The Great Photography Thread - REVIVED!

[Graeme1858]

Of the few places in the history of astronomy that I would enjoy visiting this is on the top of my list. Thank you Graeme for this photo.

Here's the telescope.

[Thefatkitty]

That spider at my back door has been busy. Out his AM with a coffee/see how cold it is, and saw this. Again, I'm glad I'm not the parcel it's cradling... :eek:

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[Don Quixote]

Of the few places in the history of astronomy that I would enjoy visiting this is on the top of my list. Thank you Graeme for this photo.

Here's the telescope.

Gorgeous!
One of these days maybe I will get there. If we ever make the trip to Scotland to visit our Clan castle at Duarte we will include a trip to Greenwich in our itinerary.
Thank you again Graeme!

[Mac]

Sol rise

[Don Quixote]

Autumn

Oct 18, 2019

Oct 25, 2019

[Juno16]

It was really nice to see these birds during a recent camping trip. The nest was erected by my former employer on the plant buffer zone. It’s about 100 feet high. Usually, there are ospreys occupying the nest when we are camping. Ospreys are really cool majestic sea birds and are a pleasure to have overlooking our camp site. I haven’t seen bald eagles here in years and it was a real treat!

I thought there were three birds, but in this photo before we broke camp yesterday morning shows two.

Shot with my Nikon D5300 Astro dslr with a $99 (used) 55-200mm at 200mm.

Thanks,
Jim

[Thefatkitty]

Took this on the way home from a bike ride today

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[Don Quixote]

The season has begun.
Power outages are common here in the country.
This is an original Aladdin oil full length floor lamp.
It gives wonderful light, and in the cold months, heat.
Now for a nice romantic evening with Bonnie.

[Graeme1858]

My family took me to County Offaly in the Irish midlands for my 60th birthday and we visited the Leviathan of Parsonstown at Birr Castle. It's a 72" reflector built in 1845 and was the biggest in the world at the time. William Parsons discovered the spiral structure of M51 with it.







The LOFAR radio-telescope is on the same site.

It was a grand holiday!

Regards

Graeme

[Don Quixote]

The Day is beginning very well here !

[j.gardavsky]

The Day is beginning very well here !

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Hello Mark,

that's a piece of art!!!

Thank you,
JG

[Mac]

We are always looking up, here is one looking down, albeit from not very high up

[Makuser]

Here is a slug and i0t's trail on our driveway this afternoon.

[DEnc]

Retirement--California style. We ran into these folks while visiting the Carrizo Plain in Southern California. "Lunch" was a rosé wine from nearby Paso Robles.

[Hankmeister3]

This photo represents the state of the art in color slide photography from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. It's a photo of my mother/father-in-laws taken in Fontana, California on her family's chicken farm in 1951 Fontana, California. Originally the image was captured on Kodachrome ASA 10 which is very slooooow film so the sharpness of this photo is quite remarkable given that it was hand-held by my mother-in-law's father - grandfather Pinhaus. Unfortunately the type of camera is unknown though my father-in-law Marvin thought it might have been a "high-end Leica with a built-in photo-metric exposure control" that he bought when he visited post-war Germany.

BTW, I'm posting this image of my mother-in-law Mati and her husband Marvin Frankel because she passed away two days ago at the age of 91! I could write a book about my mother-in-law, a beautiful, sweet soul who brought up two wonderful boys and daughter - my wife, Karen. Marvin is still with us at the age of almost 96 years! Marv is a veteran of WWII and was the co-pilot of a B-29 crew in the US Army Air Force (USAAF) who was within weeks of flying active missions in the Pacific theater when Japan capitulated in August, 1945.

Note the California orange trees and the goldfish in the small pond to the left. From other photos, Mati's family owned a beautiful spread which I hear now is a concrete jungle of parking lots and industrial buildings.

[bladekeeper]

This photo represents the state of the art in color slide photography from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. It's a photo of my mother/father-in-laws taken in Fontana, California on her family's chicken farm in 1951 Fontana, California. Originally the image was captured on Kodachrome ASA 10 which is very slooooow film so the sharpness of this photo is quite remarkable given that it was hand-held by my mother-in-law's father - grandfather Pinhaus. Unfortunately the type of camera is unknown though my father-in-law Marvin thought it might have been a "high-end Leica with a built-in photo-metric exposure control" that he bought when he visited post-war Germany.

BTW, I'm posting this image of my mother-in-law Mati and her husband Marvin Frankel because she passed away two days ago at the age of 91! I could write a book about my mother-in-law, a beautiful, sweet soul who brought up two wonderful boys and daughter - my wife, Karen. Marvin is still with us at the age of almost 96 years! Marv is a veteran of WWII and was the co-pilot of a B-29 crew in the US Army Air Force (USAAF) who was within weeks of flying active missions in the Pacific theater when Japan capitulated in August, 1945.

Note the California orange trees and the goldfish in the small pond to the left. From other photos, Mati's family owned a beautiful spread which I hear now is a concrete jungle of parking lots and industrial buildings.

An amazing photograph, Henry! Thank you for sharing this along with the backstory. My sincerest condolences on the passing of Mati. She sounds like a remarkable person.

[Gordon]

As an "adventure" in our new neighborhood, the wife and I headed out to the V bar V ranch today. The story is kinda neat. The ranch became private land in the 1800's and was closed to the public. Part of the original ranch contains Indian petroglyphs. Since the land was closed to the public it now contains some of the best preserved petroglyphs.

Here's a couple of photos of the ranch area and the petroglyphs.

[Don Quixote]

My yard this morning.

[Marcelo F.]

River spring next to my parents house.




Military fort next to the sea (close to my work place)

[Mac]