that's a sheep pen. If there were any, I'm sure they've been nibbled.

Sun was rising...

Pretty! I like the sunbeam

Advantage of living in the woods. I get to enjoy this view every morning now. It's isolated, quiet, and very beautiful. It's a pity I don't know how to take a picture of the night sky. I have never seen so many stars in my life. It was absolutely gorgeous.

You need a camera with a top notch sensor to get good pics of the night sky.

I'm curious, what's the box for, your well? And the three pole standing all by themselves can't be a fence, might be sapling tree supports, or just stakes for the Hatfield's heads. :haha:

That box is the transformer. The well is on the side of the house. I'll take a picture of it another time. The three poles were old cloth lines. However, Bruce hope to use them for grape vines this spring. I guess that's where the garden will be. :)

Even a regular, modern sensor can capture nice night sky pics if the sky is dark and the exposure is long and the camera is steady.

The birds will enjoy that!

No, if you can keep grapes, that sounds wonderful!

If I were you, I would crush the grapes, press the juice out, put it in a big barrel, add some yeast, let it sit for a month, filter it into another barrel, let it sit for 6 months, and then put that in bottles and cork them. Just an idea.

The hawk pic was taken at full telephoto (24x), handheld:

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I'm not very fond of my POS camera, but, it takes a pretty good panorama:

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I like it. Good composition. That big negative space balances the triangle created by the low focal point and the tree. Well done.

Yes, very nice. Hope you got a model release from Ms Bovine. ;)

You prove that even with a camera you regard as a POS, you can take a good picture, or three.

Well, it would be nice to take the odd picture that didn't require image editing software, as nearly all of mine do.

Thanks for the kind words, gentlemen.:)

Really, I think it's just a terribly slow lens.

Found a church. Took a pic. Pic had stuff I didn't want. Took stuff out of the pic.

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I don't how neat this all is, it was just an exercise, but, I like the finished product well enough.

Yes, that's neat. Interesting differences.

From a recent PhotoSafari:

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Went to the Dulles Air and Space Museum on this rainy day. Lots of cool stuff there, but the thing that always gives me goosebumps is this dirty space suit from one of the Apollo missions. The little info card talks about who wore it and when, but fails to mention that the dirt worn into the white fabric is from the goddamn MOON. That's moon grunge!
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Yeah, might bear a mention.

I was killing some time yesterday at Orlando airport walking around the B terminal when I saw this woman with a rather unusual outfit. It isn't every day you see someone wearing what looks like a Chinese lampshade on her head. I immediately wondered how she got through the TSA checkpoint, this hat looked almost dangerous! Then I thought about how she would take it on the plane, would she wear it or put it in the overhead bin.

I thought it worth a picture so used my phone camera to grab a shot. The lady was with a man and another woman and the other woman saw me and began shouting to show some respect and that I should have asked permission to take the ladies picture. I walked on and then the man followed me also shouting so I just waved them off with my hand as if to say "so long and goodbye". They continued shouting as I walked away.

About 20 minutes later I turned a corner in the main part of the terminal hub and encountered them again and the man came up to me and shouted in my face "You have insulted my wife, you must apologize!" I said I wasn't apologizing as I didn't see how I offended her. He went on in a loud voice in a bit of a foreign accent that I had insulted her by taking her picture without permission and then walking away! He said it was against the law and he would press charges. I told him that it wasn't and they were in a public place and I thought her hat was very unique and wanted to remember it. He went on about getting the police or security and I told him to go ahead.

Then his wife, who was dressed in festive snowflake tights and had quite a few tattoos and piercings and jewelry on her face started shouting at me! I walked away and sat down next to my wife who had heard the shouting and noticed I was in the middle of it. "I can't leave you alone for 5 minutes!" she told me with a small smile.

I thought to myself, OK you are wearing a huge very odd hat, you have on unusual clothes and you are heavily tattooed and have jewelry in you nose and lips and eyebrows and you are upset that I noticed you??? Were you attempting to travel incognito and blend in?

