^Nice carving..
Some people got creative with decorations this year. :)
I'm not quite sure how they got that bike up on the post.
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^Nice carving..
Some people got creative with decorations this year. :)
I'm not quite sure how they got that bike up on the post.
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Unless they're 37 feet tall, I'd guess they used a ladder.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe
Interesting decoration though. Perhaps titled Za waiting for Dickie.
I wandered lonely as a cloud...
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Super-cat up up and away to the stars and beyond...
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^
I saw her upon nearer view,
A Spirit, yet a Woman too!
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty;
^^ Is that a shower, randomly placed in the corner of a room?
Great first pic, Looper, where was it taken?
I had a get together with my brothers last night. My older brother lives out of town and he came down. We had a huge drunkfest, played darts and drank way too much. lol
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My guess : Mount TamborineQuote:
Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe
Ensuite shower so you can spectate the brightly lit ablutions through glass from the more softly lit bed area a few meters away. Somehow vaguely reminiscent of a Thai soapie goldfish bowl experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edmond
....Luckily the ensuite dunny has a door that can be closed - so you don't have to sheepishly avoid eye contact while backing out a nasty-boy in the morning.
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Yes indeed Mount Tamborine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Latindancer
Windy day so little ephemeral clouds were quickly forming and dissolving on the fly as the mountain lifted the humid ocean air up and over the crest to the leeward westerly inland side of the range where the sun was setting.
Who is the innocent party being protected by pixellation MM - you or one of the brothers?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe
The wife prefers to stay away from the crowds...
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I get to make the shelter and boil the kettle while they went picking mushrooms, and once again we had the whole forest to ourselves.
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Winter is good for picking trumpet chanterelle and it's difficult to confuse with anything else.
Pfifferilnge . . . looks cold
Trompetenpfifferling (Craterellus tubaeformis) rather than Pfifferilnge (Cantharellus cibarius). The former come out later and carry on through to December.Quote:
Originally Posted by panama hat
They used to be my favourite - there was a forest near my grandmother's place and I'd stay with her on long week-ends (weekdays was boarding school) and I'd go hunting for Butterpilze, Pffferlinge, Steinpilze, Parasolpilz usw . . . she'd throw some butter in the pan, add the Pilze and - beautiful. Maybe a Pilz-omelette, Käsepilzomlelett oder wenn etwas besonderes zu Hand war - Pilz-Omelette mit Lachs.
Here in NZ we only find Wiesenchampignons - nice, but a bit boring.
A while back I visited the Dornier Museum Friedrichshafen.
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It is right next to a small regional airport. They have regular flights with a blimp. Didn't get a good shot of it.
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This is how comfortable air travel looked back in the early days. The Do X
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A water plane. At that time there were no sufficiently large airports. It was over 200km/h fast.
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^ An aircraft with the luxury of an ocean liner. Zeppelin museum is not far away either and another piece of glorious luxury.
After far too long being undecided, I finally bought the Nikon 200-500mm zoom today.
This is my standard 35mm lens (50mm equivalent), without cropping, to get an idea:
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This is a cropped in view of that red sphere on the 500mm (750 equiv)...
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That's taken hand held at 1/13s as a quick check giving an indication of how good the VR is on the lens.
...and a random pic of the woods for those that are missing winter...
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Is that the lens with a single f-stop, Troy? f5.6
^ Its max aperture is f5.6 throughout the 200-500 range but you can stop it down all the way to f32.
It's heavy and is going to take a bit of getting used to as I expect to use it hand held most of the time.
Very cool Troy :wank:Quote:
Originally Posted by Troy
Santa arrived last-night exactly 4 weeks early, to the hour, in the form of an email at 1.00am from a numerical [email protected] email address which I recognised as being a Chinese email saying simply 'hello'
I was going to ignore it, assuming it was Chinese spam, but my curiosity rover got the better of me and I searched my email history. Turned up a hit from April - Miss Mini Minx!
A quick surge of excitement pulsed through my veins as she is a regular favourite in the imagination hall of fame wank bank
By the time I had worked this out though a second email had arrived saying 'I am outside your house'
It was at this point that I remembered that we had parted on rather testy terms following her discovery of Miss Mindanao's abandoned flip flops in the cupboard and her jumping to nefarious conclusions and storming off with her little coal black eyes smouldering.
I feared she might have brought some brothers to offer me a cold serving of vengeance and locked the downstairs doors to greet the arrival party from the safety of the balcony.
But it became clear from the little torch bobbing slowly along the driveway through the forest that she was alone so I went downstairs and outside. She then ran the last 20m towards me in the dark and I scanned her swinging hands nervously in the moonlight for a glint of a silver blade but she just threw her arms around me.
It was only as I looked down at the top of her head that I remembered how hilariously tiny she is.
Thank you Santa...
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:pullsleigh:
This was Venus rising in the east as she fell into a pre-dawn slumber and shepherds watched their flocks (really needed a fixed f5.6 telephoto to do the dawn display justice)
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This morning she was gone and is not replying to any messages today
If I had not taken any photos I would have suspected I had dreamt the whole thing.
Yesterday the US National Dog Show was televised. A new breed/category was announced.: National Dog Show 2020: List of all breeds, all groups competing - Home - The National Dog Show
Shelter Dogs. The winner……….
Christmas elf vehicle driving preparation:-
Seat fully forward - check
Seat fully raised - check
Cushion added for extra ass elevation - check
Shoe with cushion sole for crucial 1cm extra pedal reach - check
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Thunderbudgies are go...
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Portraits of a mini-minx in rainbow-unicorn land
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Lucky bugger!
That's a nasty looking brown stain you've got on your pillow there, by the way...
Same size as the bite on his shoulder....must have drawn blood.
Christmas elf serenade on a g-string arranged for a suitably goblin-gauge guitar
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Teaching a western cultural novice the traditional seasonal parlour game of eyes-closed hunt the Christmas cucumber
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getting warmer...
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It looks like a ukulele to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper