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DennisN · Nov 24, 2023

morrobay said:

Nice to get in the water but not cooling off @30C. I know it's cold where ya all are: No Schadenfreude intended.

We've got lovely weather here. Later I'm going for a bath too...

Weather widget on a dark background showing current conditions of 5°, feels like 4°, with a partly cloudy icon and a 5-day forecast from Fri to Tue with highs and lows in degrees.

(temperatures in Celsius)

...in my bathtub.

Rive · Nov 24, 2023

morrobay said:

No Schadenfreude intended.

Winter has its own niceties.
Aiming for a 'first snow' hike at weekend.

There might be photos too.

pinball1970 · Nov 25, 2023

Arjan82 said:

Please enlighten me :)

A silent peaceful protest to return innocent hostages, many of which were women and children.

pinball1970 · Nov 25, 2023

nsaspook said:

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That looks a lot more complicated than the desk I had to manage for the other band

Photo of a Soundcraft mixing desk with rows of rotary knobs and about ten vertical channel faders, lit in green and blue stage lighting.

pinball1970 · Nov 25, 2023

nsaspook said:

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Luckily I made detailed professional notes in the rehearsal.

Photo of a sheet of lined paper on a desk with handwritten notes: a numbered row 1 to 10 above a column headed MONITOR R+Mix L+R, and a section labelled MONITOR L and Tablet, with a keyboard visible above.

Ibix · Nov 25, 2023

pinball1970 said:

That looks a lot more complicated than the desk I had to manage for the other bandView attachment 336131

Well yeah, but it looks like he's running the deck for a big name band, The Coors.

(...I'll get my coat.)

DennisN · Nov 25, 2023

pinball1970 said:

That looks a lot more complicated than the desk I had to manage for the other bandView attachment 336131

More mixing desks (probably audio & lights, I think), shot at the venue Amager Bio in Copenhagen while the UK band Nothing But Thieves were performing in 2022:

Dark concert venue photo of a large illuminated mixing desk with rows of faders, knobs and colored LED meters, with two people working at the controls in the foreground.

It was a darn good live concert, and here is one of the few shots I got of the band with my system camera...

Live concert photo of a rock band on stage under spotlights, with an audience silhouetted in the foreground holding up phones; Marshall amplifiers and keyboards are visible behind the performers.

...before one of the venue guards came and told me that I wasn't allowed to take photos with system cameras (but smartphones were allowed).
Which actually surprised me and which I find a little weird. Could it be because of the resolution and the ability to make more professional shots, I wonder? Well, smartphone cameras can be pretty darn good too nowadays, and they will likely get better and better in the near future, I think...

For comparison, here's another shot of the band taken with my smartphone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 10):

Four musicians performing on a stage with haze and spotlights; a bassist with tattoos plays a white bass, a singer in a grey t-shirt plays an acoustic guitar, and a guitarist with long blond hair stands beside a keyboard, with an audience in the foreground.

Another shot taken from the venue balcony:

Live concert on a stage lit by white spotlights and orange overhead lights, with a crowd of silhouetted fans in the foreground. Four or five performers stand on stage, and Marshall amplifiers sit behind them.

And a joke who anyone who has mixed music may identify with

:

A skeleton slumped in a chair at a large mixing desk in a dim studio, with cobwebs draped over the faders and the chair. Caption reads: THE MIX IS ALMOST PERFECT!

pinball1970 · Nov 25, 2023

DennisN said:

More mixing desks (probably audio & lights, I think), shot at the venue Amager Bio in Copenhagen while the UK band Nothing But Thieves were performing in 2022:

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It was a darn good live concert, and here is one of the few shots I got of the band with my system camera...

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...before one the venue guards came and told me that I wasn't allowed to take photos with system cameras.
Which actually surprised me and which I find a little weird. Could it be because of the resolution and the ability to make more professional shots, I wonder? Well, smartphone cameras can be pretty darn good too nowadays, and they will likely get better and better in the near future, I think...

For comparison, here's another shot of the band taken with my smartphone (Xiaomi Redmi Note 10):

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Another shot taken from the venue balcony:

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And a joke who anyone who has mixed music may identify with :

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The Venue was all wood (Wigton) the sound when the bodies were in had to be adjusted the old-fashioned way. First track out with the crowd and see how much those guys absorb, sound and clarity.
The guitar was supreme in the soundcheck, dead once the people were in.
I put the git to 6 (not 11)

Rive · Nov 26, 2023

Rive said:

Aiming for a 'first snow' hike at weekend.
There might be photos too.

Due some sore throats we just turned it into a looong morning and instead of a full day hike it was just a short afternoon walk...
We still got the firs snow, though.

