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Did you make this sketch in you signature Janine?
Absolutely. :thumbs_up I'm dying to see how it turned out. Then we can bask in the glory of our joint venture :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Janine
/Claes
Ok... I still have not exhausted my supply of Paris pictures. Here is another batch, fresh from the scanner:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...TourEiffel.jpg
The Eiffel Tower... We went there straight after emerging from the Catacombes, which probably means that we achieved the greatest difference in height attainable in Paris that day.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...-Trocadero.jpg
Trocadero, seen from the tower.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...acre-Caeur.jpg
Sacre-Caeur.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...acre-Caeur.jpg
Catchy tunes played at the steps of Sacre-Caeur.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...-laVilette.jpg
Cité des Sciences de Paris la Villette - Not the best known of the attractions in Paris, but pure heaven for tech nerds.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...-laVilette.jpg
Cité des Sciences de Paris la Villette.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...hampslyses.jpg
The last few meters of Tour de France 1993 - at Champs Élysées. Miguel Indurain won.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...eepinatree.jpg
This poor bloke waited and waited for hours... and had fallen asleep when the tour went past him.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...TourEiffel.jpg
And finally: A couple of night shots of the tower...
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...TourEiffel.jpg
The view from the tower is sooo nice. The city looks very well planned and organised.
You must have missed taking part in the race, Claes, knowing that you too are fond of bicycling.
Do people go up the Eiffel tower? (or is it something silly that I have asked?)
And the sleepy guy looks very cute...hehehe......
I am taking the next flight to Paris, now...:nod: :D
It is, and I believe I recall reading somewhere that the wide straight boulevards is a result of Napoleons wishes. It came at a price, though: Lots of buildiings were wrecked in order to satisfy his craving for splendour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
To be honest... No. It is a gruelling race. I'll venture a guess that the part of the riders anatomy in most intimate contact with said vehicle suffers badly... ;) :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Oh, yes. The picture of Trocadero was taken from the top platform, some 300m agl. I would not reccomend anyone suffering from vertigo to go there, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
He also looks like a chiropractor patient. Can you imagine what his neck must have felt like after hours in that tree, with his neck in that angle? I shudder at the thought. :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
May I reccomend that you wait a few months? If you go now, you'll most likley find it too cold for your liking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
/Claes
Dont know what to say, but the view is very beautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
:eek2:Quote:
To be honest... No. It is a gruelling race. I'll venture a guess that the part of the riders anatomy in most intimate contact with said vehicle suffers badly... ;) :lol:
I understand :nod: If that is so, its a wise decision not to take part, only do it if its short distance :D
I knew there was something silly that I asked :blush:, so the tower is 'The Eiffel Tower'Quote:
Oh, yes. The picture of Trocadero was taken from the top platform, some 300m agl. I would not reccomend anyone sufferig from vertigo to go there, though.
Where is my mind these days?
I saw the picture again and I was wondering, how did he climb the tree? There doesnt seem anything to hold on to for climbing. Oh, well, people do silly things all the time and can fall asleep anywhere. :rolleyes: :DQuote:
He also looks like a chiropractor patient. Can you imagine what his neck must have felt like after hours in that tree, with his neck in that angle? I shudder at the thought. :sick:
In Paris?Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
/Claes
:lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
Possibly....:D
Okay i didnt take these pictures but i think they are lovely and wanted to share them with you all!
This was taken by my friend Mickaela when she was visiting the west of Ireland.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...laspics042.jpg
And this was taken by my Friend Jens Friend Andy. Its a picture of the custom House in Dublin.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q...laspics043.jpg
wow , Cales:thumbs_up:
Niamh, breath taking pictures,loved them so much, you have real talented friends.
wow.. all your pictures are so beautiful... sorry to be off topic but.. what kind of camera would u recommend to shoot pictures like these..? u dont have to give the specifics... just like the company name, like canon, sony, etc.
welcome to lit net Alma. Nice to have you here. What you should look for is how many megapixels the camera has. The more the higher the resolution. It should be at least 5 megapixels in my opinion.
ohhhh ok. Thank you, Virgil!
If you go back a few pages....Claes, has given the specifications of the camera he uses...
Welcome Alma :wave:Not really off topic at all, in my opinion: As Maddie pointed out, I posted theQuote:
Originally Posted by beautiful_alma
specs of my cameras back in post 140 in this thread.
The good news is that you don't really need anything fancy.
An ordinary pocket model will take you a long way.I agree, but on the other hand I also used my mobile phoneQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
(with a mere 2 Megapixels camera) for some of the shots I have posted here.
I've been knocked off my feet by the flu a couple of days, and crawled out of bed today, looking for something to do. I found some old pictures from the early 80's and fired up the scanner:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...grasssnake.jpg
A thoroughly peeved Swedish grass snake: I caused its foul temper by chasing
it around for a couple of minutes until it ran out of steam, so it would lay still
and let me take the pictures. That's a known method: Reptiles don't have all
that much stamina. :lol: The downside is that they get quite "cranky" as the late Steve Irvin would have said.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...stian-1985.jpg
This is San Sebastian in northern Spain in 1985 or thereabouts.
I was there to visit a supplier near Bilbao.
/Claes
I only wish i had some of that talent!Quote:
Originally Posted by miss tenderness
oh man!
real nice pictures , especially the snake one:thumbs_up
Very nice, Claes. I really like the San Sabastian shot. Do you recall the exposure time? And I assume it was on a tripod?
