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Shuggah Momma with Shuggah Baby in Kissimmee FL:

Glossy dark purple-green metallic sculpture of a mare and foal standing side by side on a brick plaza, with a placard at their base and a street scene behind them.
 
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That time of year again... tho I'm a little out of practice..

Close-up photo of a branching ice crystal snowflake with a central vertical column and many side arms and sub-branches, against a black background.

Close-up macro photo of a cluster of snowflakes on a black background, with branching, feathery crystal arms and frosty, glittering edges.


Nikon D810 + 55mm MicroNikkor + M2 extension tube, focus set to 1:1 reproduction ratio. f/8 (IIRC), 1/60s, auto ISO, (cropped) jpgs straight from camera.
 
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Christmas was early this year.
Slot machine screen showing a GRAND jackpot of $10,000.00 with MAJOR $546.16, MINOR $26.20 and MINI $13.67, a red and gold dragon artwork, and a CALL ATTENDANT jackpot handpay message.
Two stacks of $100 bills, each bound with a band labelled $5000, sitting on the tray of a casino slot machine beside a Bet 150 Credits button.

Grand Jackpot on a 75 cent bet.
 
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This is from the Instructables site:
A man in a dark shirt wears a full-face mask covered in a grid of lit amber LEDs, with two blue lights visible at the eye area, in a dim workshop.
 
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Andy Resnick said:
That time of year again... tho I'm a little out of practice..
Very lovely!
I've tried shooting snowflakes before but the result was not very good (they were with a lot of other snowflakes, i.e. they got quite obscured by the joint white background of the snow).
And I remember it was very tricky too.

It seems you managed to get single/few snowflakes on a dark background, which yields a good contrast so the snowflakes can be easily seen.

Very nice! 🙂
 
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Very lovely!
I've tried shooting snowflakes before but the result was not very good (they were with a lot of other snowflakes, i.e. they got quite obscured by the joint white background of the snow).
And I remember it was very tricky too.

It seems you managed to get single/few snowflakes on a dark background, which yields a good contrast so the snowflakes can be easily seen.

Very nice! 🙂
Thanks! The 'secret' was to put a black baking sheet down for the snow to fall onto.
 
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We keep getting some beauties in Oldham - this is care of Katie who has a better camera than me!

Photo of a vivid orange and red sunset sky with streaks of cloud, silhouetted bare trees and a row of distant city buildings along the dark horizon.
 
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Same area without the Manchester high rises. I think my iPad has better colour. This was not touched up.

Photo of a vivid pink, purple and orange sunset over a flat horizon, with bare silhouetted trees and dark ground in the foreground.
 
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I was surprised to find this photo online. I was there. This occurred near my home when I was very young. I remember jumping in the car with my dad and driving over to see it. When we got there, the blimp was still suspended in the power lines and fully inflated.

We lived near the Goodyear base and on a regular flight path for them. We all got very good at recognizing the distant hum of the propellers as the craft was approaching. They usually passed over our house just after dark on summer evenings with their light shows on full display.

Black and white night photo of a Goodyear blimp, its envelope tilted and draped over power lines beside a street, with the Goodyear name visible on its side and a gondola near the ground.
 
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I noticed this stitch job in a Maps street view image. It is a four-door car, not a six door. :rolleyes:

Silver four-door sedan parked at the kerb on a residential street, photographed from a street-level camera with visible stitching artifacts in the house and lawn behind it.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
I noticed this stitch job in a Maps street view image. It is a four-door car, not a six door. :rolleyes:

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It did a beautiful job really. It looks authentic! It's a Camry Limo. That's where you put your golf clubs.
 
Three months after Hurricane Helene (only a tropical storm by the time it got here), some stuff still needs to be cleaned up.

A large uprooted tree trunk with exposed root ball lies on a grass strip beside a residential street, with broken sidewalk slabs around it and a brick two-story house in the background.

Photo of a large felled tree lying on a grass verge beside a sidewalk, its cut trunk face exposed and branches piled around it, with a brick house and a red stop sign nearby.


Fortunately, none of it is on our property.
 
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Grid of composite average female faces, each labelled with a country name, arranged in rows of four across the page.

FaceResearch.org has published the results of a recent experiment where experimental psychologists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have combined the faces of women around to world to approximate the "average face" of each country. Using a modern version of the technique that Sir Francis Galton pioneered in the 1800's, multiple images of faces are aligned and composited together to form the final result.
https://fstoppers.com/portraits/average-faces-women-around-world-2944
 
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New to me process:

A few days ago I discovered that a pipe in a wall was intermittently leaking out water.
The black area on the wall to the right is the hole I made to see the leak.
The plumbing was a simple fix, but the wall and some adjacent wood floor got wet.

Some guys came in a put these mats down (connected but a non-collapsible tube from the round connections in the middle to a machine that draws a slight vacuum from under the mats (which have dimples under them to maintain an air space under the mats to evaporate the water out).
I have never seen these before!

Wood floor covered by perforated plastic drying mats taped together at the seams, each with a round clear fitting in the center connected to a black hose running to a vacuum unit.


Its been going for several days and the floorboards have been significantly de-warped.
We have to wait to see what will end up happening (probably a wall demo/replacement).
 
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Boxing day walk.

Plan was canals to a bird reserve then football match.


Narrow canal in misty winter weather, flanked on the left by a tall red-brick mill building with rows of windows, and on the right by a towpath and a grey industrial wall.


Misty winter view along a narrow canal with a dirt towpath on the left, bare trees and dense shrubs on the right, and their reflections on the still water.
 
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Misty winter view along a canal lined with bare willow trees with yellow-brown branches, their reflections mirrored in the still water, with a mossy towpath on the right.
 
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Eastwood

Wooden information board in misty woodland for Cheshire Wildlife Trust's Eastwood Nature Reserve, with a green map of the reserve and illustrations of birds and other wildlife.



Foggy woodland scene with bare trees, a grassy clearing and muddy, puddled ground in the foreground with fallen leaves.
 
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Muddy woodland path in thick mist, lined with bare trees, dense green undergrowth and a mossy tree stump on the left.



Misty woodland with bare trees, low undergrowth of bramble and ivy in the foreground, and a fallen mossy log stretching across the ground.

Misty woodland path in winter, with moss-covered tree trunks, bare branches, fallen brown leaves on the ground, and a small wooden footbridge in the distance.
 
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Misty woodland in winter with a moss-covered tree trunk on the left, fallen bare branches across a muddy path and a shallow puddle in the foreground.


Two weathered wooden benches in a misty woodland on a damp day, with bare trees, moss-covered trunks and a small bunch of flowers placed on the right-hand bench.
 
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One from the canal

Canal scene with two narrowboats on still water beside a brick warehouse wall, which carries a large mural of a man's face, and a parked white camper van.


One from the match. Visibility was not great when the ref was checking the pitch.
We (Mossley) had a player sent off after 4 minutes, he probably could not see where he was tackling!

Dense fog over a grassy sports field seen from a covered stand, with a dark-coated person in the foreground and metal rails and steps leading down toward the pitch.
 
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berkeman said:
Which match?
Mossley verses Stalybridge Celtic, a derby. 2,015 attendance.

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Printed matchday card showing the Stalybridge Celtic FC and Mossley AFC club crests above the text: Northern Premier League - West Division v Mossley, Thursday 26th December 2024, K.O. 3.00pm.
 
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