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Open Water => All Kinds of Art => Picture Gallery => Topic started by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on October 12, 2006, 06:42:14 PM

Title: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on October 12, 2006, 06:42:14 PM
I was thinking that we could have a thread for nice or interesting pictures.

As an example, last night while driving home from my rehearsal I saw the moon in a redish color that caught my attention. Once I got home I pulled my camera (Dimage Z5) and took a few pictures of it. Sadly it was more yellowish by the time I took them but still nice, I think (perhaps a bit overexposed?). For the inclined these are the specs: ASA100, F4.5, 1/10s (with a tiny tripod and temporizer).
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/YMoonSm.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on October 13, 2006, 01:26:58 AM
Thanks for your proof the moon is made of cheese - Edam I guess.  ;D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Afterglow on October 13, 2006, 03:07:59 AM
This is a Parhelia aka Sundog...  joe e ;)

(http://ukazy.astro.cz/obr/012003hmi.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Chatty on October 13, 2006, 09:03:24 AM
WOW!! That's cool.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Afterglow on October 13, 2006, 05:17:21 PM
Quote from: Afterglow on October 13, 2006, 03:07:59 AM
This is a Parhelia aka Sundog...  joe e ;)

(http://ukazy.astro.cz/obr/012003hmi.jpg)

This is a better picture of a parhelia; it shows the sundogs on both sides of the sun (about 22 degrees above the horizon.)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/boats/parhelia.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on October 13, 2006, 05:42:09 PM
joe, do you know if this phenomenon ever happen in "pillars"?  I've skiied through pillars of light when it's very sunny and cold and there's fine ice crystals in the air.  I'm not sure how I managed to catch them.... I would have thought it'd be like a rainbow, and uncatchable.

Otherwise it looks very much the same.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Vita Curator on October 13, 2006, 09:59:04 PM
From my neck of the woods, we had a beautiful but brisk Autumn day in PA today.

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on October 13, 2006, 10:04:20 PM
This is where I'm off to in the morning, for vacation.
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/8c76c4fa.jpg)

And here's two looking East and West from the same point (Honey Run Creek) a couple of miles from my house.
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/8a594fba.jpg)

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/15c64824.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Vita Curator on October 13, 2006, 10:13:42 PM

One more from today.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on October 13, 2006, 11:20:06 PM
Quote from: Vita Curator on October 13, 2006, 10:13:42 PMOne more from today.
Oh!  Looks like home.  :'(

I don't wanna live in the brown treeless flatlands anymore.....
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on October 14, 2006, 12:09:02 AM
Here's a picture I took a few years ago:

(http://www.catalystmotorsport.com/images/24.jpg)

It's from Niagara Falls, Canada - the big spotlights are for the falls light show.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on October 14, 2006, 01:58:56 AM
I like that one. The colors are nice.


One from my yard, under our morning glory.

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/smufs009.jpg)

Our pumpkin plant, back before the mites ate it.

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/IMG013.jpg)

Taken on the way to a funeral down south this
summer, in about June, I think.

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/Hills3.jpg)

Lemme know if I should make them smaller.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Afterglow on October 15, 2006, 12:46:10 AM
Quote from: Agujjim on October 13, 2006, 05:42:09 PM
joe, do you know if this phenomenon ever happen in "pillars"?  I've skiied through pillars of light when it's very sunny and cold and there's fine ice crystals in the air.  I'm not sure how I managed to catch them.... I would have thought it'd be like a rainbow, and uncatchable.

Otherwise it looks very much the same.

Yes, I do know, and the answer is yes.
 
This LINK (http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm) will take you to a much better scientific explanation. BTW make sure you look at all of the links in it .. some real beauty there.

joe e ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on October 15, 2006, 10:09:37 PM
That's it!  Skiing through one is AMAZING.  I felt blessed.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Vita Curator on October 15, 2006, 10:38:31 PM
Quote from: Agujjim on October 13, 2006, 11:20:06 PM
Quote from: Vita Curator on October 13, 2006, 10:13:42 PMOne more from today.
Oh!  Looks like home.  :'(

I don't wanna live in the brown treeless flatlands anymore.....

Where's "home"  (originally) for you Aggie?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on October 16, 2006, 02:55:38 AM

Here's a pic of Grassi Lakes near Canmore that I took yesterday.
(http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1816/grassisq6.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Vita Curator on October 16, 2006, 02:14:19 PM
Quote from: Agujjim on October 16, 2006, 02:55:38 AM

Here's a pic of Grassi Lakes near Canmore that I took yesterday.

Simply beautiful! Majestic!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on October 17, 2006, 07:29:00 PM
These photos are amazing!

I remember seeing a sun pillar between two mountains on Christmas eve a few years ago. It was really bright and beautiful.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on October 19, 2006, 01:07:23 AM
Ran across these two beautiful pictures the other day:

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i5/bronko84/lightning_shanghai.jpg)

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i5/bronko84/krasa480.jpg)

Unfortunately it's not me who took them... :)

But this one is (although it's not nature, I really like it):

(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i5/bronko84/Buben480.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Vita Curator on October 26, 2006, 12:27:16 AM
A couple of last shots of Autumn in Penn's Woods today as the leaves now begin to rapidly fall.

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Spoffish on October 26, 2006, 09:20:54 AM
Well, here's my little offering, taken up a mountain near Salzburg, Austria, this January. The frame is about as high as your finger is wide.
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/horsesarethe_best/Snowupclose.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on October 28, 2006, 08:13:49 PM
Three pics from Sunset Beach NC, where I was just on vacation...


(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/DunesSunset1.jpg)
Dunes Sunset 1


(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/DeerintheDunes.jpg)
While taking the sunset pictures from a walkway through the dunes to the beach, I spotted these.


(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/DunesSunset3.jpg)
Dunes Sunset 2

And one more, taken by my daughter Lindsay (who's a better photographer than I am...  :D)

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/TheIntra-CoastalWaterwayfromSunsetB.jpg)
The Intra-Coastal Waterway from Sunset Beach Bridge Oct 2006.

I really want to go and live there.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Vita Curator on October 28, 2006, 10:17:14 PM
Beautiful Mero!  I'd like to retire to the Carolina's also, I love South Carolina. Maybe one of these years.  :D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on October 30, 2006, 01:37:54 AM
Some pictures I took myself, at the zoo on Aug 24 in 2002.

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/IMG_0038.jpg)

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/IMG_0026.jpg)

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/IMG_0019.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on October 30, 2006, 01:46:20 AM
Wow, Bob! WOW!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Spoffish on October 30, 2006, 05:41:18 AM
Yes indeed... :o
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on October 30, 2006, 11:20:50 PM
I'll post some more, when I get time.  The above are direct from the camera, unedited.  I used a Canon PRO90, and a close-up adapter, as I recall. It was in a special butterfly exhibit, so there were a large number available.  You actually walked inside a large enclosure, through an "air lock".  Was pretty cool exhibit.

I got some more traditional wildlife & some "picture puzzle*" types.


_________________

* a landscape such as you might see on a puzzle.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on October 30, 2006, 11:30:26 PM
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7909/day2039ev5.jpg)

My boss took this one in Southern Alberta.  It's my desktop right now.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on October 30, 2006, 11:33:53 PM
More of my own work.

January 9, 2003, a small (4') pine tree covered in snow.  This tree was beside the driveway, at my previous house.

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/Img_0220.jpg)

Prarie Dog, at the Wichita Mountains animal preserve.  This is a wild dog, living in one of several towns at the preserve.  I was about 10' away when I took this shot. September 21, 2002.

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/IMG_0114.jpg)

As promised, here is a "picture puzzle" composition. As with the previous 2, this is completely unedited - I composed it "live" from the camera's viewscreen (digital, natch).  This is from the center of a stream, in the Wichita Animal preserve (in SSW Oklahoma).  To get this shot, I carefully walked out on a water-pipe that crossed the stream.  When I was sure I was balanced, I lifted up my camera, and composed the shot.  This is the best of the bunch (I always shoot a series, for each "set up").  Same trip as the prarie dog, Sep 21, 2002

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/IMG_0107.jpg)


Edit:  Nice, Agujjim!  Canada has some of the best landscapes on Earth, I think.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bluenose on October 31, 2006, 05:41:42 AM
Just a little photo I took a couple of months back in my back yard.  It just appeals to me.

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/Raindrops640.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Vita Curator on October 31, 2006, 12:21:49 PM
Beautiful everyone, simply beautiful!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Gloria The Camel on November 03, 2006, 07:58:24 AM
Here are just a few ive been taking, not all of nature though =P

(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r286/gloria-the-camel/lizardcrop1.jpg)

(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r286/gloria-the-camel/IMGP0145.jpg)

(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r286/gloria-the-camel/IMGP0181.jpg)

(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r286/gloria-the-camel/paddybackflipcrop2.jpg)

I only just started using my new camera (Pentax *ist DL) so i havnt got very many good ones.

P.s. sorry they are so huge.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on November 03, 2006, 03:14:40 PM
Love the bee tree shot!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Gloria The Camel on November 03, 2006, 10:12:54 PM
Everyone loves the bee shot...But no one wows over the backflip! It was off a 2 meter concrete block as well! Well I wowed at it anyway...
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on November 03, 2006, 10:23:19 PM
Backflips are more commendable once landed ;)

The shot's good though... super-clear even though the flipper must have been zipping through the air!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Gloria The Camel on November 04, 2006, 06:16:07 AM
Quote from: Agujjim on November 03, 2006, 10:23:19 PM
Backflips are more commendable once landed ;)

But If I took the picuter after he landed it wouldn't be very exciting at all now would it?! Thats just taking a picture of someone standing still!

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bluenose on November 05, 2006, 04:26:13 AM
Arrive safely up at Brookville.  Alister (my friend who kindly allows me to take over his kitchen when I am up here) has to put up with this view every day:

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/Alisterview640.jpg)

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/Alisteverandahview640.jpg)

We went for drive this morning, and oh dear, had to stop off at alocal winery and stock up on some of the deliciouys wines, it was a dirty job, but there was no one else around to do it.  Anyway on the way home found something growing in a tree on the side of the road, took a photo but it did not come out well with the sky behind, but we did find a bit of the plant on the ground and it is beautiful

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/Oddplantbit640.jpg)

As Alister says "its hell in the bush!"

Bluenose
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bluenose on November 22, 2006, 12:12:56 PM
Rainbows are so hard to capture in a photo.  Great shot Vita!

I was having a look in my garden this evening and found this plant in flower for the first time.  what a lovely and fascinating thing!

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/InFlower640.jpg)

Here is a close up showing the fine detail

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/InFlowercloseup2640.jpg)

Sibling Bluenose
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: goat starer on November 22, 2006, 02:12:58 PM
my favorite photo was taken when I did not have a proper camera with me so it is unfortunately shot with a 1mp digital camera on a nokia phone. I still love it  for the composition and colour though.....

(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l42/anthonywad_2000/Image2862.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on November 29, 2006, 09:01:43 PM
Here's an even fuzzier phone picture, this time of Kings College Chapel in the Cambridge November sunshine this afternoon. You'll notice that in the best traditions of dodgy photography I've lopped off the tops of the turrety bits. I'll try and do some better ones with a real camera before long.

(http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h119/osborn_2006/kings.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on November 29, 2006, 09:16:12 PM
On that one with the tree -
Resolution be damned, beauty is beauty!  :)

I've set that as my wallpaper at work! (hope you don't mind)  :D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on November 29, 2006, 09:26:18 PM
Actually, I think it's better for the lack of resolution!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: goat starer on November 30, 2006, 10:40:15 AM
thanks chaps that is very kind! It does have a certain fuzzy lovliness...
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on November 30, 2006, 09:23:17 PM
I rather like it, too.

Mine, from this morning at school. A leaf that didn't turn brown from the frost.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/Picture006.jpg)

Another morning shot. A plant in the school green house.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/Picture005.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on December 02, 2006, 04:38:58 AM
That second picture is particularly awesome.  8)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 02, 2006, 09:49:39 PM
Thank you. ;D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on December 11, 2006, 12:52:35 AM
Quote from: anon1mat0 on October 12, 2006, 06:42:14 PM
I was thinking that we could have a thread for nice or interesting pictures.

As an example, last night while driving home from my rehearsal I saw the moon in a redish color that caught my attention. Once I got home I pulled my camera (Dimage Z5) and took a few pictures of it. Sadly it was more yellowish by the time I took them but still nice, I think (perhaps a bit overexposed?). For the inclined these are the specs: ASA100, F4.5, 1/10s (with a tiny tripod and temporizer).
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/YMoonSm.jpg)

Hi Anon,

I fixed part of the problem with zoomgallery by upgrading to RC3.  I added your picture to the nature gallery as a test.  I hope you don't mind.  If anybody is interested in putting there pictures in any gallery here just give it a try.  Unfortunately I can't seem to upload with FireFox but IE6 works. *sigh*

MB
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on December 11, 2006, 05:20:40 PM
My grey cat, Galileo:

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/PICT0005.jpg)

My black cat, Samantha:

(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/PICT0022.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on December 12, 2006, 12:48:38 AM
I made a new gallery for pets.  I put your cats in there Bob.  Hope that's okay.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on December 12, 2006, 04:07:35 AM
Quote from: MentalBlock996 on December 12, 2006, 12:48:38 AM
I made a new gallery for pets.  I put your cats in there Bob.  Hope that's okay.

That's fine - if you want to delete the originals (above) and put a link to the gallery instead, that's okay too.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on December 12, 2006, 04:17:26 AM
If I wasn't so lazy I would.  ;D

MB
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 12, 2006, 09:47:16 PM
My kitty hath no pics on my flash drive, but more then enough on my dA.

