October 26, 200816 yr Absolutely gorgeous photo, and a beautiful ship. I've toured the William G. Mather at Cleveland, and thought it was big at 618 feet, but the Shelley is amazing.
October 26, 200816 yr C-Dawg when are we going to see a full photo thread from you? The images you've been posing lately are fantastic!
October 27, 200816 yr nice shot. btw that ship was was built and originally launched as the "algocen2" in 1968 to coincide with the scrapping of the "algocen1." the "algocen1" was built by american shipbuilding in lorain in 1909. :wink: and next we take a turn for the silly folks. this is from today. hey, it's a living --- he's crazy popular. :laugh:
October 27, 200816 yr ^Haha I met him one time. Not in New York though. It was at an acting class called Acting from the heart, in Hackettstown, NJ. Our teacher I guess was a friend of his and he was invited to one of our classes. He had clothes on though haha.
October 27, 200816 yr I give him credit for standing out there almost buck naked in the winter time. I bet thats when he gets the highest tips.
October 27, 200816 yr I give him credit for standing out there almost buck naked in the winter time. I bet thats when he gets the highest tips. Clearly you are not familiar with shrinkage...
October 27, 200816 yr More coming soon... can you guess where I am at? Wait, wait, I know this - I recognize one of those hills ;) jk. Is it in Tennessee?
October 27, 200816 yr I'm actually going to make this a thread on UO. I think this would be fun for me to compile.
October 28, 200816 yr I guess we have to give you props for trying. Seriously, really nice shot with good dynamic range; you caught the brightly-lighted buildings well while keeping shadow detail so that the stonemasonry in the bridge shows up well.
October 28, 200816 yr great shot. just forget about the lame buildings -- the bridge, bridge lights and the reflections on the water are awesome.
October 28, 200816 yr It's the Longfellow Bridge between downtown Boston and Cambridge. It has 4 auto lanes and the red line subway running down the middle. For years the towers were covered in graffiti.
October 28, 200816 yr ^ I'm glad it's been cleaned up! I always mildly enjoy the view out the window as the red line train goes over the bridge (maybe just because it provides a brief moment of daylight) and intended to capture that, but the entire sidewalk on the good side of the bridge is fenced off for some reason at the moment. Boo! Thanks for the compliments, guys.
October 28, 200816 yr ^Nothing lame about that! Nice photo and I love that bridge. Couldn't agree more. That is an amazing bridge.
October 29, 200816 yr (Friend took this in S. Korea) "Do not reach your hands, feet or items out." "Items"?
October 29, 200816 yr Awww, but I want to drunken ride. And who doesn't enjoy to pregnant every once in a while.
October 29, 200816 yr There's a whole website devoted to photos of funny English signs, etc.: www.engrish.com It's one of my favorites.
October 30, 200816 yr Doesn't get any more beautiful than this. Backpacking along the High Meadow Trail north of Spruce Knob. This is overlooking the Seneca Creek valley.
November 1, 200816 yr I ran into the HBIC last night..... ....or so I thought. I was on my way to meet my nephews and niece in the village and as I was coming up out the subway, I ran into this guy who claimed to be the NUMBER ONE Maleficent fan EVA! I told him one my girlfriends would differ in opinion, his response, "that bitch don't know me! Ms. Thing better ask somebody!" I kee-kee'd! lol I wish I had my camera, as this picture does not do this guys costume justice. This child was 6'5" and his costume and make up were fierce. His boyfriend was dressed up as Sweeney Todd.
November 1, 200816 yr ^The horns are too thick and should be more upright, the smaller black collar ruffles are missing, the purple collar is waaay too big and floppy... Sequins? Maleficent is not "sparkly" - she's the Mistress of All Evil, the lips are red not pink, the eyes are a yellowish green, the face could use a little tightening. and most importantly - Maleficent would NEVER make a face like that. That ain't Maleficent, that's a hot tranny mess! clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
November 1, 200816 yr Thats why I wish I had a better camera and more time. The costume was on point.
November 5, 200816 yr Well, no one has posted a picture of the day in a few days so I thought I'd find something. This is Lower Kintla Lake in Glacier National Park about 15 years ago.
November 7, 200816 yr Grumpy, Glacier is certainly one of the best places in North America. I was blown away when I visited. I did both the American and Canadian Sides. Hell, I might as well dig up some pictures now that you bring it up. The place is God's country. I hiked with a few friends from the West side of the park all the way to the East side over the continental devide on a rarely used very difficult trail. We were young and stupid and unprepared for a hike that severe. Some of the trails we took are no longer even listed on maps for the park because they're just not safe to hike most of the year. Between the 5 of us we had; 1 case of frost bite, 3 cases of hypothermia, 1 infected blister, 2 cuts bad enough to require stiches when we got down, 1 pair of broken glasses, and more bruises than we could count. But we all have some great pictures and memories so it was totally worth it. I think. If I can find them, I'll post more pictures sometime.
November 9, 200816 yr I was trying to be kinda "gothic"/"noir" with this one... not sure if i succeeded
November 14, 200816 yr This is from an in-class mixed lighting demo of a building demo...specifically the strange "Cheapside" garage that stood between the Hamilton County Justice Center and the Blue Wisp for many years. Those two mid-block north/south streets are a vestige of the old Cheapside canal spur which ran due south from the turnaround pool. This was shot on Fuji 64T with a remote with an amber (roughly 3000K) gel (the strobe with no gel oddly didn't fire, but this was the best one):
November 14, 200816 yr This is from an in-class mixed lighting demo of a building demo... Strange and other-worldly, if I let my imagination play. I see a half-machine, half-monster emitting a ray of death and destruction. Rural Ohio Striking photos. Several abandoned farmhouses stood near where I grew up, including one half-burned that stood in a spooky woodlot back off the road, surrounded by snaggy dead trees festooned with poison-ivy vines. All of them were open, most so termite-ravaged that they were dangerous to enter. I always intended to take photos of those places, and procrastinated. As a consequence of the consolidation of small family farms into big industrial-scale operations, there's no longer a trace of any of them, or even the semi-wooded plots they often stood in. A bulldozer and a backhoe take, at most, three or four days to turn a big farmhouse, barn and assorted sheds on a couple of tree-shaded acres into an unremarkable part of a tilled and planted 80-acre field.
November 14, 200816 yr From Ingenuity last summer. Taken from the roof of the Center for Neighborhood Solutions
November 17, 200816 yr That's a nice building. Doesn't it suck how the resulting sky always makes it blatantly clear that you photoshopped the hell out of a picture?
November 17, 200816 yr You and your fancy @ss equipment. Listen b!tch, I can do everything you can do, with some tweaking in photoshop and a 90 dollar camera. And no, the sky only has one hue in Toledo - Carbon Dioxide.
November 17, 200816 yr I was kidding btw. I hope I don't come in here tomorrow and see a nerdy discussion about polarization filters.
November 17, 200816 yr Jesus said it was his favorite filter. It's in the Bible or something... I think you might want to take a second look at your scriptures.
November 17, 200816 yr ^Thou shall not steal! :wink: I never said the bible wasn't full of contradictions.
November 17, 200816 yr You and your fancy @ss equipment. Listen b!tch, I can do everything you can do, with some tweaking in photoshop and a 90 dollar camera. And no, the sky only has one hue in Toledo - Carbon Dioxide. Shush, Boy! In this case, anyway, C-Dawg is right. Second only to my camera, a polarizer is the most useful piece of gear in my camera bag. It's almost always on my lens when I'm shooting on bright days. It blocks reflected light from non-metallic reflective surfaces like glass, foliage, and water, as well as providing more saturated blue skies. It's also somewhat effective in reducing the appearance of haze on sunny days. It's easiest to use a polarizer on an SLR camera, because the filter comes with a mount that allows it to be rotated while on the lens in order to determine the position that gives the desired effect. It's easiest to do that if you can look through it as you turn it. A polarizing filter is most effective on skies when you're shooting with the sun at your shoulder, and less effective as you shoot more directly toward or away from the sun. That accounts for the change in sky intensity from one side of the image to the other in some photos. A polarizing filter for a 35mm or digital SLR costs around $40 - $100 depending on the size and the brand. Third-party filters from companies like Hoya cost about half the price of camera-brand ones like Nikon, but I choose to spring for the extra bucks because in my opinion there's a difference. I think the Hoya polarizer imparts a warm cast to colors, whereas the Nikon doesn't. It's mostly correctible in Photoshop, but why bother with something that has to be fixed, when there's an alternative. I usually keep equipment, especially accessories, for many years, so the cost differential isn't that significant when I spread it out. Polarizing filters aren't new technology, either. I bought one with my first SLR in 1962, and it was on the advice of someone who had been using one for years before that. </ :speech: > I was kidding btw. I hope I don't come in here tomorrow and see a nerdy discussion about polarization filters. Oops! Too Late! :oops: BTW - Kodachrome 10 (pre-1963) + polarizer > anything invented since. :whip:
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