Random Pictures Thread

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Never had any soda bread, may have to make some for Monday. Don't have any pears or currants though....
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Tim @trc65- the better one’s I have had tend to have a crusty dense exterior that crumbles, but with a tender/softer inside. Buttermilk biscuit meets bread with some slight sweetness. They kind of vary in texture taste and the amount of fruits that is in them (and price). Finish it off with Irish butter and jam. Hard to find an actual authentic Irish soda bread, but there is one in town in the East Village and they are also known for their Irish soda bread scones:

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I wanted Irish coffee with it, but it was a little too early for that and I could have gone for Irish Creme Coffee, but I have had not found anything remotely close to a robust and full bodied like Bailey’s with whiskey since when I was in college. That is how I kept awake for four years in class 😉
 
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Arn213 said:
I highly doubt it, Rosie made my batch extra special.
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Mark @Mr. Peet - I was just having fun. I never had Irish soda bread at your part of the State, so I can’t really tell you if it is anywhere else or vice versa. I do know that the price (because it always is high because of rent) is higher here than everywhere else and a matter of fact that the price differs depending in what borough you are buying from. Manhattan tend to be double the price (those are the one’s I pictured with the price) and they are higher because a lot of them are higher end bakery shops. Brooklyn and Queens (I never bought one in the Bronx or Staten Island) or in Long Island would be a hair less than half the price. The one I picture I paid $ 8 for and it is an established bakery since the 70’s and it is more wholesome and robust compared to the one’s I pictured with the prices. This is what the outside of their cafe bakery shop looks like (they have a large space for sit downs):

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This is a small park about 8 miles from us. We walk ~4-miles here almost every morning. Sunrise across a frozen pond
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Same pond on a different day
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I was trying to get a certain vantage point to replicate one photo they had before 8:46 am during 9/11 at the 9/11 Museum to show what it was before the first plane hit. It had to have had been taken from The Manhattan Bridge, perched high up. I wanted to see if I can get close to that composition 24 years later. The original photo was perfectly composition with the Brooklyn Bridge framing the foreground. I didn’t get that shot that I wanted and the weather went from sunny to over cast with the sun fighting me the whole way as it was moving east. I need to be there during twilight or before 8:46 am. In any case I was able to get some modest shots from Manhattan Bridge from the Brooklyn side and the Manhattan side.

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This is part 2 from the above. It is sequential where it originates from Dumbo, Brooklyn moving across the East River to Manhattan’s Lower East Side (LES) into lower Chinatown. I used a filter as I wanted to capture the essence of early 80’s NY vibe……

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A couple of parting shots from Dumbo, Brooklyn. First one is from Squibb Park Bridge (the right side is The Brooklyn Bridge) and last photo just below the rooftop of The Timeout Building:

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Arn213 said:
Anybody ever had the pleasure of photographing straight up where the camera and the lens is completely flat line? It is totally gives a different perspective and experience as you lay in the ground. Things appear to be hovering over you, or a seam opens up in the sky, congestion, there is dynamic tension between real and artificial both in shape, form and color……

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Have tried in a grove of aspens. I need to be more patient and get the setup correct.
 
Arn213 said:
I was trying to get a certain vantage point to replicate one photo they had before 8:46 am during 9/11 at the 9/11 Museum to show what it was before the first plane hit. It had to have had been taken from The Manhattan Bridge, perched high up. I wanted to see if I can get close to that composition 24 years later. The original photo was perfectly composition with the Brooklyn Bridge framing the foreground. I didn’t get that shot that I wanted and the weather went from sunny to over cast with the sun fighting me the whole way as it was moving east. I need to be there during twilight or before 8:46 am. In any case I was able to get some modest shots from Manhattan Bridge from the Brooklyn side and the Manhattan side.

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Classic shot, perfectly framed, and with ferry in foreground!
 
Gdurfey said:
Have tried in a grove of aspens. I need to be more patient and get the setup correct.
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Where you live, in Florissant CO is a lovely area although some of the trees you have there are virtually impossible to turn ... :lol2:

I happen to live in another area of Colorado where I can't walk around my property without kicking up petrified wood about every other step.

During my recent solar system build, I turned up hundreds of pounds of smaller pieces of petrified wood while digging the holes for the concrete pylons. I also dug up one 120-lb piece.

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Steelart99 said:
Where you live, in Florissant CO is a lovely area although some of the trees you have there are virtually impossible to turn ... :lol2:

I happen to live in another area of Colorado where I can't walk around my property without kicking up petrified wood about every other step.

During my recent solar system build, I turned up hundreds of pounds of smaller pieces of petrified wood while digging the holes for the concrete pylons. I also dug up one 120-lb piece.

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any color to it other than browns, does the interior show grain patterns in the stone

i might like to buy some if you're selling
 
Arn213 said:
This is part 2 from the above. It is sequential where it originates from Dumbo, Brooklyn moving across the East River to Manhattan’s Lower East Side (LES) into lower Chinatown. I used a filter as I wanted to capture the essence of early 80’s NY vibe……

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The last two photos in this post are what a TN Troglodyte imagines what living in NYC is about - except for one thing. Not as many people on the street as I would have assumed - perhaps incorrectly. Is it some sort of Chinatown?
 
Steelart99 said:
Where you live, in Florissant CO is a lovely area although some of the trees you have there are virtually impossible to turn ... :lol2:

I happen to live in another area of Colorado where I can't walk around my property without kicking up petrified wood about every other step.

During my recent solar system build, I turned up hundreds of pounds of smaller pieces of petrified wood while digging the holes for the concrete pylons. I also dug up one 120-lb piece.

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Steelart99 said:
Where you live, in Florissant CO is a lovely area although some of the trees you have there are virtually impossible to turn ... :lol2:

I happen to live in another area of Colorado where I can't walk around my property without kicking up petrified wood about every other step.

During my recent solar system build, I turned up hundreds of pounds of smaller pieces of petrified wood while digging the holes for the concrete pylons. I also dug up one 120-lb piece.

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At the last couple of gem and mineral shows I've attended, I've struggled to find any petrified wood to buy, and you have it in your backyard!
 
Steelart99 said:
Where you live, in Florissant CO is a lovely area although some of the trees you have there are virtually impossible to turn ... :lol2:

I happen to live in another area of Colorado where I can't walk around my property without kicking up petrified wood about every other step.

During my recent solar system build, I turned up hundreds of pounds of smaller pieces of petrified wood while digging the holes for the concrete pylons. I also dug up one 120-lb piece.

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I see just a little bit of Agatized wood. Most looks like it might be permineralized.
Do you live anywhere Kiowa, Co? On my last trip a couple years ago, I came into Colorado on I-70, then down to 86 to get me to Colorado Springs. When I first saw the Rockies, I stopped to get a picture. I stepped out onto a bunch of beautiful Agatized wood. I was about 10 miles east of Kiowa. Of course, being a Flintknapper, I spent about an hour along the roadside picking up what I could. The largest piece was about 5 pounds, but I'm sure the ranches in the area had tons of it. Drooling is what I did during that stop thinking about all the land around me having more and larger pieces.
I worked at Petrified Forest for 1039 hours about 15 years ago. During that time I learned that every state has pet wood deposits, but you have to know where it is. ............. Nubs
 
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