A few of my new one. Afraid they're all a little blurry, since my prescription on my glasses is wearing out, but I like them anyway.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/Leaves002-1.jpg)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/Leaves003.jpg)

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on December 13, 2006, 02:43:46 PM
Wow... Kanaloa, you take amazing photos.   :o

Here are a few old ones of mine:

Indoor go-kart race... around 2005, I think:
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/rfac7.jpg)

Long exposure stars from a camping trip in... 2000, I think:
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/stars.jpg)

Dario Franchitti at the Toronto Molson Indy:
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/dario.jpg)

The 2003 Black Bear Rally in Dorset, Ontario:
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/catton.jpg)

Karter at a club race in Waterloo, Ontario, in 2003:
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/1_16.jpg)


I didn't realized it when I chose the photos, but they've all got sort of a "swooshy" feeling to them, don't they?

Edit

Here's one more - it was my first real attempt at monkeying with a print in the darkroom:
(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/kent.jpg)

When the photo was taken, the lighting was really varied, so I had to dodge and burn  (http://www.aapguild.org/darkroom_techniques.htm) the print to get the person and the water to all turn out properly.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 13, 2006, 10:44:56 PM
Thank you! I hated dodging and burning when I took photo. And I like the swooshy feeling, very nice.

More things I played with. Just color and saturation, though. And contrast, too, I think.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/Leaves004.jpg)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/Leaves005-1.jpg)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/Leaves005.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on December 18, 2006, 09:51:47 PM
Here's a couple taken about twenty minutes apart. They both have, to me, a feeling of incredible peacefulness.
The more I look at this seagull one, the better I like it...

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/ASeagullsLife.jpg)

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/BeachSunset.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on December 21, 2006, 04:56:10 PM
I've moved the discussion of seagulls which used to follow this post into 'Miscellaneous Discussion' under the Topic 'Seagulls'.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on December 28, 2006, 07:48:47 PM
Nice pictures. I really like that second one. Very peaceful.

Here are more of mione, from a bird watching expidition with my mother to a local ponding basin.
Those are buffleheads, according to my mother, and the other two are an egret and a night heron, respectively.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/birdwatching001.jpg)

I got a little trigger happy afterwards.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/birdwatching006.jpg)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/birdwatching008.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on December 30, 2006, 06:25:25 PM
Here's another. Taken by my daughter, processed by me...

Primaeval Tennessee
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/PrimaevalTennessee.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on December 30, 2006, 06:31:38 PM
And one of my Granddaughter...
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/0e8307fb.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on January 04, 2007, 05:42:39 PM
Here are some from our trip to Key West:

(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/HPIM0586.jpg)
link here (http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/HPIM0586.jpg)


(http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/HPIM0576.jpg)
link here (http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q110/lambicus/HPIM0576.jpg)
Hmm... the right side is getting cut off.  A question to those of you who have posted thumbnails that expand when you click them: how do you do that?

Edit: added some links so you can see them non-cropped.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on January 05, 2007, 02:04:25 AM
Very nice!
:mine! Mine! Mine!:

Was near a dam recently, got pictures. Here then are. Pretty all year round, if hazy this last time.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/LostLakeJan2007011.jpg)

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/LostLakeJan2007002.jpg)

I was also there in April of last year, and it was very pretty. Flooded with run-off from the mountains.
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/dorkanese/Reflections_by_dorkanese.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on January 05, 2007, 07:20:56 PM
Lambi...  click the + next to 'Additional Options' and upload the files to do the expandable thumbnail thingie.

The upshot is that they come right off your h/d; however, I suspect this eats up more server space than the [img] method.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on January 16, 2007, 08:37:38 PM
Let's try this with a small one.

This is me.  No, I'm not on the bike.  I'm the guy in white down at the bottom of the photo.

Edit: Hey!  It worked!  How about that!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bluenose on January 31, 2007, 05:00:17 AM
A couple of photos I have taken in my garden over the last week or so.


A dragon fly (unknown species) that has just emerged from its nymph case after climbing out onto a rock in my pond.

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/Dragonfly28Jan07-640.jpg)

A southern brown tree frog Litoria ewingi that I found sitting in a grevillea on a wet(ish) day.  It was about 15 mm (5/8 in) long.

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/BrownTreeFrog20Jan2007-zoomin-640.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Vita Curator on February 01, 2007, 02:54:50 AM
WOW!  That picture of the dragonfly is amazing!!!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bluenose on February 01, 2007, 03:13:27 AM
Thank you!  I must say I was pretty happy with it myself!  if you look closely you will see that it has not yet fully deployed its wings - there are small lumps along the leading edge of the outer parts of the wings.  They had dissapeared when we saw it later on.

Actually a little later on we found the dragonfly lying on its side on one of the nardoo leaves with one wing on the water surface.  it obviously did not have the strength to break the surface tension, so Margot got a stick and gently lifted it onto a rock at the edge of the pond and about 10 minutes later, after it had diried off, it flew away.  By that time it had coloured up to a beautiful combination of brown and blue, but I did not have the camera handy then.  Still it made us feel good to help the little critter on its way.

Sibling Bluenose
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on February 01, 2007, 06:50:08 PM
Quote from: Bluenose on February 01, 2007, 03:13:27 AM
Thank you!  I must say I was pretty happy with it myself!  if you look closely you will see that it has not yet fully deployed its wings - there are small lumps along the leading edge of the outer parts of the wings.  They had dissapeared when we saw it later on.

Actually a little later on we found the dragonfly lying on its side on one of the nardoo leaves with one wing on the water surface.  it obviously did not have the strength to break the surface tension, so Margot got a stick and gently lifted it onto a rock at the edge of the pond and about 10 minutes later, after it had diried off, it flew away.  By that time it had coloured up to a beautiful combination of brown and blue, but I did not have the camera handy then.  Still it made us feel good to help the little critter on its way.

Sibling Bluenose

Most dragonflys are insect-predators.  So, I like'em--yes I do.

EAT those other annoying-to-human insects! Go, baby!  ;D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on April 01, 2007, 05:25:54 PM
I do like the dragonfly and the little frog. He's cute.

I have been playing with my camera since I've been off.
(http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w319/kanaloa_squidly/Rain1.jpg)
After a rain storm in January.
(http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w319/kanaloa_squidly/Rain2.jpg)

Spring in my yard.
(http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w319/kanaloa_squidly/flowers013v2.jpg)
(http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w319/kanaloa_squidly/flowers017.jpg)

My city's court house. I was there for a mocktrial tournament, and had to have this shot.
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/kanaloa.the.squidly/Courthouse/photo#5027188794531784802"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/image/kanaloa.the.squidly/RcQpkszkKGI/AAAAAAAAAAg/P8UjbKAZvF4/s144/pictures%20012.2.jpg" /></a>
(http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w319/kanaloa_squidly/flowers021.jpg)

Assorted birds that spend time around here.
(http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w319/kanaloa_squidly/grherondetail1-07.jpg)
(http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w319/kanaloa_squidly/gregret12-28-06.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on April 04, 2007, 07:48:22 PM
Oh! Lovely!

I particularly love the extreme close-ups of plants. Very Georgia O'Keefe.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on April 04, 2007, 08:40:36 PM
That one red flower (nasturtium?) picture reminds me of some fractal art I have up in the apartment...

Hmm, used to be around online but I can't find it.  :P
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on April 05, 2007, 03:09:03 PM
Thank you! I finally figured out how to use the the macro function on my digital camera. Yes, that's a nasturtium. I always like Georgia O'Keeffe.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on June 01, 2007, 09:07:07 PM
I was at one my local parks, and up on a hillside, right below a caveish sort of crevice.

(http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x283/diana_malvea/sunset2.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on October 16, 2007, 08:47:34 PM
Y'arrgghhh!

I tooks this one last week in Ocean City, Maryland:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aphos on December 08, 2007, 05:54:32 AM
Playing around with Google, I discovered this picture...

(http://www.aphos.org/aphosban.png)

I swear...I have no connection with these people.  Still, interesting.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Chatty on December 10, 2007, 04:59:38 AM
Um, invisible people?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on December 10, 2007, 05:07:20 AM
Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.aphos.org/

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on August 27, 2008, 02:07:10 PM
As promised some phots from the Dr Who exhibition at Earl's Court.

Some scary little monsters:

(http://gallery.me.com/antonyroberts/100022/IMG_0017/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/antonyroberts/100022/IMG_0023/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/antonyroberts/100022/IMG_0038/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/antonyroberts/100022/IMG_0040/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/antonyroberts/100022/IMG_0044/web.jpg)

Inside the Tardis:

(http://gallery.me.com/antonyroberts/100022/IMG_0043/web.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on August 27, 2008, 05:00:47 PM
Cool, Bart! That's one I'd like to see. (And the little monsters are cute, too.)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on August 27, 2008, 08:40:02 PM
As chance has it, I just come from the Film Museum Berlin which is in possession of the largest collection of Harryhausen originals in the world.
Unfortunately some #!"§$% got the idea that the space could be better used for expanding the post-WW2 German film section of the permanent exhibition (as if there were any post-WW2 German movies worth mentioning to fill the space). So, the "artificial worlds" section will close permanently at the end of the month and the Harryhausen collection liquidated and dispersed (otherwise in a few years, when hopefully sanity returns, the decision could be reversed).
:taz: :puke: :headbang: :stick: :desperate: :fit: :wantit: :aargh: :eeksign: :explode: :skullXbones: :axe:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on August 28, 2008, 04:50:53 AM

:dalek:   NICE PICTURES BART   :dalek:


:dalek:   THE SMALL MONSTERS ARE NOT SO SCARY   :dalek:


:dalek:   WHO IS THE ALIEN IN THE T-SHIRT   :dalek:

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on August 28, 2008, 03:07:46 PM
Don't you just love those Daleks though...The Black Spot bought a Four Foot high inflatable one...er, for his kids of course.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on September 18, 2008, 06:11:15 AM
Recent picture, of which I will post more later.
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp2/TheTokenAmerican_Bliss/dragonfly2.png)

And I totally forgot to upload my pictures from my trip, I think. These are from last summer and are almost all of the South West.
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp2/TheTokenAmerican_Bliss/Nightfall_by_dorkanese.png)
Lincoln county, NM
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp2/TheTokenAmerican_Bliss/Mountain_Thunder_by_dorkanese.jpg)
Colorado, near Durango, I think.
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp2/TheTokenAmerican_Bliss/Riot_of_Colors_by_dorkanese.jpg)
Near Lake Powell
(http://i392.photobucket.com/albums/pp2/TheTokenAmerican_Bliss/Mesa_Verde_by_dorkanese.jpg)
Mesa Verde NPark, Colorado.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Darlica on September 19, 2008, 01:51:41 AM
They are all beautiful pictures but the Dragonfly is fantastic! :)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on September 20, 2008, 12:09:29 AM
Thanks! I spent ages chasing the dang bug to get that. :D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Chatty on September 29, 2008, 07:25:30 AM
The chain link fence takes on an abstract feel that bolsters the fragility of the dragonfly. 'S beautiful.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on September 29, 2008, 02:40:43 PM
I like the landscape pictures...I am in love with the US landscape after all the Western's I've watched over the years...makes you want to saddle up and pack a bag full of beans and coffee.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on September 29, 2008, 05:07:21 PM
Thank you!
And Bart, me too, minus the Westerns (never been much for those). I drove through the area years and years ago, and had forgotten how spectacular it is. :)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on September 30, 2008, 11:48:27 AM
Well seeing as it's a bit far to gallop on my mustang with my bag of beans and coffee, I'll have to make do with Hampton Court:

(http://web.mac.com/antonyroberts/iWeb/twerps_dwyle_flonking/Photos_files/hamp_court1.jpg)

1. The Clock Court
2. Costumes from the film 'The other Boleyn Tart'.
3. More costumes
4.. Yet more threads.
5. Can anyone guess what this is?...clue: It isn't what it seems.
6. The Privy Garden
7. The horrible William & Mary bit of the palace that that idiot Christopher Wren built.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on September 30, 2008, 12:09:45 PM
Quote from: Black Bart on September 30, 2008, 11:48:27 AM
5. Can anyone guess what this is?...clue: It isn't what it seems.

1 Tudor bike rack?
2 Off-suite outside khazi?
3 Observatory for studying worms?

Err, I'm running out of ideas.


P.S. Nice the way they use beheaded mannequins for the costumes. Gives them that authentic Tudor feel.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on September 30, 2008, 02:40:28 PM
Quote from: beagle on September 30, 2008, 12:09:45 PM
Quote from: Black Bart on September 30, 2008, 11:48:27 AM
5. Can anyone guess what this is?...clue: It isn't what it seems.

1 Tudor bike rack?
2 Off-suite outside khazi?
3 Observatory for studying worms?

Err, I'm running out of ideas.


P.S. Nice the way they use beheaded mannequins for the costumes. Gives them that authentic Tudor feel.

:ROFL:

Tudor bike rack is an excellent suggestion...no, it's actually a BBC set for the forthcoming dramatisation of Little Dorrit.  It's meant to be a Skittle Alley in Marshalsea Prison...Too good for em I say...Skittles? A good thrashing is all the riff raff understand.   Even close up it looks real...a testament to the skill of the BBC's drama department (or these days whichever outside company they've contracted to do the work).
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on September 30, 2008, 03:41:10 PM

I thought it was the secret passage to the library.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on October 01, 2008, 02:36:36 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 30, 2008, 03:41:10 PM

I thought it was the secret passage to the library.

That's genius...Real Time Cluedo played out at Hampton Court...the headless corpses would be a bit of a give away if Henry VIII was playing though.

Dexter with The Chainsaw in the Great Maze.

Harold Shipman with the Pills in the Privy Chamber

Black Bart with the Cutlass in the Royal Barge
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on October 01, 2008, 04:54:40 PM

Peter Sutcliffe with the Hammer in the Workshop.

Steve Wright with the Prostitute in the Bed Chamber.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on October 01, 2008, 05:55:10 PM
There used to be a song which ended every verse with:

"..., The day that good King Henry got his Hampton Court".

Fortunately for you I've forgotten the rest of it.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on October 01, 2008, 11:44:17 PM
For those who are puzzled see here (http://www.yellowporcupine.com/travel/london.shtml).

