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These photos are truly marvelous; I love the variety of the vehicales....the planes are something, aren't they? They look really slick.
They are. The very best gliders (with the exception of a few one-of a kind
experimental craft that are even better) have a gliding ratio of 60:1... I.e: They can glide 60m for every meter of altitude lost.
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I don't know of the förstlingen ; was that an early train locomotive?
Yes, but not for passenger traffic: It was used for industrial work:
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Have you ever seen a Stanley Steamer - those were so cool, but of course went by the wayside with gasoline gussling vehicles.
Nope... Never seen one. What does it look like?
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Is the read and white car a Ford?
I think so, but I'm not certain. Can any of you LitNet people help us out?
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I will dig up a photo of my ex's car to show everyone.
Yeah, do that.
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Madhuri
I took these pics during the day.
Aw... That looks so much nicer than the weather we are having...
Some more pictures from the same event:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1528.jpg
An old Jaguar in fantastic condition.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1530.jpgThis is a SG-38 Schulgleiter: A training glider from the 30's (I think).
It was towed behind a car.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1531.jpg
A nice bonnet ornament.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1536.jpg
A Lancia. I can't remember it's age.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1540.jpg
Take off with a (modern) glider in tow.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1538.jpg
The towplane is a Piper Pawnee, and used to be a cropduster.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1539.jpg
And off we go...
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...8/IMG_1549.jpg
Four pictures cobbled together.
Did you think a glider couldn't go aerobatic? Think again.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o.../IMG_1549a.jpg
The same picture, but... Well....
/Claes
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Wow Claes! I love those old cars! thanks for posting them!
Maddie, those views are beautiful! :D
Okay, so i invested in a new camera yesterday, so i could have a decent camera for my trip to Australia. My other two digital cameras are messed up and the camera on my new phone just isnt as good as the one on my old one. I bought a Finepix S1000. Its a beautiful camera. Took a couple of pics of flowers from my garden today! :D
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...photos0016.jpg
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...photos0015.jpg
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Okay, so i invested in a new camera yesterday, so i could have a decent camera for my trip to Australia.
A Fuji, right? Good on you Niamh. :thumbs_up When are you going down under, then? Use the time until you're off to keep practising with that new mount until you can handle it in your sleep.
/Claes
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A Fuji, right? Good on you Niamh. :thumbs_up When are you going down under, then? Use the time until you're off to keep practising with that new mount until you can handle it in your sleep.
/Claes
Yes its a fuji! :D This is it here! What you think?
http://multimedia.fnac.com/multimedi...7410037821.jpg
I'll be practicing a lot over the next few days to see what i can do with it! I go to Aus on Wednesday!
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I wonder how that cyclist is able to maintain his balance.
With the greatest of ease by the looks of things, but you have to take great care when going downhill: If your center of mass moves to far forward you will go for a really serious nosedive :sick:.
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Yes its a fuji! :D This is it here! What you think?
I think I like it, and I'm looking forward to seeing your aussie pictures here. :thumbs_up Have a safe trip.
/Claes
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Janine, those flowers are lovely! Shame those star lilies are the only flower whose pollen i have an allergy too.
Thanks Niamh, that was many years back. I like to take closeups. Sorry you can't enjoy the stargazer lilies - they are among my favorites. That I still have but some of the other more tender lilies went by the waysie - the orange Horizon lily I loved but now I think some critter ate it. They do that - the burrow underground and eat the bulbs. I really miss that one. I still have the Lemon lilys - anyone can grow those - very little care required.
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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.
Idril, thanks also for your compliments. As I said the poor garden is not like this presently. I made the mistake of making it too big and then it was uncontrollable. I don't have the energy or strength any more, to keep up with it. It needs a ton of weeding and now I completely rely on rain to water it; dragging the hose was a killer...ugh.
Idril, You have nice looking boys. I am glad you posted the photos. I feel badly for your oldest. By the way, he has such beautiful blue eyes. Your other son has such a devilish smile and look about him; I bet he is fun. I know someone with Chrones (sp?)disease and know it is a difficult thing to deal with. He is doing well now, but was diagnosed in highschool and has just gotten his master's degree. Not sure which med he is on currently but he is doing very well now, but he was on Remecide.
