Random Photos

A topic for random photos: Ko-Larn island 7 km West of Pattaya

bird in shadow

Frosted spider web:

Is this a vanity plate?:

View over the edge of Central Park

docnet said:

View over the edge of Central Park

Is that a drone shot or out a window?

phinds said:

Is that a drone shot or out a window?

Hi phinds, it is a drone shot taken with DJI spark.

docnet said:

Hi phinds, it is a drone shot taken with DJI spark.

Amazing photo. Upper West side looking South ?

morrobay said:

Amazing photo. Upper West side looking South ?

Yes. It's as close to looking down as possible, The gimbal will not rotate a full 90 degrees.

I have a few more similar photos. Enjoy!

From the west looking east



From the north
View of Harlem (George Washington bridge and Hudson River to the top left)



More views of the city

Central Park, Randall's Island, Queens in view

I was visiting my friends in the countryside (Scania, Sweden) this weekend, since I was getting a new cat from them. Yesterday, Sunday, was a lovely autumn day, and we went for a long walk in the countryside, in the forest and along two lakes. It was perfect weather for photography and I took a whole bunch of photos,
among them a couple of panoramas of the lakes in the forest.

Here two of them are:

Lake number 1:


(a larger version is here)

Lake number 2:


(a larger version is here)

Night sky through trees near Mt. Adams, WA.

This little fella did NOT want his picture taken and he offered to punch me out if I persisted. I snapped a quick one and ran for my life.

Janus said:

Night sky through trees near Mt. Adams, WA.

What a cool photo, and what a great photo idea! I have to try to do that sometime!

Janus said:

Night sky through trees near Mt. Adams, WA.

Reminds me of camping in the wilderness, sleeping under the stars.

berkeman said:

Reminds me of camping in the wilderness, sleeping under the stars.

Me too, I can hear the crickets and bullfrogs

DennisN said:

What a cool photo, and what a great photo idea! I have to try to do that sometime!

Thanks. It was taken while we were on a "getaway" trip a couple of weeks ago. You rent a "tiny cabin" like this:


Where you have no cell/wifi ( there is a land line for emergencies), and you can disconnect for a bit.
I took it by laying my cell on the table and using the button on its pen/stylus to snap the photo ( I had to use the "pro" settings for the camera.)

gmax137 said:

Me too, I can hear the crickets and bullfrogs

The crickets had been very vocal earlier, but it being early Oct, and getting pretty chilly at night, they had quieted down by now.

How it was formed:

On the left is a shed between the fence and the house.

I have no clue what kind of fungus or mold it is. It was growing on an alder branch.

This is my dog, Penny.

hackenabush said:

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I have no clue what kind of fungus or mold it is. It was growing on an alder branch.

Tremella mesenterica ?

Winners of the 2020 Epson International Pano Awards

Dragon Eye, Highest Scoring Aerial Image, and Second Place, Open - Nature / Landscapes. Photographed in Iceland.

What are the white lines on the right half?

Edit by mentor - embedded picture removed due to copyright concerns. You may view the picture by going to the link, it's the first picture.

Keith_McClary said:

Dragon Eye

Often these fanciful names are less than convincing, but this one is truly awesome.

Keith_McClary said:

What are the white lines on the right half?

My bet would be on solid build-ups/precipitates on the edge of the pool. I have seen similar ones in karst areas.

Summer in the City. Disco Skaters Central Park.

And some Detroit Iron. These new cars today look like they are made out of electric shavers.

morrobay said:

And some Detroit Iron. These new cars today look like they are made out of electric shavers.

The purple car is very beautiful, in my opinion!

Some autumn photos I took a couple of days ago:

Couple of months ago on our evening walkies...

Taken from train along Central California (lost) Coast.

Last weekend's closet project.

There you are! Don't get out of my sight again!
Can't take your eyes off the kids a minute!

Don't spend much time mulling through my pics, not that I really have all that many. In the old photo contest weekly I'd sometimes forget a photo that would have fitted the theme. But lately since the last iOS update every day my I-pad presents me a selection of them. Some incredible algorithm they must have seems to pick out the good ones mostly, and some are quite good though I say it myself.

These wolves are in a famous wildlife park in Canada whose name I forget.

Physics on the grass, thanks to the pandemic.



One of my former colleagues is hidden behind the whiteboard. The red X marks the window of my former office, which I showed you all in an old photo contest thread.

.30-30 Winchester impact from about 50 meters