:catroll:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on October 02, 2008, 03:48:07 PM
Quote from: beagle on October 01, 2008, 05:55:10 PM
There used to be a song which ended every verse with:

"..., The day that good King Henry got his Hampton Court".

Fortunately for you I've forgotten the rest of it.

:ROFL:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on October 02, 2008, 03:51:13 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on October 01, 2008, 11:44:17 PM
For those who are puzzled see here (http://www.yellowporcupine.com/travel/london.shtml).

:catroll:

Who are these upstarts?...I've taken it upon myself to bring the treasures of London to the American Public's attention. 

Ha ha...They left out Mogden Sewage Works and Clapham Junction Train Station (The World's Busiest Railway Junction).
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on October 03, 2008, 07:25:40 AM
You have to keep some of the best bits for the locals.

Quote from: Black Bart
Who are these upstarts?...

You're being cruel oh piratey one. Seem a nice couple, though from the unbridled enthusiasm I suspect they may have matching rose-tinted spectacles, or are London tourist board double-agents.

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on October 03, 2008, 04:12:51 PM
You used to be a darn good pirate yourself once...

Anyway, here's the link to Mogden sewage works in case you are thinking of planning a visit:

http://www.mogden.org.uk/ (http://www.mogden.org.uk/)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on October 03, 2008, 10:33:19 PM
Quote from: Black Bart on October 03, 2008, 04:12:51 PM
You used to be a darn good pirate yourself once...

I am a darn good pirate, it's the ships that got small.

Quote
Anyway, here's the link to Mogden sewage works in case you are thinking of planning a visit:

Where I work  ("geek central") is located close to a similar facility, so you'll excuse me if I don't make a special trip.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Black Bart on October 06, 2008, 03:56:59 PM
Geek Central?  That's sounds like a similar establishment to the Public Records Office at Kew, where The Black Spot and Captain Cronan both work...a terrifying thought I know!   I'm not going anywhere near the place even if I find out I have relatives in the Doomsday Book.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on March 26, 2009, 03:35:20 AM
Anybody ever seen one of these?

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on March 26, 2009, 01:45:07 PM
Where did you find it? It's a very cool moth!
:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on March 26, 2009, 04:12:22 PM
It was flying around my window outside in Cartwright Oklahoma.  It was so big I thought it was an albino bat.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on March 26, 2009, 05:24:05 PM
It is a luna moth. My favorite kind!

You had one flying around at this time of year?!?

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on March 26, 2009, 07:34:06 PM
I guess it was looking for a tic.  Get it?  Luna-tic? :mrgreen:

Yes, it was fly around by the lamp.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Darlica on March 26, 2009, 09:09:01 PM
Pretty!

I've only seen one before, it was in the form of a tattoo. ;D

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on March 26, 2009, 09:21:56 PM
Duje- seriously- at this time of year?!? That's not normal.

A Medicine Wheel Person would say you've just been tagged by a spirit guide. Oooooooooh... What does that say about you? Luna moths are nocturnal, the adults have no mouths and they mate for four hours! Hubba hubba!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on March 26, 2009, 10:04:47 PM
What does that say about my spirit guide? I have a big mouth and I go for like four minutes. :mrgreen: 
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on March 27, 2009, 03:37:14 PM
Quote from: MentalBlock996 on March 26, 2009, 10:04:47 PM
What does that say about my spirit guide? I have a big mouth and I go for like four minutes. :mrgreen: 
It says, my friend...

Shut your mouth and fuck like a Luna-tic.

Next question...

:ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on March 27, 2009, 03:50:52 PM
ROFLMAO!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on March 27, 2009, 05:08:57 PM
 :ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :nervous:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: anthrobabe on April 04, 2009, 12:19:46 PM
A Luna Moth--- they are beautiful--

as to the rest I second Opsanus
:dontknow:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on August 17, 2009, 10:18:26 PM
Seen on Vacation...

(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/Sunset%20Beach%202009/Classic4x6.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on August 18, 2009, 08:26:01 AM
Your picture is not there (wrong link?)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on August 18, 2009, 06:59:07 PM
OOPS. Fixed it now. Silly Mero!  ::)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 18, 2009, 11:27:14 PM
Is everybody else in the water?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on August 19, 2009, 02:21:20 AM
That's not me. They came and plonked themselves directly in front of the 13 of us on an otherwise empty beach.  :P

We didn't care much (more amused than annoyed), but after a while, I saw that shot and thought 'Classic!'.  :D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on August 19, 2009, 11:02:26 PM
Quote from: The Meromorph on August 19, 2009, 02:21:20 AM
They came and plonked themselves directly in front of the 13 of us on an otherwise empty beach.  :P

Why DO people do that?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 20, 2009, 01:40:04 AM
I'm imagining a conversation like this:

-"There's no one in this beach"
-"Look! See those?"
-"I'm sure that's the best spot!"
-"Let's go there"
-"But I want to see the sea"
-"We can be on front of them"
-"Great idea!"

Etc.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on September 15, 2009, 08:34:54 PM
Maybe they were going for the "safety in numbers" swimming idea. But they could have sat beside you, instead of in front. Maybe they wanted you to watch over them.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: The Meromorph on September 16, 2009, 02:50:42 AM
I knew I should have taken my broom!  :sweepgirl:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Zan on September 30, 2009, 03:14:37 AM
Quote from: Opsanus tau on September 15, 2009, 08:34:54 PM
Maybe they were going for the "safety in numbers" swimming idea. But they could have sat beside you, instead of in front. Maybe they wanted you to watch over them.

(http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr126/TGRR/andreadoria.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on September 30, 2009, 02:15:11 PM

Nice one, Zan.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Zan on September 30, 2009, 04:20:16 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 30, 2009, 02:15:11 PM

Nice one, Zan.

I am an inveterate photoshop junkie. Crackheads make fun of me for it, and tweakers look at me as if I'm one of their own.

:-\
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bluenose on October 19, 2009, 12:46:12 AM
Went to the Healesville Sanctuary yesterday,  the Tassie devils were out!

:taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz:

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/Tasmaniandevil.jpg)

:taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz:

(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/Tasmaniandevilpooped.jpg)

:taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz: :taz:

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on October 19, 2009, 02:57:35 AM
I love the pics, particularly the second one. Did you use a high zoom lens or you were dangerously close to the little monster? ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bluenose on October 19, 2009, 12:27:28 PM
I use a by today's standards relatively old 3.2 megapixel Fuji camera with a 6 x zoom.  Nothing special.  The sleeping devil was probably only about 5 or 6 metres away, the other would have been maybe 15 - 20 metres.

Mrs Blue works at the sanctuary as a volunteer guide and she says that according to the keepers the Tassie devils actually have a very sweet nature most of the time - the exceptions being at feeding time or during the breeding season.  They really are not dangerous to humans, despite their blood curdling calls when fighting.

Actually, it's their fighting that is the problem with the facial tumour disease.  The cancer is spread when the devils fight and bite each other fighting over food.  Apparently the cancer is all genetically identical and the scientists thin it probably arose in one devil some years ago and was spread from then by physical contact.  Weird.  The devils at the sanctuary are part of a major program to establish breeding refuge populations of disease free devils as an insurance policy against their becomeing extinct in the wild.  There is a lot of effort being put into trying to come up with a long term solution to save the devils, I can only hope it succeeds.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on October 19, 2009, 01:51:27 PM
I hear they also bite during mating and since the bites are in the face, that's where the tumor arises. Iirc it's not the tumor that kills them directly but it blocks them from eating when it grows, so they starve.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Jayna on October 19, 2009, 06:10:45 PM
Poor little things! They are so cute.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on October 19, 2009, 10:47:40 PM
They are adorable! Thanks for posting the photos, Blue. I don't think I've ever seen a live Tasmanian Devil.

And I LOVE Zan's postcard! May we please post it in our home page Museum? Especially if we can remember how?

Zan- can you see the Museum section at the top of the sidebar?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 19, 2010, 07:38:28 PM
I am a keen (if unskilled) photographer.  Last summer I was asked by a charity for people with learning disabilities, for which I am a regular volunteer, to run a 12-week photography course.  The pupils soon started doing some good stuff.  Here is one by a young man with Down's syndrome.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/19thJune033.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on January 20, 2010, 07:05:50 AM
Nice. Looks like the white one (I'm not very good at technical cow terms) is head of the escape committee.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 20, 2010, 03:20:48 PM
Quote from: beagle on January 20, 2010, 07:05:50 AM
Nice. Looks like the white one (I'm not very good at technical cow terms) is head of the escape committee.
It's creating a diversion while the ones to its left dig an escape tunnel.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Pachyderm on January 20, 2010, 06:37:39 PM
The one at the back is nonchalantly dropping the tunnel diggings by the river. I suspect it's even whistling....
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on January 20, 2010, 08:42:10 PM
Pity the one on the motor bike is hidden by the tree.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 21, 2010, 09:04:38 AM
You mean Steer McQueen?  ;D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on January 21, 2010, 12:56:28 PM
Yep. On the run from the cowmmandant.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Pachyderm on January 21, 2010, 03:00:08 PM
Aren't we a witty bunch, to get in so many moo-vie references?






Sorry....
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 21, 2010, 04:45:38 PM
I never herd a worse lot of puns.  Somebody, give us anudder one.
:YaY:
Swatopluk, du mußt dir jetzt Moohe geben, einen deutschsprachigen Kuhlauer zu finden. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on January 22, 2010, 10:01:52 AM
Es schreit der Lagerchef im Wahn:
"Alles leer wo gestern Rinder war'n"
Ruft (110) bei den Bullen an:
"Schaft mir die Viecher wieder ran!"
Bellt Hasso (Chef der Polizei):
"Die Hühner sattelt 1,2,3!
Wir könn'n sie sicher noch einholen
bevor die Schweine sind in Polen."
Gans will die Sach' jedoch nicht klappen
Am Ent' gehn 3 ihm durch die Lappen.
Auf Schusters Rappen kehrt man heim
(und schifft nach Kuhweid schnell sich ein)

(OK, the first one is a rather inexpertly stolen idea from Max Raabe)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 22, 2010, 01:39:56 PM
:ROFL: :ROFL:

More types of animals!  This could get out of hand!
'Schaft mir die Viecher wieder ran', indeed. I dunno...
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 24, 2010, 09:41:11 AM
This one was taken by another of our learning-difficulties participants.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/12june026.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on January 26, 2010, 07:29:28 AM
Saw a book once of all the Green Man carvings (amongst various other gargoyles) carved into British religious buildings. Nice to know the stonemasons kept the old ways going against the modern stuff.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 26, 2010, 11:01:56 AM
Yes, that's the west door of  Leominster Priory, a famous green-man place.  Did you recognise it?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on January 26, 2010, 01:05:01 PM
No, just assumed it was a religious building from the architecture.  You could have fooled me with a picture of an old college building, but then most of those were religious until they they fell into disrepute...

There's a carving just like it at our own dear monastery (turn left at the Hall of Bright Carvings, carry on past the Den of Iniquity and Observatory for Studying Worms, and it's above the dustbins near the bowling alley). It always reminds me of Alistair Darling.

Leominster looks interesting. I see they had the last active ducking stool. (the feminists here made us take ours out, though strangely the stocks remain).
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 26, 2010, 02:17:21 PM
This is yer actual ducking stool, taken by the same disabled man on the same day.
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/DuckingStool_2.jpg)
I shall make a point of visiting the carvings you mention.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on January 26, 2010, 03:07:17 PM
Interesting that the placard at the left is printed in a font that's stereotypical for Western movies (e.g. on Wanted - Dead or not alive posters) :mrgreen:.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 26, 2010, 04:04:35 PM
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/NOTICE.jpg)
It is, isn't it!  It's 19th century, but I can't remember if the 1809 is the actual date it was printed.  It may refer to something else.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on January 26, 2010, 08:40:08 PM
Our ancestors had such a genius for entertainments. Sad to think we're now reduced to Big Brother and z-list celebrities eating other z-list celebrities.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on January 27, 2010, 04:16:44 AM
Quote from: beagle on January 26, 2010, 01:05:01 PM
Leominster looks interesting. I see they had the last active ducking stool. (the feminists here made us take ours out, though strangely the stocks remain).


Stocks are non-denominational ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 02, 2010, 03:47:35 PM
This portrait of Sir Humphrey Gribling was painted in 1609, two years before his long sleep.  It still hangs in the Cross Gallery at Gribling Hall.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/HUMPH.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on February 02, 2010, 09:49:47 PM
Is that the famous Van Dyck portrait?  (Unfortunately, Dick , rather than Anthony).

No wonder it's in the Cross Gallery; he looks like his patience is wearing very thin. Perhaps the artist should have let him finish his shopping list first.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 03, 2010, 09:44:53 AM
Sir Humph wants to reply:
Nay, Sirrah, ye Dutch Fellowe, whoo Paynted itt, was Mynheer Donaldus van Duck.  Soe yee were very CLOASE, to ye Truthe.
I remayne,
Yr True Frende (as I Thynke, I may now Saye),
Humphrey Gryblynge.

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 06, 2010, 06:01:37 PM
IS IT A PIG?  IS IT A POTATO?
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/SPUDPIG.jpg)

Seen at our local farm shop.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on February 06, 2010, 08:26:26 PM
Quote from: DavidH on February 06, 2010, 06:01:37 PM
Seen at our local farm shop.


If you weren't in the South West I'd suspect local to Windscale Sellafield.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 07, 2010, 11:04:15 AM
:ROFL:
But who knows what the SAS are up to?  The new Stirling Lines  is less than a mile from there.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on February 08, 2010, 07:58:39 AM
Probably best to use this

(http://ts2.mm.bing.net/images/thumbnail.aspx?q=1431024700485&id=4c347bd477addac383c68e774c96d4eb&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.roboticrevolutions.com%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2007%2f05%2firobot-warrior.jpg%5Dthis)

to peel it then.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 08, 2010, 08:51:24 AM
:ROFL:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on February 09, 2010, 07:23:31 PM
View from my balcony - the longer-exposure photo is poorly focused ('cause I'm twitchy), but I like the light.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 10, 2010, 12:52:11 AM
Very good photos, the second one looks almost surreal.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 10, 2010, 10:23:10 AM
I'd love to see those bigger.  The lights are magic.  Should I recognise the thin tower with the discy thing near the top?

