Friday Night Photos Mov'n At Warp Speed Edition

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 5:00pm

Happy Friday everyone. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

Another new year is a few days away and I haven't even made a New Years resolution (that will be broken before the end of January) yet. As each new year gets here faster and faster it seems like we're moving at warp speed. And while the last few years have been pretty bleak and the future isn't looking all that rosy I'm still holding out hope that smarter heads will prevail and put us on a path to a brighter future. Best wishes in the new year to everyone here at C99. May your resolutions last beyond January.

A little bit of slow shutter speed while panning the camera to convey motion.

Before Steve Perry came along and ruined the band, Journey used to be really good.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 5:38pm

Nice. It’s been forever since I tried doing that

Snow tracks

Bird

Dawg

Bird dawg

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“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

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 5:58pm

Hi, snoopy

@snoopydawg
I've done slow shutter speed panning on larger subjects (race cars) in the past, but this was my first try with birds. They sure were a whole lot harder to get good shots of than race cars.
Absolutely love the snow tracks. Simple yet captivating.

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I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:09pm

They put a smile in my heart when I saw them

@Socialprogressive

They looked so cheerful on a cold and dreary day.

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“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

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 7:39pm

Hi snoopy

@snoopydawg

I love your snow drawings. They're very Zen.

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 8:02pm

So cool, snoopy!

@snoopydawg No snow here, but maybe one day I can catch some track in the sand.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:11pm

Thanks

@janis b

Those are Sam’s paw prints. She kept trying to mess up the bird prints cuz she is a stinker and knew I was trying to take photos.

@on the cusp

You will have to actually go to the beach if you want to see some. Maybe you guys will get out of your room this time?

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“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

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 8:14pm

Great series, snoops. Channeling the

@snoopydawg

Everly Brothers too. Way cool

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:16pm

Gotta admit that went over my head

@enhydra lutris

Little help?

But this works…

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zmlbj0o-pg]

I just read a story on how the Peanuts Xmas movie almost didn’t happen because no one thought anyone would be interested in that type of one. They took a big chance on making it and the rest is history.

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“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

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:26pm

see below

@snoopydawg

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 7:36pm

Hi Social

I like your panning exercise. It’s quite effective. It has a strong sense of a split-second moment in the flight of the birds.

I wish you and all - light, peace, wonder, and love in the new year, and anything else you wish for.

A Puriri Moth

This moth lives 5-6 years as a caterpillar before emerging as an adult, to live only a couple days as a moth. There must be a lesson in that, what it is I wonder.

The last of the rain 2 weeks ago

After rain, rain, and more rain for months on end someone shut the tap off overnight. Not one drop for two weeks, and it’s hot, but there's a hint in the sky at the moment of the possibility of a few drops.

Be well and enjoy everyone.

[video:https://youtu.be/CtYclKBuf4o]

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 8:01pm

Love the photos

@janis b and can never get enough of Van Morrison!
Happy New Year!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 8:24pm

Thank you otc

@on the cusp

Have a wonderful celebration you two.

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 8:42pm

I'm listening again to the full concert

@on the cusp
@enhydra lutris

It is such a great one.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 8:16pm

Fantastic shots, Janis, love the top one especially.

@janis b

Thanks for Van the Man ooo.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 8:31pm

Thanks el

@enhydra lutris

I almost dedicated that one to you.

I wish you and your wife all the best in the new year.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:24pm

Thanks, and all the best to you too n/t

@janis b

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:04pm

Hi, Janis

@janis b
That's a very interesting life cycle for the Puriri moth. You sure don't get much time to see it in moth form.
Is that a lamp or piece of art in the first shot? Whatever it is, it looks really cool.
Nice Van Morrison selection. I'm adding it to my play list.

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I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:31pm

Thanks Social

@Socialprogressive

It's a lamp that I put a bag of fairy lights in. I think it is from the 1970s. I remember seeing similar ones at that time. It's a favourite treasure that I bought on the NZ equivalent of Craig's List for very little about 12 years ago. Like a moth, I am highly attracted to light ; ).

Check out the whole double album of that live performance. It's all great.

Submitted by snoopydawg on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:17pm

Cool pillar

@janis b

At first it looks like it’s wearing pants. Yep good drugs tonight.

Happy new year’s Janis. And everyone!

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“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

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:44pm

You and Sam too!

@snoopydawg @snoopydawg

Isn't that what drugs are for, to enhance one's vision ; ).

Here's some info on the Puriri Moth ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pūriri_moth

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 8:04pm

How you catch birds is amazing!

I had an easier time with running zebras than birds!
Thanks for the OT pics and the music!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:20pm

Thanks, OTC

@on the cusp
With slow shutter panning, even for the best photographers it can take 50 or more shots to get one keeper. I shot 500+ frames for the seven images posted here. Thank science for digital cameras. I don't think I could afford that much film.

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I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 8:11pm

Good evening Social, thanks for the great pics.

The effect on the cormorant is really fantastic and funny as well when one considers what an enormous amount of work it puts out getting and staying aloft.

be well and have a good one

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:31pm

Hi, EL

@enhydra lutris
I always thought it would be cool to be a bird. But after seeing how much work they have to put into getting and staying airborne, I'm not so sure.

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I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.

Submitted by The Hindsight Times on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:46pm

The Marbled Murrelet

This little bird flies at 60 mph to avoid predators as it nests on the moss covered upper branches of old growth forest stands. We are helping Friends of Fairy Creek preserve habitat for this migratory bird on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. We, FOM, are helping to create a legal strategy to challenge clear cut logging in Canada and this little bird and others like him is the ticket.

Submitted by janis b on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 9:52pm

Thanks for introducing the Marbled Murrelet, Hindsight

@The Hindsight Times

https://yoloaudubon.org/event/marbled-murrelets/

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 10:19pm

Hi, HT

@The Hindsight Times
Nice shot of the Marbled Murrelet. I've never seen one before but I see on their range map they come as far south as San Diego during their nonbreeding season. I'll have to keep an eye out for them when I'm at the coast.

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I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.

Submitted by on the cusp on Fri, 12/30/2022 - 11:07pm

Best to you for

@The Hindsight Times pursuing a legal strategy. Block them with injunctions, I say!
For the beautiful birds!

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

Submitted by orlbucfan on Sat, 12/31/2022 - 7:45am

FWIW, Happy New Year's Eve

from east central FL. And many thanks for posting the great visuals (plus the tunes, of course). You all take good care, and stay outta trouble, okay? LOL. Rec'd!!

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Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.

Submitted by Socialprogressive on Sat, 12/31/2022 - 8:48am

Good morning, orlbucfan

@orlbucfan
Thank you and Happy New Year to you too.

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I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.

Submitted by dystopian on Sat, 12/31/2022 - 11:35am

Hi pixelators

Hey SP! Sorry I could not make it by last night... we are in our second week of dsl hell here... I can jump on in evenings usually, and get mails, do biz, but often not staying connected long enough to reply to anything here... anyway...

Imma reply to all in one shot, as it may be all I get...

First, SP, AWESOME flight photography man! GREAT work! I have long held that the shotgun bird hunter is a sloppy shot compared to a bird flight photographer. He can be off by degrees, and still have success! Whereas with the average 500 mm lens giving about 1 degree field of view, one has to be far far more accurate, by factors, than a gunner. Certainly tech changed that to the advantage photog even more. Now with say 10-15 MP, one can shoot backed out to a 300 or 400mm equivalent, so have way more field of view, and still have enough resolution to get a good image.

Great Ring-necked Ducks (#'s 2, 4, and 6)! That Canada Goose looks like a Cackling Goose to me. The recently split into its own species, the small types. Looks a small bill and short neck, doesn't look like the XL 'Honker' as the big ones are called. The Mallard is great too. Now to work on getting those colored speculums.