Looks like a walmart shopper. How did they know you took a picture, or had you taken another after one had turned around. OH, maybe the two other people in the picture weren't the two with her.
That's the time to whip out a phony TSA badge and tell him to come with you to the water boarding and Guantanamo departure facility. :D

People are just fucking idiots.

Saw Bigfoot the other day.

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So sad, he's just a shadow of his former self...

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The bunch of rocks in the foreground looks like a person lying on their belly with their weight on their elbows. Maybe they were just victimized by Bigfoot.

looks like Owen Lars.

It does. But it's a broken android crawling away from the explosion....

or a troll

I think I found it!

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I had the same thought, but saw it as "The Odalisque" in stone.

95% of the people around here wouldn't know the difference between a troll and "The Odalisque".

This is a Troll Kinda easy to spot the difference :D

Looks like my cousin, Uncle Harold.

Sunset from the sky:

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These are video (a couple seconds, just to show movement) if you click through to Flickr.

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Sunset from the ground:

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gorgeous

I really like the bottom pic in post #1957. Looks like a beach scene, with wave after wave after...

Thanks! Given my home/work locations and work hours, I seldom see good sunsets, so I try to take advantage when I can.

Very cool.

Saw this one in Ballard a couple weeks ago. I don't really know what to make of it. Perhaps it's just simply true, it's not his faut.

WTF.

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Alls I know is, it ain't my faut.

From a recent Photo Safari;

Thomas Freakin' Turkey:

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When I uploaded that pic it took just a beat longer than usual to load. Then I thought "Aw, shit. The file is too big.", I remember seeing 200something kb. "I'll have to resize the pic."

Then it loaded. And then I remembered Undertoad upped the max file size:cheerldr:, bless his pale underbelly.:D

I thank you.

Anyone know why pictures w/green as the predominant color have larger file sizes?

Srs question.

I give up

the jpg compression isn't sensitive to color, but to complexity. your picture of the grass, if all blue or red or mauve would be the same size, but less complex (fewer different shades) pictures, green or otherwise would be compressed more.

there's a lot of green out there.

Playing with your picture.

I suspect the increase in size is when the image editor tries to preserve the JPG artifacts from the first conversion when resaving as another JPG.

As for the original question, I think humans can see more shades of green than any other color, so an image format super-optimized for the human eye might allocate more bits to green. I have no idea whether JPG does anything along those lines.

Green is pretty much leaves, and/or grass. Do ya suppose all those textures/edges (for lack of a better word, edges of the leaves, edges of each blade of grass) make for a larger file?

Yes; that's what BigV was saying. I was offering an explanation for why Bruce's picture increased in size after changing the color. JPG compression artifacts add even more edges and complexity to the image, in a way that decreases the file size during the initial encoding. But when the file is loaded into an editor, all of those artifacts become data, and when saving it off as a JPG again, they are treated as real complexity, making the JPG encoding work harder. Another reason the file size increased may be differing JPG quality settings between the initial and secondary encodings.

My second note was more of an aside; I don't think JPG does it. But, much as an MP3 throws away information about sound that humans have trouble distinguishing, an advanced image format could theoretically throw away a bit of red and blue in favor of green, to match the human eye. If such a theoretical image were primarily green, it wouldn't be able to throw as much data away.

I think you(and Big V) are on the right track. Saving from Photoshop as a medium or high quality look the same on my monitor. Probably because any detail lost wouldn't be noticeable in this picture. If it were a sharp finely detailed design, it would probably show.
I didn't think the variation in file size was significant except for the high quality Red & Blue, but the save quality choice is a slide bar from 0 to 12, so I might have fucked up sliding a hair further on that one.

Out the driver's side mirror:

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That fence went on for quite a ways. It has barbed wire on the inside, to keep the critters off it, I suppose.

Yes, without the wire they'll stick their heads through to get the grass that's greener on the other side. That fence won't take much chest pushing.

GAH!! Factor: 7

Brace yourself.

Orbweaver:

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That gruesome sumbitch was exactly Gravdigrface high. I almost walked right into him her it. Outside diameter a little bigger than a quarter.

did you check his cute little paws?

No, but I almost checked his insides.