Great shots! For the black and white, do you set that on your camera or do it in editing software?

Very nice, I like that one a lot. http://cellar.org/2015/cheers.gif

Thanks!

I used editing for that one. I use ArcSoft Photo Studio 5. It's a really old tool, but you might can still find it somewhere on the webz. Try some of those old software archive-type sites. It's pretty basic, not a real steep learning curve, but it has it's limitations.

I have a Canon EOS Rebel T6, and it has the setting to shoot black and white, but I haven't used it.

Now you're shooting pictures through a telescope?

No, I shot that one through a tree.

:D

300mm, handheld, through a maple tree. Over-sharpened in post.

A Simpsons sky behind a barn:

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John Ford called puffy, white, cotton ball clouds like that "a director's sky".

Nice. But if those clouds drop any water that barn won't help.

The roof is most of what's left. I'd like to know how that much of the rest of it went away and the roof stayed.

"Reclaimed wood" is popular. "reclaimed rusty corrugated sheet metal" less so.

"reclaimed rusty corrugated sheet metal" brings more $$ at the recycler.:p:

I was gonna make picture frames outta old barn wood, and sell them at the flea market.

Till I found out what the flea market stalls were going for.

Yeah, the walls of that barn are a floor in some rich man's house now.

Depends on whether the recycler knows they can sell the wood to a lumberyard or contractor. Of course, if you're bringing wood to a recycler, they'll figure you don't know that, and may well offer to take it off your hands for nothing.

The sides are easier to remove than the roof.

I believe that one of the four winds reclaimed the wood from that barn.

Yup probably or the roof would be on the ground.

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And through a filthy windshield, no less...

Resized, and sharpened just a tick.

Looks nice! You can't even tell it's through a dirty windshield!

Hippie tractor, probably used for growing peyote and mushrooms. :haha:

It's art. Someone is painting all over town. Same-ish style.

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And avocados

Wouldn't avocados be hipster food? I'm not sure because I'm out of touch and don't care as long as they stay off my lawn. ;)

Avocados, or hipsters?:p:

Oooh shit...Hipster avocados!!!

It's a wafa!!!! A ten inch wafa!!!

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Well, it's limp, now, but...

Is that rock under the ice on the near side?

That crick was served up neat.

No ice. But it is on the rocks.

:D

That's not ice on the near side after the falls? Fooled the shit outta me. :smack:

Nope, just bare, dry-ish rock. It was almost 60 degrees that day.

Nice! I would have been tempted to chill on the rock there.

~Martin Riggs

From April 2011:

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I like that

High enough for terrorists and escaped slaves to hide, but it sure is pretty. :thumb:

It's my desktop wallpaper atm.

That's wheat, btw. I thought maybe ya thought it was grass.

The other side of post #79:

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They've put Xmas lights on it, btw.

It's so simple, it's profound:

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Popdigr said "How old ya reckon that fence is?" I said "About 75 - 100 years, give or take." He said "Aw, it ain't that old."

Then I took him to the other side of the cemetery to show him this tree, a sugar maple:

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Big pic apologies.

I didn't know it was wheat but pretty sure it was a crop.

I posted this pic a good while back:

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I liked the lighting, the honey sunset, and all, but I started experimenting with editing the original pic, and came up with this:

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I weighted the color balance heavily toward the cyan side of the slider (too much), and my honey went a way, to a degree. Then I sharpened a bit.

I ended up with a pretty noticeable outlining effect on the does backs, though. Don't know whether I like it (the pic) better or not, but now I know how to counter honey-colored sunsets, if I ever want to do such a foolish thing.:)

From April past:

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From June 2017:

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I was the at park looking for a picture to take the week before Christmas.

And I found one.

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This turkey is a dead duck.

He isn't pining for the fjords.

This birb is no more.

Not a mark on him. There is an active rock quarry just across the crick from where I found him. I thought, at first, that maybe they were blasting, and debris struck, and killed him. But, no marks of any kind on the birb. I wonder if blasting might have scared it to death? He was about two feet from the base of a tree, like he just fell dead outta the tree.

He either had just died, or he'd been there a good while, as there was no apparent rigor mortis.

There may not be an external cause, he could have just croaked. Might have been a smoker, or drinker, or sexual deviant... not like that's a bad thing. :headshake

Maybe he had... Tubirbculosis

Just hope it wasn't the birbonic plague.

Whatever the cause, I think it's safe to say that he's stuffed.

Maybe he was just done. Did you check his popup button?

It was just the one birb.

Onebirbculosis, maybe.




That was outstanding, btw.

Also a good one.:D

Frealz.

He damn sure didn't have the flew.

OMG. You people stop right now with all the cleverness. You are KILLING me.

:lol2:

Yeah, if this bunch ain't good for nothing else...:D

So, this RR crossing has a sign that says to be prepared for up to a 30 minute wait. The train sometimes stops to let another train go by.

I came upon such a situation:

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Aw, c'mon, man...Eight cars? Ya couldn't pull up eight car lengths?? Looks like they'd have some way of knowing if they've cleared the crossing.

Maybe this was a longer than normal train, idk. I waited about 15 minutes, I had nothing better to do, I was on Photo Safari.:D

There's a house on either side of the road about 75-100 feet beyond those tracks. I would lose my mind (repeatedly) if I had to hear that clanging bell for a half-hour.

Or, as the real estate agent would say, "charm".