Betty LaRue

People waiting for the bus, people getting on the bus, the bus pulling out. Same for the train. Pictures close up of the bus/train schedule. The market storefront, people entering the market, people leaving the market with purchases, inside the market, someone with an item in their hand looking at it, people in the checkout lane, someone using the self-checkout. Find a bench, sit for a while with camera handy & snap people doing things. If it’s raining, find a place with cover you can shoot people walking by dealing with the rain, umbrellas, newspaper over head, human interest. Your Sony RX100VII is a spy camera, you know. And you take great images!

Excellent, Rebecca. Mark…there’s some keywords for you but I would check with your friend first to ascertain if that is the goat breed. If so, I would think that would make your goat even more saleable.

If any consultation, I would have uploaded it myself. And I have in the past and passed.

Thanks guys. I tried your link, Michael. What was on my computer didn’t line up with the step directions exactly, but I think I got to the place I needed somehow! The warning didn’t disappear, but I didn’t reboot right away since my body was tied up in knots by the time I wrote out all of the instructions on paper first. And that was after messing with the computer for ages…total 3 1/2 hours. It’s dinnertime now. I’ll reboot later. If that didn’t work, I’ll move on to Mark’s link. I knew I count on you forum regulars, you guys are worth your weight in gold. I’m still very puzzled how it got installed on my computer. My Mac is used pretty much for my stock work only. I look at email on my iPad. I did read email on the Mac up to a couple of months ago before I got my new iPhone because one of my email addresses on my old phone & iPad didn’t work…something to do with the technical stuff I don’t understand! When I got my new phone, I took my iPad with me & those smart young guys still wet behind the ears sorted it. I expect these days a 6 year old could do it. I’m very careful about what I open up in email. I guess all it takes is one thing, but I’d think it would have shown up a couple of months ago before I quit doing mail on the Mac. Again, thanks! I’ll let y’all know one way or the other probably tomorrow. I’m whipped for now. You know the saying, “the old grey mare she ain’t”…and so on. 😁

Yesterday, after putting in a DVD of old images from 2006, a box popped up that says: "DeployPlatform.gqa" will damage your computer. This file was downloaded on an unknown date. inside of this box is an OK box and a "Show in Finder" box, both within the warning box. A line with "Report malware to Apple to protect other users. I have clicked on the "Show in Finder" box multiple times and get no response for Finder, but the same warning box pops up again. Over & over. The only thing I clicked on out of the ordinary yesterday was the John Morrison blog, but that wasn't on my iMac, it was on my iPad. I can't think my DVD was the problem, it was burned years ago from images taken with my Nikon D200 from a folder on my desktop...who knows what computer I was using then, but I have never had a virus or malware on any of my Macs. Or PC back in the days before Mac. I can't understand why "Show in Finder" doesn't work, and I don't know how to find this file and delete it. Incidentally, Bridge quit working when all of this happened. I'm using Bridge 22 as I hate the newest one. At one point, I had a popup box when I clicked on the "show in finder" box that spoke of malware and gave me a link I clicked on that then told me Safari was not connected to the Internet. I found I still had Firefox, so brought that up. It works, & that's what I'm using at the moment. I just checked PS & Bridge, & Bridge loaded, but the "Show in Finder" box still doesn't work. I'm at a total loss what to do. Right now as I type this, the warning, "DeployPlatform.gqa" box is front and center. I cannot get rid of it, and I can't find out where to find it in the guts of this computer. HELP!!! Most of you are aware how incompetent I am with computer technology. Any instructions for me will need to be straightforward & simple. As in: #1 do this. #2 do this. etc. Don't say go to blah blah and do this because I probably can't find blah blah.

Visiting a few of his images, it appears he was still photographing at least in near mid November. Perhaps even later. It makes me think of my own mortality, which I find I do more often these days. Things can change rapidly in this old world.

I’m sure the whole Alamy forum is hanging on for the answer to this question. Where are her ears? Did you cut them off? 😉

Just hopped over to his blog. The best I can tell, he had a stroke sometime around Christmas. Then a mention of a tumour (tumor), and hints of having a terminal diagnosis with 3 months left of decent activity which has been used up. Many mentions later about using a motorized getaround (wheelchair? Cart?) of some sort that he seemed to like. I believe now he can no longer speak with visitors but knows they are there. His family & friends have rallied around him these past months. I'm so sorry it has come to this but warms my heart that he means something special to his friends & family.

I agree things aren’t normal. I had 4 views for yesterday. Maybe measures were corrected for ONE DAY then went back to the status quo. A bandaid applied to our grumbles but no real long-term fix. You’d think I was the IT person or something, and that would be a disaster only shades worse than what we’re seeing. Okay….not really. I surely would be better….🙃😉

Pardon if this is off the wall since I was standing behind the post when technical savvy was handed out. Recently my saved password for Alamy popped up wrong every single time I signed in. It was just off one letter, .coc instead of .com. Drove me nuts because I couldn’t correct the one letter but had to retype the whole string. I went into the passwords & looked at them. I found some for Alamy in all caps, some beginning with one capital letter, & such. Plus the one that kept popping up. I deleted them all except the proper one. It’s all working like it should again. On my iPad, I might mention.

Bump. Great pictures, if you haven’t posted, do so!☺️

Same for me. #1 birds, #2 butterflies. Neither hot sellers so I expanded. After all was said & done, a home-baked pie licensed for the most $$$ for advertising.

I love Mourning Doves. So gentle & loving with their mates. I used to have many of them feed on the fallen seed under my bird feeders. Then the larger Eurasian doves showed up & bullied them away, along with a Sharp-shinned hawk that preyed upon them. 😢

We call them phone booths over here. I wonder where Clark Kent transforms into Superman these days?

One of the things that bothered me is when a poster asked what cameras we used in a recent thread, I replied what I use. But I couldn’t say, “the first 6 images you see when you click on the number under my avatar was taken with (X) camera. I could do that before. I can’t even say, “the image of the coconut meringue pie on page one was taken with my Sony RX100VII.” Because the pie image might not be on page one anymore. If someone kept looking on further pages, they might come across a similar pie taken 10 years ago with one of my since sold Nikons. I remember when Edo first got his RX100-VII, he mentioned something like “the first 16 images you see (or something similar) were taken with it.” A rather nice way to evaluate images of a camera one is contemplating buying.