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.
If he doesn't find it inside, he may look under your soffets. (The incoming water turned out to be there.)
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"
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.
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
Don't know if I've shown these other ones on here or not..
Fireworks in the street
Ants at sunset
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.
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.
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.
A happy monkey.
Brambles
A happy monkey.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
If he doesn't find it inside, he may look under your soffets. (The incoming water turned out to be there.)
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"
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.
Total bill: $752.30 and I will have to fix this damage myself. Maybe in the Spring. Where is that procrastination thread?
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!
glatt, I lightenend that first picture for you....and look what i found!
Is that tw?
Is that tw?
No, its that guy that was seen on mars in that "other thread"
No, its that guy that was seen on mars in that "other thread"
So you are saying the guy is Radar?
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.
Both taken on a Minolta Maxxum 5000 w/ infrared Kodak EIR film
Are those giant piles of elk shit all over the place?
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?
*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.
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.
Ants at sunset
That right there is a great picture...
Ibram, what is your second picture?
That's an infrared shot of the cultural college up on Yangminshan Mountain, half-covered in clouds.
That right there is a great picture...
Thanks! :D
Here's a few more that I'm pretty sure I've never posted.
This one is a scan of a print from my high school days.
We went to Camden Aquarium today.
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Hey we're under a huge winter storm...drifts up to 5 feet by tomorrow! Thanks for a glimpse of spring. :)
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.
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'
shark on a treadmill.. will it swim?
a (very) little something to go with your ham on st patrick's day?
tiny
G'wan, I just measured that sucker at over 7 inches.
Post 63 looks like a green slime mold - more common on your coast than mine - nice find - what was it attached to?
I think they're frog rggs.
These are pretty funny. A friends
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Post 63 looks like a green slime mold - more common on your coast than mine - nice find - what was it attached to?
Green capelin roe is my best guess. Adhered to some seaweed, my fingers shown here for scale (not for hygiene :blush: ). This was at a very low tide on the Hood Canal near Quilecene. I moved them slightly, they're a single mass, and then I folded the seaweed back over them and resumed my hunt for dinner.
Late '50s, GM panel.
Could be - it was covered in spray paint and bullet holes, so I didn't bother to do an ID...it was just fun to find it sitting in the woods rotting
You people.
I used to feel inadequate about my photos. Now I work with real artists every day and I get it. That's what you guys are, you're just not making a living out of it by choice.
Beautiful photos. Really amazing - I would choose many of these for greetings cards and postcards. Please don't think I'm demeaning you this way - I have to really love something to send it.
What is that, jinx? It looks like gold bar reinforced concrete.
a (very) little something to go with your ham on st patrick's day?
FYI, BigV, I "got" your joke there. Green eggs and ham. Good one. Nice picture.
I just took this of my pooch lol
That is awesome! Hi puppy! :)
thanks Shawenee...note the snot coming out his nose lol
Damn - you and Jinx really do deserve eachother. You also have a talented eye. Forgot to say in the RFN thread - LOVE Jinx's practical but sexy low slung V-neck top.
Ahem - also love the composition of the photo. It looks like a storm's coming. Quite apposite in a shot (!) with a cannon.
Drive by of a fly by. What a lucky shot.
DAMN, BigV. That is beautiful!
Thank you very much. We were headed north on I-5 last summer coming home from a long camping trip. I took this picture out the driver's side window, splitting my attention between the viewfinder-ish and the brake lights of the car ahead of me. Like I said, it's a lucky shot. :)
Great pic BigV. What was your camera set up /film?
Great pic BigV. What was your camera set up /film?
Photo;Date and Time;Exp. Time;F/Stop;Exp. Program;Exp. Bias;Metering Mode;Light Source;Flash;Focal
Length;Focal Length (35 mm);ISO Speed;Orientation;Dimensions;File Size;Path
DSC231;7/30/2006 2:12:10 PM;1/248;8.4;Normal;0;Pattern;Unknown;Not fired, compulsory flash
mode;31.4;-;50;-;2816 x 2112;3168 KB;I:\...\DSC231.JPG
These are the very first results from a program I just downloaded to extract the exif data you requested. I've been looking for such a tool and while it is far too early in my experience with this one to offer an opinion of its utility, I will say it did a good job of the first request--get the exif data.
Put a nickel in and got a quarter's worth on that one, didn't you?
ExifPro Image Viewer
Hmm.. upon proofing my post, I see your question wasn't answered by the output of the program.
I used Tink's Nikon CoolPix L1, digital.
What? That program doesn't give you the pilot's names?
Damn nice picture anyway. :thumb:
Jinx is reading the instructions on how to operate the cannon. LJ was ragging on her driving on the way.
Water snake.
Scarlet King snake.
Pigmy rattlesnakes found in palm frawns laying in the yard.
Canebreak rattlesnake baby found under our hot tub cover.
4 foot 2 inch rattlesnake.
That last one sure is docile.
That last one sure is docile.
Yea, he sort of lost his head over the whole encounter.
They're beautiful Merc!
So, how many are dangerous?
I love the red one especially (the same one used in your Hillary pic?)
PS, BigV - loved the photo but don't do it again.
Your life and the lives of your loved ones are not worth putting at risk - even minimal risk! - for a photo.
Leave that to war photographers.
They're beautiful Merc!
So, how many are dangerous?
I love the red one especially (the same one used in your Hillary pic?)
PS, BigV - loved the photo but don't do it again.
Your life and the lives of your loved ones are not worth putting at risk - even minimal risk! - for a photo.
Leave that to war photographers.
Only the last 4 (3 snakes) are poisonous.
Seriously? the water snake isnt poisonous? It looks like it has venom glands.
For the Scarlet, I always remember..."Red next to Black is a friend of Jack, Red next to yellow will kill a fellow". To tell the difference between the Coral and Scarlet King....which isnt particularly helpful in Australia...but you just never know when I will need this info.
Oh, and the pigmy rattlers have such cute eyes.
Seriously? the water snake isnt poisonous? It looks like it has venom glands.
For the Scarlet, I always remember..."Red next to Black is a friend of Jack, Red next to yellow will kill a fellow". To tell the difference between the Coral and Scarlet King.
Yeppers, the water snake is harmless. He was about 2.5 feet long and went in a hole under my sidewalk most likely after toads or moles. We have a seasonal swamp behind the house and have seen him 2 times in the last week, he must be hungry.
All of these snakes were from my yard.
We have no *good* snakes here, only seriously venomous bastards.
The most venomous and least aggressive is the Redbellied Black snake, and they are the ones to have around as they eat the other really nasty aggressive venomous snakes.
Oh and you got waaaay to close to them. Great Pics
I have it on good authority that this translates to
"I will find my frog"
Actually it says something about 'dear ____-dog friend mister', translating directly.
Some sort of.. letter to... someone with a dog? Maybe something about a lost dog, i think. Or maybe just something about picking up their shit. I see something about 'dog-out-door' with a question mark, but I don't know an apparently important character in the first sentence. I can read... 'dear'-(something)-'dog'-'friend'-'mister' (or 'husband'), but then it's ripped.
complete, word-for-word dump:
dear something dog friend mister (rip) please take(?) your love dog go(?) (rip) me something door go something ? something heart (posessive character) (rip) you. (name)
...or something like that.
hah.
EDIT: yes, i do get the joke. But I need the chinese practice anyway.
Taken yesterday afternoon, while riding with SonofV.
This was taken from a parking lot near my old home last month. Came out of the allergist and was thrilled that I had my camera with me. I got some amazing shots.
Here is one of my windows this winter. This happens at -10f and colder. These are the c. 1850 windows. At -20f we get that only at the edges of the new double pane low E argon filled ones in the rest of the house. Hopefully, these will be replaced this summer.
Harsh life on the Great Plains
I got some amazing shots.
Fucking brilliant. I like everything about that.
Canon Photostitch...I'm standing on the front porch of my dad's cabin, right in between the two posts that appear to be at the far ends of the picture.
Cool pic Flint. I love the country.
Flint, that came out pretty good. When I use the Canon software the joins are usually visible.
Cool pic Flint. I love the country.
Thanks. Me too.
Flint, that came out pretty good. When I use the Canon software the joins are usually visible.
First time I've used it, although I've had the camera for a few years. I took great care to staying perfectly level as I pivoted around. I used a slight overlap as a visual cue to line things up
just right. Note, something interesting happened at the hood of the Jeep, which was slightly in motion.
Flint, Nice picture! I am just about to start messing around panorama's....
Thanks for sharing!
While waiting for Tink last night...
Across the street:
(neat in the sense that it was discussed in a different thread...)
Tink, my favorite subject.
Tink, my favorite subject.
I don't care who the hell you are, this is downright awesome! Thanks for sharing! :thumb:
Thank you.
Tink, my lovely bride, thanks you, too.
Here's another from the same trip.
A pair of pairs from the back yard in Hawaii. These were hand held hand bracketed and hand aligned.
pic 01 -- dark
pic 02 -- light
pic 01 -- overlaid
pic 01 -- cropped and amped. It really was a more beautiful sunrise than the pictures communicate.
I really like the final product Bigv. Nice work :D
V you blow me away as always. Loved the Hopperesque Starbucks too.
Flint I loved that vista.
It reminds me, as do Merc's pictures, that America is very much a foreign country. You live in a totally different way to us, and I must remember that before trying to apply my values to discussions.
Thanks Sunday, I love to visit your country. It is quite beautiful in it's own right.
...
Flint I loved that vista.
It reminds me, as do Merc's pictures, that America is very much a foreign country. You live in a totally different way to us, and I must remember that before trying to apply my values to discussions.
Thanks. I wish I lived like that. That's my dad's cabin, out on our land. We used to lease it to hunter's but now it's his temporary staging area for eventually retiring and moving back down there. I'd love to live out there, but wages are lower and utilities are much higher (since de-regulation).
I recently did a photo shoot with a meet-up group. We started at the Union Station in Kansas City and walked to various areas near it. I had several shots that Elspode particularly liked and wanted to me to post them. So here are a few.
Okay no photos attached for some reason will try again
A few more picked by Elspode
I love women with red hair.
Great pics by the way.
Two Thumbs Up. :D
a series worked on by the two of us
yer view and Splodes View ??
Us "fucking with the picture" until we both liked how it looked lol.
On a recent visit to our home in the Smoky Mountains, there was a momma bear with three cubs under our deck. The deck is about 40 feet off of the ground. This cub climbed one of the log polls holding the deck up, and wanted to pay us a visit. Momma down below didn't see to be too upset that her baby was withing arms reach of us. She was content to stay on the ground keeping a close eye on her curious cub.
Whoa! That is really cool! Was it raining hard enough to soak that cub? An arm's length away? Wow, just wow.
More Tink!
pic 01 -- Before
pic 02 -- After
More fish and more flowers...
please tell me you have a program that does that. that is really cool, but i can't imagine sitting there and doing that manually.
hahahahahha!!!! You merely suffer from a lack of imagination.
Yes, I do have a program that does this. If you have an internet connection, you could have it too.
AndreaMosaic.
I'm still learning with the program, as I am learning with all my photographical hobby doodads. I'm happy to share this one with you all. For example, I can see my finished products are not the same size. Rookie mistake. I'll fix it as I learn more about it.
Do you like them? I thought they were very cool.
i meant to put "good work" in there earlier but the stupids got me.
Caught a double rainbow about an hour ago. It's just a snapshot, and doesn't do the rainbow justice, but there you go.
Harsh life on the Great Plains
I missed this before. I
love it.
jinx took it, i shopped it
Thanks Merc. It's my nephew. Here's his partner is crime...
That is so cute! man you could put some funny captions with that pic.
"Well isn't that special."
Went hiking at
Bull Run Mountain with my daughter yesterday. Saw my first wild box turtle. He had retreated into his shell before I spotted him. I was tempted to pick him up and check him out, but decided not to bug him beyond taking a picture or two.
Looks lie a tie-dyed WWII German helmet!
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing that one.
I missed this before. I love it.
Thanks! PM me if you want a hi res version.
This bandstand is located in Eldorado Springs, Missouri. It is in the town square, and the park in which it is located surrounds the eponymous springs. The gazebo is made up of native stone and also some clearly non-native rocks and crystals. It is a fascinating thing to look at up close.
Here's a couple of closeups showing a very small number of interesting inclusions.
great shots Jinx! I knew you took pictures but didn't know how good you were. You are either perfecting your craft or have kept it hidden :)
...and a couple more. One shows a very iron rich stone of some sort, the other one of many examples of petrified wood that are included in the structure. These in particular did *not* come from around here.
The bandstand was built in the early 30's, I believe.
A great use of some very awesome rock formations.
It would be interesting to find out the story behind those inclusions. Stuff the masons had collected over the years? Contributions from the community? Planned acquisitions? :confused:
There's a couple of historical markers in that park, one dealing with the founders of the town (and the men who gave the land for the park), and one honoring the surveyors who have surveyed this country over the years, an inordinate number of whom came from Eldorado Springs for some reason.
Nary a word on the history of the bandstand, which, to my thinking, would have been far more interesting.
Built in the early 30s? Then there is a few left that might remember the story behind it, but you'd have to find them fast.
I actually found a history of the town online, but they just go on about the town band, which has been in continuous existence for over 100 years, now. They mention the bandstand being built, and that it was the third of its kind, and built in 1938...but nary a word about how unique it is.
From my camping/skiing trip to Dale Hollow in Tennessee.
Some of the skiing part ...the boys did all the skiing.
And they did a lot of this too...at least the scenery was really nice.
I actually woke up early enough one morning to take sunrise pictures.
Horses at my gf's mom's place near Butler, PA
Proud enough to display it wherever I go.
I've had it up for a few months now, and I've had quite a few people on the highway give me dirty looks, like they're wondering why I have that up instead of the US flag. And a few in parking lots asking me if I'm actually English. I usually smile and say 'close enough'....:D
Next time berate them on not knowing the difference between the Union Jack and the Cross of St George - that'll larn 'em.
Next time berate them on not knowing the difference between the Union Jack and the Cross of St George - that'll larn 'em.
Hehe! You know, I wanted to get that flag initally, but I couldn't find one around here. Well, find one without paying an arm and a leg, anyways. :neutral:
I've been quite busy taking pictures this summer. Wish I could find a way to make a living at it. Here are some shots from Canada, Mexico and a butterfly festival here in MO. The cute little one is my niece who went with me to the falls.
Nice. Making money from your photography would be cool, but just be happy you have the chance to travel. :thumb:
Tree Fae - great pics! Are you using a colour-enhance function on your camera? That butterfly (and the flowers near it) are soooo vivid! Is that natural?
Tree Fae - great pics! Are you using a colour-enhance function on your camera? That butterfly (and the flowers near it) are soooo vivid! Is that natural?
I use a photoshop program to enhance some of the colors, but I do it by hand and not the auto program. The butterfly though is a straight shot. The ocean mostly has the light evened out as it was a very bright day. Elspode showed me a few tips on the color enhancements, but I have branched out with shots like the Faery one.
I particularly am fond of Georgia O'Keefe's work and love to focus on the close up of the flowers. If I can get a printer to work I plan on a photo series with the water lilies and the plastic looking flowers. I have ideas in my head of incoorperating paper making and batik work with the photos, but still haven't spent the time yet making it happen.
Right now dealing with my ex husband to be/yet still partner is consuming every ounce of creative energy I have outside the photography. Thank the Goddess for Elspode who is my link to sanity, peace and love with out drama. Sooo looking forward to this weekend, will get some more great pictures I hope (if someone remembers to put my memory card back in my camera lol) ;)
I plan to bring the laptop to camp, so even if I forget, it will still be in there when we arrive. :blush:
BTW...does it sound as unlikely to everyone else as it does to me for me to be referred to as someone's "link to sanity"?
I've been quite busy taking pictures this summer. Wish I could find a way to make a living at it. Here are some shots from Canada, Mexico and a butterfly festival here in MO. The cute little one is my niece who went with me to the falls.
Ooh, Niagara! I was there last summer! My photos aren't as nice as yours, though.
All gorgeous as usual, thank you.
Ibs, sorry to lower the tone, but how do you sit down in jeans that low slung without your fanny popping out? Really? I mean even standing up you must be able to see her arse crack?
But the second one is SO beautifully lit - wonderful.
wow, you're a good photographer Ibram.
Saw this amphibious vehicle while on vacation in Maine. Check out the guy on the rear deck for scale. It carries large loads to the islands. You can drive a full sized dump truck up the ramp and take it to one of the islands.
Hate to be paying the gas bill on that monster.
On the other hand, I'd like to have one and convert it to a luxury mobile home/yacht. By that time I wouldn't have to worry about mileage*.
*actually, 1.61 kilometerage
Jeez...that's pretty cool. Wonder what vintage that thing is?
Jeez...that's pretty cool. Wonder what vintage that thing is?
I did a little looking in to it when I got back to civilization. Apparently they were built in the late 50s for the Army and saw some action in Vietnam. The Army got rid of them a few years ago and one private charter company in Maine bought a couple to ferry big stuff to various islands. This one has apparently been used to supply the building materials for the huge house Chief Justice Roberts is building on an island near there.
Cool pic Glatt.
Thanks. I was amazed by this thing. All four wheels are steerable. It's got dual props. It was clearly a working vessel that was well maintained.
Maintenance on that thing must be a *bitch*, because it looks like nothing more than a bigass truck with a boat hull. I'm guessing there's some real interesting bearing seals and such on that beastie.
I wonder what the inside looks like?
Well, here's the company's
website, so you can see it from the top.
And here's a bunch of pictures
on flickr by jkirlin of one getting stuck on a soft sand bar and the guys waiting for the tide to come back in to float them off.
And
this website has some information on these LARC-LXs.
Impressive machine. Company website shows it hauling two excavators...
Specs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LARC-LX
The Wikipedia link has a photo of one giving birth.
Own one for yourself:
https://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1421477/0Imagine what the Cubans could do with that. ;)
jinx took this....i know you're all prolly sick of the Commander...but look how sexy it is!
It looks like it's crying.
It's crying, because it's not cradling Jinx's butt at the moment. ;)
It looks like it's crying.
Oh this has gotten out of hand. Thanks, Brianna.
you let it crawl on you?! :eek:
Yeah.. of course. I wanted to get a good close up shot, and I didn't have time to lay in the grass for it. When I picked him up, he curled into a ball, but then relaxed and started crawling around. The white balance on this shot is crap, but I do like the sharpness. And he was really cool looking!
Well, it makes a good picture. I like.
So I stopped the car, snapped a pic, and this is what I got:
I kinda dig it.
That qualifies as a neat picture.
You're really pacing yourself (wrt posting), aren't you?
well done Kris. I like it.
That qualifies as a neat picture.
You're really pacing yourself (wrt posting), aren't you?
Quality, not quantity :)
Another (kinda freaky, didn't expect the face to appear):
Campfires are one of my favorite subjects. That's a creepy face, I see fire faces too. This one looks like he's in a great deal of pain.
I am all about the fire.
I built this one in my backyard. We spend a lot of time here, esp as the temp cools.
http://picasaweb.google.com/AnesMerc/BackyardFireplaceProject#Dang, Merc, that's sweet!
Kinda looks like it just needs a log cabin to be built around it now.
found
hereThe first two are the regular shots. After that I got bored and started having fun with the picture. I loved the colors of the last one. Rainbow pictures are hard to take.
Lovely, but where's all the naked pagans? ;)
I read on
Boing Boing about a kind of neat idea. Taking digital pictures through the viewfinder of an old camera. I happened to have an
old Kodak Duaflex camera that I bought at a yard sale about 30 years ago and have kept locked up in a trunk full of old "treasures." So I tried it out yesterday. It's harder than I expected. You need to be able to focus on the viewfinder from a certain distance and my Panasonic DMC-FZ7 can't do that. So I dug out my old Nikon Coolpix 950 with it's awesome macro capabilities and was able to get a decent shot.
It's fun, but I wouldn't say you make prize winning quality images. Just fun retro looking ones.
How is it that you and I wound up buying the exact same cameras? (I sold the 950 to Kitsune, for a project that apparently didn't pan out)
Well, actually, only the first one was a coincidence. I copied you on the second one. I was shopping for a camera and you posted about how great the Panasonic is. (And I happen to agree.)
Oh! Forgot about that. Anyway, nice!
Glatt! I can see your house from here!
Killer pics, tree fae, very cool.
How is it that you and I wound up buying the exact same cameras? (I sold the 950 to Kitsune, for a project that apparently didn't pan out)
Yeah -- it wouldn't eat memory cards big enough for time lapse (camera would enter a race condition, lock up, and overheat after 15-30 frames on a >512Mb card). The 950 still lives on, however. It is still on the shelf and being held for another idea since the wiring for remote trigger and external power supply are still good.
Hey baby, you want somma this?
Hey baby, you want a free rate quote on car insurance?
Geez UT...that needed the SCF warning!
oooh....a Charlotte's Web Spider. very cool. and HUGE
Interesting view from my deck. I really never noticed it before until I started playing with the zoom in my camera.
Maybe its just one of those things you try not to see.
I like how the zoom compresses the scene and makes everything appear jumbled together.
Cool stuff !!
Jinx Do you have a bigger version of this pic ??
Sharpshooters atop the White House, awaiting Bush's return from an aerial viewing of damage from Hurricane Katrina:
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Merc, how come the pics you post of Mrs Merc's lovely bits are so wonderfully large, but most of the other stuff is really small and has pixel sizes on it?
I was still tying out how best to post pic on my image hosting site before my ability to host her titties. Since then I have been schooled. :D
Nice pictures, HM.
Is it snowing in that second one?
Edit: I think you've turned them both upside down.
Hey, you know what? That first one could very well be upside down.
Damn there are some talented photogs here.
They are indeed both upside down. :)
That is neat-o! Love it love it! Monkey is neat.
It snowed here last night. Not a lot, but a few inches. SonofV was so stoked we went outside at about midnight (in our pajamas) and played in it. He made a snowman and had a grand old time, somewhat moreso than I did.
Turns out, I brought a camera to a snowball fight. Heads up!
Pretty cool capture there, BigV! In focus too.
awesome action shot! (unless your kid just made a HUGE snowball and is holding it on his steroid powered arm :) )
Note the left side of the snowman. It looks like a womans face on it in profile.
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You made that Duplo tower, didn't you Flint?
Along with the toy theme, I encouraged my kids to line up all their Playmobile guys, because I wanted to see how many they have received over the years. They knew that 4 were missing, but couldn't find them for this picture.
You made that Duplo tower, didn't you Flint?
Of course. Doesn't everybody try to build the biggest structure they can out of their children's Legos?
Along with the toy theme, I encouraged my kids to line up all their Playmobile guys, because I wanted to see how many they have received over the years. They knew that 4 were missing, but couldn't find them for this picture.
Somewhere we have the complete playmobile operating room/hospital set. Pretty cool toys.
Somewhere we have the complete playmobile operating room/hospital set. Pretty cool toys.
Playmobil is awesome. They are one of the best toys (tied with Legos) out there for elementary school aged kids. I'm only sorry I never bought the now discontinued
pimp car set for them when I had the chance.
That is Great! Only they would have thought up a pimp car. :lol2:
The inch got his first playmobil set at about three, which I think was way too early. He instantly disassembled the ambulance, scattered all the tiny parts to the winds, repurposed all the life saving equipment into rockets, guns, lasers, jets and other generally loud things. Eventually, the stripped shell of the wheel-less ambulance was all that was left, although he often walks around with the flashing lights blinking in his hand as some sort of helicopter.
That toy was great in that it bcame 100s of new toys but was never once used as an ambulance.
They knew that 4 were missing, but couldn't find them for this picture.
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the kids have that accurate a census?
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the kids have that accurate a census?
I would attribute it to a higher than normal IQ.
As the mother of a kid who can tell you what order he lost his teeth and what was received for each one.... no.
Same kid got the Playmobile pirate shit when he was 3 or 4... complete with cannon balls, rats, gold coins, beer mugs... I vacuumed that shit up for months...
Same kid got the Playmobile pirate shit when he was 3 or 4... complete with cannon balls, rats, gold coins, beer mugs... I vacuumed that shit up for months...
Those pirates had very poor diets... no wonder they had scurrrrvy.
They knew that 4 were missing, but couldn't find them for this picture.
Does anyone else find it disturbing that the kids have that accurate a census?
Most of them have names, even if the name is "scary pirate." "Mr. Blue" was the first one we got. He's 10th from the right.
Someday they can name and describe them all to their shrink.:haha:
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"Dammit, I broke a nail."
I took that pic on 12-31-08 at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
Cool place, I've been there, many years ago.
Happy Birthday, btw.:D
San Diego Zoo was really nice as well, when I went in 1978 with a girl friend from college.
As the mother of a kid who can tell you what order he lost his teeth and what was received for each one.... no.
Same kid got the Playmobile pirate shit when he was 3 or 4... complete with cannon balls, rats, gold coins, beer mugs... I vacuumed that shit up for months...
The pirate ship is awesome... and thankfully stays at Gramma's house.
Cool place, I've been there, many years ago.
Happy Birthday, btw.:D
Thank you! :thankyou:
I took these two of some of my grandchildren at Christmas. I am having fun with a new lens, the Canon 85mm f1.2; a great portrait lens especially in low light. Older child is 7, the baby was 2 weeks old. I can't comment on my wife's age...
I forgot where these ones are on my hard drive. The first I call "2 Sarah's" and it's of my wife Sarah and our grand daughter of the same name. The next is of Sarah who just mastered the art of walking a week or so before. The last is of my grand daughter as she crashed while running in our back yard.
I think this girl is going to be a challenge for her parents when she is a teenager and the boys take note!
Thanks for looking. Damn, I love that new lens!
Those are beautiful! Nice job, great camera work.
Wow. Those kids are stunning.
Wow! nice lens!.
Umm I mean cute kids. They have great bokeh.
I mean smiles, great smiles.
(Note to self: Must get that lens, already have two kids)
I'd like to take credit for this one but I technically can't. Mav took this one when we were playing around with the new camera up at Dad's place over the break.
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Hummingbird on a dogbone windchime in my back yard.
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Brrrrrrrrrrrr in my back yard RFN
Beautiful kids!!!
I took this photo a couple years ago, in this mist tunnel thingy at the zoo, and always thought it was a neat shot.
Stay away from the light! Don't go into the light!!!
Great photos. I especially like impress's and Junipers.
I took this photo a couple years ago, in this mist tunnel thingy at the zoo, and always thought it was a neat shot.
It's very cool and very creepy all at the same time. Well done!
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Mummy of a 28 year-old woman named Tahure,
at the Rosicrucian Egyptian museum in San Jose.
Looks like she managed to chew through some of the straps before she died.
here is one of Mono Lake, California. Located near Mammoth Lakes, this volcanic area in the high desert is a drainage with no outlet, so all the mineral salts drain into it. It has some craggy salt pillars that are formed in and around it. My picture doesnt really show them that well... I was suprised that the photo turned out this well on a camara phone.
All the pictures I've seen of Mono Lake do show the weird salt formations, it's nice to see what the whole lake looks like in its setting.
I took these two of some of my grandchildren at Christmas. I am having fun with a new lens, the Canon 85mm f1.2; a great portrait lens especially in low light. Older child is 7, the baby was 2 weeks old. I can't comment on my wife's age...
In the second photo, the child's head looks like it has been photoshopped in. I take Chris's word that it wasn't, but it is a good example of how things can look shopped that aren't.
I forgot where these ones are on my hard drive. The first I call "2 Sarah's" and it's of my wife Sarah and our grand daughter of the same name. The next is of Sarah who just mastered the art of walking a week or so before. The last is of my grand daughter as she crashed while running in our back yard.
Is that an actual ear piercing, or some kind of stick on?
Recently my 3 siblings and I had to get together to handle business after our father passed away. Since we all live apart far and wide (my brother lives in Taiwan) and we don't get together too often my wife suggested I get a portrait.
We were all barefoot so I decided to do a different type of portrait. So here it is and here is an explanation. From the top is my oldest sister (first child), just turned 60, always athletic and still runs every morning. Right is my brother who is 54 and does yoga. Bottom is sister #2 (2nd child), lives in Florida and likes walking on the beach.
Left is me (baby of the family), who has bent up toes on both feet, must be genetic as my index fingers also bend slightly towards the other 3 fingers.
I guess feet say a lot about people.
Hey, it's footfootfootfoot.
Wow, I feel right at home. I like the photo Chris, and the explanation for the tan toes.
Would be great if you keep it up for 20 more years, sort of like Nicholas Nixon and the Brown sisters, you could be the foot family.
Went for a short hike in a local nature center. Saw a couple of deer crashing through the woods, followed half a minute later by a black lab running after them.
Ten minutes later, I heard some movement and saw them. Barely. Good camouflage. No dog around this time.
I guess feet say a lot about people.
Amazing difference... results of age, lifestyle, and a host of things we don't know. Fascinating picture. :thumb:
Love all the rad pics.
Heres one I took of one of the great pyramids in giza. I dig off angle shots!
