2020 New Random Pics

[Steve Carlton]

[WPOZZZ]

^^ That is not going to end well.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

^^ That is not going to end well.

that is actually normal for them

[Jolly Amaranto]

I maintain two nesting boxes for black bellied whistling ducks in my back yard. It is always fun to watch the little ones bail out when they are ready to go. The parents call them out and wait under the box for the rain of ducklings.

[WPOZZZ]

My duckies only stay on the ground or in my pond.

[GH85Carrera]

Villa Grock, Italy


Hoover Dam under construction in 1934.


British and US troops greet each other in Issum, Germany, 6 March 1945




Antelope Canyon, Arizona
Sand/dust and light beams

[WPOZZZ]

I filled up gas the other day after I finally got my Alfa back.

[craigster59]

18 yr old Ricky Nelson at his parent's home, the Ozzie & Harriet Estate in the Runyon Canyon area
photo by Ralph Crane for LIFE Magazine 1958

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

I filled up gas the other day after I finally got my Alfa back.

Last time I filled the Mercedes was 144€ for 60 litres


Sold the Beamer on Saturday. It will be missed

[WPOZZZ]

This was the Escalade's fillup.

[red 928]

[red 928]

[GH85Carrera]

A soldier from New Zealand resting and smoking a pipe in the Egyptian desert in 1942.


Personnel remove the protective coating from newly arrived P-51’s at an assembly station at Filton, England, April 1944. (National Archives)


A former American Volunteer Group P-40 being worked on by Staff Sergeant E.L. Sullivan of the 23rd Fighter Group, September 1942. This plane was noted as the first to bring down a Japanese plane after the 23rd Fighter Group took over after the transition. (The National Archives)

[Por_sha911]

Why do so many photographers insist on pushing the saturation to such unnatural levels? The photos look fake.
The digital enhancements are the auto-tune of the photography world and are a substitute for the talent needed to capture the photo with proper settings.

Random:

[Bob Kontak]

With respect to svandamme's oversize video on ducklings, which I watched in it's entirety and enjoyed, if you right click on the Youtube screen and choose "Copy embed code" it will render a much larger post footprint then if you choose below the screen "Share" then "Embed" then copy the string and paste.

Here are the size differences for that YouTube video.



Not hatin'. Not throwing shade. Just saying.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Why do so many photographers insist on pushing the saturation to such unnatural levels? The photos look fake.
The digital enhancements are the auto-tune of the photography world and are a substitute for the talent needed to capture the photo with proper settings.

Random:

I totally agree. As a photographer, I prefer to see it as it really was, not supersaturated and just fake looking. I don't want to edit other photographers work and take the time to lower the saturation to what is more realistic.

It is like a duck face on so many people, I hope it is a passing fad.








in 1998, fishermen spotted a manned North Korean submarine tangled in nets in South Korean waters. South Korean Navy ships placed the disabled sub under tow at which point it sank after possibly being scuttled by the crew. When a salvage team was able to recover the sub, it was discovered that the crew had been executed by officers who then committed suicide. Items found in the sub also indicated that the sub was carrying members of North Korean special forces who had recently infiltrated the South Korean mainland.




Another classic oversaturated image.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

Why do so many photographers insist on pushing the saturation to such unnatural levels? The photos look fake.
The digital enhancements are the auto-tune of the photography world and are a substitute for the talent needed to capture the photo with proper settings.

Random:

Agreed, it's too common today for folks to bump the saturation to levels that look unnatural, and often greatly dim the impact of the photo in my eye.

I will often make some changes, sharpness, saturation, contrast, exposure in post processing, but there's a limit. Most devices incorporate enhancements to saturation and sharpness when pics are jpg. I shoot (with my camera) in raw to leave that up to me. I try to make the pics look like I thought they looked by eye when I took the pic.

And similar enhancements were made on film when that was a thing. But like I said, a lot of folks, in my opinion, go way too far. It's like a lot of the "filters" that folks apply to themselves in selfies.

[GH85Carrera]

That is a wasp nest in a very um, very unfortunate location.

[red 928]

Griffith J. Griffith, the rich man who donated
Griffith park to Los Angeles in order to wipe out
a huge tax liability, became a crazed drunkard
who shot his wife in the head in a fit of jealousy.
The bullet went through her eye and exited
the skull but did not kill her.
He made up several lies: from it was an accident
to she tried to commit suicide.

He was eventually convicted but was
only sentenced to two years.

[Steve Carlton]

Interesting.

https://frenchtownconfidential.blogspot.com/2019/07/money-madness-and-attempted-murder.html