Friday Night Photos Mobius Trip Edition
Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 5:00pm
Happy Friday everyone. Please feel free to post any photos, memes, or music you like.
A little change of pace from the usual animals, bugs or flowers I normally post.
These were shot a few years ago at a couple of camera club workshops on black light and table top photography. For those that may be wondering about all the bubbles on the flower, it's submerged in water mixed with club soda.
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Hi pixelators
Hi all, Hey SP! AWESOME images man! Love 'em! Outstanding. They look great! Beautiful. High-Impact man! Most excellent work! I never do this sort of thing, or even still life stuff like you and Janis (and BR) are all so good at, so really like to see it done well. Very cool stuff. Thanks!
I'll try to dig something up in a bit. Lots of my recent processed images are on a now frozen unit, and so though I have originals on flash-thumbs - they are too big to upload here, and un-processed originals. So mostly going through older prior stuff...
Hope all are well!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi, dystopian
Because of all the equipment and props needed I wouldn't be doing much of this type of photography if it wasn't for the camera club workshops.
Age doesn't matter. Any photos old or new are welcome.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Very cool photo art
You capture the abstract light fantastic!
A turned burl vase with voids filled with turquoise.
Thanks for hosting!
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Hi, QMS.
Cool vase. Nice blend of wood and stone.
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Hi QMS
I would love to be able to look at that vase. The organic composition of wood burl and turquoise is stunning.
Imagine seeing this
I’d wonder if my drugs became more powerful.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Psychedelic clouds. Cool
Even if the drugs didn't become more powerful hopefully they were more interesting and enjoyable.
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Thanks snoopy
We used to call them 'sun bows', but Ive never seen such a full and intense one.
Not 'sun bows',
but 'sun dogs'. That's what I knew that as.
I’ve seen sun dawgs but never that vivid
and they are usually a ring are the sun with just wispy clouds. Either way I would love to see this myself, take a picture and die happy.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
cloud iridescence and sun dogs
Sun dogs are a specific atmospheric phenomenon, just as iridescent clouds are, but they are very different. Parhelia is another name for Sundogs. They only occur at very specific angles to the sun. Can't remember if it was 22.5 or 45 degress, maybe both. Cloud iridescence can occur anywhere in the sky. It is a function of the angles between you the cloud and the sun, and the right type of water or ice crystals. I think there has to be certain orientation of ice crystals to the sun as well.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
We were just treated to a spectacular light show
as an electrical storm rolled overhead. Lot's of branch lightening and a few big bolts struck
close to the house. Thunderous booms. I love lightening shows. Better than fireworks.
This is a pattern produced by a spinning Tesla type of coil. The Vortex.
truth is considered foreign influence, world peace is a threat to national security
That image looks just like my brain scan.
Love lightning storms. Unfortunately we don't get many here in Socal.
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Very funny Social n/t
For sure, better than fireworks.
Lightening can be so much more mind-blowing to experience. And the sound of thunder that sometimes accompanies it is much more impactful than the sound of fireworks blasting.
I'm glad you got to enjoy that.
Way cool photography
I love the one of the flower. I’d wonder about my drugs again if I saw that in nature.
Has anyone seen a cloud like that one? It’d be interesting how often it happens.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
I've never seen clouds like that
but I'd sure love to.
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arachnid trigger alert
Snakes, spiders, and sharks, the three S's 'everybody' is afraid of. To overcome your fears, study them. I grew up handling snakes and reading everything about sharks and had no fear of either. I was a bit spider scared though. It was simple stupidity. Of course we are uneasy with what we don't know. From the moments I decided to embrace learning about spiders, my fears are vacuously absent.
arachnids -
Black Widow - male
Bold Jumping Spider
Spinyback Spider
another Spinyback view
Tarantula - DOR - dead on road
unknown species - in nature, shoot first, get ID later
Crab Spider
web of orb weaver
apologies for these likely having been posted here before...
Have great ones all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Nice variety of spiders, dystopian
I noticed the Black Widow has part of a leg missing.
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True Social
Thank you for pointing that out, it hadn't computed for me. I'm sure dystopian can inform.
missing legs
Hi SP. I was surprised when I started taking photos of spiders how many are missing legs and parts thereof. It is remarkably common.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Wow dystopian
If you turn the Black Widow photo 1/4 counter-clockwise, you can almost envision the Devil ; ).
As a builder friend today carried one of the two french doors up the stairs, with me following from behind, I noticed a black spider just by his thumb. When I mentioned it he said. “Oh, I’m not afraid of spiders” and hardly glanced at it. When he set the door down he picked up the spider and set it gently on the railing outside. We have only one moderately dangerous spider here, the white tail, who is black and has a small (sometimes barely noticeable) white spot on its back end.
It wasn’t that one, which I was glad for. Anyway, now my door closes again, and I’m happy since it’s been really, really rainy.
I see your mask
Hi J! Yer right... that would make a great hockey or Mexican wrestling mask!
What a shame your 'dangerous' spider is introduced and non-native. It does not sound very deadly though. Virtually all spiders are poisonous, if you are an insect. Only a very few can do anything to humans. Of course most are beneficial.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Hi Social
I might have thought it was frost on the flower in the morning sunlight.
It's neat that you got to experiment with ultra violet light.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Hi, Janis.
Next month the camera club will be playing around with light painting. I can't wait.
You have a good weekend as well.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
How exciting, to paint with light and a camera.
I look forward to hearing about and seeing what you create.
When I had a darkroom I did a bit of experimenting with light on photographic paper. It was fun.
Even Picasso did it!
https://www.thecoolist.com/light-graffiti-10-masters-of-light-painting-p...
Thanks for all the great, somewhat different
images than what you all usually post on here. That also includes the spiders which still creep me out a bit. We've got a least 2 well known venomous spiders in FL: Black Widows and Brown Recluses. I was bit by (thankfully) an immature member of the latter. It took that sore quite sometime to heal. They are the nastier of the two species. Hope you all are well.
Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
spider bites
Hey OBF! In the recluse club eh? Congrats! I got love-tapped by a Brown Recluse once. They can give a warning bite, like a rattler's 'dry bite', whence full envenomation does not occur. I saw mine very closely and so the ID was positive. Most reported recluse bites are not. There were some people that lived in Kansas they pulled 5000 out of the house, no one ever got bit. Most bites are rollovers during sleeping. We had a place here with a good population (very rare where we are now, but lots of widows here) of them and never got bit. I would feed one the stray ants that came in the house, like a pet. My understanding is that the widow bite is one of the most painful things you will ever experience, the recluse bite generally is not considered excruciating. A Wolf Spider can send you to the moon. What is amazing is that you could put your hand in front of any spider and it will walk onto it. It has no reason to think your hand is food, or to fear. Just substrate to walk on.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein