Viaduc du Millau?Originally Posted by earthJoker
Viaduc du Millau?
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Work wanted me to start looking for a new facebook banner pic for when the summer reading program ends. So I spent some of today playing around with the DSLR and the collection. I'm surprised at how well this came out considering how much the camera didn't want to take the picture cause it couldn't figure out what to focus on.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Lord of the Rings, good pic for a summer reading program.
Love it.
That flooding that drowned my car last night. Don't let the grass fool you, I haven't mowed that area in over a year.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
My other half bought tickets to a day out at Goodwood Revival for my birthday.
'Tis one of the world's largest vintage motoring festivals, with racing and parades and all things vintage. Attendance stipulates one must appear in period attire.
My camera is just a little snapmatic so the pics of cars on the circuit really did not come out - need a proper lens with optical zoom really.
Largest ever gathering of the rare Ferrari 250 GTO. £300 million worth of motor on the circuit.
A couple of Ford GT40s
The missus and I.
Niiice. I find modern Ferraris so insanely ugly, but those are gorgeous.
Great End, Ill Crag, Scafell Pike and Lingmell Crag as seen from Styhead Tarn.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Brandy is getting pretty good with this whole camera and photoshop thing.
She put that on facebook, tagged the zoo, the zoo commented and its been shared a few dozen and commented on a few hundred times. Blew her away.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Me and a couple of friends needed to produce a green flame for an opening ceremony of an event we were organizing.
Sadly, I don't have any pictures from the actual event, so here's one from the test run.
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What ceremony required such an oddly specific thing?
That's so cool.
It was a Geocaching event, in a form of a scavenger hunt (the variety where you have to take photos of the specified items instead of gathering them), this was the second year we're organizing one. Last year one of the items on the list was a broom that's burning with a green flame. Yes, we were drunk-ish when we came up with that one, but we really liked the idea. No teams managed to pull that one off (some tried, though, and one team was pretty damn close, their only failure was taking the photo too late), and we decided to use this entry of the last year's item list as a part of the opening ceremony. You could say this is our adaptation of the Olympic flame, and we had the last year's winners to ignite it.What ceremony required such an oddly specific thing?
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Scarlett got to meet some of her favorite princesses at Disney last night. This one needs some touching up, but the look of joy on her face is one of those undeniable "aww" moments, and she pulls this off in dozens of the pictures.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Which metal did you use? Bor or copper?
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Found Scarlett's "badass" pose from her monorail ride. won't make anyone posts on this trip
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Trimethyl borate, which is both easy to obtain and sufficiently volatile, though we had some problems with the gas flow - it went from too small to too powerful fairly quickly. Perhaps we should have prepared the compound beforehand (here we synthesized it on site by boiling boric acid in methanol with some acid catalyst added in that flask you see in the pic), and then we could evaporate that at a more steady rate. We didn't this time, since the ester is known to hydrolize easily, and we were unsure if the storage wouldn't turn out to be too problematic.
I'm not sure if there's a copper compound which is volatile enough for such applications, at least I can't think of any. Also, it'd be pretty difficult to use copper salts or something like that in this case - the color of the flame created in such a manner tends to be fairly short-lived, at least in my experience.
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Got the christmas tree up.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Brandy's hand has finally healed to the point where she can try out the new lens she got for Christmas.
She seems to get the point behind the fisheye, just needs some practice on framing the shot for cropping:
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Bump
"Wer Visionen hat, sollte zum Arzt gehen." - Helmut Schmidt
I know this is an old post, but this is the first time I saw it. That is adorable.
We have a place in NY that has the same name. The NY place is not as beautiful.
In a staircase connecting one building to another at work, the last flight of stairs ends in a concrete wall. An enterprising soul chose to provide it with a purpose:
Closeup:
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