Re: Random Pictures Thread Part III

[Tachikoma]

It works great holding off zombies though

[greenLED]

Looks like somebody didn't get the "keep your finger off the trigger" memo.

[Tachikoma]

You're absolutely right, usually I'm the most concerned about gun safety in the group, but in that particular public event we were carrying unloaded toy guns and pulling the trigger during the photos looked more bad ass

[Monocrom]

You're absolutely right, usually I'm the most concerned about gun safety in the group, but in that particular public event we were carrying unloaded toy guns and pulling the trigger during the photos looked more bad ass

You have more fun than I do.

Where did you get that cool outfit?

[kaimaikid]

Some random pics I took around my town...


Tauranga Habour


Waxeye in the cherry blossum


A navy trainer...


A fly...

[Flashanator]

3 mysterious lights moving parallel to each other, estimated speed Mach 4....



Actually its just the bottom part of the Pavo Constellation.

[Burgess]

to Kaimaikid --


You take nice photographs !



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[The_LED_Museum]

Flowers in morning dew (overnight sprinkles?) on the morning of Turkey Day (11-27-08).

[katsyonak]

The moon with planets Jupiter and Venus over Tel Aviv, Israel. December 1st, 2008, 5:25 PM:


[Edit] Found this:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...ter-venus.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7759146.stm

[Tachikoma]

I've just returned from an observation, I'll post a photo of the moon covering venus tomorrow

[NorCal2500HD]

Took this last year during fleet week. On treasure Island looking East in Oakland.....Something old, Something New....

[NorCal2500HD]

Fooling around....

[PhotonWrangler]

Took this last year during fleet week. On treasure Island looking East in Oakland.....Something old, Something New....

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I think I saw that shot in the background on a recent episode of Prototype This on the Discovery Channel. Is there an old factory located on the left bank there?

[PhotonWrangler]

Took this last year during fleet week. On treasure Island looking East in Oakland.....Something old, Something New....

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I think I saw that shot in the background on a recent episode of Prototype This on the Discovery Channel. Is there an old factory located on the left bank there?

[NorCal2500HD]

Yes, they film the show in one of the old naval warehouses.

[PhotonWrangler]

Yes, they film the show in one of the old naval warehouses.

Aha, thanks. I caught a promo last night where they mentioned Treasure Island, so that must be the place.

[Tachikoma]

As promised:


Shoot by a friend holding a compact camera by hand in front of a Celestron C11.

[NorCal2500HD]

Little HDR....
Bronze statue at the local community center:

One of the local fire stations:

[The_LED_Museum]

Wonder why this reads
{arrow}
LANE
BIKE

instead of

{arrow}
BIKE
LANE

I know this isn't a simple mistake by the city worker who painted this, because I've seen this multiple times in multiple cities.

[Black Rose]

Makes sense to me....read the words as you approach them.

Around here they just paint a picture of a bicycle in the bike lanes.

[KeyGrip]

[greenLED]

One of the wonders of living in the tropics... hummingbirds!

This little fellow got inside our house and couldn't get out. We tried to coax him towards open doors and windows but nothing worked.

He finally dropped on the floor and wouldn't move. He wouldn't even open his eyes and I could barely see him breathing. Hummingbirds need amazing amounts of energy to survive, so I suspected this poor guy must've exhausted most (if not all) of his reserves.

Remembering a tip from an ornithologist friend of mine, I quickly prepared an oversaturated solution of sugar water and started "force-feeding" it to the hummingbird. At first, the poor thing wouldn't even open its beak, but slowly it started sipping from the syringe. Slooooowly but surely it started opening its eyes, and then, in the blink of an eye, it flew away! He was sipping sugar water for a good 5-10 minutes before flying away.

I leave you with a pic of this beautiful bird:

[TITAN1833]

that picture is one of the best yet,that humming bird is adorable thanks for posting

[PCC]

One of many nephews of mine.

[Flying Turtle]

The picture's pretty lousy, but the subject, a Pileated Woodpecker, is a rare sight around here. At least I haven't seen many. I took this handheld at full zoom (5x optical x 5x digital), so sharpness wasn't really expected.



I hadn't seen this bird before I heard it hammering on a tree. The sound is characteristically louder and deeper than that of other woodpeckers in this area. Hope it sticks around.

Geoff

[KeyGrip]

[B@rt]

sunset at 12.000 meter:

[TITAN1833]

Room for one more?

[The_LED_Museum]

The same "punkin patch" (pumpkin patch) I photographed just prior to Halloween 2008 and again on the morning of 11-18-08.
Guess somebody went "pumpkin smashing" (a popular Halloween prank) almost a month too late. .
This photograph was taken on the morning of 11-28-08.

[Crenshaw]

I expanded this poster..




so i could use it on my desktop...took ages to do too..



Crenshaw