Random Photos

[Ivan Seeking]

First time I hear about a pig named Donna.

Poor Donna!

We were the talk of the nursery school.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[morrobay]

It's been mostly overcast here for a month so took photo of something that looks better in reduced light - myself.

 

[Tom.G]

I know of see-thru attire, but see-thru bodies, well... what can I say?

 

[DennisN]

Some autumn photos and a white flower:

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Keith_McClary]

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I remember reading a "scientists solve mystery of traveling rocks" article, but I can't remember their solution.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I remember reading a "scientists solve mystery of traveling rocks" article, but I can't remember their solution.

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-sliding-rock-phenomenon.60676/

 

[morrobay]

Gulf of Thailand and Cambodian girl filleting small tuna

 

[morrobay]

I know of see-thru attire, but see-thru bodies, well... what can I say?

Something like that

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[DennisN]

Four wide-angle photos taken in the park today:

Path in sunlight:

Lots of leaves:

Trees and shadows:

Trees and the Sun:

 

[StevieTNZ]

Random photo:
"The lady with the teeth", as described by Disgusting Face who appears on Fox News:

 

[morrobay]

Onshore wind driven waves wash up debris. And girl cleaning beach.

 

[rsk]

I've recently moved job/country/continent and after a long delay because of Covid, it's a relief to be here. I've been placed in an aparment which is not really my cup of tea in terms of location but which does at least, when the sky is right, have spectacular sunrise views. No alarm clock needed.
That's the Saigon river there.

 

[rsk]

Random photo:
"The lady with the teeth", as described by Disgusting Face who appears on Fox News:
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That lady is amazing. She's got teeth in the figurative way, exactly how it counts. She's got figurative balls as well.

 

[morrobay]

I sure like this fresh seafood market. This small tuna is so fresh from out

in the channel the steaks are translucent.

 

[jtbell]

Halloween is approaching, and decorations are starting to appear.

 

[BillTre]

Found a picture of my old pump room for one of the zebrafish facilities I used to run.
The big grey cylinders are fluidized sand beds growing bacteria. They are the biological filter.
This water system took care of ~6,000 fish tanks.

 

[BillTre]

Leaves starting to change colors:

 

[jtbell]

Yesterday my wife and I attended the inauguration of the new president of the college where we used to teach:

He's flanked by his kids, his wife, and the chairman of the college's board of trustees.

We're both retired, so we attended as ordinary guests and didn't have to wear our "monkey suits" (academic regalia). We got a luncheon out of it afterwards, in an open-air tent on the lawn.

 

[morrobay]

Best light in the year these few months

 

[DennisN]

A beautiful antique car I passed by recently. The gas station at which it is parked is actually an old station from the 1950s and a so-called "listed building" which is marked for historial protection.

 

[morrobay]

 

[morrobay]

And the fresh tuna from there. Add avocado, olive oil and pumpkin seeds to this. You can't get any healthier.

 

[BillTre]

Neighboring street as the many different kinds of trees change colors in each their different ways:

Here is a tree with a nice gradation of colors. It looked great earlier when a much stronger light was hitting it from behind, making it kind of glow. Didn't get outside fast enough to get the shot however.
The dark background of the roof accentuates the colors, but a view with the roof in the background of the entire tree would have required a telephoto lens.

 

[morrobay]

Unfortunately this time of year the Northerly winds are from the land masses to North. As opposed to the clear air from Southerlies :

 

[rsk]

I've recently moved job/country/continent and after a long delay because of Covid, it's a relief to be here. I've been placed in an aparment which is not really my cup of tea in terms of location but which does at least, when the sky is right, have spectacular sunrise views. No alarm clock needed.
That's the Saigon river there.

Update: I moved out of the place that wasn't my cup of tea and into a less flashy place in the centre. I don't get the spectacular sunrises but I'm surrounded by the chaos and colour of normal life. Much more my kind of place.

 

[Keith_McClary]

 

[BillTre]

Wow @rsk!
Nice shot of a interesting and complex situation.

Reminds me of a warren of living places for animals (with a technical capacity).

 

[berkeman]

A little FireFighter humor -- Cal Fire and other FF agencies have been clearing out brush and trees in Alum Rock Park (in the foothills east of Silicon Valley in California) as part of a project to create fire breaks and lower the fuel load in the area (thank you FFs!). You can see a little fun that they had here at the park bench at the top of the Service Road on the south side of the Park -- they used some of the spare wood that they cut to add some footstools and extra seating to the park bench area...

