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Cliffside view, Bear Mountain Wind Farm, Dawson Creek BC
Kevin
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Cliffside view, Bear Mountain Wind Farm, Dawson Creek BC
Kevin
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I may have the minority opinion here but those wind farms don't do anything for an otherwise beautiful landscape. IMHO park them 20 miles off shore in the ocean.
twostick
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The Portland Head Light from the other side
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Panama Canal. You can see the difference in elevation of the two ships entering the locks.
A ship entering the locks behind us
A ship entering the locks behind us
Wow, just burned away my whole morning looking all the amazing pictures, well done guys I envy your talent.
I'm a "snapshot" photographer who has thousands of snaps but unfortunately very few "good" pictures. In the old days before 35mm, my pictures were very carefully thought out, film and processing was very expensive. When 35mm arrived cost dropped, but was still significant enough that I spent a lot of time planning my shot before taking just one picture. Before my first "automatic" camera most of my pictures sucked, too dark, too light, out of focus, etc. Worse, all pictures were of stationary subjects, spontaneous action shots were, I felt, a waste of film. Looking back I missed a lot of great picture oportunities because I was too cheap to buy and process the film. Around 2000 I bought a little digital point and shoot. I went nuts, instead of one well thought out picture, I shot hundreds. It was like going from a single shot 22 to a fully automatic machine gun, if it moved I shot it, if it didn't move I shot it anyway. Much to the my wife's chagrin I save all my pictures, even the 99 out of 100 of her that she insists I delete.
Anyhow, a picture or two.
Looking out over my backyard.
A snap of the Fury
One of my few action shots. I was standing on the back deck, the radio and TV were making siren noises and my wife and daughter are screaming at me to get in the house. LOL
I'm a "snapshot" photographer who has thousands of snaps but unfortunately very few "good" pictures. In the old days before 35mm, my pictures were very carefully thought out, film and processing was very expensive. When 35mm arrived cost dropped, but was still significant enough that I spent a lot of time planning my shot before taking just one picture. Before my first "automatic" camera most of my pictures sucked, too dark, too light, out of focus, etc. Worse, all pictures were of stationary subjects, spontaneous action shots were, I felt, a waste of film. Looking back I missed a lot of great picture oportunities because I was too cheap to buy and process the film. Around 2000 I bought a little digital point and shoot. I went nuts, instead of one well thought out picture, I shot hundreds. It was like going from a single shot 22 to a fully automatic machine gun, if it moved I shot it, if it didn't move I shot it anyway. Much to the my wife's chagrin I save all my pictures, even the 99 out of 100 of her that she insists I delete.
Anyhow, a picture or two.
Looking out over my backyard.
A snap of the Fury
One of my few action shots. I was standing on the back deck, the radio and TV were making siren noises and my wife and daughter are screaming at me to get in the house. LOL
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Somewhere in Texas 
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CN tower, day and night
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Jellyfish in the Toronto aquarium
folks..i gotta go on record again, reminded by fury440.
great great shots by EVERYBODY who has posted pics, and thanks in advance to all those who might give it a go one day.
thanks for taking the time to let us all take a look and places and things, "around the corner" and "around the world".
hope we can keep 'em coming in. plenty of cool things to point and click atccasion14:
great great shots by EVERYBODY who has posted pics, and thanks in advance to all those who might give it a go one day.
thanks for taking the time to let us all take a look and places and things, "around the corner" and "around the world".
hope we can keep 'em coming in. plenty of cool things to point and click at
ccasion14:
Hey Laramie, if f you get a sec, what part of the world were you flying over when you go this shot?
Oh, always cool to catch another plane in flight at an altitude high enough to create a vapor trail - quick story.
About 20 years ago flying from Europe to US, 35,000 ft over the Atlantic on then Northwest Airlines, the pilot called out a "speeding bullet" as it overtook us on the starboard side.
Mach 2, probably at 50,000 ft, neon-white with a "pointy-nose", passing us going 600 MPH like we were standing still (rough analogy ignoring motion parallax - imagine being passed doing 70 mph on your local interstate by a car going 140 mph).
What a sight...alas my analog Motorola DP550 "flip phone" had no camera but I can still remember it like it was yesterday.
All you "aerophiles" instantly know what it was I saw - some of the rest of you it will come to you :icon_winkle:
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When you hear about a "panamax" ship, they are referring to one one built to be as large as possible and still fit in the locks. This is the amount of leeway they have on both sides. The margin for error is small.
If the lock gate shown in the first picture is not tucked all the way into the wall, then this can happen
If the lock gate shown in the first picture is not tucked all the way into the wall, then this can happen
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More from the archives
Ice flow inhabitants
Splash from a glacier calving
Ice flow inhabitants
Splash from a glacier calving
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Along the railway out of Skagway, AK
MrMoparCHP
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Here is one from an outing a few years ago. Taken low smack down in the middle of a major highway in SoCal. For those who know the area this is Highway 101 between Santa Barbara and Santa Maria just north of the Gaviota tunnel.
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December 14, 2015 8 am, a balmy 58 degrees. "Orange Rainbow", picture doesnt capture the subtlety of colors and the extent of the arc though.
What's to the South? Glad you asked :icon_cheese:
five minutes later, it was ALL gone and it started to rain.
that second pic reminds me of the Bob Ross art work-- too many trees and not "scenic" enough of course
when he started many of his paintings from a blank canvas he did so with a vivid sky (..."lets try a little cad yellow, and mix in some cad orange and a little titanium white... ah yes, there") and then filled in the rest with whatever was in his head. i confess...i am STILL mesmorized what a blank canvas turned into in 28 minutes on his show.
I know, some of you don't know Bob Ross' work. He "lives" on (he died in the mid 1990's) on PBS though -- "The Joy of Painting" -- 30+ years of watching it (now whenever i can) I never grow tired of seeing the "magic"
if nature scenes are your thing, you might wanna see if the series comes on in your local PBS viewing area and check it out?.
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It's not spectacular, but while scanning slides this week, I came across this.
Something that you can no longer do. Stand on the runway built for the shuttle at Cape Canaveral.
Something that you can no longer do. Stand on the runway built for the shuttle at Cape Canaveral.
"Rainbow" or "Sun Dog"?
Earlier in this thread, I caught "Sun Dogs". I also caught "Fire Rainbows" in the sky over my house that I posted. Again, like all of you I have been seeing these things all my life, but in my case I always called ALL OF THEM "rainbows".
For anyone curious and about to go on Jeopardy amaze Trebek with your acumen, apparently "technically" what its called depends on whether the refracting water is frozen or vaporous, and what the sun angle is.
http://www.komonews.com/weather/blo...sun-dog-and-when-is-it-a-halo--307961921.html
After seeing this link and going through the nerdy optics stuff in it, I conclude this is a "rainbow" (prismatic, multi-color kind... though overwhelmed by the oranges/reds) created by water vapor (it had just rained and it was almost 60 degrees out), and low morning sun angle (another shot below catches more colors).
All I need to catch is NON-prismatic "Sun Pillar" (never recall seeing one of these) and safely shoot an "aura" around the sun (seen many, never shot one) to complete the cycle.
