I'm posting this photo, not for its quality, but how a photo can be misleading. It looks dangerous getting that close to a sleeping Rino to get a close-up shot, but this particular Rino loved people and would follow you around like a dog. It liked you to scratch behind its ears. It wanted nothing to do with other Rinos. The photographer in the picture is a German Policeman who worked for me in Somalia. It was scanned from an old photo I had.
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Photo of the Day September 2020
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The Canada geese are back! They've been gone most of the summer but now that it is getting cooler I imagine they will be hanging out here a lot throughout the next several months. I hadn't realized how much I'd missed seeing them around, and hearing their honking!
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I’m glad, just this once, you bothered to use your skill with a real camera and lens rather than all that fancy CGI you’re always spending hours over to impress us.
(Back story for others who may have missed a since deleted thread was a surreal set of comments by someone insisting an image was CGI generated)
I didn't witness these comments, but did receive attacking Personal Messages from both parties concerned, with one of them very maturely blocking me as they sent their joyful piece of vitriol to me, so I couldn't respond at all and the other possibly confusing me with a particular Scottish astrophotographer who spends all their spare time creating very lifelike CGI scenes, apparently!
It looks like the children need some time outside again, or the ball-crawl needs more balls (to borrow from a famous scene in the TV series the Simpsons).
We have been very lucky in this sub-forum not to have the experience of constant tantrums and dummy-spits that ensue in other corners of MacRumors.
Got a new toy. Originally bought to scan old slides (still waiting for the adapter from Amazon), however I think it will be fun to try some macro again.
(Meike 85mm, 2.8 1.5:1 macro)
Yeah. Hopefully this isn’t inflammatory, but I do think that all this isolation is sacrificing our mental health for the sake of our physical health. We’re trying to rely on technology to supplement a very old form of human interaction—physical contact—and there are simply things people say online that they would never dream of saying to another person face-to-face, so it just doesn’t work the same. There’s also no reliable means to measure sincerity in some random poster online. What might just be brunt can be just as easily perceived as hostile, and most everyone seems on edge as it is. I’ve been working from home for most of this time, and I thought it was great at first, but there’s just something missing that is really starting to get to me—even if someday COVID-19 is behind us, has it set precedence for every other situation just like it that has yet to come? The year 2020 already has a negative connotation to it! Can we really make that a new normal?
I am seeing the same in a couple of different places I frequent online, where people (normally new members/visitors) are lashing out at others with reckless abandon, possibly as a result of the added tensions to the new way of life experienced by so many at the moment. We (like many animals) are a social species and you are correct that online is not a substitute for in-person contact. So many things are lost in translation online, especially the subtleties of interaction and the responsibility we all normally have at play with our interactions with others.
What I do notice is that there are a certain subset of our species that have for many years gotten their inteactions more online than in-person who seem to be remaining above the bitterness thrown around (for the greater part, there are no absolutes, obviously).
Another from my drone at Kanyaka Station as I quickly flew around the site grabbing still frames. This time the homestead, the previous image was of the shearing shed.
I didn't think about it at the time and have since rectified this oversight, but I should have removed the graduated filter from the drone when taking these sorts of images, as it has darkened the upper third or so of the scene quite dramatically, which is perfect when capturing images with bright skies in them, but isn't so beneficial here!
I didn't think about it at the time and have since rectified this oversight, but I should have removed the graduated filter from the drone when taking these sorts of images, as it has darkened the upper third or so of the scene quite dramatically, which is perfect when capturing images with bright skies in them, but isn't so beneficial here!
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Looks like a model.Another from my drone at Kanyaka Station as I quickly flew around the site grabbing still frames. This time the homestead, the previous image was of the shearing shed.
I find with these tiny sensors, even with the 1" sensors, they tend to have a certain, dare I say 'CGI look' to them! Add in the perspective of looking from above and it almost becomes the tiny town look.
On the Highline .......
Went on a ' field trip' to the High Line in NYC today ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line) . I decided to take a single focal length lens , a 15/1.7 , on my G9 . It's a tiny lens that roughly equates to 30mm on full frame . I hoped to optically abuse it via shooting in bad light , into the sun , reflections , and all the stuff that gives unwanted artifacts in our pictures .
G9 , 15/1.7 , f4@1/400 , ISO 200
Went on a ' field trip' to the High Line in NYC today ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Line) . I decided to take a single focal length lens , a 15/1.7 , on my G9 . It's a tiny lens that roughly equates to 30mm on full frame . I hoped to optically abuse it via shooting in bad light , into the sun , reflections , and all the stuff that gives unwanted artifacts in our pictures .
G9 , 15/1.7 , f4@1/400 , ISO 200
A tilt shift lens on a drone would be fun. But tricky to engineer!
Could you imagine how tiny the movements would be and the mechanisms to create said movement! [Mind-blown!]
Plus the drone wouldn’t be able to move at all.
There’s also a doom-and-gloom media/social media portrayal of the world. Every time I actually go out into the world, I’m reminded that most people aren’t as bad as this all seems. Sure, there are bad apples, but as we walk our neighborhood, or go to a store, it’s refreshing to have just everyday dialog with a real human. It’s as though we aren’t really all at odds with each other after all! The internet can bring out the worst in folks. I’m old enough to remember the marvel of actually being able to talk to someone, near instantaneously, that is in a completely different part of the world (such as yourself). I can remember a time when we weren’t so ”global,” and this conversation would have been much more expensive, or quite frankly, impossible, than it is today.
Oyster Point-200920-26.jpg by Charles Martorelli, on Flickr
You can just call me - "Hulk Hogan" 😀 😀 😀
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Spotted Horse
Google Pixel 3a - out for a drive, grey and cloudy. Saw horses in a field, stopped to take pics of two brown ones. As I approach the fence, a beautiful spotted horse trots over to me. Love her braided mane.
Google Pixel 3a - out for a drive, grey and cloudy. Saw horses in a field, stopped to take pics of two brown ones. As I approach the fence, a beautiful spotted horse trots over to me. Love her braided mane.
Another scan from the old film camera...
Lordomat C35, Leidolf Wetzlar Schacht-Travenar 35mm
Cheers
Hugh
Lordomat C35, Leidolf Wetzlar Schacht-Travenar 35mm
Cheers
Hugh
I think that Squirrel has been drinking the Miracle GrowYou can just me - "Hulk Hogan"
There's a lot of wounds on that poor Rhino! Was it breeding season?
