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)
Thanks for your proof the moon is made of cheese - Edam I guess. ;D
This is a Parhelia aka Sundog... joe e ;)
(http://ukazy.astro.cz/obr/012003hmi.jpg)
WOW!! That's cool.
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)
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.
From my neck of the woods, we had a beautiful but brisk Autumn day in PA today.
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)
One more from today.
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.....
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.
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.
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 ;)
That's it! Skiing through one is AMAZING. I felt blessed.
Thanks!
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?
Here's a pic of Grassi Lakes near Canmore that I took yesterday.
(http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/1816/grassisq6.jpg)
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!
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.
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)
A couple of last shots of Autumn in Penn's Woods today as the leaves now begin to rapidly fall.
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)
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.
Beautiful Mero! I'd like to retire to the Carolina's also, I love South Carolina. Maybe one of these years. :D
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)
Wow, Bob! WOW!
Yes indeed... :o
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.
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* a landscape such as you might see on a puzzle.
(http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/7909/day2039ev5.jpg)
My boss took this one in Southern Alberta. It's my desktop right now.
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.
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)
Beautiful everyone, simply beautiful!
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.
Love the bee tree shot!
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...
Backflips are more commendable once landed ;)
The shot's good though... super-clear even though the flipper must have been zipping through the air!
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!
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
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
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)
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)
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
Actually, I think it's better for the lack of resolution!
thanks chaps that is very kind! It does have a certain fuzzy lovliness...
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)
That second picture is particularly awesome. 8)
Thank you. ;D
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
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)
I made a new gallery for pets. I put your cats in there Bob. Hope that's okay.
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.
If I wasn't so lazy I would. ;D
MB
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)
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.
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)
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)
I've moved the discussion of seagulls which used to follow this post into 'Miscellaneous Discussion' under the Topic 'Seagulls'.
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)
Here's another. Taken by my daughter, processed by me...
Primaeval Tennessee
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/PrimaevalTennessee.jpg)
And one of my Granddaughter...
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/0e8307fb.jpg)
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.
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)
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.
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!
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)
WOW! That picture of the dragonfly is amazing!!!
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
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
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)
Oh! Lovely!
I particularly love the extreme close-ups of plants. Very Georgia O'Keefe.
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
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.
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)
Y'arrgghhh!
I tooks this one last week in Ocean City, Maryland:
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.
Um, invisible people?
Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.aphos.org/
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)
Cool, Bart! That's one I'd like to see. (And the little monsters are cute, too.)
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:
:dalek: NICE PICTURES BART :dalek:
:dalek: THE SMALL MONSTERS ARE NOT SO SCARY :dalek:
:dalek: WHO IS THE ALIEN IN THE T-SHIRT :dalek:
Don't you just love those Daleks though...The Black Spot bought a Four Foot high inflatable one...er, for his kids of course.
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.
They are all beautiful pictures but the Dragonfly is fantastic! :)
Thanks! I spent ages chasing the dang bug to get that. :D
The chain link fence takes on an abstract feel that bolsters the fragility of the dragonfly. 'S beautiful.
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.
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. :)
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.
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.
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).
I thought it was the secret passage to the library.
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
Peter Sutcliffe with the Hammer in the Workshop.
Steve Wright with the Prostitute in the Bed Chamber.
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.
For those who are puzzled see here (http://www.yellowporcupine.com/travel/london.shtml).
:catroll:
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:
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).
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.
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/)
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.
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.
Anybody ever seen one of these?
Where did you find it? It's a very cool moth!
:thumbsup:
It was flying around my window outside in Cartwright Oklahoma. It was so big I thought it was an albino bat.
It is a luna moth. My favorite kind!
You had one flying around at this time of year?!?
I guess it was looking for a tic. Get it? Luna-tic? :mrgreen:
Yes, it was fly around by the lamp.
Pretty!
I've only seen one before, it was in the form of a tattoo. ;D
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!
What does that say about my spirit guide? I have a big mouth and I go for like four minutes. :mrgreen:
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:
ROFLMAO!
:ROFL: :ROFL: :ROFL: :nervous:
A Luna Moth--- they are beautiful--
as to the rest I second Opsanus
:dontknow:
Seen on Vacation...
(http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g276/TheMeromorph/Sunset%20Beach%202009/Classic4x6.jpg)
Your picture is not there (wrong link?)
OOPS. Fixed it now. Silly Mero! ::)
Is everybody else in the water?
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
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?
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.
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.
I knew I should have taken my broom! :sweepgirl:
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)
Nice one, Zan.
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.
:-\
Went to the Healesville Sanctuary yesterday, the Tassie devils were out!
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(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/Tasmaniandevil.jpg)
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(http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/BluenoseCod/Tasmaniandevilpooped.jpg)
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I love the pics, particularly the second one. Did you use a high zoom lens or you were dangerously close to the little monster? ;)
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.
