Oh wow!  Did that fit?

Yes. He went very slowly, and I didn't see if maybe he had a passenger watching the right-side mirror as watched the left. The photo was taken near Battle Ground, Indiana, en route from Lafayette to an Indiana DNR property, The Museums at Prophetstown.

 

It's a livestock shelter built to be portable so that it can be moved from one pasture area to another. I wouldn't be surprised if the farmer or his dad, when he built it thirty or forty years ago, measured the bridge and sized the shelter accordingly.

i saw this thrilling/summery nasa photo on apod -- go greek lightning!  :-o

 

Lightning Over Athens

Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos

Explanation: Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Join the crowd. Oddly, nobody knows exactly how lightning is produced. What is known is that charges slowly separate in some clouds causing rapid electrical discharges (lightning), but how electrical charges get separated in clouds remains a topic of much research. Lightning usually takes a jagged course, rapidly heating a thin column of air to about three times the surface temperature of the Sun. The resulting shock wave starts supersonically and decays into the loud sound known as thunder. Lightning bolts are common in clouds during rainstorms, and on average 6,000 lightning bolts occur between clouds and the Earth every minute. Pictured above, an active lightning storm was recorded over Athens, Greece earlier this month.

 

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100720.html

Dramatic! Almost as intense as the fury of MayDay, but less directed.

Dramatic! Almost as intense as the fury of MayDay, but less directed.

 

My brother in law is the chef at Tartine in Rocky River, which is delicious by the way.  I highly recommend it.

 

Tartine is good indeed!  What is he making in the picture. 

 

Tartine is also one of Patricia Heaton's favorite.  She's likely been there recently since she's been on her summer Cleveland (Bay Village) visit

It's like a smoothie type drink - to cleanse the palate between courses at a fixed menu wine dinner.

^ wow those look mighty tasty!

 

and speaking of family -- my bro took this one in lorain recently  -- a storm coming in on the lake

 

Neat shot. The skies along Lake Erie's southern shore can be pretty dramatic, and the lake can get churned up really quickly when a storm happens.

^ wow those look mighty tasty!

 

and speaking of family -- my bro took this one in lorain recently  -- a storm coming in on the lake

 

 

Reminds me of when I worked at SOHIO and we could see storms roll in off the lake.

My brother in law is the chef at Tartine in Rocky River, which is delicious by the way.  I highly recommend it.

 

 

That looks delicious!  :-P

 

You're a really good photographer, man. That pic should be in a local magazine.

That drinking fountain caught my eye in 2005, although my photo isn't nearly so nifty as yours:

That drinking fountain caught my eye in 2005, although my photo isn't nearly so nifty as yours:

My brother in law is the chef at Tartine in Rocky River, which is delicious by the way.  I highly recommend it.

 

 

That looks delicious!  :-P

 

You're a really good photographer, man. That pic should be in a local magazine.

 

 

Hey thanks, I really appreciate the feedback!

Here's a few pictures from my trip to Milwaukee a few weeks ago. The second picture is my favorite one. We were heading to the market and I fell in love with this intersection & the crosswalk.

 

:)

^ great! its a seattle public market lookin twin-separated-at-birth!

Here's a house in my neighborhood. I'm waiting for the whole block to fall over like dominoes.

 

Oh wow!  That's something you don't see everyday!

 

Termites? That's scary; a unless it's been treated and stabilized, the damage could spread to where the house could collapse without warning, or at least a floor or stairway could give way under someone.

 

Milwaukee

 

 

Here are the two pictures I entered into the Downtown Cleveland Alliance's photo contest.

 

 

 

A worker cuts into a big cottonwood tree in the Saint Marys River in Fort Wayne with a chainsaw, while standing on a floating log steadied by a coworker with a hook. It's part of a riverbank stabilization and reconstruction project going on across the street by my house. More photos here.

^ That was a clever idea.

New to the site, just checking everything out : )

 

great first post!

Wow!!  Great photo.  Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum! :D

 

I see you're from the Twin Cities. What's your relationship to Ohio? (Just curious...)

 

And where was that picture taken?

Thanks for the welcome! :)

 

Welcome to the forum! :D

 

I see you're from the Twin Cities. What's your relationship to Ohio? (Just curious...)

