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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 04:07 am | 126th Post |
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seawitches wrote: Bum To Bum or One Deutchlander To Another
Now THAT is a cuuuute photo! You should enter it in a doggie calendar contest!!
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 05:10 am | 127th Post |
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Bolt from the Blue!
The most dangerous kind often taking their kill AFTER the storm has passed. One of my hits was from a bolt from the blue back in 1993. I've received secondary shocks from lightning strikes at least a dozen times. Three were severe including the most recent on June 01, 2006 where I thought for sure I was going to drown!
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 01:58 pm | 128th Post |
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do you have these published? Because you should. What about an art exhibit?
I'm serious here.
These clouds look translucent.
My son and I were hit once... well the eves trough was hit and we were each standing in separate bedroom windows watching the storm (yes, we are storm freaks here... can't get enough of them). I guess the eves had the current running thru it, and the rain was blowing in the windows, we both were tingling and screaming it was funny. The joke amongst family ... when I say the hair on my neck is up, the lightening is too close,..... they listen. My body hasn't let me down yet.
I understand nothing about photography (but the 33yr old university student does). He took some great shots one night off our cliff with a lens wide open?? I ran for the food all night while he stood out in the lightening getting the perfect shot.
I wonder why storm chasers and lovers do this?? Is it an adrenaline rush? Or are we just plain stupid??
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 02:04 pm | 129th Post |
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seawitches wrote: do you have these published? Because you should. What about an art exhibit?
I'm serious here.
No kidding!!! That lightning one is spectacular!!!!!
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Posted: Fri Sep 12th, 2008 02:11 pm | 130th Post |
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Circular polarization and post processing go a long ways to get the best shot. Not sure why we do it. There is an adrenaline rush as the hits get closer! I remember living on a farm where as the lightning got closer first the faint popping sound around the lightning rod ground rods would be heard. Then the telephones in the house would ring (a short ring just like the classic spitting in a pan sound!). Finally at really close range the neutral-hot busbar flashovers in the circuit breaker box would occur popping like firecrackers on the 4th. We lived in a cottage about 150 feet from a one acre retention pond that used to get struck all the time. The spring house was next to this and often bad strikes would electrify the water lines sufficient enough to send sparks cascading from the faucets! During a bad storm you either held it or risked taking a shot in the ass!
I also designed a lightning "geiger counter" device that can be pointed at an mature cloud and it would produce a spm rating which often became useful particularly over water to gauge how dangerous (fun) a storm was going to be.
Never published anything although I get suggestions all the time. I have so many pictures it's not funny. When I go somewhere it's not uncommon for me to shoot 1000+ a day. If something interesting happens that number may be quintupled with ease.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 12:15 am | 131st Post |
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kimdave68 wrote:
. The spring house was next to this and often bad strikes would electrify the water lines sufficient enough to send sparks cascading from the faucets! During a bad storm you either held it or risked taking a shot in the ass!
Never published anything although I get suggestions all the time. I have so many pictures it's not funny. When I go somewhere it's not uncommon for me to shoot 1000+ a day. If something interesting happens that number may be quintupled with ease.
Had to chuckle with your story of the spring house. As teenagers we had a bathtub tap that did that. If you were taking a shower and the water pump came on, the tap became electrified! As time went on and the boyfriends became husbands, they refused to shower in that tub. It's a wonder we all survived!
My DS calls those numbers of photos as "stock". "You never know when you will need those shots".... Ah hem, he's the artist not me!
I remember my DH old family house with burn marks on the walls from the old cloth telephone lines catching fire from lightening. And that wasn't too many years ago...... ya ok..........36.......... OMG! Last edited on Sat Sep 13th, 2008 12:16 am by seawitches
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 12:27 am | 132nd Post |
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Reverse grounding is BAD with pumps. The wiring snafus are killing soldiers in Iraq. 
Here's Disney's Wonder all lit up like an effing Christmas tree.
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 12:39 am | 133rd Post |
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| Very nice..... lovely to look at, pretty to hold, but there isn't a hope in hell that I can be sold!!!! NO DISNEY!!!!
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seawitches wrote: Very nice..... lovely to look at, pretty to hold, but there isn't a hope in hell that I can be sold!!!! NO DISNEY!!!!
AMEN to that!
I have my (nautical) respect and all but ahem let's just say I'll leave my thoughts at that. Don't want to turn this into a political fury!
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seawitches wrote: Very nice..... lovely to look at, pretty to hold, but there isn't a hope in hell that I can be sold!!!! NO DISNEY!!!!
Girlfriend, even though we're both grandmothers now, I say NO WAY too!
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Posted: Sat Sep 13th, 2008 02:11 pm | 136th Post |
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kimdave68 wrote: seawitches wrote: lovely to look at, pretty to hold, but there isn't a hope in hell that I can be sold!!!! NO DISNEY!!!!
AMEN to that!
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I had to cancel our Disney land/cruise vacation for December, and I'm still unhappy about that.  I would have liked to try the cruise at least once.
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Yachts in St Thomas - safe for now.
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Rinker Plant, Port Canaveral FL. November 14, 2006 upon leaving.
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| What is that?? I do know it's NOT a peaker plant......
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 02:51 am | 141st Post |
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Raw materials for concrete.
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Posted: Mon Sep 15th, 2008 11:58 pm | 142nd Post |
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| luv this shot. I can feel the cool air, and smell the gasoline, and can almost see to the bottom rocks. Attachment: 46718425.ComingHome2.jpg (Downloaded 56 times) Last edited on Mon Sep 15th, 2008 11:59 pm by seawitches
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seawitches wrote: luv this shot. I can feel the cool air, and smell the gasoline, and can almost see to the bottom rocks.
Looks like Maine!
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Dawn and Spirit side by side in Tortola, 2006.
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| Great pic........"curved earth", and I can see the clouds zipping by.
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I usually don't do perspective modification outside of the scary passage effect (The Shining) but the road just begged me to do it. It's an artist's thing you know...after a HOT day of walking around it seems like f-o-r-e-v-e-r to get back to the ship!
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 01:19 am | 147th Post |
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I usually don't do perspective modification outside of the scary passage effect (The Shining) but the road just begged me to do it. It's an artist's thing you know...after a HOT day of walking around it seems like f-o-r-e-v-e-r to get back to the ship!
Tall glass filled with tonic, ice and splash of gin, and a balcony chair... My favorite time. I love to sit out there and watch all the pax return, either drunk, happy, tired or late.
To be honest, I love returning to the ship. The crew actually make me feel like I'm coming home. They are always friendly, happy, personable, and make me feel like I'm coming home to safety. Of course I'm so old, I realise that this is all product service and they are full of bullchit, but I play the game and feel fuzzy all over.
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 01:22 am | 148th Post |
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The only BS is the photographers! (not me!) 
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 01:28 am | 149th Post |
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| and my favorite crew activity....... Attachment: 46c308fe-0015d-05918-400cb8e1.jpeg (Downloaded 32 times)
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Posted: Tue Sep 16th, 2008 01:30 am | 150th Post |
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kimdave68 wrote:
The only BS is the photographers! (not me!)
I avoid the photographers (after I've taken the zanny shots). It's the security crew that are fun.
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