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berkeman · Oct 17, 2023

Some pretty nice close-up photos in this group! @Andy Resnick @BillTre

Close-up photo of a metallic green cuckoo wasp with translucent wings resting on clusters of purple flowers against a green background.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertai...e-images-that-bridge-art-and-science/3344108/

BillTre · Oct 17, 2023

berkeman said:

Some pretty nice close-up photos in this group! @Andy Resnick @BillTre

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I like the igniting match head.

DennisN · Oct 17, 2023

berkeman said:

Some pretty nice close-up photos in this group! @Andy Resnick @BillTre

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Amazing shots! And the colors of the cuckoo wasp are mesmerising!

DennisN · Oct 17, 2023

Two shots from the park, with light through the trees:

Sunlight shining through leafy trees in a park, with a dirt path running through grass and a building faintly visible in the background.

Sunlight breaking through a dense woodland of tall trunks and green leaves, with a dirt path and fallen leaves on the forest floor in the foreground.

Ibix · Oct 17, 2023

berkeman said:

Some pretty nice close-up photos in this group! @Andy Resnick @BillTre

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The zebrafish image is by Daniel Castranova, @BillTre's friend who got an image on a stamp (unless there are two zebrafish guys with that name...).

BillTre · Oct 17, 2023

Ibix said:

The zebrafish image is by Daniel Castranova, @BillTre's friend who got an image on a stamp (unless there are two zebrafish guys with that name...).

Yup, that's him.

DennisN · Oct 17, 2023

phinds said:

Ran across a long set of photos on "architectural wonders of the past" from around the world. Really has some amazing stuff that people / civilizations have done.

The whole thread is here

One of the entries on that page was the amazing Mont-Saint-Michel.
It is a lovely place, both on the inside and outside.

Here are some old photos of it (from 2004):

Mont-Saint-Michel:

Mont-Saint-Michel abbey rising on a rocky island above a walled town, with tourist buses and cars parked on the causeway in the foreground under a clear blue sky.

View from the abbey which shows the large surrounding tidal area:

View from a stone tower across wide pale sand flats and shallow water toward a small rocky islet on the horizon, with a green shrub at the lower right.

A nice garden at the abbey:

Gothic cloister arcade with pointed arches and stone columns framing a walled garden of clipped hedges and flowering plants, with a slate roof and tower behind.

A view down from the abbey:

Aerial view looking down from a height onto a walled courtyard with parked cars, trees, and a grey slate-roofed building beside green water, with a rusty chain in the foreground.

Nice old houses inside the walls:

Cobbled street in a medieval town with timber-framed houses, a striped red awning and tourists walking past a stone staircase where a man sits on a wall beside a chapel.

A view of the abbey from below:

View up through a black wrought-iron fence to a hilltop abbey with pointed spires and Gothic windows, above stone houses and red flowers in a hedge.

...and some more nice old houses inside the walls:

Old stone buildings with green shutters and a slate-roofed dormer on a narrow street, with a red oval sign reading Sus-Pillard hanging on a wall and a stone staircase at left.

Point Conception · Oct 17, 2023

berkeman said:

Some pretty nice close-up photos in this group! @Andy Resnick @BillTre

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Caffeine crystals - Amazing. And that's what we isolated in organic chemistry.

Microscope photograph of caffeine crystals: a dense cluster of multicolored, needle-like crystals radiating outward against golden, feathery crystal formations on a black background.

nsaspook · Oct 17, 2023

Partly assembled jigsaw puzzle on a black table, showing a dense collage of horror film characters including Pennywise, Michael Myers, Chucky, Freddy Krueger and a shark, with puzzle pieces scattered around and the box lid visible behind.

jtbell · Oct 18, 2023

Over the past weekend I visited a model-train show in a nearby city, and saw something unusual for this region: a layout that includes a subway / metro:

Another one featured a "Toonerville Trolley":

DennisN · Oct 18, 2023

Some autumn shots taken today...

