Random Photos

[DennisN]

Yes, it's from summer 1978. A friend and I arrived via the hydrofoil ferry from Copenhagen.

Very nice to see old photos of Malmö, it brings back memories . Your photo above reminded me of all the ferry crossings we used to do to Copenhagen. Now we usually go by car or train via the Öresund Bridge.

The Kockums Crane on your photo above was once a famous landmark of the city. It's not here anymore, it's been moved to South Korea.

And the lighthouse on your photo is the same lighthouse I have posted a couple of shots of in this thread.

 

[jtbell]

Your photo above reminded me of all the ferry crossings we used to do to Copenhagen. Now we usually go by car or train via the Öresund Bridge.

I found a web site showing picture postcards of the Copenhagen-Malmö ferries, including mine. It mentions that the fast ferries were eliminated after the Öresund bridge opened in 1999.

I finally located the lighthouse on Google Maps as "Malmö inre fyr / Malmö Old Light House". Now I can see that the hydrofoil dock was just north of the University Bridge, a short walk from the central train station. We probably checked our backpacks and changed some money at the station before walking around.

Unfortunately I have no other photos from Malmö except for this one showing some fowl, probably in the castle park near the windmill.

 

[jtbell]

From my morning walk yesterday:

 

[DennisN]

I finally located the lighthouse on Google Maps as "Malmö inre fyr / Malmö Old Light House". Now I can see that the hydrofoil dock was just north of the University Bridge, a short walk from the central train station.

Correct!

Unfortunately I have no other photos from Malmö except for this one showing some fowl, probably in the castle park near the windmill.

Haha, there are still pheasants there, and I photographed a couple there last year.
I guess they're not the same ones, though.

 

[pinball1970]

Correct! Haha, there are still pheasants there, and I photographed a couple there last year.
I guess they're not the same ones, though.

Out of the 30 or so images I took today of the approach to Wigton in Cumbria, not one decent photo. (For a gig)
Trying to take photos from a moving vehicle does not work for me. Not with kit I have.
I was lumbered with being sound engineer for the last band too.

 

[jtbell]

Just a couple of weeks ago, temperatures were still in the low 90s(F) here. Now it's cooled off to highs around 80, and lows in the upper 50s. This is apparently enough to trigger fall colors in a few trees. This is the first one I've seen, just yesterday.

 

[pinball1970]

No point in trying to crop it or tart it up. One cannot add lustre to faeces.
This one was better.

 

[jack action]

Getting away from the secret landing zone ...

 

[DennisN]

Trying to take photos from a moving vehicle does not work for me.

I think it is ok for being from a car.
It's not easy, there are additional problems when taking such photos: motion blur since the camera is moving, reflections from car windows and dirt on the windows.

Taking photos from inside trains is also difficult .

I think I have a few such photos, I'll be back.

 

[DennisN]

I think I have a few such photos, I'll be back.

I couldn't find any photos taken from trains, but I found a few I took from the passenger seat in a car, in beautiful Austria (using an early mobile phone):What a lovely view! Too bad there are blurry trees in the way :

Ouch, it hurts my eyes... blur, dirty window and horrible overexposure...

On the way into one of the many tunnels in Austria... pretty ok sharpness...

...but inside the quality became worse. It must have been the fault of the tunnel .

But I actually found two pretty decent ones taken from the car:
(I think the large distance to the mountains helped here)

And last, another one from Austria... not taken from inside a car but from a hotel balcony in
lovely Zell am See:

 

[DennisN]

Getting away from the secret landing zone ...

That's a very cool photo, I think!

Did you get followed by anything in the sky? Tell us all!
Did they use a probe?

 

[morrobay]

From Amtrak: Cross country, Central Coast, CA. And from the train on the bridge over the River Kwai

G

 

[jack action]

That's a very cool photo, I think!

Did you get followed by anything in the sky? Tell us all!
Did they use a probe?

I took the photo after visiting the site. (I didn't even realize at the time that it was a famous filming location.) I just saw this image in my rearview mirror as I was driving away and thought it would make a cool photo. Parked the car on the side of the road and shot the picture.

The funny thing is that it was back in the days of negatives and prints, so I wouldn't see the result until I got back home. Checking my freshly printed photos, I see this odd one with the dash of my car and an overexposed exterior (and reflection image in the mirror). I was wondering why I took that picture, then suddenly remembered what it was supposed to be. Disappointed, I still checked the negative and saw that we could see clearly the Devil's Tower in the mirror. I went back to the photo lab and told them where to test for the exposure and this picture came back (with now a very dark car interior).

Very proud of the result.

 

[jtbell]

Trying to take photos from a moving vehicle does not work for me. Not with kit I have.

I think it is ok for being from a car.
It's not easy, there are additional problems when taking such photos: motion blur since the camera is moving, reflections from car windows and dirt on the windows.

We had a photo contest for such photos a few years ago:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/pf-photo-contest-view-to-a-drive-4-18-4-24.987521/

 

[jtbell]

No, not the New Orleans Saints. This is across the street from a local charter school whose football team is also called the Saints. (as in St. Bernhard, obviously)

 

[DennisN]

I couldn't find any photos taken from trains

I found a couple of ones, none particularly good , but here are two:

Leaving Sweden on a train on the Öresund Bridge:

Passing Peberholm, a Danish artifical* island:
(with a reflection of me in the window)

*

The reason for constructing the island was to have a crossover point between the tunnel and the bridge.

 

[morrobay]

From train Southern Thailand (Muslim) and Vietnam rice fields.

