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berkeman · Sep 17, 2023

Borg said:

The ramp is to small to jump the truck.

LOL, nope.

I don't know anybody who pushes/maneuvers their motorcycle from the right side. We follow the horse example and always get on from the left side. If I tried to push my dirtbike around from the right side, I'd fall over for sure.

That handsome model has never been on a motorcycle, I'm guessing.

Bystander · Sep 17, 2023

berkeman said:

LOL, nope.

I don't know anybody who pushes/maneuvers their motorcycle from the right side. We follow the horse example and always get on from the left side. If I tried to push my dirtbike around from the right side, I'd fall over for sure.

That handsome model has never been on a motorcycle, I'm guessing.

You're certain that's "not a cellphone mirror-image?"

berkeman · Sep 17, 2023

Bystander said:

You're certain that's "not a cellphone mirror-image?"

Excellent question! But no, the dirtbike's drive chain is on the correct side.

BillTre · Sep 17, 2023

Borg said:

The ramp is to small to jump the truck.

berkeman said:

LOL, nope.

Wow, doesn't look big enough to me.

jack action · Sep 17, 2023

berkeman said:

LOL, nope.

I don't know anybody who pushes/maneuvers their motorcycle from the right side. We follow the horse example and always get on from the left side. If I tried to push my dirtbike around from the right side, I'd fall over for sure.

That handsome model has never been on a motorcycle, I'm guessing.

But he's putting it on [or taking it from] the left side of a trailer that looks a lot like the one below; he doesn't have a choice.

berkeman said:

Excellent question! But no, the dirtbike's drive chain is on the correct side.

Note also that in the previous video, one bike has its chain on the left-hand side (Honda) and the other on the right-hand side (Husqvarna). There is no "correct" side.

berkeman · Sep 17, 2023

jack action said:

Note also that in the previous video, one bike has its chain on the left-hand side (Honda) and the other on the right-hand side (Husqvarna). There is no "correct" side.

Does Husky still put the chain on the right side? I though that they only did that back in Malcom Smith's day (On Any Sunday)...

Red and silver 1970 Husqvarna 400 Cross off-road motorcycle with race number 1 on display in a museum, with a gold trophy on the handlebars and a placard reading Malcolm Smith, Off-Road Racing Champion.

https://rollingphysicsproblem.wordpress.com/tag/malcolm-smith/

jack action · Sep 17, 2023

berkeman said:

Does Husky still put the chain on the right side? I though that they only did that back in Malcom Smith's day (On Any Sunday)...

To be honest, I was with you on the "correct" side of the chain until I saw the video I uploaded where two bikes were side by side with the chain on different sides. (So not a mirror effect of some sort.)

The bike is obviously of relatively recent time. with a quick search, the most recent model I found was a WR250 2013.

I also found ATK which did this, the latest model year being 2008, Husaberg until 2008, Praga ED 250 & 610 until 2003, Maico in 2014, and KTM as late as 1999.

jtbell · Sep 17, 2023

@DennisN will surely recognize this.

Photo of a tall wooden windmill with a dark tapered body, white-framed windows and sails angled against a clear blue sky, standing on a stone base with a railed wooden gallery, with a person standing on grass beside it.

DennisN · Sep 18, 2023

jtbell said:

@DennisN will surely recognize this.

Oh, yes.

So you've been there? Very fun to see an old photo of it!

Here's a shot of the mill from August this year:

Black wooden windmill with lattice sails on a stone base with a railed balcony, set on a grassy park lawn with several people walking nearby under trees and blue sky.

And right next to that mill is a communal garden which is one of the best places in the city to shoot flowers. Some of my flower shots in this thread are from that garden.

jtbell · Sep 18, 2023

DennisN said:

Very fun to see an old photo of it!

Yes, it's from summer 1978. A friend and I arrived via the hydrofoil ferry from Copenhagen.

Passengers stepping off the white ferry LØDEREN at a quay, with a red-and-white lighthouse and a large gantry crane marked KOCKUMS in the background.

We spent a few hours walking around and eating dinner, then left via the night train to Stockholm, en route to Finland.

DennisN · Sep 19, 2023

jtbell said:

Yes, it's from summer 1978. A friend and I arrived via the hydrofoil ferry from Copenhagen.

Very nice to see old photos of Malmö, it brings back memories

. Your photo above reminded me of all the ferry crossings we used to do to Copenhagen. Now we usually go by car or train via the Öresund Bridge.

The Kockums Crane on your photo above was once a famous landmark of the city. It's not here anymore, it's been moved to South Korea.

And the lighthouse on your photo is the same lighthouse I have posted a couple of shots of in this thread.

jtbell · Sep 19, 2023

DennisN said:

Your photo above reminded me of all the ferry crossings we used to do to Copenhagen. Now we usually go by car or train via the Öresund Bridge.

