Yeah, it’s really difficult. My first awe-inspiring view of Suzzallo was in the early 90s, right before my freshman year. I had volunteered as a move-in coordinator to the dorms, so that let me move in about a week before everyone else. Campus was a ghost town, and we volunteers went to a movie in downtown Seattle. Came back late at night, walked up the stairs past George Washington, and Suzzallo was lit up like I’ve rarely seen on a crisp summer night. To this day, I wish I could have gotten a picture of it. (This was still the age of film, so not like I could whip out my iPhone).
It’s harder to get a nice shot of the Graduate Reading Room because it’s always packed in there. The kids today call it the Harry Potter Room, but I’m an old fart, and it’s the goddamn Graduate Reading Room until I die.
I took this with my new 56mm lens (effective 84mm FOV on my APS-C sensor).
schurem
3386
Beautiful shots. The Vernon is great. I also dig the trees and the girl with the side eye very much as well.
But the best shot is the trees and the water. It looks like a sad scene, with the droopy bare branches, but if you know trees, it’s a shot of spring,the impending return of life. See trees make those little busy sprigs just before the leaves come out. It’s a scene of hope and expectation to my eye.
The Sigma 56mm f/1.4 DC DN is easily the must-have lens if you have a mirrorless APS-C/MFT body. The reviews are universal that this thing is razor sharp, especially at f5.6. And it’s ridiculously affordable. It’s normally about $450, but Amazon has it for $381 right now! I got mine for $349 a couple months ago, courtesy of the Kenmore Camera Anniversary Sale.
Took this less than an hour ago. It’s f5.6. Hopefully the jpg translates.
Hal9000
3388
That’s an incredible photo in fullscreen! Killer colors, too.
Not often you get this angle on a Hornet. (Psss… the full-size view is pretty nice)
oh man. that should also go in the airplane pr0n thread. very, very nice.
The name of this is “Big Ballsof Cowtown Trail.” I just liked the geology. Last fall!
Taking some photos of wildlife around the garden for an online project. Here’s a couple of one of our (many) brushtail possums. Warning, cute factor moderate to severe.
I found a bunch of photos I took a long time ago aboard a flight over the Southwest. Ideal conditions: window seat, amazingly clear skies, and I had my camera.
I’ll post a few of them, starting with this.
I wish airplane windows were bigger.
RichVR
3395
Heh. I do not. Bigger window, larger area for it to be structurally compromised.
So make the structures stronger?
RichVR
3399
@schurem any comments on this?
The 787 features larger windows, because the entire thing is carbon fiber.
I think the new Dreamliners do have larger windows.
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One of the detractors when flying is the sense of claustrophobia (worsened by people being seated closer and closer to each other over the years). I think big windows would help.
schurem
3403
An airliner at cruise altitude is like one of those tube balloons clowns make animals out of. Only worse. The pressure differential between the very thin air outside and the thick enough air for you to be sorta comfy is huge.
If that tubes’ skin gets compromised even a tiny hair-like bit, it POPS! And they did that a lot back when they were new back in the 50s, read up on the de Havilland Comet.
All this to say @RichVR is right, small round windows are the best engineers can come up with while keeping things safe-ish. No windows would be better, safer, lighter more efficient.
Too large a window would make most people uncomfortable too, as they’d get more of a feeling of speed, altitude and motion on takeoff and landing. While you and I would welcome the awesome thrillride aspect of it, it would scare Mrs Tillerson shitless.
Matt_W
3404
I question this. The differential pressure across a jetliner’s skin is about 8 psi. You could easily stop a small leak with a wad of gum or by just putting your palm over it. The aircraft is actually constantly expelling cabin air through an outflow valve near the tail and constantly resupplying it with cooled bleed air from the engines. (787s use an electric compressor instead.) Unless a skin rupture was the result of or resulted in other structural damage to the fuselage, I think there would be little effect except noise. The cabin pressure system would automatically make up for it.
