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Random Photo thread
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Recently experienced that Sunset on gulf Mexico at gulf shores is not much different than sunset over Lake Michigan from west Michigan, well, except for its more inline with the shore (instead more perpendicular to the shore) and is lots of shells in the beach sand and was T-shirt weather (last week February).yes, I did bring back some of the gulf with me to get the shot.
And, as I said before, doesn’t take much photographic skill to get interesting picture (although having manaul exposure and telephoto lens helps).
Doah, I now see I pick a picture where person overlaps another person further down…. Adds confusion to the scene.
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IMG_6879 by Scott Marvin, on Flickr One of my local Eagles having a bad feather day in 40 mph wind a couple days ago.
Nice photo.
Nice display of vintage tube boxes.
THen, is THe radio a tube radio, I suspect.
Thanks Dave. That's one of a few tube radios in the collection that I'm holding on to. To my eye that one has such a simple and pleasing design. . I finally last weekend finished going thru a boatload of old tubes to pick out what I'm keeping for the few radios I'm holding on to. Some will be given to a friend who uses tube amplifiers with his guitar. The rest of the tubes radios, etc are being sold.
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Yah, simple, and nice wood.... then notice is curved wood on top and bottom,
, so simple apparence, but yet more involved construction/fabrication.
I found it interesting that some tubes are labled as "radio tubes" and some are "electronic tubes".
I wonder if "radio tubes" were common for radio circuits, and not TVs.
I used to know about some tubes used for certain circuits, so knew what tubes were suspect for certain TV problems. So take those to the drug store tester machine, (drug store? hum, some store, dont recall specifically). ANd there would be someone already there that had brought every tube, and taking a long time to check each every tube.
Whats the problem? Just a horizontal line? here check that one. Picture slanted sideways? here check this one or that one.....
Had not thought of that in a long time. Thanks.
Couple days ago Mrs. Eli and I went to visit our daughter. She lives up near Lake Ontario. We took a ride up to Olcott Beach and the ladies went to wander the shops and buy useless stuff. I sat on a bench and looked out over the water. I noticed what looked like buildings on the other side. I googled a map and realized that I was looking at Toronto. Here's the thing, you can't see the other side of the lake. It's more than 50 miles away and the opposite shore is below the horizon. I was seeing an optical illusion. It was Toronto, CN tower and everything, clear as day.
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It's called Fata Morgana. It was pretty close to the eclipse in weirdness..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_...ata Morgana mirages significantly distort the
It's called Fata Morgana. It was pretty close to the eclipse in weirdness..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_...ata Morgana mirages significantly distort the
Couple days ago Mrs. Eli and I went to visit our daughter. She lives up near Lake Ontario. We took a ride up to Olcott Beach and the ladies went to wander the shops and buy useless stuff. I sat on a bench and looked out over the water. I noticed what looked like buildings on the other side. I googled a map and realized that I was looking at Toronto. Here's the thing, you can't see the other side of the lake. It's more than 50 miles away and the opposite shore is below the horizon. I was seeing an optical illusion. It was Toronto, CN tower and everything, clear as day.
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It's called Fata Morgana. It was pretty close to the eclipse in weirdness..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_...ata Morgana mirages significantly distort the
Now that is cool! I grew up in the beaches area of Toronto and spent many nights staring across the lake at the glow of the lights of Rochester NY but never saw anything like that. You were probably standing near were I was looking. I've witnessed that in the Nevada desert on Hwy 50 though.
That is cool, Eli.
Twice I have seen basically the same image of Toronto when looking across the lake from Niagara on the Lake . It was on a blazing hot, humid summer day and figured the moisture in the air might have had something to do with it. Now i know the real details.
Twice I have seen basically the same image of Toronto when looking across the lake from Niagara on the Lake . It was on a blazing hot, humid summer day and figured the moisture in the air might have had something to do with it. Now i know the real details.
