Bad lighting, angle of the sun is bad, shot at a severe angle, through a triple-pane window. Take your pick.

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At least it's not going around a damn tree.

gulp!

That's my squirrel. Best not be no dang ol hunter circling my squirrel!

Aw, he's so cute!

Squirrely, Squirrely shake your bushy tail!
Squirrely, Squirrely shake your bushy tail!

Wrinkle up your little nose,
Hold a nut between your toes.

Squirrely, Squirrely shake your bushy tail!

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If you go straight through this intersection, you're in the cemetery. Zombies...indeed.

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Saw this polebarn just outside of town...I guess those are supposed to be hayloft doors as art?

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How about an after pic? After the shot?

The bullets I was using were made of electrons.

:D

For JimHelm

Clever.

Damn. We've been Rick-Margined.

From my lovely holiday weekend at a FOB at Camp Shelby. My guys snapped a pic of me in the port-a-john

A two holer? How did the cameraman get that shot? You don't look like you're looking at the door, though you might be looking at a camera stuck through the slightly open door... ha ha, let's steal a pic, etc. Funny!

Actually I was sitting in there to use the phone & the door wasn't locked. I swear to God, for some unknown reason the only place you can get AT&T reception is in the port-a-johns. We use them like phone booths!

There certainly was, Ollie, there certainly was.

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We partied like rockstars. You know, if rockstars partied on riverbanks...

Benny the Dinosaur takes a ride.

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Here's one of my many Venus transit fails. This particular fail was shot using a music cd (ZZ Top's Greatest Hits) as a filter, which wasn't quite dark enough, with an all-in 8x optical zoom.

Flare was mine enemy this day, but, made for at least one interesting, even if not visually acceptable, image.

Looks like Marvin The Martian shot one of his planet-destroying missiles at the Sun.

I understand Venusian transits make him angry. So very angry indeed.

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It's an okay image of a non-quality bird. Does that count?

If I hadn't been loving on Slick at the time, he woulda had that li'l feller for lunch. I grabbed fast, and all I got was his (Slick's) tail!

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I met him yesterday, his name is Billy, isn't he the fluffiest, cutest ever!

[12yroldGravdigr]Where's my Epipen?[/allergic]



BTW: That picture is totally a quality image. Belongs in the "Neat Pictures I Took" thread.

:D

Yeah Rhianne, wrong thread... that's a great picture. :thumb:

very nice picture!

I like Billy. Very nice image.

from APOD

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Headed out to do some fishing - trying to get a few of the sun rising on a boat doing 25 knots was probably not the brightest idea...
Took a few as the sun started to peek over the horizon.

And a few as she his behind the clouds.
Keep in mind fast moving boat and basic point & click camera.

Oh, and FTR - I don't think I've seen the ocean that calm in probably 25+ years.
We were about 10 miles offshore at that point.

Nice pics, Classic!

Usually, the far away pics don't get too bothered by the movement, as long as the shutter ain't open too long. Calm water helped too, I'm sure.

I like the visible rays in post #86.

They're hard to capture sometimes.

thanks Grav. I liked that one too. I can only imagine what a nicer camera with some sort of filter could have captured.

There's nothing great about this picture except for the fact that my nephew was really excited to see the planes fly across the sky. I was heading over to his place to read to him before his bedtime when I heard a loud noise above. I looked up and saw three planes fly slowly by. I thought to myself what pity my nephew didn't see them because he loves airplanes. I went in and told him about it. He was excited. While talking, we heard the loud jet engine sound again. I yelled, they're flying by again, and I ran out the door with my nephew and my sister behind me. He was so excited to get the tail end of it. Then I noticed that he didn't even where shoes. He ran out into the courtyard barefooted. LOL We went back in and five minutes later, we heard the planes again and again, we ran out. That's when I realized the planes are circling and they pass by us every 5 minutes. So, we all just stood there in the garage to watch the planes fly by for every 5 minutes until they stop. ....hihi

Sorry, my love of all things mechanical and sheer pedantry force me to correct you. You heard piston engines, not jet engines! Sorry, I won't do it again...

Piston engines, it is...:)

Are you in the US? I'd guess the two fighters are Mustangs but I wouldn't even be able to have a try at the bigger, less sexy plane. I have a friend though who could probably tell you what the pilots had for lunch.

B-25 Mitchell maybe? The tail configuration is similar (note the diagonally-cut horizontal tail surface), but, I'm not sure the leading edge of the wing is correct. The going away angle of Lola's pic may be deceptive, too.

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I liked that one too. I can only imagine what a nicer camera with some sort of filter could have captured.the main reason of non quality images is that when we use less quality papers.and non quality images is not acceptable for companies.

Was this question for me? Oops, I'm sorry. I didn't realized a post was directed at me. In case you still care to know, the answer is yes, I live in the U.S. :)

I absolutely tripped out when I saw this on the horizon yesterday. Then I remembered that the 'Balloons, Tunes, & Bar B Q Festival' was this past weekend in Bowling Green, KY. I guess he was trying to get in one last ride before packing up. Not too many balloons this year, I understand. Usually a huge turnout though. Wrecked economy, I guess.

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I also saw some turkeys on the way back from the crick.

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Heheh...

Have you noticed the recent trend of the pics in this thread?

Since post #76, they all have something to do with the sky, or things that fly.

Both are nice! I get excited when I see an unexpected hot air balloon and especially when I see wild turkeys.

I wonder how excited we'd be drinking Wild Turkey in a hot air balloon?

If we want to keep the flying thing going...

Last week, I took about 200 pics, none - at least none of the actual flying ones - were very good, but since this is the non-quality thread I suppose it's okay to put this one up of a pair of dragonflies doing what dragonflies do.

That's the greatest thing about digital cameras, those 200 or so pics didn't cost you anything besides battery power. Someone here said it best: Electrons are free.

Nice pic, btw.

:D

Hey look, gobblers. :haha:

Just bought myself another pen for the Retro 51 collection. Was admiring them so I took a snapshot. I thought I'd share my joy. :D

At least they don't eat much. :haha:

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:lol2:

When I first saw your little hide-away there, I thought "A Zippo lighter body w/a tiny magnifying glass instead of a wick, how totally fucking awesome."

It's still pretty awesome.

Actually, not at all because they're not used. No ink leakage. :D

I thought it was rather neat also. I thought it was tobacco. Hmm...beginner to wonder if it could be something else. Haven't seen other stuffs up close and personal so I really don't know. :p:

I thought this was an interesting looking papaya tree.

'baccy ain't green, honey.

:lol2:

I took this pic at my local park. Nice to know the money that we had to vote whether to spend, was well spent on these signs. [/sarcasm]

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Anyone have any ideas why my pics aren't showing up when I preview my posts?

A lift kit and big tires for Grand Cherokee One.

Provided by Nature.

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It's no wonder Americans are obese. They couldn't walk the hundred yards?

The ironic thing would be if they were going to the park to exercise.

Yeah, my Dad just stopped in to mention that somebody drove around the gate between me and the game lands. So they bow hunt to get one with nature and catch some exercise but drive up a maintenance access road / private driveway and park on a food plot to avoid a 1/4 mile walk in the woods? Fucking lazy Vermonters.

Maybe they feel their vehicle is safer further from the road. No excuse for being dicks, though, I'm just trying to get into their heads.