Puzzles of land: summer & winter, light & shadow, hills and meadows...

Wide view across a grassy meadow in shadow toward rolling hills under a blue sky with clouds, sunlight on the far slopes and small patches of snow in the foreground.

Clouds left and right

Dirt field and tire-track road dusted with patchy snow, with dark hills on the horizon under a blue sky with clouds at dusk.

DennisN · Nov 26, 2023

I was doing some much needed reorganization at home and took a look at the only two vinyl records I have left:

1. The Beatles - Live! at the Star-Club in Hamburg, Germany; 1962 (@pinball1970

)

Back cover of a 1977 double LP with a black background listing tracklist by side: Side One, Side Two, Side Three and Side Four, with song titles including Twist and Shout, Kansas City and Long Tall Sally, plus credits for Lingasong Ltd, London.

Open gatefold record sleeve on a display stand showing a black-and-white photo of musicians on the left and a colour photo of a street-level club entrance with a red Star-Club sign reading Treffpunkt der Jugend, with people standing outside.

2. Frantic - Conception (1970) (a psychedelic rock album I once bought in Stockholm. I really like it.)

jtbell · Nov 29, 2023

Pile of bare twigs and dry brown oak leaves on the grass verge beside a paved street, with a small white sign reading No Dumping staked in the ground to the right.

This is in front of a vacant lot. The sign was posted several weeks before the yard trash appeared, perhaps from the property across the street. The city does collect this stuff regularly, although not on the same schedule as the weekly emptying of household trash bins.

symbolipoint · Nov 29, 2023

Ice crystals in needle-like shapes on a wooden handrail

Close-up of frost forming needle-like ice crystals on a dark, weathered surface, with blurred brown and green foliage in the background.

DennisN · Dec 2, 2023

I went through old unprocessed photos and found a fly:

Close-up photo of a grey housefly with translucent wings spread out, resting on a dark green surface with a faint shadow beneath it.

Not quite as good as I'd like it to be, but still the best shot of a fly that I've got.
Hopefully I will get more opportunities for close-ups of flies next summer, but they are quite difficult to shoot actually. In my personal estimation they start to get nervous at around 50 cm (distance to subject).

DennisN · Dec 2, 2023

And I found a flying bee

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A honey bee in flight beside a white flower with yellow stamens, against a blurred green background of plant stems and buds.

BillTre · Dec 2, 2023

DennisN said:

I went through old unprocessed photos and found a fly:

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Not quite as good as I'd like it to be, but still the best shot of a fly that I've got.
Hopefully I will get more opportunities for close-ups of flies next summer, but they are quite difficult to shoot actually. In my personal estimation they start to get nervous at around 50 cm (distance to subject).

If you can catch an insect, you could slow it down greatly by popping it into a frig to cool it down (they are cold blooded).
They should also recover afterward.

DennisN · Dec 2, 2023

BillTre said:

If you can catch an insect, you could slow it down greatly by popping it into a frig to cool it down (they are cold blooded).
They should also recover afterward.

Thanks for the idea, I didn't know about that.
Yet I think I would rather just try catching it in some transparent thingy and shoot it through the glass/plastic. I'm kind of soft-hearted, I admit.

berkeman · Dec 2, 2023

I went in to work today (I know, it's Saturday), and noticed this improvised sun shade in the driver side window of a minivan in the parking lot. I think the minivan is for a student at a nursing school in the same building as my lab, but I'm not sure. The crib sheet in the window appears to be for Physical Chemistry or Thermodynamics, I think, which is a bit far afield for nursing, IMO...

Car side window with a printed reference sheet taped to the glass as a sunshade, showing equations and tables; a vehicle interior with a driver's seat and steering wheel is visible behind it.

Reference sheet of chemistry notes with sections on types of matter, reactions, physical processes, balancing equations, nomenclature, stoichiometry, measurement and units, and fundamental constants.

DennisN · Dec 3, 2023

Christmas lights at one of the art museums in the city (shot yesterday evevning):

Brick building at night with warm white fairy lights wrapped around bare trees, an arched iron gate, and a red sign reading SMA on the facade.

...which is a crop from a larger photo:

Brick building courtyard at night, with strings of warm yellow fairy lights wrapped around two trees and along the railings, and snow on the ground.

jtbell · Dec 4, 2023

From a rail transit car in Cleveland, Ohio in 1970.

The modern version probably refers to phones and earpods.

Haborix · Dec 4, 2023

DennisN said:

Christmas lights at one of the art museums in the city (shot yesterday evevning):

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...which is a crop from a larger photo:

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Looks a bit spooky to me.

