What kind of a terrorist are you, Virgil ?!!!! :lol: :lol:
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What kind of a terrorist are you, Virgil ?!!!! :lol: :lol:
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Originally Posted by Virgil
I don't have burst on mine, I use an M4A1, which only has semi-automatic and fully-automatic. If it makes you feel better, though, even seasoned marksmen have trouble consistantly hitting a target on burst or full-auto. In real combat, if you have to switch to burst or full-auto, something has gone terribly wrong... Also, you probably didn't have the cool laser optics that we use... they make things a little bit easier than using the old iron sights ;)
It was Pow Wow time again last weekend. Here are a few of my favorite pics:
I was slightly obsessed with this guy because I simply loved his headdress. I must have taken about 10 shots of him alone but I'll just post one. ;)
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010163.jpg
Here's a 'little' version of him:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010179.jpg
I like this one because it's just a sea of color. All these pictures were taken during the "Grand March" because the competition part of it is always at weird times of the day or night, like midnight or something so we always miss those. Anyway, this is when everyone who is participating in the competition gets to come out and it's always quite impressive:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010172.jpg
Another dancer I was slightly obsessed with:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010185.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010186.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010189.jpg
And this guy wasn't quite as colorful but his dancing was very energetic:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010193.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010194.jpg
And a couple more from the weekend, not from the Pow Wow but from the prairie:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010210.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010232.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010228.jpg
Idril, I really like your Pow Wow pictures: They are both interesting and well composed :thumbs_up
/Claes
such colorful pictures, real nice
I meant semi-automatic. I'm not exactly an expert on these things. I don't have one, but I was able to try one once. At a shooting range, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by djy78usa
The pow wow pictures were really nice Idril. How colorful!
I am not entirely certain, but I think they may be some heat sensing organ.Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
And here is the cuddly one, just for Niamh:Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...m/IMG_1405.jpg
And here is another picture of a lemur acting cute... I'm not quite sure what it was up to:Quote:
Originally Posted by pussnboots
http://www.online-literature.com/for...&pictureid=479
Pickpocket Lemur?
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...m/IMG_1430.jpgA Blue collar Worker? Skansen Zoo
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...m/IMG_1438.jpgI am soooooo tired.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...m/IMG_1439.jpgWho needs braces anyway?
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...m/IMG_1462.jpgNormally a major traffic hazard, but this one is tame: Elk at Skansen Zoo.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...m/IMG_1479.jpgEvening in central Stockholm.
/Claeshttp://www.online-literature.com/for...&pictureid=479
Great pictures Idril and Claes. But Claes...
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Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
:lol: :lol: let's not go there. :D
These are great pictures claes... What a psychdelic Frog!!! :lol:
Well, i've noticed that there are no pictures of Northern Spain, so just to give you some travelling ideas, here are a few pictures from around here...
http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/d...8/DSCF2914.jpg
Bay of Santander
http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/d...8/DSCF3626.jpg
Monastery of San Juan de Gastelugatxe (On the coast around Bilbao)
http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/d...8/DSCF3684.jpg
Noja (small town on the coast about an hour from Bilbao).
http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/d...8/DSCF2490.jpg
Picos de Europa, near Santander
These are a few landscapes. I'll try posting cities sometime soon and food, which I'm sure will help to convince you!! ;)
Great pictures, but tell me more: Where is that, more exactly? Around San Sebastian (been there) perhaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by lugdunum
/Claes
Thanks Claes. :)
And yes you are correct it is near San Sebastian. By Northern Spain I meant Bilbao and surroundings. (Basque country, Santander etc.)
I've added the exxact places blow the picture.
lugdunum, I love your photos. It does make me want to come to spain. Lovely. I love sea shots and these are superb! The mountain peaks are beautiful, too.
lugdunum, the photos are really awesome!:0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25311638@N07/2737571647/
Nothing fantastic, just something I took from my window :)
Darn it! Oh never mind.
Anyway nice pictures lugdunum!
Those were some amazing photos Claes! I loved the little blue frog! Are they slightly poisonous by any chance? Think some species of frogs are, just can't remember which...