A part of a very large ivy:

Wall covered in dense ivy with leaves shifting from green on the right to red, orange and yellow across the upper and left areas, showing autumn colour.

(I've posted a photo of this ivy before in the thread, but this time it was (sort of) partly in sunlight.
Well, actually, not in direct sunlight. The ivy is on a wall facing straight north, and I don't think I've ever seen it in direct sunlight. So all the light comes from reflections from the nearby houses and windows.)

Flowers by the sidewalk:

Tall hollyhock plant with a pale cream flower near the top and magenta flowers along its stems, growing against a grey wall beside a brick paved path, casting shadows on the wall.

More sidewalk flowers:

Hollyhock plants in flower beside a stone wall and paving stones, with pink and white blooms and buds on tall green stems in warm sunlight.

And a pigeon:

Close-up head and neck photo of a grey pigeon with an orange-red eye and iridescent green-tinged feathers on its neck, against a dark blurred background.

DennisN · Oct 19, 2023

Here's a very cool piece I bought in a secondhand shop.
I don't know what these things are called, but it is a frame with seven different types of sand separated by glass panes inside the frame. And when you move the frame around you get different configurations of the sand types in the compartments.

Framed sand art in a wooden frame on a black stand, showing layered bands of brown, tan, grey and dark blue sand sloping diagonally across the glass.

Wooden-framed sand art piece with layered sand strata in shades of blue-grey, tan, brown and pale grey, shaped into rolling hills against a glass pane.

On the back of the frame there is this info which shows the origin of the different sand types:

Metal plate reading SINDBAD ANTIQUES, P.O.BOX 4445, SHARJAH, TEL: 377398, 541168, MADE IN U.A.E. above a label listing sand colours and origins: White: RAS AL KHAIMAH, Brown: SHARJAH, Red: ABU DHABI, Green: DUBAI, Grey: AJMAN, Cream: UMM AL QUWAIN, Black: FUJAIRAH.

And "U.A.E." must obviously mean "United Arab Emirates".

jtbell · Oct 21, 2023

I remember having something similar a long time ago, but with only two types of sand IIRC. And definitely not from the UAE.

DennisN · Oct 21, 2023

I am going through unprocessed photos and found one with a gothic theme

:

Dark night photo of a bright full moon seen through bare, silhouetted tree branches against a black sky.

Full moon behind branches (lens: Tokina 200mm (vintage)).

BillTre · Oct 21, 2023

DennisN said:

I am going through unprocessed photos and found one with a gothic theme :

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Full moon behind branches (lens: Tokina 200mm (vintage)).

Needs a witch or something.

Point Conception · Oct 21, 2023

Ok

BillTre said:

Needs a witch or something.

Or some bats like the photo I missed in the Similan Islands on the beach with a full moon: large bats came streaming out of the caves on top of a rocky point in front of full moon.

Rive · Oct 22, 2023

The hike today: started with a rain (so we packed only phones, not any decent gear): turned into 'cloudwalking', and finished in sunshine.

Gravel forest road curving through autumn woodland, trees turning yellow and green, with fog hanging over the hills in the background.

Tall conifer trees rising into dense grey fog in a forest, with a bare trunk leaning in from the right edge and low shrubs in the foreground.

Dirt forest track through autumn woodland, bordered by tall slender trunks on the left and bare-branched trees on the right, with dry golden grass and fallen leaves on the ground and hazy sky.

Ibix · Oct 22, 2023

Where is that, roughly? Looks lovely except for the weather...

Rive · Oct 22, 2023

Mid-Europe: a small range of small mountains - but technically, in our backyard o0)

For autumn, this weather is just perfect. We love these foggy days.

DennisN · Oct 22, 2023

Rive said:

The hike today

Lovely photos and lovely fog!

BillTre · Oct 23, 2023

An interesting cut-away:

Dense evergreen forest edge with a dark, arched opening cut into the foliage, revealing a shadowy interior with tree trunks, above a grassy slope with a patch of dry brown ground.

