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[sbrothy]

Rolling out of bed this morning, bleary-eyed b/c I was up way to late doing astrophotography, and I see sunlit morning dew. I have to photograph it, but I had to re-set all the camera settings while mostly asleep, so I had to 'fix in post', as they say....

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Let me get this straight.... you had all your equipment set for stargazing but then you had to reset it all to photograph morning dew?!

You got away with it pretty good though!

 

[edwardII]

I'm sure there's a reason (maybe not a good one but still). I couldn't help wonder why anyway though (I'm sure you can see what I mean):

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I asked Google AI why no blue jeans:


AI Overview



A sign with this specific combination of restrictions indicates you are entering a correctional facility, prison, or highly secure jail environment. Each rule serves a distinct operational purpose to maintain safety, security, of the institution.

Why "No Blue Jeans"?

The restriction on blue jeans is a critical security measure to prevent escape and visual confusion during an emergency.

• Inmate Uniforms: In many state and federal correctional systems, incarcerated individuals wear state-issued blue denim shirts and pants.
  
  
• Identification: If visitors, contractors, or staff wear blue jeans, it becomes difficult for correctional officers to differentiate between an inmate and a civilian at a glance.
  
  
• Blends in: In the event of a riot or an escape attempt, someone wearing blue jeans could easily blend into a crowd of inmates or walk past security checkpoints unnoticed.

 

[sbrothy]

I figured

I asked Google AI why no blue jeans:


AI Overview



A sign with this specific combination of restrictions indicates you are entering a correctional facility, prison, or highly secure jail environment. Each rule serves a distinct operational purpose to maintain safety, security, of the institution.

Why "No Blue Jeans"?

The restriction on blue jeans is a critical security measure to prevent escape and visual confusion during an emergency.

• Inmate Uniforms: In many state and federal correctional systems, incarcerated individuals wear state-issued blue denim shirts and pants.
  
  
• Identification: If visitors, contractors, or staff wear blue jeans, it becomes difficult for correctional officers to differentiate between an inmate and a civilian at a glance.
  
  
• Blends in: In the event of a riot or an escape attempt, someone wearing blue jeans could easily blend into a crowd of inmates or walk past security checkpoints unnoticed.

I figured it was somthing to do with the prison clothes. I just found it funny. I mean isn't such clothes usually bright orange or something like that?

 

[gmax137]

such clothes usually bright orange or something like that?

Watch Shawshank Redemption

 

[sbrothy]

Watch Shawshank Redemption

Yeah but that's a pretty old movie. I'd say it looks like orange is the new blue or gray:

Inmate & Detention Clothing

Bob Barker (Prison Clothing)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_uniform

EDIT: But yeah, there's some blue and gray in there too. I'm basically just yanking your chain!

 

[Zaciekawiony]

Photography from winter. Pollarded willows. Formerly it was typical view in polish rural landscape in villages. At now less and less.

 

[Andy Resnick]

Let me get this straight.... you had all your equipment set for stargazing but then you had to reset it all to photograph morning dew?!

You got away with it pretty good though!

Thanks!

The only equipment switch is the lens (large telephoto to small macro), most of the changes are in-camera (ISO, shutter speed, EV, mirror-up shutter delay, etc. etc.). It's (unfortunately) a lot of different settings.

 

[DennisN]

High school graduates celebrating in the city, shot today:
(they were very loud , cheering and honking horns etc.)

(Lens used: Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135mm f/2.8)

 

[berkeman]

High school graduates celebrating in the city, shot today:

Clearly one of the parents from that graduating class owns a road construction company!

(my granddaughter graduated high school today as well)

 

[DennisN]

And three animals shot today...

An incredibly cute young European rabbit. Also incredibly difficult to get close to ;
their awareness of their surroundings is off the charts.
If you make one wrong move and/or get too close for comfort, they are gone in an instant.

A fun jackdaw.

A good-looking blackbird.

(Lens: Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135mm f/2.8)

 

[BillTre]

High school graduates celebrating in the city, shot today:
(they were very loud , cheering and honking horns etc.)

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(Lens used: Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135mm f/2.8)

What's with the sailor hats?

 

[DennisN]

What's with the sailor hats?

At first I got confused by your question, but now I understand that it seems to be a cultural difference. They are called student caps, and they are so common here that practically every student gets one.

In various European countries, student caps of different types are, or have been, worn either as a marker of a common identity, as is the case in the Nordic countries, or to identify the wearer as a member of a smaller body within the larger group of students, as is the case with the caps worn by members of German Studentenverbindungen, or student groups in Belgium.

Source: Student cap (Wikipedia)
Specifically for Sweden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_cap#Sweden

Quote from Wikipedia: "Zeth Höglund, wearing his student cap, graduating from a Gymnasium in Gothenburg 1902."

 

[DennisN]

A few more shots from a communal garden yesterday...
...and by the way, these are from the communal garden I've mentioned to @jtbell before in this thread:

And right next to that mill is a communal garden which is one of the best places in the city to shoot flowers. Some of my flower shots in this thread are from that garden.

A Danish family visiting the garden. I know they were Danish,
because I heard them talking, @sbrothy .

A woman admiring and trying to photograph the hanging plants.

Iris sibirica in the garden.

The bud of a peony in the garden.

(Lens: Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135mm f/2.8)

 

[Zaciekawiony]

Yesterday I went on turistic trail to nature reserve "Łęg Dębowy" near Janów Podlaski. 14 km via meadows, bogs, a few types of forests and Bug river.

Trail starts from Janów Podlaski Stud Farm, known from breeding anglo-arabian and purebred arabian horses.

I saw many storks.

Eurasian crane (Grus grus) on trail

orchid Platanthera bifolia, (Lesser butterfly orchid)