And lugdunum, you've made me wish I'd spent my holidays in the Basque country!!
Slightly poisonous? No not at all. More like absolutely lethal.... It is a Poison dart frog from South America, and the first time you touch it without gloves will almost certainly be the last.Quote:
Originally Posted by vheissu
/Claes
Awwww! What a cutie!!!! Thanks Claes! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
Have you got any amazing pictures of Scandanavian Forests? maybe even during winter? :D
Nice pictures Lug! :)
In the wild they can be lethal, but most species will just make you sick. The frogs don't produce their own poison, though, it comes from the food they eat in their natural habitat. They are completely harmless if they are raised in captivity, as I assume this one was.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
I finally was able to access my files on disks and transfer them to my new hard drive; hurrah! I spend hours last night in organizing my photos from years ago. I finally found all of my garden photos from about 5 yrs back. Here are some of my favorite closeups. I don't have the best camera, and it is old now (I need a new one with greater pixels), but I think it took fairly good closeups, at the time.
I loved your closeup shots, Claes and the all the photos on the last page were wonderful. I must go through this entire thread one of these days to view all the photos. I know I have missed much. Claes, yeah, I think that Lemar really likes you...hummm...I agree with Virgil, I won't go there either...
Here are mostly closeups; I uploaded an entire Garden album in my profile page so these are a sampling. Please feel free to visit my page and view the entire album.
http://www.online-literature.com/for...&pictureid=846
Nearly perfect pink lily bloom
http://www.online-literature.com/for...&pictureid=853
Balloon Flower
http://www.online-literature.com/for...&pictureid=861
Big Pink Hibiscus
http://www.online-literature.com/for...&pictureid=863
Horizon Lily
http://www.online-literature.com/for...&pictureid=862
Horizon Lily, Lemon lily, and New Guinea Impatients,sedum (forground).
:thumbs_upYep. They somehow use the poison from the insects they eat to make themselves dangerous, so it's all about what kind of insects they devour. Still, those blighters have to be handled with gloves.Quote:
Originally Posted by djy78usa
No worries. It's not me in the picture: I was at the other side of the camera, laughing my head off together with the rest of the crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Janine
Hey: Lovely flowers...
/Claes
Pretty Horizon Liliys Janine. I miss my garden, The first year in my condo I planted some Iris bulbs, they grew huge. My neighbors thought they were fake at first.
Thanks, papaya, this reminds me of a funny story. I was in the craftstore one day and they had these busy flowers with big blossoms - peonies. They did indeed look very realistic and the lady standing next to me confessed that she plopped them into her garden each year and people did think they were real blooms. Now your case is the opposite - how funny! You must have given them lots of fertilizer. I bet they were pretty. I grow iris' also, and find them easy to take care of. Unfortunately that Horizon Lily bit the dust eventually. I think something ate it, from the bulb and roots; it just disappeared after about 5 yrs. I loved that one best and I am not an orange person, but the shade was so striking when it bloomed. It did remind of of the Horizon at sunset.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Thanks Claes, I love to photograph flowers and scenery. I like closeups but I do need a better camera.
I would be laughing my head off too. Once a white domestic goose, who lived on the lake in back of my house, and I nicknamed "Radar", got a bit too friendly with me one day. I kept knocking him on the beak and saying 'now that is enough of that'. It was embarrassing, but so funny. I went in the house and told my family - "I think Radar wants to mate with me!" Ususally, he was very docile and comical, but this day his hormones must have been running overtime. Shortly after that, he stalked away to find a nice female of his own species. He never attempted that action again with me.
Scary (slightly blurry!) pink clouds
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...inkcloud-1.jpg
Janine, those flowers are lovely! Shame those star lilies are the only flower whose pollen i have an allergy too.
Fifth that sky is amazing! but you know what they say! "red sky at night, Shepards Delight. Red Sky in the morning Shepards warning." what this dusk or dawn?
Does anybody know what kind of bug this is??
http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/9717/img0053va5.jpg
Cant say i do....
it looks like a cicada
Is that what they look like? i've always wondered...