BillTre · Oct 23, 2023

Maybe a Terminator landed there.

Dark, misty scene of a large dark humanoid figure crouched in a circular crater on a rough ground surface, with red glowing cracks around the rim and smoke rising around it.

Arjan82 · Oct 24, 2023

Early morning during a weekend of sailing, unfortunately I wasn't there...

Sailing boat moored at a wooden jetty on a calm, misty river at sunrise, with the low sun glowing on the horizon and its reflection in the still water.

View from the bow of a wooden sailing boat on a calm river at sunrise, with the sun low in a hazy sky and reeds lining the bank, its reflection on the water, and rigging lines running up to the mast.

DennisN · Oct 24, 2023

BillTre said:

An interesting cut-away:

BillTre said:

Maybe a Terminator landed there.

Could also be an avant-garde alien who tried to do a vertical crop circle and failed

.
(or succeeded maybe, depending on taste)

DennisN · Oct 24, 2023

Some more autumn photos taken today...
...it was partly cloudy so I didn't get much vibrant colors, but it was fun nevertheless...

A large autumn tree:

Large deciduous tree in a park with dense golden-orange autumn foliage under a grey cloudy sky, with a person walking on the grass to the left.

A small autumn tree:

A large tree with bright yellow autumn foliage in the foreground, in front of a darker tree with brownish leaves, on a lawn with a grey sky.

Autumn pigeon wondering where the summer has gone...

Full-body photo of a grey pigeon with a white-tipped beak and orange eye, standing on gravel with fallen autumn leaves and grass behind it.

...and a crop of the head:

A seagull wandering about... "Now, where did I put those french fries I was saving for lunch?"

Gull standing on grass among fallen autumn leaves, with grey-and-white mottled plumage on its head and neck, grey wings with black wingtips, and pink-yellow legs.

...and last, a jackdaw... "Are you looking at me?"

Jackdaw standing on green grass beside a dry brown autumn leaf, looking toward the camera with pale eyes.

phinds · Oct 24, 2023

Wife and I went for a drive in the backwoods a few days ago since this was supposed to be prime leaf time in Central NY. Petty much a total bust --- a couple of hillsides with some color but nothing impressive. I had my camera but nothing was worth taking pics of.

BUT ... when we got back, I just stepped out to the end of our driveway to took this shot up our street.

Suburban street in autumn lined with maples in bright red and orange foliage, with a sidewalk and fallen leaves on the grass beside the road.

Point Conception · Oct 26, 2023

Nice day after the rain+those eyes

Woman with long hair standing in shallow sea water wearing a striped crop top and light grey high-waisted shorts, facing away from the camera toward a distant boat.

A woman with long highlighted hair and a green face mask sits at a wooden table on an outdoor seaside promenade, looking at a smartphone, with the sea and a white car behind her.

Point Conception · Oct 26, 2023

Woman with long blonde hair and bangs wearing a grey face mask and dark top, holding a phone while sitting inside a vehicle with advertising posters behind her.

Point Conception · Oct 26, 2023

A woman with long auburn hair and a pale top and black shorts stands in shallow sea waves on a beach, looking down at a smartphone in her hands, with high-rise buildings and hills in the background.

A young woman with long reddish-brown hair leans forward with her hands on her knees at the edge of shallow water, where a small wave is breaking white in the foreground.

jtbell · Oct 26, 2023

At the South Carolina State Fair last Sunday: a flying fire engine!

This was my first visit to this fair, after living here for 38 years, and only my second state fair ever. The other one was the Michigan State Fair which a group of us physics graduate students visited about 45 years ago.

It took me about an hour to drive to Columbia, then another hour in a slowly-crawling queue of cars entering the fairgrounds parking lot. ?:)

I should have gone in the middle of the week instead of the last day of the fair. The gorgeous weather (not too cool, not too warm) surely encouraged people to turn out.

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