View from my window RFN
Has there been such a thread? Can't find one, so here goes:
Nice clouds this evening
Agreed, it's a beautiful scene.
Technically, is it a stitch-up of pics or a panoramic or crop ?
I ask because I've tried similar scenes as stitch-ups with my little Olympus, but they don't come out well.
LL, it is a crop. - I have only done 2 or 3 stitched panoramas in the past,
here's one of them (180 degrees). There is at least one obvious join.
That's exactly what I've been getting too.
Maybe with something like an ocean scene it wouldn't be noticeable, but a scene with many details is frustrating.
Mown field - the farmer has avoided where my septic tank is, as usual.
LL + limey - Those are lovely places to live!
I know. I feel so smug :blush:!
Do, do, do, lookin' out my front door...
Agreed, it's a beautiful scene.
Technically, is it a stitch-up of pics or a panoramic or crop ?
I ask because I've tried similar scenes as stitch-ups with my little Olympus, but they don't come out well.
Hi again, you may be interested in this little write-up + links of panorama photo-stitch software:
http://www.vicanek.de/plugins/panowarp.htmToday the farmer rolled the cut hay into haylage bales, then let the cattle into the field. He's dashing about now with the tractor scooping up the bales before the coos eat'em!
so jealous. I keep my windows shut so as not to see suburbia
The grass is always greener, over the septic tank. ;)
Ah Limey, you so know I have to visit you!
You promised me boardgames and cats too!
(And I think singalongs, but that might be me being greedy)
Right outside my backdoor RFyesterday morning. This is our resident chipmunk who lives under our shed. HE/she was chirping away for several minutes on one of the deck posts.
Classic - I am so sorry!
Bruce - you are so right!
SG - you are so, SO welcome! (singalongs!!)
Pico - cute!!
And now, (OK, I stepped outside so's not to get glare from the windae), moonlight on the water ...
Limey I love the island you live on, I visited it many times.
:)
You're only a short distance from the Mull of Kintyre!
You're only a short distance from the Mull of Kintyre!
So the camera has GPS? Or you looked on an atlas? Either way, I can see the Mull of Kintyre, and Sir McCa's estate, from my window ...
The Mull of Kintyre is used as a reference in the Mull of Kintyre test, an unofficial test for the propriety of images of naked men.
It is famously used by the Broadcasting Standards Commission to determine whether or not the male member may be shown on television: only penises of flaccidity similar to that of the Mull of Kintyre in relation to the mainland of Great Britain may be shown. Those in a state of greater extension are deemed to be inappropriate.
:haha:
Well all I can say, Bruce and UT, is that it looks pretty damn big from here!!!
I looked on Google Maps, the finest atlas we have these days, when you said you were on Arran. Then later I was thinking about the song and got curious about where the Mull of Kintyre is. It was the Christmas #1 single when I lived there, but I never knew where he was singing about. As a bass player, Macca's my lifetime hero. Well I remembered what your Isle looks like when Maps showed me nearly the exact same location.
Today the farmer rolled the cut hay into haylage bales, then let the cattle into the field. He's dashing about now with the tractor scooping up the bales before the coos eat'em!
Such a place! My Mom's people were from Aran Island, Ireland its interesting that both islands are in similar positions vs their main islands. *google earth is so cool* Now I need a Gaelic dictionary.
had to look up the "mull of kintyre test." interesting!
It's been a day of contrasts - sunshine and torrential rain moving in bands across the country.
The first pic is of the front garden, looking into the Close opposite. That was an open field until I was about 14.
The second pic is taken in the time it took me to walk from the front to the back bedroom. I guess you can tell where the next rain is coming in from? In fact since sitting back down the whole house has darkened.
But yeah. We live on an estate. You can't see the sea from here neither.
And by the time I post this I've had to switch the lights on - it's raining again.
Just another view of the backgarden.
This was my room growing up. I am very familiar with this view!
The room I sleep in now was my brother's room.
So now at least you know what I see when I wake up.
I imagine it fascinates many people.
Hi again, you may be interested in this little write-up + links of panorama photo-stitch software: http://www.vicanek.de/plugins/panowarp.htm
I'm very jealous of the plugins in that link, particularly the ones that allow for straightening via cylinder, etc.
Unfortunately (for me) I'm on a Mac and don't have the necessary software to run the plugins.
In any case, I thought you might be interested in the "stitching" I did today on the sequotia tree in my earlier post.