EDIT: CNN Tower, Toronto?  I've been there, very briefly.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on February 10, 2010, 01:42:18 PM
Just click on them
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on February 10, 2010, 03:15:32 PM
Calgary Tower, quite a bit shorter.

btw it's the Canadian National (railway) tower, not a propaganda-broadcast point for American news. ;)


Unfortunately, when I transferred the pictures over to my computer, I deleted them from the camera, and downsized the originals without saving a larger copy. 

:oops:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 10, 2010, 04:11:08 PM
Never mind - as Swato said, they get quite a lot bigger if you click on them.  I love that view.  8)

Did you know that in many of the SF books by Jack Vance, the Holy Shin of the god Kalzibah is worshipped in Calgary?
I'm ashamed to say that's the only thing I know about it
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on February 10, 2010, 04:24:38 PM
Didn't know that - googling it seems to indicate Edmonton, though that's only a 3-hour drive and by the 35th century (or the end of the next oil boom) it's likely going to be one city.  Right now Calgary just worships the Holy Steak of the god Cattle (it's nicknamed Cowtown).

I've got an L-shaped balcony, so that's only a small slice of the 270o view (albeit the one from the living/dining room picture window).  :D  The south view is features less tall buildings and more foliage, during the 4 months we get such things.

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 10, 2010, 05:44:53 PM
Dang it, you're right, it was Edmonton.  Regrettably, that means I know nothing about Calgary at all.  Lamentable!  :'(

Edit - here's a recent shot of the view from my house.  (The snow has gone for now, but it's dark so I can't take a fresh one.)

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/View.jpg)

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on February 11, 2010, 01:00:06 AM
Our grass is green Why is that grass white?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 11, 2010, 01:55:27 AM
It's cotton candy. ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on February 11, 2010, 04:05:59 AM

Is growing cotton a secret agenda by one of our political parties to solve the economic crisis and which they plan to spring on the electorate as part of their election campaign?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 11, 2010, 09:56:51 AM
I suspect a leg-pull here.  :toadfishwink:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on February 11, 2010, 11:38:12 AM
King Cotton conspiring with the Iacobite pretenders to get back England, France and America?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 11, 2010, 01:49:49 PM
But wasn't the Euro the cornerstone of the stratagem? What will they do now that it is -allegedly- 'collapsing'?  ::) ::)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on February 11, 2010, 03:11:57 PM
Tie it to the dollar mayhaps :help: :explode:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 11, 2010, 03:29:00 PM
Just to change the subject back to a serious topic, how about this one I took this very morning at Acton Beauchamp, near here.  It's the traditional Herefordshire Grave-Cage.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Grave-cage2.jpg)

Some of these old farming folk are so tough that they'll rise from their graves if they sniff so much as a whiff of cider.  Since the Parson permanently stinks of the stuff, they have to cage the most persistent corpses in.  Otherwise you get a load of putrefying skeletons hanging round the pulpit.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 11, 2010, 03:55:18 PM
If the solution for zombies was found that long ago how is it that this isn't more widespread?
:D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on February 11, 2010, 04:18:51 PM
Looks more like a playpen for the zombie children.
Btw, what happens when zombies encounter ghouls?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 11, 2010, 08:39:18 PM
These fellows aren't zombies, just good old-fashioned country cider addicts.  They may be a bit dead and buried, but the lure of the cider is mighty powerful. Ghouls are from Worcestershire and never stray this side of Frome's Hill.
Look, this is a ghoul:
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:rk0K0wVewTFh8M:http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/jul08/Ghouls1.jpg)
This is a zombie:
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Pg4cOC053TLTPM:http://api.ning.com/files/9lgYqQ5zJkgaDJeXtQESj1STMu5zLs4BZCZXgCNY3iiRmS2D0S1J7P1qe-pQVW5CQbT0Uwbie1*V9s3U3plyEL0DGQHzDRLW/zombie.jpg)
And this is a normal dead farmer out of his grave and looking for cider:
(http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:bqyU97JdioPDhM:http://www.linlins.com/ChinaTimmons/OldFarmer.jpg)

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on February 11, 2010, 09:14:32 PM
If it wasn't for his intellectual air the last one could be a Fenland farmer. In fact they all could.

Are you sure that cage thing wasn't so the dearly departed could take his pet rabbit with him?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 11, 2010, 09:27:38 PM
Too low.
(http://www.spoenk.nl//archives/200702/were-rabbit.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on February 12, 2010, 01:25:48 AM
When young (about 3) my son went to a playgroup which let the children play in the graveyard and he thought the gravestones were there to stop the corpses escaping. I thought that was a very sensible thing to come up with for something that wouldn't make sense at that age. Shouldn't the cage be full of flowers?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on February 12, 2010, 07:21:17 AM
Quote from: DavidH on February 11, 2010, 09:27:38 PM
Too low.
(http://www.spoenk.nl//archives/200702/were-rabbit.jpg)
At least we know the cause of death now. "Mistaken for a carrot".

P.S. Does the view from your house mean you can get the monastery kitchens cheap meat? Or at least a nice rug?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 12, 2010, 08:33:15 AM
They're not actually our farmer's animals.  The Welsh bring their sheep down off the mountains and overwinter them round here, for which they pay a measly few quid.  If I nick one, they might send a war-party down to ravage the county and burn Hereford cathedral.  They've done it before.
:taz: :stick: :sheep:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on February 12, 2010, 11:49:49 AM
As long as there are more than ten and you don't pinch the best-looking ewe...
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 12, 2010, 01:29:18 PM
Reminiscences from All You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask?
:mrgreen:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 12, 2010, 03:57:24 PM
Another ancient custom round here:

THE ROASTING OF THE ENTERTAINER

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Roasting.jpg)

(We only do it if he wasn't very good.)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: beagle on February 12, 2010, 08:56:00 PM
Ducking stools, burnings, sheep. You're making me want to relocate.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on February 13, 2010, 01:17:27 AM
Thought it was Black Bart who was into sheep. ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 20, 2010, 06:23:07 PM
My grandson Cap'n B, aged 2½, who is on one of his regular weekends with us.  He is holding a toad to show his interest in the monastery (we can't find a fish).

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/CapnB-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on February 20, 2010, 11:07:35 PM
what a lovely child
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on February 21, 2010, 07:52:50 AM
Yarrrgh!   Wot a foine-lookin' lad!

Wood 'e 'appen ter be a hack wain tents ov NefYoo?    :piratetoadfish:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 21, 2010, 08:37:06 AM
The resemblance to Nefyu has been noted before - in fact, I have been asked whether it's really him!  But no.
Mind you, poor ole Nefyu is very hard done by.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 24, 2010, 07:48:51 PM
I promised one of my disabled photography pupils I'd show off one or two more of their photos to the wide world (that's you, O Siblings).
This was taken from inside Stokesay Castle, Shropshire; I think it was a credit to him.
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Stokesay1.jpg)

And this is by another profoundly disabled man:
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Tim1.jpg)

I can now hand either of these blokes a good bridge camera and let them loose at one of our events, and the'll come back with the goods.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 24, 2010, 08:03:36 PM
That is a very cool pic. Fixed focus lens?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 24, 2010, 08:43:02 PM
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 24, 2010, 08:03:36 PM
That is a very cool pic. Fixed focus lens?
No, zoom.  He had a Fuji 5200 bridge camera.  They never got on with SLRs, because they had trouble with viewfinders.  Had to use the screen.  I was disappointed about that, but didn't want to force them.  The cameras were left on auto, of course ,but they did get the hang of setting the flash (sort of) and learned to use zoom. Most of it was just composition and picking subjects.  They started from a very low level.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on February 25, 2010, 06:26:19 AM
I like them both, but the second is almost surreal.  :)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on March 04, 2010, 02:58:49 PM
After several failed attempts I was able at last to get a picture of the trainspotter Ent of Dessau.
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/vlcsnap-2010-03-04-15h41m26s37.png)(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/vlcsnap-2010-03-04-15h40m21s127.png)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/vlcsnap-2010-03-04-15h41m26s37.png
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/vlcsnap-2010-03-04-15h40m21s127.png
Unfortunately the right perspective is only possible from the moving train. From the path going by the tree the 'eye' is totally wrong and the area between the path and the train tracks looks swampy and there is also a fence.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on March 04, 2010, 03:11:19 PM
Never mind, it's clearly an Ent.  Probably old Trainbeard, I shouldn't wonder.  He's hoping one day a train will be bringing the Entwives, (dirty ole blaggard).
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on March 09, 2010, 02:36:07 PM
May I present Bruno the UBA bird caught here on camera in the evening near the agency entrance:
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Bruno_the_UBA_bird__evening.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Bruno_the_UBA_bird__evening.jpg
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on March 12, 2010, 08:01:38 PM
He's cute!  Even if he does have wheelnuts for eyes!  I think I'll dust the welder off.
---------------------------------------------------------------

Hope you like this view in Kilpeck church.  It hasn't changed substantially for over 850 years.  I find that really puts our little lifetimes in perspective.
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Kilpeck.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: stellinacadente on April 20, 2010, 11:52:59 PM
I have been playing with my camera in my hometown... here are the ruzults :D

(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z12/nouturn_photos/A%20roman%20escape-%20April%202010/IMG_2433.jpg)

(http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z12/nouturn_photos/A%20roman%20escape-%20April%202010/IMG_2215.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: ivor on April 20, 2010, 11:59:35 PM
Wow!  That's really good S!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on April 21, 2010, 12:28:52 AM
Love the giant pterodactyl in the first one.... wait.

Nevermind.

:)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 21, 2010, 01:20:01 AM
Speaking of flying beasts, we went to a small sanctuary in the city and they had among other things a falconry show:
This is the pond in front of which the show took place:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/PICT5743.jpg)
A kestrel:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/PICT5752.jpg)
A hawk in action:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/PICT5808.jpg)
And a hawk in flight:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/PICT5809.jpg)

I'd love to take pics of my 'tiels flying but in the enclosure of our apartment, without much natural light and at the speed of their flight it's very difficult to get a good one.  :-\
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on April 21, 2010, 02:30:13 AM
stelli & zono: cool pics!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on April 21, 2010, 09:24:34 AM
Some lovely photos there, ladies.  (Goes green with envy).
EDIT Stella and Zono - Sorry!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: stellinacadente on April 21, 2010, 10:01:04 AM
Zono those pics are unbelievable! well done!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 21, 2010, 11:22:25 AM
Thanks!  :D
Quote from: DavidH on April 21, 2010, 09:24:34 AM
Some lovely photos there, ladies.  (Goes green with envy).
Erm, I'm a guy...
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on April 21, 2010, 11:56:33 AM
Quote from: Sibling ZonoErm, I'm a guy...

Sorry about that, Zono!  Senior moment.  I swallowed my false teeth and was trying to fish them out with my walking stick when my Zimmer frame collapsed and I got muddled .....   :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on June 11, 2010, 03:33:35 PM
Flying squidlings are a menace in Pembrokeshire:

Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on July 15, 2010, 09:30:03 AM
Lazy old Mrs H down in a local lane, while I've climbed all the way up the bank to a gate and found it was the wrong one!  Might as well take a shot...

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/MRSH.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on July 18, 2010, 05:58:58 PM
More flying cephalopods at the kite festival.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Kites.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on November 16, 2010, 04:55:05 PM
We recently visited Deerhurst, Gloucestershire.  The church is of unknown age - there is proof that it was already there in 802.  On general historical grounds it's unlikely to be much earlier than about 680.  Of course there was a Celtic Christian church on the site before the Saxon one, and from the position near the Severn it's a fair guess that there was a pagan religious site there before that.  Much has been changed and added since but a lot of Saxon work stands unaltered.

Here's the west wall of the nave, of the earliest Saxon phase.  Call it 1,300 years old and you won't be far wrong.  I have seen even older Saxon work in the UK, but only in two places.  Ignore the pointed arches in the N and S walls - they're Early English, put in say 800 years ago.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Deerhurst_D-20.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on November 17, 2010, 04:29:51 AM
Ooh, keep lens open for Green Men if you spot any!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on November 17, 2010, 10:52:25 AM
Here's one on the West Door of Leominster Priory, taken by one of our participants whom I was tutoring in photography.  I'll dig out some more from my architecture photos; I must have quite a few.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/12june026.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on November 17, 2010, 01:20:19 PM
Lovely, thanks!

The only place I've yet to find them in Calgary is on our sewer manhole covers (foliate heads, not the disgorger type like in that photo).  I'll have to snap a photo. 
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on November 17, 2010, 06:08:51 PM
This one's on the S door at Kilpeck, of which I posted a pic a while back:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Kilpeck-D02.jpg)

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Detail.jpg)

This is at Abbey Dore, not my photo.  It was a now-displaced ceiling boss and was originally painted.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Abbey_Dore_painted_Green_Man.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on November 18, 2010, 05:26:32 AM
great pics! please post more! 
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on November 21, 2010, 02:12:36 PM
Thank'ee, Pieces!  This one's not a Green Man; we visited a friend yesterday in Wimborne Minster (town), Dorset and of course we looked at the Minster (church).

Here's Mrs H's photo from the SE:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Wimborne_Minster_W-03.jpg)

Here's looking past the lovely Early English nave to the Norman crossing tower and beyond into the Choir and Chancel (various ages).

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Wimborne_Minster_D-37.jpg)


And looking straight up the lovely crossing tower:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Wimborne_Minster_D-16.jpg)

No Green Men here, but I'll find some more for Aggie soon.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on November 22, 2010, 07:37:33 AM
What about this classic masterpiece?
(http://www.wicherngemeinde-frankfurt.de/typo3temp/pics/65a74443e9.jpg)
http://www.wicherngemeinde-frankfurt.de/typo3temp/pics/65a74443e9.jpg
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on November 22, 2010, 08:44:29 AM
^  :ROFL:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on December 05, 2010, 07:59:14 PM
Mrs H and #1 daughter between them created this for me.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/FSM_Pullover.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on December 06, 2010, 02:46:24 PM
Great stuff!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on December 08, 2010, 05:43:49 AM
Great sweater!  (jumper? what is the correct term for men's soft stretchy knit top garment where you are?)


