Photo of the Day - 🍁 September 2022 🍂

[OldMacs4Me]

Cottonwood Trees fascinate me, but for whatever reason I find them quite challenging to photograph. Anyways this is the first of a few attempts. This one shot in Fort Macleod, AB
Fuji XP90 camera

 

[sparksd]

And people are wondering why the kids don't play outside anymore while cars take precedence…


Whoa… how did you end up on a flying B-17?

They came to Seattle and you could buy a flight - not many opportunities and you have to buy fast. It was really interesting - there was a couple of old guys who had been aircrew in WWII to talk with, too. Side note - my father-in-law (RIP) flew in B-24's as a door gunner and was shot down the day after D-Day over the Med. He was the sole survivor, rescued by a fishing boat and sheltered by the French. But he was betrayed to the Nazis and spent the rest of the war in a POW camp, with brutal treatment as he was a non-com, not an officer. He had a large scar on his forehead where they closed his wound with a stapler.

 

[Snowlover]

Got the winds but not the extreme rain from hurricane Kay yesterday, so no flooding.
Here is shot of our little walking bridge washing out and about to float downstream. From 2017.

 

[macguru212]

 

[jazz1]

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

 

[Clix Pix]

 

[Apple fanboy]

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Coffee filter?

 

[Clix Pix]

Coffee filter?

Nope, although it does rather look like one. You're close in that it is something used in the kitchen, though....

 

[Apple fanboy]

Nope, although it does rather look like one. You're close in that it is something used in the kitchen, though....

Tea strainer? Or steamer?

 

[katbel]

 

[AZhappyjack]

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Wow... that's a beautiful photo.

 

[Clix Pix]

Tea strainer? Or steamer?

It's a sink strainer. Last time I was in the grocery store I saw these sink strainers hanging on a display and thought, "that has photographic possibilities," so although I didn't need it for the sink, bought one and then eventually got out the camera and experimented.....

 

[gaswerks]

two sheds ...

 

[CK Williams]

Heidelberg Castle

 

[AlaskaMoose]

“Twelve O’Clock High”. The bombardier’s position, with Norden bombsight and view in a B-17G Flying Fortress, the “Aluminum Overcast”, on a flight over Puget Sound, WA. Interesting facts: the B-17G had 13 .50 cal. machine guns with a 13 rounds/sec. firing rate. The plane carried enough ammo (5970 rounds total) for approx. 1 minute of sustained fire per gun – they had to be fired in short bursts to husband the ammo (an ammo belt for the cheek gun is visible on the left in the photo). Depending on mission length, the B-17G could normally carry up to 8,000 lbs. of bombs. In contrast, a new F-35C in non-stealth “Beast Mode” can carry up to 22,000 lbs. of ordnance internally and externally (including 220 rounds for it 25mm Gatling gun – about 4 secs. worth of firing).

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That's very interesting. I have been in the "boom" of KC tankers while refueling aircraft a few times, but that's about it.

 

[Strider64]

“Twelve O’Clock High”. The bombardier’s position, with Norden bombsight and view in a B-17G Flying Fortress, the “Aluminum Overcast”, on a flight over Puget Sound, WA. Interesting facts: the B-17G had 13 .50 cal. machine guns with a 13 rounds/sec. firing rate. The plane carried enough ammo (5970 rounds total) for approx. 1 minute of sustained fire per gun – they had to be fired in short bursts to husband the ammo (an ammo belt for the cheek gun is visible on the left in the photo). Depending on mission length, the B-17G could normally carry up to 8,000 lbs. of bombs. In contrast, a new F-35C in non-stealth “Beast Mode” can carry up to 22,000 lbs. of ordnance internally and externally (including 220 rounds for it 25mm Gatling gun – about 4 secs. worth of firing).

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My Grandfather and father (After WW2) worked for Burroughs Corp. that developed the Norden Bombsight.

 

[sparksd]

That's very interesting. I have been in the "boom" of KC tankers while refueling aircraft a few times, but that's about it.

Neat - I've been in the cockpit of an AWACS on the receiving end of that boom.

 

[bevsb2]

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I have that feeder for my hummingbirds. Works well.

 

[someoldguy]

G9 , 12-60@60 , f5.6@1/1600 , ISO 200

 

[AlaskaMoose]

Neat - I've been in the cockpit of an AWACS on the receiving end of that boom.

Very good!
Thank you for your service. I was one of the guys who took care of electrical systems, but on other aircraft (F-111, A-10, KC-135, and so on), long ago

 

[Sal09]

 

[CK Williams]

I have that feeder for my hummingbirds. Works well.

Agreed. We have a couple of different styled ones in the yard but the local hummingbirds prefer this one by far. I don't know if it is the multicolored glass, the perch size and position, the shaded location, or maybe a combination of some/all of these.

 

[Chafka]

Park Trail

 

[AZhappyjack]

My wife's bouquet.