 

[morrobay]

Update: I moved out of the place that wasn't my cup of tea and into a less flashy place in the centre. I don't get the spectacular sunrises but I'm surrounded by the chaos and colour of normal life. Much more my kind of place.

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Interesting .For sunrise/sunsets you should easily be able to get a place with access to the roof, roof/patio. It looks like I can see some possibilities in this photo.

 

[rsk]

Interesting .For sunrise/sunsets you should easily be able to get a place with access to the roof, roof/patio. It looks like I can see some possibilities in this photo.

Yes, I can get on the roof here though it's a much smaller building. For when I want panoramic views there are quite a few 'sky bar' type places in this city. Now that restrictions are slowly being lifted I guess they'll be opening up again.

 

[morrobay]

The girl from Burma- does not like face photoed as she is getting up to get away.

 

[DennisN]

Some autumn photos taken in the evening a couple of days ago, using long exposure and a tripod,
which in this case is a must unless you have spectacularly steady hands (lens: Canon FD 50mm):

Yellow autumn tree in backlight:

Autumn evening path:

Red autumn bush:

Yellow autumn tree with a man in the evening:

Pond fountain with purple lights (exposure: 1 s):

 

[morrobay]

No autumn colors at latitude 13. So some California photos. High and low deserts , Lake Tahoe, and C.G. base on Terminal Island, CA.

 

[morrobay]

One thing about South East Asia, unlike California, if you lose a girl you don't have to wait six months for the next

 

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[morrobay]

This is the way to Brighten Beach

 

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[morrobay]

Pharmacist

 

[DennisN]

I remember I once took a photo of an ice cube for one of the PF photo contests, and while doing that I discovered that with right lighting it can actually be quite fun and creative to photograph ice cubes.

I've also been thinking about trying to do some creative things with water drops and soap bubbles, and the effects I'm going for are the reflections and light diffraction.

Some close-ups of ice cubes taken today with an extension tube between the camera and lens:

Three ice cubes:

One ice cube:
(I really don't know what the yellow strokes in this photo are, I don't remember seeing them in/on the cube itself. Maybe it's some kind of weird light effect or something. )

Another ice cube with a little rainbow present:

Disclaimer: No entropy was lost during the experiments.

 

[StevieTNZ]

Random photo, a rather sexy picture of Donald J Trump:

 

[berkeman]

Random photo, a rather sexy picture of Donald J Trump:
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That was the time he raised up through the sunroof of the presidential Suburban vehicle while they were doing 65 mph down the turnpike. His Secret Service bodyguards were not amused, I've heard.

 

[DennisN]

Another autumn photo taken this morning:
(using my quite affordable Meike 35mm f/1.4 lens, which I really like. It's very fast (gathers a lot of light), which is great for low light photography)

 

[dlgoff]

I thought about putting this photo in my Beauty of old electrical and measuring things, etc. thread as it's beautiful to me, but since it isn't electrical and doesn't measure anything I'll put it here. My father was in the US Marine Corps stationed in the Philippines during WW2. This was his uniform:

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Since yesterday was the Historical birthday for the US Marine Corps, I thought I'd post these photos of my dads Marine Corps bayonet:

 

[berkeman]

Respect! (from a fellow military brat)

 

[dlgoff]

Respect! (from a fellow military brat)

Semper Fidelis

 

[BillTre]

Here are some pictures of a romanesco (a human derived, cultivated plant related to broccoli and coliflower) that I recently bought.
I find them interesting because of their fractal-like shapes, (self-similar at several size scales). In real life (as opposed to math-world), fractals have their limits due to the minimal size of their components (cells making patterns in a developmental field in this case). I read somewhere that romanescos can have 7 levels (or whatever its called) of fractal structure. This one has 5 that I could see.

The biology of how this happens has been worked out:
NY Times article
Science article
both paywalled.
Basically the meristem (growing part) keeps growing. A flower bud initiates a whorl. The flowering of each potential bud is blocked by mutations, but remain in the pre-flowering patterning state. Each bud in a whorl than can initiate a new whorl of buds, while can repeat the pattern until biological limitations of the plant stop the process.

Here a side view (partly dissected):

These are all from one plant stem.
The main stem (holding it all together) would be the first (largest or highest) level.
Each of the big branches in the picture would be the second level (also arranged in whorls), underlying the largest cones.
The smaller cones on these large cones are the third level.
Each of those cones have whorls (fourth level) .
A few of these have grown large enough to have their own whorls of little cones (fifth level).

This to me is one of those cases of the more you know about something, the more deeply you can appreciate it.