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.
Poor little things! They are so cute.
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?
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)
Nice. Looks like the white one (I'm not very good at technical cow terms) is head of the escape committee.
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.
The one at the back is nonchalantly dropping the tunnel diggings by the river. I suspect it's even whistling....
Pity the one on the motor bike is hidden by the tree.
You mean Steer McQueen? ;D
Yep. On the run from the cowmmandant.
Aren't we a witty bunch, to get in so many moo-vie references?
Sorry....
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:
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)
:ROFL: :ROFL:
More types of animals! This could get out of hand!
'Schaft mir die Viecher wieder ran', indeed. I dunno...
This one was taken by another of our learning-difficulties participants.
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/12june026.jpg)
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.
Yes, that's the west door of Leominster Priory, a famous green-man place. Did you recognise it?
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).
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.
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:.
(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.
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.
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 ;)
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)
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.
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.
IS IT A PIG? IS IT A POTATO?
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/SPUDPIG.jpg)
Seen at our local farm shop.
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.
:ROFL:
But who knows what the SAS are up to? The new Stirling Lines is less than a mile from there.
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.
:ROFL:
View from my balcony - the longer-exposure photo is poorly focused ('cause I'm twitchy), but I like the light.
Very good photos, the second one looks almost surreal.
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.
Just click on them
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:
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
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.
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)
Our grass is green Why is that grass white?
It's cotton candy. ;)
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?
I suspect a leg-pull here. :toadfishwink:
King Cotton conspiring with the Iacobite pretenders to get back England, France and America?
But wasn't the Euro the cornerstone of the stratagem? What will they do now that it is -allegedly- 'collapsing'? ::) ::)
Tie it to the dollar mayhaps :help: :explode:
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.
If the solution for zombies was found that long ago how is it that this isn't more widespread?
:D
Looks more like a playpen for the zombie children.
Btw, what happens when zombies encounter ghouls?
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)
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?
Too low.
(http://www.spoenk.nl//archives/200702/were-rabbit.jpg)
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?
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?
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:
As long as there are more than ten and you don't pinch the best-looking ewe...
Reminiscences from All You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask?
:mrgreen:
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.)
Ducking stools, burnings, sheep. You're making me want to relocate.
Thought it was Black Bart who was into sheep. ;)
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)
what a lovely child
Yarrrgh! Wot a foine-lookin' lad!
Wood 'e 'appen ter be a hack wain tents ov NefYoo? :piratetoadfish:
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.
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.
That is a very cool pic. Fixed focus lens?
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.
I like them both, but the second is almost surreal. :)
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.
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).
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
He's cute! Even if he does have wheelnuts for eyes! I think I'll dust the welder off.
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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)
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)
Wow! That's really good S!
Love the giant pterodactyl in the first one.... wait.
Nevermind.
:)
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. :-\
stelli & zono: cool pics!
Some lovely photos there, ladies. (Goes green with envy).
EDIT Stella and Zono - Sorry!
Zono those pics are unbelievable! well done!
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...
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:
Flying squidlings are a menace in Pembrokeshire:
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)
More flying cephalopods at the kite festival.
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Kites.jpg)
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)
Ooh, keep lens open for Green Men if you spot any!
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)
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.
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)
great pics! please post more!
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.
What about this classic masterpiece?
(http://www.wicherngemeinde-frankfurt.de/typo3temp/pics/65a74443e9.jpg)
http://www.wicherngemeinde-frankfurt.de/typo3temp/pics/65a74443e9.jpg
^ :ROFL:
Mrs H and #1 daughter between them created this for me.
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/FSM_Pullover.jpg)
Great stuff!
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)
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)
Lovely, thank you! I look forward to your version. :)
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.
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.
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!
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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)
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?
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
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.
Yes, join -- (http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSzHLMEslt_uqfMnz-XrxEOWAq408IPqxOuIrFMqk6BWpttBRx55w&t=1)
it would be great to compare & contrast techniques and projects!
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
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 ?
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)
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)
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.
Hey, Griffin's in there. ;D
(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
(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
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.
I had to cut the photos to size (them being 12 MP)
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.
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)
What? No clutter? ::)
Way too neat for the loikes of me, I'm afeard...
:)
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...
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?
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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)
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!!!! :)
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)...
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.
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.
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.
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:
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...
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.
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.
I love the reflected light!
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
Those are really lovely, Zono. What camera is it?
A Sony DSLR-A330, the lens I used was a 55-200 and I used a high aperture ~5.
I especially like the first one, with the light falling through the leaves.
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.
Do we have an expert here that can make sense of this?
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/DSCI0110.jpg)
It's a picture of a badly constructed rope ladder? Or a fossil of a dinosaur's teeth with bad dental work?
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 ?
It could be a small Kensington Stone!
:giggle:
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. ;)
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.
One L clearly turned into another U.
Chiseling is harder than it looks even on soft rock, at least that is my experience.
(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.
I like it. Is it Ygdrasil?
Indeed. The boat is my addition though.
Somehow I didn't remember a boat among all the weird stuff round Ygdrasil.
I rather like it there. :)
(Sketch of) Runestone of Skibotn (Northern Norway, near trijunction with Sweden and Finland)
(http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x97/Swatopluk/Skibotnsteinen_1.png)
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)
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?
(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.
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:
Quote from: Rolandph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Yes, we had one of those but the wheels fell off.
^ :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.
The guy in the bar is magnificent!
You've been to some interesting places!
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Not a vacation pic (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/337/sandpeople.jpg/), I suppose, yet one of my favorites. :D
^ (http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Laughing_RoflSmileyLJ.gif)
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
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".
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.
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)
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).
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.
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.
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)
Here a cleaned up version (attached to post above).
(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1464)
It looks almost Early Medieval, but you're not quite there yet. Keep at it, it's fun.
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)
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.
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.
Too tidy even for Roman work. Never mind, back to the drawing board.
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).
The result of 3 days of work
(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1468)
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.
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.
Now the wading bull in an appropriate mosaicized environment.
(http://toadfishmonastery.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=117.0;attach=1470)
That's a lot of work, Swato, and it looks nice.
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.
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?
No, most images posted here are jpegs. I like the mosaic work.
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 >:( ;)
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)
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).
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)
(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.
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.
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 ;)
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
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.
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. ;)
There are black, white and red mixtures. Useful should I turn monarchist ;)
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.
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.
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! ;)
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.
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.
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
A fine start, Swato.
Looks good, Swato. :D
A great start there, Swato. The gravel's working out nicely.
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.
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
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)
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)
I once stayed in a tiny bar/hotel right opposite side of the street from Chepstow Castle............ 42 years ago.
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! ;)
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.
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)
Ya gotta love Bugs, but those Japanese Anemone are very pretty!
How'd the photos come out?
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:
Anybody fancy a cuddly Hallowe'en avatar?
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/bat-av.jpg)
(http://kress.de/typo3temp/pics/vampir-huhn-sixx-2012_983a8424ac.jpg)
http://kress.de/typo3temp/pics/vampir-huhn-sixx-2012_983a8424ac.jpg
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.
Startling pics, Opsa!
The top one is Beelzebub, all right. Not sure about the other feller, but I think it may be Kermit.
I thought he looked a little bit like Domo, only toothless.
I took this yesterday in St Fagans Museum, Cardiff:
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Notice-1.jpg)
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
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?
What is even stranger, by apply within the finger is pointing directly away from the door.
Maybe it means apply within the bottle?
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.
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)
Let me guess, the sub is under the street.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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.
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
I can see my own but not yours
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeteufel
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
Thanks for the disturbing sign, David. Is it ok for me to steal it to show others?
By all means, Roland - just don't put it in your window or you'll be arrested by the paedo panic police. :mrgreen:
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:
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
The people in Wales really are small:
(http://i647.photobucket.com/albums/uu198/RamblingSyd/Monmouth_Tree_zpsf30fd4b8.jpg)
I would assume so... most whales only eat very small creatures. ;)
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?
Yarrrgh, hit be an arrrgh-kid!
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)
Morning, Glory!
Aloe, Vera!
That is a pretty stream, DavidH. Is it large enough to attract 'wildlife'?
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.
Very cool. Love the mosses.
Below are some other photos we took around Washington D.C. last weekend.
Nice photos, Opsa, though I have to say no. 3 is ... err ... well, interesting. ;)
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.
(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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Wow, there truly are no limits...
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These are a few pictures from the ones I took on my trip to the Yucatan peninsula:
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I'm actually quite happy about the quality of the pictures considering I took them with my phone.
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.)
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).
What a great vacation -- and what cool photos!
Thank you for sharing them with us.
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.
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
I bet their heads hurt. ;D
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.
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
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.
Is the red (dye? paint?) to identify individual animals, ewe-lamb (pairs), or flock ID? How long does it last?
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.
I think it's a conspiracy by the food industry to alert them to which are the oldest, and therefore toughest to eat, lambs........... ;)
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.
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!
^ LOL!
Last night the rains finally ended with a nice finale.
Cool photo!
Oooh, you can see the glow from the pot of gold!
Unfortunately, I did not find that pot of gold. G'arrrgh!
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.
WOW!!! Looks amazing!
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. :)
Thanks for sharing!
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.
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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
We're having a gorgeous autumn here. These are two photos I've taken in the past 24 hours.
Very nice!
Thank nature! ;D