Whilst not an acceptance speech at the Oscars, I still feel that I have to give credit to those who allowed me to create Day 8's submission. I am retired, old and grey and am a newcomer to Cameraderie thanks to a post made on the m4/3 forum by
@Brownie. I am happy to try something new which is where my Vision 2022 participation came from.
On the 18th December
@MoonMind 's post
Challenge! - Today 627 introduced me to the "Black Pumas". I liked it so much I sent a link to my daughters for them to hear. My youngest came back to tell me that the Black Pumas' album was one of her favourites from 2021 (she always had good taste which might explain my missing Beatles and Who vinyls). Anyway thanks to Amazon Prime I had a listen to the album and thoroughly enjoyed it. Fast forward to a few days later and my eldest had come to stay early for Christmas to help her mum do the last minute food shopping. Whilst she was in the supermarket her partner discovered an independent record shop in town where the owner was playing "Soul" a 60's soul sampler. Tom agreed to buy the record after Christmas once the owner had listened to it a few more times. (TBH the album has a couple of nice tracks but IMO not a classic selection, however I digress.) However the shop didn't reopen until after my daughter and her partner had returned home, so I was asked to pick it up. I checked out the shop's web site to see if there was anything which I could be tempted with only to discover they were selling a special transparent vinyl version of the Black Puma's album. Needless to say when I picked up "Soul" I also picked up the Black Pumas. Normally I listen to music on a smart speaker but the vinyl necessitated the use of my 1980's Dual record deck. After a bit of fiddling with the cartridge contacts it played and I was happy. However now I've got the bug for vinyl (down with the kids - hey
) I started going through my record collection and once more the deck started playing up in terms of feedback and loss of sound in one speaker.
As it is miserable today and I'm not venturing outside I thought for today's challenge I'd have a go at focus stacking (thanks to the kind advice from
@archaeopteryx) the Black Pumas album on the record player. With a little bit of tweaking the image came out OK but the focus stacking had a problem with the label rotating
and so I've reverted to a single frame for today's submission. However, as you will see from the image below I now know why I was getting intermittent sound from the speaker. The only problem is my wife saw the picture, looked passed my creativity, saw the dust and provided me with a duster. Has anyone got a manual for duster?
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