 

And where was that picture taken?

 

 

Natininja - Yep! I'm originally from Minnesota. I lived there until '99, when I decided it was time for a change & headed to FL. I moved to Ohio late in '04 w/my now ex. She was born & raised in Salem & wanted to be near her family again. A year later we seperated & here I am!! lol

 

I shot the photo in Niles, just outside of McDonald, Ohio. The trestle was built by The American Bridge Company in 1904.

 

 

Nice shot! Welcome to the forums.

Thanks!  :-D

Some excitement on my block today...around 4pm car full of teenage girls rounds the bend and totals their vehicle and at least one parked car.  They flee the scene, text messaging as they run.  You can't make this stuff up:

 

 

 

There weren't any tire screeching noises, just BOOM.  That's how you know they were text messaging while driving.  The texting-while-running-from-the-law was just icing on the cake. 

 

It's like, all these parents buy their kids phones so that they "know where they are".  Whatever measure of safety they afford is easily offset by the danger they create while driving.  The parents are just as bad as the kids: these damn phones just put their insecurities on full public display. 

 

Dealer plate on the destroyed Honda - likely somebody taking it off the lot for a test drive. Dealer probably isn't happy.

There weren't any tire screeching noises, just BOOM.  That's how you know they were text messaging while driving.  The texting-while-running-from-the-law was just icing on the cake. 

 

It's like, all these parents buy their kids phones so that they "know where they are".  Whatever measure of safety they afford is easily offset by the danger they create while driving.  The parents are just as bad as the kids: these damn phones just put their insecurities on full public display. 

 

 

The Generation that Couldn't Shut the F--- Up.

 

Remember back in the '90s when cell phone users were portrayed as self-involved a-holes? The '90s were right! I've got a copy of Columbus Monthly from 1997 about "Dating in Columbus". One woman they interviewed said it was a huge turnoff if she saw that a guy had a cell phone unless he was a doctor.

^Kids these days are unbelievably idiotic and wrapped up in the world of digital electronics- worst generation ever.

 

And people are always telling them to "go digital" or improve their "digital life". Everything digital is fake! Everything! You can't convert something into 1s and 0s without it becoming fake. The physical world is going to be analog -- forever! You can't make food or shelter out of 1s and 0s.

 

We're even seeing younger people take on digital qualities. They are becoming rigid, cold and losing empathy. On or off. Nothing in between.

This was taken a few days ago from my roof in Astoria, Queens. 

 

This was taken a few days ago from my roof in Astoria, Queens. 

 

 

Dude, you took an awesome shot!  :clap:

This was taken a few days ago from my roof in Astoria, Queens. 

 

I was able to see the towers of light while walking down 5th Avenue about 10pm, but didn't see them as well as you have depicted them. thanks!

Incidentally, the Sept 11 attacks were one of the last events to happen during the analog photography days.  You see some digital shots of it, but they were mostly film.  There was one guy who was shooting with a 4x5 in his upper floor studio and turned his camera around to take photos of the towers.  I saw a bit on a photo exhibit he had, which must have been amazing, but I forget his name so can't look it up.   

 

C-Dawg, I had the revelation the other day, when thinking about how college kids now don't get rock & roll at all, that rock has now shifted from being something your parents hate and will never understand to being something that the younger generation doesn't get and will never understand.  The stuff they listen to now might be loud, but it's just as bad as Lawrence Welk. 

 

 

 

>First it was video games replacing outdoor activity,

 

Why do women tolerate their grown men playing video games?  It's the same as sports -- it's one of only a few things aside from checking out women that they know completely consumes a man's attention. 

 

I will say this, the older I get, the more these video-game playing man-boys get to me.  So often they have an attitude where you're the problem for not playing video games.   

 

Why do women tolerate their grown men playing video games? It's the same as sports -- it's one of only a few things aside from checking out women that they know completely consumes a man's attention.

 

I will say this, the older I get, the more these video-game playing man-boys get to me. So often they have an attitude where you're the problem for not playing video games.

 

What if you have the opportunity to play Galaga on an arcade style machine in Kevin Mauer's basement?