I can't do embroidery anymore without getting 'claw hand', so I began dabbling in knitting with these in Denver. Much easier for aging hands to hold, and you'd have to work to *not* get even stitches.
(http://yarngear.com/looms/images/kniftyknitter.jpg)

I feverishly perpetrated a plain black sweater for H last winter which (bless his heart!) he carefully packed and actually took home, although he never wore it here.  :)

I've been perfecting my Doctor Who-length scarves and long sweater-sock-slippers for four years, and finally had an epiphany about how to painlessly turn a heel last weekend. As a result, I have a truly nice looking pair of slippers for my mom this Christmas, made from this super-soft variegated 'chinchilla' yarn.
(http://shop.hobbylobby.com/assets/item/thumbnail/928051.jpg)
On the other foot, mom's feet are larger than mine and I'm not sure how much this might shrink if she uses hot temps on washer & dryer, so I added 6 rows to the size that fits me. Yarn is so thick, each row is, like, 12mm!!!! So when I tried them on the final time -- yarn flippers!

I refuse to give up, though!

Knitted secondary gifts for all until I master this, no matter how many years it takes... (http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:E_RNI1d3fg12rM:http://th257.photobucket.com/albums/hh218/Cofui/Smilies/Holidays/Halloween/th_Halloween_Smiley_1.gif&t=1)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 28, 2011, 12:10:26 PM
Here's another Green Man for Aggie.  This one's on a misericord at St Lawrence's, Ludlow.  That's only about half an hour away from us and has excellent gastro-pubs, so I'll pop up there soon with the excuse of taking a good photo of it.  This is off the net - someone told me about it yesterday.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Ludlow_Green_Man_misericord-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on January 28, 2011, 03:55:30 PM
Lovely, thank you!  I look forward to your version. :)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on January 28, 2011, 07:53:20 PM
Me too!


Quote from: pieces o nine on December 08, 2010, 05:43:49 AM
I can't do embroidery anymore without getting 'claw hand', so I began dabbling in knitting with these in Denver. Much easier for aging hands to hold, and you'd have to work to *not* get even stitches.
(http://yarngear.com/looms/images/kniftyknitter.jpg)

I got one of those sets for the'Opsalette for Christmas, and she loves it! She just recently got into knitting. (Alas, my hands are not nimble enough for it, though.) She has made several hats and is now working on a scarf.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 29, 2011, 02:17:31 PM
Hello it is Mrs H here,

I was interested in the Kotty Knitter kit shown, and wondered exactly what is it.   Is it a kind of french knitting, when you lift the stitches over pins in a continuous circle.   These look much larger, sufficient to do a scarf or pair of socks.

Could you let me know as it certainly looks an interesting hobby.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on January 31, 2011, 08:05:49 AM
Mrs H:   Hello!

Yes, you wrap the yarn around the pins (like lowercase e's) on the hoops in two rounds, then lift the bottom loop over the top off the pegs, then wrap another round of loops. Repeat until you've had enough. The 'bottom' row (where you started) looks finished for most purposes, allowing you to finish off the 'top' (where you end) as you wish depending on the project. You can also bring the 'bottom' row back up onto the pegs if you want to knit in a cuff for some reason.

I have been taught to knit properly a couple times, but never stayed with it so I'm not sure about all the different stitches I see when consulting a normal pattern for ideas. For variation on the knit boards, I've done one scarf with the "e's" facing in and one with the "e's" facing out for completely different effects. Also, I find the (loops? -- not sure what the correct term is!) look too open unless using a quite heavy yarn, so I prefer to loop three rounds of "e's", lifting the bottom loop over the top two for a denser, nicer appearance on smaller articles. (I have finished one sock using a lightweight yarn with one loop over three loops -- I like the effect but as you can imagine, it's rather slow working.)

On the long boards, yarn is zigzagged back and forth from one side to the other, alternating pegs on the left-to-right pass which are filled in on the right-to-left return pass. This is done twice, then the bottom loop is lifted over the top loop off the pegs; then another left-to-right and right-to-left pass to set another row of loops. Repeat, until a flat piece of knitting in desired width and length is completed. It's pretty easy to add and drop stitches for shaping as long as you think about what you're doing. There has been a good increase in both conventional and internet instructions for making fancy stitches (including cables and basket weave effects) on both the hoops and long boards.

I find them easy and relaxing. If you take this up, I'd be interested in hearing about your projects!




~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
My paternal grandmother taught me 'hairpin lace' crocheting when I was little -- since I can chain like a fiend but find the other stitches bamboozling, I liked it, and still have the needles and frame tucked away in a sewing drawer. Have you ever done any of that work?

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qPZHEzytSCY/SnQQm7hU5II/AAAAAAAAAnc/_JKxgQ7cMiI/s400/strips_01.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 31, 2011, 08:01:34 PM
MrsH says thanks, Pieces!  She likes the look of that, but has never heard of the other thing (excuse male ignorance of details).

We thought she could join the forum and start a thread about knitting and suchlike in Open Water.  Would the ladies be interested?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Darlica on February 01, 2011, 12:32:17 AM
Of cause Mrs H is welcome!

There is already a subforum in "On The Beach" called Crafts we even have a Knitter Rollcall thread.  :D

Although it is dusty... *cough* *Cough* 
I just went in there to look it's been dormant since Nov 2008. I wonder how many squidlings may live in those yarn baskets now.  :o

;D


Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on February 01, 2011, 01:04:41 AM
Yes, certainly!  I can't claim to have any role in the knitting thread, but it'd be lovely to have her here.  The cooking threads, OTOH....

I neglected to report that we tried her pudding recipe at Christmas and it's been declared a new tradition.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on February 01, 2011, 04:45:45 AM
Yes, join --  (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzHLMEslt_uqfMnz-XrxEOWAq408IPqxOuIrFMqk6BWpttBRx55w&t=1)
it would be great to compare & contrast techniques and projects!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on February 01, 2011, 10:55:40 AM
Just stumbled on this cake (metaphorically)
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/TT0VXZPxlEI/AAAAAAAAQ6E/wH3Bq3heeSQ/s1600/aletha%2Bb.owned.cthulu%2Bpink%2Bbow.jpg)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_wGr8njEWjtI/TT0VXZPxlEI/AAAAAAAAQ6E/wH3Bq3heeSQ/s1600/aletha%2Bb.owned.cthulu%2Bpink%2Bbow.jpg
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: WendyH on February 07, 2011, 07:44:49 PM
I know one of those there pyrates wanted to know about the olde custom of ye green man.    Well we went to St Lawrence's church in Ludlow [Shropshire] yesterday where there are some wonderfully carved misericords and we found this one !!    Hope you like it.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/greenmanresizedFeb11.jpg)

We will keep our eyes out for more green men - will those from the moon count ?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 07, 2011, 07:51:49 PM
It's a truly beautiful church in the Perpendicular style (15th Century).  This one was also taken by Wendy:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Ludlow_W-07.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on February 07, 2011, 08:00:00 PM
I'm more the monkish type than a proper pirate, but I have taken a shine to Green Men.  Thank you for the picture, that's a lovely one - it looks like it's hanging as fruit from a branch.

I suppose if the man in the moon is made of green cheese, he counts - very circle-of-life.  Cheese from the milk from the green grass the cow ate, disgorging vegetation. ;)

But what of the poodle in the moon?
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2949/moondog.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 07, 2011, 08:30:22 PM
Quoteit looks like it's hanging as fruit from a branch.

Yes, all 28 misericords are carved like that, in pairs hanging from a central figure.  This is the full green man stall:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Ludlow_D-18.jpg)

And here's one of the others.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Ludlow_D-15.jpg)
Here  (http://www.misericords.co.uk/ludlow.html) are the whole lot.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on February 07, 2011, 08:44:22 PM
Hey, Griffin's in there. ;D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on April 13, 2011, 12:24:31 PM
(http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/5229665560_78135807bd_z.jpg?w=560&h=368)
http://cuteoverload.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/5229665560_78135807bd_z.jpg?w=560&h=368
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on April 15, 2011, 12:24:44 PM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YOjDqHo411M/TaDgC27vyAI/AAAAAAAATio/-iAXrQD6q-8/s1600/c.%2Bmer.ow.mystery.jpg)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YOjDqHo411M/TaDgC27vyAI/AAAAAAAATio/-iAXrQD6q-8/s1600/c.%2Bmer.ow.mystery.jpg
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 15, 2011, 07:31:24 AM
A few days ago I heard a rattling outside my window in the very late evening and to my surprise I found this fellow sorting through the trash. Quite difficult to take a photo when the screen simply shows black, so I could not zoom and only hope that the little rascal was a) in frame and b) visible. later I found that there was more than one. On the oak tree on the other side of the lawn there was a whole group of three or four youngsters. Too far to get them even with flashlight in the dark.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 15, 2011, 07:36:12 AM
I had to cut the photos to size (them being 12 MP)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 15, 2011, 07:46:03 AM
Here it is half way over the lawn nibbling at whatever it took from the trash.
I am actually surprised that anything is visible at all.
(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1327)

Well, at my laptop I can see the animal, on this monitor I can't.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on August 08, 2011, 05:16:16 AM
I posted a couple pics of V's landscaping over in gardening. Here are a couple of my space:

Looking towards post-rain, walk-out patio (new garden space pic is just to the right) through part of my library. Oooooh, shiny new tiles and such after the Great Pipe Breaking Disaster back in March. Happily, no book casualties that time! That's a great whopping 'rain stick' on the left, which has moved with me everywhere; it has a really lovely sound.

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh27/pieces_o_nine/house/wA.jpg)



Livingroom/study in my part of house, taken looking back the other way from above. I am getting ready to overhaul those c1930 throne chairs again; springs weakened in one in the last move. I cannot really see myself tying springs: planning to change it to a solid wooden seat with separate cushions, and perhaps a hidden drawer concealed in the old spring boxes.

Not seen in this photo:  Dom lying on his back, watching television (all that on wall facing the fireplace) upside down, as is his wont.

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh27/pieces_o_nine/house/wB.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on August 08, 2011, 05:41:55 PM
What?  No clutter?  ::)

Way too neat for the loikes of me, I'm afeard...

:)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 08, 2011, 06:12:00 PM
I was thinking the same watching both your three screens and Pieces' neat arrangement. Mine is so bad I though of placing a picture of my three screens and thought better of it just by gazing to the unholy clutter on the desk...
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on August 09, 2011, 12:03:07 AM
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 08, 2011, 06:12:00 PM
I was thinking the same watching both your three screens and Pieces' neat arrangement. Mine is so bad I though of placing a picture of my three screens and thought better of it just by gazing to the unholy clutter on the desk...

Oooh, then it worked. 

:D

I carefully composed those shots to avoid showing the clutter on my desk, and to be sure?  I filled up a bucket of loose miscelaneous cables... >>filled<< I say, that had been lying on my table-- then I scooted what was left to one side, when the table was exposed....  :ROFL:

If I'd permitted adequate light, you'd have seen the cluttered shelf behind monitor 3 (the left-hand one)..... sneaky, ain't I?

______________________________


Here are some shots of my latest cat playground-- a literal high-way for my cat to play on.

Here's Galileo enjoying being in a superior position to me, perched on his overhead highway:
(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/IMG_20110808_173119.jpg)

Here's a different angle, holding the camera high over my head, for a straight-on perspective.  Astute observers of cats will note the curved paw, indicative of pleasure (Gally was purring the whole time-- I'm paying attention to him, after all)
(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/IMG_20110808_173201.jpg)

Here's a shot of the left-hand detail, and the cat-stairs I constructed along the wall.  The bottom "rung" goes away from the wall, to a wide platform which is positioned just above my bed.  Gally can literally step off that, onto the bed (no jumping down to the waterbed, please, even though I have 1" foam anti-claw mattress pad underneath the sheets...
(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/IMG_20110808_173133.jpg)

And here's a detail of the right-hand step-- this permits easy access to the top of the bookcase, the formerly highest place to be (if you're a cat)
(http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p133/BobQuantumFaith/IMG_20110808_173144.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on August 09, 2011, 04:13:10 AM
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on August 08, 2011, 05:41:55 PM
What?  No clutter?  ::)

Way too neat for the loikes of me, I'm afeard...

:)
Why duz ye finks oi aint posted pitchers ov me studio?    :smartass:

FWIW: that's actually the *second* shot of my living room, after a quick removal of assorted cat toys, magazines, art supplies, perhaps a large-ish margarita ... heh heh heh ... while selecting pics to upload. I was to take photos for co-workers who were interested in how I had optimized my studio space as inspiration to tackle theirs. But: a couple clutter-catch-spots that I haven't found the zip to de-clutter yet. I told them I'd need a box to sweep clutter off with one hand, while shooting with the other, as I moved around the room...


QuoteHere's Galileo enjoying being in a superior position to me, perched on his overhead highway:
It's Ceiling Cat!!!!  :)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 09, 2011, 03:44:03 PM
My birds would love that arrangement (sans the cat, obviously), but that would be too unsightly for my wife. ;)

In fact one of my birds has the bad habit of stooping on the blades of the ceiling fan despite several attempts to discourage it from doing it (if he entered and the fan were accidentally on it could kill him)...
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: anthrobabe on August 09, 2011, 05:51:01 PM
I love the cat arrangement--- I just think it is great that you have them an overhead highway-- cats love being able to be above and see all.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on August 29, 2011, 09:24:48 AM
It may take some time before I can upload my own pictures from the visit to the leadership bunker of the Eastern German Navy.
Fortunately some more professional people already did.
So, this (http://einestages.spiegel.de/static/entry/warmes_grab_im_kalten_krieg/92498/bunker_tessin.html?o=position-ASCENDING&s=0&r=48&a=23305&c=1) in advance.

