{"id":14985,"date":"2018-06-29T17:54:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T00:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/?p=14985"},"modified":"2018-06-29T17:54:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T00:54:58","slug":"first-post-friday-june-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiapublishing.com\/hp_wordpress\/2018\/06\/29\/first-post-friday-june-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"First Post: Friday, June 29, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qXhYsMEjsZ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All right, all right, ya&rsquo; Prog Rock fans! Take it easy! This is really because today is Nat&rsquo;l. Camera Day. Shoot &rsquo;em up! Shoot &rsquo;em! <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just so happens we are right in the middle of Christo. Isherwood&rsquo;s <em>The Berlin Stories<\/em> right about now, and one of the early lines in the &lsquo;A Berlin Diary Autumn 1930&rsquo; goes: &lsquo;I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. &#8230;Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>How quaint. &lsquo;Developed, carefully printed, fixed&rsquo;. Quaint, yes, but also sheer genius. Genius! Ladies &#038; gentlemen, Christo. Isherwood&#8230;ISHERWOOD&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Germans &#038; Their Cameras, you ever shoot with a Leica or a Rollei? Yes, Hasselblad is Swedish, but close enough, too. Remember depressing the shutter button on the old Nikon F? That thing was solid, like a piston on a trumpet. You could not misfire. <\/p>\n<p>Now everyone has a camera in their pocket, but there&rsquo;s still something to be said for the correct metering, white balance, focal length, etc. Here&rsquo;s to the Holy Trinity of ISO, aperture &#038; shutter-speed! SHOOT &rsquo;EM UP! SHOOT &rsquo;EM! SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT! SHOOT!<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Fleet Frontrunners<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nChas. Town 6, 7<br \/>\nPrairie 6, 8, 9<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Fast Final-Furlong Phantasms<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nNONE<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Favorable Faves<\/u><sup>*<\/sup><\/strong><br \/>\nAlbuquerque (!) 4<br \/>\nCanterbury 4, 6<br \/>\nLos Alamitos Nighttime 1, 2, 3<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Freakazoid Factories<\/u><\/strong><br \/>\nAlbuquerque (!) 3<br \/>\nEmerald 4<br \/>\nMarquis<sup><b>&dagger;<\/b><\/sup> 2, 3<\/p>\n<p><sup><b>*<\/b><\/sup>-morning-line faves only, including those bumped-up to morning-line-favorite status after accounting for raceday scratches and changes, which are current as of 8:39 p.m. EDT;\u00a0no-go if race switches surface or if any part of coupled-entry scratches; specify glossy or matte finish<\/p>\n<p><sup><b>&dagger;<\/b><\/sup>-raceday scratches &#038; changes unavailable at press-time; prints sized 5&#8243; x 7&#8243; unless otherwise specified<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>YESTERDAY&rsquo;s Fine Finishes<\/u><sup>&Dagger;<\/strong><br \/>\nBelmont 7<br \/>\nCanterbury 4<br \/>\nLos Alamitos Thoroughbreds 5<br \/>\nPleasanton 4<\/p>\n<p><strong><sup>&Dagger;<\/sup><\/strong>-High-Octane Chancers doin&rsquo; it exclusively with All-In-One V6 and its LifeLiner Speed Column analysis and LifeLiner Spread Column analysis, without regard to operational definitions of faves or freakazoids; thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Smile!<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Sign-up below for FREE DAILY ALERTS via safe, personal Email, NOT SOCIAL MEDIA&#8230;no one will know! 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