I found a web site showing picture postcards of the Copenhagen-Malmö ferries, including mine. It mentions that the fast ferries were eliminated after the Öresund bridge opened in 1999.

I finally located the lighthouse on Google Maps as "Malmö inre fyr / Malmö Old Light House". Now I can see that the hydrofoil dock was just north of the University Bridge, a short walk from the central train station. We probably checked our backpacks and changed some money at the station before walking around.

Unfortunately I have no other photos from Malmö except for this one showing some fowl, probably in the castle park near the windmill.

Two pheasants on bare soil beside shrubs and grass: a male with a red face and bronze-speckled plumage in the foreground, and a paler brown female further back on the right.

jtbell · Sep 19, 2023

From my morning walk yesterday:

Cardboard box left on muddy ground beside a hedge and fence, printed with the slogans "who gives a crap" and "This place gives a crap" and "100% Bamboo Toilet Paper".

DennisN · Sep 19, 2023

jtbell said:

I finally located the lighthouse on Google Maps as "Malmö inre fyr / Malmö Old Light House". Now I can see that the hydrofoil dock was just north of the University Bridge, a short walk from the central train station.

Correct!

jtbell said:

Unfortunately I have no other photos from Malmö except for this one showing some fowl, probably in the castle park near the windmill.

Haha, there are still pheasants there, and I photographed a couple there last year.
I guess they're not the same ones, though.

pinball1970 · Sep 23, 2023

DennisN said:

Correct! Haha, there are still pheasants there, and I photographed a couple there last year.
I guess they're not the same ones, though.

Out of the 30 or so images I took today of the approach to Wigton in Cumbria, not one decent photo. (For a gig)
Trying to take photos from a moving vehicle does not work for me. Not with kit I have.
I was lumbered with being sound engineer for the last band too.

Photo taken through a car windscreen of a multi-lane motorway with hills behind, a blue van and a red van ahead in the lane.

jtbell · Sep 23, 2023

Just a couple of weeks ago, temperatures were still in the low 90s(F) here. Now it's cooled off to highs around 80, and lows in the upper 50s. This is apparently enough to trigger fall colors in a few trees. This is the first one I've seen, just yesterday.

Tree-lined residential street on a sunny day, with a small Japanese maple showing orange and red autumn foliage beside a brick cottage with a white trim and a dark roof.

pinball1970 · Sep 23, 2023

No point in trying to crop it or tart it up. One cannot add lustre to faeces.
This one was better.

Photo of a band setting up on a small wooden stage in a bare room, with drums, amplifiers, a guitar, and cables and equipment cases scattered on the floor in front.

jack action · Sep 23, 2023

Getting away from the secret landing zone ...

View from inside a car through the windshield of a two-lane road across dry grassland, with a rock butte visible reflected in the rearview mirror under a blue sky with clouds.

DennisN · Sep 23, 2023

pinball1970 said:

Trying to take photos from a moving vehicle does not work for me.

I think it is ok for being from a car.
It's not easy, there are additional problems when taking such photos: motion blur since the camera is moving, reflections from car windows and dirt on the windows.

Taking photos from inside trains is also difficult

.

I think I have a few such photos, I'll be back.

DennisN · Sep 23, 2023

DennisN said:

I think I have a few such photos, I'll be back.

I couldn't find any photos taken from trains, but I found a few I took from the passenger seat in a car, in beautiful Austria (using an early mobile phone):What a lovely view! Too bad there are blurry trees in the way

:

Blurred photo taken through a car window of dark wooded mountains under a bright, streaked cloudy sky, with a village in the valley below.

Ouch, it hurts my eyes... blur, dirty window and horrible overexposure...

Photo through a car windscreen of a divided highway curving between forested hills, with a guardrail on the left and a sloped embankment on the right under a hazy sky.

On the way into one of the many tunnels in Austria... pretty ok sharpness...

Road leading into a concrete tunnel portal through a rocky, tree-covered hillside, with speed limit signs and guard railings on both sides.

...but inside the quality became worse. It must have been the fault of the tunnel

.

Photo taken through a car windshield looking down a motorway tunnel, with two lanes ahead, lane markings, ceiling lights and a blurry view of distant tail lights.

But I actually found two pretty decent ones taken from the car:
(I think the large distance to the mountains helped here)

Steep rocky mountain face with grey limestone cliffs and patches of dark conifer forest, under a clear blue sky, with deciduous trees in the foreground.

Rocky mountain peak with a grey limestone face rising above dense evergreen forest, its summit partly hidden by low cloud under a cloudy sky.

