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I saw this on Pinterest: no viewfinder => to me this means it's a view camera It might be a fake ?  It looks like a wooden body view camera with a Hasselblad film back and possibly the lens and bellows are from an old roll film camera ? But there was this question: How do you know when it is in focus? If it's like my old B&J press camera you do the following: 1) put in the slide for the film back, this prevents the film from being exposed 2) take off the film back  3) put on the ground glass back  4) frame and focus the shot with the shutter open.  Then reverse the process to take a picture 5) close the shutter 6) set the aperture / shutter speed for the correct exposure 7) take off the ground glass back   8) put on the film back 9) take out the slide 10) take the picture View camera users tend to be very deliberate people who use tripods :) This got me thinking about my B&J camera.  It was made in Chicago !  It had a wooden body, 2 1/4 x 3 ...

source:  https://youtu.be/uD-uyGWdXyE first a doe: but then a spike steps in and does the scarfing up of the pile: finally this doe appears to be saying: "Hey Man, where are my apples ?": WHERE ARE THEY ?: Also there was this, yikes: I still find these pictures fascinating, another day, another pile of apples (but I'll move them next time). Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

The experiment with alternate bait didn't work out, at least as far as the cam was concerned.  I had set out the fat trimmings from a meat canning session but got no takers.  Later a dead mouse was added, which was taken but the fat remained: So the cam was moved over to another apple pile and voila, both the fat and the apples are gone Monday AM.  Here is the resulting "movie": source:  https://youtu.be/tr8gofIDzFA The actors appear in evening light instead of the ghostly gray of night, here is a female red fox ? (no, it's probably a gray fox): And our now trained apple eater doe, Spotty ?: The gravel by the roadside tree shows evidence of deer hoofs but I think they prefer to be away from the side of the road so I'm doing them a favor with the bait piles ?  :) Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm 

I checked on the cam Saturday morning and found this: Yikes !  I had tried another bait pile during the night, here's another "movie": source:  https://youtu.be/P3wFOfK64mo A little larger cast of characters, in addition to the doe (previously misidentified as a fawn) from the previous bait pile: A fawn: A fox ?: Masked Marauders: I *think* the Masked Marauders were the tripod tippers !  :)  Cam and tripod seem OK though.  I'm trying something different Saturday night. Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm  

Bing had this as the background pic for August 19, 2026: The USN stubby carrier plane is a Brewster Buffalo XF2a-1 from 1938 in the full size wind tunnel that would later become NASA Langley.  Unfortunately it was torn down but still, amazing scale ! source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-Scale_Wind_Tunnel The Brewster Buffalo wasn't preferred by the Navy, they liked the Grumman Wildcat F4 and Grumman Hellcat F6 better.  But those wacky Finns liked the Buffalo: https://historynet.com/brewster-buffalo-finland/ When I was a kid I built a Grumman F6F Hellcat model plane.  I can't remember the vendor, probably Revell but maybe Monogram ?  It seems to me that AMT was the goto for car models.  Now that I think of it while the propeller turned there wasn't much else you could do with a model plane, except look at them, maybe dust them (or maybe not ;).  The upstairs room in our house in Fox Point had two built-in dressers with small display shelves above...

I was kind of ambivalent about using bait with the cam.  But then I thought about windfalls.  Usually the deer police most of them but not always.  And I have to figure that a pile of apples probably has at least a few worms.  If I get the deer to eat the apples won't that kill the worms ?  See, you can justify anything :) So I tried baits for a couple of nights.  They found them the first night but left 3.  So I redeployed on Monday night - all were taken.  I think by a single deer, appears to be a fawn ?  Here's my attempt at stitching together the stills: source:  https://youtu.be/gd6jSkp1aWM This reminded me of an episode of The Andy Griffith Show (season 1, episode 32) where Opie is banished from the courthouse after school because Aunt Bea thinks it's a bad influence.  So he goes wandering around, kicking a can down the road.  He encounters a kid eating apples on a pickup truck tailgate and trades him apples for the can....

A few recent pictures, first these from the cam: I've been keeping the cam relatively close to the house.  It dawned on me that the deer know about fruit trees, the volunteer crabapple tree sometimes will have a lot of fruit.  I don't see how they can stand the crabapples though.  I may try setting up the cam near some of the apple trees. The only thing about the crabapple tree is that it's hard to see them with the grass so high - that can be remedied, Chuck ! The Town recently repainted the lines on the road.   In addition they painted the four rectangles around the surveying benchmarks: I am suspicioning that these are meant for the aerial Door County photo property maps, previously mentioned here: https://wb9kzy.blogspot.com/2026/06/surveying.html Finally I rode by the nearest DSL installation by the side of the road: And by the DSL stuff was this can which I *think* has the loading coils for the POTS (plain old telephone service).  That silver round thingy ...

https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-friendship I am late to World Friendship Day on July 30, 2026 (I got the name wrong, it's International Day of Friendship but you get the idea).  Bing offered 20 points for creating World Friendship Day pictures using AI.  I tried QSL cards: This was the input: ham radio qsl card for WB9KZY world friendship day showing an Elecraft K2 radio   Kinda nothing special, not horrible but generic, another AI miss (or AI whisperer swing and miss). And I didn't even get the 20 points, so three strikes on that one, missed the day, missed a good QSL and missed the points :( Here's one of my photo QSLs: Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm

https://www.shorpy.com/node/3463 A Shorpy repost from 2008, what a difference 100 years makes or even just 18 years :( Here is the LOC version, not as good a scan: source:  https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3c06973/ Best Regards, Chuck, WB9KZY http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm