Holy crap Evergrey, that is gorgeous!!!

Any other fans of Broken Social Scene on UO?  Saw them on the 4th in Detroit as part of Comerica Fest.

 

I love this shot, though my camera zoom is awful and I couldn't get any close-up photos.

 

Must be cool to have fans hang out of a parking garage to see you play.  Notice the "I heart B2S" in chalk in the lower-left.  Guess it took more than one try to get the S right.  :wink:

 

I have some others from Comerica Fest that I might post sometime soon.

 

 

very nice. i saw them saturday at coney island at the siren fest. well i heard them, i just got a glance at the band itself, from what i heard they were pretty good.

http://siren.villagevoice.com/siren/

 

 

The Golden Triangle is living up to its name in this shot. Nice!

From the Dayton Air Show

 

 

did I hear correctly about a Northwest Flight needing to pull an emergency landing there?

^ yes I saw it on the news.

did I hear correctly about a Northwest Flight needing to pull an emergency landing there?

 

It must have happened on Sunday. I was only there on Saturday and nothing happened that day besides the usual.

Youngstown panoramic. I posted this a while back but Photobucket resized it. Here is the full size image:

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There's a reason this post was #666 ... think about it ...

Greetings from the Glass:

 

 

This is a cool shot ... but when do we start seeing Toledo's Downtown?

Greetings from the Glass:

 

 

 

This is a cool shot ... but when do we start seeing Toledo's Downtown?

 

 

why would you want to see rossford?

Youngstown panoramic. I posted this a while back but Photobucket resized it. Here is the full size image:

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Is this from a point above I680? Mill creek park? I always enjoyed that one of the highest points in Ytown is the DeBartolo Stadium Club at the top of Stambaugh Stadium. I've been up there and the views are awesome.

It was taken from the SE side of the city near the WFMJ antenna field. This place was known to the local area high schoolers as “make out point.” We would park up there as the city lights twinkle from there at night. The valley from the east (Campbell) to the lower west side of Youngstown is visible from up there.

 

re: highest point - I bet the view from the Tod Cemetery gate is amazing. See between the second and third ---> on the top of the hill.

A week or two ago with a 4x5 camera and 135mm lens:

Neat! I love 4x5, but I've lost my local lab that gave same-day turnaround on E-6 processing and had an Imacon drum scanner. Having experienced that service, I've lost my desire to spend time on a cement floor in a dark, chilly, damp, smelly basement room.

 

Actually, I like the smell of a darkroom. It's the physical discomfort that gets old.

Man, some really nice photography on this page.

 

It ended up being a pleasant day out, so during my lunch break, I went to the Saginaw Zoo, not far from my office building.  I borrowed the company camera lol.  Unfortunately the last person forgot to charge the battery, so I only got two pics.  Weather permitting, I'll get some photos of Llamas and Kangaroos on Friday

 

>Neat! I love 4x5, but I've lost my local lab that gave same-day turnaround on E-6 processing and had an Imacon drum scanner. Having experienced that service, I've lost my desire to spend time on a cement floor in a dark, chilly, damp, smelly basement room. Actually, I like the smell of a darkroom. It's the physical discomfort that gets old.

 

I suppose I "appreciate" it more now, given its rarity.  Color printers are being scuttled left and right so wet-process prints of negatives and chromes are becoming incredibly rare.  That said those prints tended to fade quite quickly so in the same way people used to think they were always getting better at color printing, they are also thinking that digital printing is better!  Black & White of course will be around much longer because there's simply no replacing a silver-based emulsion with $75 ink cartridges.  That is what gives traditional black & white prints their brilliance. 

 

Anyway I have since taken a much better photo from that vantage point with totally straight focusing.  The swings and tilts are very fun to play with on a 4x5 but very difficult to sell to traditional clients when you go overboard with them.  But everyone does love how smooth the out-of-focus areas look with a 4x5.  The 4x5 is quite difficult and expensive to get skilled at, and to date I think I still have under 10 good "creative" 4x5 shots whereas I can step outside with a DSLR and come back with 10 in about 10 minutes.     

A week or two ago with a 4x5 camera and 135mm lens:

 

This is excellent.

Our Lady of Perpetual Lulz, In Loli We Trust. Cincinnati, Ohio, July 31, 2008.

 

 

More on this later.

A couple for today.

 

Wish I had taken this one.

 

 

Find how many horses are in this one.

 

 

Find all the faces in this one.

 

 

 

5 Horses and I saw all 11 faces.

I see 7 horses.

Ya I found all 11 faces but could only find 5 horses

This is for photos that you have taken. I would prefer this not to be google image search thread, and whatever the heck those horses were for.

my bad...point taken.

MY GOSH is the news slow this week or what.  Were playing with Highlights magazines and complaining about it.  C-Dawg, please step in and say something extremely juvenile please. 

I see 7 horses.

 

When you click on an urban development forum, and this is the first comment you see...you think, man, someone needs help  :wink:.

Found 10 faces and then stopped.

I just wanted to be able to say I'm a "very observer".

Took these on my phone a few hours ago when the monsoon passed thru.

 

I was out on errands with my Grandmother and I made her go home since neither of us had a umbrella (ella, ella, ella, eh).  It was over cast and in a matter of minutes it went totally black.  My grand mother made it to my corner before the heavens opened and she got standing on my door step waiting for my Pops to open the door.  He said he didn't answer because he thought it was Jehovah's witnesses.  Needless to say my grandmother is very upset with grandfather!  She made lunch and didn't make anything for him.

 

My Pops have never been afraid of anything or anyone, except my grandmother.  Now it's bright and sunny out and my grandfather is out getting flowers for my grams after hiding out in my bedroom for the last three hours.  It's been comical, very comical. I wish they could live with me forever.  :-(

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Awesome sky photos, great story! Those summer storms that blow up seemingly out of nowhere in just a few minutes are amazing to watch, often frightening to get caught in, especially when large objects start flying around.

 

My dad could control the outcome of almost every situation and get just about anybody to do things his way. There was one person, though, who could lead him around by his nose, and that was Mom.

 

Mom could always control every situation and was the only person who could overrun all Dad's best intentions. Dad's been gone 16 years, but Mom is still living, at 97 in a nursing home with dementia, rheumatoid arthritis and awful-awful EKG readings, and I think the only reason she hasn't died is because she thinks she still has control over the family -- even though she hasn't been able to make any decisions, even about her own care, in more than four years.

It's was a little overcast when we came back from Fairway, I grabbed the dry cleaning and shoes to be shined and we were on our way to the other grocery store since my grand mother insists on cooking while here on vacation.  I wish she wouldn't, but it's so hard to say, "no" when stuffing your face with pancakes, waffles, crepes and other goodies she's been making.  She even made Blueberry muffins for my boss and assistants. She made a lemon coconut cake this morning and I've eaten a quarter of it.  My grams asked me if I was "binging and purging" since I eat like horse and don't gain any weight.  She keeps saying stuff like, "You don't ever have much food in this house.  It seems like you only grocery shop when we come to visit.", "Do you eat?" "I don't think you should eat at those uppity places that serve child size portions and charge ridiculous prices so often, It's not healthy" or "Honey, your just like you mama's side of the family, you're just so thin."  I know she's going to cook and freeze meals for me, the day they leave.  Anyway, we got 3 blocks from my house and it literally turned black at 11:30 AM/12 Noon.

 

Then it rained for 10 minutes, slowed down to a light drizzle for five minutes, which allowed me to get to CVS.  While I was in CVS it rained and there was thunder and lightening like nobody's business for about ½ hour.  125 Street was completely empty.

 

Sorry to hear about you mom.  I hope that the home she is in is doing all they can to comfort her.  I'm hoping for the best outcome you and your siblings come to a decision in regard to your mom.  We've done a lot of stories, article and programming on dementia at work and many people throughout the company have told some very personal stories on how it's affected a love one and how their dementia/Alzheimer's has affected their lives.  Some stories have brought me to tears. 

One more… Gold dust sprinkled across the sky...

Yum! and Yum! Gorgeous capture of just the right light in both shots!

^ Thanks.

 

Gold dust sprinkled across the sky...   :wtf: :drunk:

where exactly were those taken?

1. Holiday Park in Fort Lauderdale

2. My patio

Holiday Park is a camping site, correct?  They have the alligator watch thingie where the guy puts his head in a gators mouth and you can pet one, right?

Yes but that is Everglades Holiday Park where they have the airboat rides through the Everglades. This is Holiday Park, an inner-city park off of Sunrise Blvd in ftl.

Yes but that is Everglades Holiday Park where they have the airboat rides through the Everglades. This is Holiday Park, an inner-city park off of Sunrise Blvd in ftl.

ohhhhh ok. 

If you crop out the sky in the second one, you get the impression of fire on the surface of the water. That's what made me think at first that it must be Cleveland.

 

 

 

:wink:

 

Sorry! Sorry! I know better! I just couldn't resist! I hate people who keep dragging that up after forty years.

A friend took this photo with a disposable camera of this girl with a brand-new $6,000 setup:

 

What's so dumb about this setup is the very thing which Leica excels at is low-light situations (like parties) is negated by using the monsterously overpriced Leica-brand flash, which is something like $400 and doesn't even bounce.  Plus, without autofocus it's kind of tough to shoot with a beer in one hand!

The shirt marks her as a "look at me and my expensive camera" person. I'd peg her has a too-much-money newbie who hasn't had all that much experience or developed much in the way of skills at photography.

 

I wouldn't take a camera like that to a party; what's the point? If I were carrying that camera, I'd stay stone-cold-sober, and in any setting where there's traffic and distraction I'd have it secured with the strap around my neck or wrapped around my forearm, not slung loosely over my shoulder.

 

I haven't even met her, and already I dislike her.

 

grumblegrumblecrabbyoldfartgrumblegrumble.

 

Reminds me of some fancy art student who was in one of my photography courses at the university. She'd sport around a really fancy SLR (Leica, I think), try to best everyone's photographs, talk shit about people's work, and her photographs would come out subpar. She received one of the lowest grades in class.

 

I couldn't stop laughing when the professor would comment on her work.

^^^She looks like Ashlee Simpson.

jmecklenborg, has the "you better get the f*ck outta my face" look.

February 5, 2005. Hamtramck "skyline" viewed from the east. This photo was taken while crossing an overpass at high-speed. The late afternoon sun is obscured by the smoke from a massive warehouse fire to the south.

 

The shirt marks her as a "look at me and my expensive camera" person. I'd peg her has a too-much-money newbie who hasn't had all that much experience or developed much in the way of skills at photography.

 

I wouldn't take a camera like that to a party; what's the point? If I were carrying that camera, I'd stay stone-cold-sober, and in any setting where there's traffic and distraction I'd have it secured with the strap around my neck or wrapped around my forearm, not slung loosely over my shoulder.

 

I haven't even met her, and already I dislike her.

 

grumblegrumblecrabbyoldfartgrumblegrumble.

 

 

True, but she seems well-aversed in having her picture taken (like any college girl with facebook and myspace) judging by the archetypical three quarter profile and pouty lips.

>crossing an overpass at high-speed.

 

Lucky shot.  Too bad you weren't driving past the Big Jesus with that lighting. 

 

 

>distraction I'd have it secured with the strap around my neck or wrapped around my forearm, not slung loosely over my shoulder.

 

Yeah, somebody like me might do a Spock pinch and have the seriel numbers scatched out before you can say great googly-moogly. 

 

>she seems well-aversed in having her picture taken

 

As are seemingly all females above the age of 2. 

 

 

Also, anyone whose interested in photography might want to check out this show at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati:

http://contemporaryartscenter.org/exhibitions/smallwars

 

If you want to see what 30x40 inch fiber black & white prints from a 4x5 look like, here they are and there's about 35 of them in the show.  I'd estimate the cost of printing at framing each photo at a bare minimum $700, so do the math.  We're talking a photo show that cost upwards of $30,000 to stage.  Also the photographer intentionally photographed it as straight as possible, with no zone system exposure and development considerations, and incredibly no filters so the sky is washed out in every shot.  This was to reference early glass plate photography which could not record the color blue, but come on.  I grade this show a C+ but still worth seeing just for the spectacle of so much money and effort thrown at a mediocre idea.  And actually in such a big museum with big pieces around, a 30x40 photo gets eaten up.     

 

Edit: I read the blurb and there's actually 50 photos in this exhibit, so it's more like $50,000 in framed photos on display.

True, but she seems well-aversed in having her picture taken (like any college girl with facebook and myspace) judging by the archetypical three quarter profile and pouty lips.

 

Like this, or 95% of these.

 

^Hmm, I really like this view for some reason.