There is more to that story: Guess what happened when I snapped it? The snake (not venomous, I might add) struck at the camera! Can you imagine what that looks like through a viewfinder? :lol: I snapped the shot, the shutter blinked, and then I saw a blur ending in a wide open pink mouth straight into the lens! Yours truly whooped and sat on his backside... :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by miss tenderness
The exposure time was roughly half a minute on low aperture, but I had no tripod with me... So what to do? I rested my hands on a fence and held my breath... As a matter of fact I never use a tripod. You can usually find something that gives you the support you need for a hand held shot (It is vital to hold your breath when using that trick). This picture is heavily retouched btw: The copy was badly damaged, with lots of big stains and scratches. I basically saw it as a challenge, wondering if i could sort it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
/Claes
:lol: :lol: That made for a good laugh. Thank God it wasn't venomous.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
Thanks on your technique for long exposure. I'll keep it in mind.
If it had been i would not have been quite so close... :D Still, I'm not keen on letting any snake bite me (they are not renowned for brushing their teeth, and a bite can cause a bad infection). I have been bitten twice by Swedish vipers however, but their poison is pretty mild - like hornet or so. One of them got me in the ankle when I stepped on its tail (which I can quite understand - I would be annoyed too, if someone stepped on my tail), and the other one got me in the thumb while I was picking strawberrys. No ill effects from either bite, fortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
/Claes
Wow, I have never been biten, but then again I don't ever try to get close. Perhaps Claes you can replace that Crocodile Hunter guy on TV. He used to handle snakes. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
I'd rather not... You remember that old song, From a distance? That sounds like a good rule in that respect. I mean to say: Our vipers are one thing but he was handling more "potent" snakes, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
The next one is in fact a number of pictures clobbered together to one. I was experimenting a bit with a new (to me) application called Autostitch:
The view from our bedroom window this AM:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...G/Baksidan.jpg
/Claes
I hope you feel better, Claes. :)
I lovvved all the pictures, they are like masterpieces. You should show these to NGE, believe me, they'll come running after your pictures :nod:
The view from your room is soooo pretty :) I liked the bowl-shaped effect you tried to give to this picture.
You are very brave, Claes, to chase a snake to take a picture. If it were me, the only running I would be doing will be to save my life from the snake :p :lol:
Thank you. I do, actually, but I can feel that it will take me a few days to get back to speed again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
I honestly did what I could to diminish the bowl shape, but there is a reason for it: That picture consists of 31 smaller pictures taken from the same spot, but in different directions, so essentially the resulting combination gives the same result as a fish-eye lens: Pretty near a 180 deg view.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
Brave? Some would call it exceedingly stupid... :lol: Anyway, the trick is to keep the snake from escaping by dashing around it and repeatedly block its way as it tries to escape. After a short while it runs out of steam, and just lies there... You know: Pant, pant, pant, hiiiiiissssss, pant, pant, hiiiiiissssss! It's actually quite funny. I would not recommend that little trick with a poisonous snake, though.... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Madhuri
/Claes
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Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
:D
a hero!
I liked the new pic, nice view, keep showing us.
I always drop by here to see if you have posted new pictures:thumbs_up
These are older pictures as you can see from the date but I was reminded of them during a conversation with someone. We were in the Badlands, driving through the park and came upon a herd of buffalo blocking the road and bringing traffic to a standstill for about 30 minutes. They are truly massive creatures, there was one a mere 3 to 4 feet from our car that was seriously at least as big as the car and I'm sure weighed more. :rolleyes: The last picture was taken when he had moved a safe distance away. :p These pictures are scanned from the originals and on my computer, are kind of dark but it's been my experience that my monitor tends to do that so I'm hoping you'll be able to see things clearly.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3.../roadblock.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...faloherd-1.jpg
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...al/buffalo.jpg
Oooooo, big guys, there :eek2: Now, that is a serious roadblock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Idril
/Claes
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Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
It was! They certainly aren't as wide as a car, but there are many that are as tall and as long and it's a little unnerving to have only a small amount of metal and glass between them and you. Whenever you go to the badlands, you always hope to see some buffalo, it's one of the greatest thrills of going there but no one wants to be that close. :p That guy standing outside his car is crazy. As you can see, he was the only one who was so bold, everyone else stayed in the relative safety of their cars. :lol:
nice little cows, Idril :)
Claes, your photos of Paris are amazing.
Niamvh
i love this pic, Niamh :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
This is gorgeous... wow...
Woo! that is an amazing picture Claes!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClaesGefvenberg
wow, contryside(a sigh!)..Quote:
Originally Posted by Idril
I'd love to live there....
nice pic,Idril:)
Amazing pile of photos we have got over here! :)
I finally found that shot of me as "Hobo Bo" approximately 1992, a most vintage year. Taken inside Merillat Industries, Atkins, VA Door Plant. That's a door railing/building station behind me.
http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l1...ane/HoboBo.jpg
A few more from Paris:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...useinParis.jpg
Moving house in Paris can be complicated...
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...andGoddess.jpg
Did you know that you can find both the Eiffel Tower and The Statue of Liberty in Paris?
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...edesTernes.jpg
Unusual facade at Avenue des Ternes
/Claes
I took this photo when we were in Florida
Nice pictures all. Just a question for Claes on that movng picture in Paris. That looks incredibly dangerous. You even have cofee tables right under the latter with people sitting there. Are they crazy?
You captured that gorilla very nicely. There is a lot of feeling in that picture: Well done. :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Rachy
I agree: It probably was pretty dangerous. As you can see there was nothing to prevent people from walking under the ladder, and many did exactly that. Fortunately, all went well as far as I could see.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
/Claes