This panorama was created via HP SmartStudio software using 3 pics.
It is glaring how it needs straightening, particularly the Douglas firs on the left, but the tree, itself, seems to be pretty accurate.
Re sized. This camera not only takes the worst photos,grainy and lacking in color more than 50% of the time (this one is lucky only by the account you can get an idea of how the sun is casting shadows. ) it takes huge ones too. Original dimension was 3648 x 2736 My old cell phone took way better pictures than this.:rant:
A pool without bikini (or less) clad bathers, is like a day without sunshine. :(
Not exactly from my window, but just this morning a little way up the hill...
Lamp - that's a cheat!
Although I admit I only say that because it's so gorgeous I am jealous :)
It looks like it was taken in Wales.
And I mean that as a compliment.
Thanks... must be all that English ivy
Downtown Pristina (Kosovo) RFN ...
I was there in Spring of '88. It was a dreary place then. Looks much nicer now.
Sorry about the enormous picture. In Limey's picture, the big building on the right with the white lettering is the one that I took my picture from.
Kosovo is a beautiful country. In front of the building it looks like they are flying flags for Albania, UN, and Kosovo. Is there a Turkish flag also?
Nice limey! Great photo....
20 years later it looks marvelous.
Sarge, I see flags for Kosovo, UN and Turkey - the white background flags are for commercial enterprises (an insurance company and a bank).
We certainly drove through some breathtaking countryside between the border with Macedonia and Pristina.
Glatt, I think my photo is looking in roughly the same direction as yours. I'll take a daylight one and we can compare!
Not exactly from my window, but just this morning a little way up the hill...
What is the stone structure? Looks like some kind of remaining support structure.
This morning. Yep - we got 8 inches of snow & it still hasn't melted. And I thought this was the land of cotton..
Well, it is soft and white...
You get to take your patrol car home? How cool is that?
It also helps lower the neighbors insurance rates. ;)
Dedicated to Big Sarge...
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I thought you said that red car was your patrol car? :confused:
I drive the red unmarked car. I took this pic in the parking lot of the PD. That was one night's snow fall. Sory for the confusion
Ahhhh. See, Sarge, I'd be a great detective. I notice everything! ;)
Lamplighter - that was awesome!
RFN. Up to four more inches on the way today and tonight.
So jealous.
We have heavy rain tomorrow morning just in time for school.
Although helpfully it looks like it will clear in time for me to come out of the hairdressers. I'll still get the bus home though - I figure three miles is enough walking for one day. I'd walk the fourth if it was snow.
What's that in the distance, Limey?
What's that in the distance, Limey?
That is
Ailsa Craig. (A link to Wikipedia, but valid information in this case, I think ...)
limey that is an awesome photo.
Thanks plt! I don't do nothing clever, I just look out of the window and sometimes, when I see a good one, I nip out the back door and point and shoot. Quite often when I seen a good one, I just look at it :p:.
Beautiful picture, Limey. Are you in the middle of nowhere? Or do you have neighbors on the other side of your house?
Pete, we're in one of a pair of cottages in a pretty sparsely populated area ... Neighbours a quarter mile one way and half a mile the other. The "main" road runs right by our house, bus route and all that. I'm damn lucky is all I know! Thanks Grav!
Rocky The Thieving Squirrel. RFtwenty min ago.
70 degrees! BWAAAAAAA!!
Sort of boring, but usually you can see the mountains (longs peak, at least.) It is windy here today, but you really can't tell with a picture of dirt.
Thanks! It pretty much looks this way all the way around except for the house on the same farmyard to the east. Oh, and there are cows across the road. I should take a picture of those.
Who wants to see cows? Okay, here you go. my front yard and across the road.
If you stand on a stack of boxes in my office to look out the little transom window in the upper part of the wall by the ceiling, this is my view. Sweet view, huh?
All gorgeous.
Except Limey's as it shows what I missed by taking a trip to Arran in cloud-bound January.
Oh and Grav's - because I'm jealous of close ups of squirrels (which I adore and only see whisking about at the speed of sound these days).
And Kero's, because your horizon is so distant, but a completely different eco-system is still acessible.
And of course Glatt because you don't hate it enough NOT to have a sense of humour about it.
So effectively I hate you all. Buh-bye.
A friend of my hubby's, fishing in our pond. It's 80 degrees here!
He's kind of tiny in this one... a larger one
here.
The weather this morning, then by 2pm it was sunny and not a drop of snow in sight. Now it is snowing again, sun, melting, rinse, repeat.
