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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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 5:42pm

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!

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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

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 7:18pm

Hi, dystopian

@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.

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Submitted by QMS on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 6:27pm

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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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 7:23pm

Hi, QMS.

@QMS
Cool vase. Nice blend of wood and stone.

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Submitted by janis b on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 12:20am

Hi QMS

@QMS

I would love to be able to look at that vase. The organic composition of wood burl and turquoise is stunning.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 7:28pm

Imagine seeing this

Iridescent clouds, known as "fire rainbows" or "rainbow clouds," occur when sunlight diffracts off water droplets in the atmosphere. ... And sometimes moisture in that air suddenly condenses into tiny droplets to form a cap cloud." pic.twitter.com/Zks6nYXVym

— DAPPER DON DHARSHI • K A M I L • (@SoloFlow786) August 26, 2022

I’d wonder if my drugs became more powerful.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 8:55pm

Psychedelic clouds. Cool

@snoopydawg
Even if the drugs didn't become more powerful hopefully they were more interesting and enjoyable.

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Submitted by janis b on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 12:22am

Thanks snoopy

@snoopydawg

We used to call them 'sun bows', but Ive never seen such a full and intense one.

Submitted by janis b on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 12:43am

Not 'sun bows',

@janis b

but 'sun dogs'. That's what I knew that as.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 9:52am

I’ve seen sun dawgs but never that vivid

@janis b

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.

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Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 10:55am

cloud iridescence and sun dogs

@janis b 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.

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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

Submitted by QMS on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 7:52pm

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.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 8:58pm

That image looks just like my brain scan.

@QMS
Love lightning storms. Unfortunately we don't get many here in Socal.

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Submitted by janis b on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 12:52am

Very funny Social n/t

@Socialprogressive

Submitted by janis b on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 12:29am

For sure, better than fireworks.

@QMS

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.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 10:10pm

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.

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Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 10:46pm

I've never seen clouds like that

@snoopydawg
but I'd sure love to.

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Submitted by dystopian on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 10:12pm

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!

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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

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 08/26/2022 - 10:43pm

Nice variety of spiders, dystopian

@dystopian
I noticed the Black Widow has part of a leg missing.

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Submitted by janis b on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 12:55am

True Social

@Socialprogressive

Thank you for pointing that out, it hadn't computed for me. I'm sure dystopian can inform.

Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 10:59am

missing legs

@Socialprogressive Hi SP. I was surprised when I started taking photos of spiders how many are missing legs and parts thereof. It is remarkably common.

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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

Submitted by janis b on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 12:38am

Wow dystopian

@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.

Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 11:03am

I see your mask

@janis b 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.

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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

Submitted by janis b on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 12:16am

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.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 8:18am

Hi, Janis.

@janis b
Next month the camera club will be playing around with light painting. I can't wait.
You have a good weekend as well.

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Submitted by janis b on Tue, 08/30/2022 - 12:44am

How exciting, to paint with light and a camera.

@Socialprogressive

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...

Submitted by orlbucfan on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 6:46am

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!!

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Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 08/27/2022 - 11:14am

spider bites

@orlbucfan 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.

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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