Random Photos

[morrobay]

Orange Reindeer, someone had to do it. Amari Pattaya

 

[Janus]

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

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.

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

 

[DennisN]

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

Pond and park:

(larger versions are here)

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

(larger versions are here)

 

[morrobay]

Jomtien-beach

 

[morrobay]

A few more from Gulf of Thailand

 

[dlgoff]

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.

 

[wrobel]

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

 

[DennisN]

Night sky through trees near Mt. Adams, WA.

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)

And astrometry.net managed to identify it :

 

[Andy Resnick]

Some water crystals that fell from the sky last night:

 

[morrobay]

 

[morrobay]

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

 

[epenguin]

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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.

 

[morrobay]

Another angle

 

[DennisN]

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)

A clock tower in the evening (tonight)

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.

 

[morrobay]

@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

 

[phinds]

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.?

 

[morrobay]

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

 

[DennisN]

It was a sunny day today:

 

[Andy Resnick]

22 degree lunar ice halo this evening:

A great atmospheric optics site:

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

 

[DennisN]

22 degree lunar ice halo this evening

Beautiful!

 

[Keith_McClary]

 

[Frigus]

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Can you please tell me Where is this place?

 

[Keith_McClary]

Where is this place?

Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada

 

[Frigus]

Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada

Thanks.

 

[DennisN]

Moonlit sky tonight, lazily photographed from indoors through window.

 

[morrobay]

0530 Gulf of Thailand

 

[DennisN]

When life gives you rain, you can try to make arty photos of rain on your window...
...that's what I tried today. (taken with a Chinon 135mm f/2.8 tele lens)

 

[DennisN]

I have to admit I miss the old PF photo contests which were run by @ZapperZ .
It was very fun to participate and be inspired by photos from other PF members.
And it had an impact on me; I definitely started to take more photos in general.

I've recently ordered two unusual vintage lenses, which will be fun to try out:

The first one is a Russian Helios 44M-7, which is one of the cult classics.
It was suggested by various knowledgeable people (here is one) as a good lens to try for those who want to experiment. I ordered it on Ebay from a Russian photo equipment vendor. The "7" version is said to be the sharpest and I paid $62 for it, and it seems to be in great condition. I'll see when it gets here.

The other one is a Tokina 400mm f6.3 tele lens which I was happy to win on a Swedish online auction yesterday. It's a little monster (30 cm, 1kg ) which I will try to point at the Moon and other things.
It's so heavy that you have to attach the lens to the tripod first, and then the camera to the lens .
I don't expect it to perform miracles, but I will be fun to try and I only paid $26 for it.

Recently I have also started to experiment more and try to take photos in ways I haven't done before,
e.g. in "worm's-eye view". Here's one where I placed the camera close to the ground and set a timer (2 or 10 s, or maybe I used my mobile phone as a remote shutter control, I don't remember ):

(Photo info: f/8, 1/640s shutter speed, ISO 400)

 

[DennisN]

I tried out my camera on a candle light today:

(Just ISO 100 and 1/10s shutter speed, taken with a tripod)

 

[dlgoff]

Check out my new night light:

 

[DennisN]

Check out my new night light:

Very nice! Is it one of those on which you can change the color? I love those kind of lamps, I've now got four of them : The Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Earth. My favorites are the Moon and Mars. I'll post a photo later.

 

[dlgoff]

Very nice! Is it one of those on which you can change the color? I love those kind of lamps, I've now got four of them : The Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Earth. My favorites are the Moon and Mars. I'll post a photo later.

Yes it changes color; four shades of blue.

 

[DennisN]

Check out my new night light

I've now got four of them [...] I'll post a photo later.

I started with buying a small Moon lamp, and I liked it so much I started looking for planet lamps too.
I gave away my small Moon lamp to my mother, and bought a bigger one for myself. I really like the Moon and Mars lamp in particular, because they are quite realistic looking (more than what is shown in the photos below).

Here are my lamps (I can change them to quite many different colors with remote controls):

The Moon

Mars
(I think it looks a bit weird for some reason on this photo. It looks better in reality.)

Jupiter

Various Moon and planet lamps are available on Amazon e.g. here.

 

[morrobay]

Some more nice wood picked up from the locations of dismantled indoor/outdoor bars for,

shelves. With one left natural. Although as can be seen it was varnished long ago. Of course they got an industrial cleaning with sodium hydroxide followed by sodium hypochlorite.

 

[morrobay]