[yikes! humongous pics :eek:]
RF Last Night
We had torrential rains the other night, and wind. Probably more severe than I've heard since I've lived here. I love severe weather but it even woke me up a few times. Anyway, these are pics of the Great Miami river, which flows behind my place (A River Runs Through Me.) I apologize for the graininess. Apparently I suck at taking simple pictures with a camera phone (and I thought the Droid 2 was supposed to be a decent camera...I probably just have no idea what I'm doing.) The restaurant down the way is completely flooded on the bottom floor: nothing new for the restaurant but new for the new owners.
a couple more, pick from the best of the evils
I forgot to resize the big one, and it looks better than the resized ones.
grumble grumble
Run for your lives! The river is flooding!
It's usually really calm and still through that part of the river. You can see lots o'wildlife. Last night I could hear the river rushing, while I was inside. It's pretty amazing.
For some reason this puts me in mind of
The Pass is open!
The Pass is open!
All able-bodied men gather at the Meeting House!!
Shaw that seems awfully high to be so near your home?
Please tell me these aren't literally from your window?!
Nah, I walked across the driveway. It is very close to the top of the levee but I don't think it could ever get so high as to be a danger to me. I've never worried about being flooded out. The restaurant (right beyond the lights in the one pic) is set low, so there is a river view from the downstairs, and only when it gets really high does it flood.
I'm safe. :)
Sump'n spooked the kine ... (all except the one on the left, who was clearly hungry (or deaf)!)
RUN !! Teh cows have Spotted You !!!!
RUN !! Teh cows have Spotted You !!!!
:lol:
Very nice, limey. :thumb2:
Mother Nature's April Fools Joke
wtf?
Nice photos as always, limey.
Jim, hopefully mother nature said,'just kidding' and the weather is fine today.
MUCH better today!
Tomorrow is supposed to be nicer yet. I think I'll take the kids into Philly and wander around China Town and the Reading Terminal Market. Maybe ride the subway or something.
very nice jim
You'll have a great time and that is good to know.
Not exactly outside my window, but just a little bit down the road from me
It looks like the same kind of weather here today syc. In fact it could be a road in my town and since I was grappling with the idea of posting a pic, I won't now. :)
I live in Kansas City...the photo is from nearby Leawood, KS. Don't let my photo stop you...post away! :)
The first two are within a couple of weeks or so, but the ducks are rfn.
The first picture is photo-shopped to restore the colors which were fading fast. By the time I got my camera the sun set further and the colors were not as vivid.
You have a POOL?!
Not talking to you any more Sky. You're too grand for me.
That might be considered a pool in England where everything is small, in the US that's a birdbath.
And in Texas, that's just a puddle.
It's a community birdbath :lol2:
You're all wrong. That there's one them new-fangled cement ponds.
The first picture is photo-shopped to restore the colors which were fading fast. By the time I got my camera the sun set further and the colors were not as vivid.
Brushing up your skills before skinny dipping season, eh. ;)
Momdigr just returned from a little road trip. This is what the rental company gave her. I turned my nose up when she said compact, and winced when she said Ford Focus.
There's actually a lot more car there than I was expecting, but it ain't no Park Avenue.
BTW: How do ya like my giraffe-skin porch treatment?
I like it. I like the gnome too.
I saw this from my window yesterday evening, but moved a few yards to the north to give me a perspective with no overhead lines in the frame. It was beautiful.
Very nice BigV! Aren't clouds amazing?!
I saw this from my window yesterday evening, but moved a few yards to the north to give me a perspective with no overhead lines in the frame. It was beautiful.
Very nice V. Reminds me of a Maxfield Parrish.
Very nice BigV! Aren't clouds amazing?!
Yes! You have no idea. I have countless pictures of the sky.
Very nice V. Reminds me of a Maxfield Parrish.
Wow, first of all, thanks for the education about Maxfield Parrish. Second, damn, that's a my-T-fyne compliment. Thank you, sir.
Yes! You have no idea. I have countless pictures of the sky ...
Oh, yes I do! We have a lot of good sky here, too!
Here's a photo of my fine "hoopty". The rear tires are 2 sizes larger than the front. Small town budgets suck! Also the view from my window sucks big time!!
Also the view from my window sucks big time!!
View from my window sucks too. :p:
RF a day or two ago. Hey, look, it ain't raining.