The darn thing was huge!! It asked me if I wanted to get breakfast this morning when I went out to the porch.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I watched "Bad Santa" earlier, and figured I had to share this picture. Its my buddy Miguel... erm, I mean Santa, at a Christmas Party.
http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/k.../drunkmike.jpg
Your friend looks really...exhausted...there djy78usa. It must've been all those...wishes that wore him out. ;) :lol:
Janine that looks like such a beautiful garden. I just love gardens but I never have the energy to have a big one myself, it's always so dry and so hot here in the summers, I would have to be out there every single day and I just don't have that kind of commitment.
I've always been careful not to post pictures of my boys, mostly out of respect for them and their privacy but they're older now and have given me permission. I think I have posted a few of them but here is a formal introduction:
Isaac, 15, my emo son at the Pow Wow:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010198.jpg
And here's a picture of him getting his remicade treatment, which he gets as part of his treatment for Crohn's disease. He gets this infusions every 6 weeks, it's become such a huge part of our lives and I realized I didn't have any pictures. He looks so sad in that picture but he's just drugged up, they fill him full of benadryl to stave off an alergic reaction so he's always out of it for a few minutes, then he shakes it off and we sit around, reading, watching tv and eating for the next 4 hours.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...P1030766-1.jpg
Sam, 13, the writer...and he has great taste in music, just like his mom! :D He's the baby although he's actually quite a bit bigger than Isaac but that's because Isaac has Crohn's issues and has hardly grown since about 6th grade. Luckily I think he's hit a remission and will finally grow. This picture was taken the same day as the Pow Wow, at a little Mandan Earth Lodge village a little west of the Pow Wow grounds:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010153.jpg
And here is a picture of he and I standing in line waiting to get in to see Barak Obama speak in Grand Forks. It was freezing that day and the line was ridiculous...and Sam looks like this in every single picture that was taken that day. :rolleyes:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...P1000493-1.jpg
And a nice one of the two of them at my parents' cabin, Isaac wearing his "pimp hat" :rolleyes:
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...P1000753-1.jpg
And another picture of the hat, this time with a different inhabitant,
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1010124.jpg
Thanks Niamh. It was dusk, but it poured it down with rain all the next day! Clouds were beautiful though. Last night we had really eerie pure white puffy clouds low on the horizon against a darkening blue sky but I couldn't get a good picture. Hopefully we'll get a repeat and I'll get lucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
those boys will be breaking hearts soon Idril!!!
Some recent pictures: Once a year Ekeby Airfield, about 2 km from my house is transformed, to house a veteran car and aircraft show.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1517.jpg
An old Austin
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1519.jpg
A Ford from 1926.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1520.jpg
Förstlingen II: A replica of the first steam engine produced in Sweden, in 1852 by Munktells in Eskilstuna.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1521.jpg
A biker on another old mount.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1522.jpg
Another picture of förstlingen (means The first, btw).
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1525.jpg
Something more modern: A powered glider.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1526.jpg
Old couple.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1527.jpg
A Zlin aerobatic trainer.
More to come.....
/Claes
Claes, I love these photos. I have been to many car shows in the past. My ex-boyfriend owned an old Model A Ford...not a convertible though - rather a coupe. We actually drove it to many places around NJ. It was great fun!
These photos are truly marvelous; I love the variety of the vehicales....the planes are something, aren't they? They look really slick. I don't know of the förstlingen ; was that an early train locomotive? How funny it is on tracks.
Have you ever seen a Stanley Steamer - those were so cool, but of course went by the wayside with gasoline gussling vehicles.
Is the read and white car a Ford? That looks like one a friend of ours owns but his is mint green, even the interior. I think he has another more two toned like this one. He does a lot of shows.
I will dig up a photo of my ex's car to show everyone.
I took these pics during the day.
A vacant land next to the apartment where I live. There are many coconut trees there.
As seen from my balcony
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/DSC01664.jpg
A close up of coconuts on the tree
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/DSC01666.jpg
The weather of this city is very pleasant; took these in the evening today
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/DSC01668.jpg
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/DSC01669.jpg
Nice pictures, Claes. :)
I wonder how that cyclist is able to maintain his balance.