BigStewMan Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 Do you have a green thumb Bruce? Me ... i’ve never tried. Think it’s traumatic from those days as a kid having to pull weeds when i wanted to go play baseball. Quote
Marvel Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 Nope, no green thumb here. The plant has managed to survive inspite of us owning the property. 1 1 Quote
OO1 Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 On 4/30/2020 at 9:23 AM, sputnik said: Just spent a few days at the ranch to get some work done. Would've been nice to stay longer - great place to social distance and stay off the internet. View from the porch the other morning. We hiked up to the high ground behind our barns (the white buildings across the way.) Beautiful view from there overlooking the neighbors place - took the picture as they were out checking their horses below. snow in the mountains , nice - Quote
Seadog Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 On 4/29/2020 at 10:05 PM, sunburnwilly said: Can't say I've seen this before I'm calling BS on this photo. The F/A-18 (Blue Angels) is a significantly larger aircraft than the F-16 (Thunderbirds). In the photo, the F-16 clearly appears larger. Obviously a Photoshopped composite image of two formations. (From Wikipedia) F/A-18 General characteristics • Length: 60 ft 1¼ in (18.31 m) • Wingspan: 44 ft 8½ in (13.62 m) • Height: 16 ft (4.88 m) • Wing area: 500 ft2 (46.5 m2) • Empty weight: 32,081 lb (14,552 kg) F-16 General characteristics • Length: 49 ft 5 in (15.06 m) • Wingspan: 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m) • Height: 16 ft (4.9 m) • Wing area: 300 sq ft (28 m2) • Empty weight: 18,900 lb (8,573 kg) Quote
JohnJ Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 Parallax @Seadog ? I'm assuming they are not on the same "plane" or altitude with the wing overlap. 1 Quote
Marvel Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 8 hours ago, Seadog said: I'm calling BS on this photo. The F/A-18 (Blue Angels) is a significantly larger aircraft than the F-16 (Thunderbirds). In the photo, the F-16 clearly appears larger. Obviously a Photoshopped composite image of two formations. (From Wikipedia) F/A-18 General characteristics • Length: 60 ft 1¼ in (18.31 m) • Wingspan: 44 ft 8½ in (13.62 m) • Height: 16 ft (4.88 m) • Wing area: 500 ft2 (46.5 m2) • Empty weight: 32,081 lb (14,552 kg) F-16 General characteristics • Length: 49 ft 5 in (15.06 m) • Wingspan: 32 ft 8 in (9.96 m) • Height: 16 ft (4.9 m) • Wing area: 300 sq ft (28 m2) • Empty weight: 18,900 lb (8,573 kg) Probably, but both teams did a flyover in New York. At around 8 minutes you can see how close they got... 2 Quote
Seadog Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 3 hours ago, JohnJ said: Parallax @Seadog ? I'm assuming they are not on the same "plane" or altitude with the wing overlap. Yeah, I considered that but the formation seems almost too perfectly nested together considering the altitude difference that would have been required to get that exact perspective. Also, in that video, the only significant cloud cover seen over NYC is in that still shot at 8:21, which would have been necessary to add to blend the images while hiding the obvious discrepancies in the ground features. I may be wrong, but I still think it is a composite image. That takes nothing away from the spectacular display of those two teams flying together. Excellent video. 2 Quote
MicroMara Posted May 7, 2020 Posted May 7, 2020 So I went for a walk in the late afternoon blipped into the sky and saw that 6 Quote
boom3 Posted May 10, 2020 Posted May 10, 2020 My departed friend Joel, whose camera I was borrowing when I took this picture, referred to this as a "Jesus sky". The lines in it appeared after several years. I guess the original file is partly corrupted. Shot with a Nikon digital camera sometime in the early 2000s 3 Quote
sputnik Posted May 10, 2020 Posted May 10, 2020 I really like skyline photos. Here’s one I took in Hong Kong a few years ago - I imagine it’s already changed. 3 Quote
sputnik Posted May 10, 2020 Posted May 10, 2020 Not my photo but an especially dazzling angle on the Hong Kong skyline. 4 Quote
BigStewMan Posted May 11, 2020 Posted May 11, 2020 Not my photo, just saw it on the internet; but Lake Tahoe is the most beautiful place that i’ve ever visited. 6 Quote
boom3 Posted May 11, 2020 Posted May 11, 2020 New Orleans, from the 15th floor of an office building in the central business district, the Crescent City Connection (CCC) bridges in the distance. 3 Quote
sputnik Posted May 11, 2020 Posted May 11, 2020 I took this photo from our table at the Windows on the World restaurant, on top of the World Trade Center, almost exactly one year before 9-11. Not the best quality, hand-held long-exposure on film, but one of my most treasured. 7 Quote
Marvel Posted May 11, 2020 Posted May 11, 2020 On 5/10/2020 at 1:19 PM, sputnik said: I really like skyline photos. Here’s one I took in Hong Kong a few years ago - I imagine it’s already changed. Love that pic! I wish I would have had some filters when I took this from the Peak. Plus, it was a small pocket camera. 4 Quote
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