RF a day or two ago. Hey, look, it's raining. Shocker.:right:
I haven't contributed in a while. Here's the view from my office window, as of a few minutes ago.
The picture is almost impressionistic.
burr...My impression is of extreme coldness. * cranks up my heater*
Beautiful clouds BigV
rfn yesterday and last week. Taken with my cell phone.
Jeez, what a nest in that tree! Squirrel, I guess?
RFN
(Testing out the posting pictures from my phone ability.
It's pretty damn big, isn't it? I didn't see any options for resizing. So that's the full size 2 MP image.
RF a day or two ago. Hey, look, it's raining. Shocker.:right:
I love that pic! It is soooo American looking.
Just a minute ago. It is actually more pinkish than that. And do you like my light fixture?
I like the way your light fixture floats outside in the sky.
I worship our new light fixture overlord...
for another five months anyway.
Those clouds are awesomely beautiful.
I worship our new light fixture overlord...
for another five months anyway.
What happens in five months?
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And do you like my light fixture?
Is that a mammatus?
What happens in five months?
The rapture was put off till Oct...
Not exactly. The rapture was supposed to be last week, followed by 5 months of fun, until the End of Days© on October 21st. NOW dude is saying to skip the 5 months of fun, that GAWD actually is going to efficiently combine the End of Days© with the day of saving the numnuts and people being yanked upstairs. We no longer get the grace period. I don't think he's calling it "rapture" though...I think it falls into another area when it's combined.
But what do I know? I'm still going to be at my friends' house partying, asking them every 5 minutes if they've started fucking repenting yet.
Harold Camping and Family Radio International have reset his clock to reflect the new rapture deadline: Oct. 21, 2011.
“The world has been warned. The world is under judgment. We’re just learning we have to look at all of this more spiritual [sic]. But it won’t be spiritual on October 21.”
Camping had kept a low-profile since Saturday, the day he had forecast for the return of Jesus Christ to Earth. He and his devoted followers have been warning for months that on May 21, a select 2% to 3% of the world's population would be taken to heaven. Those left behind would face months of tribulation before perishing in the Earth's destruction, which Camping said would happen on October 21.
This is the basis for his new prediction, which Camping claims is not new at all. He told listeners on his Family Radio broadcast Monday that God is "loving and merciful," and had decided not to punish the humanity with five months of destruction.
But he maintains that the end of the world is still coming.
"We've always said October 21 was the day," Camping said during his show. "The only thing we didn't understand was the spirituality of May 21. We're seeing this as a spiritual thing happening rather than a physical thing happening. The timing, the structure, the proofs, none of that has changed at all."
"We think that judgment day did happen," he said. "It didn’t result in an earthquake, and there were a number of things that weren't exactly the way we said they would be, but we were only reading from the Bible. We’ve been humbled by the whole experience."
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/23/doomsday-leader-flabbergasted-that-the-end-didnt-arrive/?iref=allsearchOh, and get this!
“In short: The math was off, and it’s back to the drawing board,” he said. “If the logic seems a bit self-serving, recall that in the apocalyptic mindset, faith precedes theory, and theory informs the evidence."
Hahahahhaaa.
We can all agree, he's a moran.
We can all agree, he's a moran.
Not a moron?
I believe Infini Monkey means "maroon"
Nope.
Moran.
So Harold Camping is really
Jim Moran Jim Moran
He has shaken my hand at least half a dozen times. And it's not like I'm seeking him out. He's everywhere, and easy.
He's everywhere, and easy.
Like a good street whore... or so I've heard.
Awww come on glatt. Admit it. You're a moran stalker. ;)
Glatt fucked a moran w/a stalk of celery?:eek:
Last night actually, but didn't get a chance to upload the picture.
First pic has the houses at the botttom of our garden.
The second pic is the crane from a better position.
first pic is eery. I like it.
Early this afternoon, I got out the camera. Too busy r. f. then.
Out the kitchen window, and, yes, she's sitting on a nest.
She's keeping an eye on us.
It's autumn and our sequoia is doing it's annual shedding of last year's needles.
.
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This little guy is on my window sill... hop, skip and jump
.
try to imagine it with some butter and garlic sauce ...
WTF is that thing?
just a little snail
Oh yes, of course. It all makes perfect sense now.
:D how long did it take to find that pic ... very good !
What.... you sound like you've never seen a racing snail before!
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It's midnight. The moon invited Jupiter over for company inside a lunar halo.
.
Don't you mean a lunar HELLO?
