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[morrobay]

Amazing scene. Is that all natural/original setting light?

 

[morrobay]

Beautiful Cardinal

 

[collinsmark]

Amazing scene. Is that all natural/original setting light?

The Hummel Park pic was touched up in Lightroom a bit to give it a dramatic effect worthy of the park's legends. So no, it's not completely natural. There's a bit of artistic license there. [Edit: But nothing too crazy, just some creative dodging and burning; creative contrast, clarity, and vibrance adjustments with masks, etc. All hand done.]

 

[morrobay]

The Soi 6 Situation

 

[WWGD]

 

[jtbell]

Cobwebs (?) with morning dew.

 

[pinball1970]

Cheshire is pretty flat but Macclesfield has a few nice hills. Good for fell running.

 

[morrobay]

My nephew on his fishing boat out of Rhode Island. Removing a hook from sharks mouth and sending it on its way

 

[BillTre]

 

[jack action]

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I felt a déjà vu moment ...

 

[BillTre]

I felt a déjà vu moment ...

Opps, forgot about that one.

 

[Ibix]

Opps, forgot about that one.

What is it? Just a CGI picture, or is it something biological?

 

[BillTre]

What is it? Just a CGI picture, or is it something biological?

I don't know but I doubt it is natural.
Just cool looking.

 

[DennisN]

My nephew on his fishing boat out of Rhode Island. Removing a hook from sharks mouth and sending it on its wayView attachment 349120

Say hello to captain Jack Sparrow from me.

 

[WWGD]

I felt a déjà vu moment ...

Didn't you say that before?

 

[jack action]

Didn't you say that before?

I'm pretty sure I did but a simple search says I didn't ... even though I said it at least once!?

Probably still is on the old server.

 

[morrobay]

With 4 glasses wine and one shakey hand

 

[DennisN]

A rising Moon between two towers, shot this night:

(Gear: Sony A7R + Tokina 300mm f/5.6 @ f/8, ISO 2000, 0.5s exposure)

 

[DennisN]

My own shadow captured this morning with my pinhole "lens":
(I'm holding a tripod with one hand and the camera with the other)

 

[pinball1970]

2008 Yorkshire three Peaks. Whernside in the back ground.

 

[pinball1970]

Three peaks, Pen-y-ghent

 

[pinball1970]

Pen-y-ghent is actually first, the walk from there to Whernside seem to take forever.

The lad with the bobble hat was 17 at the time. A tough little lad.
It was not easy running to front to get a decent shot either.

 

[WWGD]

Hope not too political. Recently, from Venezuela , Colombia, re Maduro

 

[pinball1970]

Hope not too political. Recently, from Venezuela , Colombia, re Maduro
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Don't get me started. The UK has decided to go crazy for a few days. I am posting images of saner times.

 

[WWGD]

Don't get me started. The UK has decided to go crazy for a few days. I am posting images of saner times.

Fair enough.

 

[pinball1970]

2001, the lab went through some changes. Probably the angriest period of my working life. I, we got through it. The foreign students got slack but no one else did.

 

[pinball1970]

First time in Ireland, first time I saw a starry sky like that. No ambient light at all on the camp site at night. It was breathtaking.

No images of that unfortunately. Probably would not have come out with my rubbish camera.

 

[morrobay]

Hope not too political. Recently, from Venezuela , Colombia, re Maduro
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Not for political. Just the dynamic scene. My families from Ireland & Scotland

 

[morrobay]

The seafood connections

 

[WWGD]

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Bhat is the price of clams? ;).

 

[jtbell]

Bhat is the price of clams? ;).

Including VAT?

 

[morrobay]

Bhat is the price of clams? ;).

Check next time. Shrimp is $8/kilo. Clams would be less

 

[BillTre]

 

[Arjan82]

Yeah, in the same vein:

 

[Flyboy]

Bit of an odd duck I found at a small air museum well off the beaten path yesterday… a 50 year old homebuilt flying wing. FAA records say it’s a White Flying Plank II.

 

[berkeman]

Yikes! I wonder what they dropped it from...

 

[morrobay]

Fashion

 

[morrobay]

Bhat is the price of clams? ;).

USD/35 Baht. Baht/kilo

 

[jtbell]

The recent wildfires that destroyed much of Jasper, Alberta reminded me of my very brief visit in May 2004, a rest stop (a half hour, maybe?) at the train station en route from Edmonton to Vancouver on VIA Rail's Canadian.

 

[jtbell]

(This begins a series of posts with pictures from my road trip from South Carolina to Connecticut and back, during August 2024. I posted them during the trip, then intermittently afterward. When the next post does not immediately follow the current one, there is a link at the end of the post.)

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Now I no longer say "I never saw a purple cow..."

Location: along highway US-340, about 5 miles north of Waynesboro, Virginia. Until a few years ago, it was an ice cream parlor named the Purple Cow.

 

[jtbell]

A few hours later yesterday, I stopped at the White Post, supposedly erected by 18-year-old George Washington in 1750, while working as a surveyor.

(skip to the next post in this series)

 

[Borg]

My first thought was how often it gets hit by cars.

Because of its precarious, unprotected placement at the intersection of two roads, the White Post has been an unwitting victim of numerous vehicular accidents resulting in damage or near-destruction over the last 270+ years. Its status as a landmark on the National Register of Historic Places requires that the post be reconstructed each time precisely as it was.

 

[morrobay]

This new seafood restaurant is next to a boat yard way way off main areas . I only visited because I have seen them building it .Ie no one is just going to walk by in this area. So they must have good connections.

 

[jtbell]

From the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway in Jim Thorpe PA yesterday.

 

[jtbell]

From the Connecticut Trolley Museum in East Windsor, today:

A city bus c. 1970 modified by adding railroad wheels and other equipment so that it could run on both roads and railroad tracks. The plan was to run it on suburban streets to pick up passengers, then use rails to get into the city quickly. This turned out not to be practical, partly because the added weight impaired performance in "street mode".

This museum also houses the Connecticut Fire Museum, with a collection of vintage fire trucks.

(skip to the next post in this series)

 

[morrobay]

What a Beauty

 

[Ibix]

A city bus c. 1970 modified by adding railroad wheels and other equipment so that it could run on both roads and railroad tracks. The plan was to run it on suburban streets to pick up passengers, then use rails to get into the city quickly. This turned out not to be practical, partly because the added weight impaired performance in "street mode".

Interesting concept - perhaps a forerunner to the guided bus concept?

 

[morrobay]

 

[jtbell]

Today I took the train to New Haven from Windsor Locks CT. Surely this is one of Amtrak's smallest stations.

Yale is apparently in the middle of freshman orientation.

However, I wasn't there to visit Yale. I was just killing some time while waiting for a bus to East Haven, home of the Shore Line Trolley Museum. Yes, another one of those!

The scenery is definitely better than at the other trolley museum that I visited yesterday. Nice views of salt marshes and expensive waterfront homes.

(skip to the next post in this series)

 

[BillTre]