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[Point Conception]

School Christmas holidays are here and, partly because of Covid and partly because my employer still has my passport, I will be spending the holidays here, mainly wandering round this city.

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I miss the city scene in Bangkok. Down the coast 80km now. The only way to get around is the skytrain or river boats. Otherwise it's messy

 

[rsk]

There are riverboats here too, but I haven't used them yet. Maybe once Covid is less of a concern.

I love just wandering round though - on foot everything is slower and you have time to stop and look. Most things I'd want to see are in walking distance now, especially since it's (relatively) cool at the moment. And for anything else there's grab bikes.

 

[Point Conception]

Are there full size city busses ? I was in Saigon a few days, all I can say about motorbikes is too dangerous for me. There is that boat down the river to Vung Tau on the coast. ^ Sure I like walking around the city. But take the mass transit to get to any particular area

 

[DennisN]

Here's another shot I took recently with my macro lens, the tip of a ballpoint pen:

And after my test with focus stacking macro shots I got inspired to do some more of it using "normal" lenses outside. I think I've tried it before, but somehow I had forgot about it.

As I've said before in the thread, the trick is to take many photos where different parts are in focus and then let software combine them into one photo. A tripod is more or less a must when you do it.

It may sound tedious, but I actually thought it was pretty fun. I don't mind the pretty slow process when photographing in this way. You are pretty much forced to plan the shot and consider the entire scene when you shoot.

As you can see in the photos below, most of the things are in focus (but if you look closely you may find some things are out of focus).

Autumn evening (lens: Meike 35mm f/1.4, focus stacked)
(flickr version with better sharpness here)

Autumn tree (lens: Lens: Meike 35mm f/1.4, focus stacked)
(flickr version with better sharpness here)

Autumn leaves (lens: Canon FD 50mm f1.4, focus stacked)
(flickr version with better sharpness here)

Edit: Now I noticed that the sharpness of the photos goes down considerably when they are posted on the forum. The originals are much sharper than what can be seen above, so I add links to the photos on flickr also.

 

[dlgoff]

Christmas skies over Kansas:

 

[nsaspook]

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https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/sciser.html

Anyone else have a collection of Science Service booklets?

 

[jtbell]

Seen on the TV coverage of New Year in Times Square in NYC:

Anybody want to move to Fort Lauderdale?

 

[Point Conception]

Chinese girl from Hong Kong I spoke to at the jetty. 12 N and 100 E. 1January . 11am. 30 degrees Centigrade

 

[Point Conception]

And a crowded Beach rd, along Pattaya beach. About 90% domestic Thai tourism these days.

 

[DennisN]

Happy new year!

A brand new shot with my macro lens, a red kalanchoe:

(f/11, 1/8s exposure, ISO 200, focus stacked)

 

[Keith_McClary]

 

[Point Conception]

I like the small tuna, 6 shown

 

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[gmax137]

Inspired by the Irish lottery thread. US Powerball is at 522 million dollars. Here's the line Sunday morning (20F; that's -6.7C)

These are all Nevadans; the PowerBall is not available in NV. The casino operators see it as taking food off their plates.

Here is inside the California Lottery building (conveniently located...)

 

[Point Conception]

5 Jan 0630

 

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0730

 

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And about 0930 my massage girl can show up before her 11 o'clock shift starts at the

massage shop. 1 hour Thai massage 300 baht, about $9 includes 100 B tip

 

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Sunset

 

[Keith_McClary]

I had been watching the river freezing up for the last couple of weeks. There were still patches of open water. On Jan 2 I noticed big slabs of ice about 2m above water level (not just this spot, I have photos up and down river).

There was some weather the night before, -31C with winds gusting to 96 km/hr, so nobody was out to observe how this happened.

 

[Point Conception]

My Burmese friend in Laos. This is photo of her tic tok video.

 

[gmax137]

Old time Reno, family run since 1937. Try the lasagna.

 

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Grinding expresso beans. $18/kg.

 

[Averagesupernova]

Jack likes to hang out on the forklift. He likes the cat but seems put off to have his picture taken with her.

 

[Averagesupernova]

@morrobay I'm always impressed by your pix. The pix I take often show interesting subject matter but are certainly not 'beautiful'. The attitudes of the two critters in my pic are very clear. But the background consists of a grimy looking forklift. The cat's coat looks unkept due to the fact that Jack has a tendency to pick her up and carry her around. Jack is just looking like an old grump while his little buddy seems to say: "Can't we play a little more?" A very accurate slice of daily life in the shop.

 

[Point Conception]

With about 5% of the previous tourists numbers here the water is clear. Less hotel discharges, less nutrients for the algae.

 

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Look better from a distance these days

 

[Point Conception]

My friend from Burma (passport only) she is all Indian from Indian region in Burma.Here she lives in Indian community, works at Indian restaurant. Was not going to photo today but with this dress - change of plan.

 

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[Keith_McClary]

Jack has a tendency to pick her up and carry her around

That would be a photo if you could arrange a good background. Or do you mean he carries her around with the forklift?