This is the sign that welcomes you as you drive into Hondo, Texas. I love it because it is welcoming but direct in making a point in a Texan kind of way. And there are plenty of cops around to enforce it
Floating, that is cool. I have always wanted to go there. Do you have more you care to share? How about of the Sphinx?
sho nuff....after I find em. the sphinx is way fuxored though after many years of humans dicking around with it...sucks
Nice pictures, Papa. :thumb:
I found the place fascinating, but a lot of people on the tour said it was spooky or depressing.
I would love to go there. Thanks for the pics.
Glad you liked them. More
here.
Remnants of the Indian occupation of 19 months.
Decided it was a nice place to visit but they didn't want to live there. :haha:
*starts working on plaster head*
Here's an
account of the escape at the FBI website.
Wow, you have some great photos there, gromitspapa. Thanks!
My wife and I have visited the Alcatraz park a number of times in the early 80's. Doesn't look like it has changed much. Beautiful pics.
Alcatraz Island, Pelican Island - oh wait, I have a photo of pelicans I could share.
Look. At. The. Cock. On. That. Horse. !
Hey. You didn't take that picture.
i'm pretty sure I took that picture
He didn't say where he took the picture from.
Yeah. What happy monkey said.:D
So, do even own a camera or what?
Uh...yeah. What would you like a picture of for me to prove that I own a camera?
While you're thinking, wash your eyes out with this...
Oh, very nice. Who did you take that one from?
The moon and Venus in close proximity on the evening of 2/27:
Wow, that's impressive. I didn't realize Venus would show up as a disk with that little magnification. Very nice picture.
Oh, very nice. Who did you take that one from?
I took it from the driver's side window of my car.:headshake
Aside from the horsecock, that really was a nice pic, btw.
Not really neat pictures I've taken; I'm no photographer. Here is my river. South and North views.
Uprooted but hanging in there. And blurry ducks you can barely see.
Were you way down upon the Shawnee River?
Actually, it's the Miami...but good enough. ;)
My friend took this picture. So I cant take credit for it, but I love this picture
BUSTED! Here's a squirrel that chewed his way through our bird seed container. We didn't name him because he became the main ingredient in a tasty stew after we fattened him up! J/K
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Night shot of a Bradford Pear in bloom...Northwest corner of my yard.
Rock Stacking in Sausalito, CA...
Boat docks in Santa Cruz, CA...one of my favorite pics...
An entryway to a restaurant in Holambra, Brazil...I love the colors, flowers, textures, etc. The coffee was the best, too!
Gastown Steam Clock in Vancouver, BC. You can see the steam coming out at the top of the clock.
Decent shot of a firework during 4th of July last year in Austin, TX.
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I can haz birdseed
Cool, lots of good pictures tonight... uh, last night. Yznhymr & Agent-G have been busy. :D
Glad to see what looks like a helmet. Is that Tahoe too?
Gastown Steam Clock in Vancouver, BC. You can see the steam coming out at the top of the clock.
Did you stop and pay homage to Gassy Jack?
Cool, lots of good pictures tonight... uh, last night. Yznhymr & Agent-G have been busy. :D
Glad to see what looks like a helmet. Is that Tahoe too?
Yeah...its a cotton helmet...I suppose
Indeed it is Tahoe, Sierra-at-Tahoe in those paticular pictures. I live in South Lake Tahoe.
Oh, and those pictures were only two days apart. We had temperatures up in the high 50's then it dropped to 14 degrees and snowed 3 feet in one night, and then it warmed up again. That's California for you...
At Merc's request:
The first photo is from last year. I don't know what kind of snake it is, but perhaps somebody can tell me. It also serves as a scale (har) for the following photo of yesterday's snake. That snake was already well into the ground below the mulberry tree so I was able to creep up on it without it slithering out of sight.
Sweet, what state do you live in and which part of the state?
Sweetwater: I don't know what kind of snake it is, but perhaps somebody can tell me.
Oh, that's an easy one. It's the kind that needs a live, ticking hand grenade shoved up its ass.
Caesar's givin you the eye...
Did you stop and pay homage to Gassy Jack?
Oh yea, and saluted with a nice mug of local beer. :beer:
Caesar's givin you the eye...
magnificent pic
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Taken yesterday at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. If you have any idea what kind of butterfly this is, please let me know.
Papillo paliniurus, Green Swallowtail, cryptically enough, and a lovely specimen and a lovely photograph.
Brava!
Papillo paliniurus, Green Swallowtail, cryptically enough, and a lovely specimen and a lovely photograph.
Brava!
Thanks and thanks! How cool that you were able to identify it for me!
Caesar's givin you the eye...
Slick's givin you the face...
Photo from today's backyard safari. I wish my eyes were better so I could get the focus right, but I hope the subject matter makes it interesting for others. Think Hallmark would want to use it for a Mother's Day card? :D
Anyone know anything about lizards? I took this picture yesterday at the L.A. Arboretum. Is that an egg behind its right rear leg?
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The snake looks similar to a common water snake. Water snakes can have a wide variety of colorings and markings. I am leaning towards the Yellow-bellied Watersnake only because the Juvi with it has distinct yellow on the bottom.
Seen flying over Arcadia, CA this past Monday:
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*THAT'S* where my boomerang got to!
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Needless to say, Princess & I aren't doing a whole lot today. Watching Nightmare Before Xmas for now - her favorite.
OMG! Queen, that's...that's just not RIGHT!
I send :flower: your way, darling!
Zoo visit.
Expressway buggered. The radio says: it's partly zoo traffic.
We decided to go to the zoo on the first nice Saturday of the year. This is like trying to park in Manhattan, or trying to eat at a modern theme restaurant near a shopping area on a Saturday night.
If you visit the Philadelphia zoo and it's more than normally crowded, you are told at the very last possible minute to turn right and go to an alternate parking area. This leads to the West Philly neighborhoods next to the zoo, some of the worst neighborhoods in the city.
We waited in line, in the right-hand shoulder, for what seemed like forever to try to get into this alternate parking lot. But as we were 5 cars away, they stopped letting cars in -- it was full. But then zoo workers walked down to talk to every car in line, a block and a half, to tell us that if we just parked where we were - we'd then be in legal street parking, and it would be free.
Massive hedgehog was massive.
Curious rare marmoset was curious.
Dramatic prairie dawg was dramatic.
I almost got this shot. At the lunch place, it took the people just forever to get through a line of 10 people. Just forever, and it was hot dogs, pizza, and fries and cokes. By the time we were next in line, somebody wanted to pay credit, and the woman pulled out one of the old deals where you swipe the thing over the credit card carbon paper.
Dramatic polar bear would not go in the water for the dramatic water shot. But would lean over the rock for the dramatic rock shot.
Grumpy armored hippo was grumpy in the heat.
We did almost 3 hours in the crowd. It was OK.
People, don't take kids in strollers to the zoo. They aren't old enough to comprehend it and the strollers are painful in the crowd.
That was really neat, UT! Fantastic pictures.
ARMORED HIPPO!?
is that a new breed of rhino!?
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The side of a peacock we don't often see.
Seen flying over Arcadia, CA this past Monday:
No, you saw nothing... look at this light... now repeat after me, I saw nothing, nothing at all. :haha:
Zoo visit.
Thanks for taking one for the Cellar. :thumb:
Zoo pix! I love animal photos. I wish animals would take our photos sometime, too - it seems only fair.
Double rainbow on the 405 Freeway, at about 70 mph.
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Journalistic pictures I've taken; *Neat* subject!
Spyder-BRPHere are a few scenes from the last couple of days. I'm still getting used to this new camera and am too shaky to use a telephoto outdoors in the wind and all. Maybe a monopod is in my future - or should be!
And can anyone identify those snakes? I thought they were blotched water snakes but the scale pattern does not seem right. Whatever they are, there are many here and (obviously) soon to be more. :eek:
I'm fairly sure those are water moccasins. Keep your distance.
Their fat bodies give them away.
This adorable bird seems to be a black backed stilt, but according to my bird books it does not usually found here. I guess the bird can't read.
"probably looking for answers"
Great shot. Is that a duck's head in the foreground?
"probably looking for answers"
Great shot. Is that a duck's head in the foreground?
No, just another rock emerging from the surface of the lake. It's interesting to see what has been hidden along the lake bottom, but I'd rather have a huge storm fill it back up. The poor fish must be swimming sideways by now. The great blue herons just stand around and jab their fill. A couple of them have taken to eating catfish while standing right about where that stilt stood. Interesting to watch the process.
I'm fairly sure those are water moccasins. Keep your distance.
Their fat bodies give them away.
Is that a "dark stripe that runs behind the eye alongside the head"?
Some distinguishing features: link
The Cottonmouth has elliptical, cat-like pupils while non-venomous water snakes have round pupils. However, when a Cottonmouth's pupils are dilated, they're almost round, so be aware of that.
Cottonmouths have a dark stripe that runs behind the eye alongside the head, whereas harmless water snakes have other head patterns.
Cottonmouths tend (not always, but tend to) to swim high in the water, appearing somewhat overly buoyant. The harmless water snakes tend to swim mostly submerged.
Cottonmouths tend to retreat slowly, while water snakes tend to zip out of the way whenever possible. I know, however, that some harmless water snakes will stand their ground and act aggressive when disturbed.
When in doubt...... get the fuck out!
Here's one swimming high and one swimming low: so I guess we may have venomous and non-venomous snakes in there. Neat!*
Hmmm... hard to tell that the bottom pic is of a snake, isn't it? I love to watch them swimming. It's fascinating, absolutely awesome. No hands, either! Try that, Mr. Phelps!
*Opinion will probably change after I, or one of my pets, gets bit!
Many outdoor enthusiasts have encountered snakes around ponds, lakes, creeks, rivers, or other wet areas. Without a field guide, how would you know what kind it was? There are many kinds of water snakes including red bellied (shown above), banded, brown and southern to name a few. Comparing their markings to a water moccasin can confuse the casual glance. Rest assured, a brochure provided by the GA DNR contains excellent advice, photos and information on water moccasins and water snakes. Here are some highlights on identifying these reptiles of the aquatic persuasion:
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Water moccasins, or "Cottonmouths," are relatively short and wide. Water snakes are longer and more slender.
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Water moccasins bask on land, or on logs and stumps near water surface.
Water snakes are good climbers and spend a lot of time basking on branches hanging over water.
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Water moccasins move slowly and defend their territory while water snakes move quickly away from disturbances.
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When swimming, cottonmouths keep their heads elevated above the water and bodies riding nearly on the water surface. Water snakes keep their head and body low and below the water surface.
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Cottonmouths always cock their heads at a 45 degree angle on land. Water snakes keep their heads level with the ground.
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Both snakes feed on fish, frogs and other prey found around aquatic habitats.:eek:
Good info. Thanks! Around here it seems that the locals identify snakes into one of two types. If it's on land, it's a rattlesnake. If it's in the water, it's a moccasin. And then out comes the gun, shovel, etc.:headshake I do have a field guide, but I could use one that shows a close up of head from above and to the side, and a clear shot of the tail shape, and a good photo of the typical pattern. It seems that all the F.G.'s have photos taken in their habitats, so whatever was, is, in the pages. Maybe I should write my own guide, eh?
SonofV, closeup. Shhhh... he's still asleep.
God, I love that boy.
Doth the child have alien eyes????
And this... (no flash, didn't want to hurt young eyes. & yes, he moved.)
Those are absolutely beautiful Jinx.
Thanks man! Was trying for "Americana" examples...
I just looked at them again. You absolutely nailed it!
They really are just ... compelling.
Very super awesome jinx.
The second one is my fave.
Very nice, Jinx. I love the B&W.
Great pics Jinx, where were they taken?
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Is this someone's home? Love the cat up on the rail...great shot.
Is this someone's home? Love the cat up on the rail...great shot.
The cat on the rail is Jinx & LJ's home. You see they are very, very poor and have to live in an old house with no kitchen ceiling. :lol2:
Great pics Jinx, where were they taken?
Thanks Merc! I took them at
Hopewell Furnace/French Creek... it's right in our backyard.
Wonderful photos Jinx...the black and white is a nice touch.
Took this shot yesterday.
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Right outside the men's bathroom at the end of today's hike.
Cool skink! How big was it? Did your kids pick it up?
We have lots of blue skinks around my house. We love having them and the geko's around. They help keep down the billions of insects coming out now.
It was maybe 6-8 inches long. We didn't try to pick it up. In the back of my mind, I remembered that their tails can come off easily to evade predators, and I didn't want to be left holding a bloody tail. And I didn't want to try to grab it near the mouth. We did surround it, with me on one side of the fence and my son on the other. And it would scoot under the fence to get away from one of us and be in plain view of the other. We chased it back and forth like that for a minute or so before it finally stopped trying to use the fence for cover. It was pretty cool. Fast.
Can those things hurt you?
Skink. Skank. Skunk.
:biggrinha
Can those things hurt you?
no.
I've got some huge ones around here. Some of them have colorful stripes, but the reddish ones are much larger.
Delicious piece of red velvet cake from Holt's Bakery in Douglas, Georgia.
Great shot!
Douglas is a quaint little town.
Now they got cake.
There goes the neighborhood.
God only knows what's next.
Could even be one of them concert things.
Outclassed as I am... I offer you this.
I'm taking photos of "simple pleasures" to enter into a comp run by an organic breakfast cereal company.
As their company branding is mostly yellow I figure this laburnum might have a chance. It's not an all-out photo comp, just has to be good enough to go into their gallery.
Okay - for the record? I don't think my pics are good enough for this thread, let alone a competition :( But this pleased me.
Bridal Falls off of Highway 50
[Princess OTR's first time "real" camping - (tent, not trailer or cabin) - she LOVED it.
That looks ike one princess who is going to be able to defend her own castle; bold knights may be optional extras.
Is that a real gun?
BB gun - adult just behind her out of the shot. But real ducks and real trout!
My clematis.
Bonus side story, only available here at the Cellar for a limited time:
We were talking flowers, and my mom said something about cyclamen. I said "Cyclamen, isn't that the new 4 day treatment for Clematis?" Ba dum dum...
He tried to ride a cyclamen
he took a bad spill
then he rhododendron
and just looked like a dill.
I took this picture outside my fence a few days ago. The parrots really love the blossom on this tree (which I don't know the name of unfortunately, but I'll be finding out) and they spend most of each morning there lately. The blooms are almost finished now though, so I guess that'll be the end of the parrots till next year.
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Wow, great pics! It must be very cool to have parrots naturally flying around.
Thanks classic. :) It is nice to have native birds around, but they can be pretty raucous. Not so great at the crack of dawn, but still beautiful to look at.
Those particular ones are very common around here, and in most coastal areas of Australia. They can be quite comical to watch.
We have to go to the zoo to see stuff like that. That's cool.
If we didn't have cats and dogs, we'd be able to hand feed them. They get very tame very quickly if you leave food out for them. Particularly that breed of parrot. Bread with sugar or honey can easily be held in the hand to offer to them and it doesn't take too long for them to get brave enough to come for a feed. I was pretty close to that bird. Only about 2 metres away (6 feet). They're pretty cocky really.
I feed squirrels here. But really, they're just tree rats. Some of them are very social. But Frank and Trixie make their contribution to keeping them leery.
Australia got squirrels?
Squirrels. Thank heavens for spell check.:)
No, but we have possums. All kinds, and they get pretty friendly too. They like making homes in people's roof cavity actually, and can be very annoying when they bounce around at night. Possums are nocturnal as you probably know. Most of the possums we have here are pretty cute as opposed to the ones you guys have over there.
We have armadillo. But I shoot them. They are pests.
Beautiful pics Ali.
Me and one of my students. A complete coincidence that we dressed this way, so I had to capture it on film.
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Impress: I LOLed.
CpnHowdy: try getting Japanese people to pronounce Sukuwiwu. Sukuwiiwuru. Yes I am mean.
And Australian possums are also friendly and can be easily semi-tamed to take food from your hand. Many birds will too, especially magpies. Emus can be hard to keep off.
I took this picture outside my fence a few days ago. The parrots really love the blossom on this tree (which I don't know the name of unfortunately, but I'll be finding out) and they spend most of each morning there lately. The blooms are almost finished now though, so I guess that'll be the end of the parrots till next year.
The parrots are beautiful, Ali. I'm thinking this is some sort of biological yin/yang balance to make up for all the scary shit you guys have over there. :eek:
No parrots here in chi-town. But no big hairy bugs either.
Good point Dar - I'm debating whether I want the parrots AND the bugs or if I should just be happy without either. hmmm
from the peak of Bull Run Mountain today
Beautiful. You know what kind of bird that is?
@Impress: What is it? Where did you take the shot? I love it.
impress - Painting of a bobcat?
glatt - that an osprey? I can't tell not seeing the head behind the wing.
no idea what kind of bird it was, but it was huge, and there were a bunch of them soaring in the thermals on the mountain side. I thought it was a big hawk or an eagle, but I don't know.
I also saw a skink, a box turtle, and a deer on the same hike.
Here's another shot of one of the birds, but is kind of out of focus. They were moving so fast the camera was having trouble locking onto them.
nope not an osprey. I think you're right probably a hawk.
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No, real live animal at a zoo in Phoenix. Beautiful cat.
Probably the painted backdrop fooled him.
That zoo in Phoenix was a disgrace, to be perfectly honest. Deplorable. But that cat was magnificent.
My baby girl.
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Damn. She's gonna be HUGE when she gets grown!:rollhappy
impress - Painting of a bobcat?
No, real live animal at a zoo in Phoenix. Beautiful cat.
Probably the painted backdrop fooled him.
Exactly. I thought the animal looked real, but the foliage was obviously not.
I wonder if the cat can "see" the painted foliage at all, or if it just looks like a cement wall.
No, but we have possums.
We have armadillo.
Armadillo = Opossum on the half-shell!:D
So I'm turning the water hose off today and I see this thing over there next to the wall. I ask self what it is.:eek:
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I move in closer with caution and it starts to climb up the wall.
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I move and he flies right in my face.
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Now that's batshit crazy. Little bastard almost gave me a CA.
Pics pending of the camera hitting the ground.
Little bastard almost gave me a CA.
Would've given me a FPS. Full Pair of Shorts.:speechls:
He looks like a nasty little sucker! ;)
Spider-bat, spider-bat, does whatever a spider-bat does...
God I'm sick of the Simpsons! lol
Little bastard almost gave me a CA.
A what?
Love the pic of the birds in the trees.
Hey Bullitt:
Those are some beautiful shots. My two favorites are the backlit snowy trees and the wide shot of the heron colony. Really great! Thanks!
I loved the Naughtier Baby Dragon. I guess the safer version says Hello. The naughtier version shakes his dick at ya...
Those pics of birds in flight are wonderful
Oh, and I want a bat! I love bats, they're beautiful! Fancy finding one just like that in your yard. How marvellous.
Ahh. Me and Dad used to go looking for bats at night in Queen's park. happy days.
Methinks they'll bite the batshit outa you!
And Barney Fife said they'll get in your hair and lay eggs and make you go crazy.
Looking in their mouth is like looking into a mini Rottweiler's .
Our old neighborhood was bat infested, and 3 or 4 times a year we'd have one flying around in the house. I hated that.
Disclaimer: I didn't take this pic, but a good friend did, right down the street from my house on Sunday (while I was ignorantly cruising around on the back of a Harley in the rain):
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Thanks guys, hopefully I'll be able to get some cool shots next weekend at a Daytona Prototype auto race that I will share with you all.
That would be really cool.
Those bird colony pictures are really interesting. I've never seen a group of herons like that in one tree.
It looks like that house sprang a leak QotR.
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No, real live animal at a zoo in Phoenix. Beautiful cat.
What zoo?
Great tornado shot. They should have sent it CNN to post on the tv.
I stalked this little guy (or his siblings) for twenty minutes, wading through the waist deep water (with no housing to protect my camera :eek: ) and I got a couple well focused shots. This one cracks me up the most. He's cocked his head and he's lookin' right back at me "What are you lookin at?!". Hahahaha!!
Blackbird's nest right outside my window, an hour ago.
There's currently at least one egg in there and I hope to take pictures of the little ones soon.
Update: another hour later, the baby bird has hatched - no photos yet.
Redstart fledgling on my window sill last June
21:30 I had a chance of seeing into the nest: 1 baby bird and one remaining egg (sorry for the blurry picture, lighting was poor).
Baby was moving and mother was back after a minute or two.
Managed a clearer photo today from the upstairs window.
Wow, grown a lot from egg size. I wonder if his unhatched brother will ever catch up?
Keeping w/the birdy babies theme of late...A few years ago my mother stuck a "birdhouse" on the support pole for her carport. This is a purely decorative birdhouse, not intended for real habitation. This spring, for some reason, a pair of tree swallows thought this was the perfect place to raise their young. Three, we think, but I can't get them all in a pic w/their heads poking out.
that is just so...cute!
you could make that into some sort of "cheer up, ya old fucker" kind of card.
Did the other one ever hatch?
Big brother probably ate it right out of the shell. I mean, the thing does look kinda reptilian.
I don't think #2 ever made it
Scenery RFN
Some friends of ours were going away for the weekend, and they asked if we would be willing to watch their chrysalises. They thought that one of them was just about ready to hatch into a butterfly (I forget which kind) and they wanted us to release the butterfly after it hatched.
So on Sunday morning, which happened to be my daughter's birthday, she woke up and checked the little butterfly cage. One of them had hatched. We took it outside and opened the cage. It walked out onto this leaf. We checked on it every once in a while, but missed it when it finally flew off (or was eaten) a couple hours later.
Very nice! Good timing too - being her B-day and all.
Excellent shot. :thumbsup::thumbsup:
There's a
trapeze school in the parking lot across the street from my office building. It's been there for a couple of weeks, and will be there for a month or two longer. Classes are $40-$60 dollars each. I remembered to bring my camera to work yesterday so I could get some pictures of it.
Here's a view out of a conference room window just down the hall from my interior office. You can see the safety net easily. They also have safety harnesses for you when you are climbing up the extension ladder to get to the starting platform, and harnesses while you are on the trapeze itself.
There appear to be 4 staff/teachers working all the time. One to put a harness on you and hold the safety line while you climb the ladder, one is on the platform with you when you get to the top of the ladder and coaches you, one to hold the safety line for when you are on the trapeze, and one is on the second trapeze to catch you when you fly from one trapeze to the other.
It looks like there are 8-10 other students sitting in lawn chairs in the shade waiting their turn.
So after you get to the platform, the head instructor tells you when to step off that platform and swing out on the trapeze. There is a simple system the teachers use to call out to each other to get the timing down perfectly.
This student somehow got a little tangled in her safety lines, but it didn't hinder her.
She let go with her knees before grabbing the other guys hands. That was impressive. She was flying. Most other students would wait to have a hand hold before they released their knees.
Here's a more typical student. She's maybe a little more nervous, grabbing that trapeze with her knees for so long. She let go a moment later.
It all looked like fun, but I'm too skeered to try it.
There's a trapeze school in the parking lot across the street from my office building.
I don't think any of us expected him to say that!
Thanks Glatt, that's pretty wild. I wonder how they choose a location where they expect to get enough customers to pay the rent, instructors and insurance.
Maybe the chick in red is a shill? ;)
*awesome pictures* glatt!!! I would do that in a heartbeat.
something a little more serene...
Ooohhh, very nice [SIZE="6"]V[/SIZE].
( . V . )
Aaah. Thanks V. I needed that.
Thank you for the compliments. That is the view eastward into the fog over the southern reach of Dabob Bay, taken from Highway 101 just north of Brinnon.
Must be a fast shutter speed. There's not much motion blur as you drive by on the highway. ;-p
Man, I love Seattle. Bring on the crabs and the oysters.......
Must be a fast shutter speed. There's not much motion blur as you drive by on the highway. ;-p
1/1500, f/2.8
Man, I love Seattle. Bring on the crabs and the oysters.......
You fly, I'll buy.
btw, I'm famous in the oyster crowd.
When I was in the service I was famous in the crab crowd.
<><> J/K.....
Tahoe Dusk
I was messing with the lighting features on the camera and manged to get the foreground siloutted against the background.
Wow. Rarely does someone make me miss Cali...
alright, here are two other ones. This last Father's Day, I took my dad up to this spot. I would say its the best view of the lake, there might be a better spot, but definitely not one you can drive to like this
so, first picture is me, the second are two of my brothers myself and my dad.
Gorgeous! I lived in Tahoe for a couple of years and I never tire of views of the lake. Thanks for the memories!
alright, this one came out too nice not to post. Skipping stones on the water. Can you believe this is from a camera phone?
Nom from today
correction: Nom Nom from today.;)
whose arm is that hanging from the giant crab's mouth?
I took this out my back door today and the sky was so blue it set off this photo so well! Then I looked closer at my fence and I wondered, " where oh where is Tom Sawyer when you need him?" ;-)
Nirvana that is gorgeous.
Beautiful. I like the fence...
My son has these pokemon like stuffed things and he's been giving them to my dog to play with.
She likes to chew holes in them, and rip out their stuffing.
Then look all innocent, like it wasn't her.
This time, I caught her red...uh...mouthed?
Haven't posted in forever - and stumbled across this thread tonight while surfing. Awesome shots folks!
Carolina Beach State Park, North Carolina
Gate at the Orton Plantation, Wilmington NC
Sunset near Carolina Beach, NC
Out the car window (no, I wasn't driving *G*)
Thanks for some inspiration - I need to dig out the camera and finish an assignment on DOF work a class on Tuesday.
Hi Dagney, welcome back. :D
...Gate at the Orton Plantation, Wilmington NC ...
Just reminded me of this: "
Orton"
Just reminded me of this: "Orton"
cool.
I've not done a lot with the Orton effect yet - I'm still working on basic HDR and bracketing techniques (not that easy when my camera doesn't auto bracket for me) My husband wrote a pretty good technical piece on the orton effect and how it works - I'll try to dig it up if you're interested.
And thanks Bruce! I missed a bunch of you folks...will still be laying low, life is crazy - me, moreso ;)
My husband wrote a pretty good technical piece on the orton effect and how it works - I'll try to dig it up if you're interested.
You mean there is more to know? Bring it on then (if it isn't too much trouble). Thanks!
I recently was wandering around the Smithsonian's National Portrait Galley and was up in a very rarely visited corner of the building and came across this sculpture. It stunned me, resonating on some basic level. Sure, it's Raquel Welch in a bikini and resonates for the obvious reasons, but that wasn't it.
I knew I had seen it a long time ago. It took a while to place it, and then it came to me from the depth of my mind. A picture of it was in one of the first Playboys I had ever seen. I was just a little kid, and my older cousins had snagged some of my uncle's hidden Playboy stash. I must have been around 6 or 7 years old. We were sleeping out in our bus, made up as a camper.
I've since traced it to an issue from 1970.
Frank Gallo is the artist who made this. I've worked with epoxy resin and fiberglass, and I'm not sure how he did it. It's so smooth. He made some kind of mold, but with the negative angles, like where it curves around at her waist, and where her hair is, you would never be able to release this from a mold. I'm curious how he did it.
Look at Seinfelds face over on the left side across the street in the second pic.
Yeah, he's totally checking her out.
I recently was wandering around the Smithsonian's National Portrait Galley and was up in a very rarely visited corner of the building and came across this sculpture. It stunned me, resonating on some basic level. Sure, it's Raquel Welch in a bikini and resonates for the obvious reasons, but that wasn't it.
I knew I had seen it a long time ago. It took a while to place it, and then it came to me from the depth of my mind. A picture of it was in one of the first Playboys I had ever seen. I was just a little kid, and my older cousins had snagged some of my uncle's hidden Playboy stash. I must have been around 6 or 7 years old. We were sleeping out in our bus, made up as a camper.
I've since traced it to an issue from 1970.
Frank Gallo is the artist who made this. I've worked with epoxy resin and fiberglass, and I'm not sure how he did it. It's so smooth. He made some kind of mold, but with the negative angles, like where it curves around at her waist, and where her hair is, you would never be able to release this from a mold. I'm curious how he did it.
Silicone mold, sandcasting, breakaway plaster mold...
Pat Metheny gets the fuck down.
What the hell is he playing. Look at the crossing strings from back to front.
It is a custom made, one-off instrument made for him by a female luthier. Fairly amazing.
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of all the pictures on my digital picture frame, this is the one people comment on the most:
We went fishing offshore over the weekend and this is a picture I took with my phone on the way back at the end of the day.
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some really beautiful and neat photos
Is that a 'wile'?
No it's a shark! ;)
Yeah, it's a whale. Humpback. We get a lot of them along the eastern seaboard at this time of year. That was the first time I'd ever seen them so close though. The experience was almost spiritual in its awesomeness. It made my day...week...month even.
No it's a shark! ;)
Yeah, it's a whale. Humpback. We get a lot of them along the eastern seaboard at this time of year. That was the first time I'd ever seen them so close though. The experience was almost spiritual in its awesomeness. It made my day...week...month even.
I went on a whalewatch on the left coast two weeks ago. I've been on two previous whalewatch trips, one out of Boston, and another out of L.A. This most recent one was from Santa Barbara. We saw blue whales and dolphins, along with some other critters.
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It was a great trip, thanks to Dramamine.
Wow, those are great pics impress!