Snoopydawg, LOVE your footprints in snow pix! They are fantastic! Outstanding images. Didja see the bird?

Janis, awesome moth! Lots of the Silk Moths (Saturnidae) have no functional mouthparts or digestive system. Ergo, they do not feed as flying adults. This includes things like the one they make silk from, and in the states here, Luna Moth, Cecropia, Polyphemus, and others of our fanciest moths. Not sure how long those live, but it is not long. The ephemeral Mayflies, in the insect order Ephemeroptera, have no functional mouth or digestive system, about 3 days is it for most as flying adults. Cicadas too might not eat as adults? Obviously, it is all about the breeding, reproduction.

Great to see a Marbled Murrelet here, hat tip to HT. It was one of the last breeding birds in North America for its nest to be found. When I was a kid, it was still unknown, I think '73 might have been when the first was found. They found Black Swifts nesting behind waterfalls, before they found these things nesting, way the heck up on lichen covered branches of old-growth giant trees. What is considered a seabird, nesting in the trees in the forest, its egg laid on an open branch fer cryin' out loud.

In southern California in winter they are very very rare. In winter they are black and white, without the brown scalloping. Not all winters do they occur as far south as socal. In northern California they nest, maybe from about Big Sur northward. That point at the north side of Monterey Bay is a good place to scope them from shore some winters, and up to Ano Nuevo. They nest at Prairie Creek I think too. But they go out to sea at night and fly into forest at dawn, so very hard to see, but you will hear them calling as they come and go over the treetops.

A buddy just photo'd a Tufted Puffin off San Pedro last weekend!

Thanks for all the great pix, all!

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 Sat, 12/31/2022 - 2:48pm

Hey, dystopian

@dystopian
Hope your able to get your dsl problems resolved soon.
I agree the goose looks like it could be a Cackling Goose, although San Diego is way outside of their range according to the range map I looked at on the allaboutbirds.org website.
Even with a 500mm lens, the birds are far enough away that a narrow field of view isn't a problem. Keeping the focus point on the bird and panning at the same speed as the bird is the real challenge.
Thanks for the info on moths and the Marbled Murrelet.

Hey SP! Sorry I could not make it by last night... we are in our second week of dsl hell here... I can jump on in evenings usually, and get mails, do biz, but often not staying connected long enough to reply to anything here... anyway... Imma reply to all in one shot, as it may be all I get... First, SP, AWESOME flight photography man! GREAT work! I have long held that the shotgun bird hunter is a sloppy shot compared to a bird flight photographer. He can be off by degrees, and still have success! Whereas with the average 500 mm lens giving about 1 degree field of view, one has to be far far more accurate, by factors, than a gunner. Certainly tech changed that to the advantage photog even more. Now with say 10-15 MP, one can shoot backed out to a 300 or 400mm equivalent, so have way more field of view, and still have enough resolution to get a good image. Great Ring-necked Ducks (#'s 2, 4, and 6)! That Canada Goose looks like a Cackling Goose to me. The recently split into its own species, the small types. Looks a small bill and short neck, doesn't look like the XL 'Honker' as the big ones are called. The Mallard is great too. Now to work on getting those colored speculums. Snoopydawg, LOVE your footprints in snow pix! They are fantastic! Outstanding images. Didja see the bird? Janis, awesome moth! Lots of the Silk Moths (Saturnidae) have no functional mouthparts or digestive system. Ergo, they do not feed as flying adults. This includes things like the one they make silk from, and in the states here, Luna Moth, Cecropia, Polyphemus, and others of our fanciest moths. Not sure how long those live, but it is not long. The ephemeral Mayflies, in the insect order Ephemeroptera, have no functional mouth or digestive system, about 3 days is it for most as flying adults. Cicadas too might not eat as adults? Obviously, it is all about the breeding, reproduction. Great to see a Marbled Murrelet here, hat tip to HT. It was one of the last breeding birds in North America for its nest to be found. When I was a kid, it was still unknown, I think '73 might have been when the first was found. They found Black Swifts nesting behind waterfalls, before they found these things nesting, way the heck up on lichen covered branches of old-growth giant trees. What is considered a seabird, nesting in the trees in the forest, its egg laid on an open branch fer cryin' out loud. In southern California in winter they are very very rare. In winter they are black and white, without the brown scalloping. Not all winters do they occur as far south as socal. In northern California they nest, maybe from about Big Sur northward. That point at the north side of Monterey Bay is a good place to scope them from shore some winters, and up to Ano Nuevo. They nest at Prairie Creek I think too. But they go out to sea at night and fly into forest at dawn, so very hard to see, but you will hear them calling as they come and go over the treetops. A buddy just photo'd a Tufted Puffin off San Pedro last weekend! Thanks for all the great pix, all! Hope all are well!

