Random Object Photographs

Onomea · #**1301** 05-25-2018, 09:38 PM

Was on my patio having a glass of wine with my wife yesterday evening and looked up:

David LaPell · #**1302** 05-25-2018, 11:48 PM

A Fordson tractor not to far from my house, it's gone now since someone else bought the property.

The bridge from Crown Point NY to Vermont.

A dragonfly

Orb weaving spider

fdw · #**1303** 05-26-2018, 08:28 AM

Brotherly love...

Redbert31 · #**1304** 05-27-2018, 07:36 PM

I see a fish, though, to my knowledge, I have no native American blood. My grandpa who traveled extensively thru the country in his sales days and met and spoke to many native Americans in his travels, shared a secret with me when I told him a secret of mine. I used to watch westerns in the 50's and said Grandpa, when I watch them I sleep and dream of being an Indian. I understand their lives more than the cowboys. I never remember dreams where I wasn't an Indian. He said he spoke to a native American about dreams once, and was told that if you dream about them, you were one in a previous life time...I wonder.....

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Originally Posted by BlueRidgeBoy

You can perceive a fish of some sort in this photograph. If you shift your point of view so that the line that forms the bottom of the bird's beak and throat becomes the mouth of a fish, you'll see it.

An elder on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation in northeastern South Dakota put it like this: "The Lakotah are an eagle people, so they will see a winged. We (the Dakotah) are a fish people, so we see a fish."

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Onomea · #**1305** 05-27-2018, 08:02 PM

I hear ya Redbert, I always liked being the Indian when playing cowboys and Indians. Once, as a cub scout project, we made Indian gear. Leather fringed shirts, leggings, etc. I loved my outfit.

This was in Munich in the late ‘50s. Our cub scout master was an impressive speciman of a man, lean and mean, an army sergeant who was a mix of black and Native American. He looked ferocious in his get up, and knew cool Indian dances, woodlore and stuff.

We all wanted to be like him.

So, one day I am sitting in my treehouse, more of a tree platform I guess, in my yard, overlooking one of the streets, with my sister. We are both wearing our Indian gear get up. (How she horned in on this manly cub scout activity I have no idea. Maybe ‘cause mom was my den mother.) I am fully armed, with a coupla BB guns, assorted knives and a hatchet.

A car suddenly stops below us. A bunch of German adults starts looking at us, pointing, laughing and such. I give ‘em my best Indian stare of death.

They laugh and drive off.

They were lucky we didn’t have that cub scout master with us!

bdGreen · #**1306** 05-27-2018, 11:24 PM

Cordova, Alaska
I shot this picture when I went to visit my Great Uncle's homestead.

enjoy,
bdGreen

walkin jack · #**1307** 05-27-2018, 11:41 PM

My favorite fishin' hole. Caught a whole jar full that day.

misswired · #**1308** 05-28-2018, 09:48 AM

A morning walk around the yard

walkin jack · #**1309** 05-28-2018, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by misswired

A morning walk around the yard

Very nice. Here's what you would see if you took a walk around my back yard.

walkin jack · #**1310** 05-28-2018, 01:21 PM

...and here's a few more.

Watchdog · #**1311** 05-28-2018, 04:47 PM

An old Stereo Realist camera, photographed through a fisheye lens.

I don't know when this one was manufactured. They were in production from 1947 until 1971.

Lil' LadySmith · #**1312** 05-28-2018, 05:34 PM

Just got this one this Saturday (May 26) evening as the sun was setting. There's an area with these little tiny burrowing owls that I enjoy photographing from time to time. Had never been able to get one on the sign before!

camera: Canon 5D mark ii
Lens: Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @400mm
Settings: 1/30 sec @ f/6.3; ISO 1250
Handheld

walkin jack · #**1313** 05-28-2018, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Lil' LadySmith

Just got this one this Saturday (May 26) evening as the sun was setting. There's an area with these little tiny burrowing owls that I enjoy photographing from time to time. Had never been able to get one on the sign before!

camera: Canon 5D mark ii
Lens: Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @400mm
Settings: 1/30 sec @ f/6.3; ISO 1250
Handheld

Nice shot...in photography, like so many other things in life, timing is everything. Right place at the right time gets it done.

Lil' LadySmith · #**1314** 05-28-2018, 05:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Walkin' Jack

Nice shot...in photography, like so many other things in life, timing is everything. Right place at the right time gets it done.

Thank you Walkin' Jack! You're right about the right place/right time. My patience has improved a lot since I started getting serious about my photography due to waiting/hoping for that right time. I just wish I hit that combo more often!

Bullseye 2620 · #**1315** 05-28-2018, 06:40 PM

Moon Bridge, Guilin City, Guangxi Province, China.

Watchdog · #**1316** 05-28-2018, 07:11 PM

Beau learned to pose for the camera when he was just a puppy.

RobertJ. · #**1317** 05-28-2018, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Watchdog

Beau learned to pose for the camera when he was just a puppy.

I'd have given this 2 likes if it was possible!

leswad · #**1318** 05-28-2018, 10:11 PM

Someone randomly left this pipe on my property:

9/10ths, right?

RobertJ. · #**1319** 05-29-2018, 01:29 AM

From my recent vacation- the Las Vegas airport and a portion of the strip- from six miles high:

RobertJ. · #**1320** 05-29-2018, 01:47 AM

And this was one end of the Grand Canyon:

Bullseye 2620 · #**1321** 05-29-2018, 07:24 AM

Leaping Tiger Gorge, Yunnan Province, China. A nearly 13,000 foot deep canyon, Leaping Tiger Gorge was formed by the Changjiang (Yangtze) River and is wedged between the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain (on the left) and Haba Mountain (on the right). About a mile and a half down the river from where I made this photograph, the gorge narrows to about 80 feet in width, and it was at this point that legend says a tiger, seeking to elude the hunters who were pursuing him, made the leap from one side to the other. The Naxi people who live in this area are adept at terrace farming, as shown in this photo. Of this terrain, which is a part of the Himalayas, it is said, "the land is so rugged and steep that not even a crow can fly over it."

okiegtrider · #**1322** 05-29-2018, 10:46 AM

Watchdog · #**1323** 05-29-2018, 11:39 AM

In my back yard.

walkin jack · #**1324** 05-29-2018, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Watchdog

In my back yard.

Reminded me of a winter time "Peanuts" cartoon where a little yellow bird would ice skate on a frozen bird bath...Good grief Charlie Brown !

Davwingman · #**1325** 05-29-2018, 08:56 PM

Another cactus bloom & a really large Bougainvillea...

Watchdog · #**1326** 05-29-2018, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by RobertJ.

I'd have given this 2 likes if it was possible!

Thanks. If you only knew how hard I worked to set that up, light it just the way I wanted. I'd had the concept in my head for several days before I decided to try it.

Beau, much to my amazement, understood what I wanted him to do after only a few tries.

Now, though, as he's gotten older, he's become somewhat lazy and ambivalent about being photographed. Sometimes he'll tolerate it...other times it's like, "Oh, here he comes again pointing that black thing that makes clicky noises at me."

Bullseye 2620 · #**1327** 05-29-2018, 09:40 PM

This photograph was made on the roof of an 800 year-old tea house just off The Bund in old Shanghai looking east across the Huangpu River at the new Pudong district, home of the city's financial industry and the Oriental Pearl Tower (the tallest building on the left) a television broadcasting tower. I like the contrast between old and new.

Redbert31 · #**1328** 05-29-2018, 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Onomea

I hear ya Redbert, I always liked being the Indian when playing cowboys and Indians. Once, as a cub scout project, we made Indian gear. Leather fringed shirts, leggings, etc. I loved my outfit.

This was in Munich in the late ‘50s. Our cub scout master was an impressive speciman of a man, lean and mean, an army sergeant who was a mix of black and Native American. He looked ferocious in his get up, and knew cool Indian dances, woodlore and stuff.

We all wanted to be like him.

So, one day I am sitting in my treehouse, more of a tree platform I guess, in my yard, overlooking one of the streets, with my sister. We are both wearing our Indian gear get up. (How she horned in on this manly cub scout activity I have no idea. Maybe ‘cause mom was my den mother.) I am fully armed, with a coupla BB guns, assorted knives and a hatchet.

A car suddenly stops below us. A bunch of German adults starts looking at us, pointing, laughing and such. I give ‘em my best Indian stare of death.

They laugh and drive off.

They were lucky we didn’t have that cub scout master with us!

In the years when I was growing up my grandpa also brought me authentic looking Indian headdresses that I wore outside with pride as well as peace pipes, realistic toy guns and soft deerskin leather moccasins. I loved these gifts he brought me from far away. I can see them in my heart. I wish I had them to show my grandchildren now. You have wonderful memories from your scouting experiences!

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kfields · #**1329** 05-29-2018, 10:59 PM

Harry Posey crashed his brand new P-38 airplane in the field across from my house on Dec 2, 1943. He died when his plane stalled and fell out of the air. I rediscovered the crash site in 2013 and have been picking up parts of the airplane ever since when the field is plowed but before the crops get to much of a head start.
This is a piece of the aircraft I found this morning, the day after Memorial Day. No clue what its purpose is but it must have been important as it has a Lockheed part number on it.
Most of what I found are non-descript shards of aluminum, rivets and cast aluminum shards. I did find one of the gauge dials last year.