:D
WTF is that thing?
A jumping snail!
A while back I was in the garden and I was like, watching this snail, right? (I probably don't need to add, :rasta: )
Anyway, the little fella was climbing up a dead leaf on the lawn. It stretched its body long, out of its shell, and put its front end at the end of the leaf, anchored the front, released the back, and then retracted itself, drawing its whole body substantially forward. It was rather like how an inchworm moves.
As well as for doing this for rough terrain, I can imagine that a snail would do this on dry dusty terrain to minimise the amount of slime it must produce. That would account for the trail in Lamplighter's photo.
Or it's a nightclub snail tripping on speed.
Was there also a hookah smoking caterpillar? ;)
Love the snow.
Not sure about the de-commissioned guillotine in the garden though.
The blade is out getting sharpened, no worries.
Looks nice! Bit rainy here.
Hmmm... must be deer season.
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while snow is pretty, i'll take severe clear and 70 any day!
Hmmm... must be deer season.
Dude, you could SO get them from there.
If only I still had my license...
while snow is pretty, i'll take severe clear and 70 any day!
It was simply a gorgeous day today, wasn't it? So nice....
Dude, you could SO get them from there.
If only I still had my license...
Bambi is laughing at you.
Bambi is in my freezer and has a date with
Old Bay...
Dude, you could SO get them from there.
If only I still had my license...
Nice pro-hunting article in MEN this month... shit-storm to follow.
Good show on 60 minutes as well. Fuck PETA. Wait I am a member of People Eating Tasty Animals. Actually to be fair, PETA wasn't really on 60 min, but some other crack pot animal lover was there saying how she would rather see the animals go extinct than allow hunters to pay huge money to hunt a few each year to save the population. What a tool.
Is it fair/legal/sporting to shoot deer by leaning out your window and potting them while they're in your yard? Seems a bit too easy.
Not quite, Merc.
What Priscilla Feral said was:
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Feral: I don't want to see them on hunting ranches.
I don't want to see them dismembered. I don't want to see their value in body parts.
I think it's obscene. I don't think you create a life to shoot it.
Logan: So, if the animals exist only to be hunted...
Feral: Right...
Logan: ...[COLOR="DarkRed"]you would rather they not exist at all?[/COLOR]
Feral: [COLOR="DarkRed"]Not in Texas, no.[/COLOR]
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Feral: The future for oryxes is Africa. It's not Texas.
Logan: Can the future not be both?0
Don't they have a greater chance of survival the more of them there are?
Feral: In their native lands.
Logan: Regardless of where they are?
Feral: I don't think you can say regardless of where they are.
A Texas hunting ranch is not the same as being in a reserve in Senegal
.
Is it fair/legal/sporting to shoot deer by leaning out your window and potting them while they're in your yard? Seems a bit too easy.
No. There is a no shooting zone around homes and builds. With special permissions bow hunters can shoot inside those zones in some cases like overpopulation destroying the understory of a forest. The article I mentioned was about food quality and being moral in our eating and hunting. It was not a defense of canned hunts.
A Texas hunting ranch is not the same as being in a reserve in Senegal.
She's right.
They are thriving in Texas. They are dying in Senegal.
Where would you rather be? Burger King, or Ethiopia?
Having said that, I must also say that I do not condone paying to kill an animal. I know that's not how they say it is, but, at a lot of guided exotic animal hunts, that's kinda what it boils down to. And it's not limited to exotic animals. It should be difficult, if for no other reason than to cause you to retain your respect for the animal. The folks on that 60 Minutes show were not (what I call hunting). You can kill a water buffalo (for $50,000!), in a pen (however gigantic that pen may be, and trust me, they're in a pen. What, you gonna let your $50,000 water buffalo wander around wherever he wants?), in Texas, wearing (basically) street clothes, following your guide, while being followed by a reporter, at least one camera man, a sound man, probably a gaffer or two, talking to each other.
That, ain't hunting.
Try
that in Kentucky while trying to hunt a wild, unpenned, free-ranging whitetail deer.
You won't get far.
I have some water buffalo hide here. Very thick, but very supple leather. The sections I have are dyed white. I haven't decided what I'll make from it.
Kitty in the snow, RF20' ago
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omg what a gorgeous cat. And (s)he does match the surroundings. :)
beautiful cat Scriveyn!
reminds me of the art of
Bev DoolittleRFN. You can't tell in this pic, but, it's pouring buckets.
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