The algae on the seal buoy looks like a real graphic. 2me.
Caught mid-drool:
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Are you sure that's drool? Kinda looks like snot to me.
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Mickey Mouse beads
Waiting for Bucket.
... The new play by Samuel Godot...
... The new play by Samuel Godot...
And you owe me a keyboard!
Nice pics, impress! Wow. :)
Thanks.
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Great shots jinx. The last one is totally frame able.
Thx sky. Here's 'the stunt', during half time.
I wonder if the score board sponsor does special deals for the players.
I took this picture today while on a hike. I don't understand why it looks like this lizard has a human eye. It's kinda creepy and I like it.
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Anyone fathom a guess? I didn't alter the photo to put a human eye there, and I know precious little about lizards except they're fast little buggers.
I don't know how good or neat these are. I mean, I took them with my iPhone. It isn't so much that they're great pics. But the first one is fairly self-explanatory, and the second is just a pretty tree in the same cemetary.
The grave of Charlie "Bird" Parker, legendary sax player, creator of be-bop, and junkie. It is located in Lincoln Cemetary in Kansas City. TF and I were driving right by today on the way to somewhere else, so we just stopped and visited him. I mean, how often do you get to stand above the moldering remains of a genius?
I mean, how often do you get to stand above the moldering remains of a genius?
The Bird's stone looks like you could play shuffleboard on it. :mg:
I took this picture today while on a hike. I don't understand why it looks like this lizard has a human eye. It's kinda creepy and I like it.
Don't know what kind that is, but here's a Baja Rock Lizard. It seems a lot of lizards, except Geckos and Chameleons, have eyes like this.
grand children #10 and 12, age 2 1/2 and 10 months
And you're spoiling them all, right? :haha:
I feed them sweets if the pose for me!
The snake that bit my dog. I think she was nesting.
The last pic was a week out, you can still see the swelling on the side of his face. He is all better now.
Yes, handsome beast. :thumbsup:
The dog, not the snake....
or Merc. :haha:
Lovely dog. I'm glad to know he's on the mend.
I've always preferred the look of dead snakes over the live ones.....
I am amused by the way you're keeping her covered in the first photo. Did you yell "hands up!!!"?
Poor doggie! I did not know you had a heeler Merc!
...or is that a cattle dog?
Glad your dog is okay! Snake looks like she might make a nice belt. What kind is it (is that a rattle on the end?)?
I think that's what we call a timber rattler. But then, what do I know? I'm just a dumbass Marine.
Eastern Diamondback. It had 8 rattles. I would have skinned it but was out of time to deal with it and I was off to work for the next two days at the time. I know the wife was not really interested in dealing with it and she wouldn't let me keep it in the freezer, so I had to trash it with great reluctance.
Poor doggie! I did not know you had a heeler Merc!
Yea, we thought we would down size after the Ridgebacks. Now we miss having the Ridgebacks again. He is a good additon to the pack but he is a handful. I am teaching him to be a frisbee dog.
In my back patio RFN.
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You grow your own pomegranates? You are the envy of Pagans everywhere at Samhain. We have to buy ours.
nature just doesn't take a break
but he is a handful.
That is probably an understatement! I started enjoying my cattle dogs more when they turned 3-4 after they have calmed a bit. I really like the Belgian Sheepdog that just showed up here. Smart, non destructive, and easy to train. Cattle dogs are a bit pig-headed.
but he is a handful.
That is probably an understatement! I started enjoying my cattle dogs more when they turned 3-4 after they have calmed a bit. I really like the Belgian Sheepdog that just showed up here. Smart, non destructive, and easy to train. Cattle dogs are a bit pig-headed.
Ugggg... I am learning about their pig-headedness first hand. He is to smart for his own good. I am still trying to channel some of his energy.
I took this picture Sunday morning. I was staying
here, visiting a friend with my friend. This area of Ohio is beautiful!
Wow. I love the way they built their house in the shape of a giant Quaker hat.
That's the barn, ya goof!
Okay, so they built their house in the shape of a giant Quaker barn.
And before I forget: fuck you.
kthxbai
The sunbeams are awesome. And the dew on the grass. Really the whole picture.
Thanks guys.
The place was so pretty. The picture is better without the needed downsizing. I'm certainly no photographer, but I liked it.
I took pictures of the calf that lives there, Abby, too. She and I became fast friends. I would've taken her home as a pet but she wouldn't fit in my little car.
Wow - gorgeous.
You're the type to hide your light under a bushel.
We now know you are successful at work AND good looking.
Now we know you might have lucked out on a good picture.
But I bet anything you've taken more before and will in future.
In my back yard RFN:
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I took pictures of the [COLOR=Red]calf[/COLOR] that lives there, Abby, too. She and I became fast friends. I would've taken her home as a pet but she wouldn't fit in my little car.
I read that as 'cat' and wondered how effin' small your car was... :lol: Nice pic!
funny Jinx, I did too. I had to reread it thrice to get it right.
It really is a beautiful picture though. The serenity is spilling out. I wanna be there without a care in the world. I'd probably never leave.
Until those damn quakers come out and chase you off their hat plantation.
Now we know you might have lucked out on a good picture.
But I bet anything you've taken more before and will in future.
Thanks! We went to a Halloween party (I drove one of my g-friends to visit her g-friend for this halloweenie party, then we stayed at the house) and, me not being one to "dress up" decided I would just be the paparrazzi. Hung my camera on a lanyard around my neck and I was good to go. :)
I read that as 'cat' and wondered how effin' small your car was... :lol: Nice pic!
Hahahaha...my car is small but not THAT small. And, at this point, I'd rather have a cow running around my house than another cat!
funny Jinx, I did too. I had to reread it thrice to get it right.
It really is a beautiful picture though. The serenity is spilling out. I wanna be there without a care in the world. I'd probably never leave.
I didn't want to...
Until those damn quakers come out and chase you off their hat plantation.
I gotcher quaker right here, zen. :rolleyes:
Until those damn quakers come out and chase you off their hat plantation.
:lol: made me laff!
Until those damn quakers come out and chase you off their hat plantation.
Quakers are pacifists... and they will fuck your shit up.
Quakers are pacifists... and they will fuck your shit up.
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My idiot neighbor decided that neighborhood strays need to be fed so she set out kibble and water. But these ain't no kitties! This is out my front door RFN!!!
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WTF are those things? Aint no kitty I evah saw.
I gots me a Hummer.......Out my front window.......sucking on verbena......Good thing I washed the windows......
WTF are those things? Aint no kitty I evah saw.
Opossums
Seriously, Zen? You've never seen a 'possum?
Obviously Zen has never been on a public highway.;)
*sigh*
Zengum lives in Australia.
This is what their possums look like:
...and no O in front of the name.
And there aren't any in the UK....
be more international, people!
....those are ugly fuckers, impress. I'm guessing you don't get bears there? Your neighbor is nuts.
Australia has all those marsupials running around. They're lousy with marsupials.
....those are ugly fuckers, impress.
They have some nasty mean teeth, too -- and will bite if cornered.
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Your neighbor is nuts.
Oh yeah.
No, here in suburban Orange County, California, we don't have bears. Occasionally, we do have mountain lions, though, and plenty of coyotes.
Orange county California? Sure you do.;)
Orange county California? Sure you do.;)
*shudder!*
No need to shudder, they sure won't bother you. :haha:
Zengum lives in Australia.
From Wiki
The name derives from their resemblance to the opossums of the Americas. (The name is from Algonquian wapathemwa, not Greek or Latin, so the plural is possums, not possa.) Possum is also used in North America as a short form of Opossum.
but in reality, they don't look a whole lot like them. Just sayin'. Aussie Possies are cute.
Damn, you guys have some UGLY possums. Ok, O-possums. Ours are cute fuzzy widdle cwitturs[COLOR="LemonChiffon"] that will still scratch and bite like mad if cornered[/COLOR].
No need to shudder, they sure won't bother you. :haha:
Yeah, I suppose you're right. I'm definitely not the center of attention in a sausagefest.
Damn, you guys have some UGLY possums. Ok, O-possums. Ours are cute fuzzy widdle cwitturs[COLOR=LemonChiffon] that will still scratch and bite like mad if cornered[/COLOR].
Ours can bite thru kevlar gloves. :3eye:
Yeah, I suppose you're right. I'm definitely not the center of attention in a sausagefest.
Exactly... hey, might even be good neighbors?
Ouch. Ours have teeth like that too.
Went to the zoo today. It was cool because I've been going there for about 20 years, and finally saw orangutans using a special cable highway that was built for them. It connects their house to another location in the zoo. They are so high up that they won't try to drop and escape. The cable highway takes them outside of their cages.
Quite a thoughtful invention.
very nice glatt! cool pix
Here's a pic of a six sided star (our sun) during the sunset in Seattle this fall.
I saw monkeytaco in Seattle.
Buddies getting together on a Sweetbay Magnolia leaf in our yard...
Very cool.
1. God is Jewish.
2. That's a gremlin.
3. OK, Pandora, did you open your box and let all the Weevils out?
Some snowflakes on our frozen pond. I like the one sticking into the ice.
Little Eva & Bear...Resting by the wood burner. Its been a lil cold on the east cast!
Taken w/ iphone in Princeton Boro, NJ
Nice snowflakes Alluvial.
Big V. The little Yorkshire has a peaceful look on her face. Cute
Some snowflakes on our frozen pond. I like the one sticking into the ice.
Awesome photo!!
For once I didn't take my camera when I walked with my friend this morning, but I wish I had because we made snow angels on the pond :D
That's not bigV
And that's not my belly button. :lol:
@ glatt: I just saw your orangutan pics. Very cool! :)
@ glatt: I just saw your orangutan pics. Very cool! :)
Thanks. I forgot to mention that one of them took a dump onto the sidewalk below as it was going by. It must be a regular thing, because there was a zoo person there with a scoop and a disinfectant spray bottle all ready. She was dressed up in a tyvek suit with a respirator and rubber gloves.
Isn't it good luck to be shat upon by a large hairy primate? Or is that just birds?
I'd say it's pretty bad luck when a bird gets shat upon by a large hairy primate. For the bird, anyway.
I think getting shit on is bad luck in any perspective. Unless you're a dung beetle.
I'd say it's pretty bad luck when a bird gets shat upon by a large hairy primate. For the bird, anyway.
One would think so, I mean, think of the logistics: bird has to be flying BELOW the large hairy primate, at just the right time. If the bird were on a treadmill...
One would think so, I mean, think of the logistics: bird has to be flying BELOW the large hairy primate, at just the right time. If the bird were on a treadmill...
... or trying to reform healthcare...
New Xmas camera. Makes panarama. Makes Mom grow third hand.
(disregard the clutter)
Does your family always cover their faces with black sun shaped things?
I like the deer skull & antlers in the left corner behind the rocker.
Does your family always cover their faces with black sun shaped things?
Yes, I was there.
A nut. I don't what kind....
those swamp plants? They don't look like that when my kids bust them open!
now it's a nut? Oh I'm confused.
Gargoyle on a building in Cardiff Bay.
Building also shown for reference (the photo was taken with zoom, not cropped)
Look at the weird snow pattern on this light/surveillance pole in front of the Secret Service building. Wild, huh?
When you take a picture with a cheap camera phone it just doesn't do the rainbow justice.
that's an awesome pic for a phone.
Thanks, but I wish it could be more awesome. It was a huge rainbow. The largest I had seen in quite some time.
Now I have to take a pea... ;)
Okay, well, the picture was taken with my camera phone, so not the best, but I like it anyways. Carson City, Nevada early morning.
More peas... 9 in the pod, the kids wanted it documented...
Is nine an inappropriate number of peas for a pod? I have no idea.
Two is OK, three is kinky, but four is pornographic. Nine? OMG, think of the children.:eek:
Yeah, it's just a lot... they were all packed in there like...
8 have been born 22 more to go! :)
Nice photos jinx.
Good work Nirvana. Any idea who the father is?
*snort*
Dude, you made the milk come out my nose! And I haven't had any milk since yesterday!
30 calves in one litter? OMG the poor mother cow...
Out my office window this morning. The phone camera didn't do it justice. Actually this is out my bedroom window next to my desk. I love mornings like this. It ensures a great day.
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8 have been born 22 more to go! :)
Too freaking sweet. Love them bovines.
Good work Nirvana. Any idea who the father is?
:lol: Could be anyone one of these guys ;)
http://www.cattlevisions.com/Composite/ClubCalf_directory.phpOut my office window this morning. The phone camera didn't do it justice. Actually this is out my bedroom window next to my desk. I love mornings like this. It ensures a great day.
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Beautiful capn.
I love them too.
8 have been born 22 more to go! :)
I'll start the grill.:yum:
I like your photo's impress and Agent-G.
Nirvana I am very jealous :) but Congratulations on the new life!
What a wonder.
One of the local bingo halls partially burned a while back. This fan was eighty to a hundred feet from the nearest flames. That's warm.
Amazing how the heat didn't melt the plastic coating on the ceiling insulation.
Mar 10 sunset (still haven't quite figured out the auto-focus system on the new camera)
One of the local bingo halls partially burned a while back. This fan was eighty to a hundred feet from the nearest flames. That's warm.
Super-heated gases collect up in the ceiling and spread out, which is why with no fire near it something up there like that fan get damaged like that a good distance from the actual flames. Notice how black the fan is but isn't seared or charred, that's heavy particle accumulation from the hot smoke that gathered up high.
I went to the butterfly exhibit at the San Diego Wild Animal Park yesterday. Took hundreds of pictures. Here are the ones I like best.
First: Same butterfly, outside and in. Anyone have any clue what kind this is? I've never seen it before.
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Also have no idea what these two are. Any bug experts amongst us??
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The first looks like a White Admrial, or a variation of said.
Haven't been able to ID the second. yet.
Had 3 of my grands for a long weekend while their parents took a break. I bought several outdoor type toys; soap bubble guns, Tonka type trucks and some little buckets and shovels.
Loved playing in the dirt when I was a kid. I also created a game of picking up all of the pine cones in the yard, now it's nice and cleaned up!
Had 3 of my grands for a long weekend while their parents took a break. I bought several outdoor type toys; soap bubble guns, Tonka type trucks and some little buckets and shovels.
The last one make her look like she is going to give Laura Croft a run for her money.
:D great pics.
Look what happens when a great photographer captures the excellence of ordinary life.
[size=1]OMG what age for pierced ears these days[/size]
What adorable looking kids!!!
[size=1]OMG what age for pierced ears these days[/size]
From what I've heard, parents should pierce the baby's ears before they are one year old because they won't know the fear of the pain yet. As they are older, the piercing gun will scare them and after piercing the first ear, they would freak out to see the gun coming after their second ear.
Good gracious! Those are some beautiful children!
Oh, the pics are pretty nice too.
Thanks Chris, great shots. Bubbles are the bestest toy.
What a gorgeous little family.
Cellar kids are the most beautifulest.
Do ya think we'll have any apples this year?
Dewey Lake, Mount Rainier National Park.
What were you doing there at that hour? You know Bigfoot is hungry after the lean winter pickings.
Nice! where are they from? Looks like you attended some sort of event.
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
Is that second one Henry Winkler?
This was my 2nd best attempt at Music
no, it's Fonzie
:lol:
Otherwise, nice pic Jinx.
Very nice Jinx, I like how the focal point is off center but right on the pickups where your eye naturally moves to.
Reminds me of this photo I took awhile back:
Thanks Merc. I was trying not to use the flash since I was so close to the guys playing, ended up working out for me pretty well.
Here's some more recent stuff:
Practicing car fires with my department
Niagara Falls trip last week with the girlfriend
A little scrotal humor there...
Looks like a scrotal Tuma... :D
Arnie:
"It's NOT a toomah"!
First picture I took of my son, Liam. Funny thing is, I dragged a big ass medium format camera into the L&D to take this.
Heh. My son's name is Liam as well.
That would make a great crackhouse. :haha:
Heh. My son's name is Liam as well.
Disturbing....
which one of you is my real father?
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Artist: Dale Chihuly
My mom loves Chihuly!
That's a nice pic, impress!
I adore Chihuly. He's an American treasure, IMHFO.
Chihuly? Isn't that a Mexican hot sauce?
You're thinking of Chihuahualy. They put that on hot dogs.
You're thinking of Chihuahualy. They put that on hot dogs.
You
know about that?
I do some amateur photography.
Orly?Yeah, I saw that, jinx. Have to think about submitting.
nice pics, Impress, that first one looks like an oil painting
Those are very neat! Of course I love that flower and bullitt that shot is amazing.
I've taken a couple in the last week or so but am either too lazy or too busy to upload them.
One is a shadow pic of my cats and ornamental grass. I hope it is as cool on the screen as it appears on the camera display.
Calla lily (first pic) & wild marshallow. The calla lily was my first choice for the Treasure Hunt. The flash washed out the top of the wild marshmallow, but, I like how it made the interior of the bloom stand out.
Second choice for Through the Looking Glass.
A couple of also-rans for my "worn" shot.
Lovin' the stair shot.
How many times have how many people put how many feet in almost the exact same spots to create that particular wear pattern? ([COLOR="LemonChiffon"]I love shit like that![/COLOR])
The stair shot is outstanding, I love it.
And the first one... get the hell off my lawn, ya damn whippersnappers. :haha:
The stairs have an interesting history. The building was built to serve as a hospital for vets after the Civil War, and the stair treads were built with a slight downward slope so they could be easily washed and the water would drain.
It's a very impressive building. Ornate.
You mean...
the stair treads were built with a slight downward slope so they could be easily washed and the [COLOR="Red"]Blood[/COLOR] would drain.
:mg:
I didn't take it, but it is neat. (plus I was too lazy to find a better thread.)
How awesome would a hammock be in this spot?:rolleyes:
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That's cool. I like the reflection.
I was trying to take some pics of these little pink flowers (some kind of rose, I think) Momdigr has in one of her flower corners, when I suddenly sensed I wasn't alone...
That's cool. I like the reflection.
Yeah, that's what I liked too.... almost makes me wanna get a big ass mural airbrushed on there... some elk and waterfall... maybe some naked chicks and a confederate flag or something... tasteful y'know.
Another worn reject. This one would have made a better entry, but I didn't think I'd make it out to the old C&O Canal this week.
Tow rope marks in the stone around an old canal lock. And a nice crop of poison ivy.
I picked up a cheap 100/200/300x microscope with a digital camera module included.
Here are my first pictures of a dried flower and some pollen.
I am not happy about the bluish 'dead zone' in the middle of the slide. It appears that the center of the built in LED is focused on the center of the slide.
The included software did not run on Windows 7. I used Irfanview and TWAIN to take the pictures.
fluid also ran:
I like this picture better, but the other looked more 'fluidey' to me
[Mama Dove]I spy, with my little eye...a people![/Mama Dove]
ETA: I may have mentioned this, but, Momdigr can pet this dove. Popdigr mows all around her and she stays put (when weedwhacking too). Weird.
Haha, no, it's not real. But, it catches the eye doesn't it?:D
Japanese red maple.
Fantastic entries.. Keep up the great shots.
I love your pics and verbage gravdigr
and LJ you did not take those photos! No ,I know you did but wow. You really have a talent. That should be hanging huge in someones office building.
Now don't be quitting your job to be a freelance photographer and leave your kids hungry. Jinx would find me and shoot me just for encouraging you prolly. :p
Columbines are kinda hard to shoot.:thumb:
That's a bad pun for the Colorado readers.
That's a bad pun for the Colorado readers.
Groans a Gravdigr.
Believe it or not, that was completely innocent and totally unintended. (But it
does sound exactly like something I would say, I can't believe I didn't catch it.):rollanim:
Thanks skysidhe.
That's OK Gravdigr...I missed it too. LOL! Thanks.
Grav, I totally thought you meant it as a pun. You're punny even when you don't realize it! That gets a A+
I'm always amazed at the talented people here. Nice pictures.
Alt Two
The panoramic view from near the dining hall at Gaea Retreat Center, from whence I have just returned after another successful Pagan Festival.
Snapped that before all the writhing naked bodies showed up, eh? :lol:
Good shots - Wow those are huge!
Wow Jinx you are going to be a pro at macro! :)
@dmg1969> Nothing better than a big gun! :eek:
dmg, were you able to fit your head in the barrel?
Nice pics dmg. I've been on the USS Alabama, and the big ones are impressive. My only specific memory: Stenciled on the protective gunner's shields were the words "LEAD, DAMMIT, LEAD".
Wow Jinx you are going to be a pro at macro! :)
Thanks! It's my favorite lens right now...
Thanks, classic.
Nirvana...agreed.
HLJ, I'm sure it would have been close had they not been sealed.
Gravdigr, the Alabama is a beautifully preserved battleship. They are awesome to check out if you can. One pic I took that i thought was interesting was a placard of what to do in case of an "atomic attack".
What time did you take that last picture?
Looks really nice. They don't seem to build them the way they used to.
I'm thinking around noon. :D
You are right...those are some very interesting architectural features and colors. Did you take note of the building behind the clock tower building? It almost reminds me of something you'd see in the middle east.
me @ Atlantic City b'walk last weekend
under the b'walk....
Good shots - Wow those are huge!
That's what
she said!
We were at Ocean City NJ today.
Jackie decided she didn't want the rest of her funnel cake and started feeding it to the gulls. 30 seconds later...
On the bank of the Sieltz River, Oregon.
Some how I get the feeling this old fellow has settled down for a well-deserved rest.
Do you mean the tree, or is there something in that little root-cave?
The tree, because floods redirected it's growth several times but it kept on keeping on.
Do you mean the tree, or is there something in that little root-cave?
There's probably a spider in that root-cave that's bigger than my head.:bolt:
The tree, because floods redirected it's growth several times but it kept on keeping on.
It looks like it is sitting with its legs crossed
Tilt shift processing makes stuff look like it's a model. I think I posted about this before elsewhere in the cellar, but I just made another one from an image I took.
cool, I wonder if I have that plugin.
if you don't, you can upload the source picture to the website I linked and then download the resulting image.
My grandson, Sam, on the Clackamas River, Oregon
I liked the (accidental) field-of-focus here... the salmon at his feet seem to have a dream-like quality.
Olympus digital D-560
http://cellar.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=28354&stc=1&d=1276801467Man I would love to learn to fly fish.
That is so pretty, Lamp. I can almost feel the water.
Looking at photos two pages back. Lots of great shots! esp. that tree!
One day I was sitting with my back to the window and on my bedroom door is a shadow of my cat looking out the window. I was so intrigued I tried to get the perfect shot but this little camera is grainy and didn't capture the detail or the contrast depth. I still think it's neat though. I kept it just for the memory of it and to remind myself to try again sometime.
Just fiddling with this new camera while waiting for someone one day. It has such a grainy quality about it I find annoying but for practicing taking pictures I figures a small investment was best. I liked the clouds.
Is that through your windshield tint at the top? looks deep.
what kind of a camera is it? if you have upwards of 3mpx, you can usually take a high enough quality shot to enable you to do good things in post production programs like photoshop to make good pics.
There's an interesting range of blues.
To the both of you.
Yes it is the windshield tint.
I have a Finepix 10mp with 3x zoom. I got it cheap for 68 dollars. I thought it was the funky design being discontinued but I now see it is selling for 149.
http://www.amazon.com/Fujifilm-FinePix-Z30-Whirl-White/dp/B002Z7FMTU/ref=pd_cp_p_1_img
I would have thought it would do a better job than my cell phone. I probably don't have the functions down yet. I am not exactly disappointed with it yet on that account.
I know you are right. Tinkering with a photo program will help. I have ordered the serif. I hope it does sharpen the images up a little. That and with my acquainting myself with the camera's features. As a wannabe newbie I didn't want to spend very much to begin with.
There are so many great cameras around 200 -350. Too many for a novice to decide so I just bought a cheap-o hoping it would be better than just OK.
edit- I had at one time messed with the ISO setting. I'll read up on that and see if I can correct the grainy factor.
J's brother has two hobbies... auto racing, and fostering guide dogs for the blind.
I love this picture.
It's a great picture.
and two very cool hobbies and just look at that smile on that dog.
what a happy face
Needs numbers on the dogs. :lol:
But at least they're color-coordinated.
I didn't take any of the pictures I wanted to today.
An old bee pic...Not the easiest of subject matter (and too much 'sharpen').:2cents:
ooh look at that. That bee has it's head way down in that flower. Cool capture gravdigr
I had to pen up my dogs they were trying to eat this little guy!
We were at Ocean City NJ today.
Jackie decided she didn't want the rest of her funnel cake and started feeding it to the gulls. 30 seconds later...
Hey, that scene could be out of a Hitchcock movie!
Looking at photos two pages back. Lots of great shots! esp. that tree!
One day I was sitting with my back to the window and on my bedroom door is a shadow of my cat looking out the window. I was so intrigued I tried to get the perfect shot but this little camera is grainy and didn't capture the detail or the contrast depth. I still think it's neat though. I kept it just for the memory of it and to remind myself to try again sometime.
Sky, I like that shot a lot, the graininess actually looks intentional.
A pano shot I took with my iphone of Citizens Bank Park (Phillies) yesterday. My dads day gift! Phills lost, but we still had a lot of fun!
Nice. Didn't know you were another Philly dwellar.
I'm with UT.
Thats a damn nice pic for a cell phone.
Wow, that is great pic.
I'll be there the 29th for a tour and to take pictures. The kid's are gonna go to the fireworks game on the 8th...
Nice. Didn't know you were another Philly dwellar.
remember the chickens in Camden?
Yeah, he's one of those Jersey guys. :D
Thanks for the nice compliments! I really love this Iphone!!!
Yeah Im a shore bird.
and the Camden chickens picture....I have that picture up in my cubicle at work. People always ask me about it!
Here is another pano from the iphone taken on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Virginia.
Hey, BW, what app are you using for these? Are the panos made in-phone, or do you export and stitch?
Hey, BW, what app are you using for these? Are the panos made in-phone, or do you export and stitch?
Here is a website for the app...
pano by Debacle Software
The pano is created right in the phone. You can pick landscape or portrait mode. So far I have made up to 7-picture pano's. I don't know if there is a 'limit' of pics it will stitch together. The app is really easy to use. It costs $2.99.
Most times though you will need a wifi connection to upload the pano to the web or to email it to someone because of the file size. The Phillies stadium shot was 5 pictures stiched together.
and here is a picture to keep the thread going.... My daughter Maddy on Long Beach Island last week or two.
Another of the stadium. This one is a little more clear when zoomed into. I took this one from a portrait mode.
Full size hereA shot of Minot's Ledge Lighthouse I took on my trip to Massachusetts a few weeks ago. One of my favorite pics.
I like the lighthouse picture. Looks like a hazy summer day.
Spotted a couple days ago in the front yard.
Spotted a couple days ago in the back yard.
Cute bun bun.
What the Heck are those mushrooms doing in June????
They shouldn't be around for another 3-4 months
I don't know, but I know now to pick them up and toss them on the stick pile or something, otherwise, they melt into a big blob that looks just like a pile of runny crap.
I came back the day after taking this picture to do just that, but they had already started to turn to jelly. There were thousands of maggots of some sort living in the slime as I was scooping it up and tossing it.
Good times.
Thanks Glatt! Yes...definitely hazy that day. I like your pics. We have a few rabbits that frequent our yard too. In fact, they dug a burrow near my smoke tree to build a nest. Ugh!
I like the lighthouse picture. Looks like a hazy summer day.
My Smoke (tree) bush is growing very strangely. Im thinking about moving it to the center of the yard where it will get more sun.
what's a smoke tree?
Sorry Glatt...wasn't on much lately.
Here's a link to a smoke tree on the Arbor Day Foundation website. That's where I got it.
http://www.arborday.org/Trees/TreeGuide/TreeDetail.cfm?ID=32[COLOR="LemonChiffon"].[/COLOR]
The Fair is in town...(pic from around 1/8 mile)
That's what I call drive-by-shooting.
Gravdigr,
I attempted a similar picture on the move but it didn't work out so well!
My success rate with that type pic is about 1 in 10.
Taken on Red River (the one on KY-TN line, not one of the umpteen other Red Rivers, we have three in KY, that I know of)
Not the best picture quality, but, the light was going, and the telephoto was maxxed out.
Balloon Flower, before and after.
What's the matter, deer? Haven't you ever seen a person before?
I like Gravdigr's pic a lot... the barn offers contract in weight, color and texture.
Certainly not a "deer in the headlights"
I like Gravdigr's pic a lot... the barn offers contract in weight, color and texture.
Why, thank you LL.
I think this one would be the better pic, if it weren't for that damn tube gate on the barn.
I never knew tube gates were a thing that some people hate.
Life is strange, grasshopper. Here's an ice cream cone to help soften the blow.
I never knew tube gates were a thing that some people hate.
If I needed one, I'm sure I would greatly appreciate a tube gate. I know they have their place, just not in mah pikshur.
Molding and casting demo at Hopewell Furnace.
Aluminum. Melts/cools quickly for demo purposes... Notice they aren't using the actual iron furnace (giant stone thing in background) either.
That is real pig iron in the ground, but they just put it there as a prop.