Bullseye 2620 · #**1330** 05-30-2018, 05:38 PM

A barn here in Floyd County, Virginia, on the crest of the Blue Ridge.

HardlyAble2 · #**1331** 05-30-2018, 06:50 PM

On 3, we charge...
2moose.jpg

Watchdog · #**1332** 05-30-2018, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueRidgeBoy

A barn here in Floyd County, Virginia, on the crest of the Blue Ridge.

Very nice. I'd like to see it in the winter, with snow on the ground. Matter of fact, I'd like to be there in winter, with snow on the ground.

Bullseye 2620 · #**1333** 05-30-2018, 09:53 PM

A barn just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd County, Virginia.

PALADIN85020 · #**1334** 05-31-2018, 11:48 AM

Well, since this is an S&W site, after all, I thought I'd show this picture I took of an M&P, vintage of 1923. It's in absolutely perfect original condition after being around for 95 years!

John

Davwingman · #**1335** 05-31-2018, 10:18 PM

Saw this old Ford truck by the roadside.

Bullseye 2620 · #**1336** 05-31-2018, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Davwingman

Saw this old Ford truck by the roadside.

I'm wondering about the two large caliber bullet holes in the left side of the windshield.

Looks like maybe three rounds struck the rear window.

Davwingman · #**1337** 05-31-2018, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by BlueRidgeBoy

I'm wondering about the two large caliber bullet holes in the left side of the windshield.

Looks like maybe three rounds struck the rear window.

Bullet holes seem to find old trucks around here!

walkin jack · #**1338** 05-31-2018, 11:36 PM

Did my 1st tour on Okinawa in 1963. I was with the 3rd Marine Division at Camp Schwab, the northern most military base on the island.

Before I was retrained and reclassified as a field corpsman I was a dental tech. here's some pics from that time and place.

1.Me working the appointment desk
2.The Dentist I worked for and I.
3.Small village a mile down the road from the base, Henoko
4.Outside the Airman's Club on Kadena Air Base.
5.Inside the club. Kadena Air Base had some nice perks for the enlisted types. Life was pretty much bare bones for the grunts.

I'll be back later with more pics from the rock and Mt. Fuji Japan

PALADIN85020 · #**1339** 06-01-2018, 04:15 PM

This is a shot I took of a portion of one of the Phoenix area's nicest resorts, the Four Seasons, north of Scottsdale, close to Pinnacle Peak. Call room service - I'd like a Pina Colada poolside, please!

John

Davwingman · #**1340** 06-02-2018, 12:26 PM

Old barn that is no longer standing...

Watchdog · #**1341** 06-07-2018, 06:45 PM

I knew if I walked far enough down the tracks, I'd find something to photograph.

misswired · #**1342** 06-10-2018, 01:44 PM

Guns, Roses and Garlic?

The small brown buttons' on the garlic is what I've used for years as seed... it's rumored the blooms contain seed....I'm not sure.

The 6feet tall horsetail plants growing around the propane tank are prehistoric...probably survived because they're invasive?

ParadiseRoad · #**1343** 06-10-2018, 02:03 PM

...ports in a two stroke engine...

Rustyt1953 · #**1344** 06-10-2018, 02:14 PM

On my recent trip to the Air Force Museum:

Bullseye 2620 · #**1345** 06-10-2018, 02:21 PM

Portico at the Shelbourne Hotel, an art deco masterpiece on Collins Avenue, South Beach.

Rustyt1953 · #**1346** 06-10-2018, 02:25 PM

My little flower bed:

misswired · #**1347** 06-10-2018, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Rustyt1953

On my recent trip to the Air Force Museum:

I used to raise boxers of a fine order here...:
I've had the same solid concrete boxer statues: Origin Mexico.... mine were retail 80 bucks apiece..:: they on about the tenth pains scheme I've used.

A tribute to all the fine Boxer Dogs that graced this property!

timjake · #**1348** 06-10-2018, 03:27 PM

Check Point Charlie, American Occupation Zone, Berlin

Taken in September 1989, two months before the Wall came down. (my one and only TDY to Berlin)

Rustyt1953 · #**1349** 06-10-2018, 05:20 PM

This CH-21B was donated to the museum in 1965. It was flown from Eglin AFB FL. My dad's name is on the flight manifest as 'inflight mechanic'. They chose him because the Banana Boat utilized the same radial engine used in the B-17 and dad was an old nut turner that was very familiar with it.

I got my wish to be photographed in front of it. It was a moving moment.

walkin jack · #**1350** 06-10-2018, 11:28 PM

1. Those little black fin tunas aren't too big but they are very scrappy on a rod and reel. Good fighters!

2. Fish on!

3. The sharks were hungry that night.