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dlgoff · Dec 12, 2020

dlgoff said:

My father was in the US Marine Corps stationed in the Philippines during WW2.

Dad told me he was shaken out of his bunk several times from this:

Black and white aerial photo of a snow-covered volcanic cone with a plume of ash and steam rising from its summit, with another peak and clouds in the background.

Keith_McClary · Dec 12, 2020

BillTre said:

Not sure about the hazy stripes of white light illumination radiating to the center of the rainbow arc

Sunbeams are (essentially) parallel lines in 3D space. They appear to diverge from the Sun due to parallax. Near dawn or dusk they can extend across the sky and appear to converge at the anti-solar point. (Think train tracks.)

Wide-angle photo from a highway at dusk looking down a divided road under a blue sky, with faint crepuscular rays fanning out above, tall light poles on the left, a green Exit 13 sign and a yellow Ramp 40 mph sign on the right, and a dark SUV ahead.

Anticrepuscular rays appear opposite of a sunrise on the Gulfcoast of Mississippi. Note the anticrepuscular rays are perpendicular to the rainbow. Photo:Chatnuck24

Point Conception · Dec 15, 2020

To conclude the (I miss) New York State of Mind series: The Puerto Rican girls were charging $3/photo so had to be unnoticed. Midtown, Canal st Chinatown. Lower East Side near Tompkins Square

Crowded lawn in a city park on a summer day, with many people sitting, lying on blankets and walking, tall trees behind, and high-rise buildings on the skyline. Date stamp reads 6 7 92.

Outdoor photo from 1994 of roller skaters on a paved park road lined with trees, with a crowd of onlookers along the sides; a man in a patterned shirt and white pants holds hands with a woman in black pants and a white top, and a woman in a black skirt and knee pads skates nearby. Date stamp reads 7 3'94.

Outdoor snapshot on grass in summer sun: a young woman with long dark hair in black shorts and a white top holds a large python draped over her shoulders and arms, with two other people standing beside her.

Large inflatable balloon of a cartoon rabbit in a blue top hat and red bow tie, floating above bare trees and autumn leaves in a city park, with tall apartment buildings behind.

Street musicians performing on a paved path in a park with spring trees and tulips behind them: a man in pink playing trumpet, another playing guitar, a drummer seated behind a kit, and a double bass player on the right.

Summer scene on a large grassy lawn with many people sitting and lying on blankets, with a row of tall city skyscrapers and apartment towers behind a line of trees.

Street photo of a red zone sign reading NO PARKING, NO STANDING, NO STOPPING, NO KIDDING! beside a Transit Police vehicle and an M2 subway entrance sign on a city sidewalk.

Street photo of a woman in a dark short dress and sheer tights walking on a city sidewalk past a man in a white shirt and a boy in a blue shirt, with yellow taxis and Chinese-language storefront signs behind them.

Cream and red 1959 Cadillac convertible with whitewall tires driving on a city street, with pedestrians and cyclists nearby; date stamp 9 7 '92 in the corner.

Street scene on a city avenue with a red-brick building behind it bearing a sign reading COFFEE SHOP; a camera operator in a white shirt reading TOP OF THE MORNING TO YA films a performer in a pink tutu and silver top, while a shirtless man and others stand beside a white convertible.

Andy Resnick · Dec 18, 2020

We've had a special visitor for the past few days:

Olive-yellow female summer tanager with a pale bill standing on a snowy, gravelly surface, seen from the side and slightly behind, looking to the left.

This has been identified as a female summer tanager, a bird that should not be anywhere near us. In fact, if confirmed, this will be the first recorded sighting (in our region) since bird surveys began in 1900. A group of local experts is scheduled to come by tomorrow (12/19) to observe and confirm (while socially distant, etc.)... some excitement!

Mondayman · Dec 19, 2020

Ny new number one guitar, an Epiphone 1959 LP Standard. Plays and sounds amazing, for $1150 you have a quality guitar. I personally think Gibson is overpriced. They are fantastic instruments for sure, but considering you're paying atleast $3000 Canadian for a standard guitar, Epiphone is a really bang for your buck choice. That being said, I would spend an eons worth of wages to get my hands on a Jimmy Page LP..

Point Conception · Dec 21, 2020

No prizes for guessing name of tree that starts with U

Upward view through the canopy of a tree with a thick brown trunk and branches spreading out, covered in dense green and yellowish leaves against a pale sky.

