Took a Good Picture for Once

Well there I went thru a couple cups of coffee

Time not wasted. Thanks guys

Here's one of my favorites. I got this historically authentic handcrafted double case for a set of percussion 1851 Navies that was made by Bill Shumate of "Billscases.com". I have a couple of his other cases, but this was an extra he had due to a cancelation by another customer, so he listed it in the "for sale" section of the Colt forum. He made it in the style used for the London made Navies and lined it with an olive drab baize that he said was hard to show in photos. I had recently acquired two Colt 2nd gen black powder revolvers the came out a couple of single cased Robt E. Lee commemorative sets with damaged cases. The R. E. Lee Navies were the only 2nd gen Navies produced in any quantity with round trigger guards. All of the rest of the production this model had the square-back trigger guards which would not be correct for a London made Colt. I also had one of the Colt 2nd gen James Dixon and Son bag style flasks along with the other 2nd gen accouterments to fill out the case.

For whatever reason, the color of the lining was captured perfectly in only this one shot out of all I took that session

I was pleased that my old iPhone5 could bring out the colors so well on my 3rd Generation Colt....

Some of those iPhone pics never cease to amaze me with their quality. I would never bother posting photos taken with my old flip phone, but then, I'm a bit of a dinosaur. Very interesting thread, here. There is a few nice photos here on the computer, but they were taken with a Canon Rebel. I'm no photographer but my best pics seem dependent on getting just the right balance of light & shadow, and I let the Canon focus itself. Here's an old H&R Model 676 .22 Convertible Revolver. .

Here's another one with my Samsung Galaxy S5. I had just gotten the Mosin and was showing a friend who's kind of a Russophile (like me) its markings, specifically the hammer-and-sickle one.