Random Object Photographs

[bigwheelzip]

Having been a Gunner's Mate in the Navy, I especially liked this one!

You have some great photos. You forgot the most interesting thing about the Salty Dog in Homer, though!

Thank you Gunner's Mate. I never got to pull the trigger and shoot any naval guns, but worked on the design of the DDG51 at Gibbs & Cox and later at Bath Iron Works.

That old Salty Dog sure was rustic, but the fishermen really made it unique. Kept ringing the ships bell next to the door, buying rounds for the house. Drank till they passed out, then woke up and started again. A hard working and fun loving group. They kind of adopted us, while we waited for the ferry to Kodiak Island, after my husband helped one of them who got himself arrested.

The Only Fisherwoman In The Homer Fleet Dancing On The Table.

Fishermans Pot Luck Supper

Horseplaying In The Salty Dog

Fisherman In Trouble

 

[codenamedave]

Barn, Lotschental Switzerland

Thanks to you I now have a new saying, a polar opposite to "Built like a Swiss watch."

"Jeez this car is built like a Swiss barn."

 

[bigwheelzip]

Thanks to you I now have a new saying, a polar opposite to "Built like a Swiss watch."

"Jeez this car is built like a Swiss barn."

These sturdy little barns are similar to log structures in North America, except the wood is planed square. The lower level holds animals during the harsh winter. The support posts of the lower level stop just above the walls and have large stone slabs on top whose purpose is stopping vermin from entering the grain storage levels balanced on the stones above. The structures like this in the Lotschental valley have been dated to be up to 700 years old. The valley is a Unesco World Heritage Site.

A farm woman showing us her animals in the lower level of her barn.

This is a thatched roof barn from the 17th century in the village where I lived in Canton Aarau.

 

[arjay]

An old homestead a long hike up a side canyon from the south st vrain river.

 

[Cyrano]

Having been a Gunner's Mate in the Navy, I especially liked this one!

You have some great photos. You forgot the most interesting thing about the Salty Dog in Homer, though!

I was very disappointed in the guns on the Constitution. I looked along the barrel towards the muzzle and there was a royal cypher there, and a broad arrow. I asked the sailor who took us on the tour if they had been catured from the British and he told me they were replicas and the company that made them had sent the Navy the wrong ones. Apparently the Navy didn't think enough about it to return them and demand accurate replicas.

 

[cmort666]

I went out to the parking lot very late last night with my adapted LED headlamp focusing lamp.

I found a couple of things I wasn't even expecting, a LARGE house centipede (a good 2" - 2 1/2") and a few millipedes.

 

[bigwheelzip]

Apparently the Navy didn't think enough about it to return them and demand accurate replicas.

No, the Navy wanted nothing at all to do with the obsolete warship. In 1905, Secretary of the Navy Charles Joseph Bonaparte suggested that Constitution be towed out to sea and used as target practice, after which she would be allowed to sink.

Only an outcry from civilians who saw the intrinsic value of Old Ironsides rescued the icon, and Congress grudgingly obliged by under-funding her rehabilitation.

There are two accurate replica cannons aboard. Two carronades aft on the spar deck were cast in 1983, based on a drawing of the weapons used during the War of 1812. Founder Henry Foxall cast the carronades in 1808, and these were on board when she was recommissioned in 1809.

Maybe some of the original cannon is still on federal property, as the mile long cast iron fence that surrounds the Springfield Armory, made from obsolete cannon in 1852.

 

[bigwheelzip]

a LARGE house centipede (a good 2" - 2 1/2")

Never saw those critters until we moved to SC and one ran quickly along the wall (quite a shock).

 

[soFlaNative]

Mrs. Native works at the local YMCA and comes up with craft ideas for the camp.
2 pts. whole wheat flour to 1 pt. salt / 1 pt. water. with some gold glitter for effect.
The shells she picks up with her toes...

 

[PALADIN85020]

This is the road south from Benson, Arizona to Tombstone. Picture taken during the summer monsoon season.

John

 

[okiegtrider]

Wow Zip! Lot of nice additions to this fun thread.

 

[cmort666]

Never saw those critters until we moved to SC and one ran quickly along the wall (quite a shock).

I've seen them a lot here, especially in the apartment.

Since they've been sending an exterminator once a month, I've seen almost none of them, and almost no spiders as well.

 

[Watchdog]

These objects may be random in this photograph, but when they're combined, they become a highly efficient weapon...a part of a soldier's arsenal for well over a hundred years.

 

[codenamedave]

These sturdy little barns are similar to log structures in North America, except the wood is planed square. The lower level holds animals during the harsh winter. The support posts of the lower level stop just above the walls and have large stone slabs on top whose purpose is stopping vermin from entering the grain storage levels balanced on the stones above. The structures like this in the Lotschental valley have been dated to be up to 700 years old. The valley is a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Mebbe it's just from growing up in earthquake country, but to me those things look like they'd collapse if a 4x4 with an open exhaust drove by a quarter-mile away.

Desperate last-minute picks for obligatory randomness:

Tow guys will recognize this technique as "The California Roller", applying to a roll-over in this position relative the truck.

If you do it right, the vehicle ends up where you don't even have to move the truck to hook it up. Also I caught the car in mid-drop, notice the strap is slack.

It's great when you only need to have two lanes blocked on the freeway, the CHP luvs ya, but of course you if you don't get it done before fire gets there then it's all for naught.

In answer to your next question, no, a tow company never has to stock XS, S or M sized uniform shirts.

 

[Watchdog]

Truck Dogs.

 

[Watchdog]

Bygone Days

Gone, but not forgotten.

 

[okiegtrider]

RIP Herbie

 

[cmort666]

A reddish-brown stag beetle, aka "pinching beetle":

 

[PALADIN85020]

In recent years, after studying the works of Ansel Adams and other photographic masters, I've been more intrigued with the unique perspective of black and white photography, which concentrates on form, texture, and tonal values to convey the point of the photograph. Here are a few of examples of my attempts in this vein.

John

This is a flower along a hiking trail on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.

And this is a photo of Pinnacle Peak, northeast of Phoenix, during our monsoon season.

A windblown tree - Maui, Hawaii.

 

[RobertJ.]

In recent years, after studying the works of Ansel Adams and other photographic masters, I've been more intrigued with the unique perspective of black and white photography, which concentrates on form, texture, and tonal values to convey the point of the photograph.

Excellent photos!

One of the best compliments I can be given is when someone looks at a B&W that I've taken, and asks if it's an Ansel Adams. He's been my #1 inspiration in photography, and I do my best to mirror his work.