BillTre · Dec 21, 2020

Saw this recently on a white board at a local hospital:

Hand-drawn cartoon of four people in yellow protective suits and blue gloves raising a flag reading HEALTH WORKERS, while a fifth stands behind a sign labelled COVID-19 OUTBREAK.

rsk · Dec 31, 2020

The Physics of Snowmen thread reminded me of this photo, taken a few years ago now. I love the pattern produced.

Photo of a shallow puddle on an asphalt road with concentric rings of thin ice forming around a central pool of water, with patches of snow and grass at the edges.

dlgoff · Dec 31, 2020

waternohitter said:

We'd like to see the photo album of your father.

dlgoff said:

My father was in the US Marine Corps stationed in the Philippines during WW2.

A little history:

Dad enlisted in the Marine Corps at the beginning of his high school's senior year when he was engaged to my Mom who was in her high school's Junior year. At the beginning of Mom's Senior year she was recruited by J Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and went to Washington DC. While there she acquired these photos of president Roosevelt's funeral procession past the White House:

Black-and-white photo of the White House facade seen through a fence, with four uniformed soldiers with rifles standing on the sidewalk in front and a dark vehicle at left.

Black and white photo of a horse-drawn caisson carrying a flag-draped coffin down a city street past a columned government building, with mounted motorcycle escorts and a large crowd lining the road.

Black-and-white photo of a funeral procession on a city street: a horse-drawn caisson with a flag-draped casket, flanked by mounted riders on white horses and motorcycle outriders, with a dense crowd lining the street.

Leo Liu · Jan 1, 2021

A Canada goose standing on green grass in a park, facing the camera, with two more geese and tree-lined lawns behind it.

A dumb Canada goose

(honk)
Victoria Park, London, Ontario, CA

Point Conception · Jan 2, 2021

Orange Reindeer, someone had to do it. Amari Pattaya

Outdoor Christmas display of orange felt reindeer on metal stakes pulling a sleigh with a Santa figure, on a grassy lawn with small ground spotlights.

Janus · Jan 2, 2021

The earlier photo of the Volcano made me think of these:

Hazy overcast view over rooftops of single-storey houses and trees toward wooded hills, with a faint grey ash haze in the sky and grey ash dusting on the roofs.

Mt Saint Helens, from Longview, WA. This is one of the later eruptions. The gray on the roofs is ash from an earlier one( The second eruption. The first main eruption occurred with Westerly prevailing winds, which carried the ash East, The next one during Easterly winds, carrying it West.

Faded, warm-toned photo of a dusty suburban street with a pickup truck and a white van driving through a haze of blown dust, with a street lamp and a tree beside a fence.

Longview after the 2nd eruption. At the time, I lived just a mile or so beyond the hills in the background.

DennisN · Jan 4, 2021

Two long exposure panoramas I took this evening:
(ISO 50, Exposure: 15 sec)

Pond and park:

Night panorama of a city waterfront across a still lake, with lit high-rise buildings, a lit bridge and trees reflected in the water under a cloudy sky.

(larger versions are here)

A garden with an old pavilion, built in 1914 for the Baltic Exhibition:

Night panorama of a park path running between a long brick wall on the right and bare trees on the left, with lights glowing along the wall and a lit pavilion in the distance.

(larger versions are here)

Point Conception · Jan 21, 2021

Jomtien-beach

Night view of a sandy beach at dusk with palm trees in the foreground, a tall street lamp glowing above, and the dark sea beyond; a few people sit on the sand at right.

Point Conception · Jan 22, 2021

A few more from Gulf of Thailand

Waves breaking onto a sandy beach under overhanging trees, with blue chairs and bamboo fencing along the shoreline on the right and a clear sky above.

Sun setting over a calm sea with an orange glow, its reflection forming a bright vertical streak on the water, with dark palm fronds in the foreground and a tall pole on the right.

dlgoff · Feb 1, 2021

dlgoff said:

A little history:

Dad enlisted in the Marine Corps at the beginning of his high school's senior year when he was engaged to my Mom who was in her high school's Junior year. At the beginning of Mom's Senior year she was recruited by J Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and went to Washington DC. While there she acquired these photos of president Roosevelt's funeral procession past the White House:

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In order to honor my father, I put up this flag pole on my storm shelter with a US Marine Corps flag on it.

