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[gmax137]

Old time Reno, family run since 1937. Try the lasagna.

 

[morrobay]

 

[morrobay]

Grinding expresso beans. $18/kg.

 

[Averagesupernova]

Jack likes to hang out on the forklift. He likes the cat but seems put off to have his picture taken with her.

 

[Averagesupernova]

@morrobay I'm always impressed by your pix. The pix I take often show interesting subject matter but are certainly not 'beautiful'. The attitudes of the two critters in my pic are very clear. But the background consists of a grimy looking forklift. The cat's coat looks unkept due to the fact that Jack has a tendency to pick her up and carry her around. Jack is just looking like an old grump while his little buddy seems to say: "Can't we play a little more?" A very accurate slice of daily life in the shop.

 

[morrobay]

With about 5% of the previous tourists numbers here the water is clear. Less hotel discharges, less nutrients for the algae.

 

[morrobay]

Look better from a distance these days

 

[morrobay]

My friend from Burma (passport only) she is all Indian from Indian region in Burma.Here she lives in Indian community, works at Indian restaurant. Was not going to photo today but with this dress - change of plan.

 

[morrobay]

 

[Keith_McClary]

Jack has a tendency to pick her up and carry her around

That would be a photo if you could arrange a good background. Or do you mean he carries her around with the forklift?

 

[Averagesupernova]

That would be a photo if you could arrange a good background. Or do you mean he carries her around with the forklift?

With the forklift? Lol. Good one. I try to get those pix and they are often blurry. It seems they both need the interaction. It's not as if Jack sneaks up and grabs her by the skin behind her neck and runs off with her. Usually she's asking for it. He picks her up as a mother cat would carry her kittens. If he gets too rough she let's him know.

 

[Averagesupernova]

The best you will get that I have at this time. She's clearly asking for it.

 

[Averagesupernova]

 

[Averagesupernova]

Here she is with her sister Booger before she decided she prefers living at the neighbors.
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Anyone care to guess why her name is Booger? Lol

 

[morrobay]

<9

 

[morrobay]

Have been noticing the nice reflected light in this area off the glassy water early mornings. So took a little walk.

 

[jtbell]

The Carolinas got hit by the "Saskatchewan Screamer" today. My town got off easy: about an inch of snow/sleet and about 2-3mm of ice. And the power went off for an hour this afternoon.

Greenville, Spartanburg and Charlotte got 5-6 inches of snow. The NC mountains got a foot or so.

You folks in the Boswash corridor can have fun with it tomorrow.

 

[jtbell]

Nice and clear this morning, but chilly and slick with ice.

 

[morrobay]

Southerly wind, emerald water, 30 C. (air and water) @ 12 degrees N

 

[BillTre]

Southerly wind, emerald water, 30 C. (air and water)
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Nice contrast with previous photo!

 

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[gmax137]

Is the one on the right empty?

 

[morrobay]

not yet ,good one

 

[morrobay]

44 years old Thai lady. If this does not pass inspection - just delete

 

[morrobay]

 

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[morrobay]

What a difference a decade made
The night life days of glory are long gone. I randomly walked up this street in postcard. Most places are abandoned degraded.

 

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[morrobay]

Chinese new year decorations

 

[morrobay]

The two I have with small flashlights installed

 

[Ibix]

I heard a thump the other day which sounded like somebody banging on a window, but only one thump. After a bit of investigation I found this on our downstairs toilet window:

If the toilet door is open then there's a line of sight from parts of our back garden through the toilet window to the window in the front door. Both windows are frosted glass, but you can see light. My guess is something spooked a pigeon (probably one of the many foxes around here) and it tried to get out of Dodge through our house, not realising that there was something in the way. There was no dead bird or piles of feathers, only a grease print on the window, so I guess it survived the attempt.

I need to clean the window now...

 

[Keith_McClary]

something spooked a pigeon

We get waxwings (and sometimes robins or juncos) swarming the chokecherry and crabapple trees and then flying around drunkenly, supposedly because the fruit is fermented. Also a kestral, a Cooper's hawk and another hawk chasing small birds. I have hawk stickers, but Audubon says they are ineffective (they suggest many stickers at intervals of a few cm). The birds see a reflection of the sky. Is your window frosted on the inside or outside?

 

[Ibix]

Is your window frosted on the inside or outside?

Inside.

We've lived here twelve years and this is the only time I've seen this, so I don't think we're a terrible danger to birds. But your comment about reflecting the sky is interesting - a neighbour recently cut down a tree, which might have opened up new angles for sky reflection. I'll have a look round at the weekend.

 

[jtbell]

Welcome to the Continent, summer 1978...

 

[morrobay]

 

[jack action]

Long before color-sensitive film was invented, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky took 3 individual black and white photos, each with a filter (red, blue, and green) to create high-quality photos in full color. This self-portrait is over 110 years old!

 

[collinsmark]

Long before color-sensitive film was invented, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky took 3 individual black and white photos, each with a filter (red, blue, and green) to create high-quality photos in full color. This self-portrait is over 110 years old!

I take nearly all my astrophotos that way. (Well, I don't use film anymore -- the monochrome camera plus filters is what I mean.) Even today, that method still has several advantages.

 

[morrobay]

Omicron party at Naklua-seafood market

 

[DennisN]

Amazon recently delivered these two nice coffee cups to me:

Apollo 11 - 50 years anniversary:

NASA:

I like the black one the most. I think it looks very good (not just on photo).

 

[DennisN]

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A gorgeous cat!

 

[morrobay]

Harbor Lights

 

[morrobay]

February was high tourist season in Thailand. 2019 there were 40 000 000 foreign visitors, at least 20% of GDP and if all the non receipt transactions were included... 2021 about 400 000 foreigners visited. And with very complicated entry requirements because of the virus those lost tourists may be replacing the Thai holiday with a Vietnam holiday.

 

[morrobay]

The first fresh tuna in two weeks

 

[epenguin]

Long before color-sensitive film was invented, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky took 3 individual black and white photos, each with a filter (red, blue, and green) to create high-quality photos in full color. This self-portrait is over 110 years old!

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Beautiful! The method is now able to give us in this century remarkably faithful and realistic colour prints with information that is in the photos!

I thought with a moving subject (the stream) superimposition of three images should be fuzzy, but at least the form of the water surface is I guess fairly invariant. And when you enlarge it the white parts do seem a bit fuzzier than the rocks. Is this three time/colour what you are seeing especially in the photo of the floodgate at Chernigov?

Although scenery not unlike like that could at a pinch be from several countries I found the overall scene said to me "Russia"! The human (bourgeois) figure recalling the country from its, in some ways, best and most hopeful period.

The present is a time I dare mention and recall how we others are always pleased to recognise anything good that comes out of there. Though there again coming out from there is what this pioneer had himself to do that we after a century were able to inherit this legacy.

 

[morrobay]

The queen of drama on LINE

 

[morrobay]

The dynamic duo on Tic Tok

 

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[Isopod]

A skyscraper sculpture that I made recently, this was it in an exhibition. I made the sculpture using a lot of mirrored aluminium (which I salvaged and put through a lot of processing) and steel.

 

[gmax137]

Street signs