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Point Conception · Oct 28, 2023

The changing light effects here

Sea view from a sandy shore under a blue sky with large white and grey cumulus clouds, with a dark low mountain ridge on the horizon and small waves in the foreground.

Point Conception · Oct 28, 2023

Overcast sky over a calm grey lake with ripples, a dark forested hill on the right and a lower, hazy ridge on the left along the far shore.

Point Conception · Oct 28, 2023

Sandy beach in the foreground with small waves on a calm blue sea, a distant low island under a blue sky with large white cumulus clouds.

Point Conception · Oct 28, 2023

Shallow greenish sea water washing over a sandy beach in the foreground, with foamy waves, and high-rise hotel buildings along the shore in the distance under a hazy sky.

BillTre · Oct 28, 2023

Full-disc view of Earth with swirling white clouds over blue oceans, with the grey, cratered Moon partly covering its lower left side against a black background.

jack action · Oct 28, 2023

BillTre said:

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Not to start any conspiracy theory but is it me or does this look like the Death Star is completed?

BillTre · Oct 28, 2023

jack action said:

Not to start any conspiracy theory but is it me or does this look like the Death Star is completed?

Quote - "Obi Wan Kenobi: That's no moon…it's a space station. Han: It's too big to be a space station. Luke: I have a very bad feeling about this."

Swamp Thing · Oct 28, 2023

DennisN said:

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.

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

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

Could you make a video of the sand re-distributing?

DennisN · Oct 29, 2023

Swamp Thing said:

Could you make a video of the sand re-distributing?

Yes, I can try. But I have to think a bit about it. The sand redistribution goes very quickly.
Also, the piece is a bit heavy (it has 7 or 8 glass panes).

Ibix · Oct 29, 2023

The versions of these things that I've seen are filled with liquid, or often not quite filled with liquid so there are air bubbles, so the redistribution process is quite slow and pretty. Searching for "sand frame" on YouTube turns up quite a few videos.

I get the impression @DennisN's one doesn't have liquid? I've not seen one of those before.

DennisN · Oct 29, 2023

Ibix said:

I get the impression @DennisN's one doesn't have liquid? I've not seen one of those before.

That's correct. It's only sand.

DennisN · Oct 29, 2023

jtbell said:

Over the past weekend I visited a model-train show in a nearby city

@jtbell seems to be into train related things, so here are some photos on that theme

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A model train set inside Copenhagen Central Station:

Model railway layout of a town with a red electric locomotive pulling passenger coaches, a red diesel shunter, tank and box wagons, and parked vans and trucks beside brick houses. A sign reads Næstved.

A shot from inside Copenhagen Central Station in the day:

Interior of a train station platform under a wrought-iron arched roof with glass panels; a lone man in a dark coat stands at the platform edge beside a curving track, and a red train is parked to the right.

The backside of Copenhagen Central Station at night:

(The clock (showing 1:50 at the time) has been there for as long as I can remember, and it seems to be some kind of a Nixie tube style clock)

Night view of a brick station facade with arched windows, a glowing red digital clock reading 1:50 above the entrance, parked cars and bicycles in the foreground under a street lamp.

A shot taken from the floor inside the station while I was waiting for my train:
(the flags on display are the flags of Denmark and Ukraine)

Low-angle night view across a tiled concourse toward a brick station hall, with Danish and Ukrainian flags hanging on the right and a Chipotle poster on the left.

A panoramic view of the rail yard which is located below ground level:

Night panoramic view of a rail yard with tracks and overhead wires below a road bridge, with lit buildings behind, including a red sign reading HOTEL ASTORIA on the left.

BillTre · Oct 29, 2023

Photo of a handmade Majora's Mask cosplay prop with a purple face, wood-grain orange eyes and spiky horns, set against a forest background.

BillTre · Oct 31, 2023

jtbell · Nov 1, 2023

DennisN said:

A shot from inside Copenhagen Central Station in the day:

These are my only two pictures from that station on my 1978 trip:

Passengers on a platform beside a red passenger train under a long arched glass and iron station roof; a departure board above shows 9.15 for platform 7.

Destination board of a train reading Skandinavien - Holland - Express, then København - Rødby - Puttgarden - Lübeck - Hamburg - Bremen - Osnabrück - Bentheim - Hengelo - Amersfoort - Utrecht CS - Schiedam - Rotterdam West, with Hoek v Holland in large letters below.

We had just arrived on an overnight train from Oslo, and were about to board the daylight train to Holland, on our way to London.

The latter train used a ferry between Rødby (Denmark) and Puttgarden (Germany).

Car ferry ramp with a raised bow door and visor, and the ship THEODOR HEUSS alongside; cars on the linkspan and a steel gantry overhead.

Vintage colour photo of a railway ferry terminal: a white ferry moored beside a passenger train of green and cream carriages on a track, with a red car and a white car on a road beside a grassy embankment.

The last train ran via this ferry in 2019. Eventually trains will use the Fehmarn Belt fixed link which is under construction.

In the meantime all rail connections between Germany and Denmark travel the long way around, via Jutland and Funen. This was the route that we used on the outbound part of our trip, from London to Finland. We had to use a ferry on this route also, which has since been replaced by the Great Belt fixed link.

