I thought the number of species carrying rabies was pretty small? Humans, canines (including dogs, wolves, coyotes), bats, skunks.
This picture isn’t that interesting, but I’ve never really used the iPhone 11’s “Night Mode” before.
We were just outside the path of a tornado this weekend (no injuries or fatalities!) and didn’t even know it at the time. Our power went out though, and neighbors who live up the street said there was a tree down on the power lines.
So this is about three houses up from us, and it was taken at about 10:15 pm. I was wearing a head lamp, but power was out throughout the neighborhood, so no light at all anywhere else. I set the Night Mode feature to 10 seconds and steadied the phone against a mailbox.
Nothing amazing to anyone who does real low-light, long-exposure, photography, but I was really impressed with this coming out of a phone camera and a headlamp. Especially since as far as my eyes were concerned, it was fully night time, and this still picked up light and clouds in the sky.
Matt_W
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Had a similar thing happen about a year ago at my workplace. It’s not unusual to see (huge) raccoons around my workplace, but we started noticing a really rank smell near one of the labs. After some investigation, we found a raccoon under one of the tables:
It wasn’t dead, but it was clearly in distress. We called animal control and they pulled it out. It had apparently gotten in a tussle with something; had a huge infected wound on its back leaking vile smelling puss. Animal control put the animal down humanely, and even after a disinfectant crew went over our lab, it took a couple of weeks for the smell to dissipate.
Matt_W
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Raccoons are the most common animal carrier of rabies on the east coast of the United States. But they almost never infect humans.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/09/massive-effort-eradicate-raccoon-rabies/
Did you call animal control? They usually like to test and document rabies cases so they can track outbreaks.
I did contact the DNR, and after seeing the picture she was more apt to believe it’s distemper since raccoon rabies has been so rare in Michigan, but said the body would have to be examined to be sure.
On a more positive note…
Nice! I like the framing too.
Actually not that recent (these ones are from last year) but I never thought of uploading them. Last year I traded my Canon 50D for a Panasonic Lumix FZ1000. I was so tired of not taking photos because of the weight you had to carry with the Canon. I really thought I traded quality for convenience but I couldn’t be happier with the Lumix. For the first time I have the impression that I can take exactly the pictures I want. Seems like the Canon was just too advanced for a dilettante like me.
From the zoo in Nuremberg, Germany.
Cormac
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Cute fox!
I know what you mean with the camera. My canon only gets dragged out when i am on holiday, otherwise the mobile phone camera must suffice.
Though looking at the Lumix, it doesn’t appear to be THAT much smaller than the 50D?
Yes, but that’s only the body of the Canon. Always had at least two lenses with me (I had five altogether). That was a lot of weight. As I’m using the long end of the lens most of the time (as you can see :-)) I’m pretty happy not to have to carry the tele lens as well. The FZ1000 is one of the bigger bridge cameras and I like that. The small ones just don’t feel right for me. But I noticed the difference to the Canon when I had to buy another bag. I like to use the Crumpler Jimmy Bo and the Lumix practically disappeared in the one I had for the Canon.
Another aspect that surprised me: I never want to have a camera with a mirror again. The viewfinder is another display that shows you the picture you’re going to take. Since I’ve got the Lumix I do everything in manual mode and like I said: It’s the first time I take photos that come out as I imagine (I sound like a commercial, sorry).
Dejin
3435
Those are awesome photos @countzero
Thank you. :-) Those are some of my favorites.
Well, I finally made the jump from 8x10 to… 35mm? Picked up a Nikon F4 for practically pennies and took it on a tour of the CHAZ/CHOP. Crazy how cheap you can find that thing considering it was the equivalent of like $5k back in the day.
And a bonus non-CHOP shot. It’s kinda refreshing to have metering built in, and shutter speeds above 1/50…
Very nice photos, @anonymgeist.
Thank you man! Not only great art, but also a very interesting documentation of a historic moment. You are now Qt3’s official bona fide Photo Journalist!
I appreciate the compliment! I have more photos, but those were just the ones that stood out that didn’t need any corrections/adjustments.
Those are great @anonymgeist. You should absolutely put them in an album someplace and share with the world!