Flagpole flying an American flag and a red U.S. Marine Corps flag beside a chain-link fenced mound with a metal door, a trailer behind it, and bare winter trees.

wrobel · Feb 13, 2021

What I saw today when came to my car after three days parking (Moscow)

Two white sedans parked on a street, both buried under deep snow, with a snowbank piled high along the roadside and a multi-storey apartment block behind them.

DennisN · Feb 14, 2021

Janus said:

Night sky through trees near Mt. Adams, WA.

DennisN said:

What a cool photo, and what a great photo idea! I have to try to do that sometime!

I tried it yesterday when I was out photographing the night sky.
It became a bit "too much trees" and "too little sky", but anyway here it is:
(it was taken in a park in the city with quite a bit of light pollution)

(LG G4 phone with a wide angle lens and light pollution filter attached, ISO 400, 10 seconds exposure, and a bit of postprocessing in Photoshop)

Night photo of bare, dark tree branches silhouetted against a deep blue sky with scattered stars.

And astrometry.net managed to identify it

:

Night sky photo with green lines overlaid on stars, labelled Cancer, Gemini, Auriga, Taurus and Orion, with bare tree branches across the frame.

Andy Resnick · Feb 17, 2021

Some water crystals that fell from the sky last night:

Close-up photo of frost or snow crystals, with clusters of branched, feathery ice crystals and sparkling reflections on a bluish-grey background.

Close-up photo of snow on a surface, with many small ice crystals catching light against a dark blue-grey background.

Point Conception · Feb 23, 2021

Close-up of wet sand on a beach with several parallel ridged lines and grooves running diagonally, with small pebbles scattered on the surface and shallow water at the lower edge.

Point Conception · Feb 26, 2021

Hillside covered in magenta bougainvillea and green shrubs below a wooden pavilion roof, with rocky ground in the foreground and a clear blue sky.

A good place to watch sunset on the Gulf of Thailand. Starting about 1430.

epenguin · Feb 26, 2021

morrobay said:

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Fascinating. At first I took this to be tyre tracks at the sea's edge. Then you realize this is produced by the wash of the sea. No doubt there is some theory for the stepped structure.

Perpendicular to the steps there also looks to be some kind of periodic structure in the sand suspended in the water.

Point Conception · Feb 26, 2021

Another angle

Pink bougainvillea cascading over a sloping hillside above rocky coastline, with a wooden gazebo-like structure and a tall tree behind it under a clear blue sky.

DennisN · Mar 9, 2021

I've got a new camera, my first system camera.
It takes better photos than my smartphone. MUCH better.
Some of my first photos with the camera:

My cat (3 days ago)

Close-up photo of a long-haired orange and white cat with yellow-green eyes, lit from the left against a dark background.

A clock tower in the evening (tonight)

Night photo of an illuminated clock tower with a stone and brick facade, two lit clock faces, and a dark sky behind it.

Quite sharp, even though it was a very low light situation.
My smartphone would not have been able to take such a sharp photo in that situation,
no matter how I would try to take it.

Regretfully some image compression can be seen here in the sky around the tower, since it is a JPG.
The original uncompressed image (ARW) does not have those artifacts.

Point Conception · Mar 20, 2021

@phinds , Can you identify this dense wood, 1.03 g/cm^3. With also dense rice shaped grains. With the lack of tourism in this Thai seaside resort many restaurants, bars, massage places have been dismantled. So there is a lot of material left for the taking. Using these planks for shelving

Two weathered wooden planks laid side by side, showing dense fine grain running lengthwise with dark brown staining and reddish-orange tones across the surface.

phinds · Mar 20, 2021

No, it doesn't look familiar. The high density, bright color, and distinctive grain make it something I would likely remember if I had seen it before. Most likely it is a common Asian wood that never gets into America. That happens a fair amount with woods of the world.

How wide is the piece on the right.?

Point Conception · Mar 20, 2021

16cm wide x 80cm x 3cm. At 4kg (plus varnish one side)

DennisN · Mar 21, 2021

It was a sunny day today:

Large tree trunk with exposed, moss-covered roots spreading over bare soil in a park, with a grassy lawn, bare trees and a red brick building under a clear blue sky.

Andy Resnick · Mar 22, 2021

22 degree lunar ice halo this evening:

Photo of a faint circular halo around the bright Moon against a dark night sky, with bare tree branches at the edges.

A great atmospheric optics site:

https://www.atoptics.co.uk/halosim.htm

DennisN · Mar 23, 2021

Andy Resnick said:

22 degree lunar ice halo this evening

Beautiful!

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