Tell us what pictures you have taken recently (that are interesting)

[Miguk]

While you chumps are expending energy running around all over the world, I sit back and let the world come to me… in the form of AirBnB guests and their weird garbage.

This artifact belonged to a Korean woman. I cut off the bottom where it helpfully explains that it’s “PORE’S CARE” and restates “Wanna have baby skin!” Text is English & Japanese on the front, Japanese & Korean on the back. The product is made in Korea. I don’t dare open it and find out what’s inside because I fear the powers of Korean skin care products. They’re 20 years ahead of us, so it might be nanites or something.

[Timex]

It looks like one of those strips you put on your nose to clean your pores.

[Hal9000]

NP. The traffic on St. Lucia can get bad, which is actually kind of nice, as the locals tend to be very nice about letting you cut in, which is the exact opposite of most places I’m used to. Also, the roundabouts there are so angled as to be impossible to screw up. I had no issues at all, and it felt entirely normal after only a few minutes.

St. Lucia definitely seems to have the mix you might want. The volcanic activity is small and mostly just mudpots, like a mini-version of Yellowstone. And as @ineffablebob said, remember to keep your body closest to the oncoming traffic. But you’ll likely be behind people all the time, so just following works well.

[Hal9000]

Ha! Thanks man! It was a VERY great night, about 0F but no breeze and it was awesome to cuddle up inside and watch some downloaded Netflix before falling asleep. :)

@krayzkrok, I love that monitor picture. I’ve always wanted to see a big monitor in real life, even though that wretched Rescuers (?) cartoon made them seem evil!

[krayzkrok]

Thanks for the comments. Australia still has plenty of cool wildlife, and it’s really not all out to kill you as is often believed!

@Hal9000 actually that guy is quite small, probably about a meter long (over half of which is tail). They’re often found scaling rockfaces (hence the name), squeezing into small gaps, so they can’t afford to get too bulky. Lots of character though.

Perenties are the really big monitors! Only seen one in the wild, but they’re not uncommon in the desert areas around Alice Springs.

[Fishbreath]

While we’re a bit leery of driving on the left (having never done it before) I’m imagining that is a much better place to learn than say in the UK due to traffic density.

My wife and I honeymooned in Ireland a few years ago. It was a lot less troublesome than I thought it would be—we started in Dublin, both on motorways and narrow city streets, and it didn’t present any problems as long as I was paying attention. I did find that I couldn’t even glance away from the road, though, especially on motorways. When driving on the right, I automatically try to keep my viewpoint on the left side of the lane, and I found that happening in Ireland, too, if I was even a little distracted. Here, it just means I’m in the lane; there, it means I’m drifting into the lane to my left.

The strangest part is that I have to remind myself, whenever I’m remembering driving in Ireland, that I was in fact driving on the left. When I call a memory to mind, my brain says, “You were driving, so you were on the left side of the car driving on the right side of the road.”

[krayzkrok]

Conversely, many (many!) years ago I visited the Netherlands (from the UK) for some research work. The guy I was working with picked me up at the airport, gave me the keys to a crappy manual car, and sat in the passenger seat. I’d never driven on the left before, and certainly not in a manual car where the gear stick was on the “wrong” side. That was a Dark Souls level of difficulty curve, but I managed to not crash, and in fact other than trying to open the driver’s door by mistake a couple of times at first, my brain adapted remarkably quickly to it. So the take home message from that is, make sure you drive an automatic!

[claybob]

Talk about being in the hot seat!

[Hal9000]

A meter long!?! That’s like…at least twice as long as the biggest lizard that I’ve ever seen! Our lizards here tend to be quite small, maybe 3-4 inches long mostly. I just saw a massive iguana in Martinique and was shocked at how fast it ran and climbed, too!

Anyway, yeah, lizards are the cat’s pajamas! I remember hiking in the Bighorn Mountains this summer and listening to your podcast with Tom. It was truly fascinating! Keep the cool pics coming.

[robc04]

I don’t post much in here but I just wanted to say I appreciate the great pictures you guys share here.

[Simonout]

Japan is very pretty
Exhibit 2 - Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, constructed in 1252.

[Hal9000]

Weather looks pretty dang pleasant, too. Makes me miss living in an area with lots of trees.

[JD]

Rocket lift-off on New Year’s Eve. Yay.

[Cormac]

Excellent! Bonus points for using the champagne bottle as a launching device!

[geggis]

Noice!

[Penny_Dreadful]

Got my first prime lens (50mm 1.8) and I’m loving it already. I didn’t find a tremendous amount of interesting things to shoot in the snow, but I got this little guy.

And I also tried to shoot Orion, even though it’s a little cloudy and it’s practically daylight out there with this moon. I don’t know much of anything about astrophotography at this point, but here’s an unedited version.

And here’s one that I tried to darken…

On the next actual clear, dark night I’ll give it another go. Hopefully it won’t be with -15f wind chills.

[Kadath]

Been a while since I posted in this thread. You guys continue to astonish! Sooooo many great shots! I’m still experimenting with stuff, I love making new mistakes. Some of you know I’m a Kickstarter “super backer”, I will fund stuff that looks interesting from awesome folks I want to see succeed, regardless of if I will ever use it myself. One that WAS of personal interest was the Foldio system, which I finally just got in. These might be boring in a ‘general photography’ way (sorry!) but it’s fascinating to me to try to recreate some of the looks I see in catalogs.

In other words:

but this is fun! Testing out on some new Benchmade, Kershaw and Buck pocket knives I have been testing out.

18-FoldioKnives-2412 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

The results aren’t bad for not knowing wtf I’m doing =)
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18-FoldioKnives-2364[/URL] by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

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18-FoldioKnives-2399[/URL] by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

18-FoldioKnives-2397 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

18-FoldioKnives-2366 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

18-FoldioKnives-2396 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

18-FoldioKnives-2382 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

18-FoldioKnives-2370 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

18-FoldioKnives-2402 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

18-FoldioKnives-2355
by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

18-FoldioKnives-2386 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

18-FoldioKnives-2378 by Sam Posten III, on Flickr

DUST IS THE ENGMY!!! Also note that my 24-70 is out of alignment, so if the left edge is blurry, that is why. It’s going back to Nikon soon.

[Timemaster_Tim]

Those are nice looking knife shots. I am interested in what you use to set up the lightbox. My wife might be getting back into selling things online which mean I get to become official catalogue photographer.

[Hal9000]

@Kadath, that is awesome and VERY useful to me. I love your pictures and am going to buy one of these for the rocks and gems that I mine and process. I think it will really make them stand out.

[Hal9000]

Oops, @Kadath, I forgot to attach some examples of the sort of stuff I like to mine and polish. Do you think that Foldio would work well with these sorts of things? Should I get the small one or the bigger one?

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