Re: Random Pictures Thread Part III

**Nyctophiliac** · 05-04-2009, 03:52 PM

I think it looks great as it is as well! Age can be very sad, but a great texture for light to play with.

All the pictures were at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton near Aylesbury. One of the stations on the Original Metropolitan Railway - at the far reaches of 'Metro-Land'.

Very much worth a look if you're in the area.

**gollum** · 05-11-2009, 03:46 AM

Maaaaate ... that is the best bang for your buck dream machine... you gotta be kidding ... is this yours?

Err wanna swap.. lets see I got a slightly used Nitecore Ex10.... they're really quite good have you ever seen one? LOL
what about a full can of pepsi OR coca cola... ?

wait oh all right take both....

go on
think of it as a character building exercise

Originally Posted by 4sevens

I took this one after a detail

So heres another pic from me ... love this thread btw

Geoff that's a nice shot of the mushroom... were you out looking for mushrooms

**The_LED_Museum** · 05-11-2009, 06:54 AM

Wheelie bins (wheeled garbage cans) on the curb for garbage day; awaiting their turn to get dumped by the dustman (garbage man) into his dust lorry (garbage truck).
Contrary to intuition, the green can is garbage, and the blue can is recycling.

Doesn't get much more "random" than this.

**Flying Turtle** · 05-11-2009, 08:14 AM

Originally Posted by gollum

Geoff that's a nice shot of the mushroom... were you out looking for mushrooms

Not a mushroom hunter, though I wish I knew enough to find the safe ones. Sometimes the woods around here are just full of them.

Geoff

**gollum** · 05-11-2009, 08:55 AM

yes I wish there was time to learn about these sorts of things
that particular mushroom looks very tasty...

heh heh been wondering if I'd ever use those icons.

and a random pic ....

**Monocrom** · 05-11-2009, 01:03 PM

Tough to get more random than this... Puppy dressed up as a Teddy Bear. Cuteness on top of something cute.

**4sevens** · 05-11-2009, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by gollum

Maaaaate ... that is the best bang for your buck dream machine... you gotta be kidding ... is this yours?

Not mine anymore

We took that thing to Shotshow 2008 as a project. Months later we had to lose it.

Here my latest automotive project...

**qip** · 05-11-2009, 02:40 PM

you know thats a chick car

**Illum** · 05-11-2009, 02:58 PM

thought this was a funny pic

Yesterday I was at an astronomers get together doing solar viewing. Bring around noontime we had the sun's glare above us, we an impromptu dark room was improvised. While the concept was successful we failed to recognize that theres kids of all ages there, one actually tripped on the canvas

**4sevens** · 05-11-2009, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by qip

you know thats a chick car

Yeah thats what they say. Mazda couldn't shake that chick image for two decades.

However, there is no denying that the Miata is THE most successful sports car in the world by numbers. The statistics tell it all. It was so successful the name Miata was more well known than Mazda (oops). They even tried to shake off the Miata name for MX-5 (unsuccessfully).

From an engineering standpoint, the miata is one of the most balanced production cars ever produced. 50/50 balance front/rear, left/right and even axially (roll). It was one of those right place at the right time thing for Mazda - they resurrected the British roadster and set trends for decades to come.

Lucky me, I found this inexpensive host to put a 405hp LS6 engine from z06 corvette / cts-v. It's going to retain most of it's 50/50 balance since it's an aluminum block. Ok.... I should stop rambling

Now you know my OTHER hobby.

**DM51** · 05-12-2009, 01:26 AM

Illum, you can't fool me. That's ET there under that sheet, checking the camera angle before doing the Halloween scene.

Is your real ID Steven Spielberg? Do tell! LOL

**gollum** · 05-12-2009, 02:17 AM

Originally Posted by 4sevens

Here my latest automotive project...

bet you were sad to see the Atom go...
the Mazda MX-5 is big here in Oz...
always been the dark horse ... as there are many mods done
by enthusiasts
Bullet roadsters are the most potent,a small company stuffing lexus V8's into them ... they're just down the road from me (50miles)
here is a link for you... might find some good info (just in case you didn't already know of them)

WELCOME or search bullet roadcars if this link doesn't work

I always thought they should have put a rotary engine in them... 20B would have been supercar territory @450bhp

**The_LED_Museum** · 05-12-2009, 05:12 AM

Here's more proof that I was the sysop (pronounced "

") {short for "system operator"} of a dial-up BBS from 07-21-89 through 07-21-99.

This is my name tag used during the Western Lights Convergence 1992 when Searchlight BBS Software had a significant upgrade.

I was operating my BBS with Searchlight BBS software when this gathering was held.
Western Lights was held in mid-November 1992; I remember getting a ride from my now-deceased best friend Paul Casey to the event (it was significantly south of downtown Seattle where I lived at the time) -- Paul also ran Searchlight BBS software on his own BBS at the time.

**Monocrom** · 05-12-2009, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by gollum

I always thought they should have put a rotary engine in them... 20B would have been supercar territory @450bhp

For a car that'll be used as a weekend toy, that's fine. But rotary engines are absolutely p*ss poor when it comes to reliability.

**speedster** · 05-12-2009, 10:59 AM

Originally Posted by 4sevens

Yeah thats what they say. Mazda couldn't shake that chick image for two decades.

However, there is no denying that the Miata is THE most successful sports car in the world by numbers. The statistics tell it all. It was so successful the name Miata was more well known than Mazda (oops). They even tried to shake off the Miata name for MX-5 (unsuccessfully).

From an engineering standpoint, the miata is one of the most balanced production cars ever produced. 50/50 balance front/rear, left/right and even axially (roll). It was one of those right place at the right time thing for Mazda - they resurrected the British roadster and set trends for decades to come.

Lucky me, I found this inexpensive host to put a 405hp LS6 engine from z06 corvette / cts-v. It's going to retain most of it's 50/50 balance since it's an aluminum block. Ok.... I should stop rambling

Now you know my OTHER hobby.

If you have an online album or a site dedicated to this project, I would love to see it. I myself am into cars aswell. Driving an Atom must have been fun. Did you stall it? lol

**4sevens** · 05-12-2009, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by speedster

If you have an online album or a site dedicated to this project, I would love to see it. I myself am into cars aswell. Driving an Atom must have been fun. Did you stall it? lol

www.swaptastic.net
Communing in the atom was torture. I have a chipped tooth from it.
That stopped me from grinning ear to ear really quick. Stall?

**greenLED** · 05-12-2009, 11:53 AM

Originally Posted by Beamhead

A couple HDR shots taken with my $99 Canon then stitched together(see link below).

Beam, speaking of stitching images together, check out Autostitch. That software is DA BOM'!

**Illum** · 05-12-2009, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by DM51

Illum, you can't fool me. That's ET there under that sheet, checking the camera angle before doing the Halloween scene.

Is your real ID Steven Spielberg? Do tell! LOL

"ET" Revealed

**speedster** · 05-13-2009, 09:06 AM

Originally Posted by 4sevens

www.swaptastic.net
Communing in the atom was torture. I have a chipped tooth from it.
That stopped me from grinning ear to ear really quick. Stall?

You know, not giving it enough gas before you let the clutch go, and then the engines dies.

**4sevens** · 05-13-2009, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by speedster

You know, not giving it enough gas before you let the clutch go, and then the engines dies.

That actually rarely happened. The car was only 1300 pounds. Just the inertia from the engine would kick it forward.

**MedusaOblongata** · 05-16-2009, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by Enzo Morocioli

Sure do.. Here's the unassuming cave.. Doesn't look like much is going on at first...

Is that La Jolla? Down the rope?

**The_LED_Museum** · 05-25-2009, 05:17 AM

I bet the guy who accidentally left this behind shouted "O {censored}!!!" rather loudly when he got his front-end loader back to the garage and looked at the end of the arm.

Another front-end loader nearby already had its bucket, so I know that machine didn't lose one.

Seen along Military Rd. S. in Federal Way WA. USA on 05-23-09.

**gollum** · 05-25-2009, 09:45 AM

darn it ... I knew my keychain felt a bit light this morning
hey could someone drop it over to my place?

here's a lace monitor in a tree
north of Noosa in QLD Australia

**RA40** · 05-25-2009, 11:22 AM

Old book and glasses:

Stitch from our '08 trip to Japan. This is from the Satsuma Brewery looking over Kirishima-shi, Kagoshima. The far right tree in the foreground, the cherry blossoms can be seen.

An overdone shot of the blossoms during spring in Kirishima Japan. (This is a re-sample from a much larger print size and is pretty hacked here. At the moment I'm lazy to adjust it for the appropriate size. I'll do it later.

)

An roll-sweet red bean Japanese pastry roll.

Enjoy

**The_LED_Museum** · 05-28-2009, 08:03 AM

From the Commodore 64 demo "AIDS DEMO/TDC" that I wrote & released in mid-September 1993.

**Kilovolt** · 05-30-2009, 02:58 AM

This fellow was crossing my garden at 4 p.m. a strange hour for him who's a real night guy.

As you can see he wasn't overly worried about the camera either.

**Coop** · 05-31-2009, 05:34 AM

Taken with the latest addition to my toy collection... My new Canon Powershot G10

**Flying Turtle** · 06-01-2009, 05:31 PM

Took a little trip to the site of the Woodstock music festival.

Geoff

**Illum** · 06-01-2009, 07:37 PM

boil paraffin until it boils, then add a cup of cold water in the middle

**RA40** · 06-01-2009, 08:20 PM

Nice...how did the ceiling fare from that?

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