Incidentally, the Sept 11 attacks were one of the last events to happen during the analog photography days.  You see some digital shots of it, but they were mostly film.  There was one guy who was shooting with a 4x5 in his upper floor studio and turned his camera around to take photos of the towers.  I saw a bit on a photo exhibit he had, which must have been amazing, but I forget his name so can't look it up.   

 

C-Dawg, I had the revelation the other day, when thinking about how college kids now don't get rock & roll at all, that rock has now shifted from being something your parents hate and will never understand to being something that the younger generation doesn't get and will never understand.  The stuff they listen to now might be loud, but it's just as bad as Lawrence Welk. 

 

 

 

>First it was video games replacing outdoor activity,

 

Why do women tolerate their grown men playing video games?  It's the same as sports -- it's one of only a few things aside from checking out women that they know completely consumes a man's attention. 

 

I will say this, the older I get, the more these video-game playing man-boys get to me.  So often they have an attitude where you're the problem for not playing video games.   

 

how dare you mock the great Lawrence Welk! Just for that, here's the real Indian Lake by the Cowsills (as politically incorrect a song as there ever was)

...and those biggest stars of the Lawrence Welk firmament, the incomparable Lennon Sisters, singing their signature song...

 

I will say this, the older I get, the more these video-game playing man-boys get to me.  So often they have an attitude where you're the problem for not playing video games.   

 

 

yep. I played 'em a lot when I was a kid, so now I collect retro games. But I only play video games maybe two hours a week, sometimes not at all. Most every male I know plays video games a LOT, even people that aren't "gamers" and are just doing it to kill time or relax (video games do not relax me). A gamer on the other hand will get bent out of shape if he sees you doing something like reading a book or playing guitar especially if there's a game system hooked up in the room. Or if they see you doing something like tinkering with a motorcycle, you can just tell they're thinking "Look at all that work he has to put in just to ride that thing."

 

 

 

Lawrence Welk got pretty effing intense.  The only thing like that now is The Big Joe Polka Show, which airs at 4am on channel 422 or something like that.

 

 

>What if you have the opportunity to play Galaga on an arcade style machine in Kevin Mauer's basement?

 

I never had any video game system as a kid, but I remember the effect Nintendo had the year it came out.  The kids two doors down got it I think in 1987 and instantly the pickup home run derby games stopped and everyone packed into their family room for a few hours every day until the mom kicked us out.  I remember at the time the moms used to say "it's going to help them with learning computers" -- it was obviously a line some salesman dropped that caught on.    Then everybody got a Nintendo that Christmas and instead of everyone getting together in one place, all these kids just sat in their own houses and got fat. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scrapyard switching:

 

This reminds me I need to update the CCMRR thread...

Nice! And a steam crane in the scrapyard; ever see a real one of those in operation? They're a machinery geek's wet dream, and to work one with any degree of productivity requires skill, coordination, and physical strength.

This was taken a few days ago from my roof in Astoria, Queens.

 

 

Great shot!!

Saw a mile-long train of humvees rolling through Cincinnati today.  Yes, literally a mile of them.

 

 

Look to the left, you will see this train was nothing but humvees:

 

Dare I ask why these were being transported by train and not using our system of so-called "defense highways"?

 

^ could u tell if they were they were new? if no maybe they have been brought back from iraq?

 

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three bridges via iphone

 

 

^ we were hanging a bit at the water taxi beach down at the seaport yesterday

 

 

I'm gonna go with new, since if they were coming back from overseas you'd see them plastered with ID numbers and some evidence of modification.  They're built in Northern Indiana so it would make sense to see them on their way south via Cincinnati.

I wonder if they all fit on one boat or not.  What I think is interesting is that the government makes no effort to hide their movement from foreign satellites or its own citizens.  Some guys told me they saw a train of tanks back in 1990 on this same line while all that equipment was being moved over to Saudi Arabia in preparation for Operation Desert Storm. 

 

The more interesting thing is that our Interstate Highways were ostensibly built to allow the movement of military equipment, yet all of it still happens by train.  It seems to me about the only role the interstates have played in national defense is allowing recruiters to drive to their offices every day. 

 

 

 

fits right in with the I-75 debacle of the 1980's. reagan had all the ne ohio overpasses raised so that tanks on flatbed trucks from lima could fit underneath. when all the highway work was done they closed the tank plant.