Oh, and here (http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,782755,00.html) is some report in English.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on August 30, 2011, 05:07:41 AM
I was struck by the oxidation on the metal door in the first shot -- it's really quite beautiful, to my eyes.  I'm always trying to achieve textures like that, and here is one in such an unexpected place.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on August 30, 2011, 07:51:41 AM
You should have seen our (calcifier) lab oven at the university after someone put a sample in that was still soaked in organic solvent. What the flames did with the outer coating was a pure work of abstract art  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on August 30, 2011, 05:50:15 PM
Those remind me of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.) series. That's soviet infrastructure to you...
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on August 31, 2011, 07:46:22 AM
No surprise there. One can find a lot of Soviet equipment in the bunker too. The gamma-ray detector that in an emergency would have locked the complex from the outer world is even still working. The bunker guides say that they don't know why the Russians did not remove it after 1990 as was their custom with 'secret' equipment, maybe they simply forgot that it was there.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on August 31, 2011, 05:42:29 PM
I was walking by this vase today and was struck by the way the light was hitting the wall. At this time of year (Autumn's coming in, here) the light becomes so interesting. I had to run and get my camera.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on September 01, 2011, 05:23:38 AM
I love the reflected light!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on September 29, 2011, 01:27:27 AM
This past Sunday we went to a butterfly park no to far from home. This place is a photographer's paradise and I took my (relatively) new camera for a spin:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7dQE3coZLnw/ToOSOozhyMI/AAAAAAAAEvc/uucMn8quC_g/DSC01027.JPG)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fmVnlIAU4Os/ToOSQbYItYI/AAAAAAAAEvo/XYxoa_of8tk/DSC01032.JPG)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-hv_Chi9OrtM/ToOSS_hNvAI/AAAAAAAAEv8/Fvl_0inVrRc/DSC01058.JPG)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nIYAs97idCo/ToOSRgjfv2I/AAAAAAAAEv0/DcwqX85M0Es/DSC01052.JPG)
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-rA6btw3UZ7Y/ToOSYK7tqsI/AAAAAAAAEwg/vLS_Sv5wI0w/DSC01082.JPG)

Here is a link to the full album (I took more pictures but uploaded the most representative):
https://picasaweb.google.com/106627152868409907082/20110925MamaMariposas?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCLWn1tWIh_PgNQ&feat=directlink
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on September 29, 2011, 09:05:37 AM
Those are really lovely, Zono.  What camera is it?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on September 29, 2011, 02:41:17 PM
A Sony DSLR-A330, the lens I used was a 55-200 and I used a high aperture ~5.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on September 30, 2011, 04:09:59 PM
I especially like the first one, with the light falling through the leaves.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: anthrobabe on September 30, 2011, 09:56:13 PM
I am working on getting some pic of the beautiful statue and water feature here at the Otter Creek library-- it is just a grand job they did.
Fall out of your chairs when I finally get it all figured out.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on October 15, 2011, 06:19:06 PM
Do we have an expert here that can make sense of this?
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/DSCI0110.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on October 16, 2011, 03:19:38 AM
It's a picture of a badly constructed rope ladder? Or a fossil of a dinosaur's teeth with bad dental work?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on October 16, 2011, 09:04:13 AM
It's written in runes, I think the elder Futhark.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Futhark.jpg)

Or it might be a variant runic alphabet, but they're all pretty similar. Can't be bothered to transliterate it, it's not very clear.  Seems to begin: i a th ?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on October 16, 2011, 09:04:27 PM
It could be a small Kensington Stone!

:giggle:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Darlica on October 19, 2011, 01:04:28 AM
I can't see all the signs clearly.  :-\

It's hard to  judge what kind of runes the person that made this little stone intended to use.
I think I can rule out The Scandinavian Futhark aka the younger Futhark because of (among other things) the F:s.
The second sign however, is a younger Futhark U... The older looks like a upside down V.

Sign 3 and 8 are unreadable to me, sign 8 might be something out of "The futhorc" ie the Anglo-Saxon runes, but the rest is as DavidH already pointed out the elder Futhark.

To me it spells out:
I
A
?
th
U
H
I
F
?
T
A

Makes sense... no... but as usual a lot lies in the context. ;)

* living in Mälardalen which could rightly be called "Runestonevally" Runes isn't that exotic. "This"http://www.illustrata.com/pages/sigurdsristning/sigurdpano.html (http://www.illustrata.com/pages/sigurdsristning/sigurdpano.html) was literally on my back yard when I lived in Eskilstuna.   ;)


Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on October 19, 2011, 11:06:50 AM
Quote from: DarliThe second sign however, is a younger Futhark U...

Ah, yes!  Thanks, Darli, I couldn't make it out.  Having had almost nothing to do with runes, I stupidly didn't consider that the writer might not be using one of the sets we have now standardised.
I read 3 as Þ thorn and 4 as ƿ wynn (to use the A/S names - I don't know your Scandinavian ones   :D).

EDIT: http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/DSCI0110.jpg  hmmmmm......
I think I was a bit slow there.  Pieces appears to have twigged it.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on October 19, 2011, 09:00:43 PM
One L clearly turned into another U.
Chiseling is harder than it looks even on soft rock, at least that is my experience.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on November 09, 2011, 08:40:55 AM
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Skipdrasill_1.png)(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Skipdrasill_1_col4BMP.png)(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Skipdrasill_1_col2a.png)(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Skipdrasill_1_col4_w.png)
Not fully satisfied with the tree.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on November 09, 2011, 09:15:25 AM
I like it. Is it Ygdrasil?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on November 10, 2011, 09:19:52 AM
Indeed. The boat is my addition though.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on November 10, 2011, 09:23:12 AM
Somehow I didn't remember a boat among all the weird stuff round Ygdrasil.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on November 11, 2011, 08:53:35 AM
I rather like it there.    :)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on November 12, 2011, 08:19:20 AM
(Sketch of) Runestone of Skibotn (Northern Norway, near trijunction with Sweden and Finland)
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Skibotnsteinen_1.png)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on November 14, 2011, 09:46:08 AM
In comparision, this is what a fake runestone looks like
Front:
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Cthulhu_Stein_B_1a.png)
Back:
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Cthulhu_Stein_A_1.png)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 02, 2012, 08:02:11 PM
Took some shots at Bredwardine church today.  This is the blocked N doorway, no part dating later than ca 1150.  I disagree with the standard view in thinking that the basic doorway may be a lot older than that.  That door has more puzzles than most architecture I know, even round here.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Bredwardine_D-37-600.jpg)

Here's the lintel close up.  What are those figures?  The standard textbook says they're 'gods'.  ???

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Bredwardine_D-42-600.jpg)
Blocked up N doors are common and lintels in Norman arched doorways are standard, but that one looks like it was shoved in later and the quoins reinforced.  And why was the infilling done in 3 or more separate stages?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on April 25, 2012, 11:19:31 AM
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Pipe_Aston_Yew.jpg)

How do you like this fine old yew at Pipe Aston, Herefordshire.  The church in the background is about 900 years old, and there will almost certainly have been an earlier one on the site.  The tree looks likely to be over 1,000.

Strange - the yew is outside the church enclosure, which is unusual.  The boundary itself is unlikely to have moved: they are generally very ancient indeed and often pre-christian.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on April 26, 2012, 03:29:20 PM
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on January 02, 2012, 08:02:11 PM
Here's the lintel close up.  What are those figures?  The standard textbook says they're 'gods'.  ???

Blocked up N doors are common and lintels in Norman arched doorways are standard, but that one looks like it was shoved in later and the quoins reinforced.  And why was the infilling done in 3 or more separate stages?
I looked it up and found a reference to this particular N door in an ancient text that has been hidden for centuries. It says:-

In days begone did our kith and kin fight thee monsters from the deep. The Old Ones were mighty indeed, but our heroes fought valiantly, and Atlantis did fall in the battle into legend of old. Thee abominations from the deep were buried and sealed in, and thee ancient incantations spake over them in solemnity and great reverence - ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. If thee great doorway is not sealed every 1000 years, the Old Ones may rise again and escape into the world, for it is their intention to enslave us.

I don't know what it means, but it sounded important enough to share with you. I'd be careful around that doorway from now on...
:squid_robed: :cthulhu: :squid_robed:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on April 26, 2012, 06:32:00 PM
Quote from: Rolandph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Yes, we had one of those but the wheels fell off.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on April 26, 2012, 08:35:57 PM
^ :giggle:

I have many pictures i've taken, but here are a few of my favourites from various holidays for you:-

Bratislava, Slovakia 2007

(http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/8379/dsc00517fi.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/850/dsc00517fi.jpg/)

Budapest, Hungary 2007

(http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/5755/dsc00336fv.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/dsc00336fv.jpg/)

Vienna, Austria 2007

(http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6384/dsc00398ku.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/11/dsc00398ku.jpg/)

Porto, Portugal 2007

(http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/9070/dsc02796u.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/dsc02796u.jpg/)

Galicia, Spain 2007

(http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9139/dsc02620gz.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/710/dsc02620gz.jpg/) (http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/7913/dsc02881v.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/405/dsc02881v.jpg/) (http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8476/dsc02893oa.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/16/dsc02893oa.jpg/)

Navarra, Spain 2007

(http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/810/dsc03030lg.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/535/dsc03030lg.jpg/) (http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/7623/dsc03053wp.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/256/dsc03053wp.jpg/)

South Coast, England 2007

(http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/5199/dsc03100br.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/51/dsc03100br.jpg/)

They're an eclectic mix of the weird, or just taken at the right moment. I have plenty more, but i'll need to sort through them and find only a few of the best for you to look at.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on April 27, 2012, 10:57:30 AM
The guy in the bar is magnificent!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on April 28, 2012, 03:25:38 AM
You've been to some interesting places!


~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~ 
Not a vacation pic (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/337/sandpeople.jpg/), I suppose, yet one of my favorites.     :D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on April 28, 2012, 02:12:58 PM
^ (http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Laughing_RoflSmileyLJ.gif)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on May 06, 2012, 11:35:36 AM
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on April 27, 2012, 10:57:30 AM
The guy in the bar is magnificent!
That's Olentzero, the Basque version of Santa Claus (LINK (http://www.nabasque.org/NABO/Olentzero.htm)). Basque mythology is very much like The Wicker Man, complete with some freaky (and cool) imagery. My friend's friend was from the village, so we went to visit her. It's situated in the western part of the Pyrenees, just south of Hondarribia/Hendaye. That was a very drunken night, with some stories I don't put up online. PM if you want them, lol.

Quote from: pieces o nine on April 28, 2012, 03:25:38 AM
You've been to some interesting places!
Thanks, PoN. That was just two holidays, believe it or not.

And that picture is great. It's been doing the rounds recently, and has made me chuckle yet again. ;D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on May 14, 2012, 10:56:46 AM
Here's another Green Man for Aggie.  It's at Rowlestone Church, Herefordshire, a couple of miles inside the Welsh border.  The whole doorway is a well-known example of work by the famous "Herefordshire School" of sculpture around 1140:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Rowlestone_door-600.jpg)

The Green Man is on the left impost (the bit where the arch sits on the pillar):

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Rowlestone_GM-600.jpg)

BTW it's pronounced 'Rollastun".
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on May 15, 2012, 12:26:50 AM
Nice Green Man there. It's surprising how much Pagan imagery survived through Christianity, a lot still doing so today. I know the Viking peoples kept their imagery, but integrated the Christian myths into it, and the Celtic peoples did too. I'm glad they did, as there are some beautiful designs like this still surviving to this day.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on May 15, 2012, 11:44:52 AM
Absolutely right, Roland.  Look at this Sheela na Gig at Kilpeck.  The thing goes back way beyond Christianity and is found all over Europe.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Kilpeck-D51.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on May 23, 2012, 09:10:33 AM
I was going to comment on how vaginal that sculpture looks, and then I found THIS WEBSITE (http://www.sheelanagig.org/index.html#http://www.sheelanagig.org/SheelaTheories.htm), which quite adequately explains about the Sheela na gigs, and confirmed my thoughts. There's always been something appealing about pre-Abrahamic religion, as if it pulls me in. The imagery is wonderful, regardless of meaning.

As an aside, if you're ever in Bodrum (Turkey), there are a number of stalls selling male fertility symbols (basically poor statues of a guy with a massive penis, and when I say massive, I mean huge).
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on May 23, 2012, 09:23:39 AM
I like Bodrum.  Those figures can be seen on the walls of Pompeii - the Romans called him Priapus, but he's been all over the Mediterranean lands for a very long time.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on May 23, 2012, 10:42:19 AM
Priapus statues were the Roman equivalent to garden gnomes. There was also the belief that they would keep burglars away because the erection was also a threat of anal rape.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 16, 2012, 10:49:17 AM
Here we have a sketch of St.Ultherius aka St.Ulufer.
I still have to add the bull he fought. My drawing skills did not enable me to have it as I wnated to, him standing triumphant on it with the tip of his staff on its neck and a foot on its back. I think I can prolong the staff and simply put the bull below.

Has any of our resident artists an idea or the skill/equipment (how) to make a mosaic out of it. I'd provide the intended colour info. A version in the style of a medieval book illumination (ideally, so it could be put into an initial) would be great too.

Important detail: The cross staff is deliberately drawn with one arm of the cross convex and the other concave, so it can be used like a halberd.

(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1462)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 16, 2012, 04:18:55 PM
Here a cleaned up version (attached to post above).
(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1464)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on June 16, 2012, 05:19:04 PM
It looks almost Early Medieval, but you're not quite there yet.  Keep at it, it's fun.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on June 16, 2012, 08:45:13 PM
Swato -- a mosaic texture is easy to add in an image manipulation program (I use Photoshop). This is a very quick download of your image, a handy graphic borrowed to simulate color, and a quick run through the texture filter. There is quite a range of cell sizes (this is the smallest), cell wall thickness (again, the smallest), and lighting options. With a little care, you'd get a very convincing result, which could be 'aged' a bit to show a little damage, fading, missing tiles, whatever you like. For best results you need a clean, dark outlines so the program can see discrete areas to fill with color(s); these outlines can be retained or made to disappear as you like.

