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I'm posting tonights contest because CuddleButt is at a concert...
Theme: Look To The Skies
Description: Pictures that exhibit the sky and anything found in it - clouds, sunsets, stars, birds, planes, etc. Pictures of birds, planes, and all other flying objects must be photographed in flight with at least 50% of the photograph displaying the sky
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done..even though i have like 200 other sky related photos (my first 2 weeks with my camera is was raining so i took pics of the sky from my front and rear porch =P)
Also it featured the US Army's Golden Knights parachute team. In this pic, you can see two of them and their jump plane off in the distance, especially if you clicky the piccy.
i took my first pic at a local park.. i went the previous day but earlier in the day and took some pics. there were these 2 birds grooming themselves on a rock and then i guess airing out their wings. it looked like they were posing
too bad they weren't actually in the air or i could have entered it into this contest.. bastards =P
anyway heres a couple small pics of them.. [image from elitemrp.net too old to be available] [image from elitemrp.net too old to be available] no voting obviously since it doesn't fit the contest rules
Willow grove Naval air station..Memorial day IIRC. It was quite the sea of humanity. If I wasn't so much into aviation I would have had second thoughts about it.
i went to an air show several years ago, id like to go again.. although my favorite part was that rocket truck thing.
i also got MEGA sunburn that day, standing in the sun for 8 hours with no lotion or anything, my god i was in pain for days (and my legs hurt cause as i said, i was standing for 8 hours, i didnt want to sit)
I am so damned pissed. I forgot about this contest and had an awesome shot. GRRRRRRRRR. I am at work and can't post it until everyone will have voted already. :(
Oh well, everyone elses shots are awesome. I think we should start holding off on the voting until all the entries are in ;)
The mountains are in Wasilla, Alaska. That raven just happened to fly into frame and I didn't even know it was there until I downloaded the photo. Totally a lucky shot!
I am so damned pissed. I forgot about this contest and had an awesome shot. GRRRRRRRRR. I am at work and can't post it until everyone will have voted already. :(
This will probably be going up on to the main page in a little while. There will be voting for a couple of days ;)
That photo was all whim. I was sitting under a tree at my son's baseball game, looked up to see what was making my allergies go nuts and took the shot.
The bigger version is here, I think it looks nicer in the large size.
Weaps, I know, I am glad that these contests are kicking so much ass, it just sucks not getting in the first bunch :( I have had this shot ready for like 3 weeks too. Just gotta work harder for next time.
I hear ya Karmacidal. Even as far south as I am, it is still light past 10 now, and the sun was coming up a 3 this morning. I love your pic with the child.:)
chakalakasp, fabulous! i've seen that image of yours in another thread about weather and admired it tremendously. it's a winner! congratulations on a great catch!
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I took this from a suspension bridge in Medellin, Colombia where you go around and look at the inner workings of the bridge. This was with a point-and-shoot digicam, and I haven't taken a real photo for a long time. I can't wait until I get one of those digital cameras that will let me use my old manual focus Nikkon lenses.
"St. Louis Helicopter" lifting air conditioning units onto the roof of the Mercury Marine plant in Stillwater, OK. Twas early in the morn on a Sunday; I heard the chopper blades thumping at about 5:30am, looked outside, then ducked inside to ask my (then) 4 year old if it was too early to go see a helicopter. He rubbed his eyes, yawned largely, then said "No, it's not too early."
And MrSmee, that three-picture dealy is very nice. I hope you've printed and framed those photos like that. It's very pleasant.
And thank you ALL for your photos! Just because I didn't mention you doesn't mean I don't like your stuff! And even if I didn't like it, it doesn't mean your stuff isn't good!
Unfreakable:I have no idea what you just said, but I'll take your word for it.
Big-assed spirally vortexes of air that blows around a mountain. If there are clouds you can see it. If there aren't and you're in an airplane, you can feel it like that one United 737 that crashed a number of years ago in your neck of the woods. Some of them can be quite strong.
I've never heard of it before, Weaps, but it makes sense. Colorado Springs is in the shadow of 14,110-foot Pike's Peak, and a lot of out weather crosses over the mountain on its way to us. Thanks for letting me know.
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Lake Padden in Whatcom County, WA. No photoshop tweaking at all - it was just a really calm day. (mods please delete previous, I have no excuse save my own stupidity)
Yep, that's what I thought too. Wish I had my camera with me on that boat in Baltimore.. now that dock definitely looked like a bunch of mechanical dinosaurs.
[image from machtyn.com too old to be available] That flag is flipping huge. If you live in an apartment, this flag would cover the entire thing. (as before, click for larger pic, with popping goodness.)
SurgeonDryHot Thanks. What I like about it is that while the sky is a bit overexposed, the reflection in the water is just perfect. Also, I think the mist adds a lot.
The sky in a Chinese city, 5pm, on a day with no wind, after the day's pollution has accumulated. You can barely see 500 yards. Kinda the opposite of what everyone else is posting, but what the hell, I'm kind of weird anyway.