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I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.

Submitted by janis b on Sun, 01/01/2023 - 12:34am

Hi dystopian

@dystopian

I hope you get your routing rebooted successfully. It must be very frustrating.

I wish you clear connection with all, especially with nature and loved ones in the new year.

Another rendition of the original James Brown masterpiece ...

[video:https://youtu.be/Ja414934sos]

Hey SP! Sorry I could not make it by last night... we are in our second week of dsl hell here... I can jump on in evenings usually, and get mails, do biz, but often not staying connected long enough to reply to anything here... anyway... Imma reply to all in one shot, as it may be all I get... First, SP, AWESOME flight photography man! GREAT work! I have long held that the shotgun bird hunter is a sloppy shot compared to a bird flight photographer. He can be off by degrees, and still have success! Whereas with the average 500 mm lens giving about 1 degree field of view, one has to be far far more accurate, by factors, than a gunner. Certainly tech changed that to the advantage photog even more. Now with say 10-15 MP, one can shoot backed out to a 300 or 400mm equivalent, so have way more field of view, and still have enough resolution to get a good image. Great Ring-necked Ducks (#'s 2, 4, and 6)! That Canada Goose looks like a Cackling Goose to me. The recently split into its own species, the small types. Looks a small bill and short neck, doesn't look like the XL 'Honker' as the big ones are called. The Mallard is great too. Now to work on getting those colored speculums. Snoopydawg, LOVE your footprints in snow pix! They are fantastic! Outstanding images. Didja see the bird? Janis, awesome moth! Lots of the Silk Moths (Saturnidae) have no functional mouthparts or digestive system. Ergo, they do not feed as flying adults. This includes things like the one they make silk from, and in the states here, Luna Moth, Cecropia, Polyphemus, and others of our fanciest moths. Not sure how long those live, but it is not long. The ephemeral Mayflies, in the insect order Ephemeroptera, have no functional mouth or digestive system, about 3 days is it for most as flying adults. Cicadas too might not eat as adults? Obviously, it is all about the breeding, reproduction. Great to see a Marbled Murrelet here, hat tip to HT. It was one of the last breeding birds in North America for its nest to be found. When I was a kid, it was still unknown, I think '73 might have been when the first was found. They found Black Swifts nesting behind waterfalls, before they found these things nesting, way the heck up on lichen covered branches of old-growth giant trees. What is considered a seabird, nesting in the trees in the forest, its egg laid on an open branch fer cryin' out loud. In southern California in winter they are very very rare. In winter they are black and white, without the brown scalloping. Not all winters do they occur as far south as socal. In northern California they nest, maybe from about Big Sur northward. That point at the north side of Monterey Bay is a good place to scope them from shore some winters, and up to Ano Nuevo. They nest at Prairie Creek I think too. But they go out to sea at night and fly into forest at dawn, so very hard to see, but you will hear them calling as they come and go over the treetops. A buddy just photo'd a Tufted Puffin off San Pedro last weekend! Thanks for all the great pix, all! Hope all are well!