Jinx. Great shots. Anvil Mike had a friend who worked at a foundry, in Fl. He made mike a few castings.
A few recent pics...
Our Yorkie, Tessa, likes to sit with me in my recliner while I'm on the laptop and uses it as a chin rest.
A sunflower at my sister-in-law's house.
The woods on my sister-in-law's property.
Fireworks that someone in the neighborhood was shooting off.
Nice pictures, dmg.
Is that a drool-proof keyboard?
Thanks HLJ. I believe it is actually. The screen, however, is not muck-proof. I have to clean it often.....
Thanks zip. The kids are still talking about the molten-aluminum being poured.... reminded the boy of Terminator.
The kids are still talking about the molten-aluminum being poured.... reminded the boy of Terminator.
I remember, as a kid, being fascinated by the glass-blowers at a renn faire we went to. But, melting METAL??? OMG how cool.
I save this thread up for special times, then view it all at once.
I'll never fail to be amazed at the skill (and occasionally the luck) of Dwellars with cameras.
My lowly offerings:
Like the purpley flower. Nice pix!
Those are awesome SG. Especially the purple one.
I remember, as a kid, being fascinated by the glass-blowers at a renn faire we went to. But, melting METAL??? OMG how cool.
We did aluminum castings in Jr. High it was pretty cool.
Very nice SG! Nothing lowly about your offerings....
We have a big county fair coming up in August and I think I'm going to enter a few photos in the photography contest. They have numerous categories and you can enter one photo in each. I wanted to enter one of my black and white photos of a run-down one room schoolhouse, but the scenic categories are only color. The only black and white categories are animal and portrait. I do have some b&w animal photos I could choose from to enter. They do have a flowers category and I have quite a few of those including the sunflower I just posted.
Here are two more I like. I might enter one...
A ladybug on a weathered window jamb.
A shot taken in the woods in Spring. I like it because it was taken in a gully (dip in the ground) which made it look as if I had used a fish-eye lens.
...I think this one would be the better pic, if it weren't for that damn tube gate on the barn.
I never knew tube gates were a thing that some people hate.
If I needed one, I'm sure I would greatly appreciate a tube gate. I know they have their place, just not in mah pikshur.
Down with tube gates!But I still see a tube gate.
I think that one is wooden.
How did you get that deer to stand still so you could take the 2nd pic ?
So much depends
upon
A metal tube
gate
Slick with
dew
Beside the red
barn.
Too obscure?god, shaw, you're brilliant!!!!
and, no, not obscure.
So much depends
upon
A metal tube
gate
Slick with
dew
Beside the red
barn.
Too obscure?
Yours is better.
How did you get that deer to stand still so you could take the 2nd pic ?
Stand really still and make a sound like a headlight?
god, shaw, you're brilliant!!!!
and, no, not obscure.
Seconded!
Just keep your hands off my plums.
Just keep your hands off my plums.
But...they were so cold and good...sorry!! :blush:
I am fortunate enough to have a significant other who holds season tickets to the L.A. Lakers games. We sit pretty much near the top of the arena, but it's still thrilling to get to see epic rivalry like the Lakers vs. the Celtics (I used to live in Boston).
Of the Lakers, my favorite player is Pau Gasol. The look of intensity on his face here makes the whole shot.
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god, shaw, you're brilliant!!!!
and, no, not obscure.
Nah, I'm just totally tubular!
...totally tubular!
Fer shure!
Saturday's sunset @ 60 mph
Making it look like a cell tower, Woody. :D
Yeah..Kinda like a living telephone pole. Only for a bit. It had to come down and did soon after I took the picture. The pine had a major bug infestation and I was afraid of it coming down.
"Hey mom, what are you doing?"
"Taking pictures for the treasure hunt thing..."
"Oh, ...'cause it looks like you're playing with Legos."
That's funny Jinx.
I've read two threads and got two chuckles for far.:D
Taken in Yarner Wood / Dartmoor during my recent holidays:
Some flora (moss and foxglove)
"Hey mom, what are you doing?"
"Taking pictures for the treasure hunt thing..."
"Oh, ...'cause it looks like you're playing with Legos."
Come on...Admit it...[SIZE="1"]You played with the Legos, didn't ya?[/SIZE]
Playing with different long-exposure settings, I fell bass-ackward across a couple interesting pics while watching Ferguson...[SIZE="1"]can't remember who these people are, but I think the guy was high.[/SIZE]
Trombone Shorty @ Westcott Theater, 7/20
The Manlius Shakerboarder @ that corner every night this summer from 4-7.
Trombone Shorty?, I will have to look him up.
From wiki
Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews (born January 2, 1986) is a trombone and trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Troy Andrews is the younger brother of trumpeter and bandleader James Andrews and the grandson of singer and songwriter Jessie Hill. Growing up in New Orleans' Treme neighborhood, "Trombone Shorty" was participating in brass band parades as a child, carrying his trombone even before his arms were long enough to reach all the positions of the slide. Andrews was a bandleader by the age of 6. Originally attracting attention for his youth, by his teens he was attracting attention for his musical virtuosity as well.
He was great, and his band was tight. I was impressed both with their skills and their showmanship. Made me excited again for (the idea of) New Orleans.
Scriv are you UK-based?
I think there are more Brits here than I realised...
Pics from the back garden.
ooooo - ! Nice spiderhouse!
Scriv are you UK-based?
I think there are more Brits here than I realised...
Hi SG, wish I were. As it is I'm going for second best and travel in the UK for four weeks every year: Hiking - music - friends. I love it!
ooooo - ! Nice spiderhouse!
Praise from Brianna is praise indeed - I thought you were a spider hater!
For real haters, the web is little wider than a handspan, so the spider would probably fit on a thumbnail.
Hi SG, wish I were. As it is I'm going for second best and travel in the UK for four weeks every year: Hiking - music - friends. I love it!
HEY, PM some of us next time!
If you want I mean...
Seriously - depending on circumstances I'd travel to meet you.
And the 'rents are always up for meeting foreigners.
Well, Mum is. Dad would drive.
From your post I understand you have your own friends here, but this is an open invite to Dwellars outside of Bucks: even if it's just a half hour GTG, I'll do what I can to make it.
I'll exact the same in return of course :)
You just wait til my ship comes in...
I'll sofa-surf the US until I've worn out my welcome in each and every Dwellar home.
And after that week...
A while ago on a whim I picked up this silly lens, a
f/8 500mm mirror. On my DSLR it's effectively a 750mm lens.
I don't own a tripod, and it's manual focus, so getting sharp photos out of it is tricky, and anyway I don't think it's that sharp of a lens.
But the moon sure is pretty tonight.
I agree, the moon tonight is spectacular, and I'm impressed at your steadiness of hand.
Here in PDX we have rain or clouds 7 or 8 months of the year, so the summertime night sky is quite a treat for us.
I am curious about something (astronomical).
In the Google Images pics below, the image on the right was taken in Iowa,
and the one on the left was taken by an observatory in Sydney, Australia.
But I was expecting that the view of the moon from "down under" would be a vertical rotation.
That is it would be an upside down view compared to what we see here in the US.
If not, why not ?
Took me an hour to work out. Hope I'm right.
The part of the moon that seems "up" to you is dependent on both where you are on earth (lattitude) and whether the moon is near the horizon or at it's highest.
If you are standing on the equator, the bit of moon that is the top when the moon's rising, will be at its bottom when it's going down.
If you are standing near either of the poles, the same bit will always on top. What is top for the "Southerner" is bottom for the "Northerner"
If you are standing at some lattitude in-between, it is a mix of the two effects. When the moon is rising, both persons (say 52 degrees north and 52 degrees south) will see similar bits "up", as they are both looking East. At the highest, they will see opposite points "up". When it nears the horizon again, the two views will converge again as both are looking West.
Nice links:
Lots of astronomy questions answered
Yahoo group on astro photographyyou're looking at the same thing from effectively the same place.
try this. pick something in the far distance. A building, in your neighborhood. Now, stand on the sidewalk in front of your house and look at the building. See what it looks like? Good memorize that. Now get a ladder and climb up onto your roof. Look at the same building. Does it look familiar? Why? Because you're looking in almost almooooost exactly the same direction from each vantage point.
Same thing happens downunda. we and they are looking at the same moon, of course, from essentially the same perspective. why would it look upside down? Both of us are looking UP from the ground to see it. if you want see it spin upside down, you'll have to rotate yourself. Just stand upright, moon overhead is physically easiest, and turn in a circle watching the moon. Be careful! don't spill all the moonlight.!!
@Scriv: OK, I follow some of what you say, but it'll probably take me more than an hour to get the rest. Thx.
@ V: I'll be careful... I really don't want to get covered with moon-goo.
Oh dear, moon goo? Is that what he told you it was...?
Thanks for the explanation chaps.
Like LL, I'll still have to think it through any number of times, but it makes sense on an immediate level.
Some need to get that wolf a toothbrush.
Pretty dogs!
Thanks Tulip but even the ones that look like dogs are at least 60% wolf. I wouldn't want to try to leash one up and take it to PetSmart. :D
That really looks like a neat place.
Wolf Sanctuary homepage.It really is Griff. The wife and I are going back down for our anniversary in October. They actually have a B&B on the property as well.
That's 'cause your wife likes the wolf whistles. :lol:
Damnit...and here I thought it was ME they were whistling at. :blush:
Thanks Tulip but even the ones that look like dogs are at least 60% wolf. I wouldn't want to try to leash one up and take it to PetSmart. :D
Hihi....I know they're wolves. I just think they look like pretty dogs. :p:
bebeeeeessss are cyyyuuuutteeeeeee
bebeeeeessss are cyyyuuuutteeeeeee
They are, aren't they? Jinx, I didn't know you have twins.
I like the textures of the first, and the simplicity of the second.
Tulip, those are jinx's niece and nephew.
I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what that ghastly wound was on the boy's arm, until I finally identified Ronald McDonald's terrifying--err, smiling face.
On the other hand...you'd probably get put to the front of the line at Petsmart. "Well, I can wait in line and my "dog" might eat several of your other appointments or....":eek:
Hihi....I know they're wolves. I just think they look like pretty dogs. :p:
Tulip, those are jinx's niece and nephew.
Oh, hihi...sorry, Jinx. :p:
On the other hand...you'd probably get put to the front of the line at Petsmart. "Well, I can wait in line and my "dog" might eat several of your other appointments or....":eek:
Hehe....Hey, what kind of dog is it that look kinda like a wolf?
Hehe....Hey, what kind of dog is it that look kinda like a wolf?
When I was little, we had an
Australian Cattle Dog and all of our neighbors though it was a
hyena. So mebbe that would work?
Those wolf pics are awesome. My brother's inlaws have a half wolf, half malmut that's mag freaking nificent. Great animal. Real pretty and a super howl. :-)
Must have been around 40 years ago, my uncle brought up a couple of wolves in his home, bottle-feeding them from cubs. The family toddlers, my cousins, were playing with the animals. Can't find the photo negatives that must be drifting around the house somewhere. - Here's a newspaper clip when the wolves were 3 years old.
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Must have been around 40 years ago, my uncle brought up a couple of wolves in his home, bottle-feeding them from cubs. The family toddlers, my cousins, were playing with the animals. Can't find the photo negatives that must be drifting around the house somewhere. - Here's a newspaper clip when the wolves were 3 years old.
Eventually the neighbours became a bit nervous and my uncle gave them away to a zoo. [COLOR="Gray"](The wolves, not the neighbours)[/COLOR]
Cool, Scriveyn. He should have done it the other way around...put the neighbors in the zoo. I've only known 2 people who had wolf/dog hybrids. I work with one whose just died. I don't know that I would want the responsibility. I have enough with a German Shepherd, a pit bull mix and a Yorkie. And yes...they all get along GREAT!
That's the nice thing about dogs - they don't judge us just because our face is all pixelated.
Your uncle looks a lot like a guy I saw on "Cops" once...
Ay, he does get around :D
I'm glad I didn't come across this last night... it still scared me this morning in full light.
HINT: Yesterday my G-son cleaned out the sump of our old well
That was in your drinking water?
It looks like a natural water filter.
Not our drinking water, just an old well for landscape water.
It came from just one root that made it's way into the sump and grew and grew and ...
It came from just one root
That's good. I thought it was from an animal that fell in there.
It looks like a moose's nose.
I thought it was the world's largest hairball....WTF is it, anyway?
I thought it was the world's largest hairball....WTF is it, anyway?
Yeah, what is it????
When a root penetrates a water line, it grows like this. Imagine the roots in a hydroponically grown head of lettuce. They're all hairlike. Enough to take up the water and nutrients, but only strong enough to penetrate water. Unlike roots grown in soil, these are very numerous and very fragile (relatively speaking). Nature's smart.
A visitor to our butterfly bush over the weekend.
Great li'l sucker - Excellent shot
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Awesome shot of the train tracks, Gravdigr! I have one sorta similar, but it was taken in winter. Nowhere near as much character as your shot.
OK...so next week is when I enter some of my photos in a photography contest at a local fair. In the "Wild Animal - Color" category, I'm entering either the butterfly photo I just posted...
http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=675340&postcount=971
or...
this one of a ladybug I posted a while back...
http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=669198&postcount=895
Any thoughts on which one? A lot of my friends on facebook like the butterfly. It is more colorful, but the ladybug is more "artistic". I am still quite undecided.
The Butterfly does it for me, better lighting, creative use of depth of field, generally more detail on the little critter.
Good luck either way, dmg1969!
I love the texture of the paint in the ladybug picture... tough call good luck!
Thanks both. I know each photo has its own strengths. I wish you could submit more than one per category. it would make it so much easier. :neutral:
I was sure about the ladybug a week ago. But then I got that butterfly pic this past weekend. Damn decisions!
The butterfly will appeal to more people, does the public vote, or do they have judges?
The butterfly is excellent but there is more to consider, photography-wise, in the ladybug shot.
The contest is at a local fair, you say? I'd go with the butterfly. The ladybug photo will only be truly appreciated by photography afficianados, and I'm betting this is being judged by a bunch of volunteers from the local Elks club or something.
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Awesome pic.
Honestly, Bruce, I'm not sure. This is the first year I'm entering. I have a big catalog about the fair. I'll have to look tonight to see if it says who judges. If not, I have a contact who I have spoken to already about when to submit them. I have to call her again with another question, so I will ask her. I agree that the butterfly will probably appeal to more people. I think only someone who does photography or has an eye for it will appreciate the minimalist aspect of the ladybug photo. If the judges are in the photography field, I'll definitely use the ladybug. If not, the butterfly it will be.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. But then again, it depends why you're entering, to win a prize or show your skills? :idea:
I'm doing it merely for the fun of putting my work up against that of the others who enter. I imagine, being a fair, that the only prizes are ribbons. If there is a cash prize, which I doubt, I'm pretty certain it's not something I could retire on.
My object is to win at least one of the four categories I enter. Knowing who will be judging them is, let's say, similar to insider trading. :D
Your are going to do some cropping to the butterfly picture, right? It will gain a bit more impact if you do. You could probably add some appeal to the lady bug if you played with the brightness /contrast/mid-tone too. Too bad you cant submit both.
I'm doing it merely for the fun of putting my work up against that of the others who enter.
My object is to win at least one of the four categories I enter.
Those 2 statement don't jibe, in my mind, 2 different goals.
Knowing who will be judging them is, let's say, similar to insider trading. :D
Not at all, any competition should clearly state up front how it's to be run, and how the winner(s) will be determined. A juried show will usually name the jurists.
Judged by the public = Pretty or emotional will win.
Judged by pros = composition, balance, mood, technical skills, will win.
Enter both, one in someone else's name.;)
Actually Pico...I usually do not crop or otherwise play around with the photo. I like it to show in the context in which it was taken.
I know that didn't really make sense, Bruce. I should have said it differently. I like the competition and, if I win, that's great. I've had numerous people say that I have a real eye for photography and I'd like to see if others see things that way.
I actually thought about having my wife submit one in her name, but I am a stickler for rules and being honest. It's a fault of mine. I'm the guy who, if he gets too much change or finds money, goes out of his way to return it. I just want to choose which one I think is the best and let the chips fall where they may.
I've had numerous people say that I have a real eye for photography and I'd like to see if others see things that way.
Then go with the Ladybug and find out. :D
Awesome shot of the train tracks, Gravdigr! I have one sorta similar, but it was taken in winter. Nowhere near as much character as your shot.
Thanks, DMG. I think, if I had to choose, I personally would go with the lady bug...tough choice though.:(
Actually Pico...I usually do not crop or otherwise play around with the photo. I like it to show in the context in which it was taken.
In that case, you are hopefully taking many shots of the same subject with slight variations in its composition/framing...because its those two things that often make a great photo. I personally do not like the amount of space to the left of the butterfly. Eliminating would really amplify the subject of the photo.
Then go with the Ladybug and find out. :D
ftw
Here you go Pico...what do you think?
I usually do take numerous shots of my subject. Sometimes though, as with butterflies, you may not get more than one shot and you have to be quick. When I took the photo in question, I only got that one shot before it fluttered away.
Bruce, I am actually leaning toward the ladybug. Hell, I probably won't decide until I leave to walk over to the fairgrounds on Monday. :D
dmg, be careful. Before we're done with you here at the cellar, we will have profiled and characterized each of the judges, performed market research with people with similar attributes as the judges, and compiled an extensive report as to the outcome (plus or minus 1/2 percent.)
:)
I like the ladybug. The butterfly is beautiful, yes, but the ladybug is fantastic.
Don't automatically assume the judges don't have an eye for art.
That's awesome, Shawnee! Quick...call Zogby and Rasmussen. We need numbers people!
I know I'm :dedhorse:. So, I am not going to say another word until I have decided.
You're not beating a cross-eyed sleeping cat wearing a saddle, not at all!
Let us all know how it turns out. :)
From the Hindu Temple, Malibu, CA:
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Isn't that the one you posted on the previous page?
His gums look inflamed - better see a dentist.
Very appetizing appetizers :yum:
Yes they do, but the Friday Fries on the cake look like...:eek:
That is wonderful looking - Did you do tat yourself or ???
My mom has a cake lady... the fries has us laughing all day (and trying to avoid them when it was cut). Mom made the shrimps. None of my food was photogenic enough to bother with... pasta salad, more grilled peppers, sliders, dogs etc..
I was going through my archive of old scanned pictures, and came across this one. Taken with my first camera of my very own, an Asahi/Pentax K1000SE. I still have that camera. The tractor frame is gone now, of course.
I may go back and try to touch up this pic, as I really, really like it. For whatever reason...
I love that photo GD! I have one that looks similar but my gutted tractor is a JD.
:dedhorse: I know, I know...
But how cool are the craters!
Great shot jinx. My camera can't zoom quite that close. I did get a nice shot with good detail, but I would have to crop it to enlarge the moon. Nicely done.
Mine is very cropped dmg. And 2 clicks of sharpen.
very cool. looks like it will be full on the 23rd or 24th.... you should continue the series if weather permits.
This was my first attempt at a moon shot back in March. This is cropped as well.
Yeah, but where did the missing part of the moon go? We have to know!
It fell off because it used to be upside down. Then the other side was the heavier side and that side spun to the bottom, now it's upside down. Pretty soon there won't be any moon left!
it grew back!
phenomenal shots
Sure, didn't
Princess Lenore tell you it would?
But how cool are the craters!
Who's to judge?
(I'll wait, but it might be a long one)
OK...so next week is when I enter some of my photos in a photography contest at a local fair. In the "Wild Animal - Color" category, I'm entering either the butterfly photo I just posted...http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=675340&postcount=971
or...
this one of a ladybug I posted a while back...http://cellar.org/showpost.php?p=669198&postcount=895
Any thoughts on which one? A lot of my friends on facebook like the butterfly. It is more colorful, but the ladybug is more "artistic". I am still quite undecided.
dmg, is the fair over and has the jury decided?
I wasn't going to bring it up after all of the posting I did on it, but there was a snafu. I went up that night to enter them and I missed the fact that you had to pre-register by August 1st. I thought that was for displays like farm equipment, livestock, etc. No...it was for EVERYTHING. So, my oversight cost me entering them.
At least I know for next year. I was quite bummed. Thanks for asking though. :(
dmg, is the fair over and has the jury decided?
Who's to judge?
(I'll wait, but it might be a long one)
Yes, but well played anyway. :notworthy
Yes, but well played anyway. :notworthy
I knew I could count on you, Bruce.
I played around with the settings and got some better photos of the moon on Saturday night using the digital zoom. They are as they came from the camera...no cropping or other alteration. On the first, I think I should have maybe bumped the ISO up one or two because the image is a bit bright and yellow-ish, not the sharp white it should be. But cool nonetheless. The second was not zoomed quite as much and I think I may have changed something because it is a bit whiter.
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That is fantastic jinx! Do you use the same setting each time or experiment based on the amount of light due to moon phase?
Nice! great shots, both of you.
That is fantastic jinx! Do you use the same setting each time or experiment based on the amount of light due to moon phase?
The moon's reflectivity is constant. IIRC it reflects about 9% of the light falling on it. Your settings shouldn't change unless you are compensating for haze.
The "Rule of f:16" from the days of film states that proper exposure for a subject in full sun (between the hours of 10am and 4pm, May-Sept) is f:16 with a shutter speed of 1/ISO.
So, on a typical sunny summer day (excluding the beach) with ISO 400 film proper exposure would be 1/400 @ f:16
The average reflectance of earth is 18%. So the extrapolate a proper lunar exposure (since the days are always sunny on the moon) would be one stop more exposure since the moon reflects one stop less light than earth.
So, proper lunar exposure should be 1/ISO @ f:11 regardless of the moon's phase.
Typically, people assume that because it is night they need to give the moon lots of exposure. They don't, the moon is very bright.
Unless it's getting close to bath time.
So on our recent vacation in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan I also attempted some moon shots. Returning to camp late on wednesday the sky was clear and the moon just risen over the lake we were camping by (
The Blind sucker Flooding). I tried to snap pics of the moon over the lake, but the moon was always over exposed.
I noticed that on even the shorter exposures a star is also visible.
So I swung the camera around and pointed it up at Cassiopeia which hung large above the camp and used the longest exposure time of 15 seconds.
I've never got star pics before, but up there there are no real cities, and hundreds of miles of Great Lake, so the sky is very clear.
I noticed in that picture that you can also see the tree, so I s wung the camera a round to the weir that forms the Flooding.
This is the unadulterated pic.
Pretty neat I felt for just moonlight.
With a little post enhancement of brightness and contrast you get this.
I'm surprised to see color, you can still see the stars too.
This is the weir from much the same spot in the morning.
Cool that you can see streaks from the stars' movements even with only 15 seconds. The earth spins fast.
Cool that you can see streaks from the stars' movements even with only 15 seconds. The earth spins fast.
I was discussing that with one of my cow orkers, we don't think that's what is happening, just vibration, it's not a super rock steady tripod.
Same here with the slightly wobbly tripod, just pressing the button on the camera wiggles it a bit. I found that holding the button down and taking several pics in quick succession gives me good/crisp results on the third shot.
Using the self timer works well too, just set it for 3 or 5 seconds. My old Nikon DSLR camera had an infrared remote available, not sure if your model (Sony?) has that.
My tripod isn't the sturdiest either. When I'm shooting something where I need the camera to be absolutely still, I set a two second timer which gives the camera and tripod a chance to steady itself after I have pressed the shutter lease.
When I noticed my new Christmas camera had a two second timer, I thought why in the hell would I ever want a two second timer?
I use it all the time.
Is this horse named Eileen? Or is there liquor involved?
Beest, that looks beautiful. Makes me miss the likes of Mirror Lake, CO.
Is this horse named Eileen? Or is there liquor involved?
It's not level. Look at the trees and the building in the background.
Is this horse named Eileen? Or is there liquor involved?
Every time I saw that horse, it had the gangsta lean going. I know the corral wasn't quite level, but I think it might issues.....
Maybe it's the penned up horse equivalent of the 'prison pose'?
These little guys were rooting around my patio (during my stay at the Polynesian in Disney World), so I came out to get a better look and they were tame enough to eat out of my hand. However, when I tried to touch them or pick them up, Mama would fly at me - actually hit me in the chest. The pics were taken with my cell phone.
Ducks. Nuts. <---See what I did there?
Nothing overly neat about this pic except that I thought the pano stitch job came out pretty well, and lent itself to being cropped down to a standard appearance. The entrance to the Kansas City Renaissance Festival site in Bonner Springs, Kansas. Selene and I went today, and I shot this as we were leaving.
that"s pretty good. Your sensor has good noise reduction at that high ISO.
Do you have a dslr?
Glatt, no...it is not a DSLR...but I think it takes really nice photos. It's a Canon PowerShot SX20 IS. It's my first real camera as I am just starting out in this hobby.
I would like to have a more advanced camera to get more of the Milky Way. I have some of it in the background (photo 2...what appears to be smoke rising from the trees). I could try shooting at 1600 ISO (max for the camera), but it increases the noise. I might have to play around with the noise filtering on it when I try next time.
There is also something called stacking that I may experiment with. I have to do some research on it, but I gather that it is about taking multiple photos of the same area in succession (tripod a must) and combining them using software. I have a LOT to learn.
HLJ mentioned SF. - I've just been scanning in a few old (1987) transparencies
It looks just the same, except there might be a few more homeless people these days.
Is this horse named Eileen? Or is there liquor involved?
I did some more playing around with astrophotography last night. The skies didn't clear until around 10:30, but I was able to get a good number of images.
This first image is just a single image in a series of 14 I took in succession.
This one is one I generated using DSS (Deep Sky Stacker) software by stacking all 14 images together.
That's a nice shot. I wish I can see that many stars where I am.
Tony and I walked the 5 mile loop around Valley Forge Park today. The deer have no fear in this park. I took this with my cell phone.
Have you ever noticed when your out and happen to see deer everything seems right with the world?
Maybe that isn't quite what I want to convey,because I am sure deer hunters would say the same thing.
Everything seems right except that you're at mile 4.5 out of 5, having beaten two major hills, and your feet are killing you and etc.
That's a feature of the park, the deer overwhelm it now and you can't fail to see them. At dusk they are especially active. At least you get a sense of what Washington's army ate in the winter.
Thanks Tulip. It helps being in a more suburban/rural setting with no light poles on our street to cast ambient light. Light pollution kills night photography.
That's a nice shot. I wish I can see that many stars where I am.
Have you ever noticed when your out and happen to see deer everything seems right with the world?
Maybe that isn't quite what I want to convey,because I am sure deer hunters would say the same thing.
I sometimes have a different feeling when they're running out in front of my motorcycle.
Tony and I walked the 5 mile loop around Valley Forge Park today. The deer have no fear in this park..
Everything seems right except that you're at mile 4.5 out of 5, having beaten two major hills, and your feet are killing you and etc.
My god, enough potato chips to make up for that, will cost you a fortune.:eek:
Everything seems right except that you're at mile 4.5 out of 5, having beaten two major hills, and your feet are killing you and etc.
That's a feature of the park, the deer overwhelm it now and you can't fail to see them. At dusk they are especially active. At least you get a sense of what Washington's army ate in the winter.
Yeah, I suppose after five miles the magic is a little absent and dinner is looking good.
I sometimes have a different feeling when they're running out in front of my motorcycle.
yikes! Not so benign then. be careful would ya
My god, enough potato chips to make up for that, will cost you a fortune.:eek:
:D
Have you ever noticed when your out and happen to see deer everything seems growly in my stomach?
Fixed it.
DISCOVERY !
nice light and color impact
Thanks. They were finding these...
Uh...yeah....Jinx, what is it??
The Dwellar known as Perry Winkle used to go by Grant.
A snail I saw the other day on a wall near my house
On my front doorstep, yesterday:
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OMG, it's as big as a 'gator. ;)
Just south of the KY/TN line.
Danged ol' fence.:mad:
OMG, it's as big as a 'gator. ;)
I LOL'd!
Sand dollar at sunrise
The sunrise itself
A church in South Carolina that was built in 1854. It survived the Civil War/Sherman's march to the sea and multiple hurricanes.
The church, in and of itself, is striking - and your pic captures it nicely.
Glad you like it. Here's a picture of the inside. Framing, pews, and stained glass windows are all original. The church is Lutheran, sits right on the bank of the May River on the coast.
They said it was some sort of pine, didn't specify. Used to be completely whitewashed but its all worn off now.
OK, Long Leaf Yellow Pine, most likely.
Been in New Orleans for a few days and checked out one of the old cemeteries. Then I went to the Chalmette National Battlefield and Cemetery where the battle that ended the War of 1812 happened.
USCT stands for US Colored Troops who were free men of color as they refer to them. Maybe this guy was born in January???
From about 1864 to 1966 a small black community thrived there but the US parks department forced them to sell their land for the park with the help of the local politician who wanted to lower the power of black voters by removing them. So where did they go? The Ninth Ward. Sucks...
Beautiful, Chris, the B&W works. :thumb:
I really like your use of depth of field in the first headstone shot. Black and white worked out really well there too showing off the textures and contrast. Nice stuff.
Northeast PA, there are lives tucked into every valley. The Appalachian Trail runs along the far ridge.
