Random Photos

[dlgoff]

A Thai seaside town without tourists.

This is really sad.

 

[Jarvis323]

A branch broke off my Azaleas Saint John's Wart? now it's blooming in a vas.

 

[epenguin]

Ah you have now corrected yourself - you had me worried. I thought this

on our terrace, was an Azalea.

Well perhaps I should correct that too. Actually I thought the one behind was an Azalea. I thought the one in front was a Fuchsia. So I asked my wife and she told me yours was not an Azalea and the one in the picture is. Actually that both are. B...but, I asked, I thought,... I thought you'd told me that one in front was a Fuchsia!? No, she explained, it's the colour that is Fuchsia!

This could almost go in the Today I Learned thread. But it's here. There I will put something I'm going to learn about Bougainvilleas that not a lot of people know in a few days.

 

[Point Conception]

 

[Keith_McClary]

Jupiter ... lamp

I want infrared, but it does not seem to be available yet.

Jupiter in infrared by the Gemini Observatory, showing warmer areas as brighter and cooler darker. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley) et al. Acknowledgments: M. Zamani via BadAstronomy

 

[DennisN]

A rainbow photographed a couple of days ago.
Some say there is gold buried underground at the end of rainbows.
In this case there is a house and some construction cranes instead.
Maybe the gold is stored in the house, and will be put underground later.

 

[dlgoff]

I made this little frog pond:

 

[jtbell]

Part of the Greenville [South Carolina] Symphony Orchestra prepares for a concert last Sunday. This was our second excursion for a concert since the pandemic began last year; the first one was the previous Sunday.

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Their usual venue is a large concert hall. This concert was at a church instead [...]

And here's their usual venue, warming up for yesterday's concert. Still a reduced-size ensemble, and a widely-spaced audience.

 

[DennisN]

Another rainbow photographed today.

 

[DennisN]

I seem to currently be followed by rainbows...
This morning I saw a giant, very bright rainbow (partly double), and I am pretty sure I spotted a so-called supernumary rainbow inside the primary bow.

I quickly fetched the camera and took several photos which I will stitch together into a large wide angle photo.
I'll post some photos later in this thread.

 

[DennisN]

I'll post some photos later in this thread.

Here is the double rainbow this morning (enhanced wide angle photo):

Here is an enhanced photo with labels which shows at least one supernumary rainbow inside the main bow:
(I think I can see a hint of even a second supernumary bow inside the first one)

Edit: Here's another version of the first photo with more enhanced colors:

 

[rsk]

Great photos, thanks.

We saw a rainbow a couple of evenings ago and it seemed to have a trace of red just inside the main rainbow. It didn't look like a secondary rainbow so I'm glad to see it named here as supernumary, I feel ignorant that I hadn't heard of that before but will read about it now.

 

[DennisN]

It didn't look like a secondary rainbow so I'm glad to see it named here as supernumary, I feel ignorant that I hadn't heard of that before but will read about it now.

I did not know what it was called (or had forgotten about it) until I looked it up.

 

[DrClaude]

I did not know what it was called (or had forgotten about it) until I looked it up.

And don't forget Alexander's dark band!

 

[Keith_McClary]

And don't forget Alexander's dark band!

https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2008-06-13/634951/

 

[rsk]

And don't forget Alexander's dark band!

So the bit in between really is darker?! I imagined that to be an optical illusion and down to the contrast with the bright rainbow part.

 

[DennisN]

Sunset yesterday:

Just after sunset:

(the difference in colors between the photos is because I used different lenses: Canon FD 50mm in photo 1 and 3, and Sony 16-50mm in photo 2. The Canon lens produces warmer colors than the Sony lens.)

 

[Point Conception]

On the Southern point of Pattaya bay. No prizes for guessing what Russian "organization" has this place.

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[Point Conception]

Jomtien beach. Not that much to do in the water here for a native Californian , but the long view is always nice. Russians and Scandinavians are content with it however. Water about 30 C

 

[Point Conception]

And the sunset and sunrise

 

[rsk]

 

[DennisN]

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Did you take it yourself?

 

[epenguin]

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That calls for a carefully chosen title – nothing too obvious though.

 

[rsk]

Did you take it yourself?

Yes!

 

[rsk]

The red poppy was taken in Córdoba (ES) in April.

2400 km and 6 or 7 weeks later, here is a Welsh poppy (so I'm told, don't know why it's called that) performing the same feat. Northumberland, UK

 

[DennisN]

Yes!

Very cool! It's very eye-catching. And it also makes you think (well, at least me).
Which makes it a very good photo, in my opinion.

 

[dlgoff]

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
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Mars
(I think it looks a bit weird for some reason on this photo. It looks better in reality.)
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Jupiter
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Various Moon and planet lamps are available on Amazon e.g. here.

I've made a display of mine, thanks to you:

I've rearranged the planets and moon. Here's my current arrangement (notice the new airplane in the upper left corner of the pic):

 

[rsk]

I've made a display of mine, thanks to you:

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Oh wow!

I have a "moon in my room" wall light and have given them as presents to pretty much every newborn I've known for the last 5 or 6 years (that isn't as many newborns as it might sound).

 

[Keith_McClary]

Afghanistan peace negotiations.

(Not my photo.)

 

[Point Conception]