 

[morrobay]

The Sanctuary of Truth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_of_Truth

 

[DennisN]

Two shots from Nordre Toldbod, a waterfront area in Copenhagen:

View eastwards from Nordre Toldbod. The bright point in the sky is actually the planet Jupiter.Here is one of the royal pavilions (Danish: De kongelige pavilioner) in the area.
They were built in 1905 and they were first used the same year to welcome royalty from Britain
(I have no more details on this).

 

[DennisN]

Morning dew...

...in the grass...

....and on the leaves.

 

[morrobay]

My dynamic girlfriend this Wednesday night: ** And this should conclude the girlfriend party photo series after a few glasses of wine.

 

[DennisN]

Some shots of a skateboarder in action...

This skateboarder was performing tricks in a square and I asked him if I could take some photos, and he said yes. It seemed to me he was pretty good at skateboarding. And it was fun because I had never tried shooting skateboarding. I set the camera to extremely short exposure (1/4000 s) to "freeze" the action and also used fast burst mode (I call it "machine gun mode" ) and took some shots.

 

[jack action]

The following is a montage for a joke, but you have to admire the work:

And for those who find it too difficult to squint, I scaled it down to obtain the same effect:

 

[jtbell]

Sculptures of folk musicians at the Swannanoa Valley Museum in Black Mountain NC, led by a local legend, fiddler Marcus Martin.

 

[berkeman]

Wow, incredible airshow picture of an F-22 Raptor showing off...

 

[jtbell]

Kudzu conquers all...

This is a former section of highway US-70 between Black Mountain and Old Fort NC. After it was superseded by the nearby I-40 expressway, it was converted to a bike/hike trail.

I hiked part of it on Saturday, about a mile out and then back. On the outward trip, I thought, "gee, what an easy walk." After I turned around, I realized I had been going downhill... and now I was going uphill!

A sign at Point Lookout, where I turned around, notes that the trail is 3.6 miles long, with a total climb of about 900 feet going west, up the edge of the Blue Ridge. That's an average grade of about 4.7%.

 

[jack action]

 

[Tom.G]

A perfect example of being "wall-eyed.'

 

[morrobay]

The infamous Soi 6 in Pattaya

 

[jtbell]

Halloween is approaching... this is about a block down the street from our house.

"Dear departed Brother Dave / He chased a bear into a cave"
"Here lies Good Old Fred / A great big rock fell on his head"

 

[DennisN]

Close-up shots of the eyes of my two cats:

Not easy to do for a number of reasons , but fun. They were resting, which made it easier.

(shot with Canon nFD 50mm Macro + 2x teleconverter = 100mm macro lens)

 

[jtbell]

On Main Street in Greenville SC, man's best friend with two of his friends.

 

[phinds]

Love it.

 

[morrobay]

The Thai Ministry of Health legalized cannabis in the country June of last year. Now everywhere you look there is a new place. From little kiosks to large establishments. The colors on this place made it worth photos.

 

[morrobay]

Taken from bus along Jomtien beach

 

[berkeman]

Love it.

Of course you do!

 

[phinds]

Of course you do!

ARF ARF

 

[berkeman]

ARF ARF

Sorry, I'm not familiar with that acronym...

ARF ARC (Australian Research Council) Research Fellow
ARF Advertising Research Foundation
ARF ASEAN Regional Forum
ARF Acute Renal Failure
ARF Animal Rescue Foundation
ARF Almost Ready to Fly
ARF ADP Ribosylation Factor
ARF Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Armenian political party)
ARF Acute Respiratory Failure
ARF Approved Retirement Fund (UK)
ARF Area Resource File
ARF Additional Registration Fee
ARF Absolute Return Fund (investing)
<snip>

 

[phinds]

Sorry, I'm not familiar with that acronym...

Oh, dammit, I'll translate for you.

BOW WOW !!!

 

[Swamp Thing]

Acoustic Radiation Force
Argon Fluoride (ArF)
Angular Response Functions
Arf invariants

 

[pinball1970]

Stockport market center

 

[jtbell]

ARF ARF

How do senior dogs get their discounts?
By belonging to AARF - American Association of Retired Fidos.

 

[Borg]

How do senior dogs get their discounts?
By belonging to AARF - American Association of Retired Fidos.

I guess that the acronym for American Association of Retired Pooches was already taken.

 

[jtbell]

"Now accepting applications"? I don't think so... Movie Gallery went bankrupt in 2010.

 

[morrobay]

Along South/Na Jomtien today

 

[berkeman]

Along South/Na Jomtien today

What is that?

 

[morrobay]

Yesterday the 13th was a royal holiday in the kingdom. So I assume this was made to honor one of the past kings. There are many many holidays in Thailand: royal family, government, religious ...

 

[phinds]

Ran across a long set of photos on "architectural wonders of the past" from around the world. Really has some amazing stuff that people / civilizations have done. This was not the most impressive, but jumped out at me for sheer weirdness. The dot circled in blue is a person. I can only think that the tower was populated by Sir Thigh the Strong

Access to the top is only through a circular internal staircase.

The whole thread is here

 

[morrobay]

Indeed. This is a temple entrance, Thailand , Wat Chai Mongkhron , 1851

 

[Rive]

Workshop

I suspect a woodpecker.
They don't have the right anatomy to hold anything with their legs, so some external tools are required.
And, of course, only a fool would abandon a proven tool

Waiting for season

Usually this time that patch of forest is full with these classics... This year, so far only some babies - and this lone 'young adult' looking for prospect

Ps.: the meaning of 'full' above (older photo):