Chris' post #1096, the B&W angel ... does she come to life every Mardi Gras to earn those beads?
He proposed. :hearts:
Since he treats me like a princess,
he bought me a ring that looks like a crown. :queen:
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Beautiful and very unique. Congratulations. :thumb:
Congratulations impress! What a cool and unique ring. :)
Congratulations, Impress! And an awesome photo of the ring.
my 2 1/2 yo granddaughter at the Camden aquarium this weekend. The funny part is this picture is a complete accident.
Although it looks like it is either posed or she is reacting to the shark - it is neither. She was saying CHEESE really loud and she happened to look back just at the moment the shutter clicked.
Funniest part - when I showed her the pic. she said "that's cute" in a very cute 2 YO voice :)
October is our time for garden spiders...
The wasps will be here soon to harvest them for their nests
Like taking the wind out of another's sails: I'll take the flies out of your net!
Speaking of flies...:flycatch:
That's pretty cool. Did you take that, digger?
I did. Thanx. I had a very cooperative model.
ttt with a cormorant drying out feathers - Clackamas River, OR
Popdigr: 68, quintuple by-pass, and passes out cold if he forgets to eat right...Just spent seven days alone, hunting in Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area.
Crazy bugger...This was HQ.
Follow your heart...
Never been there, but have heard a lot of good things about the area.
Popdigr: 68, quintuple by-pass, and passes out cold if he forgets to eat right...Just spent seven days alone, hunting in Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area.
Crazy bugger...This was HQ.
Obviously a man whose spirit will not accept the limitations of his flesh. Make sure he knows how proud you are of him. :)
Was going through some old digital camera pics from my first digital cam, a Kodak DC3200. One whole megapixel. When the power switch went south, I got a better camera, but I bought another DC3200 off eBay for $1.00, just because.
Anyway, I found this existing light pic of Popdigr from 2002.
Great Pic. We should start a thread of pics of our parents. I have recently come across some great pics of my Dad when he was in the Navy and a few of him as a High School Priniple and Super.
It was fortunate that I took my camera with me on Tuesday this week.
Home is somewhere beneath that half a cubic mile of mist:eek:
Uploaded with
ImageShack.usTaken at about the same time as the image above. That isn't snow on the trees, it's hoar frost.
reminds me of the duck in "little miss sunshine.
Great Pic. We should start a thread of pics of our parents. I have recently come across some great pics of my Dad when he was in the Navy and a few of him as a High School Priniple and Super.
I may have posted this, not sure. Here is dad somewhere in the south pacific during WWII. Looks like barracks behind them so maybe it was stateside?
He's in the back, middle with the goofy hat. He knew goofy hats were an instant laugh. I would not be surprised if he invented the "lampshade on your head gambit." The guy to his right (no head cover) was the guy who went back to the beach under fire to drag my dad into an evac boat after he'd been left for dead. He was just unconscious.
Yes, but I actually didn't take it.
Oh, I knew that. Duh.
What few pictures I've seen of you over the years, you look like your dad.
Yeah, more so as I've gotten older. I should dig up a picture of my mom, my younger sister and *cough* myself. We look like three people who look really a lot like one another.
I may have posted this, not sure....
...The guy to his right (no head cover) was the guy who went back to the beach under fire to drag my dad into an evac boat after he'd been left for dead. He was just unconscious.
I'd say that I have seen that picture somewhere before.
... Maybe that was Cabo.
Edit: and thank you for post 1131.
This Vixen used to visit every evening and we'd put scraps out for her. Unfortunately, she never brought her cubs along.
I think that the poor soul perished on the road as many do.
Great snap Carruthers!:thumb:
Our first snowflake fell today. Also, our 100,456,354,297,335,546,256th snowflake fell today. And all those in between. Two inches now, and still falling. Wind has positively howled all day. Visibilty less than five hundred feet at times...Our fair city is paralyzed.:lol2:
This was about 4pm.
What a FOX!
It's Fox News.
What a FOX!
It certainly was.
I'd sit on the steps down to the back garden and gently lob any scraps of meat we had left over. At times I'd use dog food and on one occasion the Fox attempted to take it straight from the spoon. Unfortunately she grabbed the spoon as well, dropped it and, as a consequence, ran off in fright. She was soon back.
I've got farming friends who would have been mortified had they known I was feeding a Fox!
I can trust you Dwellars to keep a secret now, can't I? CAN'T I? :blah:
Willamette River 12/13/10 - Sign: "No Life Guards on Duty"
I slipped on a rock just as the shutter went off.
Can you see the 2 ducks ?
Interesting effect, lighter of lamps.
i can see one duck but no ducksnuts
I slipped on a rock just as the shutter went off.
Did we get wet?
Can you see the 2 ducks ?
I see no ducks.
Nor DucksNuts.
Nuts!
It's called "Bubblicious".:fumette:
A hundred bucks for a little bud of weed? You got ripped off.
Makes my feet cold looking at that pic. :)
I'm toying around with the idea of digitizing a bunch of old pictures on the cheap and as fast as I can.
This is the result of my first test. It took about 5 minutes, which is way too long. I want to get it down to around 30 seconds per image.
I took the old 110 negative and held it up against a window pane that I had just cleaned. On the storm window outside the window pane, I had taped a sheet of white paper to diffuse the light. Camera with a macro lens was on a tripod. I hand held the negative against the window and took the shot. Then I opened the file in the GIMP and selected the color from the orange border of the negative, pasted that color into a new overlay layer, inverted it, and merged the layers down. Inverted the entire image, and auto equalized the colors and saved the file.
If I knew anything about how to make scripts for the GIMP, I could merge those several steps into one click. Ideally I would have a tool where you click on the orange border, and the color of the image is automatically adjusted.
Anyway, this is my first test. Remember that this is 110 film. About the size of a fingernail. Much smaller than 35mm film, and poor quality. But these old pictures are priceless.
Full sized image (reduced) and a detail at maximum resolution.
I guess you don't have prints of these pictures, only the negatives?
My HP Scanjet has an attachment that holds slides or negatives for scanning. Even that's too slow. :(
Nice family, you should warn them about that pervert with the hood, sneaking up on them.
My parents have some prints, but they are mostly in sad shape and/or in albums with that sticky cling film holding them in place. If I go taking the prints out to scan them, it will take about 2 minutes per print, and then I'll have destroyed a photo album, so I'll have to buy new albums and assemble them.
I'm looking for a way to just quickly take a picture of a negative, shift the negative slightly, and take the next one. I'm hoping for about 5 seconds between taking each picture, and around 30 seconds to process each image.
It's all about speed, otherwise this is going to take forever and will never happen.
So I need to refine the system. But my test proves it's possible. I wasn't sure you could take a picture of a negative and eventually get a positive.
Glatt, I realize you plan to go the DIY and less expensive route,
but if you decide to pay-for-play, the ScanCafe.com has been
very good for us with 35 mm slides.
They are currently running a year-end special for $0.21 each on "standard media",
so I assume that would include your 110 negatives.
Here is the website, and the discount code (for today's discount only) is 2010END.
If you don't use it today, just get on their email list and you'll get notices every week of new discounts.
We did over 1300 35mm slides with them from our first 30 yrs of snapshots, when our kids were young.
The great thing about this company is that you send them your materials,
they scan and post on the internet, you review and select only the ones you want.
You can reject up to 50% without penalty, and pay only for the ones you select.
They return everything + a DVD with your selection.
hello glatt--
Speaking as the dwellar least resistant to the DIY urge, I second Lamplighter's advice to do this project using a credit card instead of duct tape and bailing wire. Your fear that it will be too slow and cumbersome to actually complete is valid and you should heed it.
Having said that, here are some links for you:
GIMP scripts, where to get them and how to install them.
some scripts related to inversion
Negative photo scanner
Printing negatives
...ok... Now I have to indulge my inner mad tinkerer.
Your 110 negatives come in a strip, no? And all were taken using the same exposure settings, maybe? Why not use your very same process to photograph more than one exposure at a time? The pressure is to get them into the camera, and you can invert/balance a bunch at a time. In one step you've increased your production rate by 100 or 200 or 300 percent or more.
As for the prints in albums, you can do the same thing. I've faced this problem myself, though I'm too chicken to undertake digitization of my negatives. Just scan the whole page. Then in the editor, you can cut out each individual image.
I hear a potential complaint that by using one camera/scanner image to capture multiple images reduces the net resolution of each image. True. But perhaps unimportant for most of these images. How will these digitized images be enjoyed? For most of my images, just a *fraction* of my camera's full frame resolution would be adequate. Most of my images would be fine at 4x6 or 5x7 printed size, and though I don't know the math off the top of my head, one zillion pixel digital frame could easily deliver, say, four images. Voila! A fourfold increase in production.
Good luck. Don't forget to value your time here. The enjoyment of the images, not the manipulation of the negatives is more important for me.
I appreciate your post, and I also recognize your advice to pay someone to do it as being pretty sound. But I'm also stubborn and cheap.
I have invented a method in my mind that will reduce the picture taking time to a couple of seconds per image, plus the time to load each negative strip of 4-5 images. Loading the strip will take about 15 seconds.
The real time consumer will be the color adjustment in GIMP. I did half a dozen more image tests over the weekend, and can now do one image in about a minute. Still longer than I want, but it's getting better. I'm recreating scanner speeds now. I'm going to play around with your link and see if I can make a tool in GIMP that will speed things up.
My plan is to use my LCD monitor as a consistent light source. I'm going to make a holder for a sheet of glass a few inches in front of the monitor. The idea is that I can slide this whole large sheet of glass sandwich back and forth in the holder so the camera can stay still on a tripod and keep a fixed zoom and fixed focus.
I think taking a picture of each image individually will ultimately be faster than digitally selecting and saving the individual images in GIMP. So that another reason to do it this way.
Gimp should have a white balance tool. PS does in curves. Find the tool, click it on the orange border, then invert colors. The orange border should become white when you clcik it, then black when you invert colors. The appropriate amount of orange should be removed from the other areas of your photo.
Gimp should have a white balance tool. PS does in curves. Find the tool, click it on the orange border, then invert colors. The orange border should become white when you clcik it, then black when you invert colors. The appropriate amount of orange should be removed from the other areas of your photo.
Ooh, that looks like it works. Cuts out a few steps too. Nice!
Crazt.
Crazt,
Crazt for feeling so lonelt
I'm crazt,
Crazt for feeling so blue...
:p:
Sonic, from KFC, about two blocks away.
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Ice storms are the worst. Cool picture though!
This is a negative that I imaged over the weekend. This process is working fairly well. I have cut the total processing time per image down to around 30 seconds.
Anyway, I think this is a fun picture. I'm the kid in the red and blue tank top. At this zoo in Tuscon, they had the tortoises in a petting zoo kind of area, where you could play with them. We dragged all of them out of the little cave in the background, lined them all up and made them race. Some were faster than others, and for those that were slow, we tried cheering them on. When that didn't work, you can see that I'm knocking on their shells to get them to move. My sister next to me is too.
There was nobody from the zoo there to supervise, and my parents thought our behavior was fine. It may have even been their idea. You could never get away with doing this today. Manhandling the animals!
Now I want to build a concrete and sand turtle habitat. I wonder how they do at 20 below.
Sonic, from KFC, about two blocks away.
Well at least you don't have to walk far to get some dinner.:D
I took this image of my son, Liam wading in the Bartlett River in Glacier Bay National Park this past summer. He actually didn't have waders on but just took off his shoes and tried to get out on the other side of a group of Coho we were casting at. He said after about 2 minutes he couldn't feel anything in his feet!
Nice shot, but fishermen are :crazy:... [SIZE="1"]I speak from experience[/SIZE]. :haha:
I took this the second day we fished on the Bartlett River. We had just rounded the bend to our fishing spot and a bear was in the river scavenging salmon carcasses. Fishing regulations there require fishermen to through what is left after they fillet their fish back into the river rather then leave it on the bank where other fishermen might have closer encounters with bears. It is also a good reminder that even in the pristine waters of Alaska you better purify your drinking water, you never know what is happening up stream!:eek:
sorry, through should be "throw"
That first one (#1171) looks familiar.
Can I use my new word for the day:
I like the "
bokeh"
I took this image of my son, Liam ...
Heh, that is my son's name as well.:p:
2 more from my Alaska trip last summer. While fishing a bear went into the water about 40 ft from us (maybe the same bear as the last image but not the same incident), so my son goes off with a stick to chase the bear away. He lives up there every summer so he is used to bears... he also carries a 45 cal pistol!
Second shot was taken from the pier in Gustavus at sunset. Amazing I actually got a sharp image as much red wine was consumed prior to sunset!
I love Alaska, a place I could live. And I only spent 6 weeks there in the winter.
Its probably just the perspective in the picture, but that stick really doesn't look big enough to chase bears away.
Heh, can a man actually carry the stick that is big enough to chase bears with?:eyebrow:
It is not about the size of a man's stick, it's what he can do with it. :lol:
It is not about the size of a man's stick, it's what he can do with it. :lol:
That's what Sheldon said.:p:
It's not the size of your rod, it's how you wiggle your worm that catches the fish.
It ain't the size of your pencil, it's how ya write with it. ?
I took this picture...from the internet. I just think it's neat.
Reminds me of an experiment my dad worked on a while ago. He was doing something that required redshifting lasers or maybe blueshifting. I don't really remember the details, but it involved going to a very high end stereo shop and buying one of their most expensive woofers. But he only needed one, and they refused to sell him just one speaker, because it was a stereo store and they sold speakers in pairs.
He got the speaker back to the lab, and epoxied a mirror to the cone. Then when he shined a laser at the mirror, he could use some tone generator to run a specific signal through the speaker to get the laser to shift its wavelength or something like that.
It seems like a pretty neat solution to me. And also a travesty that he destroyed this really expensive high end set of woofers.
<cynical> Did they really get that wonderful distribution, or is it shopped? </cynical>
What is it, Dippin' Dots on a popcorn popper? :confused:
Sprinkles on a speaker turned face up.
OH duh! Hence the speaker story. :blush:
<cynical> Did they really get that wonderful distribution, or is it shopped? </cynical>
There's always some shopping involved these days, but that can be easily achieved with a strobe. The flash duration can be as short a 1/100,000 of a second freezing most moving objects.
They probably then started fussing with individual sprinkles to fill in any empty spots.
Lots of (imaginary ?) circle patterns among the spreckles.
My brain starts looking for words.
monster for photoshop in aisle 3 please
monster for photoshop, aisle 3
I love your picture, Gravdigr.
[Elvis] Thank you, thank you vurry much.[/Elvis]
Tesla motors is opening a location a block from my office. They are having some press event today to celebrate the grand opening, and give rides to the press. Almost as an aside, they have the Dragon capsule by SpaceX. This is the first commercial spacecraft to go into orbit and return safely. Happened just two months ago. This isn't some musty old dust covered relic in the Air and Space Museum from 50 years ago. It's the real deal.
So I had to sneak in and take a couple pictures with my cell phone. As far as I could tell, there was only one member of the press there in the cold tent, and the Tesla workers were looking at me funny, so I didn't stick around long.
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Oh, and here are some cool electric cars. I'd love to have one for fun.
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Spring is springing up all over.
Alien looking buds.
Dandelions. Did you know the name comes from the French dente de lion (lions' teeth)?
Any day it's not actually raining, I cut through a churchyard on my way to school.
Some shots. Note the broken boot scraper to the left of the door.
It's so Ænglisc. Or is saying something is old English in England an oxymoron. humph
The Church is St James the Great.
It's thought to date back to the 14th century.
So, yes, it's proper olde worlde.
Oh, except of course it was built as a Catholic Church. Then Henry "wife murderer" VIII pinched it.
Good day Mrs. 40 cow, may I get you a spot by the feeder? Can I interest you in a bite of shucklage? It's a tasty combination of corn plant parts, tossed with corn kernels and fermented with a smooth inoculate powder, topped off with a bit of sprouted rye grass. ;-)
Sunday, playing Tarzan with my son near our house.
looks like a lightning whip
From Phills Astros game on 04/02/11
Princeton University
Both taken w/ iphone 4
Diggin the Princeton pic.
Good job, Woody.
Nirvana, they sure look shaggy this time of year, don't they. :lol:
some crazy looking lichen on the east side of my fence:
some crazy looking lichen on the east side of my fence:
I'm lichen that pic.
From Phills Astros game on 04/02/11
Did you enhance the colors? They sure are vibrant!
HDR.... sure looks like that.
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What camera is that taken with grav? If you don't mind me asking. :)
Probably not something I can afford.
What camera is that taken with grav? If you don't mind me asking. :)
Probably not something I can afford.
It's a Kodak EasyShare MD-41, 12.2 mp. From Target $99, got it for Xmas before last.
Very cheap on eBay.
Beware the wall charger, though. Mine was/is a piece of crap. Fell apart in my hands, and I had to glue it together. Prolly one in a million. Didn't expect that from Kodak.
Pretty tough, I've dropped mine twice, once onto carpet, once a glancing bounce off the countertop onto the kitchen floor. Like a Timex, it takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
Literally smaller and thinner than my wallet.
I went through all of my thousands of photos and put my favorites into a photobucket album. If you have a few minutes, check it out. I linked to the slideshow because it's easier to see the full images.
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Anytime I'm around a fire, I usually take at least one pic to see if there's a face in the fire. There's always a face in the fire. Remember this.
The first pic is untouched apart from resizing. The second pic I 'shopped the eyes and mouth, but that's all.
Spooky. [SIZE="1"]Kinda[/SIZE].
Oooh...that is neat. Never thought of looking for a face before.
Grav, I have a Kodak too, but mine is older. An Easyshare M1073 10.2MP.
But it's pink.
And yes, it's enduring. Mine's been bumped about in my bag, in my luggage, on trains and coaches and what-not.
I love that squirrel! I'm never fast enough to catch them on camera.
Re the face in the fire. I can see the one you shopped obviously, but you missed the one already there. The mouth is at the top right hand side of the triangle and the sunken eyes above it. Sorry if that's what you were referring to!
The one I see is very bright, and in profile. Is that the one you mean SG? (It's blocked in the second picture.)
I see that one too, hlj, but I wasn't sure if he shopped that one as well. It looks so distinct.
( and what a big nose it has....)
I hardly ever see the faces when I take the picture, it's only afterward, at the 'puter that I see 'em.
The ones I see at the fire, don't usually show up in my pics...
But, they're always there.
I've always wondered if this plays some subliminal role in man's fascination with fire.
Oh, and...
The first pic is untouched apart from resizing.
:D
No, I see the profile in the first picture.
But there is a spectral face in the second too.
It's not as distinct as the first one, in fact it looks a little like a grey alien because it has HUGE eyes.
Did you enhance the colors? They sure are vibrant!
Yes & Thank You! I ran it through an app called "Dynamic Light"
by request.
We had a scotch tasting at casa d V the other night during a marathon leatherworking session... It went quite well.
Rocky The Thieving Squirrel
An update on the churchyard picture I posted earlier this spring.
Wildflowers like the fertile soil of the boneyard.
that is such a cool graveyard.
An update on the churchyard picture I posted earlier this spring.
Wildflowers like the fertile soil of the boneyard.
that is such a cool graveyard.
I want to sit under that tree, at 3 am, in a dry thunderstorm, and smoke something...dank.
by request.
We had a scotch tasting at casa d V the other night during a marathon leatherworking session... It went quite well.
Only good products. I've tried them all.
Favorite among those is Ardbeg 10 though I prefer the 17 years old. The taste is more mellow.
Hey, look, horses, in Kentucky, whodathunkit.
@ Gunmaster357:
The Ardbeg was very good. But it was not my favorite. That distinction belongs to the Laphroaig. It was, by far, the most flavorful, most smoky, most impressive of the bunch (what is the collective noun for several Scotches gathered together anywhoo?). I have since bought a couple more bottles. Magnificent.
For our next soiree, we've decided to have a Bourbon tasting. More reports to follow as events warrant (and permit).
(what is the collective noun for several Scotches gathered together anywhoo?).
Clan.
Clan.
Touche'.
Although "battle" might have served.
I have a really old book "The Clans and Tartans of Scotland" with color pages featuring the tartans. It's really awesome.
Have you ever tried taking a pic of a bat? At night? In flight?
Yes. It's not easy. I stood with my camera outside a house infested with bats and took picture after picture as they flew out at dusk, and the overwhelming majority never came out. You need an enormous and super powerful flash.
This was the best one out of about 30 tries.
Hard on batteries, too. I was standing in the dark, camera set to infinity, button pushed down halfway, waiting...waiting...I lost count how many blank shots I took.
I will have to try that. We have a ton of brown bats in our area. I think they just live in the trees.
Most excellent. Looks like it's floating in mid air.
Thank you.
He (?) and his mates were quite tame. Trained practically, I petted the nose of one that was begging begging begging (unsuccessfully) for food. I'll find it and post it. I like how the look of his fins are echoed by the palm fronds dipping into the water above him.
Here are a couple shots from the neighborhood showing the gravid cherry trees. They're just bursting with blossoms, and we had a bit of weather which shook the trees. The petals practically make "snowdrifts" of lovely pink.
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those are neat pics you've taken
I thought this was the right thread...:D
Thx.
Wheat.
It's what's for beer.
I like the way your camera takes pictures grav. I think, I asked before, but lost track of the post. What camera are you using?
I like the way your camera takes pictures grav. I think, I asked before, but lost track of the post. What camera are you using?
What camera is that taken with grav? If you don't mind me asking. :)
Probably not something I can afford.
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It's a Kodak EasyShare MD-41, 12.2 mp. From Target $99, got it for Xmas before last.
Very cheap on eBay.
Beware the wall charger, though. Mine was/is a piece of crap. Fell apart in my hands, and I had to glue it together. Prolly one in a million. Didn't expect that from Kodak.
Pretty tough, I've dropped mine twice, once onto carpet, once a glancing bounce off the countertop onto the kitchen floor. Like a Timex, it takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
Literally smaller and thinner than my wallet.
Might want to hit refresh after you follow the link.
ETA: To be fair there may be some tweaking here and there in some pics.
Grav, that house in your pic is my dream house.... thanks for feeding my fantasy. :thumb:
What would you do with a house that big?
I guess you need rooms for all the virgins.
Thanks grav :)
I have a Cannon powershot in about that price range. I haven't used it much. I'm not sure if I can eek out good photos like that even with tweaking. You might just be a natural.
What would you do with a house that big?
I guess you need rooms for all the virgins.
I try not to be around virgins....
I try not to be around virgins....
Personally? I'm into virgins.
Air show season is coming up quick. Here's a couple from last year's up on the lake in Cleveland:
A-10 cannon
Blue Angels
My dad used to own a lake where we camped where the Blue Angels or Thunderbirds did their turnarounds for the Dayton Air Show. Once the Angels came over, almost snuck up behind up and we looked up and it almost seemed you could touch them. We were cheering and teary, grandparents, parents, us, kids...very cool stuff!
I grew up in southern Cal, so I remember going to a lot of air shows at Miramar, etc. Watching the Blue Angels, seeing Navy SEALs rope down from helicopters into the water, it was awesome to watch as a kid. Still is.
Gotta love that close-up of the
GAU-8 muzzle.
Awesome pics, btw, Bullitt.
it sounds like a 50s space flick around here ,
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zippyt, on Flickr
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zippyt, on Flickr
Freaky looking things. I would get a kick out of shaking a tree branch with them in it. Watching dozens come shooting out.
But seriously, your tomato plants are already reaching to tops of their cages?!
I'm going to have to look into that hay bale thing next year.
Here are my pics from when they were in my (and glatt's) neck of the woods. With audio, for those who want to hear the 50's space flick soundtrack.
Not much of a picture, but here you can hear Earth's defence against the invaders from outer space: frogs, thousands of them.
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ETA: A better picture to go with it.
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Caught this old Ford (1940?) at Wendy's the other afternoon. Pretty neat.
The other pic: Bravest Little Bluebird, Evah.
Probably not neat to anyone else.
But I was really intrigued by this pattern on the carpet the other day. And the sunshine on the Christmas Cactus.
I don't get out much, it's true.
That's awesome Sundae! I've read so much about it, to see it at last is a fantastic treat. I hope someday to be able to see it for myself. This "sunshine", so beautiful.
Thank you for sharing!
Cheeky monkey.
Come over here. You have a chance of seeing it for four months a year.
Intermittently.
ETA - did you see Bride & Prejudice yet?
Just come across Jai Ho on Youtube (which our Reception children danced to as part of the Nativity in 2010 - well.... why not?!)
Might have to put in in the good music thread. It's uplifting anyway, but of course for me it also has an emotiponal connection now.
Probably not neat to anyone else.
But I was really intrigued by this pattern on the carpet the other day. And the sunshine on the Christmas Cactus.
I don't get out much, it's true.
I think it's a very pretty picture! But then again, I don't get out much either. :rolleyes: Hihi....Teasing you. It is very neato! :D
Taken in New Haven, CT w/ iphone4.
The art is very impressive but I can't say much for the carpenters/architects in your area. Do you know what a right angle is?
I was working in the electric substation adjacent to this grafitti wall. The only thing I liked about my short stay in New Haven was a delicious eatery called Johnny Salami's!
At the Udvar-Hazy, the centerpieces.
Why is it that I no longer stare open jawed at the Space Shuttles, yet, the Blackbirds still strike me as the most awesome things to have ever flown?
I took this photo across our pond. It seems a new species has made its way to my farm. . .
Woody, is that stitched panorama pic, or just a single photo?
Nice.
Nirvana, those are extinct! How'd you find them? You're very very lucky.
Union Products, of Leominster, Massachusetts, stopped production of pink flamingos on November 1, 2006. However, HMC International LLC, a subsidiary of Faster-Form Corporation, purchased the copyright and plastic molds of Featherstone's original plastic flamingos in 2007. HMC sub-contracted production of the Flamingo's to Cado Manufacturing, Inc. (cadocompany.com), a blow-molder located in Fitchburg, Massachusetts who specialized in this type of production. [3]. In 2010, Cado Manufacturing purchased the copyrights and the entire Union Products product line, including the pink flamingo, from HMC. Cado continues to manufacture the Union Products line, and production of the pink flamingo has increased in recent times.
guess I was wrong, yay!
Should be posted in the What the hell is this thread:
sincerely,
cheeky monkey.
ps: I mowed the front and sides, and *almost* broke a sweat. sunny but not actually hot. wonderful!
They better not eat my wild raspberries and I hope they won't breed much. I am not sure there is a market for them in N Indiana ;)
Woody, is that stitched panorama pic, or just a single photo?
Nice.
Thanks!
It's a stitched panorama. Taken using a $3.00 app. The app does all the stitching!
BigV, I thought your pic was Les Stroud for a sec...
thanks man, you flatter me.
Garett, PA
Another
Digging that areoplane pic by HM.
thanks man, you flatter me.
I bet Les Stroud never built no bad-ass bamboo bunk beds, though.
Big Woody. Those are so NEAT. I like the second one especially .
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A Barn Swallow is from sometime in May. There were two of them and they hung around for a couple of days. They were looking for a good nesting spot. They decided against the the porch light. Now,they are up under the eaves.
Today, a beautiful day for spying on the crows. I suppose. If you're a cat.
"Today is a beautiful day for spying on the crows
I suppose..."
is a good start to a poem!
It felt like the start of something 'prosey', when I was typing it too.
I was over in the Luce Center in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, going for a walk on my lunch hour and checking out the art in some nice air conditioning. Walking down the row of displays, I noticed one of those old cigarette vending machines. It was selling art. I simply couldn't resist.
I'm a notorious cheapskate, and this vending machine was asking $5 for a cigarette pack sized work of art. But I figured if I took pictures of the exchange, it would make it worth while.
So here it is, the Artomat.
It was obvious to me that you couldn't really be sure what you were getting. The machine is like one of those vending machines you remember from your childhood at the grocery store. You put your 25 cents in and hope to get the super ball in the egg and not the crappy smurf sticker.
Well, I figured that the selections that were almost out of stock were the most popular, and might therefore be the best. I looked at those few, and decided the one with the American flag peeking out looked kind of cool. I knew I didn't want the Dick Cheney portrait.
So Days in America it was! I fed my $5 bill into the machine. There was the whirring noise of the motor taking my money, and a satisfying clunk from deep within the machine.
I pulled the knob. And tada! The flag image didn't come out. There was something else under there. And now it was mine.
Here's my art. I'm an art collector now. I hope Alejandro Mazon becomes renowned. I'll make a killing on this art in 10 years.
Wadjaget? wadjaget? wadjaget?
Here's my art. I'm an art collector now. I hope Alejandro Mazon becomes renowned. I'll make a killing on this art in 10 years.
There's at least one Dwellar who'll kill him for you. You know, just to help his art appreciate.
That is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. Yeah, I'd be plunking way too much money in that machine.
I was sitting here anxiously awaiting the next picture! :)
the flag one that caught my eye is now on deck to be next. It sort of half fell out of the display and into the mechanism. But $10 is way too much for me to blow. I'm very intrigued by the other ones. Maybe once a month or two I'll treat myself and go buy another one from a different artist.
I like the piece I got. And when you google this guy, he's a real artist. He's had shows and everything.
