GaryatGala Another day over and a mess to clean up. 7 kg a day and the amount of retentions and spills mount up beside the Robur
Brett_H That's a lot of grounds. Did you not think of sweeping them up and on selling them to Maccas. I hear their coffee has improved :rofl:
GaryatGala I have thought many times about how to use the grounds again. Perhaps use it for the needy and homeless. The amount we go through runs into the kilos over a whole year seven days a week, and would be handy for a charity like the salvation army for drip coffee. But alas, suggestions have been taken on board but no action will be taken so that means they go into the compost bin with the kitchen scraps. For those who believe in reincarnation or karma, being an earthworm and chugging through brazilian Carmo Di Minas and grade one Yirgacheffe would be a good way to go.[emoji14][emoji267]
borat123 Came across one of these yesterday parked outside a cafe in Addis Ababa. A nicely customised ride for someone..
Koffee_Kosmo You may or may not be aware that Brisbane has just had a destructive storm yesterday Earlier today I had a feathered visitor It's my guess that this parrot must have escaped as it was not scared off by me Anyway we have a peach face and he landed near his cage to have a chat I had 10 seconds to get the camera out and take a couple of photos [attachimg=1][attachimg=2]
Dry_bean A shot I took in Naples, Heather hamming it up, kind of liked the concept, a short distance from a restaurant (Baccalria, specialising in salt cod) we had dined at, great food and very friendly staff.[attachimg=1]
Brett_H Very nice DB... I was momentarily scNdalised thinking you'd photoshopped the Mona Lisa (or worse) but Salted Cod caught my attention just in time!
borat123 Here's a few pics from a recent visit to a dry mill, owned and run by a farmers co-operative in Ethiopia. The pics show the story from receiving the parchment, dry milling (parchment removal), initial sort by machine/s, then final sort by hand. All profits go back into the co-op. Good onsite worker facilities such as a canteen, medical clinic, showers, toilets etc. Very early days yet for the harvest, so the warehouse looks pretty empty. The day I was there, they were processing for local consumption only.
admin Koffee Kosmo wrote: Earlier today I had a feathered visitor It's my guess that this parrot must have escaped as it was not scared off by me Anyway we have a peach face and he landed near his cage to have a chat [attachimg=1][attachimg=2] on the subject of birds, took this shot of lorrikeets fighting over a sugar packet at a Sydney cafe recently [attachimg=1]
Dry_bean Koffee Kosmo wrote: Test photo of my new 18-135 ISM lens What's the quality like to your eyes Bit hard to tell on such a low resolution image KK. What make of lens is it?
Koffee_Kosmo Dry bean. wrote: Bit hard to tell on such a low resolution image KK. What make of lens is it? Canon 18-135 ISM Try another photo then
cosmic_couple22 Nice image but as Db says KK low res images are never a fair representation, there is a reasonable amount of gradient blur that would still exist in the high res image but somewhat sharper I presume.
Dry_bean What I'm saying KK is the file size is way to small at 30 to 50 kb to convey any meaningful information, to determine image quality I would like to see the original. If I had to judge on these two shots I would say very soft, and I imagine the original full size shot was much better than what I'm looking at here. I saved the first image and at 300% magnification it starts to pixilate badly.
Koffee_Kosmo Yes I agree the original photo is way better I have only taken about 6 photos and a video so far so I will get to know it better as its used Main reason for this lens is for video The lens auto focuses on moving objects and being ISM makes no motor noise ect Now since this is a coffee forum here is a shot (reposted) of coffee cherries on my trees as of today