Nice photo of you, also. Now I know what you look like; very attractive and proud mom.
Claes, I will have to look up some of those funky Stanley Steamers. The look like old cars but they run on steam - I don't think they got too far though without breaking down. Good idea but had some drawbacks. Still they are pretty cool looking.
I did find a few photos of my ex's Model A and will post them soon. It was a lot of fun to ride in and it never broke down. Hey, Mr. Ford made them that way!
The planes are awesome!
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Claes, I love those gliders! My dad used to fly and we had our own little 4-seater cherokee for awhile and I remember him dragging me to air shows and I always loved them.
And Janine, thank you for the compliments, both for the boys and me. Isaac does have beautiful eyes. I remember when he was 3 and in preschool there was a girl there who told her mom, "He has the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen". :lol: A heartbreaker at 3. He has often been told how striking his eyes are and he really hates it but as I've told him many times, he's going to have to get used to it. ;) We've had some really tough years with Crohn's, every time I think we're starting to get a handle on it, it flares up again but...knock on wood...it really does seem to be abating a little bit now. He finally hit 90 pounds! It doesn't sound like much for a 15 year old but it was just a few months ago we were celebrating him hitting 80 pounds so that is quite a improvement.
And speaking of Sam...which we weren't actually but I was getting to him :p, he was on a class trip to Medora, which is in the South unit of the Badlands and the buses ran into a fairly large herd of buffalos. He got some incredible pictures so I thought I would share. He said while they were sitting in the road, stopped and surrounded by buffalo, they saw a herd of antelope running in the distance, a golden eagle was flying overhead and there were prairie dogs running around. A naturalist's dream.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1050530.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...l/P1050531.jpg
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great pictures everyone!!!
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Idril
Claes, I love those gliders! My dad used to fly and we had our own little 4-seater cherokee for awhile and I remember him dragging me to air shows and I always loved them.
Oh, great. I would have loved to have my own crate, but alas... Anyway, I had my glider pilots licence for 10 years or so (started flying when I was 15 years old, and had the licence at 16).
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he was on a class trip to Medora, which is in the South unit of the Badlands and the buses ran into a fairly large herd of buffalos. He got some incredible pictures so I thought I would share. He said while they were sitting in the road, stopped and surrounded by buffalo, they saw a herd of antelope running in the distance, a golden eagle was flying overhead and there were prairie dogs running around. A naturalist's dream.
Big brutes to put it mildly... I would be quite content watching them from inside a bus. Outside would be scary.
/Claes
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I've tried posting my photos but it won't work! :(
So if someone could please show me how to do it properly I would greatly appreciate it.
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I've tried posting my photos but it won't work! :(
So if someone could please show me how to do it properly I would greatly appreciate it.
Happy to oblige. I just hope my explanation makes some kind of sense here.
There are several ways to do this, but here is one of them:
Go to your profile, by choosing User CP on the left of your top of the page menu bar. When you get there you need to choose Pictures & albums from the left hand menu. Now you can open an album and upload pictures to it. From then on it is a simple matter of opening one of them to find the BB code below it, copy it, and paste it into your post.
If you already have your pictures available on the web, all you need to do is to copy the link and choose insert picture from the icons above your post, and paste the link.
/Claes
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Excellent pictures Claes. Beautiful mushrooms and those cherries look like glazed in sugar-syrup. Think about the organic life in those droplets on that clover-leaf, just like Blake's "eternity in a grain of sand" indeed. Absolutely beautiful!
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Happy to oblige. I just hope my explanation makes some kind of sense here.
There are several ways to do this, but here is one of them:
Go to your profile, by choosing User CP on the left of your top of the page menu bar. When you get there you need to choose Pictures & albums from the left hand menu. Now you can open an album and upload pictures to it. From then on it is a simple matter of opening one of them to find the BB code below it, copy it, and paste it into your post.
If you already have your pictures available on the web, all you need to do is to copy the link and choose insert picture from the icons above your post, and paste the link.
/Claes
Hi Claes /Many thanks to you! I have started an album, let us see if I can also manage to post them photos in this thread.
Pictures from my most recent holiday (1st week of September) : in Normandy. We had pleasant weather except on Day2 whilst we were in Honfleur. I bought a tin of Mčre Poulard biscuits ....delectable!
Etretat
http://www.online-literature.com/for...pictureid=1210
Le Mont Saint Michel
http://www.online-literature.com/for...pictureid=1211
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These are really really good (to all 3 people above on this page :) )
Claes it seems you have a knack for spotting poisonous but cute things: first that small blue frog and now those mushrooms, which actually look tasty!
What kind of lens did you use for the drops on the leaves?
Kafka the ones on the beach are stunning! If Wales is like that I should really go when I'm back in the UK
And bouquin, the scenery in Normandy must have been gorgeous. If not a bit chilly...
I won't upload any pics on this thread, my pc usually blocks when I try. But I have some on my profile page, so you're welcome to take a look :)
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Great photos on this page! I love the closeup's Claes, those clover leaves with droplets is an amazing photo. Is that really an giant ant hill; it looks like a mulch pile. I don't want to see the ants that come out of that hill; no thanks! The berries with droplets are beautiful, too. I heard the brighter and more colorful a mushroom, the deadlier....am I correct assuming that?
I love the South Wales photos, Kafka's Crow....I too would love to visit there. You photos make it very inviting. I love that opening in the rocks by the sea...nice shot...I also chuckled at the plastic blowup castle in contrast to the pretty pastel buildings in that one shot of a town...great photo.
bouquin, I have long adored this place - Le Mont Saint Michel. I recently bought this neat film called "Chronis" - all scenery/some cityscapes and buildings, in time-lapse photography; this site is well explored on the film...really featured. They show it from all angles and inside and the water coming in when the tide is high, which completely cuts it off from the mainland...isolated. The place has always fascinated me, so I go crazy when I see this part of the DVD....it must be so awesome there. I envy you actually seeing it. Lovely photo and not as I had seen it before in other misty photos.
I have no problem posting photos in here. I put them first in Photobucket, which is free to sigh up for and that service holds a ton of photos (I use it all the time); then I copy out the last (listed) URL code and simply paste into the body of these posts. Try that method, it should work for you. First, you must 'upload' your photos to photobucket, of course, but that is quite simple.
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Wow, Kafks, Claes, and Bouquin. Those are all incredible pictures!
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Janine, you cant identify poisoned ones with that method. There are fatal ones with simple white, brown. Those also have very common view, so is not safe to pick up without knowledge.
Also Claes's second mushroom photo, is an Amanita, very bright one, somehow edible. People eat it for hallucinogenic head (use as a drug).
[Never try it. Amanita is also poisonous. What makes the poison, is dosage. You use a piece, it makes you high, you use second piece it makes you die. -for instance-]
What is surprising for me, in any kind of child book you see lots of amanita, like this, they are everywhere from Alice Wonderland to The Smurfs, I wonder if they dont know this one as a drug in Western society.
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Excellent pictures Claes. Beautiful mushrooms and those cherries look like glazed in sugar-syrup. Think about the organic life in those droplets on that clover-leaf, just like Blake's "eternity in a grain of sand" indeed. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you.:D That picture came out rather better than it looked in the viewfinder, and that proves an important aspect on photography: That we should take chances when we use our cameras.
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Hi Claes /Many thanks to you! I have started an album, let us see if I can also manage to post them photos in this thread.
Events seem to indicate that you did. Good job, and nice pictures too. I hope I'll be able to visit Mont Saint Michel one day. :thumbs_up
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Claes it seems you have a knack for spotting poisonous but cute things: first that small blue frog and now those mushrooms, which actually look tasty!
Tasty... I had a feeling that I ought to stay away from that one and judging from tractatus' information that seems to be a good idea.
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What kind of lens did you use for the drops on the leaves?
Just the ordinary lens of my pocket camera: A Canon Powershot SX-100.
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Is that really an giant ant hill; it looks like a mulch pile. I don't want to see the ants that come out of that hill; no thanks!
:lol: What? You don't like ants? No worries though: The anthill may be rather oversized, but the inhabitants are very ordinary. I stay away from that place when they are active though: There are quite a few of them in it.