DennisN · Dec 5, 2023

Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award: 25 unforgettable images of the natural world

"The Natural History Museum in London is inviting you to vote for your favourite image to win the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award 2023."

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/ph...grapher-of-the-year-peoples-choice-award-2023

Example:

Point Conception · Dec 6, 2023

A smiling woman in sunglasses and a tie-dye strapless maxi dress holds a tabby cat while seated on a wooden bench at a restaurant with blue tablecloths.

DennisN · Dec 7, 2023

Hello gorgeous #1:

Close-up photo of a female mallard duck swimming on water, showing its mottled brown plumage, yellow-orange bill and dark eye.

Hello gorgeous #2:

Close-up photo of a female mallard duck swimming on dark green water, with mottled brown plumage, a yellow-orange bill and a dark stripe through the eye.

(Mallards, shot with Sony 55-210mm)

DennisN · Dec 9, 2023

Arjan82 said:

Brilliant :)

Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards

I read an article today about the story behind some of the photos in those awards:

The wild true stories behind the 21 funniest animal photos of all time: ‘It only lasted half a second, but I was ready (The Guardian)

"From a smiley fish to brawling mice and a famous monkey selfie, the people who captured magical wildlife moments explain how they got the shots"

Another funny photo from the article:

A white cattle egret stands on the head of a dark African buffalo, facing forward, with its legs on the buffalo's horn bases between the curved horns.

"Buffalo Having a Bad Day, Tom Stables, 2016"

Rive · Dec 9, 2023

A hike, again.
Woke up early to be first on the track.
Then we just got to the starting point with the bus already full. On the first kilometer around 20-40 cars passed us on that icy tarmac... So we just gave up the original goal and picked a different one, without a pub/restaurant/public road...
Well, almost without any road

A snow-covered forest path with a packed snow track winding between trees whose branches are heavily laden with snow.

On the highest point, with fog as ceiling:

Snow-covered open clearing in fog, with trees heavy with frost on the left and right and a small information board standing in the snow.

Some treetops:

Photo of leafless tree branches heavily coated with snow against an overcast grey sky, with snow on the twigs throughout the crown.

...and bottoms:

Snow-covered beech forest with tall, bare grey trunks and frosted branches, and a snowy track running through the middle of the woods.

The machinery could not handle that much white properly, but anyway, the whole hike was just perfect

DennisN · Dec 9, 2023

Rive said:

A hike, again.
Woke up early to be first on the track.

Lovely snow photos! I've found that snow scenes can be quite challenging...

Rive said:

The machinery could not handle that much white properly

...for exactly that reason. I've struggled quite a bit with snow scenes before.

One advice I picked up is to use a polarizing filter (CPL (circular) or a linear) (if using a system camera).

There are also two possible hacks for achieving polarization filtering when using smartphones (& tablets):

One can tape a small piece of polarizing film in front of the small lens, or
One can put polarizing sunglasses in front of the small lens (though it's quite fiddly )

An article about photographing snow scenes: 7 Tips for Taking Photographs in the Snow (B & H)

DennisN · Dec 13, 2023

I found another bird in my archives, a red-necked grebe (Podiceps grisegena) (shot in 2022):

Red-necked grebe swimming on green water, with a black crown, white cheeks, a yellow-tipped black bill and a rusty-red neck, reflected in the water.

Red-necked grebe swimming on green water, with a black cap, pale cheek, dark yellow-tipped bill, and rusty-red neck, reflected in the water below.

Red-necked grebe swimming on green water, showing a black cap, white cheeks, yellow-based bill, rusty-red neck and dark back, with its reflection below.

Point Conception · Dec 18, 2023

Monday after the weekend jet ski event in Jomtien. So at least it was good for something

Several large red spherical buoys floating on sunlit water, with a dark green buoy behind them and a distant hazy shoreline.

Floating spherical buoys on choppy sea: a green ball on the left, a dark green ball with white stripes, and three red balls clustered in the middle and foreground. A yellow floating line runs across the water with a hill on the horizon.

Point Conception · Dec 22, 2023

I asked my Thai girlfriend why only one finger nail polish. " I come here no finish already"

Close-up of a hand resting on a teal painted balcony railing, with a yellow-painted fingernail on one finger and a wristwatch and bracelets on the wrist, with a harbour and houses in the background.

A woman with long blonde hair in a pink satin crop top and white high-waisted trousers leans on a turquoise bar ledge by a seaside rooftop, with a glass of red wine and a green bowl nearby.

Point Conception · Dec 25, 2023

Four young women in short red dresses and Santa hats stand on the open bed of a pickup truck on a busy street, with a multi-storey building and parked cars behind them.

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