When I was a kid, sometimes the counter person at the store closest to my house wouldn't sell me the cigarettes I so desperately needed to grow up healthy and strong. But, there was a laundromat a bike ride across town that still had a cigarette machine.
That machine never once refused to sell me cigarettes.
:blunt:
.....I knew I didn't want the Dick Cheney portrait.
Why do you hate America? :lol:
Whenever I hear Dick Cheney's name I picture the "Family Guy" scene where Cheney is reduced to working at Wal-Mart as a greeter:
Welcome to Wal-Mart, go fuck yourself.
Oriental lily. Taken with an amateur level, compact, LCD-only-viewfinder-equipped, $90, point-and-shoot camera.
:D
These were taken last year. After several failed attempts at putting her nest on top of the porch light - we kept getting rid of it because it is inches away from the back door - she finally built it on a top beam of our deck. I was only about 10 feet away on the other side of the deck when I took these pictures. She never seemed to mind. This year she got one over on us and got the nest built and her eggs laid before we could do anything about it. Im sure she hated it this time, because every time the door opened she flew off and gave the alarm.
foots knows how to take care of that problem.
We had a batch of them bird type fellers, it was very informationalistic for the sproglets. The birds is all gone now. I only whack destructive mammals and
people convincingly dressed as destructive mammals
And only in season.
@ Glatt, there was one of those machines in a movie theater in Albany, NY where I used to live (Row H, seat 115) That was in 1990 or 1991. I bought a poem. it was only a buck or two, I have it upstairs, I'll look for it tomorrow.
This was from this evening, taken about ten minutes from my house. I love my town.
This was from this evening, taken about ten minutes from my house. I love my town.
very nice!
I wonder if anyone would notice if I just built a house and sidled on up to the end of the row there and parked it?
Very nice, V. I like the vibrant colors.
Lake Union?
From last night. Am I the only one who was awakened by the glare?
glatt, PZ, that is the Montlake Cut. You're looking at the Montlake Bridge in the background, gateway to Lake Washington.
Big V: the picture is gorgeous!
From last night. Am I the only one who was awakened by the glare?
That's the Strawberry Moon, maybe you were hungry.
Am I the only one who was awakened by the glare?
The series of thunderstorms woke me up. No hint of the moon through all the lightning flashes and clouds.
Caught today. One down. One to go.
Yea man, Gators are all over this place. Not down town Savannah, but they have been seen quite close by on a regular basis, you just need to leave the areas that are most crowded.
Caught today. One down. One to go.
Well, it's Friday. How are you going to cook it?
Well, it's Friday. How are you going to cook it?
Oh no, I would not kill one this small. I relocated them to a near by tidal marsh about 2 miles away. I caught one about 5 years about 4 feet long and relocated him to the same place. We have gators all over this place.
Oh no, I would not kill one this small. I relocated them to a near by tidal marsh about 2 miles away. I caught one about 5 years about 4 feet long and relocated him to the same place. We have gators all over this place.
I was gonna say, you've got a couple of wallets there or a small clutch for a woman. You'd have to raise it up some for a decent pair of boots.
:D
Always beautiful pics V.
Nice subject Merc. I adore the critters, but happily live in a country where they will never be a threat to me and mine.
The Oncoming Storm (a name for The Doctor) but literal in this case.
We've had a sunshine and showers day.
This was the estate about 3 minutes before it started raining.
Hence the poor stitch together - it got too dark to match up the pictures accurately. Oh and I'm not all that good at it anyway :)
Thank you Sundae, so kind.
I love your picture too. From what direction is the storm approaching?
Caught today. One down. One to go.
I was gonna say, you've got a couple of wallets there or a small clutch for a woman. You'd have to raise it up some for a decent pair of boots.
:D
Was thinking the same thing after watching his snake skinning pics (I'd *LOVE* to make something from that skin). But I was also wondering how big/many it was to make mercy's matching shirt?!
Merc, you guys down in GeeAy oughta teach the 'gators to eat the snakes!!
Wish I could but so few of the bad ones ever venture into the water. Must be a mutual respect thing.
Guess that is why they are not afraid of me. :D
ha! Professional Courtesy?
From what direction is the storm approaching?
From Bicester I think... :)
It's coming towards me. I suppose it's not technically a storm, as there was no thunder or lightning, it was just a very heavy downpour. It went from spitting gently to monsoon in under a minute, and my umbrella was practically useless. I came home with my trousers soaked through, and my arms running with rainwater.
It was warm though, and very refreshing. Once I got out of my wet shoes.
I hate wet shoes.
And then the sun was out and we had blue skies for another hour.
Probably good for the plants.
This is from a few weeks ago. Finally captured streak lightning during a storm. Just pure luck using a 5 second shutter. I'd love to get some more.
Yeah, it's one thing to capture lightning. Not easy. It's another to get a cool looking picture as a result. You've done both here.
dmg, that is great! one the best on her in a long time. Well done.
I never can catch the lightning on my camera. Hubby suggested I stand by the clothes line pole, but I don't see how that can work
Stop it, he did not. :lol2:
Thanks all. It's something I have tried several times but did not get lucky until recently. Mostly, I would get the flash in the sky, but not the streak. It's simply being pointed in the right place at the right time and having the shutter open at that right time. It's not easy because we don't have a covered deck or porch. So, I have to have a storm with good lightning, but not raining yet. Thanks again!
I never can catch the lightning on my camera. Hubby suggested I stand by the clothes line pole, but I don't see how that can work
LOL! Holding an umbrella? :D
The only trick (other than luck) is you have to be able to keep the shutter open for a given length of time. Capturing one in automatic mode is one in a million shot. I set my camera to manual and then adjust the aperture, ISO and shutter speed based on what I want out of the photo.
Got another one yesterday. This guy was about 4 feet long.
Your area is overrun with gators, Merc?
Not really overrun, but we have quite a few of them, esp where I live. These two are from a brood that came from a pond near by. A big momma gator has lived there for year, she is about 12 feet. Once a year she has babies and I think they are kicked out of her pond periodically as they grow. There are lots of places for them to go but they often find there way into our ponds. Since we have kids around and fish it the pond we don't want them that close. We also get an occasional sea otter that has to be professional captured to relocate.
With all those gators and rattlers and such, I guess you don't have a problem with woodchucks, then, eh?
Buddy of mine just got a job with Savannah Fire, I showed him some of your gator pictures Merc and he's not thrilled about potentially dealing with those things. He thought they only lived in the Florida glades!
The only gators we run into up here are in the zoos, and guarding meth labs. No really. There were a couple cases a few years ago where gators were found chained up inside meth houses like guard dogs.
Pilesgrove, NJ
Largest solar farm in the northeast (USA that is)
This is from a few weeks ago. Finally captured streak lightning during a storm. Just pure luck using a 5 second shutter. I'd love to get some more.
Great catch, dmg!:thumb:
Really tiny shroom
-taken w/ iphone 4
I expect to see a smurf show up. :D
Its a red russula- in case you were wondering. :)
Kite surfers at sunset at The Fishermen's Huts beach in Aruba. Just the luck of the draw, I was driving by and it looked like it would be a great sunset so I set up and shot until it was dark.
And here is one from the other side of the world, Table Bay, Cape Town South Africa.
for some reason the white balance went whacky but i like it
DSCF7370 by
zippyt, on Flickr
Very nice Zippy and CinH. Great colors.
Last night.......
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If you ever need dental work when in Aruba, this be the spot!
Fishing boats in the harbor in Chiloe, Chile. A case of being there at the right time, good weather and good subject material.
great pics y'all!!
soon i shall have a camera worth a shit.....i can't wait!
soon i shall have a camera worth a shit.....i can't wait!
Ok, but maybe you could find something else to take pictures of.
Ok, but maybe you could find something else to take pictures of.
yeah, we don't really care to look at poop.
I had to take photos of the old sewage lagoon for DEQ. I thought I share one with you. It's my favorite spot to take a girl for a picnic on a first date.
Take a girl for a picnic on a first date at a sewage lagoon?
I had to take photos of the old sewage lagoon for DEQ. I thought I share one with you. It's my favorite spot to take a girl for a swim on a first date.
FTFY:p:
It's my favorite spot to take a girl for a picnic on a first date.
FTFY:p:
Well, if she goes out with ya twice...ya know she's the one!
:sweat:
What you don't realize is that is a secret alien base! In fact, "Predator" was actually a documentary filmed there. I know things. At least that is what the voices say.
I heard they left. :eyebrow:
I love my beautiful city.
Our town can't afford a K9 unit, so I came up with the next best thing - a police snake. I've named him Fred. He isn't too happy right now & he bit the fire out of my thumb, but I'm going to keep him. The next time I go on a disturbance call, I'm going to throw Fred in the door & let him clear the room.
thank you glatt.
Big Sarge, that's funny!
Sic'em Fred!
"You have the right to remain s-s-s-s--s-ilent.
Anything you s-s-s-s-s-s-s-say may be us-s-s-s-s-s-ed agains-s-s-s-s-t you..."
If he gets laid off (or stepped on) will he be able to get Cobra benefits?
I love the sneaky snake officer!
Our town can't afford a K9 unit, so I came up with the next best thing - a police snake. I've named him Fred. He isn't too happy right now & he bit the fire out of my thumb, but I'm going to keep him. The next time I go on a disturbance call, I'm going to throw Fred in the door & let him clear the room.
Looks like a black racer. We had one of those in my yard last year and it was huge. I will try to post a pic later.
I think this one was a spotted king snake. At least I hope he is because he bit me pretty good. Ya'll should have seen me dancing around trying to get him to let go. I bet I could have one the dance competition on "Americas Got talent".
Went on a vacation to western NY state visiting relatives who have a cottage on Lake Ontario at Sodus Point east of Rochester. Here are a few I like.
1. Sunset on Lake Ontario
2. The girls washing up in the lake
3. Sunset reflection
4. Waterfall near the Finger Lakes.
you, sir, are a show-off.
And I love it. Please keep inspiring me, these are wonderful!
Thanks BigV, after 30+ years of shooting I still get a good feeling inside when I visualize a shot, take the picture and see it come out just the way I wanted it to.
As a sidebar note, the waterfall shot and the sunset were both taken with no tripod. The former was a 2 second exposure, just found a rock ledge to set the camera on. The sunset was taken with a 400mm as I sat in a plastic lawn chair on the beach bracing the lens using the armrests for support; on and that lens also has a built in image stabilizer which helps.
Chris, awesome. As usual.
Think ya could post a shitty pic so I can feel a little better about myself?:lol2:
Having my extensive lawn mowed..
Job security for the mooers. --er, mowers.
a night out
my friend playing wow
oo! pretty!
[somedwellar]Vurry nize.[/somedwellar]
Lookin at that almostempty glass of beer is makin me thursteh.
He holds their secret—he brings a boon
Where winds moan wild in the dark o’ the moon;
And gold shall glitter and love smile sweet
To whoever shall sever his furry feet!
Does everybody have bunnies? I didn't have them in my neighborhood as a kid, but they are everywhere now.
Two big beasts have settled in here. It's very annoying to Pearl when she polices the back yard.
We have bunnehs. Always had bunnehs.
We went a long time w/no bunnehs.
I think that feller is living under Popdigr's shed. Slick goes hours sometimes, lately, sniffin around the edges of that building.
A few years ago there were a lot of cats roaming the area, but they are gone now, so this is a good year for bunnies for us, too. Pico tries and tries to catch them. They are always faster than him.
Does everybody have bunnies? I didn't have them in my neighborhood as a kid, but they are everywhere now.
They're breeding like rabbits here.
None here. I think the deer must be secretly eating them.
They just might be.
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None here. I think the deer must be secretly eating them.
I am still looking for that place that has deer breading like rabbits. Season opens 15 Sept.
No bunnies in my neighbourhood.
But the 'rents see lots when they housesit.
Hedgehogs here.
And we used to have foxes and badgers, til they built on the land in front of our house.
Not even urban foxes now.
The foxes and badgers didn't like what the hedgehogs built?
No, no, no. Read it carefully. The foxes and badgers built. Now they are stay-at-homes and never come out.
Mont Blanc (on full zoom on my phone/camera )
Silly Dwellars.
"They" is always The Man, right?
Housing estate on my childhood Neverland.
Beautiful, grynch.
think I should have re-sized that one just a wee tiny bit.
What is Mont Blanc? It is not the pen company, is it?
Lola ohhhh my my my
Mont blanc ( White mountain ) is the highest peak in Europe from which that pen company takes its name
Lola ohhhh my my my
Mont blanc ( White mountain ) is the highest peak in Europe from which that pen company takes its name
I am officially now...:blush: ... :lol: Doh....I was only looking at the green scenary and not what's above it. :p:
I am still looking for that place that has deer breading like rabbits. Season opens 15 Sept.
Crazy number of deer here but season isn't until November.
Crazy number of deer here but season isn't until November.
Can't you kill them on your own property?
Are you baiting a libertarian rant? ;) Deer belong to the State.
I thought that said Librarian the first two times I read it. I'm allllike... dude, wait, wut?
Shhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! No gun play in the library.
Crazy number of deer here but season isn't until November.
Get a bow. Season opens here (KY)
Sept. 3!Lola ohhhh my my my
Mont blanc ( White mountain ) is the highest peak in Western Europe from which that pen company takes its name
Sorry,
but I'm like this.
Carry on, citizens, go about your lawful business. Nothing to see here.
Sorry, but I'm like this.
Carry on, citizens, go about your lawful business. Nothing to see here.
"Europe"
IS Western Europe... the rest are just.... well.... you know.
*signing my favourite Cher song again*
:p:
morally ( oh wait, is this the word association thread ? )
Crazy number of deer here but season isn't until November.
This is in my front yard, I have been feeding them for a year now but I don't think any are big enough to take.
these arent great shots.. but I thought you guys might be intersested...
This is the UN (Geneva) hall of flags looking towards the gate and the UN Plaza...
and the "Broken Chair" a permanent memorial to victims of landmines.
ps..... re. the chair... one leg was blown off. ( yes , by the artist )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_ChairOk , so that would be "no" then.
It is interesting (I'm itching to straighten the top one... augh!).
What else can you show us with out violating diplomatic protocols?
It is interesting (I'm itching to straighten the top one... augh!).
What else can you show us with out violating diplomatic protocols?
can't do anything today but maybe I'll have a walk around the grounds and get you some more scenic shots in the next few days... and yes I'll try to hold the camera level.
maybe
:p:
thank you!
and... hold the camera however. I'm not in charge of your artistic vision. If it becomes intolerable, I'll tilt my head. or my computer. or I'll copy the picture and fix it myself. (yes, there's precedent for this.)
cheers!
Are you baiting a libertarian rant? ;) Deer belong to the State.
Seriously? Is that just PA? A couple who lived in Michigan told me that every night they would throw their vegetable scraps out in the back yard, and the deer would come up and eat them. When they needed venison, they would sit out back with a gun and shoot one of the deer.
thank you!
If it becomes intolerable, I'll tilt my head. or my computer. or I'll copy the picture and fix it myself. (yes, there's precedent for this.)
cheers!
????????? =
4 from last week. I was staying in Munster, IN where my wife was working. Not much to do and then the bar next door had a monthly car show so I went out and took some pictures. The location sucked so mostly everything was best as a detail shot.
Here is a location shot that I took just to record it but also to illustrate the guys who mostly can afford this hobby.
I have a photographer buddy who has a whole collection of hood ornament shots. It's surprising how many he still finds out there.
Well spotted, Chris. - Not an outright fan of cars myself, but I won't pass by a nice bit of design or a good photo shoot ;)
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Photos from a wreck earlier this evening. The black tahoe with the open door is my department's newest vehicle (prior to the budget crunch)
Peachfaced Lovebirds in the mesquite tree in my backyard. Phoenix has a rather large feral population of Lovebirds and quite a few hang out in the mesquite tree.......
It appears the two lovers have a voyeur.......
.
That's really great. It reminds me of the movie "
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill."
The birds are so cute, looks like they're talking to each other.
i'm warning you. it's coming. soon. vvvvery soooooon. beeee afraaaaiiiiiid!
Whaaaaaats cccoooooommming?
oh i bought one of those really nice disposable cameras! will post sometime next week....:)
This isn't the best quality. I wish it had come out clearer, but it cracks me up. My big tom cat on his back playing with his toy. lol Maybe you'll get a chuckle out of it too. I dunno.
p.s. love those love birds J.
HAhahahaa...cats are too funny! :)
Considering the angle,maybe we don't need a clearer shot.
haha....oh no! He must of heard me laugh'n. Here he comes.Minimize the screen!.... j/k
He likes to watch nature programs too. btw...no other shows just those.
I have a vid on my camera of my (RIP) Tajjy licking herself. Ahem. I busted out laughing and (no sound on camera) you know when I laughed because she stops and looks at me, then goes right back to it! :lol:
lol@ IF
woah, nice shot sundae. That's a humongous one. They grow large over there.
It's smaller than my little fingernail.
(smaller than pictured!)
I remember a song from Junior High choir:
Don't disturb the ladybug
Sleeping by the spider's web
blah blah blah blah blah something
Don't try to catch it in your net.
Or something.
Lady bird, ladybird fly away home
Your house is on fire, your children are gone
All except one, and her name is Ann
She crept under the frying pan
It worked in that it stopped us grabbing it for the bright colours and domed cuteness.
Always creeped me out though.
How big was the house?
How big was a frying pan in relation to it?
How many children (ladybirds) died?
Oooh, a link to that song:
http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/ladybug.htm
I remember the ladybird poem. Of course, we said ladybug. And I only remembered the first two lines. Actually, I remembered up until 'your house is on fire.'
I thought of Hank Hill's dog when I read Ladybird.
Who I *think* is named after Lady Bird Johnson? The whole Texas thing.
reopening the surf trip album reminded me of this picture. I think it's neat.
I also took this when standing at the Monument. Looks like I just missed some action.
i've got some pics now. can't post 'em yet though. my new Nikon D-3100 came in yesterday and i bought a memory card for it at lunch today. earliest will be tomorrow. y'all be patient with me! i'm having to relearn and learn at the same time. bigv, that's an awesome shot!
Dude, don't use the word "shot" around there.
i've got some pics now. can't post 'em yet though. my new Nikon D-3100 came in yesterday and i bought a memory card for it at lunch today. earliest will be tomorrow. y'all be patient with me! i'm having to relearn and learn at the same time. bigv, that's an awesome shot!
We got our D3100 a couple of months back. I love it. I even love the noise it makes!
ok i won't say shot! lol! here are my "check out the camera and see what i can do first off pics" from the track....first two are our outside party areas..next one is the pit obviously and the last is inside the game room.....have to say i'm very impressed with the auto function. will experiment with it more and then venture off into manual.
Dude, don't use the word "shot" around there.
dude. now Zen...you know i know what a shot is...right?
I see that snake has eaten recently.
"Dude, wait dude, put down your drink!"
"Nahhhh, chill out, I got this... fire in the hole!" (*blam*)
Hey, Cap's sure got some perky nipples!
Is that a gun in your holster, or are ya just happy to s---oh, it's a gun. Nevermind.
That bluetooth earpiece he's wearing is a bit dated. ;)
Damn, man, seriously? Just havin a bit of a casual drink, oops, lemme just deal with this snake ... bam .. okay were where we? :eek:
omg I am so stupid. I thought he was holding a big old staff, like that Moldar or whoever it is from one of those book/movie things. :lol:
I was looking more at his satellite ear. (Bluetooth...har har har!)
That's a damn snake! WTF?
Hey, around here, dress code is casual, but strictly enforced.
Bluetooth? No, no, bluehair.
you guys kill me!
here are a few pics from today. went to Galveston then took the ferry to boliver. along the way got to take pics of porpoise's. the one i have here is the best and had to crop it. the others? meh. all shots taken on auto. still feeling out the camera.
oh and the black thing up there in the last post in from the oil spill. a big azz tar ball.
nice pics and all that, but who is the babe? ;)
that is jessica, my girlfriend...
...a big azz tar ball.
I had tarball once...Doc gave me a salve for it.
I strongly feel that the term "tar ball" is racist.
If you have sex when you have tar ball, you might end up with a tar baby.
oh and the black thing up there in the last post in from the oil spill. a big azz tar ball.
I strongly feel that the term "tar ball" is racist.
I'm still reeling from the way he described his girlfriend!!!
Seriously - great pics thar philthy.
thx guys! UT sorry bro dats jiss da wayz i call it! :D
IM? as usual - :lol2:
That's a pretty good close-up. What kind of a camera was that taken with?
Pocket camera, Cannon PowerShot SD970IS ELPH
Have used this line of cameras for a long time now and they take great shots, they all have a macro-zoom and digital zoom. Reasonably priced and small enough to carry around which allows me to take more pics without lugging a bigger (albeit) a better quality camera.
That's the mother of all macros.
the untouched porcupine. I had to add a lot of light to this picture to find his face. It was originally just a single catchlight in a velvet pool.
awesome! me thinks me needs to save up for another lens. need a close up macro one.
Here's another taken the same day...
Not exactly food porn, but this is an example of dinner fare when we're at a group campsite. The crew was in charge of meals, and this night it was hamburgers. I got mine double meat, double cheese, mushrooms, grilled onions, the works on a toasted bun. When we camp, we're roughing it, but that does not mean deprivation.
The only thing wrong with that burger, is the same thing that's usually wrong w/other types of porn:
There's a pickle in there.
Otherwise::drool::yum:
Who did? Katydid!
Oh, no she di'int!!
right camo, wrong place. so much like a leaf, so beautiful. very nice pic, spexx!
question....i need a good macro lens. where can i go for cheap? i know, they're expensive but i consider 500 cheap for such a lens. where do you shop for your camera fodder?
This is the view from my car going up my driveway! :)
poor you. your driveway? really? too f'n sweet!
very lovely Nirvana. I hope that's a river, irrigation canal, _______ pond, and not a flood.
but it sure is purty. thanks for the nice picture.
Wow. I'm so jealous.
Just think of shoveling it in the winter.
Just think of shoveling it in the winter.
yard truck with a dozer blade
That is our acre pond the cows drink from and we have a loader tractor YAY! :)
Just think of shoveling it in the winter.
puh. I wouldn't go anywhere till the snow melted.
That or I'd be too busy Ice skating
Beautiful view Nirvana! :thumb:
WowNirvana. You have that view and all I have is the old sewage lagoon. sigh
puh. I wouldn't go anywhere till the snow melted.
That or I'd be too busy Ice skating
hey! i test snow melt panels!!
Yesterday I went with my son's cub scout den to a Civil War reenactment of the
battle of Cedar Creek. I'd never been to one of these before. It was an interesting view of a culture I'd never seen before. These reenactors spend thousands of dollars to buy their own gear and costumes and they join the battle just for the experience. They don't get paid.
They buy reproductions of period tents and camp the whole weekend using only period camping gear (at least the stuff left out in the open. Maybe they had down sleeping bags and air mattresses inside the tents.)
There are vendors who have larger period tents set up off to the side, and they sell most of the stuff that the reenactors need. So you could just walk up to one of these events and buy everything you need to join in on the fun.
They started off the action with a little skirmish between two mounted groups. Not much gun fire, but lots of clanging sabers. Nobody "died" during this, because I guess they didn't want to fall off their horses.
Then the two armies marched on each other and just basically fired volleys at one another from a short distance. The Confederates did well during this part of it, and drove the Union soldiers back. More people "died," but seriously, I don't think it was historically accurate. Out of a couple hundred people shooting at each other over a distance of about 50 yards, only a dozen people died. This was cool to watch. They also had cannons behind the lines going off.
And they stopped the reenactment at this point. Today, they continue it, and I understand the Union will regroup and push the Rebels back again. But we're not going back out there to watch that.
Here, the Confederates are marching back to their camp after the battle.
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Judging from the license plates in the parking lot, I think these reenactors come from all over the East Coast, and once they have purchased all the gear, they probably participate in one reenactment after another, much like deadheads following the Dead around on tour.
excellent pics glatt! I'd love to see a reenactment. later today i'm going to the Wings Over Houston Airshow and should have plenty of pics of that later on....
glatt - great pics. I haven't seen a reenactment in decades. I gotta look around here and see whats up.
Awesome pics glatt.
We had a little demo at the Soldiers and Soldiering conference, put on by a couple of reenactors (not sure, but I think they're from the 33rd Foot). Fascinating stuff.
A lot of what we know about uniforms and marching ephemera, we know because of the re-enactment community. Formal, and informal historians who work through experimental history and try to reconstruct, from fragmentary evidence and the odd throw away line in a memoir, the backpacks, and blankets, and uniforms as they'd have been used. There are people who've spent 25-30 years trying to piece together exactly what the back pack was like for a foot soldier in the latter stages of the Peninsula war for instance.
Great pictures glatt! I really enjoyed seeing them. Thanks! :)
I went to a re-enactment of the Battle of Franklin-Nashville, on the original battlefield. At that time it was said to be one of the larger re-enactments til that time, about 25,000 participants. There was a company of re-enactors, I think they were all from Texas, who were stunt-men/extras for the movies. They would roll off their horses at full gallop, the horses dropped like they'd been shot, too. They put on a hell of a show. Interestingly, when the riders fell/got shot, the horses stopped almost in their last steps, and stayed rooted to that spot, till their rider got up and came and got them. All of them did this, every one.
Also, these guys (all the re-enactors) are hard core. At the one I went to, there was literally white canvas tents by the thousands. Root beer brewed on site, 1860s style. :yum: Kept the bottle.
I have all this on Sony 8mm videotape. Yeah, I know, great decision. $1000 well-wasted.
There were also black re-enactors. Something I'd never thought about. There were soldiers, servants, maids. A surprising number of them, in fact.
Yesterday Bob, my roommate and I went to the Wings over Houston airshow. here are a few pics and some of these planes i'd posted before in another thread from the flight museum that they live at currently. i'll post a few more pictures later on. but for now here's several...
they also did pyrotechnics too which was pretty cool....
here are a couple vids from the show too.....
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i wasn't too impressed with the auto focus while taking movies with the 3100. it kept getting confused and not focusing correctly. pretty much the vids here that i posted were the only ones worth a darn out of the many that i took.
This weekend.
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very nice V. What was the exposure time on that?
Where is that? Look like it's take from a bluff overlooking a mountain lodge.
Looks like you got some pinholes in your, oh wait. Never mind. Very cool.
Confederates in the Attic is a phenomenal book about modern day Civil War reenactors, and how the war is still very much alive in the minds of many people on the east coast and in the south. Short read, but very interesting stuff.
Confederates in the Attic is a phenomenal book about modern day Civil War reenactors, and how the war is still very much alive in the minds of many people on the east coast and in the south. Short read, but very interesting stuff.
:tumb: I was going to recommend this very book! You beat me to it. It was a wonderful and interesting read. Part Travellog, part finger-on-the-pulse of the Re-enactor underground and a taste (al be it not an assessment of) the South in modern times. An eye opener. A must read.....
very nice V. What was the exposure time on that?
i too would like to know the settings. my night shots ssssSSSSSUUUUCK. me needs help/suggestions. i know slow everything down in low light but i think i'm not using the correct combinations. been practicing on go karts at night but they're all blurry or over exposed or something. take your pick. er pic. i mean pick. :p:
Thanks guys. :)
I don't have an easy EXIF exporter, so here's the manual transcription:
exposure 15s
aperture 2.97
f number f/2.8
iso 1600
There was plenty of exposure, I could have stepped down the iso or the exposure, but the conditions for examining the photo were quite poor, as you can imagine. I made a copy and this is the edited copy, I added a lot of black as the original has an unpretty amount of noise.
I also took a shot straight up and got a lovely view of the Milky Way, though there's lots of noise in that one too.
plt--Night shots are h-a-r-d. Keep at it, they're very rewarding and your camera has much more technological horsepower than mine does. When you learn how to drive it, you're gonna love it.
Thanks guys. :)
I don't have an easy EXIF exporter, so here's the manual transcription:
exposure 15s
aperture 2.97
f number f/2.8
iso 1600
There was plenty of exposure, I could have stepped down the iso or the exposure, but the conditions for examining the photo were quite poor, as you can imagine. I made a copy and this is the edited copy, I added a lot of black as the original has an unpretty amount of noise.
I also took a shot straight up and got a lovely view of the Milky Way, though there's lots of noise in that one too.
plt--Night shots are h-a-r-d. Keep at it, they're very rewarding and your camera has much more technological horsepower than mine does. When you learn how to drive it, you're gonna love it.
Very nice, BigV! For your Milky Way shots, try lowering the ISO to 800. It should reduce the noise. Your settings are about what I use for my astro photography. The photo you posted is VERY clear for an ISO of 1600. I'm good at 800, but they get noisy above that.
Night/low light shots + moving subject + no flash = teh aggravation.
Here's a native frog I found swimming in the spa this morning. He's now living in the garden. :)
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Hey, he was enjoying that spa!
Yeah, but I didn't think he'd survive long term in the chlorine. He's still in the pot plant I put him in out the side atm, so maybe he likes it there. I tried to pick something he'd blend in with. Check this out.
