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BillTre · Aug 30, 2024

These look like calm water craft:

jtbell · Aug 30, 2024

morrobay said:

Sure or you and can buy at seafood market and have it grilledView attachment 350604

Now I’m flashing back to our fish-slapping ritual again.

pinball1970 · Aug 31, 2024

Ashton Greater Manchester.

A green and black narrowboat with a dark cabin travelling along a canal, with red-brick apartment blocks and trees on the bank and reflections in the still water.

Long red brick warehouse with gabled roofline and arched doorways beside a still canal, with narrowboats moored along the water and reflected in it.

Two people sitting on a towpath beside a canal, one holding a fishing rod out over the water. A footbridge crosses the canal and a narrowboat is moored on the left bank, with trees lining the path.

pinball1970 · Aug 31, 2024

Cobbled towpath beside a narrow canal on a cloudy day, with brick apartment blocks with balconies on the far bank and trees overhanging the water.

pinball1970 · Aug 31, 2024

Thanks again to @Astranut who has guided me on how to take images.

DennisN · Aug 31, 2024

pinball1970 said:

Thanks again to @Astranut who has guided me on how to take images.

I've noticed that you seem to have been going for perspective (depth) in many of your latest photos.
Very nice!

berkeman · Aug 31, 2024

BillTre said:

These look like calm water craft:

Are there ever any waves in Amsterdam?

Arjan82 · Aug 31, 2024

berkeman said:

Are there ever any waves in Amsterdam?

I most certainly hope not! Noting the rather far inland location of Amsterdam that could only mean a 1953 like catastrophe

pinball1970 · Sep 1, 2024

DennisN said:

I've noticed that you seem to have been going for perspective (depth) in many of your latest photos.
Very nice!

Thanks, I'm experimenting a little bit. The canal and paths gave me a few opportunities.

Point Conception · Sep 2, 2024

From 4chan

Psychedelic surreal painting in saturated colours: a green eye within an arched purple doorway, a figure lying on a striped bed with a pink mouse and cheese in the corner, and cartoon faces in the background.

symbolipoint · Sep 3, 2024

Fence lizard, originally recorded magnified as much as could be, and then enlarged some more using the software program on the computer. I then also tried making a video recording but little lizard moved too fast.

Small brownish-grey lizard with a long tail and scaly skin, standing on a concrete surface in sunlight beside a dark tyre, its front and back feet spread.

I do not know why the image is double posted. Supposed to be just the one image, once.

DennisN · Sep 3, 2024

pinball1970 said:

Lancashire Cheshire boarder walk today. I had a little help from @Astranut

Number 1 and particularly number 4 are very good photos in that series, in my opinion.

Number 4 has an amazing atmosphere; it is partly overexposed and the colors don't look natural, but that doesn't matter, it adds to the atmosphere, I think. I really like it.

Were you shooting with your tablet?

Andy Resnick · Sep 3, 2024

Some folks were jumping out of a perfectly good airplane at last weekend's airshow:

Three skydivers in dark jumpsuits falling through a clear blue sky, trailing coloured smoke, with the side of a U.S. Army aircraft visible at the right edge.

Nikon D810+800mm Nikkor, etc. etc.

jtbell · Sep 4, 2024

After visiting the iron furnaces in Scranton (posted earlier), I went to the Steamtown National Historical Site. The main building is in the form of a roundhouse, although it’s not the original Delaware Lackawanna & Western roundhouse that once stood here.

Turntable pit with rails leading to a central bridge, surrounded by a modern glass-and-steel roundhouse containing several black steam locomotives on display, under a cloudy sky.

Interior of a roundhouse with a gray and yellow diesel locomotive, number 664, in the foreground and a black steam locomotive behind it, viewed from a railing walkway.

Here’s a “fireless steam locomotive” whose tank was periodically filled with pressurized steam from a stationary boiler. It was used for local switching at a power plant.

Black steam locomotive with the lettering PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC CO. on its tank, displayed outdoors in front of a red-framed glass building; a Lackawanna locomotive is partly visible at left.

This flyer circulated in Philadelphia in 1839, protesting the building of a railroad through the city.

Printed 1839 Philadelphia protest broadside with an engraving of a steam locomotive passing a woman and a man, under the headline MOTHERS LOOK OUT FOR YOUR CHILDREN! and text warning against a Locomotive Rail Road making the city a Suburb of New York.

A few blocks away is the former DL&W station, which is now a hotel.

Large cream-colored stone station building with a central clock flanked by black eagles, the word LACKAWANNA carved above the entrance, and a Radisson hotel sign at street level.

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pinball1970 · Sep 4, 2024

DennisN said:

Number 1 and particularly number 4 are very good photos in that series, in my opinion.

Number 4 has an amazing atmosphere; it is partly overexposed and the colors don't look natural, but that doesn't matter, it adds to the atmosphere, I think. I really like it.