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Also Claes's second mushroom photo, is an Amanita, very bright one, somehow edible. People eat it for hallucinogenic head (use as a drug). [Never try it. Amanita is also poisonous. What makes the poison, is dosage. You use a piece, it makes you high, you use second piece it makes you die. -for instance-]
So now we know. Thanks for the information, tractatus. :thumbs_up
/Claes
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Awsome pictures Claes, Kafka, Bouquin and LadyW !! Those are some cool shots :nod:
Here is a picture I took of a rainbow last week, as seen from my balcony :)
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...5/DSC01671.jpg
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What lovely pictures you have all posted:) I need to go get some from my part of the world to share, but I love to see the ones that everyone else posts. Thanks to all of you for sharing.
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Niamhs Aussie Pics part 1!
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Niamhs Aussie Pics part 2!
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We certainly do have some talented photographers here. I enjoyed all your pictures immensely.
Niamh, Australia must have been an experience of a lifetime, for sure -- lovely pics you got there (my fave was that one of the lone bird -- something haunting about it).
Claes ... you could work for a magazine as a professional photographer, honest! :nod:
papayahed -- awesome job of tending to that beautiful flower, and awesome picture, too!
Janine, your garden is so lovely, and the flowers are photographed just perfect. :)
Fifth -- love the pink clouds. But then I love anything pink! ;)
Idril, your pictures are beautiful as always. Very cute buffalo, awesome pow wow shots. Your sons are sweet, and if I may, Isaac could EASILY be a male model, he just has that look. And your doggy? I LOVED that photo! :)
Maddie, awesome pictures -- every day is like a holiday to wake up to such sights! Wow!
Kafka, you have beautiful photos, too, I loved the sailboat one the best. :)
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Thanks Kiz! I have a lot of pics of birds from over there. Well... alot of pics of birds with their backs to me!
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Niamh,what a bulky but tranquil pictures!
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Niamhs Aussie Pics part 3!
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Wow I love those photos Niamh!! :) I'll post some of mine, we certainly had different experiences of the east coast - seeing as mine was a school educational trip mainly in Canberra :D
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cant wait to see your pics of Canberra. I didnt get down there in the end. My next lot of pics are from Cairns...
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Oh, I love those picture, Niamh! Keep posting, it's like a little travelogue!
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Oh, I love those picture, Niamh! Keep posting, it's like a little travelogue!
:lol: It is! I'm actually posting them in order! :p
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Wonderful picture Niamh. I love the kangaroos. :)
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My fav is the one with the three Koalas! :D oh and the turtle.
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Wonderful photos, Niamh. I am so glad you could retrieve them from your camera and post them, for all of us to enjoy. The zoo animals are grand and I also love those three Koalas. I like the turtles - I love turtles; all of the animals are interesting actually -you did a great job photographing them! That crocodile photo is a prize-winner. I love the angle and how well you captured the texture on his body...nice lighting in that photo also.
The photos that preceeded these are great. I love that opera house - how interesting a structure it is. I have seen it in travel sites but you took some angles that make me understand how it is constructed.
The harbour looks great; sorry it was hot and rainy but still the photos all came out nice and what a great bunch of memories they are. I will check this thread often to see what else you post. The photo of you sitting on the bear chair is adorable and you look so pretty in that one; so happy and relaxed also. You have a very friendly face - you can tell you would be someone nice to meet someday. I like your glasses, they suit your face nicely.
What kind of a camera did you use to take these photos, Niamh?
Kizzo, thanks so much for the compliments on my garden photos. I like to take closeups. I really need a new improved camera but I actually think my older camera takes better closeups than other photos, such as snapshots; this fact is a little strange to me.
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I only bought a new camera the weekend before i went away. Its a fujifilm finipixS1000fd. I love it! I have some wonderful shots of sydney from the zoo. I'll post those next.
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Hey I'm not going to post it here, but check out my photo I just up loaded into my album and I just put into the photo freaks social group. The one taken at Portofino. I'm proud of that one. Here's a link to it: http://www.online-literature.com/for...pictureid=1441.
