Random Photos

[DennisN]

I managed to catch lightning last night.
It was a thunderstorm and I set up the camera filming the night sky.
I recorded only one lightning strike, and I looked though the frames and found one bolt hidden in there:

 

[rsk]

Auto-focus fail. I was aiming for the cute baby duck

 

[berkeman]

Yeah, it's like trying to take a picture of a deer in your backyard, but you're shooting through a window. The window will end up in focus...

 

[rsk]

The duck was quite a way to the right when I first raised the camera and then suddenly decided to make a bolt for it and I was trying to track it, - I didn't even notice the grass, think it wouldn't have been in frame if the duck had stayed where it was.

 

[DaveC426913]

The duck was quite a way to the right when I first raised the camera and then suddenly decided to make a bolt for it and I was trying to track it, - I didn't even notice the grass, think it wouldn't have been in frame if the duck had stayed where it was.

You didn't have time, of course, but the trick is to press the shutter down halfway when you first point the camera out at the water. This will focus it at the appropriate range and keep it locked at that range regardless of any intervening targets. This is when practicing with one's camera pays off.

Alternately, if you have an idea what kinds of shots you can expect ahead of time, consider setting your camera to manual focus at infinity. If it's bright enough, you should get everything from some dozen feet or so to infinity in-focus by-default. That'll cover 99% of any wildlife you come across.

 

[rsk]

You didn't have time, of course, but the trick is to press the shutter down halfway when you first point the camera out at the water. This will focus it at the appropriate range and keep it locked at that range regardless of any intervening targets. This is when practicing with one's camera pays off.

Thanks, I do usually do this. I think this time because it jumped out of the way just as I was taking aim I somehow missed, maybe clicked too quickly.

 

[morrobay]

 

[DaveC426913]

Coral?

 

[morrobay]

Coral?

Barnacles on white plastic buoy, as can be seen offshore. Originally for cordoning off swimming area. But like just about everything else they do incompetently around here - In disarray.

 

[morrobay]

Upkeep is not too big around here. Gulf of Thailand

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Einstein's desk right after he died. Firstly, now we know what killed him - Philosophy

I was reading his failed derivation of his GUT in the paper just above. I noticed that the only problem is that he made a sign error.

 

[rsk]

Another one from FB memories. It's the direction they're pointing that had me flummoxed. How did they get like that?

 

[gmax137]

Donner Pass, CA
Abandoned RR Snowsheds

 

[morrobay]

No end to these rolling restrictions

 

[Keith_McClary]

Dripping water in a coal mine make these ice formations.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[StevieTNZ]

The famous "Perhaps you recognise me, it's your favourite president" (ASSUMPTION) - random photo

 

[morrobay]

Mixing red white blue water based paint.

 

[Keith_McClary]

Mixing red white blue water based paint.

Will it end up like the "favourite president" photo?

 

[Keith_McClary]

 

[morrobay]

I don't know about these photos Keith

 

[Keith_McClary]

I don't know about these photos Keith

After >15 years the ash tree is squashed between the spruce trees.

 

[Leo Liu]

Meow! (Got stared by a confused stray )

 

[Leo Liu]

Summer in the City. Disco Skaters Central Park.

They look great. Did you take them recently? It is rare to see someone using film camera today (a positive comment).

 

[morrobay]

They look great. Did you take them recently? It is rare to see someone using film camera today (a positive comment).

See photos in # 63 reply

 

[morrobay]

At the Naklua seafood market. She actually works there.

 

[Keith_McClary]

 

[skyshrimp]

Indeed you can have Mediterranean style anywhere View attachment 272584

This is very nice. I'm curious if you added any dressing.

For this, I would have just added extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and lemon juice.

 

[morrobay]

This is very nice. I'm curious if you added any dressing.

For this, I would have just added extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and lemon juice.

I fill a medium size bowl about 50/50 soy sauce/lemon juice. Then add chopped green onions , coriander leaves, maybe some dried garlic flakes and basil leaves (in pots on deck) Then take with spoon . So not really Mediterranean but Thai. And I'm for sure going to have your suggestion next time. Edit the mixture above is kept separate from the shrimp an calamari. Both about $8/kg at this village style seafood market. Shown a few replies above

 

[morrobay]

This is very nice. I'm curious if you added any dressing.

For this, I would have just added extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and lemon juice.

 

[CynicusRex]

Climbed this tree not so long ago. When you're at the top the slightest breeze gets amplified multifold; exhilarating.

 

[StevieTNZ]

Another random photo:

Yuck.

 

[morrobay]

On a clear day you can almost see all the way to Bangkok

 

[Arjan82]

My home for a week this holiday: