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[DennisN]

The second train used a ferry between Rødby (Denmark) and Puttgarden (Germany).

Oh, I've travelled many times on that ferry!
I think it's the most common route for Swedes who want to travel to Germany and beyond in Europe (without travelling by airplane).

And on the Vogelfluglinie which you linked to lies also the German city Lübeck which I've recently thought about revisiting. I've been there when I was very young, but I have no memory of it. Lübeck is an old Hanseatic city with many old buildings, so I think it would be very fun to go there and take a lot of photos .

 

[jtbell]

All those train cars fit in that little biddy ferry?

A Google search turned up a site that lists the Theodor Heuss as having three tracks. If you look carefully you can see the end of a car off to the right just inside the hatch.

And here's a picture of the entrance to a train ferry between Sicily and mainland Italy, showing a single track branching out to four tracks inside the ferry:

Source: List of train ferries

 

[morrobay]

 

[pinball1970]

Not to start any conspiracy theory but is it me or does this look like the Death Star is completed?

Or the next Independence day film, "Alien Apocalypse."

 

[pinball1970]

Met a friend today in Manchester and this was outside the pub.

 

[gmax137]

Met a friend today in Manchester and this was outside the pub.

Took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at there.

 

[fresh_42]

Took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at there.

I assume it is the equivalent to

 

[Arjan82]

Took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at there.

Please enlighten me :)

 

[gmax137]

My first impression was a large number of red-mylar wrapped holiday hams.

 

[DennisN]

I was editing some old photos taken with smartphone.

Here is the medieval tower Kärnan in Helsingborg, Sweden.
It was built in the 1310s, and at that time Helsingborg belonged to Denmark.

Kärnan is a medieval tower in Helsingborg, Scania, in southern Sweden. It is the only part remaining of a larger Danish fortress which, along with the fortress Kronborg on the opposite bank of the Øresund, controlled the entranceway between the Kattegat and the Øresund and further south the Baltic Sea.

A shot taken from the road leading up to the tower:

The tower:

The entrance to the tower:

And a view of the surroundings, taken from the top of the stairs:

 

[gmax137]

A shot taken from the road leading up to the tower:

I like this one!

 

[berkeman]

So I've seen this advertisement at the CNN news website a few times now. It just seems really bizzare to me, since it is advertising a practice exam for entering the US military...

Spoiler

Unless her right arm is disabled, she is supposed to be saluting with her right arm.

 

[fresh_42]

So I've seen this advertisement at the CNN news website a few times now. It just seems really bizzare to me, since it is advertising a practice exam for entering the US military...

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Spoiler

Unless her right arm is disabled, she is supposed to be saluting with her right arm.

Isn't the flag in the background mirrored, too? You cannot rotate it so that the stars are in the upper left corner.

 

[BillTre]

Isn't the flag in the background mirrored, too? You cannot rotate it so that the stars are in the upper left corner.

Flip it over (topologically speaking).
That would be like mirroring it.

 

[berkeman]

Isn't the flag in the background mirrored, too? You cannot rotate it so that the stars are in the upper left corner.

Good question about the mirroring, but the flag can't help. As Bill says, you just look at it from the other side.

Unless there is a preferred orientation for displaying US flags. I'm off to Google...

 

[berkeman]

Hmm, nope, that looks like the preferred orientation:

https://www.defense.gov/News/Featur...92936/dos-and-donts-for-displaying-old-glory/

 

[Ibix]

advertising a practice exam for entering the US military...

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Spoiler

Unless her right arm is disabled, she is supposed to be saluting with her right arm.

Congratulations, you've got 1 mark so far...

 

[berkeman]

Congratulations, you've got 1 mark so far...

LOL. Of course I took the practice test for fun the first time I saw the ad, and aced the test. Guess what I saw in my FaceBook feed for the next month...

 

[fresh_42]

LOL. Of course I took the practice test for fun the first time I saw the ad, and aced the test. Guess what I saw in my FaceBook feed for the next month...

 

[Swamp Thing]

A couple of rather halloweeny but oddly adorable thunder eggs...

https://www.geologypage.com/2016/10/thunderegg.html

 

[phinds]

That second one is obviously Casper the Friendly Ghost's retarded uncle

 

[collinsmark]

she is supposed to be saluting with her right arm.

It's a mirror image.

WHY IS THE FLAG BACKWARDS ON MILITARY UNIFORMS?

https://mybaseguide.com/backwards-flag

Back in the days of the Civil War, flag bearers were common military positions within the greater infantry and cavalry units. As the flag bearers stormed into battle, the American flag would sway behind them with the momentum, making it look like the flag was backwards as it flew.Okay, so what? Why is the flag backwards on a military uniform?When the star field is first and foremost, it looks like the flag itself is storming into battle, much like our brave service men and women. If the flag were not mirrored on the Y axis, the star field would be on the left, making it look like the flag was retreating from battle instead of facing it head-on. This backwards American flag is called the Assaulting Forward.

 

[morrobay]

Sea bass and vegetables at the seafood market

 

[DennisN]

Here's a lovely clownfish resting in a sea anemone (I think, @BillTre would probably know if it's correct ),
shot today at the local aquarium:

(shot with Sony A7R + Commlite EF-NEX adapter + Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II in a very, very dark
environment, so I pumped up the ISO to 2000. Other settings: f/3.5, 1/100 s exposure.)