Were you shooting with your tablet?

Thanks. My motivation is to document interesting things in the North West of England but also to make some "art."
The second part is harder but I have had some help!
Everything with my Lenovo tablet.
Now I can adjust, light and colour a bit more awareness. Just from twiddling knobs really.
Some I have distorted the colour for artistic effect.
I am learning little by little.
The aim is not to become David Bailey, it is to get some decent images of my city and beyond.

jtbell · Sep 4, 2024

More from Scranton…

On the other side of the Steamtown parking lot is the Electric City Trolley Museum. Its exhibits include a Birney streetcar that ran in Reading, Pennsylvania from 1920 until 1947. It’s been cut open in various places to show its construction details.

Cream and red streetcar numbered 506 displayed indoors in a museum hall, with a wooden step and red railing in the foreground.

Interior of a vintage streetcar with wooden benches and railings, curved wood-panelled ceiling, large windows and a glimpse of a bright outdoor area through the side glass.

This is a small car with a single 2-axle truck (“bogie” in Brit-speak) under its center. Part of the floor has been removed so you can see the electric motor mounted on one axle.

Close-up of a streetcar truck with an electric traction motor mounted on one axle, labelled No. 517, with a large geared drive wheel and a spring suspension on the right.

Another exhibit shows equipment from an electrical substation that converted alternating current to direct current for powering streetcars. These were scattered at various locations in a system to reduce power losses in DC transmission, and were able to turn on automatically when a car entered a section of track.

Museum display of a synchronous rotary converter, a grey motor-generator unit labelled 'Synchronous Rotary Converter', beside a black electrical switchboard panel with meters and gauges.

A map of the streetcar lines in the Scranton - Wilkes-Barre area:

Printed map titled "The Electric Northeast, c. 1913" showing interurban and streetcar lines from Forest City to Pittston and from Pittston to Hazleton, with Scranton and Wilkes-Barre labeled.

Why the “Electric City”? Scranton’s factories began using electric lights in 1880. Electric streetlights came a few years later, and the first electric streetcars in 1886.

Historical marker on a metal pole reading: FIRST ELECTRIC CARS. The first street car system in the U.S. built entirely for operation by electric power was at Scranton. It began operation on Nov. 30, 1886. The initial run was between central Scranton and Green Ridge section. Trees and parked cars are behind it.

Other cities had converted horsecar lines to electricity, but Scranton had the first line that was electric from the beginning.

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berkeman · Sep 5, 2024

You Public Service Announcement for today about why we need to remember to chain up all pressurized cylinders...

https://fb.watch/upBFP9kx3X/

Screenshot of a video player showing a frame of a yard with rows of pressurized gas cylinders standing upright, with a man in a blue shirt working near a forklift or vehicle; the video is 0:12 long.

jtbell · Sep 5, 2024

Today I walked downtown again, and got a closer look at the buildings that burned last week.

Burned-out storefronts on a downtown street behind yellow caution tape and temporary metal fencing, with charred brick walls, collapsed debris, and scorched awnings.

Fire-damaged brick storefronts on a downtown street, with charred walls, collapsed debris and rubble behind yellow caution tape and a temporary metal fence.

Street view of fire-damaged brick storefronts behind temporary metal construction fencing, with charred interiors, collapsed roof timbers and rubble visible through the openings.

The building on the right, above, was an optical shop where my wife and I have bought eyeglasses. It’s moving into a building in the next block.

The big empty space in the middle was the restaurant where the fire started. They have another location about a 20-minute drive away, in the next town. We’ll go there the next time we have business in that town.

BillTre · Sep 7, 2024

pinball1970 · Sep 8, 2024

Manchester yesterday.

Two pianos at the station, occasionally a classically trained person will jump on do a little bit before their train.

Black upright piano with a black padded bench on a station concourse, crowds of commuters behind it and a sign reading Free WiFi on the right.

Bronze statue of a line of seven World War One soldiers in greatcoats and caps, some with crutches or bandaged heads, standing in front of a glass station entrance with a blue sign reading 'dilly'.

pinball1970 · Sep 8, 2024

The rest of the images show parts of Manchester, red brick, Victorian, industrial and bit ugly in places.

View down a wide city street with yellow bus lane markings, a yellow bus in the distance, a white car at left, and ornate red brick Victorian buildings beside tall glass office blocks.

Street in Manchester with tram tracks and yellow cross-hatched road markings, red brick buildings on the left, a modern grey-clad hotel on the right and overhead tram wires.

My favourite building in Manchester

Photo of the rotunda-shaped front of a large neoclassical building with a domed roof, a row of tall Corinthian columns and a flag on the roof, with banners hanging on the columns and people walking in a paved square.

Old and new.

City street with tram tracks running towards tall glass towers under an overcast sky, a yellow tram in the distance, and ornate red-brick Victorian buildings on the right.