SurgeonDryHot Thanks. What I like about it is that while the sky is a bit overexposed, the reflection in the water is just perfect. Also, I think the mist adds a lot.
It certainly does! Mist always helps, and the composition is very nice as well.
If you like my pic just click on it to see it on fark and that will make me happy. ;) I'm not a vote whore. ;) You can also view it much larger on there.
[image from www2.gvsu.edu too old to be available] taken with a kodak max disposable camera 2 years ago, scanned with a shiatty lexmark all in one scanner. nevermind the pontoon on the lake, this is a picture of sleeping bear dunes at sunset, taken out the sliding door of my mom's minivan on the Glen Lake bridge of M-22 in Glen Arbor Michigan
let's hope the poor university's server is up to the task, eh? if people start getting red x's, let me know and i'll put it up on flickr or something..
Pops to slightly larger version - if you want the big one, remove the t or s from the filename. It's from a big storm a year or two ago, shot from my backyard.
If you like lightning - also check out lightning_1/2/3 in the same directory.
Holy crap these are awesome. I must come back tomorrow and try to save some of these. Anyway here's my contribution. Clicky pop the thumbs for larger versions.
So many comments on a thread for sky pictures. Either some of you guys just don't have the time to enter in photoshop contests, or hopefully, it just takes a lot more talent than pointing and snapping a picture. I bet that near every person that has a digital camera has at least one cliche picture of the sky/sunset. Myself included of course, *ahem*
So many comments on a thread for sky pictures. Either some of you guys just don't have the time to enter in photoshop contests, or hopefully, it just takes a lot more talent than pointing and snapping a picture. I bet that near every person that has a digital camera has at least one cliche picture of the sky/sunset. Myself included of course, *ahem*
Were you here for last week's contest with the theme of decrepitudedness? There was good stuff in there, and we had taken pictures of things that were all decayed!
I bet that near every person that has a digital camera has at least one cliche picture of the sky/sunset. Myself included of course, *ahem*
Yeah, I agree. I HATE ocean-sky-sunset pictures. They're so old. But a lot of these pictures are very nice, and some of the ocean sky views are even very impressive to a jaded old photographer like me.
andnowforsomethingcompletelydifferent: Wow, that's excellent color saturation for a night photo. How many different shutter speeds did you try on that?
[image from img16.echo.cx too old to be available] Mars during the close opposition in August of 2003. That's the northern polar ice cap at 1 o'clock there. You can just make out the southern ice cap on the opposite side. Taken with a small Dobsonian telescope using a 1.3MP digicam held up to the eyepiece...
I hate the word awesome, but I think it best describes most of the pics posted here. idle_hands-The one factory pic reminds me of Pink Floyd's Animals album cover.
Kudos to everyone who partipcated and Mr. Programmer for starting it
Mr. Programmer posted this one, but it's really CuddleButt who came up with this sort of thing. We had one last week, and it's looking like with the continued success of Farktography we will be doing this again next week. It was TotalFark only for the first three, but we stuck it on the main page to see how it would do. It does rather well. So check out the theme for next weeks contest and make with the picture taking. Or get something out of your archive because this is gonna happen again next wednesday.
Thanks -- it's definitely one of the most beautiful places I've ever been. I jumped at the chance to go over there when I found out one of my friends from college would be in Norway for a year while his girlfriend studied in Bergen. I could definitely live there if I had a shedload of money (since everything is so expensive) and if the weather wasn't so depressing all the time.
If you wanna see more pix, just copy the pic's URL and back up a level.
Posted with links because all the images run me out of ram and swap!
Didn't say nothing about manipulated photos so let's try this one: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v237/jebedaih/hymne_av_himmel.jpg (not embedded for bandwidth reasons)
Frequent lurker, first (image) posting. Also new to Seattle as of last Sept(so these are still a bit of a novelty). [image from img150.echo.cx too old to be available] I'd apologize for the kind of crummy vantage point (my front step), but it's not like I'll get any votes this far down in such a spectacular thread. Some of this stuff is truly breathtaking!
Even though I've only seen two instances of it, Farktography has quickly become my favorite thing on Fark. There are quite a few talented photographers here. Really makes me want to take my old Pentax out more than I do.
It's also nice to see threads so full of nice things, which don't eventually (or quickly) devolve into flame wars.
It's a panorama from the deck on the back of my house, click here to view in a 360 degree java viewer.
Program used to put together the panorama is Autostitch, from here, great program, it puts your panorama pictures together automatically, balances the light levels, etc... No, I do not work for them, it is just a great program.
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[image from s87776178.onlinehome.us too old to be available] Taken around dawn in Fabulous Las Vegas - no tripod though a window at the Golden Nugget. Next time, I'm taking my damn tripod, damnit.
Holy Sh*t. I can't say how much I enjoyed looking at the gorgeous pictures in this thread! I wish I knew where some of these were taken. Makes me want to take some vacation time and grab a flight. Thank you all who included where the picture was from. To all who posted beach scenes - makes me wish I could go home - I can't tell you how I miss the ocean. Kudos to all who posted. I can't vote on this one - they're all so good.