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Focus is shit, but can you spot the froggy?
If he's still there tomorrow, I'm going to try and get some better shots when the dogs and the two year old aren't bothering me. lol
plt--Night shots are h-a-r-d. Keep at it, they're very rewarding and your camera has much more technological horsepower than mine does. When you learn how to drive it, you're gonna love it.
thanks man, it's just getting to know all the bells and whistles. it's user friendly but not user friendly if you know what i mean. i know it takes time. i'll get it. eventually.
This is what happens when you mess with your cellphone while driving about 80+mph and don't wear your seatbelt. One fatality and one seriously injured. You can see the driver's legs at coming out the window. In the center of the photo, the group of firefighters/officers are doing chest compressions. This is just outside my city limits. We were helping with traffic control to get EMS in and out.
Might be nice to show this to your kids before they go out tonight.
Texting drivers are the equivalent of 4x more impaired than a legally drunk driver.
I'm impressed that kids of my grand-children's age immediately buckle up
with seat belts, even though sometimes my grown kids forget.
So, I guess I'm too much Old School.
How can anyone think it's OK to "text" while driving.
I have a hard time with Oregon's strict no-cell-phone law,
because I somehow feel talking on a phone is within the bounds.
I drink coffee, I listen to the radio, I yell at the kids when needed.
But I do try very hard to not answer the phone if it rings, and I don't initiate calls.
For me, using a GPS would be too much, let alone surfing the internet while driving.
But "texting" ??? Will somebody please cut off their thumbs.
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update on wreck
TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - Authorities say one person has died as a result of one of two separate accidents Friday afternoon on Highway 45. Lee County Coroner Carolyn Green notified WTVA.com about the fatality late Friday afternoon. The person is identified as 18-year-old Cetori Morris. Tupelo police say one of the accidents happened around 3:15 p-m when a northbound Chevy Suburban flipped several times and landed on the southbound side of the highway. According to officers, the driver was inside the sport utility vehicle when they arrived, but Morris had been thrown from the vehicle.
Meanwhile, police say a two-car crash happened on the northbound side of Highway 45 near Green Street as the result of the traffic backup from the SUV rollover. One driver was taken to the hospital when his car smashed into another car in front of him.
WOW.
Big car for an 18yo to handle.
Sorry it was a fatality, but who the fuck drives without a seatbelt on these days?
Cars feel so safe.
Maybe we should make them feel more scary again. We could ban front windscreens so you don't forget just how fast you are really going.
Cars feel so safe.
Maybe we should make them feel more scary again. We could ban front windscreens so you don't forget just how fast you are really going.
We could mandate Corvairs!
Those were
cool!Central Park
(RFLastWeek)
Taken w/ iphone 4s
What's with the floating barrel ? balloons ?
My son spotted this guy in the rosemary bush by our front door, and took this picture with my camera. This guy was really aggressive. It was right by the driveway, and you had to walk past him to get to the car. He would pivot to follow me, and paw at the air in a menacing way when I walked by.
Caption
"Camouflage ur doin it rong"
who the fuck drives without a seatbelt on these days?
My wife :mad2:
holy hell!!! i just saw that pic sarge! dammmmmiiiiiit!
i always wear my seat belt. even flying as a passenger on an airliner, albeit i wear it loosely as to keep me from bouncing my head off the ceiling in case of turbulence. shit i even wear it in a damn go kart if i'm not surfing the thing back in line or putting it up for the night.
My wife :mad2:
Really? Have her call me. I'll explain it all to her
Then again, insurance paid up? :bolt:
:lol: NAUGHTY CLASSIC!
Mate of mine just got a ticket for driving without a seatbelt. He also got a few slaps up the back of the head, including one from me.
Watch out for that mantis, believe it or not they punch like Chuck Norris. Stick your face near it and you might lose an eye.
My dad won't wear one. Never has, no matter how many different ways I tried to convince him. Always rebuts that the front and side airbags are plenty. But he's also one of those guys who drives a car designed like a tank at less than the speed limit, always assumes every guy at every intersection is about to run their red light in order to try to hit him, and drives very little to begin with. He's never been in any kind of wreck or fender-bender, to my knowledge. Not condoning it, but I've given up trying.
"Paw in the air in a menacing way..."
Maybe he was just saying Hey Bro.
"Paw in the air in a menacing way..."
Maybe he was just saying Hey Bro.
More like "Hey Bro, I'mma fuck you up."
Always rebuts that the front and side airbags are plenty.
To be fair, that's how they were sold to us. "People are never going to wear seatbelts, so this is now the answer."
Then when they were present in all vehicles, "OMG injuries are potentially worse if you get airbagged without using a seatbelt."
I save this thread up for special times, then view it all at once.
I'll never fail to be amazed at the skill (and occasionally the luck) of Dwellars with cameras.
My lowly offerings:
I found the long lost sister of the purple one!
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What a great pic!
Anyone BUT OBAMA in 2012!
Went to San Francisco with my Dad earlier this month on a short vacation.
Point Reyes National Seashore, the lighthouse on the point at Point Reyes, and the Golden Gate Bridge from Battery Spencer.
Wowza! Cool pics!
That ocean --- it's so...so pacific!
My Thanksgiving dinner at the old sewage lagoon. Watching the sun start to drop
Some of my latest astrophotography done over the Thanksgiving weekend.
Very nice. You had some clear skies.
What's your setup? Apologies if you've told us before.
No problem Glatt. I use my Canon PowerShot SX20IS in manual mode and take about 10 light frames at 15 seconds each, ISO of 800 and aperture of 2.8. I also take 10 dark frames (same settings as light frames with lens covered) and 10 bias frames (lens covered and fastest exposure you can with the camera). After downloading, I import them into Deep Sky Stacker (
http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html) to stack them to bring out the details. That's it. No photoshop...don't even own it.
Here are the other two from that night...
So when you stack them, that will subtract a lot of the noise from the consumer grade sensor? I've got a similar camera, and may try that. The night sky doesn't get very dark here though.
So when you stack them, that will subtract a lot of the noise from the consumer grade sensor? I've got a similar camera, and may try that. The night sky doesn't get very dark here though.
Yes, exactly Glatt. The DSS will average the dark frames and bias frames and create a master dark and master bias. DSS will then use those and the light images to create the image.
Having a lot of ambient light will definitely not help. The best thing to do is find a dark area away from the city on a night where there is a new moon. Moonlight will kill you. Once your eyes adjust, look for interesting areas of the night sky that appear to have smudges of the Milky Way and concentrate on those. Ten photos of each area should be fine. Then, take your 10 dark frames and 10 bias frames and you're done. Then, just download them and use DSS.
I thought the rain on the red leaves were pretty, so I took a pix.
As ever, wow to all posters since I last said wow.
Glatt - that shot of teh krazy kids needs to be framed.
Sarge - such a beautiful photo. Such a prosaic caption. I hope you were joking. Thanksgiving is nothing to me but I hurt on your behalf if you were alone with a Sub for company. But that was last year and maybe I've alrady said that?!
V - I like that the warning is at the top of the stairs. So no-one can bitch and moan if they make it down but can't make it back up again. You Were Warned.
DMG - beyond my understanding. But beautiful.
Lola, I have put my camera back in my bag.
The other day walking to school it was early enough and cold enough that the sunlight hadn't touched the raindrops from the night before. Every twig was decorated. I saw close to 10 photo opportunities. Sigh. Glad you caught that one, it's so pretty.
I offer Bullitt's thanks.
Went for a drive w/Momdigr the other afternoon, caught this at 60 mph...
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So, at teh BurgerKing drive-thru the other night the infant at the cash register said to me "I'll have to give you a gold dollar. Is that ok?" And, since the only thing better than money is gold money, I said "Sure.", expecting Sacagewea to be rattling 'round in mah pants.
Instead, I got John Adams.:yelsick:
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From my late January trip to the UK. We spent 2 weeks in Wales and a week in London when it snowed. I head back in a month for a 4 week trip. :)
1. I had a window seat in first class as we approached Ireland at Sunrise.
2. We stayed in Saundersfoot where I took long walks on the beach. 3. Pentra Ifan, the ancient burial chamber.
4. It snowed in the Brecon Beacons.
London in winter....
1. The Tube
2-3. The palace in the snow
4. Skiing though Green Park
Those are all very nice!
The air is so much clearer in front of the engines.
Nice to see you back, Chris.
Beautiful pics, as always.
Well, the drought here in the Houston area is officially over for now and my lawn is growing like crazy. Wish I could have one of these for lawn maintenance and also to keep the Jehovah's Witness folks from knocking on my door!
Taken on my last trip to South Africa, a nice big male Black Rhino grazing on some grass.
I just took this from the conference room down the hall. That's Discovery on the way to the Smithsonian.
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:sniff:
I still can't believe The National Museum of the US Air Force didn't get a shuttle.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/index.asp
I did see one of these in the sky today. Have to remember to be outside at lunchtime tomorrow to see them fly over Date-unnnn.
http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123295982Nice. I saw it twice, but both times it was too quick to take a picture, and neither was as good an angle.
Visited my daughter in Seattle last week and as she had to go to work early I vacated her apartment just before sunrise and went down to Pike's Place market to kill some time.
Nice. I saw it twice, but both times it was too quick to take a picture, and neither was as good an angle.
You're in Virginia, right? where?
It flew right over my son's elementary school in Arlington. Some Astronaut had attended the elementary school, so they made sure to fly over on their way to Dulles. The whole school was outside waiting, and saw it. (My wife teaches there and she texted me that they saw it too.)
I saw it on my commute, on my way from DC to Dulles. Apparently, it made an excellent appearance right by my building, but I missed it.
Seattle eh? I've been there. That sign looks cool in the evening gloaming too. This is from last week.
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glatt, tha's an epic picture! What a catch.
I just took this from the conference room down the hall. That's Discovery on the way to the Smithsonian.
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it would be cool enough to see the shuttle fly by... but to catch it carrying a 747 like that! wow. just wow.
and you can't even see the wire that supports the jet fighter...
I just took this from the conference room down the hall.
:eek:How the hell did they get that thing
in the conference room??
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So. Fucking. Jealous. Right. Now.
Hate. You. Guys.
BigV has found a way to photograph acid trips.
Found a field of windmills not far from my flat in SW Wales. Funny but the sheep don't seem to mind the structures and the whirring of the big blades. Folks around here don't like them and it makes me wonder if they felt that way 200 or so years ago with the old style wind mills that ran the grain mills or pumped water.
Saturday I took my wife for a drive to the Brecon Beacons to do a whiskey tasting at the Penderyn distillery, the only one in Wales that produces quality single malt whiskey, gin and vodka! It was a great experience! :drunk:
We came upon this castle not far from our destination. Must have been a bugger for the invading forces to attack as it is way up on a steep mountain.
I hope there's an easier path on the back side
Saturday I took my wife for a drive to the Brecon Beacons to do a whiskey tasting at the Penderyn distillery, the only one in Wales that produces quality single malt whiskey, gin and vodka! It was a great experience!
We came upon this castle not far from our destination. Must have been a bugger for the invading forces to attack as it is way up on a steep mountain.
Been staying a few nights in the valley next to it (Ystradfellte). Didn't know about the distillery, or else ...
Beautiful stretch of country, lots and lots of waterfalls and peaty waters (good for the whiskey).
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Those are nice! I especially like the waterfall. Did you use a neutral density filter so you could get that long exposure?
Yes, glatt, the digital equivalent anyway. I don't know what the digital cameras do internally to simulate an ND filter.
I went a little wild with the saturation and contrast tools in post-editing.
I had to fix a few things as this was a through-the-windshield pic...
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Another rained out day in Wales so here I sit editing images from long ago. Taken in South Africa, the Taal Monument. Kind of a surreal setting.
If I could see just a fraction of the world that you've seen, Chris, I would be happy!
[Cliff Clavin] Well technically, you have seen a fraction, albeit a small one, of the world he's seen.[/Cliff Clavin]
:lol: Touche!
[Cliff Clavin]Hey Carla, I have a potato that looks like Richard Milhouse Nixon.[/Cliff Clavin]
[COLOR="Silver"]Carla: Big deal. Show me one that doesn't.[/COLOR]
Two decent shots in one day! I was in the waterfall district of the Brecon Beacons in Wales and got a nice water fall shot even though the trees here are barely showing any leaves and it is still quite wintery. Then on my way out and back to my coastal flat I came upon this HUGE stone out in a field probably put there by aliens in space ships. This thing must have been 15 ft high and 8 x 2 ft across and weighed 15 tons or more. It was very bleak so I processed to B&W
Now we are up in Snowdonia for the 3 day weekend. Will someone explain what exactly is a BANK HOLIDAY?:neutral:
I thought the boulder was in the ocean!
Pretty light makes pretty colors at the Experience Music Project.
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Finally at home in Houston after a month in Wales. I transferred my UK trip images from my travel hard drive to my desktop one and had 56GB of images, around 2400 in total.
Here is one of the last shots I took, I had just rounded a corner on a small rural road and came upon a heard of small breed horses and saw this foal standing close to the mother. Color wasn't great so I changed it to a sepia toned B&W.
Hey Chris, that's a(nother) nice OH LOOK A PONY!!!
Saturday I took my wife for a drive to the Brecon Beacons to do a whiskey tasting at the Penderyn distillery, the only one in Wales that produces quality single malt whiskey, gin and vodka! It was a great experience! :drunk:
We came upon this castle not far from our destination. Must have been a bugger for the invading forces to attack as it is way up on a steep mountain.
Beautiful.
Ripley took this for me a little bit ago. Came up behind this awesome dog and her human in traffic. Guy said the dog had been riding for 6 years. I love her goggles.
I love her doggles.
FIFY.
Cookin' meth in a swamp, or whut?
that's actually a great picture. I love it. When I loaded the image, none of the junk in the foreground was visible. I could only see it when I scrolled down from the bucolic summer scene at the top. shocker!
I got that too.
Have you ever seen the movie Baraka?
Cookin' meth in a swamp, or whut?
I took a bike ride down a road that leads to the bay. I stopped to admire the view and this was the mess I walked into.
that's actually a great picture. I love it. When I loaded the image, none of the junk in the foreground was visible. I could only see it when I scrolled down from the bucolic summer scene at the top. shocker!
Thank you!:D
I got that too.
Have you ever seen the movie Baraka?
This one?
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I love it.
I hope that's something my local movie rental store (or maybe my library) will have. I just read the Wikipedia article about it, and it sounds interesting.
It is visually arresting. I also just finished the wiki article, it sounds about right. I don't have the video display capable of taking advantage of the new dvd/blu-ray release but it does sound tasty.
The comparisons to the Qatsi series are also apt. I have all three of them as well. They are powerful, moving experiences. I give them my highest recommendation.
I don't have the video display capable of taking advantage of the new dvd/blu-ray release but it does sound tasty.
Dang dude, jump on that there $300 old-tech plasma bandwagon!
Wikipedia quote (Re: "Baraka"):
Following previous DVD releases, in 2007 the original 65 mm negative was re-scanned at 8K (a horizontal resolution of 8192 pixels) with equipment designed specifically for Baraka at FotoKem Laboratories. The automated 8K film scanner, operating continuously, took more than three weeks to finish scanning more than 150,000 frames (taking approximately 12–13 seconds to scan each frame), producing over 30 terabytes of image data in total. After a 16-month digital intermediate process, including a 96 kHz/24 bit audio remaster by Stearns for the DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack of the film, the result was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in October, 2008. Project supervisor Andrew Oran says this remastered Baraka is "arguably the highest quality DVD that's ever been made".[2] Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert describes the Blu-ray release as "the finest video disc I have ever viewed or ever imagined."
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Does anyone have suitable equipment to view this or support the critic mentioned's argument?
I reckon anyone with a modern 1080p display could display the maximum quality of the blu-ray video. As for the audio, I think it would take a separate sound system integrated with the blu-ray player and display, though I'm much less fluent with the current specno-babble for the audio terms.
As for the extra super high resolution at which it was digitized from the original analog film, that's beyond the capabilities of anything outside a studio. There's no home theater displaying those kinds of resolution. But the article says it was reproduced on blu-ray with fancy audio. I have a blu-ray player (a PS3) but only antique televisions and none with discrete outboard audio.
I am *still* amazed by this film though.
Extremely few people would hear a difference between regular CD quality audio {44.1k/16 bit} and that super highDef audio, even on studio quality monitors.
Still, I applaud the effort.
I've only seen Baraka once, on TV, by chance. It started just after some other program I had been watching ended, and I just started watching ...
Should have had some kind of warning on it ... "this program may blow your feeble mind" or something.
4k definition (whatever the hell that means) TVs are just now being made available to the public. I imagine the prices are just stratospheric.
A quick (lazy) google shopping search comes up with a
4k video camera...$29,999.
You'll want to stay away from red.com if you are shocked by that sticker.
Stay away? W/an endorsement like that, I don't think I can, now.
ETA: Yikes.
About a week before Paul's surgery his lifelong friend, Tom, flew in to help out during the beginning stages of Paul's surgery. (wish i'd gotten the chance to fly his plane, a glass cockpit Grumman Tiger, reaaaaaaaly nice!)
They had gone to Paul's favorite cigar shop where Tom found this meerschaum hand carved sultan pipe from Turkey. I have to admit, it's a very pretty, well crafted pipe.
Today after i went to see Paul, who is making progress.....slowly but surely, i left the aftercare hospital and went by the cigar shop which was not even 3 minutes away and bought the sultan for Tom. i'm shipping it to him sometime on Monday.
my way of saying "Thanks". while he and his wife were here they were a tremendous help.
That"s an amazing pipe. I would love to be able to carve that well.
Good thoughts for Paul. I hope he recuperates soon.
Good work by you man bringing it all together!! Atta-b0000y!
Beautiful meerschaum, nice move. :thumb:
Beautiful meerschaum, nice move. :thumb:
someone once taught me that money is only substance. i may do with it as i please.
Good work by you man bringing it all together!! Atta-b0000y!
ty to you sir! :D
and ty glatt! :D
someone once taught me that money is only substance. i may do with it as i please.
And you chose to do good, which is only one of the options.
Awesome pipe. Good on you. Glad to hear he is doing better.
Meershaum tip: Light carefully. It burns easily. I ruined mine. :(
And you chose to do good, which is only one of the options.
true true! :thumb:
Awesome pipe. Good on you. Glad to hear he is doing better.
Meershaum tip: Light carefully. It burns easily. I ruined mine. :(
yeah that's what the guy at the shop had said. he also mentioned to not touch the bowl the first couple of times that it's smoked.
honestly though, i think it's going on display in his house or restaurant. not sure which.
and thanks w/the roommate. he's in for a long, long recovery.
Glad you said that. I forgot about the no touch. It will get stained with the oils from your hands/fingers. Display is the way to go.
I went to Puerto Rico with my wife for the wedding of her best friend's son. It was a big wedding and they had it covered with 2 photographers and a crew of video shooters so I just took pictures more for me, some of which I will put on a CD and send to the newly weds.
Anyway the reception was in a super dark room mostly lit with colored spot lights, neon like lights and candles. So I took a lot of pictures using my 85mm 1.2 lens and set the ISO way up to like 12,000!
So here are 2 examples of the shots I took and some blown up details just to show how amazing the Canon sensor in my camera is as well as the lens although the depth of field was very slim. I was impressed! :cool:
I'm envious.
My Panasonic gets tons of noise set at 400.
Other than that, it's a neat camera.
My God, those are spectacular. :eek:
Stunning photos!! You're inspiring me to get my camera out again. Wow. :notworthy:
Here is shot I took awhile back of a juvenile male elephant letting all hang out. Damn that thing is big! :eek:
Damn teenagers flaunting it.:male:
Damn Chris ... I took about 50 pics yesterday trying to get one - JUST ONE - worthy of posting here.
Guess I'll go over to the NON-quality images thread.... :(
Seriously, Its people like you who take pics like those which never cease to impress me.
Good on you! Great pics.
One of my favorite places to visit when in Seattle is Pike's Place Market. But to get shots without crowds of tourists and shoppers you need to be there real early!
Cats 1 - Squirrels 0
The
weird news thread reminded me of this one, which I took a few weeks ago on the fringes of Dartmoor.
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The view from the 14th floor of the Atrium in Harrah's Marina Tower
Amanda and Willie:
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Shortly after this, he gave her a kiss on the cheek, and shook my hand. VERY cool brush with greatness. I can't think of a bigger country star. Maybe Johnny Cash... but he aint kissin nobody. He said something to Amanda like... 'he's a big fella, if he's not nice to you, you call me. you got my number right?' and then shook my hand again. and then a third time.... and then as he walked away, he said, 'nice to meet ya Jim'
We were just in the right place at the right time. I wasn't really sure it was him until I spoke to him. You recognize his voice immediately from roles he's played in movies, and interviews. I'm still all like... WOW. Willie Freakin' Nelson.
Wow. He always seemed like he would be a nice and approachable guy. Glad to hear that he was.
So. Jealous. Right. Now.
ETA: Bastidge.
you sure that ain't willie and amanda?
Willie is the best! Awesome picture LJ!!!!!
I met Willie in Atlantic City 10 years ago. We shared a bottle of JW blue. Good times
Yellow Argiope Spider ( Charlottes Web Spider )
an unwelcome tenant outside Amanda's front door. he had 5 buddies scattered throughout her bushes, too. I relocated 5 of the 6, left on up high in a boxwood bush... and took one home.
this is the biggest one. he is now across the street in a tree that stands alone under a lamp post. Should be good hunting there.
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this one I took home. It immediately set up shop in the zinneas:
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Nice work, Jim, relocating instead of just squashing.
Reminds me somewhat of the
Gold orb-weaver, which were really common up in the hills around Taipei. Argiopes live there too I think - I think I recall running into both in the jungles around the city. I'm not much of an arachnophobe but they're definitely big enough to freak the hell out of me.
weather pictures, lightning specifically, is a bitch.
i could use a little help here taking weather shots. i've been trying shot after shot after shot to get this right. could i have some camera setting suggestions? the focus i know....i need to work on that too but given what i'm trying to take photos of is pretty hit and miss.
i was outside for about an hour and this is the only one worth posting i obviously re-sized it for here:
Nice catch! I would suggest putting the camera in something like landscape/scenic mode, where the camera is focused to infinity. And, if your cam will do it in this mode, a long exposure, say, five seconds or more in a frequent strike storm.
Timing the pressing of the button on a digital camera for something this precise is teh suck.
Also, small aperture setting. Lightning is bright.
Truth in advertising: I've never caught a decent lightning strike.
I have an app for my iPhone which is supposed to capture strike photos. Unfortunately, we haven't had enough stormy weather this year for me to even begin to try it out.
Truth in advertising: I've never caught a decent lightning strike.
I was about to give advice earlier and then remembered that all my lightning pictures suck. :(
Well first, yer hafta catch the lightning in a jar. Then yer can photo it all yer likes. :p
I have an app for my iPhone which is supposed to capture strike photos. Unfortunately, we haven't had enough stormy weather this year for me to even begin to try it out.
Well feel free to visit here for a day or so then... my back yard is literally growing algae from all the stinking rain. Ugh.
Better?
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Set up your camera on a tripod.
Set for small aperture.
Set for long exposure.
Fly a kite with copper wire.
holy hell V!!!! hell yeah that's better! that's freakin' awesome!!
i tried landscape as well but didn't get any shots. well, i got plenty. just after the strikes. the one i caught here i was holding down the button and taking frame after frame after frame and got lucky.
bruce, i'll try that only without the kite! :)
cool link V, thanks!!
lightning trigger...huh. that's pretty cool!
my attempts with a lightning shot out over the golf course using time lapse did not net any lightning BOLTS .... they were all inside the thunderstorm cloud.
Yeah, but if he had a kite on a copper wire he could have gotten a bolt. :lol2:
great picture, thanks for sharing!
Yeah, but if he had a kite on a copper wire he could have gotten a jolt. :lol2:
Fixed it.
Cool pic, btw.
Taken at our county fair back in August.
Nice image! Brings back bad memories though.
I can almost see the barf. :haha:
Great pic
But which way is it going - counter-clockwise ?
And are the people on the ride going around the lights in the middle,
and where is the damned squirrel ?
i really like that one dmg!!
this morning i rolled out of bed at 5:30 with the intention of making it to work by 7:00. didn't happen. there was a thunder cell to my east moving north and was just oozing with lightning. thanks to flex hours at work i was able to put that off and grab the nikon.
y'all are right, night shots are way easier. i still need lots of practice but this isn't too bad for my first attempt.
in these shots you see here, the first one was me testing out the ISO at 60. a little too much overexposure imo. i did change it to 125 which i thought would be fine but i was trying a different method and it turned out horrible. the nikon D-3100 has a video mode where you can take snapshots from a single frame and i thought i'd try it out. not one of them came out. way out of focus. must work on that. could be a handy feature.
anyway, here are the three shots i snapped at ISO60.
I like those. It's got a nice sensor to get those stars to come out so well.
The clouds look cool, lit up by lightning like that.
they're getting their lighting from the city lights. we have a crap load of light pollution here. these pics were taken about an hour before dawn. it does look better than i thought it would.
What about fireworks? they can be fun to try to film as well.
Yes, they certainly can be.
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It has been kind of rainy and foggy here in Geelong, Australia but I have gotten out some to take pictures. This one is from yesterday of the harbor and Cunningham Pier in the misty fog.
The challenge is that I did not bring my usual laptop PC but just my new Asus Infinity pad and I shoot only in Canon RAW files. I have a app for viewing and converting a copy to JPEG but then I use Adobe's PS Touch to edit and save and then use a re-sizing app to post a scaled down image. Keeps one occupied while it rains!
makes me want some Clam Chowdah.
it's March in Aus right now, huh?
The space shuttle just flew over my house!!!!!!!!!! i snapped as many shots as i could. here's one now....i have to get back to work. i left there just so i could get the pics!!!
That's awesome! On its way to L.A., I guess.
and the vid....
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That's awesome! On its way to L.A., I guess.
Yeah, it's on display at Ellington Field here until 9 p.m. tonight.
After sorting through all the pics I figure I have about 9 that truly stand out as being real good. When I get home from work I will re-size them and put them up. Those of you that are on my FB you can see every pic I took.
I'm liking the manual focus better than the auto focus for sure.
I'm liking the manual focus better than the auto focus for sure.
Sometimes cameras are too smart for their own good.
I tried taking a video of a metro train rolling into the station with my cell phone the other day. I was holding the phone perfectly steady, but the image stabilization software kept trying to stabilize the moving train, and then would jump back again when it realized it wasn't working. So it looks like I'm having an epileptic fit the way the movie jumps around all over the place.
ok, here are 8 pics that came out pretty good....i'm proud of these y'all, i was so lucky to get these!
Wow. Those are great! You were so close. The lighting is good, and they are so crisp.
I took one in the spring, and I thought it was good, but it's not nearly as good as yours turned out. You were in your back yard? Do you live near the airport or was it just good luck that it flew so close?
Tank gunnery! The guys also live on their tanks for 10 days, rain or shine.
Wow. Those are great! You were so close. The lighting is good, and they are so crisp.
I took one in the spring, and I thought it was good, but it's not nearly as good as yours turned out. You were in your back yard? Do you live near the airport or was it just good luck that it flew so close?
Thanks! My house is located on about a 5 mile final to runway 35L @ Ellington Air Force Base. Took the pics from up on the roof, I was so excited I was shaking! lol!
I like your pic too!
Would've been awesome to see the shuttle and transport.
Never have the chance again...
I would have loved to see it too! Great pics
Tank gunnery! The guys also live on their tanks for 10 days, rain or shine.
tell me they have air conditioning!
(ty sir!)
Rachael Mother Fucking Johnson
Where is that, Woody? At first I assumed it was a bridge/overpass, but after a bit I noticed it's a roof. Maybe inside, or maybe a shed roof, up against a building.
Where is that, Woody? At first I assumed it was a bridge/overpass, but after a bit I noticed it's a roof. Maybe inside, or maybe a shed roof, up against a building.
It's an old fruit stand on the side of a boring road that cuts through the pines in south jersey. It's been abadoned for as long as I could remember. I like to take pictures of it whenever I take that road. It might not be there the next time.
Here are some more...Motherfucking Rachael Johnson
70 ft up a sugar maple tree:
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Skippy the Skink.
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I just learned that the blue tail (and sometimes the lines) on an American Five-Lined Skink indicates a juvenile.
I wonder: if skink-predators vision is hyper-blue-sensitive,
maybe it's a survival trait so the predator goes for the tail
and it breaks away allowing the young'un to escape and grow
up to be a big skink.
I also learned that skinks can voluntarily/spontaneously pop-off their tail, or any section/length thereof, in order to evade predators. I thought it pulled off only when they were caught by it.
Also, the tail continues writhing/wriggling to draw the predator's attn from the escaping skink.
Looking out my back door
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Very nice. You have an excellent view.
I guess to a guy from Washington, only seeing three bullshit machines must be a relief!
The picture isn't all that neat, but I'm just happy I manage to capture a balloon.
We were ready with the cameras because we thought it was going to come over our house, but the very slight wind which we couldn't even feel on the ground sent it away to the South-West of us.
