Neat pictures I've taken
 

I thought it would be good to have a thread for random neat pictures that Dwellars have taken. There are many specific threads out there (colors, close-ups, etc.,) and I like those, but sometimes an original picture doesn't have enough that is interesting about it to sustain a whole thread. Feel free to put those original images here. This isn't meant as a thread for images found on the web. Please don't post it unless you took it.

So here are two pictures I took last night with my kids. We had fun doing these, and a bunch more.

Tripod.
Laser pointer.
ISO 80. Smallest aperture. 60 second exposure.

Very cool idea, glatt. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome Glatt. Mine are interesting from a totally different perspective.

When you have a pretty bad clog in your pipes, your plumber may not be able to clear it using augers or chemicals. If the leak isn't moving, the chems won't reach it. If builder put in tight joints, an auger can't reach very far through the pipes.

Then the plumber has to find another point where the drain drains, to try to use the auger there, closer to the clog. To do that, he may have to make several holes in your drywall. If the sink is on an upper floor and the pipes for it aren't straight down, it may take several holes to find it.

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If he doesn't find it inside, he may look under your soffets. (The incoming water turned out to be there.)

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Once the drain pipe is located, he'll have to put yet another hole in your wall to attach a T-joint so he can use the auger from there. It's especially nice if it's right next to the electrical. And behind your 250 lb. "entertainment center"

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If you put chemicals in your pipe to try to clear the clog, at this point they will all drain out into your living room. If your plumber is experienced he will catch this stuff in a bucket without getting caustically burned himself.

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Total bill: $752.30 and I will have to fix this damage myself. Maybe in the Spring. Where is that procrastination thread?

The infamous leaking light switch from this past spring in the dorms
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Don't know if I've shown these other ones on here or not..
Fireworks in the street
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Ants at sunset
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I like those fireworks, Bullitt.

This picture is nothing special, but we had fun making the gingerbread house. No, a kid didn't do the roof. That was me.

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Thanks, I just spent an hour reducing and preping some pics for a thread like this. I will try to get them up in the next day or so, all scenes from Savannah.

Fun with lighting, doing the photography for The Orchid Thief, A Ryan Keller Experiment.

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All wonderful and interesting, thank you.

Jinx, where was the photo of the horses taken. Could be Ireland :)
And the other beach pic - quality postcard quality

If it's in the US I'd bet Assateague, MD.

Thanks SG - they were all taken in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Carova beach.

Mount Index

A happy monkey.

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Brambles

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I posted over in Flickr that we were there the same day as you. We seemed to be about an hour behind you that day.

Highlights of the visit that day were 1) the mama lion going nuts because she wanted to get back in where I imagine her cubs were. Pacing around and roaring and jumping up on the steel door to look through the window to them. Over and over again. It drew quite a crowd. After the incident in San Francisco, I admit I got a bit of an adrenaline rush watching her all agitated. 2) Watching a male orangutan hump a female in a semi missionary position, stop, bend down to sniff her crotch, and then continue. He was sort of standing up, but squatting with his pelvis only a couple inches off the floor while she was leaning back against the wall, looking all bored. Come to think of it, he looked bored too. And then 3) watching another orangutan chew up a bunch of food for a while, spit it out onto the floor, and then start chewing it again. It repeated this 2-3 times before we left.

Good times.

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At the bottom right hand corner, you can see my weak attempt to hide the date stamp.! Ooh well!

Is that supposed to be Spike Lee?

This was my lunch from yesterday

For UT and J
 

Seed Pearls

Nice! We'll take both!

Is that what was going on? When I was there, all of the lions and the tiger were extremely agitated. The lionesses were pacing by the door, and the tiger and the male lion were at the top of their habitat, looking over the wall into the lionesses' section. The tiger was roaring, almost constantly.

Usually, all they do is sleep.

This photo was published in an architectural textbook.

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May be a silly thing but, building insurance?
Or, when building a house don't bury pipes inside the dry lining!
Better still, don't put crap down the plug (stopper) hole!

Here are a couple from Monday. Went to Luray Caverns with the glatt family. Hard to take pictures in there. It's so dark, and you want a very wide angle lens.

Incredible!! Thanks for sharing!

That first one is so cool.

glatt, I lightenend that first picture for you....and look what i found!

Is that tw?

No, its that guy that was seen on mars in that "other thread"

So you are saying the guy is Radar?

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Although I did not take these, it's a wow factor! These shots were taken outside of work this morning. The herd has been there two days in a row now.

One more. The herd numbered about 16.

Dang, those look *sharp*. Can you say "sucking chest wound"? Yikes!

The things we men do for love... /valentine's day

Cool pics Tink!

I would love a tag to get one of those. Great shots.

I can't say that I have ever seen an elk before. That is truly amazing.

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Both taken on a Minolta Maxxum 5000 w/ infrared Kodak EIR film

Are those giant piles of elk shit all over the place?

Moles actually. All over the place.

*Moles*?! Is there some species of Giant Northwestern Mole? Those are some big piles...I've seen smaller prairie dog holes. Yow.

Quite the wildlife mecca there. Great pics.

Ibram, what is your second picture?

Our moles are nasty creatures. Yep, them are big things thar!
There have been bear, cougar and deer on the property as well. 'Tis nice.

Looks like they've got gasoline powered post hole diggers at their disposal.

That right there is a great picture...

That's an infrared shot of the cultural college up on Yangminshan Mountain, half-covered in clouds.

Thanks! :D

Here's a few more that I'm pretty sure I've never posted.

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http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/IMG_0900.jpg

This one is a scan of a print from my high school days.
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We went to Camden Aquarium today.

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http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL162.../306226470.jpg.

Spring is coming!

Hey we're under a huge winter storm...drifts up to 5 feet by tomorrow! Thanks for a glimpse of spring. :)

P-a-n-o-rama
 

This is a picture of the south shore of Flathead Lake from the KwaTaqNuk Inn. It was made by stitching together 5 individual 4000x3000 pixel photos, then trimmed and reduced in size to fit the 1600 max width for jpeg uploads.

The full-scale panorama was about 13,000 pixels wide.

Sea stack, Rialto Beach, Olympic Peninsula. Feb 2008. Glorious.

Late summer storm coming.

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what's so neat about that? look in the bottom right corner that line is 200 nanometers long that's 0.0000002 meters, 8 millionths of an inch.

WTF is it, ah now that would be tellin'

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dolphin?

shark.

monster.

shark on a treadmill.. will it swim?

I came across this old truck near a park and decided to have some fun with it:
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