Rive · Nov 1, 2023

Took a nap in the shadow

Large deciduous tree standing alone in a grassy field, backlit by low sun against a clear blue sky, with dark wooded hills behind it.

berkeman · Nov 1, 2023

jtbell said:

The last train ran via this ferry in 2019.

All those train cars fit in that little biddy ferry?

fresh_42 · Nov 1, 2023

Black steam locomotive with red buffer beam and number 50 3648-8 on its smokebox, standing on a rail yard under a vivid orange and purple sunset sky, with a brick engine shed behind it.

jtbell · Nov 1, 2023

berkeman said:

All those train cars fit in that little biddy ferry?

A Google search turned up a site that lists the Theodor Heuss as having three tracks. If you look carefully you can see the end of a car off to the right just inside the hatch.

Borg · Nov 2, 2023

jtbell said:

A Google search turned up a site that lists the Theodor Heuss as having three tracks. If you look carefully you can see the end of a car off to the right just inside the hatch.

Must be a difficult process getting that to work. I guess the operators were 'trained' well. :oldwink:

DennisN · Nov 2, 2023

jtbell said:

The second train used a ferry between Rødby (Denmark) and Puttgarden (Germany).

Oh, I've travelled many times on that ferry!

I think it's the most common route for Swedes who want to travel to Germany and beyond in Europe (without travelling by airplane).

And on the Vogelfluglinie which you linked to lies also the German city Lübeck which I've recently thought about revisiting. I've been there when I was very young, but I have no memory of it. Lübeck is an old Hanseatic city with many old buildings, so I think it would be very fun to go there and take a lot of photos

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jtbell · Nov 2, 2023

berkeman said:

All those train cars fit in that little biddy ferry?

jtbell said:

A Google search turned up a site that lists the Theodor Heuss as having three tracks. If you look carefully you can see the end of a car off to the right just inside the hatch.

And here's a picture of the entrance to a train ferry between Sicily and mainland Italy, showing a single track branching out to four tracks inside the ferry:

Photo taken from a railway track looking through the open bow doors of a train ferry at night, with multiple rail tracks branching out across the deck inside and yellow-striped floor markings.

Source: List of train ferries

Point Conception · Nov 3, 2023

Fish market display of fresh fish laid on crushed ice, with mackerel-like fish with tails in the foreground, whitish fish and squid in trays behind, and pink price tags reading 500 and 180.

Whole fresh fish with pink and red skin, heads and eyes visible, arranged on crushed ice at a fish market stall, alongside mottled grey-green fish and dark-striped fish.

Brown floodwater covers a yard beside a raised white house on stilts, with a palm frond overhanging, red wooden fence posts, bamboo screening and a city skyline in the distance.

pinball1970 · Nov 4, 2023

jack action said:

Not to start any conspiracy theory but is it me or does this look like the Death Star is completed?

Or the next Independence day film, "Alien Apocalypse."

pinball1970 · Nov 4, 2023

Met a friend today in Manchester and this was outside the pub.

Outdoor city steps covered with red heart-shaped foil balloons tied to small cards, with people standing among them and wooden market huts and a glass building behind.

gmax137 · Nov 4, 2023

pinball1970 said:

Met a friend today in Manchester and this was outside the pub.

Took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at there.

fresh_42 · Nov 4, 2023

gmax137 said:

Took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at there.

I assume it is the equivalent to

A man in a navy puffer jacket stands beside a very long banquet table set with white plates and glasses on a rainy city square, with a row of white chairs and people with umbrellas behind him, and a tall column and historic building in the background.

Arjan82 · Nov 4, 2023

gmax137 said:

Took me awhile to figure out what I was looking at there.

Please enlighten me :)

gmax137 · Nov 4, 2023

My first impression was a large number of red-mylar wrapped holiday hams.

DennisN · Nov 7, 2023

I was editing some old photos taken with smartphone.

Here is the medieval tower Kärnan in Helsingborg, Sweden.
It was built in the 1310s, and at that time Helsingborg belonged to Denmark.

Wikipedia said:

Kärnan is a medieval tower in Helsingborg, Scania, in southern Sweden. It is the only part remaining of a larger Danish fortress which, along with the fortress Kronborg on the opposite bank of the Øresund, controlled the entranceway between the Kattegat and the Øresund and further south the Baltic Sea.

A shot taken from the road leading up to the tower:

Night photo of the illuminated medieval stone tower Kärnan, with a flag on top, framed by a cobbled road, stone steps and brick walls with lamps.

The tower:

Kärnan medieval stone tower at night, floodlit in warm yellow light against a dark sky, with a flag on its crenellated top and a wooden staircase at its base.

The entrance to the tower:

Night photo of a tall brick medieval tower lit by warm light, with an arched entrance reached by a steep wooden staircase with railings, above a stone retaining wall and cobbled path.

And a view of the surroundings, taken from the top of the stairs:

Panoramic night photo of a park with bare trees and lamp posts, and an illuminated arched stone gateway lit up in the centre-right of the scene.

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