Random Photos

[symbolipoint]

#3149, but that bass drum cannot be practical in a marching band.

 

[pinball1970]

Sidenote:



Hehe, I found a larger bass drum than yours (in case you want an even larger ).
I was looking for various ways to play the orchestral/concert bass drum for a song project I am working on, and found this video... this bass drum is giant :

Concert Bass Drum 3: Playing Techniques / Vic Firth Percussion 101

Nice!
There is an optimum between playability and sound, with a 26 inch BD, you cannot get from the BD tom to the floor tom properly. Not at the height I sit anyway. A 28 inch would make that even more difficult. I would like to try it though, just to see the look on the engineer's face!

 

[pinball1970]

#3149, but that bass drum cannot be practical in a marching band.

The ones I have seen are about 20/22 inches

Post in thread 'Random Photos' https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/random-photos.994801/post-7265219

 

[jtbell]

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[jtbell]

Tuesday is senior citizens day at the local pizza parlor. All-you-can-eat pizza buffet for $10 plus tax and tip, if you're over 55 IIRC. Until about the end of 2022 it was $8, according to my old credit card statements.

I time my arrival for mid afternoon, between the lunch and dinner peaks, when I can normally get a table in five minutes or less. Today they were unusually busy. I had to wait about 15 minutes, standing just outside the door to start with. This is when I left, about 4:30 PM. The line is about three times as long as when I arrived (total length, inside and outside).

 

[Point Conception]

Naklua Bay 16:35 . Smoggy day but the red flowers make photo

 

[pinball1970]

Ashton, Manchester.

 

[pinball1970]

A few beauties from my work colleague Katie

Oldham, I know this is the same view over and over but when the sky keeps presenting itself like this, it is too hard to resist!

Blackstone edge, Littleborough looking towards Hollingworth lake

 

[jtbell]

Geese like cheqp stuff, too!

 

[Ibix]

Mated pair of coffee urns protecting their cub from predatory waiters

 

[Point Conception]

Lake Superior(sister photo Wisconsin ) to Jomtien beach (27⁰C) What a difference 35⁰ Latitude makes

 

[collinsmark]

'Took a new bus route to Balboa Park early in the morning. I missed my stop, requiring me to backtrack on foot an additional 1/2 mile (mostly) uphill to get to my planned destination.

Figure 1. <Untitled> Leica Summilux-M ASPH 50mm. I blew some highlights on the puppy, dang it. -- I rarely ever get to this corner of the park. It's pleasant. 'Lots of open areas.

Figure 2. "Banker's Hill neighborhood" Leica Summilux-M ASPH 50mm. Banker's Hill lies between Balboa Park and the airport.

Figure 3. "Cabrillo Bridge in the morning sunlight" Thypoch Simera 28mm.

This vantage point of the Cabrillo Bridge is what I have been scouting for months, and waiting for appropriate cloud cover (see Fig. 3). The shot required morning sunlight. I also wanted some interesting clouds in the sky: something other than completely clear or completely overcast. Interesting clouds are rare in San Diego mornings due to 1) general lack of clouds, and 2) San Diego's "marine layer" which produces overcast skies, mostly at night and lasting through the mornings.

Figure 4. "Lately I sit and ask myself, 'why have they stopped releasing the ████████* files?' You know, the ones they were supposed to release in-full a month ago? I mean, I haven't forgotten about them. Hmm?" Leica Summilux-M ASPH 50mm.

This is one of a few benches in Balboa Park that have no discernible foot-paths to access them (see Fig. 4). I accessed an adjacent bench anyway (not shown) and drank a refreshing double espresso before catching a bus to my next destination. There were several squirrels running around the benches, but they didn't make it into the picture.

*(Redacted to ensure no political content. Maybe I'll post the unredacted title on PF's sister site.)

 

[collinsmark]

So I made it to my next destination which had a lot of people gathered together. I won't post most of my pictures here on PF due to the event's nature (it was inherently political -- maybe I'll post them on PF's sister site). But several people brought their puppies, so here's some pictures of puppies. I've also included a few pics I took after the event, on the way to the trolley station.

All pictures except for the last one were taken with the Leica Summilux-M ASPH 35mm. The last picture was with the 50mm.

 

[Point Conception]

Breakfast right off the boat.

 

[Andy Resnick]

It's snowing here, now:

Shot @ 105mm f/2 1/25s. To get a sense of the volume of snow coming down now, the depth of field (the amount of visible snow) in these images is only 40 cm, and the tree is about 10 m away.

 

[symbolipoint]

Andy Resnick
To be able to report a lens, an aperture opening value, and a shutter speed seems very infrequent these days.

 

[Andy Resnick]

These are better- same everything, just monochrome b/c white balance failed:

 

[pinball1970]

Angry looking sky last night

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[Andy Resnick]

Still snowing hard this morning:

 

[pinball1970]

Sunset is becoming a ritual.

 

[Averagesupernova]

@Andy Resnick
Your pic reminds me of a younger version of my dog. We had to say goodbye in October. Losing a dog is tough to get through.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Snow finally stopped after 10 hours:

Not a record or anything, but still...

 

[sbrothy]

I'm not a big fan of atomic bombs but a couple of things strike me as.... funny isn't the word, absurd? I dunno... anyway....

These 3 technicians, who are almost certainly STEM-educated (the glasses are dead give-aways! ), seem to find a certain pleasure in maintaining this city-killer warhead. The twin(?) on the left at least seems to find it pleasurable.

W56 Thermonuclear warhead

 

[sbrothy]

Andy Resnick
To be able to report a lens, an aperture opening value, and a shutter speed seems very infrequent these days.

What's perhaps even sadder is that people don't seem to notice the difference between a photo taken with a cell-phone and a real camera.

 

[Point Conception]

Redundancy

 

[nsaspook]

 

[berkeman]

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Kite surfing on a skateboard? Dat's a big parking lot!

 

[Andy Resnick]

Now we get freezing rain:

Nikon D810 + 55mm micro nikkor @ f/11, 3s ISO 200. I timed it to capture a car driving by. The water drops, acting like point sources at this focal length, can be used to good effect:

Same lens & aperture & ISO, 1 s exposure (250% enlargement). What you see are diffracted images of the aperture stop, which on this lens is a hexagonal-shaped hole. The different variations occur because most of the drops are out of focus.

 

[DennisN]

Now we get freezing rain:

What a cool photo!
It's almost like the branches are swirling around the upper light (street light, I presume).

The water drops, acting like point sources at this focal length, can be used to good effect:

Also very cool!

 

[jrmichler]

Photo of me after a four mile run at minus 32 deg F this morning. Frosty on the outside, warm on the inside. The ice buildup on my eyelashes is only a problem when it gets heavy enough to pull my eyes shut. Cell phone camera.