And last, another one from Austria... not taken from inside a car but from a hotel balcony in
lovely Zell am See:

Alpine village scene with chalet-style houses, a red-tiled roof, and a grassy slope in the foreground, with mountains partly covered by clouds in the background.

DennisN · Sep 23, 2023

jack action said:

Getting away from the secret landing zone ...

That's a very cool photo, I think!

Did you get followed by anything in the sky? Tell us all!
Did they use a probe?

Point Conception · Sep 23, 2023

From Amtrak: Cross country, Central Coast, CA. And from the train on the bridge over the River Kwai

Photo taken from a passenger train window looking along the side of a silver rail car toward a distant locomotive on parallel tracks, with flat dry scrubland and a low horizon under a pale sky.

Photo taken from a window of a passenger train curving along a rocky embankment, with the train cars stretching ahead beside a pine-covered mountain slope.

Photo taken from a moving train window of a sandy track beside grassy scrub, with the blue Pacific Ocean and surf on the left under a hazy sky and distant hills.

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A young girl with dark hair tied back with a red clip stands at a boat railing, looking out over a river lined with trees; a Thai sign is posted on the wooden wall beside her.

jack action · Sep 23, 2023

DennisN said:

That's a very cool photo, I think!

Did you get followed by anything in the sky? Tell us all!
Did they use a probe?

I took the photo after visiting the site. (I didn't even realize at the time that it was a famous filming location.) I just saw this image in my rearview mirror as I was driving away and thought it would make a cool photo. Parked the car on the side of the road and shot the picture.

The funny thing is that it was back in the days of negatives and prints, so I wouldn't see the result until I got back home. Checking my freshly printed photos, I see this odd one with the dash of my car and an overexposed exterior (and reflection image in the mirror). I was wondering why I took that picture, then suddenly remembered what it was supposed to be. Disappointed, I still checked the negative and saw that we could see clearly the Devil's Tower in the mirror. I went back to the photo lab and told them where to test for the exposure and this picture came back (with now a very dark car interior).

Very proud of the result.

jtbell · Sep 24, 2023

pinball1970 said:

Trying to take photos from a moving vehicle does not work for me. Not with kit I have.

DennisN said:

I think it is ok for being from a car.
It's not easy, there are additional problems when taking such photos: motion blur since the camera is moving, reflections from car windows and dirt on the windows.

We had a photo contest for such photos a few years ago:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/pf-photo-contest-view-to-a-drive-4-18-4-24.987521/

jtbell · Sep 24, 2023

No, not the New Orleans Saints. This is across the street from a local charter school whose football team is also called the Saints. (as in St. Bernhard, obviously)

Inflatable Saint Bernard dog with a barrel around its neck, standing on a lawn beside yard letters reading GO SAINTS and two footballs, in front of a house.

DennisN · Sep 25, 2023

DennisN said:

I couldn't find any photos taken from trains

I found a couple of ones, none particularly good

, but here are two:

Leaving Sweden on a train on the Öresund Bridge:

Photo taken through a train window of a calm blue sea with a rocky shoreline, grassy land and shrubs on the left, and a clear sky with a few clouds; dark window frame edges in the foreground.

Passing Peberholm, a Danish artifical* island:
(with a reflection of me in the window)

Photo taken through a train window of flat green coastal scrubland with bushes, a paved path running across it, and a calm sea and clear blue sky on the horizon.

*

Wikipedia said:

The reason for constructing the island was to have a crossover point between the tunnel and the bridge.

Point Conception · Sep 25, 2023

From train Southern Thailand (Muslim) and Vietnam rice fields.

Two photographs stacked vertically: the top shows a river with karst limestone hills and a bridge, the bottom shows a flooded rice paddy with green rice shoots and distant hills.

Point Conception · Sep 25, 2023

The Sanctuary of Truth https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_of_Truth

Sunset over a city skyline and water, the sun low and glowing orange behind a dark silhouette of buildings with a spire, a boat silhouetted in the foreground.

DennisN · Sep 27, 2023

Two shots from Nordre Toldbod, a waterfront area in Copenhagen:

Night view across calm water of a waterfront industrial site with lit buildings, tall chimneys, a red-lit smokestack emitting white smoke, and reflections of lights on the water.

View eastwards from Nordre Toldbod. The bright point in the sky is actually the planet Jupiter.Here is one of the royal pavilions (Danish: De kongelige pavilioner) in the area.
They were built in 1905 and they were first used the same year to welcome royalty from Britain
(I have no more details on this).

White octagonal pavilion with arched multi-pane windows and a dome topped by a gold finial, photographed at night on a cobbled waterfront with street lamps and a lit building behind.

DennisN · Sep 27, 2023

Morning dew...

...in the grass...

Close-up of green grass blades covered in water droplets, with out-of-focus hexagonal bokeh light spots in the background.

....and on the leaves.

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