up to Micheal's place on Arrow Lakes.
Before the appointment I hit the bank and made a combined deposit of the clad and recycles.
This was my first bank run this year and my travel costs were totally covered.
$414 was the recycle money. The rest was coins and cash I had from selling some pennies.
I had already loaded a bunch of lead into the car to haul up there for sale.
Hey at $25 each it is worth hauling them up there.
Wednesday came and I drove the car into the shop.
Only to find out that it was not a thermostat problem.
My old 1999 Honda Accord had a cracked cylinder head.
The shop sourced out a replacement engine for me.
$1500 for an engine that only had 23,600 miles on it.
But with all of the labour and taxes plus replacing the timing belt and a few other things,
the repair bill would have come to around $4600.00
So it is time to blow taps on the old beast and find a new one.
I am going to do something here that I normally don't do.
I am going to show how I get the most out of my pictures.
On Monday I did manage to get down to a close by park for a quick hunt.
This is all that I manage to find. 10 pennies, a nickel in horrible condition and some recyclables.
This picture was taken with my cellphone just before dusk.
How many times have we all seen pictures like this and have been asked to identify the items in then.
Modern cameras and cellphones take incredible pictures these days but we have to help them a little bit.
You can do all sorts of things on your cellphone.
Like adjust the colour, tone, clarity and such. I like to just crop the picture on my phone. Then email it to myself.
The pictures are much clearer on my phone.
I could just post them with my phone.
However what I do is take several pictures of the item and email them all to myself so that I can pick and chose which one I want to put in the post.
As well it is much easier to compose the story behind the finds on the keyboard as opposed to using the phone.
For some reason my computer does not like to save the pictures with the same clarity that I can see on the phone.
These are the adjustments that I can fiddle with. Here is that cropped picture as it first looks like on the computer. And after making some adjustments.
Well I already had an appointment to have the oil changed before heading up to Micheal's place on Arrow Lakes.
Before the appointment I hit the bank and made a combined deposit of the clad and recycles.
This was my first bank run this year and my travel costs were totally covered.
$414 was the recycle money. The rest was coins and cash I had from selling some pennies.
I had already loaded a bunch of lead into the car to haul up there for sale.
Hey at $25 each it is worth hauling them up there.
Wednesday came and I drove the car into the shop.
Only to find out that it was not a thermostat problem.
My old 1999 Honda Accord had a cracked cylinder head.
The shop sourced out a replacement engine for me.
$1500 for an engine that only had 23,600 miles on it.
But with all of the labour and taxes plus replacing the timing belt and a few other things,
the repair bill would have come to around $4600.00
So it is time to blow taps on the old beast and find a new one.
I am going to do something here that I normally don't do.
I am going to show how I get the most out of my pictures.
On Monday I did manage to get down to a close by park for a quick hunt.
This is all that I manage to find. 10 pennies, a nickel in horrible condition and some recyclables.
This picture was taken with my cellphone just before dusk.
How many times have we all seen pictures like this and have been asked to identify the items in then.
Modern cameras and cellphones take incredible pictures these days but we have to help them a little bit.
You can do all sorts of things on your cellphone.
Like adjust the colour, tone, clarity and such. I like to just crop the picture on my phone. Then email it to myself.
The pictures are much clearer on my phone.
I could just post them with my phone.
However what I do is take several pictures of the item and email them all to myself so that I can pick and chose which one I want to put in the post.
As well it is much easier to compose the story behind the finds on the keyboard as opposed to using the phone.
For some reason my computer does not like to save the pictures with the same clarity that I can see on the phone.
These are the adjustments that I can fiddle with. Here is that cropped picture as it first looks like on the computer. And after making some adjustments.
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