What is that green dot? It seems too circular to be in the road. I couldn't enlarge it in flickr to see it closer.
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What is that green dot? It seems too circular to be in the road. I couldn't enlarge it in flickr to see it closer.
You know what, lads? I think we have our very first paranormal photo anomaly on old LitNet. If Art Bell hadn't retired for the forty-third time, I'd call him up. Clearly it's otherworldly, an automated signal beacon from an old alien ship (extra-dimensional, of course), whose crew died long ages ago, and which has been drifting, signaling into the darkness ever since. Then again it could be a really small, circular ghost. Or part of one. Or there's a portal in my driveway that I never noticed before, and if I'm not careful, me and my Honda are likely to slip through into the land of fae, where cruel and whimsical nature spirits in the service of the White Queen will have their way with me. And my car.
That stac, buffeted by waves in Tonywalt's picture looks as if it has the texture of a sponge.
How can you past a picture directly from the PC on the post? So far I managed to post only links with images on Litnet, but not the images themselves.
There is a way to put a picture on the site and then link to it. I go a round-about way of taking the photo from Google and then putting it in an anonymous Photobucket site. I don't know if that is worth bothering doing any more. Perhaps just a link to a shared picture on Google is adequate. I don't know what the best solution is. Ideally I would like some folder in Google for pictures that I make public.
So, you don't have a clue what it is?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar
I read some years ago about people finding "orbs" in their photographs. Here's one link that popped up from a quick search: http://www.orbwhisperer.com/
Thanks, YesNo. That seems a really roundabout way of doing it. I notice that most of the pictures come from Flickr. I shall experiment some with the edit pad.
<facepalm> Orbs... Orbs, he says... You've taken me back to my Coast 2 Coast AM days, especially when they were having a slow night--fresh outta ufo abductees and such--and the only guest they could find was someone talking about orbs or ghost stories overheard while sitting in a bar or something. ;-) I do think I remember guests talking it on the show, thanks. As for me, I've only got two orbs, and I'm pretty sure you know where they are. :-0Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Here is what can only be described as firewood, when it was freshly stacked in my garage late last year.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1659/...4e90bfce_c.jpg[url=https://flic.kr/p/EBsDeg]Firewood, on Flickr
Here's the orb up close. I was going to touch it up a little to make it more interesting, but I don't know how to do that. I had enough trouble cropping it.
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/...dars%20Orb.jpg
If you look close you can see the alien's four eyes.
For someone who lives in the middle of nowhere, this looks rather civilized.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar
Yes, you can. Now I was also thinking they look like suction cups, suckers, like a bug has for crawling up walls. Or maybe three suckers and a penis. I'll go out there tomorrow and look.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
Oh, yeah, it's one of the things I love about this place, it has all the modern amenities and yet is located where other humans ain't.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
It has happened:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1549/...58d46a27_c.jpgS7, on Flickr
Congratulations on your new phone. I considered taking a picture of my phone but then I realized I needed the phone to take the picture. Then I figured I could use a mirror.
These are the dilemmas that try men's souls. Now, those of you wot have read Tolkien will be familiar with the White Tree of Gondor, wot stood in the Court of the Fountain in Minas Tirith. Well, when I moved into this house, I looked out and saw that lo, I have a White Tree of Gondor standing out front.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1671/...40a088b9_c.jpgWhite Tree by Archibald Heatherington Nasty-Face, on Flickr
P.S. that's taken with the new S7 and I do see what people have been saying about the camera, the light and shading really stand out.
Birch trees are one of my all-time favourite kinds of tree.
This next I took in Stockholm a few years ago when I went there, taken with whichever phone I had at the time, probably a Galaxy S3.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1546/...0b2aedd6_c.jpgStockholm ship by Archibald Heatherington Nasty-Face, on Flickr
Very nice. Here are some logs I peeled the summer before last.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7505/...647d9ab8_b.jpg
Oh, that's so nice, North Star. Really took me into the mood of it, both the photo and the look of the logs. Why do you peel them? I'd be interested in learning about this. Meanwhile, here's a handsome soldier boy who was standing guard outside the Royal Palace in Stockholm:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1717/...265a2f42_c.jpgStockholm Royal Palace Guard by Archibald Heatherington Nasty-Face, on Flickr
Stockholm is a beautiful city, , a city of islands, sometimes called "the Venice of the North" (a Holm is an island in Swedish).
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Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar
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Originally Posted by North Star
North Star,
I think that it is this abillity to discover the hidden magic of the homely landscape and bring out the patterns on objects that wouldn´t be noticed otherwise that make your pictures so interesting.
Thank you, Danik. Yes, I do think that it is important to properly see everything, even if our minds might very much prefer not responding to things we see all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
Well said. Walking just now found this little artifact on me driveway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danik 2016
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1538/...35e8c4ab_c.jpgbluebird by Archibald Heatherington Nasty-Face, on Flickr
My parents are building a cabinet over at Lake Kitka, some of the logs were from trees that fell in a storm, some were cut down from where we will build, and the timber will be used in the building.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar
Yes, Mr Archibald:wink5: , I like this picture of the gentle gift the bluebird left you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrion Cheddar
Some photos of that project.... The place is a small cape, with a small bay on one side and a larger part of the lake to the other side, but the wider waters are further ahead, straight ahead from the cape, in the direction most of those scenery photos show. In the last photo, there's our outhouse on the right, and on the left there's our only neighbour.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1484/...bed55c80_b.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1706/...1c36ef73_b.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1550/...c11e8f4e_b.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1584/...4365dec5_b.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1696/...78e0946d_b.jpg
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1476/...b5f6e359_b.jpg
Outhouse? You do mean just for while the construction's happening, right? Y'all will have indoor plumbing when the job's done, won't ye? ;-)
No plumbing, but we might make the outhouse more sophisticated, perhaps. Not that there's anything wrong with the outhouse as it is - it doesn't smell, and the compost makes a mighty powerful fertilizer.
An outhouse makes sense. Do you have running water or a hand pump for a well?Quote:
Originally Posted by North Star
It looks like you have sawed the wood into planks on site. That's pretty cool.
Me, without plumbing, electricity and some wicked fast internet, I ain't going there no how. :-0 Now for some more Stockholm:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1597/...afc04aaf_c.jpgStockholm by Archibald Heatherington Nasty-Face, on Flickr
Of course we have Internet and electricity there.
We have a hydraulic pump and pump water from the lake, but we take our drinking water with us from the town.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
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Now those same buds a couple of weeks later, this time with the new S7:
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1653/...90da82f6_c.jpgBuds2 by Archibald Heatherington Nasty-Face, on Flickr
Interesting changes in nature. Does your new phone take better pictures than the old one?
These beautiful buds deserve a follow up until their full blosson with a camera that reproduces their shades and details. So does North Star´s project. I hope for more interesting pictures from you both.
Happy Easter all!
Yeah, that's kind of why I posted that second photo of those buds. Knowing nothing about photography, as I do, I don't know the reasons for it or the right terms, but the pics taken with the S7 are richer, the colors smoother and more natural. I know Samsung altered the S6 camera and apparently reduced the number of megapixels as a trade-off for better low light photography, I think, but it's more than that. I've heard other early adopters praising the camera in the S7 and I can see why.Quote:
Originally Posted by YesNo
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1489/...2b14556d_k.jpgstreet photography cayman islands capture cave caves night photography gregory crewdson alec soth Todd Hido by Tony Walton, on Flickr
Crystal Caves, Cayman Islands (yes, some collaboration, for the hanging girl look)
Oh, you have limestone caves in Cayman! Very nice.