But honestly, I can't compete with most of the photos I've seen here tonight. Maybe when I grow up or something. heh.
No man, don't think that way! You can compete with these photos! You would be amazed at what does well. Either way don't worry about voting, just post your cool pictures, like the one you posted there! Consider it one of those things that makes people want to come here and marvel at what there is!
One thing is quite pleasing is that with these Farktography threads people are compelled to either marvel at the awesomeness and refrain from posting disparaging comments or pull something out that is just as awesome to contribute to the wonder. We truly have among our own fantastic talent that has made these threads among the most popular of all that get posted to Fark.
I mean, this thread is simply about cool photos that you fine folks have taken of the sky and the post counter already reads 'lots' rather than a number. Yet none of them are flames, trolls, or other immature type of thing that would make a 'lots', or 'infinity symbol' thread unpleasent to visit. This is teh cool!
No voting on this one, as it does not fit the rules, but thought it was cool enough to share. Voting enabled ones coming forthwith. BTW, each of mine is a clicker. Bigger image just a mouse punch away.
As a note, all of mine are from the Redding/Cottonwood/Chico area of Cailfornia. None of them are later than 1978.
Is that what the output of a proper slide scanner will get you? If so, I gotta get me one of those. I may not have a film camera these days, but I have plenty of slides I took back in the day!
Think I'll still get me one of those film cameras, just to keep honest.
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I am truly stunned gang. I think I am more stunned than last week. I'd spend more time looking at them all, and I want to go through all the comments, but it's late, and I'm tired.
I went to see Santana and Los Lonely Boys last night, and tonight went to see Al DiMeola. Al was amazing. Some on here was saying how he had mellowed out, which he had, but he played alot of his older heavier stuff. Absolutely great.
Again, amazing thread. Farkers have proven to consist of people of many great talents, personalities, wit, and humor. Give yourself all a pat on the back.
/bed time for me now, I'll be back tomorrow to go through this all
Actually, these are scans from film photos. True Kodak paper back in the day really was a sign of quality. ;) Scanned in using an Epson Perfection 3170 Photo. Really nice scanner that does do slide scanning as well.
Now if only I could find those boxes with the hundreds of slides that I have....
Ok, I'm gonna post a couple of my pics before going to bed. I had three I was gonna post, but I think I'm gonna save the one for a landscape theme we'll have in one of the upcoming contests.
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Taken out the window of the plane I was on, from a recent trip to Ft. Lauderdale.
cuddlebutt, the copyright notices on the photos acrodizer posted match his name on his website linked from his profile so yeah it looks like they're his heh
Oh man, there are some simply awesome pictures here. I'm always half inspired by seeing such great pictures, and half disheartened by how far short I still fall. Nevertheless, I'll make an offering:
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I still can't get over some of the pictures here. Holy crap.
It's not a vapour/smoke trail from a jet, but possibly a meteor that fell on the 29th of May 2005 in Australia. There are two other trails at the bottom of the image that may have been part of a shower.
But that is a UFO at the top right ! (Unexpected Flash Object) from the glass I took the pic through.
quoted for great justice! You guys are awesome. I know I will posting another VERY late in the thread a bit later, but I have one or two more that I would like to share (and also, because I want to see how they look posted on the same page as such excellent photographs as have already been posted).
Keep up the excellent work.
/looking forward to getting my new Nikon D70 next week. :D
Wow. These pictures are just gorgeous. I'd vote but I can't make up my mind.
Here are six of my photos, all taken in California within the past year. I took pity on people whose computers began to cough and sputter in the attempt to load all of these photos (like mine) so LINK! (pops - or it should, anyway). I cry for my bandwidth. No votey goodness since after going through roughly 500 posts I'm feeling oddly insecure.
okay. I'm game. It's 1:30AM, but I pulled out a few shots. Hardly holds up to what else is in here, but... yeah, whatever. 1: [image from slyhatjones.com too old to be available]
2: [image from slyhatjones.com too old to be available] looking at these now... I might have overdone it on the compression for Fark. But I'm worried about using up too much bandwidth, so...
acrodizer:Absolutely! I've been photographing severe weather and lightning for 6 years now.
I see that now. Kudos to you. Takes alot of patience to get shots like that. I would really love to add some killer pics of lightning to my portfolio, and a tornado as well.
The clouds prepare for battle In the dark and brooding silence Bruised and sullen storm clouds Have the light of day obscured Looming low and ominous In twilight premature Thunder heads are rumbling In a distant overture...
All at once, the clouds are parted Light streams down in bright unbroken beams...
Follow men's eyes as they look to the skies The shifting shafts of shining weave the fabric of their dreams...
I had a crappy and busy day at work and this has really been a great way to unwind and just meditate on this great and infinitely interesting planet we live on. Thankyou all. You're all great photographers and whatever inspired you, keep on seeking it.
Ok. I have received several gmails, and there will be a change made to the submissions rules. I know I still have yet to try and make the rules more clear for all to follow.
Ok, here is the new rule. No more than 3 submissions per contest.