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rsk · Jul 19, 2021

DaveC426913 said:

You didn't have time, of course, but the trick is to press the shutter down halfway when you first point the camera out at the water. This will focus it at the appropriate range and keep it locked at that range regardless of any intervening targets. This is when practicing with one's camera pays off.

Thanks, I do usually do this. I think this time because it jumped out of the way just as I was taking aim I somehow missed, maybe clicked too quickly.

Point Conception · Jul 24, 2021

Close-up photo of a rock or fossil surface covered in many small, dark brown rounded cavities or chambers set in a pale grey-white matrix, with some larger pale patches.

DaveC426913 · Jul 24, 2021

Coral?

Point Conception · Jul 24, 2021

DaveC426913 said:

Coral?

Barnacles on white plastic buoy, as can be seen offshore. Originally for cordoning off swimming area. But like just about everything else they do incompetently around here - In disarray.

Calm sea under a large cumulus cloud, with a dark hilly shoreline in the distance, a small boat offshore, and a row of white floating buoys in the water.

Point Conception · Jul 24, 2021

Upkeep is not too big around here. Gulf of Thailand

Low tide mudflat beside stilt houses, with a small teal and white wooden boat resting on cracked mud, scattered old tyres, and a red sign reading Ban Hom Yan Tha on the left.

Ivan Seeking · Jul 24, 2021

Einstein's desk right after he died. Firstly, now we know what killed him - Philosophy

Black-and-white photo of a cluttered desk covered in loose handwritten pages, open printed booklets, a pipe, an ink pot and a dark cylindrical container, with a book labelled Philosophy at upper right.

I was reading his failed derivation of his GUT in the paper just above. I noticed that the only problem is that he made a sign error.

rsk · Jul 26, 2021

Another one from FB memories. It's the direction they're pointing that had me flummoxed. How did they get like that?

gmax137 · Jul 27, 2021

Dark interior of a long covered concrete passageway with a wooden plank ceiling, graffiti on the left wall, and three silhouetted figures walking toward the bright exit at the far end.

Donner Pass, CA
Abandoned RR Snowsheds

Point Conception · Jul 28, 2021

Red sign on sandy beach, Thai text with official emblems, stating beach access restrictions in Chonburi Province, dated 22 July 2564 (2021), propped on wooden stakes.

No end to these rolling restrictions

Keith_McClary · Jul 29, 2021

Dripping water in a coal mine make these ice formations.

Three people in helmets with headlamps stand among tall white stalagmite-like mineral formations in a dim cave or mine, with a wire mesh fence on the left.

Ivan Seeking · Jul 29, 2021

Two people jumping with arms raised on a vast, flat white salt plain under a blue sky with clouds, their reflections visible on the wet surface below.

Ivan Seeking · Jul 29, 2021

Brushed metal sign on a wall reading: NO DRUGS OR NUCLEAR WEAPONS ALLOWED INSIDE THE RESTROOMS

StevieTNZ · Jul 29, 2021

The famous "Perhaps you recognise me, it's your favourite president" (ASSUMPTION) - random photo

A man in a navy suit, white shirt and red tie stands beside a microphone stand on a dark stage, with a North Carolina state flag on the left and a United States flag behind him.

Point Conception · Aug 10, 2021

Mixing red white blue water based paint.

Close-up of swirling red, white and blue paint patterns in a marbled, fluid design, with glossy reflections across the surface.

Keith_McClary · Aug 10, 2021

morrobay said:

Mixing red white blue water based paint.

Will it end up like the "favourite president" photo?

Keith_McClary · Aug 11, 2021

Photo of a trench dug into gravelly ground in front of a lawn with two evergreen trees, a small sapling and a paved driveway behind.

Two blue spruce trees with silvery-blue needles beside a tree with lighter green foliage, planted in a bed of gravel next to a house, with parked cars and a street in the background.

Point Conception · Aug 11, 2021

I don't know about these photos Keith

Keith_McClary · Aug 11, 2021

morrobay said:

I don't know about these photos Keith

After >15 years the ash tree is squashed between the spruce trees.

Leo Liu · Aug 12, 2021

White cat with tan ears and a striped tail sitting on pavement, with a dark car and a silver car parked behind it.

Meow! (Got stared by a confused stray :cat:

)

Leo Liu · Aug 12, 2021

morrobay said:

Summer in the City. Disco Skaters Central Park.

They look great. Did you take them recently? It is rare to see someone using film camera today (a positive comment).

Point Conception · Aug 12, 2021

Leo Liu said:

They look great. Did you take them recently? It is rare to see someone using film camera today (a positive comment).

See photos in # 63 reply

Point Conception · Aug 13, 2021

A woman with long dark hair and a black face mask, wearing a black t-shirt, stands behind a market stall of fresh vegetables in green baskets, including bok choy, carrots, cucumbers, and green beans.

At the Naklua seafood market. She actually works there.

Keith_McClary · Aug 14, 2021

Green wooden building with a green shingled roof and a chimney, beside a small green shed, with an old wagon and wooden sawhorses on grass by a paved road, under a blue sky with clouds.

skyshrimp · Aug 15, 2021

morrobay said:

Indeed you can have Mediterranean style anywhere View attachment 272584

This is very nice. I'm curious if you added any dressing.

For this, I would have just added extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and lemon juice.

Point Conception · Aug 15, 2021

skyshrimp said:

This is very nice. I'm curious if you added any dressing.

For this, I would have just added extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and lemon juice.

I fill a medium size bowl about 50/50 soy sauce/lemon juice. Then add chopped green onions , coriander leaves, maybe some dried garlic flakes and basil leaves (in pots on deck) Then take with spoon . So not really Mediterranean but Thai. And I'm for sure going to have your suggestion next time. Edit the mixture above is kept separate from the shrimp an calamari. Both about $8/kg at this village style seafood market. Shown a few replies above

Point Conception · Aug 16, 2021

skyshrimp said:

This is very nice. I'm curious if you added any dressing.

For this, I would have just added extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and lemon juice.

Photo of a fish market stall with rows of silver fish on ice in blue trays, price tags in front, a woman in a white top reaching toward them, and shoppers and vendors in the background.

CynicusRex · Aug 16, 2021

Climbed this tree not so long ago. When you're at the top the slightest breeze gets amplified multifold; exhilarating.

Tall evergreen conifer with dense dark foliage rising above surrounding trees, a red circle marking its top; two people and a white dog stand on grass at its base.

StevieTNZ · Aug 17, 2021

Another random photo:

Older man with gray hair and a navy checked blazer over a blue collared shirt, seated among a crowd of people at an indoor event, looking off to the side.

Yuck.

Point Conception · Aug 17, 2021

On a clear day you can almost see all the way to Bangkok

Photo over calm blue sea toward distant islands, with small boats on the water and a stilt house with a green roof on a wooden pier in the foreground.

Arjan82 · Aug 17, 2021

My home for a week this holiday:

White sailboat with dark blue trim moored at a marina dock, its furled sail wrapped on a wooden boom, with other masts and boats in the background.

View from a wooden sailing boat's deck looking forward past the mainsail toward a field of offshore wind turbines on a calm, hazy sea.

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