AT Shot of the Day Thread

[IronWing]

First desert tortoise sighting for the year and the fifth tortoise we've spotted on our land.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Murica!

 

[IronWing]

 

[IronWing]

SpaceX launch from Vandenberg last night as seen from near Tucson. Rocket is ~350 miles away in photos. The rocket became visible from Tucson approximately 40 seconds after launch when it was still 550+ miles away. Taken with handheld phone.

The horizontal line below the plume is the booster returning to Earth.

 

[bigboxes]

I have a Joby GorillaPod I've used before as a travel tripod. Worked pretty nicely for wrapping around railings or just using it like a standard tripod on a rock.

Yeah, I got one of those back in 2013 when I visited Carlsbad Caverns. Like you said, you can wrap around that railing. Pretty cool for something pocketable.

 

[trenchfoot]

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Awesome clean shot. I like how you controlled your depth of field such that you had so much of that caterpillar in focus. That said, I had one of different species yet similar in size drop on my shoulder while us kids were playing hide-n-seek and I'm not ashamed to say that I literally screamed like a little girl while trying to get it off of me without touching it.

 

[spacejamz]

Just did a firmware update for body and lens so I figured I would take a moon shot...got some great crater detail tonight..

 

[spacejamz]

For grins and giggles, took another and did a little more sharpening this time...it was also about 2 hours earlier in the evening...the sun had just set so the sky wasn't very dark yet...the craters definitely 'pop' a little better in this one...

 

[trenchfoot]

Unusual flight path of this VTOL Osprey allowed me to take this pic in overhead light and I processed the hell out of it in PS25 Camera Raw Filter to get some sort of acceptable results. Port side inboard vertical stab portrays the Hawaiian Island Chain. Too bad the Topaz noise reduction blurred the Unit Designation near the tail. I didn't want to mess with it thinking I would only make things worse. I still can't get the prop blur I've always been looking for heli's and prop driven VTOL's.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Unusual flight path of this VTOL Osprey allowed me to take this pic in overhead light and I processed the hell out of it in PS25 Camera Raw Filter to get some sort of acceptable results. Port side inboard vertical stab portrays the Hawaiian Island Chain. Too bad the Topaz noise reduction blurred the Unit Designation near the tail. I didn't want to mess with it thinking I would only make things worse. I still can't get the prop blur I've always been looking for heli's and prop driven VTOL's.

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Awesome shot!

 

[Fenixgoon]

Milky way over Lake Superior

 

[Fenixgoon]

proof i made it to Everest Base Camp (yes it's been nearly 5 months since i got back)

 

[bigboxes]

proof i made it to Everest Base Camp (yes it's been nearly 5 months since i got back)

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That's a cool bucket list adventure. Nice pics and thanks for sharing!

 

[IronWing]

Did you use the 7 Summits Club as your guide?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Did you use the 7 Summits Club as your guide?

No I used a local company, Nepal EcoAdventure.

7summits just happened to have tents and stuff there.

 

[trenchfoot]

I ran out of breath and got dizzy just from looking at your pics like how I get dizzy from holding my breath too long underwater waiting for just the right dinner on the fin platter to get within range of my spear.

 

[IronWing]

No I used a local company, Nepal EcoAdventure.

7summits just happened to have tents and stuff there.

All those little gold geodesics are North Face VE25s. I still have my ~1986 edition. Thing got knocked flat to the ground during Hurricane Hugo and bounced right back up with no damage and never even pulled a stake. The original design had two "snow tunnel" windows on the back which were designed to allow the user to dig out without filling the tent with snow if the tent got buried. I guess the issue never came up in real life because The North Face changed the design a couple years later.

Random pics from internet:

 

[IronWing]

 

[Brainonska511]

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[IronWing]

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It's about 20cm long and each segment has a nerve ganglia (distributed "brain") so that if it gets cut up, each section will keep running around until it starves.

 

[Brainonska511]

It's about 20cm long and each segment has a nerve ganglia (distributed "brain") so that if it gets cut up, each section will keep running around until it starves.

x however many segments there are

 

[trenchfoot]

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Nice shot. That centipede looks huge.