Street view in Manchester with a red brick Victorian clock tower labelled Kimpton, a Palace Theatre facade with a Mormon poster and 11 Sep to 11 Oct dates, and cars and pedestrians on the road.

Narrow urban stream flowing between red brick industrial buildings beneath a stone railway arch, with wooden railings and overhanging vegetation on the left and a metal balcony grille on the right.

Photo of a metal railing and mesh enclosure in a narrow brick passage covered with many padlocks of varied colours and styles, some with engraved writing.

Bronze statue of a seated man in a suit and tie on a park bench, holding an apple in one hand, with a blank information board and red brick buildings behind.

pinball1970 · Sep 8, 2024

River Medlock.

Narrow urban canal running between brick buildings, with a brick arch spanning it in the foreground and a footbridge crossing further along under a second bridge.

Entrance of a flower shop called Clocktower Florist, framed by a stone building with carved 'Refuge Assurance Co.' lettering, with plants, pots, bunting and a sign.

Foggy city street lined with red-brick Victorian buildings, with a painted cycle lane symbol on the road, a yellow car, a red car, and a motorcycle in the distance.

Two street painters at easels on a paved city square, one in a red hooded top painting a townscape, with a stone monument and tall office buildings behind them.

BillTre · Sep 10, 2024

Artist's rendering of the Cassini spacecraft in the foreground viewing Saturn's upper atmosphere, with the rings rising as bright vertical bands against black space.

collinsmark · Sep 11, 2024

Mittens, my neighbor's cat, popped over to visit the other day. Well, I assume her name is "Mittens." But I don't really know for sure; I'm just assuming that's her name. I don't even know which neighbor she belongs to. But she's well fed and appears to be well taken care of. If my back door is open, sometimes she'll stop in for a brief hello.

I neither feed her nor encourage her to stick around. But she's welcome to loiter if I have no plans to leave the house.

Brown tabby cat lying on a carpet, facing the camera with green-yellow eyes and white whiskers, against a blurred beige background.

I do say hello when she stops by. I'll pet her a little (she demands it) and make a purring sound, which she reciprocates. I'll reassure her that she's a very good kitty. Then I'll just leave her be and go back to whatever it was I was doing.

Close-up of a brown tabby cat with green-gold eyes and a pink nose, lifting a white front paw to its face while looking toward the camera.

I'm guessing I'm the only person up late at night (astrophotography and all), so she finds me curiously intriguing. My mostly-nocturnal sleep schedule (if you can even call it a "schedule") is probably not too different from her own.

When she stopped by the other morning, I got my camera out.

Tabby cat lying on its side on a carpet, head tilted, looking at the camera with amber eyes in warm sunlight against a dark background.

collinsmark · Sep 13, 2024

Mittens update:

I now know which neighbor owns Mittens and have been in contact. All is well.
As it happens, Mittens is a "he" (not a "she.") Mr. Mittens, as he's sometimes called.

Close-up of a brown tabby cat with yellow-green eyes lying down, looking directly at the camera, with a blurred beige background.

DennisN · Sep 13, 2024

collinsmark said:

Mittens, my neighbor's cat, popped over to visit the other day.

Lovely photos of a lovely cat!
Amazing sharpness in the photos too!

Flyboy · Sep 14, 2024

Appropriate deployment of googly eyes in the wild…

Black and white hamster with a googly eye stuck on its face, sitting on purple shredded bedding, photographed in a store aisle.

Rive · Sep 16, 2024

collinsmark said:

Mittens, my neighbor's cat, popped over to visit the other day. Well, I assume her name is "Mittens." But I don't really know for sure; I'm just assuming that's her name.

A decent (outdoor) cat has at least two 'owners' and three names anyway

DennisN · Sep 17, 2024

Some random shots, first two shots with my smartphone:

My lovely cat:

A fluffy grey and cream tabby cat lying curled up on its side in a woven wicker basket with wooden rim handles, on a dark wooden floor.

A fun sticker I got from the music store Thomann...

...in the package with a new instrument I bought, a baritone guitar...

Black electric baritone guitar with a single-cutaway body and six strings, standing upright on a stand in front of a curtain with a floral pattern.

...which are very cool and quite unusual instruments which sits harmonically between guitars and basses. I had never played anyone until now, and it's very, very fun to play on. It feels like neither a guitar nor a bass, it feels like a completely new type of instrument to me.

(Sidenote: If you can play guitar, you can also play a baritone guitar; it's the same string configuration as a normal guitar, but the strings are thicker and it is usually tuned down 4-5 semitones below a normal guitar.

For those who are interested in hearing how they sound, one good clip here, and another one here, with some very nice playing from two youtubers)

Flyboy · Sep 21, 2024

Photo of a blue campaign-style sign in a shop window reading "PRESIDENTS ARE TEMPORARY / WU-TANG IS FOREVER" with red stars, reflecting a parked car and a person.

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