 

[nsaspook]

When Samantha smiles.

 

[nsaspook]

 

[DennisN]

I was editing old photos and found this one of a dragonfly, which I think is a "lesser emperor" (Anax parthenope). Not a particularly good photo (and heavily cropped), but it was the only one I got .
They are very uncommon here.

 

[DennisN]

A cool toy on a Swedish auction site:

KO YOSHIYA. "Nasa UFO", spaceship, tin toy, battery operated.

 

[BillTre]

A cool toy on a Swedish auction site:

KO YOSHIYA. "Nasa UFO", spaceship, tin toy, battery operated.
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To Infinity and Beyond!

 

[morrobay]

These months the visitors 40%/60% Scandinavian/Russian stay in Jomtien. Nice warm dry Northerly. Air/Water , 32C/30C

 

[morrobay]

 

[nsaspook]

 

[berkeman]

Ribs on the left? How is it seasoned/marinated?

EDIT -- Nevermind, I see now that it's the shadow that makes it look like 2 different seasonings...

 

[Arjan82]

Brilliant :)

Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards​

Some examples:

 

[DennisN]

A couple of plants from earlier this year and last year...

Yellow rose(s) (shot on a cemetery*)

Yellow lilies reaching for sunlight (also shot on a cemetery*)

Papaver (a big pink poppy, also shot on a cemetery*)

Japanese cherry tree (Prunus serrulata):

Japanese cherry tree, detail:

* I've probably said before that cemeteries can be excellent places to shoot a variety of flowers .

 

[DennisN]

Brilliant :)

Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards​

Some examples:

Very funny!

 

[nsaspook]

Happy Thanksgiving Day to all.

 

[morrobay]

Nice to get in the water but not cooling off @30C. I know it's cold where ya all are: No Schadenfreude intended.

 

[morrobay]

Macy's 5th Ave Thanksgiving Parade

 

[morrobay]

The Puerto Rican families had Sunday afternoon picnics on the hood & trunk of my car. 8av. & 20th

 

[DennisN]

Nice to get in the water but not cooling off @30C. I know it's cold where ya all are: No Schadenfreude intended.

We've got lovely weather here. Later I'm going for a bath too...

(temperatures in Celsius)

...in my bathtub.

 

[Rive]

No Schadenfreude intended.

Winter has its own niceties.
Aiming for a 'first snow' hike at weekend.
There might be photos too.

 

[pinball1970]

Please enlighten me :)

A silent peaceful protest to return innocent hostages, many of which were women and children.

 

[pinball1970]

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That looks a lot more complicated than the desk I had to manage for the other band

 

[pinball1970]

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Luckily I made detailed professional notes in the rehearsal.

 

[Ibix]

That looks a lot more complicated than the desk I had to manage for the other bandView attachment 336131

Well yeah, but it looks like he's running the deck for a big name band, The Coors.

(...I'll get my coat.)

 

[DennisN]

That looks a lot more complicated than the desk I had to manage for the other bandView attachment 336131

More mixing desks (probably audio & lights, I think), shot at the venue Amager Bio in Copenhagen while the UK band Nothing But Thieves were performing in 2022:

It was a darn good live concert, and here is one of the few shots I got of the band with my system camera...

...before one of the venue guards came and told me that I wasn't allowed to take photos with system cameras (but smartphones were allowed).
Which actually surprised me and which I find a little weird. Could it be because of the resolution and the ability to make more professional shots, I wonder? Well, smartphone cameras can be pretty darn good too nowadays, and they will likely get better and better in the near future, I think...

For comparison, here's another shot of the band taken with my smartphone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 10):

Another shot taken from the venue balcony:

And a joke who anyone who has mixed music may identify with :

 

[pinball1970]

More mixing desks (probably audio & lights, I think), shot at the venue Amager Bio in Copenhagen while the UK band Nothing But Thieves were performing in 2022:

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It was a darn good live concert, and here is one of the few shots I got of the band with my system camera...

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...before one the venue guards came and told me that I wasn't allowed to take photos with system cameras.
Which actually surprised me and which I find a little weird. Could it be because of the resolution and the ability to make more professional shots, I wonder? Well, smartphone cameras can be pretty darn good too nowadays, and they will likely get better and better in the near future, I think...

For comparison, here's another shot of the band taken with my smartphone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 10):

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Another shot taken from the venue balcony:

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And a joke who anyone who has mixed music may identify with :

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The Venue was all wood (Wigton) the sound when the bodies were in had to be adjusted the old-fashioned way. First track out with the crowd and see how much those guys absorb, sound and clarity.
The guitar was supreme in the soundcheck, dead once the people were in.
I put the git to 6 (not 11)

 

[Rive]

Aiming for a 'first snow' hike at weekend.
There might be photos too.

Due some sore throats we just turned it into a looong morning and instead of a full day hike it was just a short afternoon walk...
We still got the firs snow, though.

Puzzles of land: summer & winter, light & shadow, hills and meadows...

Clouds left and right

 

[DennisN]

I was doing some much needed reorganization at home and took a look at the only two vinyl records I have left:

1. The Beatles - Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 (@pinball1970 )

2. Frantic - Conception (1970) (a psychedelic rock album I once bought in Stockholm. I really like it.)