(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh27/pieces_o_nine/SanktUlufer_test.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 16, 2012, 11:31:56 PM
Not bad, but nobody would take that for a 1000 year old piece.

I was thinking along the line of the guy at the lower left in this mosaic
(http://www.daringtodo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Foto-1.jpg)
http://www.daringtodo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Foto-1.jpg

I used this painting for some details too
(http://www.kirchengucker.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/otto-iii.jpg)
http://www.kirchengucker.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/otto-iii.jpg

The important thing would be that it is not a x-y-grid but that the tesserae follow the lines.
I tried with MS Paint (pathetic, I know) but I failed to get the tesserae in all necessary orientations while keeping them small enough.

I am almost tempted to try it for real but that would be a major investment with doubtful results.

I usually keep to ornaments. I am terrible with naturalistic stuff.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 17, 2012, 04:57:46 PM
OK, I tried to mosaicize at least a small part of the picture just to show what I mean. It took me about three hours, so the chances of getting the whole image that way are at best low.
(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1466)

And it's too elaborate for 10th or 11th century rural Britain anyway, I fear.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on June 17, 2012, 06:16:58 PM
Too tidy even for Roman work.  Never mind, back to the drawing board.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 17, 2012, 10:22:45 PM
I think it is not a question of tidyness. This looks to me more like a modern splinter mosaic (using opaque glass). The 'pieces' are far too irregular.
I think the only way would be to actually score a beach to collect enough pebbles of different natural colours (buying would be far too expensive) for an archaic pebble mosaic (as the pre-classical Greeks did).
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 20, 2012, 12:26:23 PM
The result of 3 days of work

(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1468)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on June 20, 2012, 04:11:51 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 17, 2012, 10:22:45 PM
I think it is not a question of tidyness. This looks to me more like a modern splinter mosaic (using opaque glass). The 'pieces' are far too irregular.
I think the only way would be to actually score a beach to collect enough pebbles of different natural colours (buying would be far too expensive) for an archaic pebble mosaic (as the pre-classical Greeks did).

How about photographing a smaller set of pebbles on a white background, then piecing them together digitally? If you had say, 100 different pebbles, it shouldn't be too obvious that they were duplicates.   The most difficult part would be rotating them (if required), but if all were approximately round, even that would not be necessary.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 20, 2012, 04:26:36 PM
I calculated that the full mosaic would need at minimum 18000 pieces, more likely 2-3 times that. In reality that would be too big and heavy to handle. I'll try drawing by hand again in the coming days.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 20, 2012, 10:41:52 PM
Now the wading bull in an appropriate mosaicized environment.

(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1470)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on June 21, 2012, 04:57:43 AM
That's a lot of work, Swato, and it looks nice.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on June 22, 2012, 04:54:26 PM
Those are really nice. I'm convinced. It's very intricate work, and i've always respected the master tilers (?) who designed and created these pieces of art.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 24, 2012, 02:46:09 PM
Preliminary try at drawing mosaic by hand

(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Mosaik_Ulufer_Sketch_1b.gif)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Mosaik_Ulufer_Sketch_1b.gif

Files too big to attach and the .jpg, the only one <1MB, leads to an error message. Is that file type illegal here?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on June 24, 2012, 05:08:01 PM
No, most images posted here are jpegs.  I like the mosaic work.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 24, 2012, 05:33:29 PM
Unfortunately, I am working at the limit here. The image is scanned from an A4 page and the tiles are not much bigger than 1x1 mm. The smallest tesserae one can get in a shop are 3x3 but that's a rarity. Standard is 1x1 cm and 'liliput' is 5x5 mm. So, if I tried to do it for real, it would be in excess of a square metre and cost several hundred € in material alone (unless I'd cut all the tesserae myself from marble rubble.
At the scale I drew it, I'd have it barely fit on an A3 page (the bull might not fully fit below).
The drawing is in pencil. For the 'real' thing (on paper) I'll need to use crayon since the squares are too small to fill in. But what about the seams then?
Not to forget the large areas outside the emblema itself.
Fory any kind of authenticity I'd also need aproper frame eating up even more space. Scanning would be the next problem (not with my equipment and I am not that happy about copyshops in that regard).

I guess using special software (which I am sure exists) would make it much easier. But where to get t and at what price.

What idiot gave me the idea to start in the first place >:( ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on June 24, 2012, 05:46:32 PM
Try with grains of sand, perhaps? It'd take a steady hand, some very well-made tweezers, and a pair of these: ;)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/43/Smallest_loupe_light_.jpg/220px-Smallest_loupe_light_.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 24, 2012, 06:12:11 PM
Would not give the intended effect (i.e. looking medieval). I also lack said steady hand. Another option would be to cut the tesserae from cardboard (available in marble patterns.

Edit: I googled for software. Most avaialble programs only do 'industrial', i.e. strictly x-y-rectangular designs. Software for 'artistic' mosaic, i.e. not bound by the x-y grid exists but is hideously expensive even for non-commercial use (talking about prices > 1000 €). Admittedly it's made for professionals and can do everything except personally put the material thing together (but it will calculate the price, order the material and helps you in your communication with customers).
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 25, 2012, 07:59:21 PM
Attempt in colour still without 'white' background tesserae.
Scan leaves something to be desired colourwise.

(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1474)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on June 25, 2012, 08:34:09 PM
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Brecon_Cathedral_D-16.jpg)

'Scuse me butting in, here's another green man for Aggie.  I took this today in Brecon Cathedral - it is the font, of course.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on June 26, 2012, 02:44:53 AM
Nice Green Man, DavidH!

Swato: what kinds of small aquarium gravel are available to you? We have some that are quite luridly flourescent, but also good selections in the range of colors appropriate to the Middle Ages. I'm thinking this might better suit your desired scale, be more affordable, and result in less final weight than other kinds of rock or tile.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 26, 2012, 09:25:31 AM
I was thinking about about 'spongy' material that could be easily dyed. It does not need to last. Just long enough to photograph it in a suitable environment. The latter could be the tricky part. The churches here are almost exclusively red brick without plastering ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on June 26, 2012, 06:33:04 PM
Swato, what about sponge-painting or stamping to give the same effect, but not using actual tiles? It'd still be time-consuming, but you could cut shapes to order out of rubber or perhaps cork, and it'd be quicker than hand-assembling pieces.

Quote from: Sibling DavidH on June 25, 2012, 08:34:09 PM
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Brecon_Cathedral_D-16.jpg)

'Scuse me butting in, here's another green man for Aggie.  I took this today in Brecon Cathedral - it is the font, of course.

:thumbsup:

I looked quite the image of a green man on Sunday, when I went to a midsummer party and wore a wreath of foliage on my head.  The hostess is Swedish, so we erected quite definitely the applicable word a midsommarstång and danced around it. I used to dance the Maypole as a kid, which was a little less overtly phallic. ;D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 26, 2012, 10:51:08 PM
Aquarium gravel seems to be the right stuff. A wee problem: a cursory search gives the impression that it is sold only in packages from 5 kg upward (smaller portions only in very few colours). Let's see, if I can find a real world shop that would be willing to sell it in the mix I need and in the portions I need. I think I'd need not more than about 2 kg in total (for some special colour sections I could probably count the needed pebbles by hand).
Will probably take a while.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on June 27, 2012, 09:01:42 AM
Swato, you should be able to buy mixed colours of aquarium gravel in 2.5Kg sizes, although finding the exact mix you need may be difficult. Many of them are horribly garish (yes, i'm an au naturel person when it comes to aquarium gravel used for original purpose), but if you find a good aquatic centre, you may find a decent enough range to suit your needs.

David, I hope you pointed out to the clergy of that church the irony in their font symbolism. ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 27, 2012, 09:11:19 AM
There are black, white and red mixtures. Useful should I turn monarchist ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on June 27, 2012, 02:14:46 PM
Quote from: RolandDavid, I hope you pointed out to the clergy of that church the irony in their font symbolism.

Bit late for that, it should have been pointed out in the early C12.  :mrgreen:  But I did mention while chatting to a lady in some kind of supervisory position that I've seen many a green man, and many a Norman font adorned with grotesques, but never a font with a green man.  It really surprised me.  They might as well have a figure of Beelzebub with claws outstretched.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 27, 2012, 10:30:55 PM
I went to one of the larger aquaristic shops around here. Lots of useful gravel in the right colours but sold in packages of 5 kg minimum size.
Visited a shop for hobby and artist material afterwards. More reasonable quantities but some needed colours missing. Maybe I can fill the gaps by visiting more shops of this type and hoping that they only have a partial overlap in stored goods. If anything else fails, I may have to smash some marble myself or to dye some white pebbles on the surface. But at least I can be sure to get gold-coloured gravel. That is the one thing that could not be substituted for.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on June 28, 2012, 02:24:03 AM
Sounds like aquarium gravel may work for you - good. I thought of another option for colors needed in small quantities, with materials which should be available at most hobby shops.

1. How about polymer clay (can bake in ~ 15 minutes in a home oven, and small pieces are even cured with a handheld hairdryer by the action figure revamp crowd) comes in 2 oz blocks in a plethora of graded colors. Or you could buy two blocks (say yellow and blue, for example) and mix successive small batches in different percentages to get some variation or 'shading' tiles. (It's easy to leave some marbelling while mixing for that natural rock look as well.) You can roll a sheet out to a usable thickness using a water glass and two pencils or chopsticks. Easy to cut with knife or scissors either before or after baking/curing, (you might want to let clay cool to save your fingers and get sharper edges - or - breaking while hot will give a rougher, less finished edge.) Polymer is strong, light, easy to glue, and simulates natural materials -- especially in the size you're looking at.

2. Or get a package of white or neutral air dry clay (also marketed as 'paper clay') and add pigment. I've done this with good effect using watercolors, acrylics, and/or inks. Just knead it right into the clay, roll out a sheet as above, and let it dry for a couple hours. Easy to cut into strips or tiles either before or after drying, this material is cheap, weighs almost nothing in small tile sizes, takes adhesive extremely well, and visually blends well with gravels.

3. With any leftover clay, make yourself a customer runestone set!   ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on June 28, 2012, 07:27:56 PM
Hmm, could you dye expanded perlite to match the shades you need? It's light and cheap.  The pieces are small, but if you sifted for dust first, you could cover large expanses quickly by applying the adhesive first and then shaking it into place.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on June 28, 2012, 09:53:47 PM
I think about using double-sided transparent adhesive tape, so I can put the drawing below. The fine parts will be layed, the large unicoloured areas 'poured'. All granulate will be washed and dedusted before use.
I went to several shops and I think I am now missing only two colours, one for the bare skin and one shade of brown. Gray for the beard could be substituted with silver. There are still a number of shops I did not visit yet, so chances are good to find the missing ones. If it was winter, it would be easy, just going out and collecting some grit from the frozen street and sidewalks.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on July 08, 2012, 06:16:40 PM
OK, here's my first attempt at mosaic work beyond the paper stage.
Size about 12 x 20 cm

(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/DSCI0136.jpg)
http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/DSCI0136.jpg
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on July 08, 2012, 07:39:41 PM
A fine start, Swato.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on July 08, 2012, 07:42:48 PM
Looks good, Swato. :D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on July 20, 2012, 02:20:29 AM
A great start there, Swato. The gravel's working out nicely.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on July 20, 2012, 04:20:12 AM
Great Gravel!!!  I reckon you could sell that on Aaaargh! Bay.

Talking of gravel, I'm looking for stuff to fill a small hollow cloth bag to shove in a certain place to even things up with the other side :o (and while looking for such stuff, I came across bottom enhancers).  Maybe I could try gravel. Or tesserae (http://www.themosaicgallery.com/index.html).

Re. the green men. Little green men in her garden was the start of my aunt's Alzheimers.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on July 20, 2012, 07:37:46 PM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on July 20, 2012, 04:20:12 AM
(and while looking for such stuff, I came across bottom enhancers)

Aquarium gravel certainly fits that description. ;)

I think it might prove a bit heavy for prosthetylism, though... perhaps shredded religious pamphlets instead? ;D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on August 08, 2012, 10:20:20 AM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on July 20, 2012, 04:20:12 AMOr tesserae (http://www.themosaicgallery.com/index.html).
I think i've just found the place who can make and install my long-awaited mosaic of:-

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Touched_by_His_Noodly_Appendage.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on August 27, 2012, 07:58:58 PM
I took this yesterday from Chepstow Castle.  The castle is in Wales, the river is the Wye and everything on the other side is in England.  The iron bridge was built in 1816.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Chepstow1.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on August 27, 2012, 08:38:55 PM
I once stayed in a tiny bar/hotel right opposite side of the street from Chepstow Castle............ 42 years ago.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on August 28, 2012, 02:52:25 AM
Very cool!


Someday I'll post a pic of the border between the Ocean o'Sand and Wyoming. But I'll warn you a few days ahead of time, so you have a chance to brace yourselves!   ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on September 09, 2012, 04:43:04 PM
Here's a loony one:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Journalman.jpg)

Yesterday I was at a friend's place, helping with a fundraising 'Open Garden' day for Home Start.  The photographer from the Hereford Journal turned up.  He wanted a shot of Wendy and the friend together with me pretending to photograph the flowers ("visitor to charity Open Garden" story).

So here's my shot of a photographer photographing me photographing some flowers.  ;D

I can't wait to see what they print on Wednesday.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on September 10, 2012, 03:38:08 PM
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on September 09, 2012, 04:43:04 PM
Here's a loony one...I can't wait to see what they print on Wednesday.
:mrgreen:

(http://static.desktopnexus.com/thumbnails/181433-bigthumbnail.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on September 24, 2012, 10:12:16 PM
Ya gotta love Bugs, but those Japanese Anemone are very pretty!

How'd the photos come out?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on September 25, 2012, 12:04:16 PM
Quote from: OpsaHow'd the photos come out?

