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[BillTre]

These look like calm water craft:

 

[jtbell]

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]

Ashton Greater Manchester.

 

[pinball1970]

 

[pinball1970]

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

 

[DennisN]

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]

These look like calm water craft:

Are there ever any waves in Amsterdam?

 

[Arjan82]

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]

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]

From 4chan

 

[symbolipoint]

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.

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

 

[DennisN]

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]

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

Nikon D810+800mm Nikkor, etc. etc.

 

[jtbell]

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.

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.

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

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

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[pinball1970]

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]

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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]

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

https://fb.watch/upBFP9kx3X/

 

[jtbell]

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

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]

 

[pinball1970]

Manchester yesterday.

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

 

[pinball1970]

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

My favourite building in Manchester

Old and new.

 

[pinball1970]

River Medlock.

 

[BillTre]

 

[collinsmark]

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.

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.

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.

 

[collinsmark]

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.

 

[DennisN]

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]

Appropriate deployment of googly eyes in the wild…

 

[Rive]

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]

Some random shots, first two shots with my smartphone:

My lovely cat:

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

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

...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]