Good catch, Sundae! Better than
mine.The mannequins in the storefront window of
Red Light, a consignment shop in the University District are showing their
Pride!
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Bah, noobs... The Queen's been doing it for years.
beautiful sunset photos. here's my pics of Carolina wrens in the nest and a hatchling in my hand
Here's a photo of another juvenile wren. He flew into the window screen and got his feet stuck. He was hanging upside down when I found him.
Sunset during T-storms, off J's balcony on Sunday.
Okay, who opened up the portal to another dimension? Own up now. Wolf, was that you?
My attempt at one of these pano's
Cool, you got one leg longer than the other? :lol2:
Cool, you got one leg longer than the other? :lol2:
:blush:
I got a little wonky there at the end...lol
No matter, still a great picture. :D
Are they leaves or crabs on the deck?
There are some crab parts from the gulls dropping them on the bridge. There is also old bait on terr too
That is a neat pic, well done!
That is a neat pic, well done!
Thanks! :)
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Looks close.
Think she'll be hanging out that close when hunting season starts?
Looks close.
~75 yards + 24x optical zoom. ;)
Think she'll be hanging out that close when hunting season starts?
She's a daisy if she does! Bow season starts tomorrow (9/7) here in KY!
You'll have the chance to take that perfect shot ... the one where the doe raises her head, looks toward you ... you've drawn, and now you release ... she bounds forward, stops, hesitates, lowers her head and grabs a mouthful of grass ... raises her head and looks back at you ... then drops, the grass still in her mouth, not comprehending what's happened. She dies with no anticipation of danger, no fear, no stress. The perfect shot.
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You left out the part where you give thanks.
To the doe, for her scarifice...
To the forest, for the doe...
To God, for the forest...
Nice waterfall pics. I like the vintage one. Old pictures rock.
I can't document this, but I feel you don't have enough fingers to count
the number of people that have fallen off the trail that runs up to the top of the falls.
Dogs too.
Sometimes one causes the other to slip... sometimes Darwin plays a role.
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Nice waterfall pics. I like the vintage one. Old pictures rock.
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No, feet...he said old pix rock, not old rock pix.
The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium (Home of Jack Hanna!)
I fell in love with the Polar Bears. They were all above water and I was watching them (from the above ground viewing) as they went towards the water. I knew they were getting ready to jump in so I hurried down to the underwater viewing area. I was using my video on my phone and ALMOST caught the first one's jump, but I freaked out. I do have video of one eating up a fish he just decapitated.
They're amazing creatures. They were sitting on top of the curved plexi-glass in order to be right in front of the aboveground viewing level. Like they wanted to have their pictures taken! Yes, I know they just wanted to eat us all but they look so darn cuddly.
I have to figure out how to get my video onto my computer...file is too big to send through gmail.
Those are cool shots! We have no polar bears at our zoo.
Ah yes, they look so cute, like big fluffy dogs with soft pleading eyes, begging you to come innnn and joinnnn them .... so they can eat you. :yum:
I've been told (by a friend who's lived all his adult life in the arctic) that polar bears will actively hunt humans. They're not afraid of anything; they don't have to be. Everything (everyone) is on the menu.
I've always heard that the polar bear is the only animal that will willingly, and, knowingly hunt a human. Other instances of human-hunting are usually wounded animals, or rabid, or otherwise diseased, or starving.
That is an apex predator, right there.
I can't remember the guy's name, but, the old man used to watch a hunting show on one of the outdoor-type channels, where the guy's motto was "I won't hunt anything that can't hunt me back."
I have to figure out how to get my video onto my computer...file is too big to send through gmail.
I guess importing via the USB/charging cable is out of the equation?
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This house is truckload.
Ah yes, they look so cute, like big fluffy dogs with soft pleading eyes, begging you to come innnn and joinnnn them .... so they can eat you. :yum:
I've been told (by a friend who's lived all his adult life in the arctic) that polar bears will actively hunt humans. They're not afraid of anything; they don't have to be. Everything (everyone) is on the menu.
ORLY?
Does this look scary to anyone else? Can you see the dragon's teeth? :O
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Spencer took this one. He said it was so big that he could see it breathing.
I liked "NASA's Wallops Flight Facility" on FB so I could get detailed information on their launches.
Turns out the launches are visible for hundreds of miles, even in the daytime. From the comments on their page of who just saw the launch 30 minutes ago, it was visible in Collegville, PA, for example.
Anyway, this was the view from my building's dining room.
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This is an unmanned ISS supply rocket.
From Orbital Sciences, I believe. A previously scheduled launch that had been delayed due to the cold weather.
Yep. I've been putting each new launch time into my calendar.
I was skeptical I'd be able to see anything in the daytime. It's 111 miles from the launch pad to my office building. So after bringing my good camera into work for two days, I said "screw it" this morning and left it at home. But the cell phone took a decent enough picture when it finally did launch today.
Now I need to scour Google Earth for a good night time viewing location near my house. There's a tree in the way from all our windows at home.
I didn't take this picture, but this shows where the launch could theoretically be seen, and how long after liftoff it would take to see anything.
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Now I need to scour Google Earth for a good night time viewing location near my house. There's a tree in the way from all our windows at home.
Dan Snyder could get that tree removed for you. :rolleyes:
One of the last shots from my Istanbul adventure taken on the Sea of Marmara near the Istanbul airport.
Great picture, and your titles are so exotic. :haha:
I shot this one about 10 minutes later when the sun was just below the horizon. We had a 5am flight the next morning that we had to get up ar 2AM for! Took us 23 hours to get home after that!
Did you sleep on the plane at all?
I can sometimes get as much as 30 minutes of sleep at a time on a plane.
Our first flight was on a very uncomfortable Lufthansa A320 with hard seats so I maybe dozed a bit but not much. Landed in Frankfurt and had a 5 hour layover which really increased the effect of sleep deprivation. Then flew a direct flight back to Houston that was about 11 hours. We were in Business Class so the lie flat seats were nice and we actually both slept 4-5 hours or so. We landed at about 7pm so when we got home and unpacked a bit we went to bed and actually slept about 8 hours and pretty much were readjusted after that. I always do better flying west than east with the time change.
Super envious of the lay flat seats.
Only time I've not flown coach was for a 1 hour flight down to Atlanta. Business class was really nice, but I didn't need it for such a short flight.
United's new seats are really nice and you actually get some comfort. They served lunch when we took off and we did what they call the business style where it all comes out at once and not in courses so we could eat and relax and then sleep. The food was ok but nothing special. I've seen a real drop in food quality since the merger. Not sure when we will fly first or business this year as I dropped from Platinum to Silver and my wife went from 1K to Gold. Oh well.
Always fun to walk the back streets of cities we visit and photograph odd things. These manikins were in front of a store in an old section of Istanbul with lots of clothing including little Sultan costumes for boys to wear for their circumcision party which in Turkey usually happens when the boy is 8-14 years old. OUCH!
I assume the smart jackets and tie ensembles are for after the boy becomes a man!
...Took us 23 hours to get home after that!
That part of the adventure doesn't sound all that exciting. I've done it many times but it's not fun
...They served lunch when we took off and we did what they call the business style where it all comes out at once and not in courses so we could eat and relax and then sleep...
So the staff isn't constantly waking you up for the peanuts and Coke that you refused the
last time they woke you up?
...Always fun to walk the back streets of cities we visit and photograph odd things...
You're got some great photos here. Sounds like a fascinating trip.
Went out on a little photo safari the other day. Saw some turkeys. Took a picture out the window of GrandCherokeeOne.
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Meh, turkeys.
Aaand
then, as I was about to pull away, I looked about 50 feet in front of the Jeep, and sitting there on a survey stake, was this fella:
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I guess he had been sitting there when I pulled up, and, just didn't see a reason to leave. I almost didn't see him, wouldn't have, if it hadn't been for the fluttering survey tape.
That, friends and neighbors, is ye olde
American Kestrel, which, Wikipedia tells me, is not a 'true' kestrel. Whatever, it's a kind of falcon, and, I find that cool as hell, as I've never laid my personal eyes on a falcon, or a kestrel, for that matter.
I believe this one is probably a juvenile.
[Size=5][COLOR="DarkRed"]*[/COLOR][/Size]If anyone can back-up, or, refute, my ID of this bird, please do so.
TIA:D
I'd say you're right.
I don't know what you see/saw (see what I did thar?) that makes you think it's a juvenile, but it does seem to be female. What a great shot. Kudos!
I don't know what you see/saw (see what I did thar?) that makes you think it's a juvenile, but it does seem to be female. What a great shot. Kudos!
These two pics from Wikipedia:
Wiki IDs this as a female adult:
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Notice the breast pattern is more akin to stripes, than to spots, like on my boid.
And a Wiki-ID'd young 'un:
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Notice the spots on the breast.
My bird's feathers look a bit on the down-y side. He's fluffy. Also, it looks like the malar (or 'cheek') stripes look darker on the younger birds, and paler, or faded, on the older ones. Might just be me, or the particular pics I looked at.
Thanks, V.
Looks young to me too. Clean.
The malar stripes are definitely there. I'd say you have a positive ID, grav. Nice pic!
I like the turkeys as well, but this one was special.
[Size=5][COLOR="DarkRed"]*[/COLOR][/Size]If anyone can back-up, or, refute, my ID of this bird, please do so.
TIA:D
I back your ID using my Merlin Bird ID app! Cornell Ornithology put the thing out. It has good pics, a systematized approach, and bird songs for each critter. Fun to prank kids with as well.
Made behind the library few years ago. Plant was the one with berries, maybe
Lantana?
What a splendid photo. Absolutely beautiful!
I'd hazard a guess that the bush is Buddleia (Buddleja), sometimes known as the 'Butterfly Bush', at least on this side of the Atlantic.
...I'd hazard a guess that the bush is Buddleia (Buddleja), sometimes known as the 'Butterfly Bush'...
Seconded.
Cool pic, Buster!
Smoked with what? :bolt:
Mashed redskins, and green beans?
A frame from a GoPro movie I took last week. The underwater housing is awesome.
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Popdigr has just about talked himself into selling one of his metal detectors to get a GoPro.
I'm an inch away from buying one for this trip. the canyoning videos I've seen on YouTube are all obviously taken using such gear.
Do it. I don't think you'll regret it.
Mine was a gift, so I didn't have the shock of spending that money, but it is simply awesome. I highly recommend it. I have about an hour of footage playing with it in mountain lakes and streams in Yosemite.
If you do get one, my only complaint/tip is that there is a parasitic drain on the battery that will kill the battery in about two days if you leave it in the camera, even turned off. So you need to leave it charging, or take the battery out and reset the clock when you put it back in next time you plan to use the camera.
Also if you use the camera in wifi mode and control it from your phone with the app, it's really cool, but the battery only lasts like 20 minutes doing that intensive shit. With the wifi off, the battery lasts for a few hours of continuous use. You can also buy extra batteries, which is probably what the pros do. I should do that.
And you want a 32 GB card. You'll also want to spend the $5 at monoprice for the special HDMI cable to connect it to your high definition TV. Well worth the investment. And pack that cable for your trip so you can watch the day's videos on the TV in your hostel. Don't forget the USB charger, but you probably have extra ones kicking around from old phones.
If you buy one, get it at least two weeks before you go so you can play with it and see how it works before you go on your trip. You'll find that you want to buy some accessories for mounting the thing. Lots of aftermarket stuff on ebay for cheap that will work with their proprietary mounting system.
You'll also want to spend the $5 at monoprice for the special HDMI cable to connect it to your high definition TV...
...And pack that cable for your trip so you can watch the day's videos on the TV in your hostel...
...Don't forget the USB charger, but you probably have extra ones kicking around from old phones.
Just a reminder, most of the flatscreens in motel/hotel/hostels have a USB outlet on the back.
Charge! ;)
this is appealing. but the guy is 2 hours away, and I'll be on a plane in three hours.
Look, up in the sky!
It's a bird! It's a plane!
It's BigV's plane!
[Strike]Hi[/Strike] Bye, BigV (waves at the sky)!
Dirty slush while holding the camera upside down. :haha:
Foggy today.
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My goodness that's a BIIIIG picture. I don't know how to resize pics on my phone, *sorry*!
That's Seattle just ahead of the deckhand.
That's Seattle just ahead of the deckhand.
Uh - yeah...
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WTF kind of steampunk/renfaire crossover was this?
The PA ren fair. I was taking pictures of the audience while we waited for the jousting to begin. I guess they got bored of just jousting, because they only did 3 passes, and then the bad guy got killed...
Only to be re animated by those 4 witches.... And then the real mele ensued. Flash bang fireworks, and zombies galore. Corny, but fun.
A frame from a GoPro movie I took last week. The underwater housing is awesome.
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I too love my GoPro.
gopro go up punta cana2014 by
bigw00dy, on Flickr
8 of us went on a trip this past summer.
After I reviewed all the pictures, this one was the best. Unfortunately, no one had enough patience to wait it out while I threw up the GoPro 50x.
Sounds like it's pretty indestructible, Woody. :vikingsmi
Sounds like it's pretty indestructible, Woody. :vikingsmi
I have to admit, the camera can take a good beating. Im pretty impressed so far!
waiting for the launch that was scrubbed.
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Not too many other people there.
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Today I was looking through some of my shots from my Istanbul trip and I found one I had overlooked and thought I would post the before and after here. It was a neat Catholic church, the St. Antoine Cathedral. It's just off of the main thoroughfare near Taksim square, İstiklâl Caddesi.
Anyway, when I looked at the slightly crooked RAW file I saw some potential so I played with it in Adobe Lightroom and then took it into another plugin called Topaz Clarity.
So far I like it but may tweak it a bit more. We were in Istanbul just after the New Year and they still had the Christmas decorations up.
I like it! The colors and intricate details are great.
I have to admit, the camera can take a good beating. Im pretty impressed so far!
Hey Woody, check out this GoPro... fell in the ocean, lay on the bottom in 30 ft of water for 1.5 hours, taking video of fish and the SCUBA diver coming to the rescue.
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Well, I accept that it isn't that 'neat', but I thought I'd have a go anyway.
Taken this morning, BTW.
I like it a lot. "Tree tunnels" are neat.
Well, I accept that it isn't that 'neat', but I thought I'd have a go anyway.
It says the same thing but more pleasant to look at than...
Thanks for the kind words everyone.
The drive is the entrance to a local estate. 'The Big House', which is behind the camera, was built in 1904 and I assume that the Beech trees are of a similar age.
As nothing is forever, a few years ago the owner planted young trees parallel to the existing ones. You can see two or three to the left of the picture ready to take over when the others reach the end of their natural lives.
Unfortunately if, as seems likely, the Government goes ahead with the building of a new high speed rail link from London to Birmingham (HS2), then those at the end of the drive furthest from the camera, will be flattened and a huge concrete viaduct will be built there.
Well, that's something to look forward to.:rolleyes:
That was a very ice pic, Carruthers.
Wish I'd taken it.
Because, then, I'd have been there, instead of having been here.
A friend got a USB "microscope" camera for Christmas, but couldn't use it because it's not compatible with Macs (contrary to the specifications listed on Amazon.) So he "returned" it to Amazon, who refunded his money and told him to keep it rather than ship it back. So he gave it to me.
It's kind of neat. It a lot like those Magic Eye cameras that you could connect to the tv. It has a macro lens and a ring of LED lights to illuminate the subject. It's not really a microscope but does take impressive macro shots.
Here's a detail of the border of a five dollar bill. I never knew those little lines were actually printing.
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And here's a $20 bill.
I also took a before and after shot of my whiskers before shaving, but I won't subject you to that.
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Hey, the five has barbed wire loops. :haha:
here are rolled oats
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steel cut oats
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and oat bran (hot cereal)
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And white rice
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Here's a kind of hook and loop strap for tomato plants
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a dirty eraser
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a ginsu style serrated knife
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And the strike surface of a matchbox
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The fabric of my pants.
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100 grit aluminum oxide sand paper
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It's a fun toy, but it's more difficult than you would expect to find interesting stuff to look at. Most stuff is boring under magnification. And the thing is attached to the computer with a 2-3 foot cord, so it's not something you would want to carry around into the outdoors, even with a laptop. So I keep looking for small items I can carry to it, and hope they look fascinating. Most don't. But I'll post anything that looks cool. I bet fresh veggies would be good, but our kitchen is kinda empty right now.
Also, the shutter button is on the side of the microscope, and when you press it, the whole thing vibrates a little, making stuff more blurry. I'm going to try doing a screen grab next. What keystroke combination does a screen shot of the active window? ctrl-Prnt Screen? Something like that, I think. That would eliminated the movement from the shutter button.
I had one of those I traded a cheap Soviet microscope for. I agree with all of your comments about the difficulty of non-portability, short cord and that damn shutter button. Also it's a short depth of field so finding cool shit to scope is work.
Oh, and the plastic toy appearance limits bragging rights to the resulting pictures, rather than the scope. ;)
And it looks like I'm done with it anyway. I had 3 old XP laptops in my closet that were gathering dust because they were too slow to do anything online, and I offered one to my friend so he could use his microscope camera gift with it. He took a few days to get back to me and just responded that he would love to have a free crappy old laptop and his camera back. So I'll be giving the camera back in the next day or so, and getting rid of a computer as well.
Any requests of something to see up close? I've pretty much run out of ideas.
a sponge
a coin
a pillow
a pillow on fire
ten pillows on fire
sorry
alt+ print screen gets the active window. I think you taught me that. I was cropping the shift prtsc shots
not macro, but zoom zoom ... from this am.
Glatt, I would like to see the difference between brown rice and the white you just showed.
tha's a cool pic classic, very cool. catching birds in flight, not just soaring, is super hard. great catch
It's a fun toy, but it's more difficult than you would expect to find interesting stuff to look at. Most stuff is boring under magnification. And the thing is attached to the computer with a 2-3 foot cord, so it's not something you would want to carry around into the outdoors, even with a laptop. So I keep looking for small items I can carry to it, and hope they look fascinating. Most don't. But I'll post anything that looks cool. I bet fresh veggies would be good, but our kitchen is kinda empty right now.
Also, the shutter button is on the side of the microscope, and when you press it, the whole thing vibrates a little, making stuff more blurry. I'm going to try doing a screen grab next. What keystroke combination does a screen shot of the active window? ctrl-Prnt Screen? Something like that, I think. That would eliminated the movement from the shutter button.
would this help?
usb extension cord that's a ten footer. but they're available longer. how long do you need?
tha's a cool pic classic, very cool. catching birds in flight, not just soaring, is super hard. great catch
Aw, he's just showing off his new fancy-ass feeders. :haha:
The long USB just puts you further from the computer you're interfacing with.
toothbrush
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thanks V. I am loving the new feeders XOB. I'm gonna move the suet though. Every time the woodpeckers land on it, they're on the behind it from my view. I may make one that gives them something to land on comfortably and at the same time forces them to one side only so I can see them.
Nail a cat on to the back side.
Not terribly neat, but my own ...
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I thought it might be Ararat, or Elbruz. Somewhere round that way, anyhow.
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Ararat was my first guess, but I figured I'd look at your food thread to see where you are now.
I took the pic out of the plane windows somewhere over the Caucasus mountains.
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I don't see Noah's Ark so not Ararat.
Mr. Blue Jay appreciated the peanuts in the 2 degree weather.
I just imagined a tiny, bluebird-sized EpiPen.
My Red-bellied woodpecker.
thanks. I'm really enjoying them and I'm getting better photographing them with a little help... shoutout to BigV.
Mr. Blue Jay appreciated the peanuts in the 2 degree weather.
Maybe, with any luck, he'll choke to death on that peanut. I hate a goddamn bluejay, screechy sons o' bitches.
Maybe, with any luck, he'll choke to death on that peanut. I hate a goddamn bluejay, screechy sons o' bitches.
Rather harsh, old chap.
Not only that, but, I hope he suffers, too.
I'll put a .22 pellet through all their blue heads at 1600 feet second, if'n they'll sit still for about two seconds.
Did you get a note from Mommy Jay saying Jr is peanut tolerant? We don't want to be hearing from Canwi, Phuckem, and Howe.
Goldfinch (winter colors)
What was your name again, Audubon? Ha, he should have been so good.
Those pictures are phenomenal! The only pictures I've taken of birds was just trying to get something clear enough for someone who knows birds to ID it... and that was fucking near impossible. :haha:
Ha, thanks. Keep in mind, I'm not posting all the others that are garbage.
That may be, but in a real world setting, not a cage in a photo studio, one in a thousand sounds about right. ;)
My birds are fairly difficult to photograph.
I'd be satisfied with 1:1000.
Believe it or not, I had my first Robin's visit the feeders this week. Seriously, it took almost two months for them to check it out. The basically live in my front yard, wth?
I think robins eat mostly worms/insects.
This winter they'll eat seeds and like it. :haha:
For whatever reason, robins don't hit our feeders.
Also, on a bird note, our blackbirds have just about disappeared. What we call 'specklebellies', and 'blueheads', starlings, and grackles, respectively, just haven't been around. For a while.
ETA: We seem to have a larger-than-normal number of mockingbirds, and damnable blue jays, lately.
For whatever reason, robins don't hit our feeders.
Also, on a bird note, our blackbirds have just about disappeared. What we call 'specklebellies', and 'blueheads', starlings, and grackles, respectively, just haven't been around. For a while.
ETA: We seem to have a larger-than-normal number of mockingbirds, and damnable blue jays, lately.
They are all in my backyard. F*ckers are decimating the feeders. All of them are emptied within an hour of their arrival. Totally pissin me off. :mad2:
I think robins eat mostly worms/insects.
Correct
This winter they'll eat seeds and like it. :haha:
When its as cold as it was, Correct.
Actually they were eating the dry cat food I threw out there.
Very pretty, a little sad... or maybe somber is a better word.
But don't worry Digr, she'll come back to you in the morning. ;)
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Very nice, good eye. :yesnod:
JIM!!!! Quick, go check the base of that Tulip Poplar for shrooms.
Pretty. Artistic too.
that's a sheep pen. If there were any, I'm sure they've been nibbled.
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. :)
You need a camera with a top notch sensor to get good pics of the night sky.
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.
Bruce hope to use them for grape vines this spring.
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!
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...
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.
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.
It does. But it's a broken android crawling away from the explosion....
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I think I found it!
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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.
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".
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 ground:
Sunset
SunsetI 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.
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.
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.
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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.
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That gruesome sumbitch was exactly Gravdigrface high. I almost walked right into [strike]him her[/strike] it. Outside diameter a little bigger than a quarter.
did you check his cute little paws?
No, but I almost checked his insides.
No, but I almost checked his insides.
:D
We went to the balloon fiesta in Albuquerque for the first time this year and it was amazing. On our mass ascension day the wind just stopped after a lot of them had lifted off so they all hung around for awhile.
We of course took hundreds of photos but I'll only bombard you with three, though the panorama loses a bit shrunk down to fit through the Cellar door.
That's spectacular! Nicely done.
The wind dying was great for photographers. Beautiful pictures. :thumb:
If you gotta take a leak do you just pee over the side of the basket?
It's a basket. Just pee. It'll run right through.
All the balloons in such close proximity to one another seems dangerous.
Not as close as they appear, maybe.
Great pics!
All the balloons in such close proximity to one another seems dangerous.
Not as close as they appear, maybe.
Great pics!
they are soft and curved so if they hit one another they mostly just push each other gently out of the way. Only danger I can think of is if one rises quickly right up underneath another so the basket of the one on top goes into the vent on the center of the one underneath. But then the one underneath would fall a bit as warm air is let out of the vent, so it would be self correcting. They are not exactly fast. Interesting question. I could be totally wrong.
At the Balloons, Tunes, & BBQ festival in Bowling Green, KY a few years ago, two balloons decided to try and get it on during the inflation ceremony (yeah, I know they call it something besides that, but I can't think of it atm) and got all intermingled with each other.
And then the wind blew.
Yesterday at Gravelly Point, by National Airport.
That was yesterday.
Today it was a helicopter landing a block from my house because it's the closest field to the nearby hospital, which has no helipad. I had my camera nearby and so got this shot before it dipped down below my neighbor's garage roof.
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Piloted by an alien!
He prolly got papers.
Glatt, that's an outstanding photo in post #1990.
I'd be interested in how you got that shot. I see Gravelly Point north of the airport, but, what did you use, phone, camera, drone, whut? Was he particularly low?
Thank you. I'm fond of it myself. I actually took an iphone screen shot of a photo that I had taken with my camera and posted to FB. I wanted to share the FB image with the cellar but was away from my computer and couldn't resize it.
To give you a sense of scale, here's another photo taken from the same spot, but with the camera zoomed out a bit.
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And another where I zoomed in to full resolution and cropped. This plane was probably 100 meters away and 150 feet up in this one.
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You only have a split second to get a shot, and the camera doesn't want to focus, but they are lined up to land about a minute apart, so you have all day to get a good shot as they come in one after the other.
Crossing their "T", as it were.
That dude is totally looking at you on purpose
If I'd taken the second pic in post #1996, I would've squee'd.
One of the cool things about being there is after the landing planes streak past you toward the runway, their roaring sound goes with them, and you hear the air above your head making funny wooshing and rippling wispy sounds as the turbulence in the plane's wake settles down into more stable air. Sometimes the weird sound lasts for as much as 20 seconds or so after the plane passes. Not every plane causes the noise. It must be something about the wing design, the flap settings, or the environmental situation at that moment. If you didn't know the plane created the sound, you would think it's ghosts or something. Very otherworldly.
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Really weird looking bug I saw on the outside of the hallway window Sunday. I googled "Weird stick-winged insect" and learned that it's a morning glory plume moth.
Also, it's hard to get an iphone to focus on a window pane instead of the house next door.
Also, it's hard to get an iphone to focus on a window pane instead of the house next door.
No, it's simple. All ya gotta do is want a pic of the house next door, VIOLA!, a pic of the window pane!:D
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just about 30 minutes ago, out back of work
just about 30 minutes ago, out back of work
One of the highlights of my trips to the US was the opportunity to observe all manner of wildlife but I have a particular interest in birds of prey.
Your pic prompted me to go my North American bird book, so I tentatively ask was it a Cooper's Hawk?
Red Tail. The image isn't very clear, but there's a few that roost nearby. It's semi-rare that they kill something on the property. I was maybe 20 feet away from the tree it had draped the squirrel over.
Red Tail. The image isn't very clear, but there's a few that roost nearby. It's semi-rare that they kill something on the property. I was maybe 20 feet away from the tree it had draped the squirrel over.
Many thanks, lj. I'm grateful to you. :thumb:
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Are you sure thats a hawk? There are plenty around here and they don't have the size or the legs of that one. Usually they eat field rats and cute baby bunnies.
I think that must be a young eagle. Might be a newspaper story about an Eagle roosting at the Nissan dealership. Who knows what lurks in the stomach of birds, but the Shadow do.
Red Tail. The image isn't very clear, but there's a few that roost nearby. It's semi-rare that they kill something on the property. I was maybe 20 feet away from the tree it had draped the squirrel over.
I still think it is an eagle. If not then your birds on steroids up there. Biggest fukin hawk I have ever seen. Maybe it was a baby squirrel being consumed. I am looking at the size ratio. Next time stand next to it for a better perspective.[emoji1]
Eagles have longer beaks. I'm sure it's a red tail. It's just puffed up with its winter coat this time of year.
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Went hiking with the missus today while the kids are away
This post makes me happy!
While the mice are away, the cats will play.
Nice to see the rare LadyGlatt in the wild!
Where were you Glatts, anyway?
We went from Elizabeth Furnace to Buzzard Rock and back, in the Massanutten mountains, near the Shenandoah. No leaves on the trees yet, so there were views most of the hike. It was hot, and we drank a ton of water. I was carrying about 4 gallons to add weight to my pack, and we drank almost 3 liters each. 42 pound pack at the start of the hike and 29 pounds at the end.
8 miles round trip with a 2,000 foot elevation gain. Took our time. 7 hours. Beautiful hike and we only saw two other people.
we only saw two other people
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Great pick glatt! Practicing for empty nest.
Clear Creek Falls in Yakima County from a road trip last year.
Worth a click.
I'm trying to figure out how to make the panoramas I'm taking easily available to you. I'm working on how to make a thumbnail link. I strongly recommend you find the little icon in the lower right hand corner of the image indicating full screen and click it. Pan with the mouse cursor or arrow keys and zoom with the zoom gadget onscreen in the lower left hand corner. I couldn't get the mousewheel scroll to zoom. I've also noticed that the pano hosting site offers an "auto rotation" by clicking their logo in the extreme lower left hand corner.
When I opened it it was auto-rotating on it's own. When was that taken?
That's an awesome 'panorama'.
360 degree pic.
When I opened it it was auto-rotating on it's own. When was that taken?
01 May 2018
That's an awesome 'panorama'.
360 degree pic.
Yes, in three axes. Did you look up and down?
and thanks!
This one is from this morning's road trip from the door to the edge of the backyard. This maple is just leafing out.
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That's gorgeous, bigV! Is the color tweaked at all?
Nice framing, too. I totally get the Narnia reference.
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