So bad that I am absolutely not going to post it!  It was absolutely dire!  I'll kill Alan next time I see him.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on October 07, 2012, 12:31:41 PM
Anybody fancy a cuddly Hallowe'en avatar?

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/bat-av.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on October 07, 2012, 12:35:41 PM
(http://kress.de/typo3temp/pics/vampir-huhn-sixx-2012_983a8424ac.jpg)
http://kress.de/typo3temp/pics/vampir-huhn-sixx-2012_983a8424ac.jpg
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on October 16, 2012, 08:13:19 PM
The vampire kitteh is adorable, but the chicken is quite startling, I must say.

I saw some interesting things on my train ride back from Boston. See below.

The first one was in the rest room. I think it is threatening us with eternal damnation. Th'Opsalette says it's just a guy with a broom and a hat, but who holds a broom upside-down like that? And who wears a hat that comes out of the sides of his head? No, friends, it is clearly the Beast.

The other two are of a strange person I spotted riding on top of someone's luggage.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on October 17, 2012, 03:46:32 AM
Startling pics, Opsa!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on October 17, 2012, 09:14:29 AM
The top one is Beelzebub, all right.  Not sure about the other feller, but I think it may be Kermit.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on October 17, 2012, 02:47:43 PM
I thought he looked a little bit like Domo, only toothless.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on October 18, 2012, 01:24:51 PM
I took this yesterday in St Fagans Museum, Cardiff:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Notice-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on October 18, 2012, 04:26:43 PM
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on October 18, 2012, 01:24:51 PM
I took this yesterday in St Fagans Museum, Cardiff:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Notice-1.jpg)

Oh my whatever, whatever could it mean?!  :o



Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on October 18, 2012, 06:54:05 PM
Assuming the straight answer, why do they have to be young girls*???

*unless this is one of those Schindler List arguments: because only their small hands fit in the bottles?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on October 18, 2012, 07:39:16 PM
What is even stranger, by apply within the finger is pointing directly away from the door.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on October 18, 2012, 08:03:04 PM
Maybe it means apply within the bottle?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on October 20, 2012, 11:06:34 PM
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on October 18, 2012, 06:54:05 PM
Assuming the straight answer, why do they have to be young girls*???

*unless this is one of those Schindler List arguments: because only their small hands fit in the bottles?

Probably at the time of the sign's posting, this was the cheapest segment of the labour force.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on November 10, 2012, 08:56:36 PM
In Chepstow High Street there is a deck gun from a WW1 submarine.  I don't know why, but there is.

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Chepstow_Gun.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on November 10, 2012, 10:50:38 PM
Let me guess, the sub is under the street.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on November 11, 2012, 12:05:20 AM
The emergency power generator of the main broadcasting instutution in Berlin was for several decades a UBoat Diesel from WW2.
The stage of one of Berlin's opera house pivots on the base of a Flak (anti aircraft gun) from the Führerbunker.
A lot of military hardware shows up in rather unusual places.

And who says that one cannot meet a Uboat running on the road under its own power?
(http://uboat.net/media/photos/seeteufl.jpg)
http://uboat.net/media/photos/seeteufl.jpg
The thing is running on tracks. That was to make it independent from harbour installations. It was supposed to simply drive to the next available beach and go for a swim from there.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on November 11, 2012, 12:36:25 AM
Forbidden, but I found this one that apparently isn't;
(http://uboat.net/media/gallery/u505/set_e/50953.jpg)
http://uboat.net/media/gallery/u505/set_e/50953.jpg
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on November 11, 2012, 12:48:45 AM
I can see my own but not yours

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeteufel
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on November 11, 2012, 02:13:37 AM
I guess the site filters by IP, not by session (I tested mine in a different browser and it worked).

Perhaps this link?

http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/BORGWARD%20SEETEUFEL.htm
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on December 05, 2012, 11:50:24 PM
Thanks for the disturbing sign, David. Is it ok for me to steal it to show others?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on December 06, 2012, 10:38:44 AM
By all means, Roland - just don't put it in your window or you'll be arrested by the paedo panic police.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Roland Deschain on December 06, 2012, 12:35:29 PM
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on December 06, 2012, 10:38:44 AM
By all means, Roland - just don't put it in your window or you'll be arrested by the paedo panic police.  :mrgreen:
Thanks, David. :giggle:
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 27, 2013, 04:33:36 PM
The people in Wales really are small:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Monmouth_Tree_zpsf30fd4b8.jpg)
http://http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Monmouth_Tree_zpsf30fd4b8.jpg
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 27, 2013, 04:34:00 PM
The people in Wales really are small:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Monmouth_Tree_zpsf30fd4b8.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on January 27, 2013, 05:23:00 PM
I would assume so... most whales only eat very small creatures. ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on January 29, 2013, 11:12:36 PM
That is so cute!

Th'Opsalette found an orchid at the botanical gardens that seemed to have a pirate in it! What do you think?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on January 30, 2013, 02:01:53 AM
Yarrrgh, hit be an arrrgh-kid!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 30, 2013, 11:14:08 AM
What an amazing flower!

There's a pretty little spring near the next village, which flows most of the year.  This year, of course, it is going like the clappers:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/28_Jan_13_D-09c_zps872a0036.jpg)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on January 30, 2013, 11:40:20 AM
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on January 30, 2013, 11:14:08 AM
What an amazing flower!

And how are you, Petal?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 30, 2013, 05:59:43 PM
Morning, Glory!
Aloe, Vera!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on January 31, 2013, 01:40:26 AM
That is a pretty stream, DavidH. Is it large enough to attract 'wildlife'?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on January 31, 2013, 09:56:55 AM
No, that's as big as it ever gets, so no whales.  Maybe things come to drink from it, but not while I'm around.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on January 31, 2013, 07:23:14 PM
Very cool. Love the mosses.

Below are some other photos we took around Washington D.C. last weekend.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 01, 2013, 09:42:00 AM
Nice photos, Opsa, though I have to say no. 3 is ... err ... well, interesting.  ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on February 01, 2013, 03:48:41 PM
That was on a bridge over the Tidal basin near the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. We have no idea what it is. I have been trying to find out. But it made us laugh.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Swatopluk on February 04, 2013, 12:30:58 AM
(http://www.cakewrecks.com/storage/thumbnails/10710906-21785673-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1359519365202)
http://www.cakewrecks.com/storage/thumbnails/10710906-21785673-thumbnail.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1359519365202

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Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 05, 2013, 08:21:42 PM
Wow, there truly are no limits...
----
These are a few pictures from the ones I took on my trip to the Yucatan peninsula:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_114303_zps163d2b92.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_104632_zpsbdb6e776.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_140505_zpsc264413a.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_131302_zpsa465274d.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130201_204522_zpsc068fb6e.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130201_144906_zps0e1c89ad.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_140006_zpsca560beb.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_111051_zps7a69fccd.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130201_144702_zps0d3c0e9f.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130201_143345_zps5e1ad4e7.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_130936_zpsb2a7e2ad.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130201_204246_zpsc4f3c9ff.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_135312_zps1d0441a2.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_110332_zps96079b9a.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_135142_zps77642736.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_121545_zpsdcd5de41.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_122343_zps5751f99c.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_105058_zpsf4caf939.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_120458_zpsa46dde25.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_105447_zps073331bb.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130202_105830_zps7a450f24.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20130201_090412_zpsbb10dad0.jpg)

I'm actually quite happy about the quality of the pictures considering I took them with my phone.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on February 05, 2013, 08:30:08 PM
They're excellent! You must have a great phone.

What a thrill it must have been to see these amazing artifacts in person. (And I don't mean just the one with the enormous ...didgeridoo.)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 06, 2013, 01:08:07 AM
Well, that last one is from the first site I saw which is part of the Yo'Okop complex, literally in the middle of the jungle and trying to scale that pyramid/mound I almost crack my head open with a broken tree... yet, I really loved the experience, and still want to go back with more time to explore the whole complex (it was too big, too dense and I didn't have enough time). The other ones are open parks with a ranger guarding the site, selling tickets and/or making you sign a visitor's book.

Among other curiosities, I was looking for Mayan calendar glyphs and I found that the one corresponding to my birth -K'ayab- is a parrot!
(http://artcamp.com.mx/shopping-cart/images/MX-MYMP-017-M.JPG)

I bought my symbol and my son's as a present (not exactly the one picture above but similar).
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on February 06, 2013, 01:27:41 AM
What a great vacation -- and what cool photos!
Thank you for sharing them with us. 
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 06, 2013, 10:11:55 AM
Lovely photos - it's incredible what these phone cameras will do nowadays.  I love the carvings; the way South Americans do faces is different and scary.  I hope you had a good time, Zono.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 07, 2013, 02:15:15 AM
Technically those are mesoamericans, in South America we have some more striking faces:
(http://www.howlingearth.com/images/sanaugustin2.jpg)
http://www.howlingearth.com/images/sanaugustin2.jpg

Those are from an archaeological region in Colombia called San Agustín, not much is known about their culture but their monolithic sculptures are quite something.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura_San_Agust%C3%ADn

No article in English, you can try Google's translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fes.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FCultura_San_Agust%25C3%25ADn
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on February 07, 2013, 08:33:14 PM
I bet their heads hurt. ;D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on February 07, 2013, 08:46:22 PM
Super, Zono, I just love those faces.  ;D

In return:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Ampney_St_Mary_D-05_zps4d7c4005.jpg)

A unique Norman north doorway in Ampney_St_Mary, Gloucestershire.  Sadly, when the walls were buttressed at some point, they saw fit to put a buttress into the doorway.  I can't see why that was necessary.

Remarkably the tympanum is not a semicircle, and the boldly carved beasts merge into the bead of the rim.  Built, say, 1140 plus or minus 15 years.  We visited it last Sunday, after an excellent lunch in the pub opposite.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on February 07, 2013, 09:20:37 PM
That is very cool.

While it's a pity that there aren't much ancient buildings in FL I can't complain considering I just visited some in MX.  :D
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on March 13, 2013, 02:41:13 PM
The new lambs are now all born over here - the farmer at Kenchester Court told us this morning that they'd just delivered the last of 650, including these twins:

(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Lambs_zpsd0a82e3e.jpg)

As if farmers didn't have enough to cope with at the moment, the new Schmallenberg virus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmallenberg_virus) has devastated flocks all round here, but didn't touch this farm.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on March 14, 2013, 02:32:56 AM
Is the red (dye? paint?) to identify individual animals, ewe-lamb (pairs), or flock ID? How long does it last?
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on March 14, 2013, 12:38:51 PM
Usually it just marks the flock in case of a mix-up, but these lambs apear to be numbered, which is new to me.  It lasts all season, but it has to wash out so as not to ruin the wool.  Not that the wool makes any profit nowadays.

Maybe it's just until the lambs get ear-tagged like their mum.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on March 14, 2013, 08:17:54 PM
I think it's a conspiracy by the food industry to alert them to which are the oldest, and therefore toughest to eat, lambs........... ;)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on March 15, 2013, 01:56:34 AM
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on March 14, 2013, 12:38:51 PM
Not that the wool makes any profit nowadays.
To profit you must sell the garments yourself, possibly by marketing them as Fair Trade.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Griffin NoName on March 15, 2013, 01:58:37 AM
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on March 15, 2013, 01:56:34 AM
............possibly by marketing them as Fair Trade.

..............or Fair Isle................ Ho! Ho! Ho!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling DavidH on March 15, 2013, 09:54:52 AM
^ LOL!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on May 09, 2013, 09:08:25 PM
Last night the rains finally ended with a nice finale.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on May 10, 2013, 06:42:04 AM
Cool photo!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on May 10, 2013, 05:00:40 PM
Oooh, you can see the glow from the pot of gold!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on May 10, 2013, 07:29:44 PM
Unfortunately, I did not find that pot of gold. G'arrrgh!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on October 30, 2013, 05:30:19 AM
These are a few pictures to my weekend trip to Palawan, an island at about an hour by jet to the south of Manila.

This is a typical boat:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131027_081811_zps2347692c.jpg)

Beaches:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131027_121142_zps3c5bfd6a.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_110824_zps157f32fc.jpg)

Landscapes:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_131303_zps69a10cde.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_103206_zps5c2f3492.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_103218_zpsf0c82db2.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_104807_zps030a1ecf.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_124217_zpsade8a8af.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_130617_zps7508d412.jpg)


At the mouth of the underground river:
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_131215_zpsb15cefac.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_130617_zps7508d412.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_142555_zps201352b6.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_142551_zps12714802.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_131331_zpsbbe90c60.jpg)
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l252/anon1mat0/20131028_134936_zps9b2e1a71.jpg)

Not bad for a camera phone.

I have some pictures from my snorkel on two little islands but I haven't downloaded the pictures from the camera yet.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on October 30, 2013, 03:32:36 PM
WOW!!! Looks amazing!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Aggie on October 30, 2013, 03:38:08 PM
Brings back memories. :D  I didn't make it to the underground river when I was in Palawan (although we did self-explore a smaller one in Sagada, near the hanging coffins) as we encountered a typhoon in El Nido and had to fly direct to Puerto Princessa as the roads were out due to landslides and the seas were too rough for boat travel.

I want to go back. :)
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on October 31, 2013, 12:15:38 AM
Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on October 31, 2013, 12:17:54 AM
From the pictures I saw El Nido is a beautiful place, and according to the people at the office much more posh and expensive. Once in Palawan I also was told that sometimes El Nido is so full that you must reserve well in advance and some people stay in tents.
--
Two typhoons passed by on my stay, but fortunately for me north enough not to affect anyone. It would have been ironic to find a typhoon here coming from Florida.  :-X
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on November 07, 2013, 07:11:39 PM
We're having a gorgeous autumn here. These are two photos I've taken in the past 24 hours.
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: pieces o nine on November 08, 2013, 02:34:29 AM
Very nice!
Title: Re: Pictures
Post by: Opsa on November 08, 2013, 02:55:52 PM
Thank nature!  ;D