The new Random Pictures Thread:

[Unca Walt]

Only snook I ever heard of was the one referred to as a loud mouth snook by foghorn leghorn.

AKA: "Black Stripe Grouper"

 

[EricTheCat]

Brave Oriole

 

[EricTheCat]

 

[WillA2]

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Really good photos. Did you use any filters over the lenses?

 

[EricTheCat]

Really good photos. Did you use any filters over the lenses?

Thanks! No filters and no processing other than resizing the images. I could tell the sunset was going to be nice 20 minutes before the magic happened.

 

[WillA2]

Thanks! No filters and no processing other than resizing the images. I could tell the sunset was going to be nice 20 minutes before the magic happened.

I like those moments when the lighting is perfect.

I have taken more than a few shots of my daughter while she is dancing. It took a while for me to understand the lighting from stage to seats in an auditorium. After I figured that out, I get pretty good shots when she dances. Every now and then, a gem.

 

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another tiger...

http://imgur.com/P6DO6Qy

 

[WillA2]

My children and I were following a few ducks through a creek near our house. Up to the point they just didn't think they would shake the humans and flew off further down stream. Fun times.

 

[WillA2]

 

[Bottom Feeder]

Man, lookit them little ducks go (second photo). You'd think they had an evinrude strapped on.
<heh>

 

[Alton]

Begging for caption ideas...

 

[Bottom Feeder]

Protect your toilet paper stash with a dead cat — works every time.

 

[engineear]

Cat-Jenga

 

[WillA2]

Financial Graph Demonstrating the Beer Virus - Dead Cat Bounce in Toilet Paper Value

 

[TAEZZAR]

My son took this with his new drone. It is a freeway interchange in Los Angeles. I don't know why it is so grainy. He said the lack of traffic from the quarantine is phenomenal.

 

[WillA2]

My son took this with his new drone. It is a freeway interchange in Los Angeles. I don't know why it is so grainy. He said the lack of traffic from the quarantine is phenomenal.
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Cool shot. The grainy look may have something to do with the movement of the drone and the shutter speed of the camera combined. When the target or camera is moving, the shutter speed needs to increase for a clearer image. I know a few guys who use drones to capture images for use in future roadway improvement visualizations. Using the existing landscape imaging with surveyed points to tie them into a scaled coordinate system so the new design can be shown integrated with the existing. This is a growing field.

 

[TAEZZAR]

Cool shot. The grainy look may have something to do with the movement of the drone and the shutter speed of the camera combined. When the target or camera is moving, the shutter speed needs to increase for a clearer image. I know a few guys who use drones to capture images for use in future roadway improvement visualizations. Using the existing landscape imaging with surveyed points to tie them into a scaled coordinate system so the new design can be shown integrated with the existing. This is a growing field.

Thanks Will. He is an accomplished drone photographer. I don't know the story, yet, behind the grain, He fills in for a guy that does drone photos on a whale watching boats out of Newport Beach, he is good.

Here is some of his work:

 

[EricTheCat]

Had a mom deer feeding a tiny fawn in my yard today. Taken through screen and glass through my garage window.

 

[TAEZZAR]

Mom see's you !

 

[EricTheCat]

From a good distance too. Mothers in nature can be quite vigilant.

 

[WillA2]

Thanks Will. He is an accomplished drone photographer. I don't know the story, yet, behind the grain, He fills in for a guy that does drone photos on a whale watching boats out of Newport Beach, he is good.

Here is some of his work:
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Those are some excellent examples.

 

[TAEZZAR]

We really enjoy the animals in our yard.

 

[Goldhedge]

 

[TAEZZAR]

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WOW !!!!

 

[EricTheCat]

We really enjoy the animals in our yard.

Looks like paradise to me!

 

[TAEZZAR]

During tuna season last year, I took this shot with my phone, so the quality is not the best (that's my shadow taking the shot).
This is to show how tight our spaces are. My boat is behind my gray Dodge & my buddy's boat is behind his white Dodge. We usually gather a bunch of looky lews when we back in !

This was taken while the boat was moving. We disturbed the bird that is trying to fly away, but he is too full of fish to get off the water. Note all the birds in front of him.
Yes, fishing was great here.

 

[TAEZZAR]

Looks like paradise to me!

Thanks, it is !!! I tell my friends that I have found the place that I am happy to die in - BUT not soon !

 

[TAEZZAR]

Had a mom deer feeding a tiny fawn in my yard today. Taken through screen and glass through my garage window.

Your place looks pretty sweet too !

 

[TAEZZAR]

This another buddy's boat. We are running 35 mph in the open ocean & this was, of coarse, taken while running that fast. We were coming home from a great tuna trip.

 

[EricTheCat]

Your place looks pretty sweet too !

Thanks! Sometimes I wish I held out for something further out. Really though I shouldn't complain. It is the best place I have lived so far.

 

[TAEZZAR]

OK, so I bragged about my son's photo work, BUT I failed to tell you what a bad pilot he is !
After taking this drone shot, he failed to miss the 14KVAC lines over the pond & HIT THEM, sending the drone swimming sinking I should say. I called a friend to come over & get it. The pond is 16 feet deep.
My son now has a new drone !

 

[BackwardsEngineeer]

Dang Taez, that is some pretty rural beautiful country to have major transmission lines cutting through... your place is amazing!

 

[Someone_else]

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"Enjoy this moment. You will spend the rest of your life in terror, until a hunter shoots you or a mountain lion rips you apart limb by limb."

 

[EricTheCat]

 

[TAEZZAR]

Dang Taez, that is some pretty rural beautiful country to have major transmission lines cutting through... your place is amazing!

Yeah, it goes up about 1/2 a mile, to 4 other homes. There is too much water to put it underground.

 

[Bottom Feeder]

I failed to tell you what a bad pilot he is !

He missed your greenhouse.

 

[pitw]

A pic for Eric to prove I do got birds and why I don't post pics of them.

And a skunk that ain't gonna bother the new chicks that are coming Thursday.

 

[EricTheCat]

I love grilling weather.

Grilled something different today. Chicken teriyaki. I prepped the chicken this morning and let it marinade all day in the sauce. After skewering the chicken I boiled the leftover sauce so I could baste while it grilled. My god that was good! Poor focus pic:

Mourning doves.

Nighthawk.

 

[Uglytruth]

The National Museum of the U.S. Airforce.. FROM THE AIR!

 

[TAEZZAR]

More of my son's photo work. This is San Diego's bioluminescence beach. No photoshop !