Merc started it.:D

Dewey Lake, Mount Rainier National Park.

What were you doing there at that hour? You know Bigfoot is hungry after the lean winter pickings.

Very nice!

Nice! where are they from? Looks like you attended some sort of event.

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Is that second one Henry Winkler?

no, it's Fonzie

This was my 2nd best attempt at Music

:lol:

Otherwise, nice pic Jinx.

Very nice Jinx, I like how the focal point is off center but right on the pickups where your eye naturally moves to.
Reminds me of this photo I took awhile back:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/IMG_0900.jpg

great action pic!

Thanks Merc. I was trying not to use the flash since I was so close to the guys playing, ended up working out for me pretty well.
Here's some more recent stuff:

Practicing car fires with my department
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1010309.jpg

Niagara Falls trip last week with the girlfriend
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1010169.jpg

Nuts About Potatos!
 

A little scrotal humor there...

Looks like a scrotal Tuma... :D

Arnie:
"It's NOT a toomah"!

No, it's a toobah!

tuba loons?

First picture I took of my son, Liam. Funny thing is, I dragged a big ass medium format camera into the L&D to take this.

Heh. My son's name is Liam as well.

.

That would make a great crackhouse. :haha:

Disturbing....

which one of you is my real father?

Attachment 27760
Artist: Dale Chihuly

My mom loves Chihuly!

That's a nice pic, impress!

I adore Chihuly. He's an American treasure, IMHFO.

Chihuly? Isn't that a Mexican hot sauce?

You're thinking of Chihuahualy. They put that on hot dogs.

You know about that?

I do some amateur photography. I mostly stick to structures. My real love is photographing abandoned, run-down buildings in black and white. Here are a few I took of a run-down one room schoolhouse in the county I live in.

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_0794.jpg

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_0806.jpg

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...9/IMG_0815.jpg

Yeah, I saw that, jinx. Have to think about submitting.

nice pics, Impress, that first one looks like an oil painting

Those are very neat! Of course I love that flower and bullitt that shot is amazing.

I've taken a couple in the last week or so but am either too lazy or too busy to upload them.

One is a shadow pic of my cats and ornamental grass. I hope it is as cool on the screen as it appears on the camera display.

Calla lily (first pic) & wild marshallow. The calla lily was my first choice for the Treasure Hunt. The flash washed out the top of the wild marshmallow, but, I like how it made the interior of the bloom stand out.

Second choice for worn.

Second choice for Through the Looking Glass.

A couple of also-rans for my "worn" shot.

Lovin' the stair shot.

How many times have how many people put how many feet in almost the exact same spots to create that particular wear pattern? (I love shit like that!)

The stair shot is outstanding, I love it.
And the first one... get the hell off my lawn, ya damn whippersnappers. :haha:

The stairs have an interesting history. The building was built to serve as a hospital for vets after the Civil War, and the stair treads were built with a slight downward slope so they could be easily washed and the water would drain.

It's a very impressive building. Ornate.

You mean... :mg:

Sweet William

colorful!

I didn't take it, but it is neat. (plus I was too lazy to find a better thread.)

How awesome would a hammock be in this spot?:rolleyes:

(from Astronomy Picture of the Day)

alt toy

That's cool. I like the reflection.

shopped

I was trying to take some pics of these little pink flowers (some kind of rose, I think) Momdigr has in one of her flower corners, when I suddenly sensed I wasn't alone...

The pink flowers.

Yeah, that's what I liked too.... almost makes me wanna get a big ass mural airbrushed on there... some elk and waterfall... maybe some naked chicks and a confederate flag or something... tasteful y'know.

Another worn reject. This one would have made a better entry, but I didn't think I'd make it out to the old C&O Canal this week.

Tow rope marks in the stone around an old canal lock. And a nice crop of poison ivy.

New Microscope
 

I picked up a cheap 100/200/300x microscope with a digital camera module included.

Here are my first pictures of a dried flower and some pollen.

I am not happy about the bluish 'dead zone' in the middle of the slide. It appears that the center of the built in LED is focused on the center of the slide.

The included software did not run on Windows 7. I used Irfanview and TWAIN to take the pictures.

That's pretty neat.

fluid also ran:


I like this picture better, but the other looked more 'fluidey' to me