Firefight911 Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 Meow!!! Gotta love my job! 15 year old Mountain Lion needed some help for his trip to the vet clinic. Link to comment
azkaisr Posted March 17, 2009 Share Posted March 17, 2009 (edited) Jesus could take him and wouldn't even need to take off his collar Edited March 17, 2009 by azkaisr Link to comment
Keith S Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Good example of hoarfrost. South Central Alberta Keith Link to comment
Francois_Dumas Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Shivering in a chair lift on our way up to the ski slope above our house..... took this one with Nina's little Nikon... and with near-frozen fingers ! Link to comment
johnlt Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 This is a cutting off of the "Tombstone Rose" which is the largest rose in the world. It has a trunk that is 5 feet in diameter. It is located in Tombstone AZ and was brought there from Scottland 150 years ago. It blooms once a year with small white roses. Link to comment
Whip Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Neumann is never happy when we have to leave Link to comment
TEWKS Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 (RD) No Respect I Tell Ya! Pat Link to comment
Bruce H Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 My ride on Sunday. It stopped raining a bit so I could take this photo, in a few minutes it started to hail. The life boat station at the mouth of the Umpqua river, Oregon On my way back home. Had I waited the color got better. Oh well, next time. Near Sea Lion Caves, Oregon Link to comment
Keith S Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Hope I haven't already posted this one Shot after sunset at Long Beach. Pacific Rim National Park, Vancouver Island. Keith Link to comment
Huzband Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Whilst bombing through the Florida countryside yesterday, the photo opps were overwhelming. Here's just a couple of examples. Lake City. Side of Hwy 441, north central Fl. I blew past this joint at hyper-speed, but had to turn around for a picture. How long's this station been closed? I don't know, but the price on the pump read $1.29. Link to comment
Joe Frickin' Friday Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Scuba diving at Stingray City. The rays were a bit like giant yellowjackets, i.e. extremely inquisitive and armed with the ability to inflict severe pain, both via their well-known venemous stingers, and via a toothless suction-bite capable of causing severe bruising. Throw in the restricted field of view permitted by our dive masks, and it made for a major case of paranoia. Link to comment
Joe Frickin' Friday Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 My brother trying to politely back away from a very insistent ray. Link to comment
Whip Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 This is what can happen when Billy(Lawman) decides to "help ya" get out of a ticket. Link to comment
amz Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 North of Daytona Beach (180deg panorama), 2 weeks ago... And some bird/wildlife pics from the same trip: Florida Wildlife Link to comment
azkaisr Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 Missing my pal today more than normal. How many days Bob? Link to comment
skinny_tom (aka boney) Posted March 30, 2009 Share Posted March 30, 2009 The Pig Palace: Link to comment
Waratah Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 (edited) I'm new to this posting images business. Are these images too big for the forum? Bare Island at the entrance to Botany Bay, south of Sydney. If you've ever seen the comedy* movie "Mission Impossible II" you will recognise the fort on Bare Island as being the villians' stronghold. (* Comedy movie from a motorcycling and firearms perspective.) The entrance to Botany Bay south of Sydney. The parkland in the background marks the spot where Capt James Cook and crew from the Endeavour stepped ashore on the 29th April 1770 to claim the "Great South Land" in the name of England and King George III. On the 20th January 1788 the First Fleet arrived at these co-ordinates to commence British colonisation of Australia. Finding little in the way of building materials and fresh water to meet their needs, after having sent out exploratory parties to the north and south to find a better location, the First Fleet moved about 16km (10 miles) north to establish the colony on present day Sydney Harbour. That day was the 26th January, now celebrated as Australia Day. Edited March 31, 2009 by Waratah Link to comment
OoPEZoO Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 The picture size looks great for me and keep them coming......most of us don't get to see that side of the world very often Link to comment
Waratah Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Thank you OoPEZoO, I wasn't too sure whether the standard 1024 pixel wide image was too large for the forum. I'll try one more to see whether it's suitable. Street scene in Pitt Street Mall, Sydney CBD, young men having their photograph taken with two local ladies wearing Australian traditional costume, typical everyday outfits worn by milkmaids herding cows around the foothills of the Australian Alps. Link to comment
OoPEZoO Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 I'm running 1680 x 1050 on a widescreen 22" monitor, so you have a ways to go before I start complaining BTW.....I think I'm starting to like certain Australian Traditions Link to comment
Waratah Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Thanks OoPEZoO, I wasn't too sure if there's a recommended size for linking images to the forum. If you like certain Australian traditions you should come over and put your name down for a job in the dairy industry; mind you there is an eleven year waiting list for milkmaid supervisor vacancies. Link to comment
AdventurePoser Posted April 3, 2009 Share Posted April 3, 2009 They herd cows in high heels? I LIKE Australia.... Cheers, Steve in So Cal Link to comment
Waratah Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 They herd cows in high heels? I LIKE Australia.... Well... yeah... that's about it Steve. Mind you, if the weather looks like turning cool they might slip into a pair of black fishnets as well. We tend to be a pretty laid back culture you know? Link to comment
Joe Frickin' Friday Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 My brief obsession with vicarious flight began in 1992. I was a senior in college, majoring in mechanical engineering, with a wretched excess of Ross Perot yard signs, a few simple tools, and some spare time. I made the signs into a rather large airplane: (that's me on the right.) After some short test tosses and experiments, we taped a few pounds of tools onto the nose to get the balance right, then hoisted it to the balcony of the lounge in our dorm: The tail assembly was difficult to make rigid, thus the extra braces made of tape connecting the horizontal and vertical stabilizers: It flew rather nicely across the lounge: and made an incredibly explosive sound when the bundle of tools on the nose struck the opposite wall. We followed it up with an illicit flight from the fifth floor window to the courtyard below. It flew pretty good for an aircraft made from scratch out of political yard signs. I made a more serious foray into controlled flight in '94, with an entry-level radio-controlled sailplane, with a 2-meter wingspan: Simple to control, turns were done with only the rudder and lots of dihedral and polyhedral angle on the wing to force it to bank when you kicked the tail out with the rudder. Cheap, easy to build with a simple balsa-wood fuselage and spar/rib/Monokote wing construction. But with its simple flat-bottomed airfoil, the flight times weren't that spectacular. Late in the season I tinkered with the addition of a disposable panoramic camera, secured under one wing. With no room for an extra servo, I just added a push rod to trigger the shutter when I kicked the rudder to max deflection. The exposure was pretty long, so most of the shots came out blurry as hell, but one of them turned out pretty good: You can just see the left wing at the top of the photo. The next year I kicked it up a notch with a 3-meter plane: More complicated, this had ailerons along with the rudder, flaps for low-speed flight, a pre-built fiberglass fuselage, and a balsa-over-foam wing that provided a more optimal airfoil shape. I launched with a "high-start," basically a giant slingshot: 400 feet of heavy string, connected to 200 feet of surgical rubber tubing, connected to a screw-in dog-leash anchor in the ground on the far side of the field. Here my friend is attaching the line (you can see the blue parachute in his hand) to a hook on the bottom of the plane: With the controller in one hand and the plane in the other, I walk back a couple hundred feet, stretching the bajeezus out of the rubber tubing, and then I let the plane go: With the line pulling at the bottom of the plane, it pitches up steeply as soon as you let it go; with a good launch, you can get the plane a full 600 feet up, directly above the anchor point, before the line slides off the hook and frees the plane. The wind then takes the little blue parachute and lays the line out across the field for you again, and you go about your flight. This plane was much better than the first. You could put in a bit of flaps to slow it down and linger in thermal updrafts. On quiet evenings with no thermal activity the plane would glide back down to earth in a couple of minutes; on a warm sunny afternoon with good thermal activity, I had flights up to an hour. A lot of fun. Link to comment
Bullett Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Captured this shot on our ride through Zion NP yesterday. I like how the cliffs behind me are reflected on the Rt. Link to comment
amz Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 Another pano from my Florida visit (early March 09); this one taken on the road to Sanibel Island on the Gulf Coast... Link to comment
johnlt Posted April 6, 2009 Share Posted April 6, 2009 The Chiricahua National Monument southeast of Wilcox AZ Link to comment
Paul_Burkett Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Rossi at the Indy MotoGP Link to comment
Keith S Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 two things of interest... Look at the vein in his neck and what is that on the tail section?? Keith Link to comment
Joe Frickin' Friday Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 two things of interest... Look at the vein in his neck and what is that on the tail section?? Keith The little projection on top of the tail cone? I think that's the butt-cam; sometimes you see live footage of a rider, viewed from behind, and I think that's the camera they use. Link to comment
Paul_Burkett Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I had to crop the day lights out of that pic sothat it was worth saving and when I was finished that big vein was so very obvious, and that is correct Mitch, it is the famous "Butt Cam". Link to comment
Keith S Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 got nothing new so here is something from last year. I won't be posting any photos for a few weeks. I will be heading down to Arizona (April 23) to do another missing plane search. Do a search for N2700Q for info on the plane. There should be updates on http://www.adventurescience.ca Keith Link to comment
Firefight911 Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 In training for the new moon shot! Either that or some tomfoolery at the dealership with Steve, Rene, and Jamie the other day. Now, where is that picture of Richard in the hi-vis in Torrey? Link to comment
Lynn Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 The results of my new hobby-the one I have been playing with when it isn't nice enough to ride. I think I need to get Mark to take some better photos of these-I am just not as good at getting decent shots of stuff as he is: My very first piece. My second piece. Getting a little better-but still have some pretty visible flaws. My most recent piece. I like this one pretty well, although there are several things I could have done quite a bit better. I still have a ways to go before I am really proficient, but it is a lot of fun to play with the glass! Link to comment
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